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3304. Bth October. Joshua Thomas Johns, of Seymour Street, Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand.—An invention for improving and reducing the cost of preserve and other tins, to be called " Johns's Patent Monoplate Tin." 3305. Bth October. Joshua Thomas Johns, of Seymour Street, Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand.—An invention for improving and reducing the cost of jam- and other preserve-tins, to be called " Johns's Patent Preserve-tin." 3306. 13th October. Joseph Cawte Butler, of Cuba Street, Wellington, New Zealand, Builder. —An invention for an attachment for affixing to the meeting-rails of window-sashes and other purposes requiring a perfect-fitting joint, to be called "Butler's Defiance Meeting-rail Attachment." 3307. 13th October. Joseph Cawte .Butler, of Cuba Street, Wellington, New Zealand, Builder. —An invention for an improved fastener for securing windows, doors, &c, to be called " Butler's Eclipse Fastener." 3308. 13th October. Thomas Cossens and Alexander Black, of Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand, Engineers, trading as " Cossens and Black."—An invention for automatic folding strawelevators. 3309. 12th October. Albert Willows, of Auckland, New Zealand.—An invention for an improved hank for fixing sails to ships' rigging, to be called " Willows's Improved Hank." 3310. 16th October. John White, of Victoria Street, Auckland, New Zealand.—An invention-to be called " WTiite's Patent Single Back-seam Trousers." 3311. 16th October. Bobert Jenkinson, of Howe Street, Auckland, New Zealand.—An invention to be called " Jenkinson's Patent Glass-lined Stoneware." 3312. 18th October. Holmes Samuel Chipman, of 54, Margaret Street, Sydney, in the Colony of New South Wales, Merchant.—An invention for improvements in harvesting-machines. (L. Miller.) 3313. 19th October. James Hopkins Stevens, Charles Wheeler Mountfoet, Engineer, and Charles Adrian Mountfort, Surveyor, all of Feilding, in the County of Oroua, New Zealand. —An invention for an improvement in a brake for vehicles, to be called " The Brakeleather Clip." 3314. 19th October. Alexander Lagerman, of Jenkoping, in the Kingdom of Sweden, Engineer. —An invention for apparatus for justifying printing-formes. 3315. 19th October. Monsieur le Comte Edouard de Bottermund, of Bludow, Volhyuia, in the Empire of Bussia, Landowner.—An invention for a new or improved process for extracting gold, silver, and other metals from refractory ores, sands, and residues. 3316. 19th October. Alfred Naylor Pearson, of Cunningham Street, Northcote, in the Colony of Victoria, Agricultural Chemist.—An invention for improvements in wire-netting, and in fences to be made therewith. 3317. 19th October. Joseph Husband, of Waverley, near Sydney, in the Colony of New South Wales, Engineer. —An invention for an improved safety-catch for mining and other lift-cages. 3318. 19th October. John Hesketh, of 4, Lambton Quay, Wellington, New Zealand, Steelmanufacturer.—An invention for improvements in the manufacture of pile-shoes. 3319. 19th October. John William Williams, of Pakaraka, in the County of Bay of Islands, New Zealand, Grazier, and William Frederick Hewitt, of Waimate, in the County of Bay of Islands, New Zealand, Carpenter.—An invention for improved perforated leadedged galvanised-iron ridging for corrugated-iron roofing, to be called " Williams and Hewitt's Improved Perforated Lead-edged Bidging." 3320. 20th October. Edwin Toms, of Peters Street, Wellington, New Zealand, Carpenter.—An invention to be called " The Wainui Automatic Water-flush." 332.1. 22nd October. Maurice James Keating, of Sydney, in the Colony of New South Wales, Lieutenant in the Naval Artillery Volunteers.—An invention for improvements in targets, and in apparatus to be used therewith. 3322. 22nd October. Walter Coop, of No. 41, Little Lonsdale Street East, in the City of Melbourne and Colony of Victoria, Lead-manufacturer.—An invention for an improved method of and apparatus for manufacturing lead shot or balls. 3323. 22nd October. William Henry Hamilton, of White's Bay, in the County of Sounds, Cloudy Bay, New Zealand, Telegraphist. — An invention for preventing the Price flaxmachine cutting the fibre, to be called " The Conical-bearing Flax-dressing Machine." 3324. (L.8.) 20th October. Joshua Hendy, of No. 29, Haight Street, in the City and County of San Francisco, State of California, one of the United States of America, Machinist.—An invention for improvements in ore-feeders for stamp-mills. 3325. (L.8.) 20th October. Boswell D. Clark, of Cortez, Lander County, State of Nevada, one of the United States of America, Engineer.—An invention for an improvement in the process of extracting gold and silver. 3326. (L.8.) 20th October. Arthur George Meeze, of Bedhill, in the County of Surrey, England, Consulting Engineer.—An invention for improvements in the mode of and apparatus for manufacturing gas. 3327. 20th October. Alfred Hosking, of Auckland, New Zealand, Schoolmaster.—An invention for showing the motions of the earth and moon, the seasons and eclipses, to be called " Hosking's Patent Season-demonstrator." 3328. 20th October. Joseph James Macky, of Auckland, New Zealand.—An invention for an improved method of making corrugated metal sheets, to be called-" The Supercorrugated Metal Sheeting." 3329. 23rd October. Joseph Soler, of Wanganui, in the Provincial District of Wellington, New Zealand, Wine-manufacturer.—An invention for the cure of the codlin-moth on fruittrees. 4—H. 1.