order for a copy or copies should be accompanied by a post-
office order or postal notes for the cost of copying.

An asterisk (*) denotes the complete specification of an in-
vention for which a provisional specification has been already
lodged.

The date of acceptance of each application is given after
the number.

Provisional Specifications accepted.

LIST of Provisional Specifications accepted, from the 24th
July, 1891, to the 6th August, 1891:—
No. 5110.—21st July, 1891.—HUGH WALKER GREIG
MILNER, of Lake Takapuna, Auckland, New Zealand,
Farmer. An invention for an improved mode of, and
apparatus for, refining and preparing kauri-gum, and manu-
facturing kauri-gum ornaments.

No. 5111.—24th July, 1891.—KARL GRAF, of Dunedin,
New Zealand, Engineer. An invention for an improved
auger for boring coal-blocks.

No. 5113.—23rd July, 1891.—JOHN STEWART REID, of
Dunedin, New Zealand, Solicitor. An invention for im-
provements in spinning- and spooling-mechanism.

No. 5114.—23rd July, 1891.—JOHN STEWART REID, of
Dunedin, New Zealand, Solicitor. An invention for im-
provements in machinery for the manufacture of barn-fence
wire.

No. 5115.—27th July, 1891.—WILLIAM PRIESSNITZ BON-
WICK, of 59, Blomfield Road, Paddington, England, Engineer.
An invention for improvements in stoppers for bottles, jars,
and the like.

No. 5119.—29th July, 1891.—JAMES STONE, of Auckland,
New Zealand, Miner. An invention for decreasing the
friction of vessels going through the water.

No. 5120.—29th July, 1891.—FRANCIS LUCK, of Kihikihi,
Auckland, New Zealand, Clergyman. An invention for a
new or improved apparatus for loading wagons, drays, and
similar vehicles.

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

Letters Patent lapsed.

LETTERS PATENT lapsed through non-payment of
renewal-fee, from the 24th July, 1891, to the 6th
August, 1891:—
No. 1802.—W. Hooker, gas-burner.
No. 1810.—A. W. J. Wychodil, egg-beater.
No. 1811.—A. Michel, obtaining fatty acids, &c.
No. 1815.—W. J. Harvey, oven and boiler.

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

Applications for Letters Patent lapsed.

APPLICATIONS for Letters Patent (with which com-
plete specifications have been lodged) lapsed, from the
24th July, 1891, to the 6th August, 1891:—
No. 4196.—J. Foster, boots and shoes.
No. 4197.—J. Foster, butter-box.
No. 4198.—G. Tellefsen, puzzle rattle.
No. 4201.—H. T. Whitcher, pipe- and pile-driver.
No. 4202.—J. D. Arnaboldi, darning-frame.
No. 4210.—A. N. Whitney, making cartridges.
No. 4215.—D. McGill and W. J. Percy, drop-hammer.
No. 4218.—A. Heinrich, toy.
No. 4219.—G. Dalgleish, rock-shearing.

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

Application for Registration of a Trade-mark.

(No. 233.)
Patent Office,
Wellington, 6th August, 1891.

NOTICE is hereby given that ALFRED FREDERICK BIRD,
trading as "Alfred Bird and Sons," of Devonshire
Works, Birmingham, Warwick, England, Egg-powder Manu-
facturer and Drysalter, has applied to register, under "The
Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act, 1889," the trade-
mark of which the following is a representation:—

[Signature image]
[ALFRED BIRD'S CUSTARD POWDER image]
[Cross symbol image]
[Bird's Custard Powder. image]

The applicant claims as the essential particulars of this
trade-mark the device and the facsimile signature, and dis-
claims any right to the exclusive use of the added matter,
except his name and address.

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

Custard-powder.

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. 234.)
Patent Office,
Wellington, 6th August, 1891.

NOTICE is hereby given that ALFRED FREDERICK BIRD,
trading as "Alfred Bird and Sons," of Devonshire
Works, Birmingham, Warwick, England, Egg-powder Manu-
facturer and Drysalter, has applied to register, under "The
Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act, 1889," the trade-
mark of which the following is a description:—
The words "BIRD'S CUSTARD POWDER."

The applicant claims that this trade-mark has been in use
by himself and his predecessors in business about forty-one
years before 1889.

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

Custard-powder.

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. 235.)
Patent Office,
Wellington, 6th August, 1891.

NOTICE is hereby given that ALFRED FREDERICK BIRD,
trading as "Alfred Bird and Sons," of Devonshire
Works, Birmingham, Warwick, England, Egg-powder Manu-
facturer and Drysalter, has applied to register, under "The
Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act, 1889," the trade-
mark of which the following is a representation:—

BIRD'S
EGG
POWDER,

ALFRED BIRD & SONS,
BIRMINGHAM

BIRD'S
BAKING POWDER

BIRD'S
CUSTARD POWDER

BIRD'S
RENNET POWDER

BIRD'S
BENEFACTORY POWDER