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1881. NEW ZEALAND.

LETTERS PATENT AND LETTERS OF REGISTRATION APPLIED FOR DURING 1880 (LIST OF).

Presented to both Souses of the General Assembly by Command of Sis Excellency.

419. (L.E.) 16th January, 1880. George Jamieson Scott, of 7, Garden Eeach, Calcutta, East Indies, Secretary to the India General Steam Navigation Company (Limited). —A steam generator. 420. (L.E.) 16th January, 1880. William Humble and Ward Nicholson, both of Yulcan Foundry, Little Malop Street, Geelong, Victoria, Ironfounders. —Improvements in machinery for straining and retaining the strain on wire between two fixed points, such as in wire-fencing. 421. (L.E.) lGth January, 1880. William James Geant, of Brenhilda Terrace, Bennie Street, Paddington, near Sydney, New South Wales, Cordial Manufacturer, and Fbedeeick William Elliott, of Sydney, aforesaid, Wholesale Druggist. —Improvement in stopping aerated waterbottles, and a machine for filling the same, to be called " Grant's Aerial Stopper Bottle and Filling Machine." 422. (L.P.) 23rd January, 1880. Cheistopiier Tester, of the City of Wellington, New Zealand, Law Stationer.—An invention for extinguishing candles, to be called " Tester's Self-acting Safety Extinguisher." 423. (L.E.) 17th February, 1880. George Westinghouse, Jun., of No. 20, Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, England. —Improvements in apparatus for working brakes on railway trains by fluid pressure, parts of the said apparatus being applicable generally to pipes conducting fluid. 424. (L.P.) Eobebt Norie Cowan, of Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand, Plumber, and William Henry Scott, of the same place, Wood-turner. —An improved totalisator. (Not proceeded with.) 425. (L.E.) 26th February, 1880. Spenceb Mort and George Browning, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North Britain, Tool-makers and Engineers. —Improvements in sewing machines. 426. (L.E.) 26th February, 1880. Alexander Anderson, Manager of the Singer Manufacturing Company's Works, Glasgow, North Britain. —Improvements in sewing machines. 427 (L.E.) 26th February, 1880. George Baldwin Woodruff, of Cheapside, London, Engineer. —Improvements in driving the shuttles of sewing machines. 428. (L.E.) 26th February, 1880. Jamks Livesey, of No. 9, Victoria Chambers, Victoria Street, London, England, Civil Engineer, and Joshua Kidd and James Kidd, both of Englantine Eoad, Wandsworth, Surrey, England, Gas Engineers. —Improvements in material and apparatus for the enrichment of inflammable gas. 429. (L.P ) 26th February, 1880. Benjamin Dickson, of Burwood Station, Otago. —An invention for the effectually clearing and freeing frorn rabbits all lands and districts at present infested with them. 430. (L.E.) 4th March, 18S0. Siegfried Franck, of No. 1, Eichmond Terrace, Domain, Sydney, New South Wales, Gentleman. —Improvements in machinery for registering numerically, to be called a "Totalisator." 431. (L.P.) sth March, 1880. George Townson, of Timaru, Canterbury. —An invention for manufacturing cement concrete. 432. (L.E.) 10th March, 1880. Chaeles Adolphus Watkins, of the firm of Hamilton and Company, of Greek Street, Soho, in the County of Middlesex, England, Brush Manufacturers.— Improvements in the manufacture of brushes, and in the apparatus employed therein. 433. (L.E.) 10th March, 1880. William Eobeet Lake, of the firm of Haseltine, Lake, and Co., Patent Agents, Southampton Buildings, London, England. —Improvements in and relating to screw bolts, and their nuts and other articles, with screw-threaded holes, and in the manufacture of implements for punching these holes ; a communication to him from abroad by Alfred Buckingham Ibbotson, of Villa Ibbotson, Florence, Italy 434. (L.E.) 12th March, 1880. Thomas Foster Wilkins, of Upper Baker Street, London, Middlesex, England.—lmprovements in the preservation of alimentary substances, both solid and fluid. 435. (L.P.) 23rd March, 1880. William Anderson Ewing, of Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.— The New Zealand cement.