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464. (L.R.) 20th July, 1880. Heney Baeeett, of Hampton, Middlesex, England.—lmprovements in bottles and stoppers, and in apparatus for filling or charging the same. 465. (L.P.) 22nd July, 1880. James Watkins, of Dunedin, Otago, Merchant. —An invention for the manufacture of farinaceous food from New Zealand wheat. 466. (L.P.) 9th August, 1880. Pateick Joseph Dungan, of Timaru, General Smith. —An improved mangle to be called " Dungan's Patent Paragon Mangle." (Not proceeded with.) 467 (L.P ) 16th August, 1880. Ernest Somebset Bowden, of Wellington, Stationer. —An invention for separating and cleansing the fibre of the New Zealand flax (Phormium tenax) (Not proceeded with.) 468. (L.P.) 17th August, 1880. Newenham Acton Geaydon, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Civil Engineer. —An improved kiln with improvements in burning bricks, tiles, and pottery 469. (L.P.) 21st August, 1880. Richahd Moeeis, of Invercargill, New Zealand—An instantaneous fire-escape. (Not proceeded with.) 470. (L.P) 30th August, 1880. James Palmeb Black, of Nelson, Settler. —An escape door-fastener. 471. (L.R.) 28th August, 1880. Thomas Alta Edison, of Menlo Park, New Jersey, United States of America. —Improvements in telephones. 472. (L.R.) 28th August, 1880. Feancis Raymond Welles, Telegraph Engineer, William Henex Mastees, Merchant, and Thomas Theophiltts Deapeb, Merchant, all of Melbourne, Victoria.— Improvements in methods and appliances for telephonic communication, parts of which are applicable to other purposes. 473. (L.P.) 13th September, 1880. Chaeles Feench Pembeeton, of Sefton, Ashley, New Zealand, Civil Engineer. —An invention for utilizing tallow or other materials for making candles. 474. (L.P.) 13th September, 1880. John Eyans Beown, of Christchurch, Gentleman.—A plough for the purpose of clearing stones and rubbish from out of the grooves and off the table of tramway rails. 475. (L.P.) 24th September, 1880. Geoege Ashceoft, of Petone, Hutt. —Machinery for pulverizing quartz, rocks, and earths, for sorting the powder so obtained, and for treating it with mercury, in order to obtain the greatest yield of gold from the sand, rocks, or earths, with the least loss of mercury 476. (L.P.) Gth October, 1880. Vincent Caeey Venimoee, of Havelock, Marlborough, Cabinetmaker, and James Hadpield Smith, of the same place, Merchant. —A bi-gyratory lathe. (Not proceeded with.) 477 (L.P.) 6th October, 1880. Vincent Caeey Venimobe, of Havelock, Marlborough, Cabinetmaker, and James Hadfield Smith, of the same place, Merchant.—A spherical castor. (Not proceeded with.) 478. (L.P.) 13th October, 1880. William JonN Silcock, of Ashburton. —An invention for filling ruts, and spreading shingle, and keeping roads in repair. 479. (L.R.) 18th October, 1880. James Knox Newton, of No. 5, King Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Engineer.—An improvement in the manufacture of a lubricant and cup, to be called " The Eureka Lubricating Compound Company's Lubricant and Cup." 480. (L.R.) 18th October, 1880. Edwin Robins Thomas, of Merrickville, New South Wales, and Geoege Cowdeey, of Burwood, New South Wales.—An automatic coupling and uncoupling apparatus for railway- and other rolling-stock. 481. (L.R.) 18th October, 1880. Raymond Oahne, of Toulouse, in the Republic of France.—A new or improved blasting powder. 482. (L.R.) 18th October, 1880. Joseph Stokes Willtams, of Riverton, New Jersey, United States of America, now of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North Britain, and John Ebenezee Watson, of Glasgow, Secretary of the Williams Railway Patent Company (Limited). —Improvements in railway crossings and switches, and in apparatus to be used in connection therewith. 483. (L.R.) 18th October, 1880. Joseph Stokes Williams, of Riverton, New Jersey, United States of America, now of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North Britain, and John Ebenezee Watson, of Glasgow, Secretary of the Williams Railway Patent Company (Limited). —Improvements in railway crossings and switches, and in apparatus to be used in connection therewith. 484. (L.R ) 18th October, 1880. Thomas Alya Edison, of Menlo Park, in the State of New Jersey,. United States of America, Electrician. —Improvement in electric lamps, and in the method of manufacturing the same. 485. (L.R.) 18th October, 1880. TnoMAS Alya Edison, of Menlo Park, in the State of New Jersey,. United States of America, Electrician. —Improvements in the utilization of electricity for light and heat and power, being an improved system and means for the generation, measurement, and translation of electricity into light, heat, and power. 486. (L.R.) 18th October, 1880. John Beeoee Spence, of Lombard Street, in the City of London, Merchant.- —Improvements in the manufacture from metallic sulphides of compounds suitable either alone or as an ingredient for moulding, and for covering surfaces, and in the separation of mixed metallic sulphides. 487 (L.P.) 19th October, 1880. Heney Veee Baeclay, of Wanganui, Civil Engineer.—An invention for mechanically computing surveyors' calculations, and problems in" plane trigonometry and navigation. 488. (L.P.) 3rd November, 1880. John Alyes, of Dunedin.—For improvements in furnace-bars and furnaces. 489. (L.R.) 17th November, 1880. Geoege Westinghotjse, Jun., 20, Southampton Buildings, London. —Improvements in brakes for railway rolling-stock. 490. (L.R.) 17th November, 1880. Geoege Westinghoitse, Jun., 20, Southampton Buildings, London.—lmprovements in apparatus for railway brakes, worked by fluid pressure. 491. (L.R.) 19th November, 1880. Andeew Smith Hallidie, of the City of Sydney, in the Colony of New South Wales, and of the City and County of San Francisco, in the State of California.— Improvements in propelling, hauling, and operating cars on tracks, and propelling other vehicles and boats, and in the machinery and apparatus connected therewith.

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