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825. (L.P.) Bth May. Colin Mackay, of Dunedin, in the Provincial District of Otago and Colony of New Zealand.—An invention entitled " Mackay's Spiked Wire," for fencing paddocks, fields, pastures, &c. 826. (L.P.) 2nd May. John Anton Subeitzky, of Mangonui, in the Provincial District of Auckland, in the Colony of New Zealand, Storekeeper.—An invention for the treatment, healing, or curing of wounds, piles, cramp, bad breasts, asthma, bronchitis, sick headache, old sores, spasms, heart disease, corns, and other like diseases and complaints, to be called "Mrs. Subritzky's Pills and Ointment." 'Not proceeded with.) 827. (L.E.) 14th May. Edwabd Watees, of No. 87, Bourke Street West, in the City of Melbourne and Colony of Victoria, Patent Agent.—lmprovements in electric lamps. (Pilsen Joel and General Electric Light Company, Limited.) 828. (L.E.) 14th May. Edwaed Watees, of No. 87, Bourke Street West, in the City of Melbourne and Colony of Victoria, Patent Agent.—lmprovements in the manufacture of carbon conductors for electric lamps, and an apparatus to be employed in such manufacture. (Maxim. Weston Electric Light Company.) 829. (L.E.) 14th May. Henei Hebeensohmidt, Metallurgist, and Mabhaduke Constable, Gentleman, both of Sydney, New South Wales. —An improved process of extracting the oxides of cobalt and manganese from their ores. 830. (L.P.) 21st May. Josias John de Lambeet, of Oamaru, in the Provincial District of Otago and Colony of New Zealand, Company's Manager, and Samuel Ebnest Htjbbaed, of Oamaru aforesaid, Mechanical Engineer.—A novel machine for cutting and bending, at one operation, metal into barbs used in the manufacture of barbed wire. 831. (L.E.) 14th May. Edwaed Watees, of No. 87, Bourke Street West, in the City of Melbourne and Colony of Victoria, Patent Agent. —Improvements in dynamo-electric machines. (Maxim. Weston Electric Company, Limited.) 832. (L.E.) 14th May. John Shaw, of Hmdmarsh, near Adelaide, in the Province of South Australia, Fellmonger.—lmprovements in the manufacture of leather from hides and skins for commercial purposes only. 833. (L.E.) 14th May. Eli Feaizee Bussell, of the City and County of San Francisco, State of California, one of the United States of America.—lmprovements in the art or process of conglomerating particles for roasting and smelting, which is applicable particularly for forming black sand into bricks, in the manufacture of iron and steel from black sand. 834. (L.P.) 22nd May. Geoege Seton Stenhouse, Commission Agent, of Blenheim, Marlborough, in the Colony of New Zealand, and John Smith, of the same place, Tinsmith. —An invention for the purpose of destroying and exterminating rabbits and vermin, to be known as " Stenhouse and Smith's Gaseous Self-acting Vermin and Eabbit Exterminator." 835. (L.P.) 23rd May. William Beeey, of Crofton, Upper Kaiwarawara, near the City of Wellington.—An invention by which the error caused by the use of a paper transfer in photolithography or photozincography is avoided. 836. (L.P.) 22nd May. William McLennan, of Dunedin, in the Colony of New Zealand, Baker.— A cylinder revolving dough-mixer. 837. (L.P.) 17th May. Geoege Caedee, Waltee Caedee, and Edwaed Owen, all of Auckland, in the Provincial District of Auckland and Colony of New Zealand, Potters, trading under the style or firm of Carder Brothers and Company.—A border edge and drain tile. (Application withdrawn.) 838. (L.P.) 18th May. Haecouet Innes Paton, of Auckland, in the Colony of New Zealand, Gum-carver.—An invention for inlaying or imbedding kauri gum with ferns, shells, seaweed, coral, moss, and other foreign substances, for personal or other ornaments. (Application withdrawn.) 839. (L.P.) 6th June. Alfeed Atkins, of Wanganui, in the County of Wanganui, New Zealand. An invention for wire for measuring, being an improvement in apparatus for surveying and general measuring. (Application withdrawn.) 840. (L.P.) 4th June. Henet Honoue, of Dunedin, in the Provincial District of Otago and Colony of New Zealand, -Settler. —An improvement in threshing machinery. 841. (L.P.) 2nd June. Alexandee Mutch, of Milton, in the Provincial District of Otago and Colony of New Zealand, Wheeltapper.—An invention for simplifying the method now in use for adjusting the push-bars of brakes in railway rolling-stock, by substituting the push-bar as delineated in the drawing for the push-bar now in general use. 842. (L.P.) 4th June. John Teoughton Bibchall, Mechanical Engineer, and Chaeles Edwabd Twining, Mining Engineer, both of Dunedin, in the Provincial District of Otago and Colony of New Zealand.—An invention for extracting gold from quartz and cement crushings, miners' tailings, and beach sands. 843. (L.P.) 11th June. Ebnest Aethue Chapman, of Grampians, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, in the Colony of New Zealand, Sheep-farmer.—A circular handsaw. 844. (L.E.) 11th June. Edwaed Watees, of No. 87, Bourke Street West, in the City of Melbourne and Colony of Victoria, Patent Agent. —Improvements in apparatus for the distribution and regulation of electric currents. (Maxim. Weston Electric Company, Limited.) "845. (L.E.) 11th June. .Edwabd Watees, of No. 87, Bourke Street West, in_ the City of Melbourne and Colony of Victoria, Patent Agent.—lmprovements in electric lighting apparatus. (Maxim. Weston Electric Company, Limited.) 846. (L.P.) Bth June. Edwaed Baetley, of Auckland, in the Provincial District of Auckland and Colony of New Zealand, Architect.—A louvre, suitable for factories, breweries, schools, churches, and other buildings requiring ventilation, and so constructed as to effectually prevent rain from driving up the louvre and into the building, without diminishing the space for ventilation,