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1889. NEW ZEALAND.

LETTERS PATENT AND LETTERS OF REGISTRATION APPLIED FOR DURING 1888.

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

[L.R. moans Letters of Registration.] 2720. 4th January. John Hakke, of Normanby, in the Provincial District of Taranaki, New Zealand, Schoolmaster. —An invention for blotting and copying letters or writings, called " The Universal Copying- and Blotting-book." Not proceeded with. 2721. 4th January. Charles E. Teipler, of New York, United States of America, Gentleman.— An invention for improvements in amalgamating and separating precious metals from powdered ore or earth. 2722. 4th January. George James Atkins, of Tottenham, Middlesex, England, Electrician.—An invention for new or improved means and apparatus for the separation of gold and other minerals from their ores. 2723. 4th January. Bobert Hanna, of South Melbourne, in the Colony of Victoria, Engineer.— An invention for an improved portable vapour-stove and an oven for use therewith. 2724. 4th January. John William Bock, of Sydney, in the Colony of New South Wales, Engineer, and Bobert Dudley Adams, of the same place, Merchant.—An invention for an improved electrical battery. Not proceeded with. 2725. 4th January. The United States Electric Company, of Denver, in the County of Arapahoe and State of Colorado, in the United States of America.—An invention for improvements in electric railways. 2726. 6th January. James Hopkins Stevens, of Feilding, in the Provincial District of Wellington, New Zealand, Postmaster. —An invention for improvement in buggy harness, to be called " The Single-strap Safety Breecbing." Not proceeded with. 2727. 6th January. Edward Waters, of No. 75, Chancery Lane, Melbourne, in the Colony of Victoria, Patent Agent.—An invention for an improved momentum governor for marine screw-engines. (A. B. Mackenzie.) 2728. 4th January. John Bunciman, of Cambridge, Waikato, New Zealand.—An invention for harvesting fruit. 2729. 4th January. Allan John Traoey, of Wynyard Street, Auckland, New Zealand.—An invention for letters or figures with a crimped, embossed, or corrugated surface. Not proceeded with. 2730. 7th January. John Godfried Dudeck, of Otakiho, in the Provincial District of Taranaki, New Zealand, Bushman. —An invention for an improved safety attachment for stirrups, and which is applicable to some other purposes. Not proceeded with. 2731. sth January. Samuel White, of Point Chevalier, Auckland, New Zealand.—An invention for making manure from nightsoil, to be called " Native Guano." Not proceeded with. 2732. sth January. John Crook, of Ponsonby, in the Provincial District of Auckland, New Zealand.—An invention for the indication of the pressure of gas, to be called " Crook's Patent Electric Gas-pressure Indicator." Not proceeded with. 2733. 7th January. Job Osborne, of Doyleston, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, New Zealand, Farmer.—An invention for a double-action well-driver. 2734. 9th January. James Watkin Kinnibuegh, of Wellington, New Zealand.—An invention for preventing the fall of sashes, doors, lifts, &c, in event of a break in the rope, cable, &c, by which they are sustained. Not proceeded with. 2735. 9th January. Alexander Monro, of Wanganui, New Zealand, Sheep Inspector.—An invention for an improvement in the shaft-attachment of a two-wheeled vehicle, so as to counteract the horse movement4>y a hinge-and-spring connection, to be called "The Excelsior Shaftattachment." 2736. 6th January. George James Addison Btchardson, of Waipapa, Fortrose, in the Provincial District of Otago, New Zealand, Miner.—An invention for a magnetite and gold-separator. Not proceeded with. I—H. 1.