THE GAZETTE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 889, 15 March 1889, Page 33

THE GAZETTE.

Mr A. W. Fleming ba3 been appointed a cadet in the Treasury. Mr W. J. Munro has been appointed a cadet in the General Crown Lands Office.

The following p items have been applied for during the week :—Thomas Alva Edison, of New Jersey, United States of Ameiica, for improvements in methods and apparatus for recording and reproducing souuds, and for preparing surfaces for receiving sound records, and in materials or compositions for such surfaces ; and for improvements in phonographs ; and for improvements in apparatus for recording and reproducing sound, and in surfaces for receiving such sound record, and methods of making and using such surfaces; William Fairweather, of Blenheim, for improving the drum and bearings of a flax stripper, the drum to be called “ The Goahead Flax-drum ” ; Johu Robert Paddle and Clement Van do Velde, both of Sydney, for improvements in locomotive furnaces, parts of which are applicable to other steam-boiler furnaces ; John Heron, of Greymouth, for excluding the rain, dust, and draught from ent.riug buildings under outside doors, to be called “A Rain arid Dust-excluder”; John Anderson, of Dunedin, for an improvement in archimedean ventilators; George Soffit'-, of Hastings, “TheKupai General Cooper,” a machine for making all descriptions of wood holloware ; Archibald Siddall, of Ryde, New South Wales, for an improved hanger for picture frames and such like objects ; William Vaile, of Auckland, for William

Vaile’s patent combination rubber washing boiler machine, wringer, and mangle ; Thomas Danks, of Christchurch, for sinking artesian wells, to be called “The Improved Canterbury Well-sinking Machine;” William George Quicke, sen., of Invercargill, for a combined sack-truck lift, to be called “ Quicke’s Patent Sacktruck and Lift;” John Adkins, of Dunedin, for a spring mattress, entitled ‘‘The Improved Spring Mattress ;” Charles Edward Walker, of West Melton, Canterbury, for a machine for sharpening chaff cutter knives, to be called “The Canterbury Flexible Sharpener ;” Arthur Steele Ford, of Thames Goldfields, Auckland, for Ford’s patent tailing crusher and cylindrical friction amalgamator.