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3554. 14th February. George Augustus Bryan, of Auckland, New Zealand, Dealer, and George Eichards, of the same place, Machinist.—An invention for guiding perambulators, to be called " Bryan and Bichards's Batent Movable Guide for Perambulators." (Not proceeded with.) 3555. 20th February. Allan Skene, of Wellington, New Zealand.—An invention for improvements in apparatus for straining wire, wire ropes, cords, and fencing. (Not proceeded with.) 3556. 21st February. William Evans, of Palace Hotel, Melbourne, Victoria, Commercial Traveller, and Frederic Burgon, of Fernbank, Wisewood, Sheffield, England, Sheep-shear Manufacturer.—An invention for improvement in machines for shearing or clipping animals, clipping the superfluous nap from carpets, and for shearing or clipping generally. (Not proceeded with.) 3557. 21st February. James Mills, of Greymouth, New Zealand, Publisher.—An invention for a combination manifold writing- and copying-book. 3558. 19th February. Walter Booth, of Oamaru, Otago, New Zealand, Inventor.—An invention for an improved self-cleansing dripstone filter, to be entitled " The Universal Filter." (Not proceeded with.) 3559. 22nd February. George Baymond and Albert Baymond, both of Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Mechanics.—An invention for improvements relating to the pulverisation or reduction of mineral or other substances, and to apparatus therefor. 3560. 22nd February. John Bernhard Brenmehl, of 104, Park Street, Camden Town, Middlesex, England, Manufacturer.-—An invention for improvements in coin-freed mechanism. (Not proceeded with.) 3561. 22nd February. Albert Berwick Cunningham, of London, England, Gentleman. —An invention for improvements relating to the extraction of gold, silver, and lead from substances containing the same, and to apparatus therefor. 3562. 18th February. Hugh Hebee Cholmondeley, of Piako, Auckland, New Zealand, Settler.— An invention for champion iron fencing-wire strainer. (Not proceeded with.) 3563. 18th February. Amos JamEs Davidson and Eobert Crispen Hooper, both of Auckland, New Zealand, Stonemasons.—An invention for Davidson and Hooper's compressed ironsand process. (Not proceeded with.) 3564. 22nd February. John Smith, of Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand, Well-sinker.— An invention for an improved apparatus for driving pipes for artesian wells or for driving piles, to be called " The Enterprise Well-driving Apparatus." (Not proceeded with.) 3565. 25th February. John Howell, of Waiorongomai, Auckland, New Zealand, Engineer.—An invention for Howell's revolving cylinder ore-roaster. 3566. 25th February. William Thomas Nuttall, of Hastings, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, Blumber. —An invention for an improved apparatus or device for flushing water-closets and sewers. 3567. 25th February. John Sands, of Harris Street, Pyrmont, Sydney, New South Wales, Engineer.—An invention for improvements in ore pulverisers or reducers. 3568. 23rd February. David McLean Wallace, Blacksmith, and George William Graves, Butcher, both of Waiorongomai, Auckland, New Zealand. —An invention for the improved Al wire-fasteners for fastening barbed or plain fencing-wire. 3569. 23rd February. William Vaile, of Auckland, New Zealand, Draper.—An invention for William Vaile's patent combination rubber washing-boiler machine, wringer, and mangle. 3570. 26th February. Thomas Danks, of Christchurch, New Zealand, Engineer.—An invention for sinking artesian wells, to be called "The Improved Canterbury Well-sinking Machine." (Withdrawn.) 3571. Ist March. Thomas Alva Edison,, of Llewellyn Park, Essex, New Jersey, United States of America, Electrician. —An invention for improvements in methods and apparatus for recording and reproducing sounds, and for preparing surfaces for receiving sound-records, and in materials or compositions for such surfaces. 3572. Ist March. Thomas Alva Edison, of Llewellyn Park, Essex, New Jersey, United States of America, Electrician.—An invention for improvements in phonographs. 3573. 31st March. Thomas Alva Edison, of Llewellyn Park, Essex, New Jersey, United States of America, Electrician.—An invention for improvements in apparatus for recording and reproducing sound, and in sufaces for receiving such sound-record and methods of making and using such surfaces. 3574. 26th February. William George Quickc, Sen., of Invercargill, New Zealand, Carpenter.—An invention for a combined sack-truck and lift, to be called "Quickc's Patent Sack-truck and Lift." (Not proceeded with.) 3575. 27th February. John Adkins, of Stafford Street, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand, Hotel Manager.—An invention for a spring mattress, entitled " The Improved Spring Mattress." (Not proceeded with.) 3576. 28th February. Charles Edward Walker, of West Melton, Canterbury, New Zealand, Machinist. —An invention for a machine for sharpening chaff-cutter knives, to be called " The Canterbury Flexible Sharpener." 3577. 27th February. Arthur Steel Ford, of Thames Goldfields, Auckland, New Zealand, Engineer. —An invention for Ford's patent tailing - crusher and cylindrical friction amalgamator. (Not proceeded with.) 3578. 26th February. John Heron, of Greymouth, New Zealand, Carpenter.—An invention for excluding the rain, dust, and draught from entering buildings under outside doors, to be called "A. Bain- and Dust-excluder." (Not proceeded with.)