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5582. 2nd June. James Palmer Robertson and Alexander Russell Pulling, both of 19, Garlick Hill, London, England, Gentlemen. —An invention for a new or improved device for propelling trucks and other vehicles on railways.* 5583. 2nd June. William Heney Frank Long, of Johnsonville, near Wellington, New Zealand, Farmer.—An invention for a new process for cleansing the hair of animals from salt or lime. 5584. 30th May. Frederick Glaek, of Pukekaroro, Auckland, New Zealand, Settler. —An invention for a saddle-girth.* 5585. 3rd June. Thomas Hawke, of Tuakau, Auckland, New Zealand, Farmer.—An invention for improvements in ploughs.* 5586. Bth June. Job Osboene, of Doyleston, Canterbury, New Zealand, Farmer. —An invention for improvements in apparatus for sinking artesian wells. 5587. Bth June. William Coggan, of West Melton, Canterbury, New Zealand, Blacksmith.—An invention for an improved reversible sliding cover for sheep-feeding troughs. 5588. 7th June. George McDonald, of Middlemarch, Strath-Taieri, Otago, New Zealand, Blacksmith.—An invention for a turnip root- and stem-cutter and turnip shell-lifter combined. 5589. 11th June. Joseph Clark, of 402, Montgomery Street, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Gentleman. —An invention for improvements in safety gas-cocks. 5590. 11th June. Duncan McMurtrie, of Stawell, Victoria, Battery Manager.—An invention for an improved method of, and apparatus for, softening amalgam on the copper plates of goldsaving appliances. 5591. 10th June. Thomas Crawford Dennison, of Oamaru, New Zealand, Civil Engineer and Surveyor.—An invention for a protractor. 5592. 7th June. Frederick John Tetley, of Thames Ditton, Surrey, England, Engineer, and George Colls, of Hurlingham, Fulham, Middlesex, England, Farrier.—An invention for improvements in fixing shoes to horses and the like. 5593. 6th June. John Anderson, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Engineer and Brassfounder.—An . invention for an adaptation of a Bunsen or other gas-burner for fire-lighting and blowing, and entitled " Anderson's Instantaneous Fire-lighter." 5594. 10th June. William Henry Sarney, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Mechanical Engineer.— An invention for improvements in the manner of hanging sashes to facilitate cleaning, and entitled " Sarney's Improved Sash." 5595. 13th June. Charles James Fauvel, of 15, George Street, Mansion House, London, England, Assayer and Mining Engineer.—An invention for an improved furnace and method for the treatment of refractory ores. 5596. 13th June. Joseph Fletcher, of 111, Dolobran Road, Sparkbrook, Birmingham, England, Engineer, and Frederick Huggins, of the Britannia Tube Works, Glover Street, Birmingham aforesaid, Tube-manufacturer. —An invention for an improved compressed-air engine for working shears and other like purposes. 5597. 13th June. Henry Kingsbury, of Kyle, Ashburton, New Zealand, Farmer.—An invention for a self-raiser for land-lever of three-furrow and other ploughs. 5598. 17th June. Allan Jones, of Groper's Bush, Otago, New Zealand, Farmer.—An invention for an improvement in digging-ploughs, to be known as " Jones's Improvement in Diggingploughs."* 5599. 30th May. Richard Mitchelson, Merchant, and George Nairn, Blacksmith, both of Dargaville, Auckland, New Zealand.—An invention for a new or improved apparatus for obtaining kauri-gum from swamp and similar lands, to be known as " Dick's Gum-grip. "* 5600. 11th June. John Diedrich Schmidt, of Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand, Lithographic Artist.—An invention for improvements in tobacco-pipes. 5601. 17th June. Oscar Beunlee, of Eilenberg, Germany, Engineer.—An invention for device in petroleum-motors, serving to simultaneously press the petroleum into the evaporator through the air-current supplied for the formation of the mixture. 5602. 17th June. Percy Edward Casey, of Calignee, South Gippsland, Victoria, Farmer.—An invention for an improved milk-strainer. 5603. 16th June. Robert Morton, of Lyttleton, New Zealand, Engineer.—An invention for a double-action glandless lift- and force-pump. 5604. 16th June. Richard Chambers, of Cambridge Roller-mills, Cambridge, Auckland, New Zealand, Miller.—An invention for dressing and preparing flax or other fibres.* 5605. 16th June. Richard Chambers, of Cambridge Roller-mills, Cambridge, Auckland, New Zealand, Miller.—An invention for removing the red line or edge of the leaf of the Phormium tenax (New Zealand flax).* 5606. 20th June. Charles John Reed, of 224, High Street, Orange, New Jersey, United States of America, Mining Engineer. An invention for improvements in ore-separating machinery. 5607. 20th June. Ole Olsen, of Wimbledon, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, Sawyer.—An invention for tree-felling and cross-cutting machine.* 5608. 20th June. Cornelius Alfred Folly, of 90, Hill Street, West Hoboken, New Jersey, United States of America, Engineer, William Livingstone Flanagan, of No. 6, West 43rd Street, New York, United States of America, Brewer, and De Witt Clinton Ward, of No. 137, East 94th Street, New York aforeseid, Merchant.—An invention for improvements in and relating to screw couplings for pipes and other screw-joints. 5609. 20th June. James Gresham, Director of Gresham and Craven (Limited), of Craven Ironworks, Salford, Manchester, England, Mechanical Engineers.—An invention for improvements in or applicable to vacuum automatic brake-apparatus. 5610. 20th June. Henry Parkes, of 237, Friern Road, Dulwich, Surrey, England, Chemist, and John Cunninghame Montgomerie, of the "Water of Ayr "and "Tarn O'Shanter" Hone