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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 67

Provisional Specifications.

N O. 6358.-16th August, 1893.-MATTHEW HENRY, of Palmerston North, New Zealand, Auctioneer. An invention for an improved live-stock saleyard.

No. 6360.-15th August, 1893.-FRANK COOPER, of Christchurch, New Zealand, Clerk. An invention for a rear-driving bicycle with chainless rotary motion, suitable for lady, gentleman, or both lady and gentleman, or for two gentlemen.

No. 6361.-17th August, 1893.-ROBERT MARK AITKEN, of Reefton, New Zealand, Instructor, School of Mines. An invention for an improvement in the method of the extraction of gold and silver from their ores by potassium-cyanide solutions, consisting in the application of free oxygen gas to the solutions.

No. 6363.-17th August, 1893.-EDWIN JAMES FOORD, of Arrowtown, New Zealand, but temporarily residing at Green Hills, Spring Vale, Victoria, Electrical Engineer. An invention for an improved grab-appliance, principally for the purpose of extracting rabbits and other burrowing animals from their holes or warrens.

No. 6365.-18th August, 1893.-JOHN WISHART, of No. 4, Arthur Street, Wellington, New Zealand, Carpenter. An invention for improvements in washing-machines.

No. 6366.-19th August, 1893.-JAMES DRUMMOND, of Kirwee, Canterbury, New Zealand, Blacksmith. An invention for weed-eradication, to be called, "A Convex Spring Eradicating Tooth."

No. 6370.-21st August, 1893.-WILLIAM HENRY GILES and JAMES HENDERSON, of Wellington, New Zealand, Manufacturers. An invention for an improved soap.

No. 6373.-19th August, 1893.-WILLIAM JOHN HARVEY, of Newton, Auckland, New Zealand, Salvation Army Captain. An invention for "Improved S.A. Triplet Gas-burner."

No. 6374.-19th August, 1893.-CHARLES SPENCER, Chemist, and JOSEPH JAMES MACKY, Agent, both of Auckland, New Zealand. An invention for improvements in the making-ready of surface-blocks for printing.

No. 6375.-23rd August, 1893.-ALFRED EVANS, of Masterton, New Zealand, Carpenter. An invention for "Evans's Windmill-head."

No. 6377.-24th August, 1893.-JAMES WATKIN KINNIBURGH, of Wellington, New Zealand, Accountant. An invention for an improved telephone receiver-attachment.

No. 6380.-25th August, 1893.-WILLIAM HENRY HAMILTON, of White's Bay, Marlborough, New Zealand, Telegraphist. An invention for improvements in storage-batteries (or accumulators).

No. 6381.-25th August, 1893.-WILLIAM HENRY HAMILTON, of White's Bay, Marlborough, New Zealand, Telegraphist. An invention for "Hamilton's Coal Galvanic (or Voltaic) Battery."

No. 6382.-22nd August, 1893.-FRANK WALKER, of Fir Grove, Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand, Gum Merchant, and JAMES WHITE, of Karangahape Road, Auckland, aforesaid, Storeman. An invention for an improved method of fracturing and preparing kauri and other gums for marketable purposes.

No. 6386.-28th August, 1893.-CHRISTOPHER McRAE, of No. 454, Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Grazier. An invention for a new or improved method of and apparatus to be used in destroying rabbits.

No. 6387.-28th August, 1893.-EDWARD HOLROYD BEERE, of No. 6, Lambton Quay, Wellington New Zealand, Surveyor. An invention for a new water-motor.

No. 6388.-30th August, 1893.-HENRY YOUNG, of Cromwell, New Zealand, Plumber. An invention for improvements in rabbit-traps.

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.

Notice of Request to amend Specification.

Patent Office,

Wellington, 31st August, 1893.

A REQUEST to be allowed to amend the specification relating to the under-mentioned application for Letters Patent has been received, and is open to public inspection at this office. Any person may, at any time within one month from the date of this Gazette, give me notice, in writing, in duplicate, of opposition to the amendment, stating in such notice the particular grounds of objection. A fee of 10s. is payable with such notice.

No. 6218.-JAMES SEYMOUR PHILLIP STUTLEY, of Hindley Street, Adelaide, South Australia, Manufacturer. An invention

tion for "An Improved Substance or Material for facing Moulds used in the Casting of Metals."

The nature of the proposed amendments is as follows:-

1. By substituting the words "Improvements in the preparation of certain" for the words "An improved substance or material for facing," where they occur in the title.

2. By inserting the word "sand" before, and the words "and for forming the cores" after, the word "moulds," in line 11.

3. By striking out the word "known," in line 16, and inserting in place thereof the words "of the class commonly termed."

4. By striking out the word "as," in line 16.

5. By substituting the word "afterwards" for the word "finally," in line 20.

6. By striking out the words "the desired fineness," in lines 20 and 21, and inserting in place thereof the words "a powder."

7. By substituting the words "crude stuff from the first reduction" for the words "powder then obtained," in line 21.

8. By substituting the words "during subsequent reductions" for the word "then," in line 23.

9. By inserting between the words "being" and "eliminated," in line 25, the word "gradually."

10. By crossing out the words "improved facing" in line 30.

11. By substituting the words "for facing" for the word "to," in line 31.

12. By substituting a comma for the full-stop after the word "core," in line 33, inserting after the comma the word "and," and altering the "T" of the word beginning the next sentence into a small "t."

13. By substituting a full-stop for the comma after the word "water," in line 35, crossing out the following word, "and," and changing the small "t" at the beginning of the next word into a capital "T."

14. By inserting the words "of which," between the words "result" and "will," in line 35.

15. By substituting the words "In the preparation of sand-moulds for" for the words "The application to moulds used in"; inserting the words "the application of such moulds as a facing" before the words "of a natural"; striking out the words "substance or," and substituting the words "commonly termed" for the words "known as"-all in the present claim, which it is desired to number "1."

16. By the addition of a second claim as follows, namely:-

"2. In the preparation of the cores for moulds used in the casting of metals, the combination with clay or other suitable material of a substance obtained from a mineral known as soapstone, steartite, or steatite, such cores being afterwards, before use, washed over with a coating of the same substance substantially as herein described, and for the purpose indicated."

The applicant states as his reasons for the request, "I am advised that my invention is not sufficiently described in the original specification."

C. J. A. HASELDEN,

Registrar of Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks.

Letters Patent sealed.

IST of Letters Patent sealed from the 18th August, 1893, to the 31st August, 1893, inclusive:-

No. 5565.-C. A. Lees and S. W. Lester, shelling seeds.

No. 5596.-J. Fletcher and F. Huggins, compressed-air engine.

No. 5711.-J. Keir, threshing-machines.

No. 5758.-J. Lawson, water-lifting.

No. 5835.-B. Greenwood, cowl.

No. 5975.-C. and H. Burgon, sheep-shears.

No. 5977.-J. Channon, amalgamator.

No. 6156.-W. and B. TrewHELLA, jacks.

No. 6164.-E. H. McDonald, back- and shoulder-strap.

No. 6180.-F. H. Wrigley, wire-strainer.

No. 6181.-F. H. Wrigley, chain-lever.

No. 6210.-G. S. Evans, cable-trams.

No. 6224.-A. W. Billings, manufacturing beer and ale.

No. 6225.-A. W. Billings, manufacturing malt liquors.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,

Registrar of Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks.

Applications for Letters Patent lapsed.

IST of applications for Letters Patent (with which complete specifications have been lodged) lapsed from the 18th August, 1893, to the 31st August, 1893, inclusive:-

Nil.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,

Registrar of Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks.