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1888. NEW ZEALAND.

LETTERS PATENT AND LETTERS OF REGISTRATION APPLIED FOR DURING 1882 (LIST OF.)

Presented to hoth Souses of the General Assembly hy Command of His Excellency.

576. (L.P.) 4th January. Donald Donald, of Solway, near Masterton, New Zealand, Settler.—A wool-press. 577. (L.E.) 4th January. Thomas Alva Edison, of Menlo Park, New Jersey, "United States of America, Electrician. —Improvements in electric lights, and fittings and fixtures therefor. 578. (L.E.) 4th January. Thomas Alva Edison, of Menlo Park, New Jersey, United States of America, Electrician. —Improvements in electric arc lights. 579. (L.E.) 4th January. Thomas Alta Edison, of Menlo Park, New Jersey, United States of America, Electrician. —Improvements in magneto- or d3?namo-electrio machines or electric engines. 580. (L.E.) 4th January. Thomas Alva Edison, of Menlo Park, New Jersey, United States of America, Electrician. —Improvements in magneto- and dynamo-electric machines or motors, and means and method for controlling their generative force. 581. (L.E.) sth January. Thomas Alta Edison, of Menlo Park, New Jersey, United States of America, Electrician. —Improvements in electric lamps and the manufacture thereof, and in systems therefor. 582. (L.P.) sth January. James Louan "Wilson, of Eyal Bush, Invercargill, New Zealand, Settler.— Logan Wilson's Colonial Sheep-dipping Composition. (Not proceeded with.) 583. (L.P.) 9th January. James Lees, of Oamaru, Otago, New Zealand, Gentleman.—lmprovements in barbed fencing wire and in the barbs, and for a machine for the manufacture of the same. 584. (L.E.) 9th January. Frederick Charles Eowan, of No. 29, Queen Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Gentleman.' —An improved method of constructing tramways and light lines of railway. 585. (L.P.) 17th January. James Linton, of Palmerston North, New Zealand, Commission Agent.— An invention for extracting roots and stumps of trees, to be called " The Eoot Extractor." 586. (L.P.) 21st January. Alexander Binnie, Sen., of Dunedin, Otago.—lnvention for the. illuminating gas, and the gas-producing machine. 587. (L.E.) 21st January. Joseph Wilson Swan, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, England.—lmprovements in electric lamps. 588. (L.E) 21st January. Almerin Hubbell Lighthall, of San Francisco, California, United States of America. —A combined heading and threshing machine for harvesting and threshing grain. 589. (L.E.) 27th January. Alexander William Gillman and Samuel Spencer, both of the Castle Brewery, St. George's Eoad, Southwark, Surrey, England. — Improvement in the treatment of grain or cereals to be used in brewing, distilling, and vinegar-making, and in means or apparatus employed therein. 590. (L.E.) 27th January. John Natlor and Eobert Thornton, both of Stawell, Victoria, Engineers.—lmprovements in rock-drills. 591. (L.E.) 27th January. Henry William Sharp, of Darlington, Victoria, Machinist. —Improvements in machines for destroying rabbits. 592. (L.P.) 3rd February. Alexander Hat Miller, of Kumara, County of Westland, Miner.— Concrete blocks for sluicing purposes. (Not proceeded with.) 693. (L.P.) 9th February. John Vorbach, of Eenwicktown, Marlborough, New Zealand, Engineer.— An invention for harvesting peas. 594. (L.P.) 9th February. John Kennedy, of Blenheim, New Zealand, Druggist.—A specific for relieving toothache, to bewailed "Odontia." 595. (L.P.) 9th February. King Datid Sykes, of Mount Eden, near Auckland, Manufacturer of Baths. —" The'Portable Hygienic Hot-air Bath," a method by which all the benefits of hot-air baths, either dry or vapourized, plain or medicated, can be obtained by a convenient and portable apparatus. 596. (L.P.) 14th February. Henry Ja&&ers, of Invercargill, New Zealand, Plumber.—lnvention for cleansing seeds and grain.