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C. —Number of Applications for Patents and Letters of Registration under Acts now repealed.

Note.—By " N.Z." is meant those in which the applicant resides in the colony, and by " Foreign " those in which they are not so resident. * These columns are not filled up, as necessarily the returns would be incomplete and of no value, the respective periods not having yet expired.

D.—Number of Applications for Patents during Six Months ended 30th June, 1890, accepted under Act of 1889.

Number of Applications received. Number of such Applications lapsed or refused. Number of Patents and Letters of Registration sealed on such Application. Number of such Patents lapsed owing to Non-payment of Renewal Fees. Number of such Patents and Letters of Registration in force to End of Term. Year and Act. N.Z. Foreign. N.Z. Foreign. N.Z. Foreign. N.Z. Foreign. N.Z. Foreign. 1861) 1864} 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 6 15 6 15 6 15 o CD I - i re a P 1 4 3 5 9 19 19 19 14 4 16 19 15 27 22 34 34 89 159 260 240 380 402 489 460 5 5 4 6 8 19 10 17 19 10 22 5 23 23 25 46 43 93 74 98 83 123 143 256 236 1 4 3 5 9 19 14 11 6 2 9 13 9 23 13 24 34 55 74 133 193 164 160 189 5 5 4 6 8 19 10 17 19 10 22 5 23 23 25 46 43 93 74 90 73 107 132 216 1 4 3 5 9 19 14 1 2 5 5 4 6 • 8 19 10 17 19 10 22 5 23 23 25 46 43 91 74 41 * o a P 5 8 8 2 7 6 6 4 9 10 10 34 85 127 147 216 242 300 10 4 2 8 12 7 20 13 16 23 48 57 116 * 1 1 2 3 8 11 7 17 17 2 O -»^ < CO <D i-H Pi P 8 10 16 11 40 49 * * * * * # * * * *

Number of Provisional Specifications [ Number of Compl received. lodged in fii lete Specifications | •st instance. I Total. N.Z. Foreign. N.Z. Foreign. 58 23 108 100 284