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1884. NEW ZEALAND.

LETTERS PATENT AND LETTERS OF REGISTRATION APPLIED FOR DURING 1883 (LIST OF). [L.R. means Letters of Registration, and L.P. means Letters Patent.]

Presented to both Houses of the General Assembly by Command of His Excellency.

758. (L.P.) 4th January. James Bowland Hill and Alexandee Bobebtson, both of Otepopo, in the Provincial District of Otago, and Colony of New Zealand, Millowners.—lmprovements in threshing-mills, so as to enable grass-seed to be cleaned, dressed, and delivered into bags ready for market, by substituting certain apparatus for some of the apparatus used for threshing grain. 759. (L.P.) sth January. Chables Watt, of Dunedin, in the Colony of New Zealand.—An improved process of and for the manufacturing of gas for illuminating, heating, and other purposes. (Not proceeded with.) 760. (L.E.) Bth January. Heineich Wilhelm Ludwig Otto yon Boden, of Hamburg, Germanj'. ■ —An improved process for preserving milk. 761. (L.E.) Bth January. Paul de Pdydt, of Brussels, in the Kingdom of Belgium, Engineer.— A process for the manufacture of fibres, by the treatment of textile materials and fibrous plants, whereby a product is obtained capable of being employed for the manufacture of fabrics, cloths, felts, and cordage of all kinds. 762. (L.E.) Bth January. Guy Huggins Gabdneb, of Bourke Street, Melbourne, in the Colony of Victoria, Merchant.—lmprovements in furnaces for reducing iron ores. (Joel Wilson's.) 763. (L.P.) 9th January. William Ewington, of Auckland, New Zealand, Engineer.—Self-dis-charging silt-punts. (Not proceeded with.) 764. (L.E.) 17th January. Geobge Dalton, of Leeds, in the County of York, England.—lmprovements in machinery for crushing or reducing gold quartz, ores, cement, clinker, &c, to powder. 765. (L.P.) 20th January. Thomas Osbobne, of Wellington, New Zealand, Joiner.—An improved meat press, to be called " Osborne's Meat Press." (Patent refused.) 766. (L.P.) 23rd January. William Jewell, of Christchurch, New Zealand, Stonemason.—An invention for rendering brick, stone, plaster, or other similar porous substances impervious to water or damp. (Not proceeded with.) 767. (L.P.) 23rd January. Thomas Cbawfoed Dennison, of Oamaru, New Zealand, Civil Engineer and Surveyor; Waltee Andeew Haepee, of Oamaru aforesaid, Engineer and Surveyor; and Feedeeick William Smith Ansted, of Oamaru aforesaid, Teacher.—An improved method of manufacturing asphaltic concrete for all uses for which cement and asphalte are suitable. 768. (L.E.) 24th January. William Thomas Whiteman, of No. 7, Staple Inn, in the County of Middlesex, England, Patent Agent.—lmprovements in electric lamps. 769. (L.P.) 29th January. William Nelson, of Tomoana, in the Provincial District of Hawke's Bay and Colony of New Zealand, Sheep-farmer.—lmproved machinery for carrying out the process commonly known as "boiling down." 770. (L.E.) 31st January. Henby Hudson, of Eedfern, near Sydney, in the Colony of New South Wales.—lmprovements in leaf-springs. (Thomas Midelton's.) 771. (L.P.) 2nd February. John Stewaet Little, of Christchurch, in the Colony of New Zealand,Carpenter. —A fire-escape ladder. (Not proceeded with.) 772. (L.E.) 6th February. Eobebt McCully, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, one of the United States of America.—lmprovements in machines for crushing, grinding, pulverizing, or , similarly treating ore, grain, and other materials. 773. (L.E.) 10th February. Jules Louis Moeet, of Paris, in the Eepublic of France.—An improved treatment for softening, unhairing, puring, ungreasing, and preserving hides and skins. 774. (L.P.) 10th February. John Aspinall, of Skipper's Point, in the Provincial District of Otago and Colony of New Zealand, Miner.—Hand rock-drill. (Not proceeded with.) 775. (L.P.) 14th February. Geoege Seton Stenhouse, of Blenheim, Commission Agent, and John Smith, of Blenheim, New Zealand, Tinsmith.—An invention for the purpose of destroying and exterminating rabbits, to be known as " Stenhouse and Smith's Gaseous Selfacting Vermin and Babbit Exterminator." (Not proceeded with.)

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