THE GAZETTE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 878, 28 December 1888, Page 33

THE GAZETTE.

By an close season for seals has been extended till December 31, 1889. Mr E. I. von Dadelszen, of the Hutt, has been appointed Superintendent Col lector of Agricultural Statistics for that district. ■ ' -■ . - i The Melrose and Pitone boroughs are now included in districts for collecting duty under the Beer Duty Act, 1880. The following patents were applied for. during the week Franz Seraflcus Kohler, of Smichow, near Prague, Bohemia, Austria, and Ludwig Keyling, of Berlin, Prussia, for improvements in the manufacture of shot or spheres or globules of iron, steel, or other metal, and in apparatus therefor ; _ Elihu Thomson, of Lynn, Massachusetts, for an improved electric, meter or motor and for improvements in alternating current dynamo machines ; Samuel Smart and William Smart, of Sydenham, Canterbury, for a sand and asphalt-distributing machine; John Harms, of Norsewtmd, Hawkes Bay,'for threshing grains; grasses, and seeds by means of a travelling drum worked by horse.-power ; John Stewart Stinnear, of Christchurch, for a lire and burglary alarm,to be called “Stinnear’s Fire and Burglary-alarm William Barraclough, Ernest Charles Davies, and Charles Augustus Wylie, all of Sydney, for an imjnoved automatic apparatus for displaying intermittently pictorial or printed effects, the same to be used chiefly for advertising purposes; Charles Dixon Aria, trading as Sriiethurst and Company, of 175, Piccadilly, London, for improvements in, or applicable to, moderator and carcel lamps, to render them capable of burning mineral oils; William Howley Wells, of Evershot, Dorset, England, for improvements in apparatus fpr raising cream from milk, and for skimming ; Duncan James McGauran, .of Hawthorn, near Melbourne, for improvements relating to multiplex telegraphy ; Mephan Ferguson, of Carlton, Victoria, for an improved method of coupling pipes; Edward Waters, of Melbourne, patent agent, for improvements in the knotting apparatus employed in harvesting machines and in straw - for binding the crop or produce into sheaves, trusses, or bundles (being a communication from Richard Hornsby and Sons, Limited, of Spittlegate Ironworks, Grantham, Lincoln, England, engineers) ; George Trotter Evans, of Redfem, near Sydney, for improvements iri axle-boxes and axle-lubricators for railway rollingstock ; Chapman Eweu, of Tamahere, Waikato, for. Ewen’s self-locking wirestrainer ; Alfred Hosking of Auckland, for'illustrating the seasons of the year, day and night, the phases of the moon and eclipses, to be called “ Hosking’s Patent Adjustable Season Demonstrator ; ” William Scarlett ,de Lisle Roberts, of . Marrickville, New South Wales, and James Smith Mollison, of-Sydney, for an improved atmospheric thermo-electric generator ; William Andrews, of» Christchurch, for improvements in appliances for bagging chaff or bran, to be styled “Andrews’ Bag-support;” Frederick William Still, of Auckland, for an improved opener for jam and preserve-tins generally, to be called “Still’s Patent Tin-opener.”