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4187. 20th January. Chables Gilbeet, of Walballa, Victoria, Mining Manager.—-An invention for a reversing water-wheel. 4188. 20th January. John Howaed, Machinist, and John Heney Geddes, Wool-broker, both of Sydney, New South Wales.—An invention for improvements in machines or apparatus for cutting or clipping wool or other similar fibrous products. 4189. 2lßt January. Alexandee Stephen Pateeson and William Eenest Hughes, both of Wellington, New Zealand, Engineers.—An invention for a new aquatic amusement.* (Abandoned.) 4190. 25th January. John Caetee, of Upper Eiccarton, Canterbury, New Zealand, Farmer.— An invention for improvements in grass-mowing machines. 4191. 24th January. William Beown and Eichaed John Kitto, both of Wellington, New Zealand, Hat Manufacturers.—An invention for improvements in the manufacture of felt hats. 4192. 23rd January. Job Osboene, of Winfield Farm, Doyleston, Canterbury, New Zealand, Farmer. —An invention for a gorse-cutting apparatus to be attached to a traction engine. 4193. 27th January. John Gotfeied Dudeck, of 4, Lambton Quay, Wellington, New Zealand, Settler..—An invention for improvements in apparatus for straining wire and wire-fencing. 4194. 28th January. Edwin Dooeey, Eailway Inspector, Petee Minehan, Superintendent of Maintenance, Chabi-es Lodge, Eailway Inspector, Geoege Boniface, Carpenter, and Samuel Nesbitt Allen, Commission and Forwarding Agent, all of Townsville, Queensland.— An invention for improved contrivances for automatically taking up the slack of wires, chains; or rods used in operating railway and other signals. 4195. 28th January. Middleton Ceawfobd, of 3, Oxford Street, Liverpool, Lancaster, England, Engineer.—An invention for improvements in means for effecting the separation of particles of different specific gravities, more especially intended for the separation of gold and other metals, 4196. 28th January. James Fostee, of Hillside Eoad, Caversham, Otago, New Zealand, Printer.— An invention for straight-lacing in boots and shoes. (Lapsed.) 4197. 28th January. James Fostee, of Hillside Eoad, Caversham, Otago, New Zealand, Printer.— An invention for glass-lined butter-boxes. (Lapsed.) 4198. 30th January. Gundee Tellefsen, of Waipawa, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, Labourer. An invention for a toy—to wit, a puzzle rattle. (Lapsed.) 4199. 30th January. Thomas Gagee, of 95, Manchester Street, Christchurch, New Zealand, Tailor. —An invention for improvements in electric belts. 4200. 31st January. Eobeet Floeence Nenningee, of Newark, Essex, New Jersey, United States of America, Engineer.—An invention for improvements in a new smelting and reverberatory furnace, and an apparatus for catching the dust and condensing the fumes from the furnace. 4201. Ist February. Henby Thomas Whitcheb, of Petone, Wellington, New Zealand, Builder and Contractor.—An invention for lifting and releasing all kinds of monkeys or hammers where a vertical blow is required for driving piles or pipes for artesian wells, to be known as " Whitcher's Automatic Pipe and Pile Driver, &c." (Lapsed.) 4202. 27th January. John Daniel Aenaboldi, of Cambridge East, Auckland, New Zealand, Inventor. —An invention for use in darning socks, stockings, &c, called " The Simplex Darning Frame." (Lapsed.) 4203. 27th January. James Page, of Kingsland, Auckland, New Zealand, Builder.—An invention for step-ladders, to be called " Page's Improved Patent Safety Step-ladder." 4204. Ist February. Illius Augustus Timmis, of No. 2, Great George Street, Westminster, London, S.W., England, Civil Engineer. —An invention for improvements in coiled steel springs. 4205. Ist February. James John Wood, of Brooklyn, State of New York, United States of America, Electrical Engineer.—An invention for improvements in dynamo-electric machines in part applicable to electro motors. 4206. 3rd February. John Nichols Davies, of Giveleath, Cornwall, England, Seed, Manure, and Agricultural Implement Merchant. —An invention for improvements relating to harvesting machines. 4207. 3rd February. Gael Gustaf Pateik de Laval, of Stockholm, Sweden, Civil Engineer.—■ An invention for improvements in churns. 4208. 3rd February. Duncan Campbell, of the Bank of New South Wales, Wellington, New Zealand, Accountant. — An invention for an improved meat-label or ticket, and method of fastening the same.* 4209. 3rd February. Aethue Pickaed, of Leeds, York, England, Merchant.—An invention for improvements in the construction of canals or watercourses, and in the means employed for imparting a current to the water for moving boats and other vehicles. 4210. Ist February. Asa Noeman Whitney, of 22, Harewood Square, London, England, or Woodlands, Cleveland, Auckland, New Zealand, Master Mariner, and Manager Colonial Ammunition Company (Limited), Melbourne.—An invention for improvements in the manufacture of metallic cartridges, called "Asa Whitney's Patent Cartridge."* 4211. 3rd February. Mack Saundees, of Timaru, Canterbury, New Zealand, Farmer, and James Geangee, of the same place, Accountant. —An invention for utilizing the up and downgrade power of sea waves for mechanical purposes, to be called " The Timaru Marine-motor."* 4212. 4th February. William Eodiee, of Cobar, New South Wales, Squatter.—An invention for "The Nonpareil Babbit-net." 4213. sth February. Eugene David Bush, of Melbourne, Victoria, Sanitary Engineer.—An invention for an improved closet or commode, parts of which are applicable to other purposes. 4214. 6th February. William Toogood, of Featherston, Wairarapa, New Zealand, Storekeeper.— An invention for the washing and cleansing of New Zealand hemp or other fibres,-

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