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1885. NEW ZEALAND.

LETTERS PATENT AND LETTERS OF REGISTRATION APPLIED FOR DURING 1884.

[L.E. means Letters of Registration.]

Presented to both Houses of the General Assembly by Command of His Excellency.

989. 3rd January. Thomas E. Eosiee, of Christchtirch, New Zealand.—An invention for cleaning and separating grain, called "The Eosier Fanning Mill and Grain Separator." 992. 7th January. William Edwabds, of Cliristchurch, New Zealand, Pattern-maker. —An invention for straining or tightening wires on fences, to be called'and known as "Edwards's Self-locking Strainer." (Lapsed.) 993. 11th January. Donald Donald, of Masterton, New Zealand, Sheepfarmer. —An improved clothes-mangle. 994. 11th January. Christian Julius Toxwaed, of Wellington, New Zealand, Architect.—lmprovements in tents and temporary houses, for military and other purposes (being a communication to him from abroad, by J. G. C. Van Docker, of Copenhagen, in the Kingdom of Denmark). 995. (L.E.) 11th January. Eichaed John Sankey, of London, England, Farmer.—lmprovements in stoppering bottles for containing terated or gaseous liquids. 996. 17th January. William Weight, of 99 and 101, Little Bourke Street West, Melbourne, Victoria, Engineer.—An improved coupling for the rods of those boring machines whose rods have a jumping motion. (Lapsed.) 997. 17th January. Hobace Stevens,, of 94, Collins 'Street East, Melbourne, Victoria, Dental Practitioner. —An improved method of automatically opening or closing,valves or cocks at any given period of time. 998. 17th January. Neil Buchanan, of L,yell Street, Emerald Hill, Victoria, Engineer. —Improvements in cradles for attachment to reaping and binding machines. (Lapsed.) 999. 17th January. David Edwaeds, of Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Engineer; and Edwaed Honey, of 190, Bourke Street West, Melbourne aforesaid, Accountant.—lmprovements in cradles for attachment to reaping and binding machines. (Lapsed.) 1000. 17th January. Edwaed B. Oene, of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, United States of America. —Improvements in and relating to wheels and axles for railway-vehicles. (Lapsed.) 1001. 17th January. Feedeeick Fiven, of Christchurch, New Zealand, Saddler, temporarily residing at Melbourne, Victoria.—An improved spring-bar for saddles. 1002. (L.E.) 16th January. Stanley Chaeles Cuthbeet Cueeie, of 22, Clarges Street, Piccadilly, in the County of Middlesex, England, Gentleman.—lmprovements in the construction and arrangement of the cores and armatures and other parts of electro-magnets. 1003. (L.E.) 16th January. Holmes Samuel Chipman, of 17, Little Collins Street West, Melbourne, Victoria, Merchant. —An improved spring for vehicles. 1004. 24th January. Stephen Osboene, of Buxton Street, North Adelaide, South Australia, Mining Engineer, and Andeew Thomas, of Gresham Street, Adelaide, South Australia, Analytical Chemist. —An improved method of extracting gold and silver from certain of their ores, and utilizing some of the other products of the process. 1005. 19th January. William McLaughlin, of Puhinui, Auckland, New Zealand, Engineer; and William Dunwoodie, of Onehunga, Auckland aforesaid, Engineer.—An invention for lifting hay, to be called " Twin Horse Hay-forks." 1006. 28th January. Maemaduke Claeke, of Tomoana, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, Manager of Works. —A machine for pressing the tops into meat tins or other tins. 1007. (L.E.) 25th January. Thomas Paekee and Paul Bedfobd Elwell, both of W°lverhampton, Stafford, England, Electrical Engineers.—lmprovements in electric lighting, and in apparatus connected therewith. 1008. (L.E.) 25th January. Eobeet Punshon and Eobeet Eobinson Vizee, both of London, England.—An improved method of and apparatus for utilizing an explosive compound for blasting or other purposes. 1009. (L.E.) 25th January. The Consolidated Electeic Company (Limited), of 110, Cannon Street, London, England. —Improvements in or connected with secondary batteries. 1010. (L.E.) 25th January. The Consolidated Electeig Company (Limited), of 110, Cannon Street, London, England.— Improvements in electric current measuring and governing apparatus.

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