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1041. 27th February. John Burns, of Sydenham, Canterbury, New Zealand, Engineer.—An invention for cutting bread, meat, and other material, to be designated " A Bread, Meat, and General Cutting Machine." (Lapsed.) 1042. 28th February. Henry Coebick, of Christchurch, New Zealand, Bootmaker.—An invention for nailing and plating boots and shoes, to be called " The Indestructible Connected Boot and Shoe Attachment." (Lapsed.) 1043. 3rd March. Franz Cael Guilleaume, of the firm of Felten and Guilleaume, of CarlswerkMulheim, on the Ehine, Germany, Wire Manufacturers.—lmprovements in wire cables for haulage and like purposes. 1044. 29th February. Charles McQueen, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Engineer. —Improvement in the construction of tumblers for dredgers. 1045. 29th February. Charles McQueen, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Engineer.—lmprovement for dredging buckets and links. 1046. 6th March. Walter Brown, of Invercargill, New Zealand, Blacksmith.—An improvement in agricultural implements, to be called "Brown's Disc Cultivator." 1047. 28th February. William McLaughlin, of Puhinui, near Otahuhu, Auckland, New Zealand, Engineer.—An invention for making drains through swamps, to be called a " Steam Drainer." 1048. Ist March. William Vickery, of Lower Hepburn Street, Auckland, New Zealand, Engineer.—"The Housewife's Washing-Machirie. 1049. 10th March. William Henry Masters and Thomas Theophilus Draper, both of 55, Chancery Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Electricians.—lmprovements in telephone exchange apparatus. 1050. 4th March. Thomas Haycock, of Eichmond, Nelson, New Zealand, Flax-dresser.—A skin purifier and stain eradicator, to be called ". Haycock's Skin Purifier and Stain Eradicator." 1051. 14th March. Edward Waters, of 87, Bourke Street West, Melbourne, Victoria, Patent Agent.—An improved method or process and apparatus for extracting metals from their ores and concentrating heavy materials. (T. E. Jordan and J. N. Longden's.) 1052. 14th March. Edward Waters, of 87, Bourke Street West, Melbourne, Victoria, Patent Agent.—lmprovements in machinery or apparatus for treating ores, chiefly for the extraction of precious metal therefrom. (T. E. Jordan's.) 1053. 10th March. Arthur Steele Ford, of Coromandel, Auckland, New Zealand, Mechanical Engineer.—A Crystal Engine. 1054. 13th March. John George Green, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Bootmaker.—A Flexible Shoe-lift. (Lapsed.) 1055. 18th March. Egbert Niedergesaess, of Wellington, New Zealand, Engineer.—A meat-thawing-and-drying apparatus. (Lapsed.) 1056. 21st March. Thomas Haxton and George Beattie, both of Dunedin, New Zealand, Engineers. —Improvements in fencing standards. (Lapsed.) 1057. 21st March. James Gsay, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Agricultural Engineer.—A staple for fixing fencing. 1058. 22nd March. George Thomas Booth, Banald Macdonald, and William Eoss, of Christchurch and Sydenham, New Zealand, Implement Manufacturers. —Improvement in tine harrows. (Lapsed.) 1059. 25th March. Henry Corrick, of Christchurch, New Zealand, Bootmaker.—An invention for generating steam, to be called " Corrick's Inextubular Boiler." (Lapsed.) 1060. (L.8.) 20th March. Hoeatio Sutherland, of 66, Holborn Viaduct, London, England.—■ An improved quartz-crusher or mill to be used for crushing and pulverizing quartz and other minerals and materials. 1061. 26th March. Andrew Goudie Cossgrove, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Photographer.—Opal enamel. (Lapsed.) 1062. 31st March. William Andrews and Arthur Ward Beaven, both of Christchurch, New Zealand, Engineers. —Improvements in chaffcutters. 1063. 4th April. Eobeet Dixson, of 107, William Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Tobacco Manufacturer.—lmprovements in machinery for making plug tobacco. 1064. sth April. William Ernest Eichaedson, of Outram, Otago, New Zealand, Engineer.—An improved receptacle for containing matches or similar articles, to be known as "Bichardson's Patent Match Economizer." 1065. (L.E.) Ist April. Augustus Frederick Nagle,. of Providence, State of Ehode Island, United States of America.—lmprovements in presses for pressing bricks and concrete blocks. 1066. (L.E.) Ist April. Alfred Wilson, of Handsworth, in the County of Stafford, England, Engineer.—lmprovements in apparatus for making gas. 1067. 10th April. Thomas E. Eosier, of Christchurch, New Zealand, Grain-cleaning-machine Manufacturer.—An invention for cleaning grass-seed and grain. 1068. sth April. Edward Hughes Elliott, of Timaru, New Zealand, Machinist.—An invention for the better-securing barbs on wires used for fencing and other purposes, so that the said barbs cannot be unlapped, or moved from or along the said wires whether the said wires are twisted with each other or not. 1069. sth April. Edward Hughes Elliott, of Timaru, New Zealand, Machinist.—An invention for the cutting of wire barbs used for fencing or other purposes, to be called the " Acme Automatic Wire-Barb Cutter." 1070. 7th April. James Wilson Mansfield, of Christchurch, New Zealand, Engineer.—An improved sheet metal standard for movable fences, to be called "Mansfield's Sheet Metal Standard." (Lapsed.)