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3354. 29th October. William John Blakky, of Devonport, in the Provincial District of Auckland, New Zealand. —An invention to be called " Blakey's Patent Spring Clothes-peg." 3355. 2nd November. John Thomas Boughton, of Manse Street, in the City of Dunedin, New Zealand, Bootmaker. —An invention for entirely new and greatly-improved methods of applying elastic webbing or other elastic material to all classes and kinds of boots and shoes, to be called " Boughton's Patent Elastic Boots and Shoes." 3356. 3rd November. Christopher Galwey, of Beefton, Inangahua, New Zealand, Civil Engineer. —An invention for substituting wooden trenails for iron spikes in fastening the rails to sleepers and for planking bridges. 3357. 6th November. Carl Haggenmacher, of Buda-Pest, in the Empire of Austria, Milldirector.—An invention for improvements in apparatus for sifting and sorting meal, flour, and the like. 3358. sth November. James Ostler, of Lower Biccarton, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, New Zealand, Carpenter.—An invention for a machine for washing bottles, styled " Ostter's Champion Bottle-washing Machine." 3359. 7th November. Stewart Clidsdale Mitchell and Walter Whitelaw Mitchell, trading as " Mitchell Brothers," at No. 572, Lygon Street, Carlton, in the City of Melbourne and Colony of Victoria, Modellers.—An invention for an improved construction of panelled ceilings, cornices, and facings for walls. 3360. 7th November. William Arthur Hills, of Sydney, in the Colony of New South Wales, Mineralogist. —An invention for an improved process of converting certain metals and metallic ores, oxides, and carbonates, and the sulphides of cobalt and manganese, into metallic sulphates, and apparatus therefor. 3361. 6th November. Frederick Purbrick, of Shirley Grove, East St. Kilda, near Melbourne, in the Colony of Victoria, Architect and Engineer, and Bobert Holden Stone, of North Brighton, near Melbourne aforesaid, Civil Engineer.—An invention for improvements in means for locking nuts on bolts. 3362. 7th November. Edwaed Hipwell, of New Hibernia Wharf, Southwark, in the County of Surrey, England, Provision Merchant, and Benoit Bernard Hofmann, of the same place.— An invention for an improved enamel or varnish for rendering casks and analogous articles damp-proof, and for other useful purposes. 3363. 7th November. Matthew Cranswick Geeenhill, of No. 8, Bomola Boad, Tulse Hill, in the County of Surrey, England, Engineer.—An invention for improvements in, and relating to, apparatus for the automatic administration of electricity for medical and other purposes. 3364. 7th November. Feancis Edward MacMahon, of No. 2, Princes Mansions, Victoria Street, Westminster, in the County of Middlesex, England, Engineer.—An invention for improvements in apparatus for delivering measured quantities of liquid. 3365. Bth November. Andre Theodore Christophe, of 5, Bue Meyerbeer, Paris, in the Bepublic of France, Civil Engineer.—An invention for improvements in the rectification of alcohol. 3366. Bth November. Henry Nicholas Harvey, of Hayle, in the County of Cornwall, England, Engineer. —An invention for improvements in stampers for reducing metalliferous ores or other like substances to a finely-divided state. 3367. 7th November. Feancis Haytee, of Burkes Pass, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, New Zealand, Sheep-farmer.—An invention for a feeder for motherless lambs, styled " The Expeditious Feeder for Motherless Lambs." 3368. Bth November. Alfred Leman, of Auckland, New Zealand, Underclothing-manufacturer.— An invention for saving gold, to be called " Leman's Patent Electric Gold-saving Machine." 3369. Bth November. Thomas Davidson, Engineer, and George William Gough, Civil Engineer, both of Dunedin, in the Provincial District of Otago, New Zealand.—An invention for improvements in machinery for flax-dressing, to be known as " The Premier Flax-dresser." 3370. Bth November. John Burns, of Sydenham, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, New Zealand, Engineer.—An invention for an improvement in pumps to prevent the water being drawn away from the pump through defective valves or other causes, to be called " Burns's Pump Air-valve." 3371. 12th November. Bobert Thompson, of Christchurch, New Zealand, Music-seller.—An invention for improvements in apparatus for holding, fixing, and tuning the strings of pianofortes and other stringed instruments of the like kind. 3372. 15th November. Daniel McGill, Mechanical Engineer, and Albert William Collett, Wheelwright, both of Pitone, in the Provincial District of Wellington, New Zealand.—An invention for a weight-adjusting dray. 3373. Bth November. Valentine Blagrove, of Bichmond, Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand, Master Mariner, and W"illiam Craig, of Symonds Street, Auckland, New Zealand, Plumber. —An invention to be called " Blagrove and Craig's Patent Steam Curer and Dryer by Hot Air." 3374. llth November. William Andrews, of Christchurch, New Zealand, Agricultural Engineer. —An invention for an improved horse-power, styled " Andrews's Simplex Horse-power." 3375. 16th November. Alexandee William Bickerton, of Christchurch, New Zealand, Professor of Chemistry.—An invention for a foot-grating for scraping boots and keeping the feet from damp. 3376. 16th November. Nathan Leroy Baber, of Corvallis, in the State of Oregon, one of the United States of America. —An invention for improvements in machines for treating finelydivided metalliferous material for the purposes of amalgamation and separation. 3377. 16th November. George Marshall Hewson, of Wellington, New Zealand, Commission Agent. — An invention for the manufacture of polony or fish-sausage, to be called or known by the name of " Hewson's Ika."