THE GAZETTE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 866, 5 October 1888, Page 1

THE GAZETTE.

Modified tables for assurances or lives of Union Steamship officers are published; also, tables substituting current rates of premium for obsolete rates and validating certain contracts in Government life assurance. The regulations for trout and perchfishing in the Nelson, Wellington, and Ashburton districts are published. Mr Henry Bunny , has been appointed a member of the Land Board for the land

district of Wellington, vice G. Beetham, resigned.

The following gentlemen have resigned fcheir appointments as Coroners Dr A. Johnston and G. B. Davy, of Wellington, and C. H. Borlase, qf Wanganui. The following patents have been applied for during the week : LlOyd Alonzo Kimball, of Sydney and San Francisco, for improvements in certain descriptions of concentrating machines, also for improvements in certain descriptions of concentrating ■ machines ; Robert Wotherspoon and Edward Wilkinson, both of Melbourne, civil engineers, for an im-. proved street-cleaner; Pierre Cheasman Du Bois,. of Sydney, metallurgist, for improvements in rock - crushers ; Frederick Valentine Waters, of Wellington, clerk, **' Waters’ Patent Manifold Shipping Receipt and Boatnote ” (being a communication to him from abroad by Messrs Bacon and Company, of San Francisco, California, United States of America); Joseph Clark, of Nelson, gasfitter, for an improved gas cooking-stove, to the called “ Clark’s Patentßichard Douglas Morgan, of Dunedin, civil engineer, for an improved time-candle ; Andrew Ritchie, of Christchurch, draper, and Robert John Whyte, of the same place, tinsmith, for a new cover for frying-pans, saucepans, or any cooking vessel where steam only is required to escape, styled “ The Eureka Cover Holmes Samuel Chipman, of Sydney, merchants, for improvements in reaping and binding machines (being a communication from the inventor, Lewis Miller, of Akron, Ohio, United States of America); Edward Alexander von Schmidt, of Alameda, California,' for improvements in dredging machines (being a communication from the inventor, Alexey Waldemar von Sclnnidb, of San Francisco, California aforesaid, engineer) ; Albert Ernest Woodhouse, of Amberley, farmer, for a patent feeding-trough, to be called “ WoodhoUse’s Patent Sheep-trough ; ” James Thomson, of the Arahura, Westland, contractor, .and Frank Edward Clarke, Hokitika, draughtsman, for composite iron piles and sheath piles with solid welded point orshoe; William Henry Patton, of Broken Hill, New South Wales, engineer and mine manager, for improvements in the process of treating gold and silver ores by amalgamation, and in the devices therefor (being a communication from Martin P. Boss, of San Francisco, America, milling engineer); Thomas Alva Edison, of New Jersey, electrician, for improvements in phonographs and phonograms ; also for improvements in phonogram blanks and phonograms, and processes of making the same; John MacClure, of Invercargill, carpenter, for a fern vase, to be called “The Maori Rustic Fern Vase”; Patrick John Henley, i of Leeston, farmer, and David Blyth, of the same place, blacksmith, for the pulverising and .subsoiling of the soil by implements to bo attached to any make of plough, to be called “Henley and Blyth’s Pulverising and Subsoiling Attachments.”