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2782. 6th February. Gustaf Dillberg and Andrew Curtin Giddings, of the City of Christchurch, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, New Zealand.—An invention for an improved cuff-holder. Not proceeded with. 2783. 9th February. Josiah Mann, of Wellington, Bricklayer.—An invention for an improved chimney-pot, to be called " Mann's Patent Chimney-pot A," the invention being also applicable to ventilators. Not proceeded with. 2784. Bth February. Balph Sneyd Smith, of Leinster Boad, St. Albans, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, New Zealand, Mechanic. —An invention for transmitting a telephonic message to a longer distance than has up to the present time been possible, to be called " Sneyd Smith's Telephone Belay." Not proceeded with. 2785. 9th February. Henry Charles Young, 61 Wellington, New Zealand, Commission Agent.— An invention for improvements in self-feeding brands. Not proceeded with. 2786. Bth February. Thomas Haycock, of Bichmond, in the Provincial District of Nelson, New Zealand, Soap-boiler. —An invention for a foot- or pipe-protector for pipe-driven wells, to be called " Haycock's Abyssinian Well-pipe Protector." Not proceeded with. 2787. 10th February. Walter Walker, of 5, Exchange Station, Liverpool, England, Engineer.— An invention for an improved method of automatic electric signalling for railways and apparatus therefor. 2788. 10th February. John Henry Bichardson Dinsmore, of the City of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, England, Engineer. —An invention for improvements in the manufacture of illuminating gas and apparatus therefor. 2789. 10th February. Joseph Enoch Wren, of No. 15, Bond Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Engineer.—An invention for improvements in the manufacture of illuminating gas for domestic and other purposes. 2790. 10th February. Stephen Mannington Caffyn, of Black Street, Middle Brighton, near Melbourne, in the Colony of Victoria, Surgeon. —An invention for an improved liquid extract-of-meat compound. 2791. 10th February. Bobert Stanley, of Marrickville, near Sydney, in the Colony of New South Wales, Gentleman, and Horatio Wragge and Noel Brodhurst Hill, both of 19, Hunter Street, Sydney aforesaid, Importers. —An invention for an improved compound specially suitable as a substitute for chicory. 2792. llth February. William Snowball, of Sydney, New South Wales.—An invention for an improved apparatus for reducing the temperature of meat or other articles, and for regulating the temperature of the same. Not proceeded with. 2793. llth February. William Snowball, of Sydney, New South Wales.—An invention for an improved apparatus for obtaining anhydrous ammonia from aqueous ammonia. Not proceeded with. 2794. Bth February. John Daniel Arnaboldi, of Cambridge East, in the Provincial District of Auckland, New Zealand. —An invention for use in connection with wire-fencing, to be called " Cambridge Wire-strainer." Not proceeded with. 2795. Bth February. Andrew McShain, of Saddle Hill, in the Provincial District of Otago, New Zealand.—An invention for an improved combination dredge for gold-mining and other minerals. Not proceeded with. 2796. Bth February. John Inglis Wright, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Stationer.—An invention for the protection of bank-notes from forgery. Not proceeded with. 2797. 9th February. Peter Beid, of Auckland, New Zealand, Gentleman.—An invention for a raft, to be called " Beid's Patent Safety Baft." 2798. 13th February. Frederick Flavall, of Halcombe, in the County of Manawatu, Provincial District of Wellington, New Zealand, Engineer.—An invention for the more effectual cleaning of grain and seeds. 2799. 13th February. David Brown Hutton, of 5, Gipsy Lane, Upton Park, in the County of Essex, England, Engineer. —An invention for improvements in and connected with the stuffing-boxes of steam, gas, air, or other engines and machines using the same. Not proceeded with. 2800. llth February. Joseph Adolph Schlaadt and Henry Schlaadt, of Great King Street, Dunedin, New Zealand, trading under the style of " Schlaadt Brothers," as Engineers.— An invention for blind-cords, straps, ropes, chains, and tapes, to be called " Schlaadt's Improved Boiler Check-action." Not proceeded with. 2801. llth February. Joseph Adolph Schlaadt and Henry Schlaadt, of Great King Street, Dunedin, New Zealand, trading under the style of " Schlaadt Brothers," as Engineers.—An invention for blind-cords, straps, ropes, chains, and tapes, to be called " Schlaadt's Improved Excentric or Tumbler Check-action." Not proceeded with. 2802. 15th February. William Hastie, of Milbourne, in the Provincial District of Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, Station-manager, and John Tindall, of Kaikoura, in the said district, Cattlespayer. —An invention for destroying lung-worm in sheep, and to be called " Hastie and Tindall's Patent for destroying Lung-worm in Sheep by Fumigation." 2803. 15th February. William Henry Hamilton, of White's Bay, in the Provincial District of Marlborough, New Zealand, Telegraphist.—An invention for dissolving the gum of the Phormium tenax, and enabling all the fibre to be extracted, to be called "The Boiling Process." 2804. 15th February. John Law Kirkbride, of Marton, in the Provincial District of Wellington, New Zealand, Newspaper Proprietor.—An invention for an improvement in furniture casters, to be called " Kirkbride's Patent Furniture Caster." Not proceeded with. 2805. llth February. Pierre Finch Martineau Burrows, of Auckland, New Zealand, Architect and Surveyor.—An invention to be called "The Improved Novelty-Folding and Adjusting Ladder," adapted to all the purposes to which step and other ladders are applied,