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Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3212, 30 May 1871, Page 3

WELLINGTON CHORAL SOCIETY. OPENING CONCERT. THE NINTH SEASON. THE MAY QUEEN ! ! ON THURSDAY NEXT, Ist JUNE, 1871, AT THE ODD FELLOWS' HALL. A few surplus Tickets may be obtained through Members, at 4e each. W. MOWBRAY, Secretary and Trea?uvor. WELLINGTON MUTUAL INVESMENT SOCIETY. fTIHE Seventh Annual General Meeting of _i_ this Society (including the members of both clusses) will be held in the Hall of the Athencenm ou Tuesday, the 30th May instant, at half past Seven o'clock in tho evening pvecisoly, to receive Annual Report and Balance Sheets, Election of Committee, Auditors, and other business. Agreeable to the Rules, three members of the Committee retire by rotation, viz , Messrs G. Allou, J. Woodward, and H. Yates. Four members have" been nominated, and will be proposed to fill the vacancies, viz., Messrs G. Allen and J. Woodward (retiring members),, J. E. Nathan, and G. 11. Vennell. WILLIAM ALLEN, Manager. Wellington, 13th May, 1871. N.B. — Members can obtain copies of tho Report and Balance Sheet on application at the Society's oflicc on and after Monday, 22nd May. WAIRARAPA MEAT? PRESERVING AND BOILING DOWN COMPANY, LIMITED. A MEETING of the Shareholders of the /jL above Company will be held at the Rising Sun Hotel, Gieytown, on Friday, June 2nd, at 2 p.m. GEORGE BEETHAM. May 27th, 1871. UPPER WAIWETA ROAD. A MEETING of the ratepayers of the Upper Waiwelu jXoncl District will be held at S. Wcston's, on WEDNESDAY, tho 28th of June, at 12 noon, for the election of a new Board of Wardens, and other business. THOMAS MASON, Chairman. Taita, 29th May, 1871. PAHAUTANTJI" SMALL FARM DISTRICT. TO A. De B. BRANDON.— Sir,— We, the undersigned ratepayers, hereby request you to convene a General Meeting of the Ratepayers, at tho house of Mr C. Stuart, for the purpose of imposing a rate, and such business as may be brought before the meeting. B. DRAPER, D. GALLOWAY, R. MULHERAN, C. SJUART, D. COOK. In compliance with tho above request, I hereby call a General Meeting of tho Ratepayers of the District, to bo held at tho residence of Mr C. Stuart, Pahautanui Small Farm District, on Wednesday, May 31st, at 7 o'clock, p m. A. De B. BRANDON, J.P. 25th May, 1871. PRESS~AMATEUR DRAMATIC CLUB. A MEETING of tho Committee will be held at the "Advertiser" Office this afternoon, at three o'clock. A full attendance requested. J. B. HUNTER, Hon. Sec. PRESS AMATEUR DRAMATTIC CLUB. ALL Accounts against tho above Club in connection with tho Eutertainments in aid of the Wellington Volunteer Firo Brigades must be sent in on or before Wednesday afternoon, at four o'clock. W. B. LANGBRIDGE, Acting Manager. BUILDERS. rnENDERS are required up to the 3rd JL June, for alterations to a House Willis street. Drawings and Specifications to be Been atn time. C. J. TOXWARD, Architect. Wellington, 27th May. TO PAINTERS AND PAPERHANGERS. fTIENDERS will be received for Painting X and Paperhauging a House on the Terrace up to tho Ist of June. For particulars apply to C. J. TOXWARD, Architect. May 27th. TO FOUNDERS. THE Volunteer Fire Brigades of Wellington (combined) are desirous of receiving Tenders for casting an ALARM BELL. Specification, conditions, and form of tender may be seen on application at the City Surveyor's office, where tenders will bo received until Noon of Wednesday, 31st iust. Weight of proposed Bell, 10 cwt, and to bo manufactured in Wellington. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. (Signed on behalf of tho Brigades), LEWIS MOSS, ARCHIBALD WHITEFORD, Captains. PATENT for an Invention for providing a readier and more rapid means for shifting stones, forkings, tailings, gravel, mullock, and other earthy or stony particles necessary to be separated in alluvial gold or other metallic workings where sluicing operations are carried ° n This is to notify that JOHN GRAY, of Hokitika, in the County of Wotland, New Zealand, Minor, did on the twenty-fourth day of February deposit at tho office of the Patent Officer, in tho Colonial Secretary's Office in Wellington, a specification or instrument, in writing, under his hand and seal, particularly describing and ascertaining tho nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to bo performed, and that by reason of such deposit tlio said Inventor is protected and secured to him exclusively for thetorm of six calendar months thence next ensuing. And I do further notify that tho said John Gray has given notice, in writing, at my office of his intention to proceed with his application for Letters Patent for the said Invention, nnd that I have appointed Friday, the fourth diiy of August next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, at my office, to hear and consider the said application and all objections thereto ; and I do hereby require all persons having an interest in opposing the grant of such Letters Patent to leave, on or before tlio thirty- first day of July, at my office in Wellington, particulars, in writing, of their objections to tho suid application, otherwise they will be prevented from urging tho same. Given under my hand this fourth day of Mav, 1871JAMES PRENDERGAST, Patent Officer. G. W. Harvey, Solicitor, Hokitika: GRASS SEED. PERENNIAL RYE GRASS SEED, 5d per lb. J. DRANSFIELD.