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3579. 28th February. John Anderson, of Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand, Iron- and Brass-founder. • —An invention for an improvement in archimedean ventilators. (Not proceeded with.) 3580. Ist March. George Sollitt, of Hastings, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, Builder.—An invention for "The Kaipai General Cooper," a machine for making all description of wood hollow-ware. 3581. 4th March. Archibald Siddall, of Byde, New South Wales, Bank Accountant.—An invention for an improved hanger for picture-frames and such like objects. 3582. 4th March. William Fairweather, of Blenheim, Marlborough, New Zealand, Engineer.— An invention for improving the drum and bearings of flax-stripper, the drum to be called " The Go-ahead Flax-drum." (Not proceeded with.) 3583. sth March. John Eobert Baddle and Clement Van de Velde, both of Sydney, New South Wales, Engineers.—An invention for improvements in locomotive furnaces, parts of which are applicable to other steam-boiler furnaces. 3584. 7th March. Edward Waters, of No. 131, William Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Batent Agent. —An invention for improvements in sheaf-carriers. (The McCormick Harvesting Machine Company.) (Not proceeded with.) 3585. Bth March. Edward Hughes Elliott, of Cross Street, Timaru, Canterbury, New Zealand, Engineer.—An invention for the cure of nervous disorders by means of electricity in the form of a pill, to be called "An Electric Pill." (Not proceeded with.) 3586. 9th March. Edward Goodwin, of Pigeon Bay, Canterbury, New Zealand, Farmer.—An invention for a double-action windlass. 3587. 11th March. William Charles Alfred Dimock, of 4, Lambton Quay, Wellington, New Zealand.—An invention for improvements in curing and preserving bacon and meat. 3588. 11th March. Walter Norgrove, of Wellington, New Zealand.—An invention for scutching and cleaning flax, entitled "The Anti-friction Scutcher and Cleaner." (Not proceeded with.) 3589. 13th March. Charles Blomefield Douglas, of New Blymouth, New Zealand, Surveyor.— An invention for improvements in pipes and other similar articles, to be called " The Smokers' Nicotine-collector." (Not proceeded with.) 3590. Bth March. Thomas Mooee Bryant, of Auckland, New Zealand, Agent. —An invention for barbed-metal case-hooping, to be called " The Universal Barbed Hooping." (Not proceeded with. 3591. 14th March. Colin McDonald, of No. 117, Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Master Mariner. —An invention for an improved mechanical bearing. 3592. 11th March. William John Blakey, of Auckland, New Zealand, Blockmaker. —An invention for a wire clothes-peg, to be called "Blakey's Improved Spring Clothes-peg." (Not proceeded with.) 3593. 14th March. Eobert Martin Crosbie, of Nelson, New Zealand, Engineer.—An invention for improved feed-rollers and chairs for flax-stripping machine. 3594. 16th March. Frederick Barker Hill, of London, England, Engineer.—An invention for improvements in ice-making, cooling, and refrigerating apparatus. 3595. 16th March. Francis Edward Wilson, of Birmingham, England, Safe-manufacturer, and Charles Curwen Walker, of Acock's Green, Warwick, England, Surveyor.—An invention for improvements in fastening- or locking-mechanism for safes and strong-rooms. 3596. 16th March. Charles Dixon Aria, of 175, Piccadilly, London, England, Lamp-manu-facturer..—An invention for improvements in oil-lamps. 3597. 16th March. William Augustus Elliott, of Bridge House, Hopkins Street, Footscray, Melbourne, Victoria.—An invention for improved rotary heel-motor for boots and shoes. 3598. 14th March. John Sampson Boberts, of Oamaru, Otago, New Zealand, Chaffcutter.—An invention for an improved knife-wheel, to facilitate the removal and sharpening of the knives in chaffcutters, to be called " Boberts's Patent Knife-wheel and Automatic Self-sharpener for Chaffcutters." (Not proceeded with.) 3599. 19th March. John Beck, of Wellington, New Zealand, Timber Merchant.—An invention for an improvement in rebated joints, suitable for any material, but especially for rebated rusticated boarding, to be known as " Beck's Patent Bebated Joint." 3600. 19th March. Edwin Toms, of Peters Street, in the City of Wellington, New Zealand, Carpenter, and David Bait, of Hopper Street, in the said city, Plumber.—An invention for the improved colonial automatic water-flush. (Not proceeded with.) 3601. 20th March. Edwaed Seager, of Wellington, New Zealand, Engineer. —An invention for improvements in flax-dressing machine. (Not proceeded with.) 3602. 20th March. John Andrew Henry Theodore Eanft, Mining Engineer, and Edward Janitzky, Metallurgist, both of Sydney, New South Wales.—An invention for an improved process of extracting copper from ores and products containing the same as sulphide. (Josef Perino.) 3603. 21st March. William John Marshall, Boilermaker, and James Ford, Tailor, both of Newcastle, New South Wales.—An invention for improvements in the fastening of tubes, such as steam-boiler tubes in their tube-plates. (Not proceeded with.) 3604. 21st March. Tottenham Lee Eichardson, of Murrawoombie, near Nyngen, New South Wales, Grazier. —An invention for improvements in sheep-shearing machines and in inflexible shaft-connections therefor, and for other purposes. 3605. 23rd March. Eobert Edward Evenden, of 4, Lambton Quay, Wellington, New Zealand.— An invention for a new or improved apparatus for washing and separating gold and some other minerals and substances. 3606. 23rd March. Edward Metcalf Smith, of New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand, Engineer.—An invention for certain improvements in the manufacture of artificial or compound