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Class 47. Candles, common soap, detergents ; illuminating, heating, or lubricating oils; matches; and starch, blue, and other preparations for laundry purposes—such as washing-powders; benzine. Class 48. Perfumery (including toilet articles, preparations for the teeth and hair, and perfumed soap). Class 49. Games of all kinds and sporting articles not included in other classes—such as billiard-tables ; roller-skates ; fishingnets and lines ; toys. Class 50. Miscellaneous, including—(l) Goods manufactured from ivory, bone, or wood, not included in other classes; (2) goods manufactured from straw or grass, not included in other classes : (8) Roods manufactured from animal and vegetable substances, not included in other classes; (4) tobacco-pipes; (5) umbrellas, walking-sticks, brushes and combs; (6j furniture-cream, plate-powder; (7) tarpaulins, tents, rick-cloths, rope, twine ; (8) buttons of all kinds, other than of precious metal or imitations thereof; (9) packing and hose of all kinds; (10) goods not included in the foregoing classes, euch as coopers' wares.

Industrial Designs Rules. Short title and commencement. 1. These rules may be cited as the Industrial Designs Rules, 1890, and shall come into operation on the Ist day of January, 1890. Interpretation. 2. In the construction of these rules, "the said Act ,, means " The Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act, 1889," and any words heroin used and defined by the said Act shall have the meaning thereby assigned to them respectively. Classification of goods. 3. For the purposes of the registration of designs and of these rules, goods are classified in the manner appearing in the Schedule hereto. Agents. 4. All communications between an applicant for the registration of a design and the Registrar may be mado by or through an agent duly authorised to the satisfaction of the Registrar. Size of papers. 5. An application for tho registration of a design, and all drawings, sketches, photographs, or tracings of a design, and all other documents sent to or left at tho Patont Office, or otherwise furnished to the Registrar, shall be written, printed, copied, or drawn upon strong foolscap paper (on one side only), of the size of ISin. by Sin., leaving a margin of not less than ljin. on the left-hand side thereof, and the signature thereto "of the applicant or agent must be written in n large and legible hand. The Registrar may in any particular case vary the requirements of this rule as he may think fit. Sketches and drawings. Nature of design 6. An application for the registration of a design shall be accompanied by a sketch or drawing, or by threo exactly similar drawings, photographs, or tracings of the design, or by three specimens of the design, and shall, in describing the nature of the design, state whether it is applicable for the pattern or for the shape or configuration of the design, and the means by which it is applicable. When sketches, drawings, or tracings are furnished, they must be fixed. When tho articles to which designs are applied are not of a kind which can be pasted into books, drawings, photographs, or tracing's of such designs shall be furnished. Acknowledgment to applicant. 7. On of an application for registration, tho Registrar shall send to the applicant an acknowledgment thereof.

Notice to applicant by Registrar. 8. Before exercising any discretionary power given to the Registrar by the said Act adversely to an applicant for registration of a design, the Registrar shall give him ten days notice of the time when he may be heard personally or by his agent before the Registrar. Hearing by Registrar. 9. Within five days from the date when such notice would be delivered in the ordinary course of post, the ayplbant shall notify to tho Registrar whether or not he intend) to be heard upon tho matter. Notification of Registrar's decision. Hearing by Registrar. 10. The decision or determination of the Registrar in the exercise of any such discretionary power as aforesaid shall be notified to the applicant. Registering design. 11. Upon the sealing of a certificate of registration tho Registrar shall cause to be entered in the register of designs the name, address, and description of the registered proprietor, and the date upon which the application for registration was received by the Registrar, which day shall be deemed to be the date of the registration. Subsequent oroprietors. 12. Where a person becomes entitled to the copyright in aregistered design, or to any share or interest therein, by assignment, transmission, or other operation of law, or where a person acquires any right to apply the design either exclusively or otherwise, a request for the entry of his name in the register as such proprietor of the design, or as having acquired such right, as the case may be (hereinafter called " the claimant"), shall bo addressed to tho Registrar, and left at the Patent Office. Signature to request. 13. Every such request shall, in the case of an individual, be made and signed by the person requiring to be registered as proprietor; and, in the case of a linn or partnership, by sunn: one or more- members of such firm or partnership, or, in either case, by his or their agent respectively duly authorised to the satisfaction of the Registrar, and, in the case of a body corporate, by their agent authorised in like manner. Particulars in request. 14. Every such request shall state the name, address, and description of the claimant, and the particulars of the assignment, transmission, or other operation of law by virtue of which the request is made, so as to show tho manner in which and the person or persons to whom the design has been assigned or transmitted, or the person or persons who has or have acquired such right as aforesaid, as the case may be. Proof of title if required. 15. The claimant shall furnish to the Registrar such other proof of title as he may require for his satisfaction. Corporate name. IC. A body corporate may be registered as proprietor by its corporate name. Notice of order of Court. 17. Where an order has been made by the Court under section 11G of the said Act, the person in whoso favour such order lias been made shall forthwith leave at the Patent Oilice an oflico copy of such order. The register shall thereupon be rectified, or tho purport of such order shall otherwise bo duly entered in the register, as tho case may bo. Registrar's discretion as to evidence. 18. Where under these rules any person is required to do any act or thing, or to sign any dooument, or make any declaration on behalf of himself or any body corporate, or any document or evidence is required to be produced to or left with the Registrar or at tho Patent Office, and it is shown to the satisfaction of the Registrar that from any reasonable cause such person is unable to do such act or thing, or to sign such document, or make such declaration, or that such document or evidence cannot be produced or left as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the Registrar, upon the production of such other evidence, and subject to such terms as he may think fit, to dispense with any such act or thing, document, declaration, or evidence.