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3127. 24th July. Henry Jarrat Gilberd, of Taradale, in the Provincial District of Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, Nurseryman.-—An invention for an improved machine for sinking artesian wells and for driving piles. 3128. 23rd July. Leonard Pozzi, of Christchurch, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, New Zealand, Gunsmith. —An invention for improvements on Plimpton's roller-skates, to 'be called " Pozzi's Climax." 3129. 23rd July. Seymour Beginald Bolton, of Christchurch, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, New Zealand.—An invention for economizing or saving fuel, to be called " The Beginald Patent Self-acting Cinder-sifter and Fuel-economizer." 3130. 25th July. Henry Dent Gaedin,er, of Pjarau, in the Provincial District of-Canterbury, New Zealand, Stockowner. —An invention for an improvement in disc rollers by means of a combination of two spindles carrying discs. 3131. 26th July. Henry Byan Lewis, of London, England, Mining Engineer and Metallurgist, and Charles Berry Phillips, of Chester, England, Gentleman. —An invention for improvements relating to the extraction.of metals from refractory, complex, and other ores. 3132. 26th July. Hermann Schoeneweg, of Dudweiler, in the German Empire, Chemist.—An invention for improvements in explosive compounds. 3133. 26th July. Hermann Shoeneweg, of Dudweiler, in the German Empire, Chemist. —An invention for improvements in explosive compounds and safety cartridges for blasting purposes. 3134. 26th July. David Beid, of 112, Flinders Lane East, in the City of Melbourne and Colony of Victoria, Publisher.—An invention for an improved means for securing stereotype plates to their base-blocks. 3135. 24th July. Archibald Campbell, of Dunedin, in the Provincial District of Otago, New Zealand, Clothier. —An invention for obviating the difficulty of fastening men's shirts by fastening the same at the side in lieu of the front or back. 3136. 27th July. Henry Hughes, of the City of Wellington, New Zealand, Consulting Engineer and Patent Agent.—An invention for cheese rennet powder and cheese rennet pastils, and the method of their preparation. (S. C. C. Yon Barnekow.) 3137. 28th July. Henry Allott, of Styx, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, New Zealand, Labourer. —An invention for an apparatus for loading drays with sacks of grain or other produce, to be called " Allott's Dray-loader." 3138. 30th July. Albert Gundersen, of Christchurch, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, New Zealand.—An invention for an electric tell-tale clock. 3139. 31st July. David John Goodwin, of Waitara, in the Provincial District of Taranaki, New Zealand. —An invention to be called " Goodwin's Patent Botary Churn." 3140. 30th July. Arthur John Cuming, of Christchurch, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, New Zealand, Printer. —An invention for a "T vernier sight for rifles, carbines, or any rapidfiring guns, to be called " Cuming's "T Vernier Sight." 3141. 26th July. Joseph James Macky, of the City of Auckland, New Zealand.—An invention for an improved form of metal pen, to be called " The Marriage Pen." 3142. 28th July. John Cook, of Port Chalmers, in the Provincial District of Otago, New Zealand, Superintendent Engineer for the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand.—An invention to be styled " Cook's Air-tube Furnace-bridge." 3143. 2nd August. William Clifford, of Ugbrook, in the County of Omaka, and Provincial District of Marlborough, New Zealand, Sheep-farmer.—An invention for a new method of and appliance for stretching and drying skins of rabbits or other animals. 3144. 2nd August. William Clifford, of Ugbrook, in the County of Omaka, and Provincial District of Marlborough, New Zealand, Sheep-farmer.—An invention for improvements in apparatus for stretching and drying skins of rabbits or other animals. 3145. 2nd August. Henry Appleby, of the Waterford and Limerick Bailway Company, Limerick, Ireland, Locomotive Engineer.—An invention for improvements in blast-pipes and in means for regulating the draught created thereby. 3146. 2nd August. William Clark, of 528, Oxford Street West, in the County of Middlesex, England, Horse-clipper Manufacturer. —An invention for improvements in apparatus for clipping horses or other animals and dead skins. 3147. 2nd August. Conrad Herzog, of London, England, Civil Engineer. —An invention for improvements in apparatus for carburetting air and enriching gas. 3148. 2nd August. John Belmer Aemsteong, of the City of Guelph, Canada, Manufacturer.—An invention for improvements in gig running-gears. 3149. 2nd August. John Belmee Armstrong, of the City of Guelph, Canada, Manufacturer.—An invention for improvements in steel buggy- or carriage-gears. 3150. 2nd August. John Belmer Armstrong, of the City of Guelph, Canada, Manufacturer.—An invention for improvements in single-plate carriage-springs, and in the method of their attachment to the gears. 3151. 2nd August. John Belmer Armstrong, of the City of Guelph, Canada, Manufacturer.—An invention for improvements in two-plate carriage-springs. 3152. 2nd August. Thomas Beynolds James, of Boyal Park, near Melbourne, in the Colony of Victoria, Telegraph Engineer.—An invention for improvements in and connected with -underground conduits for electric conductors. 3153. Ist August. Julius Frederick William Henry Schadick, of Westport, in the Provincial District of Nelson, New Zealand, Surveyor, &c.— An invention for perspectography and topography, to be called " Topograph." 3154. 3rd August. Joseph Hewetson, Junior, of Upper Moutere, in the County of Waimea, and Provincial District of Nelson, New Zealand, Sawmiller.—An invention for an improved flax-dressing machine.