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Accepted. £ s. d.
James Trevor, Wellington .. .. .. 17,383 10 0

Declined.
Scoular and Archibald, Wellington .. .. 19,326 0 10
R. Meikle, Dunedin .. .. .. 19,927 0 0
J. Barton, Dunedin .. .. .. 20,235 0 0
A. Bain and Co., Dunedin .. .. .. 20,780 0 0
R. McKenzie and Co., Wellington .. .. 20,950 0 0
A. Whiteford, Wellington .. .. .. 21,739 0 0
J. Goodfellow, Wellington .. .. .. 22,231 14 0
M. Murdoch, Wellington .. .. .. 24,700 0 0

Notice of Applications for Patents.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 12th February, 1891.

COMPLETE specifications relating to the under-mentioned 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. 4832.—THOMAS SUMMERTON, Jun., of Christchurch, New Zealand, Engineer. An invention for an improved air-pressure pump.

No. 4833.—CHARLES FREDERICK LANGE, of 4, George Street, Dunedin, New Zealand, Tobacconist. An invention for collecting nicotine in smoking-pipes, and retaining same, and entitled “Lange’s Patent Cylinder Pipe.”

No. 4838.—WILLIAM WHITE MANSFIELD, of Martin Street, Wellington, New Zealand, Draper. An invention for improvements in hose-reels, to be called “Mansfield’s Patent Ever-ready Self-winding Hose-reel.”

No. 4839.—THOMAS MARTIN LEWINGTON, of Bridle Path, Lyttelton, New Zealand, Ship Joiner. An invention for automatically registering the number of carcases of sheep, lambs, or any parcels or packages passed through or over a trough or shoot.

No. 4840.—FREDERICK JOHN MAINDONALD, of West Eyreton, Canterbury, New Zealand, Farmer. An invention for an adjustable self-feeder to be attached to threshing-machines.

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

Notice of Applications for Patents.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 12th February, 1891.

COMPLETE specifications relating to the under-mentioned 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. 4842.—JAMES BROWN, of Invercargill, New Zealand, Accountant. An invention for Brown’s hydro-atmospheric metallic concentrator and gold-saving machine for saving fine gold.

No. 4843.—JAMES HOUSTON, of Rankeillor Street, South Dunedin, New Zealand, Carpenter. An invention for an economic clothes-drying horse.

No. 4844.—ILLIUS AUGUSTUS TIMMIS, of 2, Great George Street, Westminster, London, S.W., England, Civil Engineer. An invention for improvements in the arrangements for supporting the bodies of railway-vehicles.

No. 4846.—HENRY PHILIP WASHBOURN, of Nelson, New Zealand, Mining Expert. An invention for crushing quartz for prospecting purposes, called “The Parapara Mortar.”

No. 4847.—ERNEST HUNT BECKER, Labourer, and THOMAS DUNNILL CLAPHAM, Tailor, both of Ashurst, New Zealand. An invention for an improved apparatus for straining wire, and facilitating the fastening of the same.

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

Notice of Applications for Patents.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 12th February, 1891.

COMPLETE specifications relating to the under-mentioned 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. 4848.—JOHN OWEN, of Auckland, New Zealand, WILLIAM MILLER, and GEORGE GETTINGS, of Onehunga, New Zealand, Engineers and Ironworkers. An invention for a simplex deoxidising and puddling furnace for thoroughly deoxidising and puddling irons with flux, both operations to be performed by the same furnace at the same time.

No. 4849.—ARTHUR WATTS and WILLIAM HENRY EDWARDS, trading as “Watts and Company,” Customs Street East, Auckland, New Zealand, Builders and Blind-makers. An invention for “The Acme Enamel” for the coating of wooden boards or other articles.

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

Application for Registration of a Trade-mark.

(No. 172.)

Patent Office,
Wellington, 12th February, 1891.

NOTICE is hereby given that M. O’BRIEN AND Co., Boot Manufacturers, of Christchurch, New Zealand, have applied to register, under “The Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act, 1889,” the trade-mark of which the following is a description :—

The word “Premier.”

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

Boots, shoes, &c.

Class of Goods in connection with which the Applicants desire the Trade-mark to be registered.

Class No. 38.

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.

Trade Union registered.

Friendly Societies’ Registry Office,
Wellington, 2nd February, 1891.

THE Amalgamated Shearers’ and Labourers’ Union of New Zealand, situated at Waimate, is registered as a trade union, under “The Trade Union Act, 1878,” this 2nd day of February, 1891.”

EDMUND MASON,
Registrar.

Examination of Mine Managers.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 12th January, 1891.

AN examination of candidates for certificates as Mine Managers under “The Mining Act, 1886,” and “The Coal-mines Act Amendment Act, 1890,” will be held on the 24th February, 1891, and three following days, at places to be hereafter named. All applications, with fee of £1, must be addressed to “The Secretary of the Board of Examiners under the Mining Act or Coal-mines Act, Wellington,” and must be received before the 16th February.

Candidates who were unsuccessful at the examinations held in January and July last will be allowed to come up for re-examination in the subjects in which they failed.

T. H. HAMER,
Secretary to the Board of Examiners.