No. 5977.-4th January, 1893.-JAMES CHANNON, of Beaconsfield, Concord, Sydney, New South Wales, Merchant. An invention for an improved amalgamating-machine. (Specifications, 7s.; drawings, 10s.)

C. J. A. HASELDEN,

Registrar of Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks.

Note.-The cost of transcribing the specification and an estimate of the amount required for copying the drawings have been inserted after the notice of each application. Any 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 invention for which a provisional specification has been already lodged.

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

Provisional Specifications accepted.

No. 5962.-21st December, 1892.-MAX PINCUS, of Har-greaves Street, Castlemaine, Victoria, Chemist. An invention for improved coupling-contrivances for railway trucks and carriages.

No. 5967.-22nd December, 1892.-JAMES KEIR, of Ash-burton, New Zealand, Machinist. An invention for an elevating fan for threshing-machine, to be called "Keir's Elevating Fan."

No. 5968.-23rd December, 1892.-JAMES COPELAND, of Toi Brunswick Line, near Wanganui, New Zealand, Farmer. An invention for complete wire-strainer.

No. 5969.-23rd December, 1892.-GEORGE SARGENT JAKINS, Christchurch, New Zealand, Grain Merchant. An invention for an improved butter-worker.

No. 5970.-28th December, 1892.-JAMES DRUMMOND, of Kirwee, Canterbury, New Zealand, Blacksmith. An invention for improvement in twitch-grubber and land-pulveriser.

No. 5973.-30th December, 1892.-GEORGE STAFFORD, of Wellington, New Zealand, Flax-dresser. An invention for an improved machine for washing, dressing, and drying New Zealand flax and other fibrous material.

No. 5976.-4th January, 1893.-HUGH DIXSON, of Park and Elizabeth Streets, Sydney, New South Wales, Tobacco Merchant, Assignee of Wilfred Noyce Kernot, of Colonial Mutual Chambers, Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Engineer. An invention for an improved machine for making cigarette-holders.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,

Registrar of Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks.

Note.-Provisional specifications cannot be inspected, or their contents made known by this office in any way, until the complete specifications in connection therewith have been accepted.

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

Letters Patent sealed.

LIST of Letters Patent sealed, from the 23rd December, 1892, to the 5th January, 1893, inclusive:-

No. 5233.-G. Mathison, jun., wire-fastener.

No. 5314.-J. Hornsby, J. Innocent, and I. Trolley, harvesting-machines.

No. 5336.-T. F. Brenchley, insecticide.

No. 5388.-J. Gibbons, digging potatoes.

No. 5426.-R. Boyle, ventilators.

No. 5624.-H. Lockwood, purification of sewage.

No. 5820.-J. T. Kofoed, corking bottles.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,

Registrar of Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks.

Letters Patent lapsed.

LIST of Letters Patent lapsed through non-payment of renewal-fee, from the 23rd December, 1892, to the 5th January, 1893, inclusive:-

No. 2561.-J. Barrie and J. B. L. Isambert, grinding, amalgamating, &c.

No. 2562.-F. W. Cheetham, hats, caps, &c.

No. 2564.-H. A. de Latour, tent.

No. 2565.-M. J. Hartung and W. Gallagher, lubricating oils, &c.

No. 2566.-F. H. Asbury, cowl.

No. 2571.-W. R. Parker, oven.

No. 2574.-T. Burd and F. Rusden, sight-restorer.

No. 2575.-W. B. Manley, asphalt top-dresser.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,

Registrar of Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks.

Applications for Letters Patent lapsed.

LIST of applications for Letters Patent (with which complete specifications have been lodged) lapsed, from the 23rd December, 1892, to the 5th January, 1893, inclusive:-

No. 5061.-A. Williams, strengthening axles of road-vehicles.

No. 5065.-E. B. Toomath, branding and counting sheep.

No. 5071.-H. E. Good and A. N. L. Benporath, sheep-brands.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,

Registrar of Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks.

Renewal Fees paid.

LETTERS Patent on which the renewal fees (under "The Patents Act, 1883") have been paid (the dates of payment are noted at the end):-

No. 2723.-R. Hanna, vapour-stove, &c. [J. Ringen and C. A. and L. Stockstrom.] 4th January, 1893.

No. 2733.-J. Osborne, well-driver. 30th December, 1892.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,

Registrar of Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks.

Design registered.

No. 19.-30th December, 1892.-Scott Brothers, of Christ-church, New Zealand, Engineers. Class No. 1.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,

Registrar of Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks.

Subsequent Proprietors of Trade-marks registered.

SUBSEQUENT proprietors of trade-marks by assignment registered (the name of the original proprietor is given in brackets, and the date of registration at the end):-

No. 76/1296.-Crosse and Blackwell (Limited); two marks. [Crosse and Blackwell.] 22nd December, 1892.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,

Registrar of Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks.

Application for Registration of a Trade-mark.

(No. 667.)

Patent Office,

Wellington, 5th January, 1893.

NOTICE is hereby given that THE NEW ZEALAND LAND ASSOCIATION (LIMITED), of Auckland, New Zealand, have applied to register, under "The Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act, 1889," the trade-mark of which the following is a representation:-

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

Cheese and butter.

Class of Goods in connection with which the Applicants desire 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. A fee of £1 is payable with such notice.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,

Registrar of Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks.