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register, under “The Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks Act, 1889,” the trade mark of which the following is a representation :—

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Nature of the Articles to which it is intended such Trade Mark shall apply.

Common soap, starch, washing-blue, candles, matches, detergents, benzine, washing-powders, chloride of lime, bleaching-powders, and goods of a like kind for laundry and other purposes; also illuminating, heating, and lubricating oils.

Class of Goods in connection with which the Applicant desires the Trade Mark to be registered.

Class No. 47.

Any person may, within two months of the date of this Gazette, give notice, in duplicate, at this office, of opposition to the registration of the trade mark.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Registrar of Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks.

Application for Registration of a Trade Mark.

(No. 43.)

Patent Office,
Wellington, 15th May, 1890.

NOTICE is hereby given that the NEW ZEALAND LOAN AND MERCANTILE AGENCY COMPANY (LIMITED), Auckland, New Zealand, has applied to register, under “The Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks Act, 1889,” the trade mark of which the following is a representation :—

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Nature of the Article to which it is intended such Trade Mark shall apply.

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Class of Goods in connection with which the Applicant desires the Trade Mark to be registered.

Class No. 42.

Any person may, within two months of the date of this Gazette, give notice, in duplicate, at this office, of opposition to the registration of the trade mark.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Registrar of Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks.

Application for Registration of a Trade Mark.

(No. 44.)

Patent Office,
Wellington, 15th May, 1890.

NOTICE is hereby given that the NEW ZEALAND LOAN AND MERCANTILE AGENCY COMPANY (LIMITED), Auckland, New Zealand, has applied to register, under “The Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks Act, 1889,” the trade mark of which the following is a representation :—

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Nature of the Article to which it is intended such Trade Mark shall apply.

Tea.

Class of Goods in connection with which the Applicant desires the Trade Mark to be registered.

Class No. 42.

Any person may, within two months of the date of this Gazette, give notice, in duplicate, at this office, of opposition to the registration of the trade mark.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Registrar of Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks.

Notice of Applications for Patents.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 15th May, 1890.

COMPLETE specifications relating to the undermentioned applications have been accepted, and are open to public inspection.

Any person may, at any time within two months from the date of this Gazette, give me notice in writing, in duplicate, of opposition to the grant of the patent, stating in such notice the particular grounds of his objection.

No. 4255.—ALFRED SCULTHORP MINETT, Gentleman, and ISAAC JONES, Railway Employé, both of Huntly, Auckland, New Zealand. An invention for treating ironsand, to be known as “Minett and Jones’s Patent Fluxing Process for Ironsand.”

No. 4366.—WILLIAM HEITHERSAY, of Petersburg, South Australia, Blacksmith. An invention for an improved reversible share for ploughs, scarifiers, and cultivators.

No. 4368.—LUDOVICO VAN VESTRANT, Civil Engineer, and RICHARD WAKEHAM BAXTER, Export Merchant, of the Green, Southall, Middlesex, England. An invention for improvements in apparatus for charging inclined gas-retorts.

No. 4372.—WILLIAM HASDOWN SMITH, of Bridge Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Manufacturing Stationer and Printer. An invention for an automatic numbering and cheque-printing machine.

No. 4374.—ROBERT KENNARD, of Dunedin, New Zealand. An invention for a healing ointment, to be known as “Kennard’s Ointment.”

No. 4375.—THOMAS HENDERSON, of Stanley Street, North Adelaide, South Australia, Shipbuilder. An invention for an improved rotary digging machine.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Registrar of Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks.

Notice of Applications for Patents.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 15th May, 1890.

COMPLETE specifications relating to the undermentioned applications have been accepted, and are open to public inspection.

Any person may, at any time within two months from the date of this Gazette, give me notice in writing, in duplicate, of opposition to the grant of the patent, stating in such notice the particular grounds of his objection.

No. 4376.—GEORGE FREDERICK STRAWSON, of Newbury, Berks, England, Chemical Manure Manufacturer. An invention for improved apparatus for distributing seeds, manure, and other solid or liquid substances over land or crops.

No. 4377.—CHARLES WILLIAM MACLEAN, of 276, Walsh Street, South Yarra, Melbourne, Victoria, Engineer. An invention for improved means for adjustably connecting two rotating objects in the same axial line, specially applicable for connecting the hoisting and opening drums of grab-crane.

No. 4379.—CHARLES COOPER, of Parnell, Auckland, Sawmill Proprietor. An invention for a universal belt-coupler for belts used in driving machinery.

No. 4380.—CHARLES EFFEY, Mattress-spring Manufacturer and Upholsterer, Ferry Road, Christchurch, New Zealand. An invention entitled “The Keelhorn Patent Double Mattress-spring.”

No. 4381.—ADAM BURGES, of Linwood, Christchurch, Selwyn, New Zealand, Blacksmith. An invention for an improvement in digger-ploughs, to be known as “The Burges Patent Digger-plough.”

No. 4382.—EDWIN ATKINSON, Slate and Artificial Stone Manufacturer, of Ponsonby Road, Auckland, New Zealand. An invention entitled “Atkinson’s Patent Lettering and Ornamentation for Artificial Stone or other Composition.”

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Registrar of Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks.

Notice of Application for Amendment of Specification for Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 15th May, 1890.

AN application to be allowed to amend the specification relating to the under-mentioned application has been received, and is open to public inspection.