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G.—Number of Applications to register Trade-marks during the Six Months ended 30th June, 1890.

H.—List of Applications . for Patents and Letters of Eegistration during the Year 1889. 3465. 2nd January. Thomas- Thatcher, of Fernham, Wanganui, New Zealand, Grazier.—An invention for improvements in river and harbour training-walls and protection-works. 3466. 3rd January. Bichard Harwood, of Foxton, Wellington, New Zealand.—An invention for a horned-cattle curb (for preventing the destruction of fences by horned cattle). (Not proceeded with.) 3467. 4th January. Edwin Barlow, of Christchurch, New Zealand, Engineer.—An invention for an improved pad for inking indiarubber or other stamps, styled "The Bremier Indestructible Pad." (Not proceeded with.) 3468. 3rd January. John Wilkins, of Auckland, New Zealand, Surgeon.—An invention for drawing teeth, to be called "Dr. Wilkins's Quick and Easy Stump- and Tooth-extractor." (Not proceeded with.) 3469. 4th January. Alfred Andrew Lockwood, of Auckland, New Zealand, Mine-manager.—An invention for the extraction of gold, silver, and other metals, to be called " Lockwood's Improved Carbonated Hydrogen Furnace." 3470. 7th January. John Beown Evans, of Mabus, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, but temporarily of London, England, Farmer..—An invention for improvements in apparatus for regulating the tension of fencing-wires and for testing the same. 347.1. ,7th January. William Danton Sandwell, of Heme Hill, Surrey, England, Electrical Engineer.—An invention for improvements relating to dynamo-electric machines and to electric motors, and to means for carrying electrical batteries for driving such motors when placed upon, tramway-vehicles, or otherwise arranged to be transported from place to place. 3472. 7th January. John Bowing, of 259, Gresham House, Old Broad Street, in the City of London, England, Consulting Chemist.—An invention for improvements in the manufacture of fuel from coal-slack and similar substances. 3473. 7th January. Sigmund Spitzee, of 13, Flinders Lane West, Melbourne, Victoria, Civil Engineer, and Frederick William Eberhaed Sander, of the same place, Gentleman.—An invention for an improved process for and relating to the manufacture of starch and improvements in apparatus therefor. 3474. 7th January. Edward Waters, of No. 75, Chancery Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Patent Agent. —An invention for improvements in. calculating-machines (being a communication from the American. Arithmometer Company, a corporation existing under the laws of the State of Missouri, one of the United States of America, and having its place of business in St. Louis, in the said State of Missouri). 3475. 4th January. John Hodgson Lee, of Te Puke, Auckland, New Zealand. —An invention for the Bungalow glass butter-jar. (Not proceeded with.) 3476. sth January. John Wilkie, Mason, George Mitchell, Baker, and Eobert William Butheeford, Bhotographer, all of Dunedin, New Zealand.—An invention for improving, by. the use of sulphur in combination with other elements, the method of preparing skins and hides for tanning.

Number of Class. Number of Applications received. Number registered. Remarks. 2 3 5 7 10 12 13 15 20 37 38 42 43 44 45 47 48 49 50 I o 2 5 1 1 2 1 1 1 8 27 6 2 4 3 3 1 1 2 1 4 1 "i i i If the columns were totalled they will show ar | excess of the actual numbers—which are, applications 62, registrations 15 —as some applications I include two or more classes. It will, of course, be borne in mind that, as nc trade-mark can be registered until two months after the application has been gazetted, the numbers shown as registered have yet to be augmented. i . i ' i 2 2 2 2 1 2 I