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6486. 18th October. Edward Purser, of High Street, Blenheim, New Zealand, Mining Agent.— An invention for extracting pure iron from ironsancl.* 6487. 17th October. William Andrews and Arthur Ward Beaven, both of Christchurch, New Zealand, Engineers.—An invention for a new or improved apparatus for husking, shelling, or drawing clover, grass, and similar seeds. 6488. 18th October. Donald Aechibald Douglas, of Blenheim, New Zealand, Architect.—An invention for safety adhesive envelopes. 6489. 19th October. Geoege Bell Shepheed, Ironmonger, Morris Levy, Gentleman, Henry Forbes Budge, Bootmaker, and Richard William Raithby, Battery-manager, all of Reefton, New Zealand.—An invention for an improved process of extracting gold and silver from sands, tailings, and slimes.* 6490. 19th October. Carl August Riedig, of Chemnitz, German Empire, Merchant. —An invention for improvements in all kinds of boots, shoes, slippers, &c, of whatsoever material. 6491. 20th October. James Upchurch, of Normanby Street, Wellington, New Zealand, Carpen-ter.-—An invention for an improved weatherproof joint for rusticated weatherboards. 6492. 20th October. Nicholas Sorensen, of Clareville, Carterton, New Zealand, Blacksmith. — An invention for an improved stump-extractor.* 6493. 21st October. Ewald Schoneberg, of Diisseldorf, Germany, Factory Manager. —An invention for improvements in barbed fence-wire. 6494. 21st October. John Storer, of Sydney, New South Wales, Consulting Chemist, and Benjamin Thomas Lacy, of San Francisco, United States of America, Mining Engineer.—An invention for an improved method of and apparatus for dissolving, leaching, and filtering. 6495. 21st October. Granville White, of 2, Grandview Terrace, Moreland, Victoria, Contractor. —An invention for smoke- and spark-consumers.* 6496. 17th October. Ebenezee James McClellan, of Auckland, New Zealand.—An invention for a new game of skill in rolling marbles in grooves or channels upon a flat piece of plaster of Paris, tin, or other suitable material, until the said marbles shall have rolled into certain . desired positions.* 6497. 16th October. Alexandee Thomson, of Kelso, Otago, New Zealand, Farmer. —An invention for improvements in agricultural machinery, to be known as " Thomson's Improved Thinner No. 2." 6498. 23rd October. Joseph Tempeeley, of Wray Lodge, Reigate, Surrey, England, Shipowner. —An invention for travelling pulley-carriage for raising, lowering, and traversing loads. 6499. 23rd October. Cael Moldenhauer, of Frankfort-on-Maine, Germany. —An invention for improvements in recovering gold and other precious metals from their ores. 6500. 23rd October. Joseph Warburton, of Faussett Street, South Melbourne, Victoria, Gentleman.—An invention for an improved catamenial sack or pad.* 6501. 23rd October. Mark Knight Wescott, of Imperial Chambers, Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Corn-broker. —An invention for an improved process and apparatus to be used in compressing fodder for animals.* 6502. 20th October. Robeet Webstee, of Southbridge, New Zealand, Blacksmith.—An invention for a speeded revolving harrow for eradicating twitch and other noxious weeds. 6503. 21st October. John Hempstalk, of Lyttelton, New Zealand, Shipwright.—An invention for a new or improved weighing and automatic recording and tallying jack. 6504. 24th October. Howard Kerr, of Gate Pa, Tauranga, Auckland, New Zealand, retired Captain Royal Navy. —An invention for a new or improved removable tire, more especially applicable to road vehicles. 6505. 24th October. Sidney Soffe, of Russell Terrace, Wellington, New Zealand, Cabinetmaker. —An invention for improved means for hanging pictures and the like.* 6506. 21st October. Charles Wheeler Mountfort, of Havelock Road, Napier, New Zealand, Civil Engineer and Surveyor.—An invention for a lock-fast clothes-peg. 6507. 23rd October. William Andrews and Arthur Ward Beaven, carrying on business as " Andrews and Beaven," of Christchurch, New Zealand, Engineers.—An invention for improvements in threshing-machines.* 6508. 27th October. Feederick Pilcher, of 70, Perth Street, Prahran, Victoria, Architectural Student. —An invention for improvements in the construction and laying-clown of wood-block roadways.* 6509. 28th October. William Joseph Cannon, of The Avenue, Lincoln, England, Manufacturer. —An invention for improved apparatus for dipping oxen, sheep, or other animals. 6510. 25th October. Susan Hamley, of Berlin House, Karangahape Road, Auckland, New Zealand, Gentlewoman.; —An invention for a new or improved apparatus for opening oysters.* 6511. 30th October. Joseph Colley, of Gladstone Villa, Derby Street, Camberwell, Victoria, Government Armourer.—An invention for improvements in action-retaining mechanism of small arms.* 6512. 24th October. John Marie Oey, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Engine-driver.—An invention for improvements in water-gauge glasses for steam-boilers, and entitled "The Automatic Safety-gauge Glass." 6513. 27th October. Robeet Lockhead, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Importer.—An invention for improvements in clothes-wringers, to be known as "Electra Clothes-wringer." 6514. 27th October. John Marshall, of Springston, Canterbury, New Zealand, Mechanic.—An invention for improvements in windmills. 6515. 30th October. Joseph William Sutton, of Eagle Street, Brisbane, Queensland, Engineer. —An invention for improved rotary apparatus for the generation of chlorine gas, connection between the generating and chlorinating chambers, and the chlorination of pulverised or finely-divided gold- or silver-ores.