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3711. 28th May. William Hales Turner, of Tunstall, Stafford, England, Earthenware-manu-facturer.—An invention for improvements in or relating to nose-bags. 3712. 28th May. Walter Brown, of Farish Street, Wellington, New Zealand, Engineer.—An invention for improvements in apparatus for dressing New Zealand flax. (Not proceeded with.) 3713. 28th May. James Eobert Browne, of Wellington, New Zealand, Engineer.—An invention for Lewthwaite's method of constructing breakwaters, groins, moles, sea-walls, foundations for lighthouses, coast defences, roadways through and over rivers, and other like works. (J. Lewthwaite.) 3714. 28th May. Charles Jedediah Lee, of Universal Chambers, Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Importer.—An invention for securing and locking nuts on through screw-bolts, to be called " The Patent Self-acting Nut-locker for Screw-bolts." (E. B. Keith.) 3715. 20th May. James Beynolds, of Hokitika, New Zealand.—An invention for a spring windowrack, to be known as "J. Beynokls's Spring Window-rack." (Not proceeded with.) 3716. 27th May. Chapman Ewen, of Tamahere, Waikato, Auckland, New Zealand.—An invention for " Chapman Ewen's Combined Potato-separator and Bagging-machine." (Not proceeded with.) 3717. 30th May. George William Grainger, of Napier, New Zealand, Civil Engineer.—An invention for a drum and ratchet-lever press. (Not proceeded with.) 3718. 30th May. George Kiegour, of 2, Victoria Mansions, Victoria Street, Westminster, England, Civil Engineer.—An invention for a method of sorting minerals or other bodies, and apparatus therefor. 3719. 30th May. Henry Young, of Cromwell, Otago, New Zealand, Plumber.—An invention for " Young's Anti-profanity Emergency Button." 3720. Ist June. Henry William Shephard, of Walter Street, Granville, New South Wales, Engineer.—An invention for improvements in the construction of movable firebars, and in the ashpans of locomotive, land, marine, and other boilers. (Not proceeded with.) 3721. Ist June. Eobert Ore, of the Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand, Law Clerk.—An invention for improvements in dressing New Zealand flax, to be called " Orr's Phormium tenax Fibre Frocess." 3722. 29th May. George Thompson, of Hobson Street, Auckland, New Zealand.—An invention for dressing flax, to be called " Thompson's Batent Improved Flax-dressing Machine." (Not proceeded with.) 3723. 30th May. John Eobert Perry, of Dunedin, New Zealand. —An invention for raising stones, sand, gravel, and debris of all kinds usually met with in alluvial mining. (Not proceeded with.) 3724. 3rd June. James Albert Hamilton, of Wellington, New Zealand, Carpenter.—An invention for feeding the scutchers used for scutching New Zealand flax, or Phormium tenax, to be called " Hamilton's Scutcher-feeder." (Not proceeded with.) 3725. Ist June. Sidney Peecival Evans, of Wynyard Street, Auckland, New Zealand, Engineer.— An invention for relieving the slide-valve of locomotive, marine, and stationary engines from steam-pressure, and for dispensing with the necessity of stuffing-boxes and packing, to be called " Evans's Patent Equilibrium Slide-valve." (Not proceeded with.) 3726. 3rd June. Thomas Henry Davidson, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Engineer.—An invention for improvements in a machine for flax-dressing, known as " The Premier Flax-dresser," in respect of which an application No. 3369 for Letters Patent was made by him and one George William Gough on the Bth day of November, 1888. 3727. 4th June. George Allen, of Auckland, New Zealand, Saddler. —An invention for a saddle-tree, to be called "Allen's Patent Paragon Saddle-tree." (Not proceeded with.) 3728. Bth June. Edward Youngman Harrison, Master and Engineer of the steam-dredger " Zeta," at present working at the Eichmond Eiver, New South Wales.—An invention for improvements in grab or clam dredger-buckets. 3729. Bth June. Holmes Samuel Chipman, of Sydney, New South Wales, Merchant.—An invention for improvements in the treatment of refined sugar-masse and sugar. 3730. Bth June. Pierce Cheaseman dv Bois, of Sydney, New South Wales, Metallurgist.—An invention for improvements in stamp batteries. (M. P. Boss.) 3731. Bth June. Bichaed Wood Da vies, of Croydon, near Sydney, New South Wales, Engineer.—■ An invention for improvements in brick-presses. 3732. Bth June. Thomas Evans, of Oakleigh, near Melbourne, Victoria, Engine-driver.—An invention for the speedy opening and closing of the trap-doors in the bottom of ballast-trucks, to be entitled " The Self-adjusting Trap-gear." (Not proceeded with.) 3733. 6th June. Aethur Chaytor, of Nelson, New Zealand, Gentleman, and Eobert Woolley Gibbs, of the same place, Cordage Factor.—-An invention for an improved flax-dressing machine. 3734. 10th June. John Laird Morrison, of Wellington, New Zealand, Eopemaker.—An invention for " Morrison's Bevolving Hackling and Scutching Machine." 3735. 10th June. Thor Westring, of 175, William Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Gentleman.—An invention for an artificial ear-drum or instrument for the relief of deafness. (J. H, Nicholson.) 3736. 10th June. Mephan Ferguson, of Carlton Foundry, Leicester Street, Carlton, Victoria, Engineer.—An invention for improvements in lock-nuts. 3737. 7th June. John Jesse Swinnerton, of Auckland, New Zealand, Wood-turner.—An invention for a game to be called " Sheep in Clover." (Not proceeded with.) 8738. 11th June. Charles Arthur Lees, of 27, Antigua Street, Christchurch, New Zealand, Clerk, and Stephen William Lester, of Lytton Street, Svdenham, New Zealand, Car3—H. 1.