THE GAZETTE.

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 8554, 7 December 1888, Page 3

THE GAZETTE.

A list of additional Commissioners’ Decisions under Tariff Acts is published. A Money Order and Savings _ Bank Olfioe has been opened at the Kaiwhara Post Office.

The following patents have been applied for during the week :—David Macrae, of Auckland, for a new or improved apparatus for clothea-dryiug ; Thomas Ellis, of Wanganui, for a self acting candle extinguisher, to be called “ Ellis’ Self-acting Candle Extinguisher Alice Cornwell, of Menzies’ Hotel,Melbourne, for an improvement in materials to be used in galvanic batteries; Joseph Smith, of Oamaru, for Smith’s patent rabbit snare ; Allen Skene, of Riddiford-street, Wellington, for an improved apparatus for raising and lowering clothes-lines; Charles Atkin, of Auckland, for an improved brake, to be called “ Atkin’s Improved Twin-joint Brake Edward Joseph Rigby, of South Melbourne, for improvements in hoisting and winding engines (being a communication from the inventors, Charles R. Otis and Norton P. Otis, both of Yonkers, New York, United States, America); Edward Snowball, of New Plymouth, for an improved circular revolving butterworker, to be called the “ Egmont Butterworker ;” Samuel Smart and William Smart, of Sydenham, Canterbury, for tar-distributing machines ; James Keir, of Ashburton, f or Keir’s improved coulter ; Herbert Malcolm McNeill, of Wanganui, for working a sewing machine either slow or fast without altering the speed nf the driving power, to bs called the “ High-and-low-apeed Friction Regulator William Crookes, of London, for improvements in the treatment of auriferous ores and in the revivification of the materials used in such treatment; Edward Waters, of Melbourne, for a method of and apparatus for recording and reproducing speech and other sounds (being a communication to him from the Volta Graphophone Company, of Washington, D. 0., United States of America); Edward Joseph Rigby, of South Melbourne, for improvements in steam boilers (being a communication from Henry U. Shippy, of No. 317, Liberty-street, New York, in the United States of America, merchant); Isaac Button, and Edward Peters, both of St Peter’s, near Sydney, and John Wesley Goodsell, of Petersham, near Sydney, for improvements in kilns or ovens for burning bricks, earthenware, limestone, cement and other substances ; George Nicholls Bryett and Alexander Darling Munro, of South Yarra, for an improved artificial ear-drum, and for an improved acoustic galvanic apparatus; Hahnemann Adolphus Cutmore, of Melbourne, for improvements in and relating to the construction of the mouthpieces and earpieces of receivers and speakingtubes, and in the method of and apparatus for signalling or “ calling-up ” in such instruments ; Herbert Edwin Crofts, of Sumner, Canterbury, for a new or improved indicator for lawn tennis or other similar games ; Allen Skene, of Wellington, for an improved apparatus for straining wire and wire-fencing; Thomas Goulden Brickell, of Dunedin, for an airtight butter-box.