No. 6868.-25th May, 1894.-ABRAHAM WILHELM SCHWARZ, of Leipzig-Plagwitz, Saxony, German Empire, Manufacturer. An invention for a method of, and apparatus for, blasting. (Specification, 4s.; drawings, 5s.)

No. 6869.-25th May, 1894.-ROBERT POWELL, of 5, Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Mechanical Engineer. An invention for improvements in machinery for the manufacture of nails, screw-blanks, rivets, bolt-blanks, and suchlike articles. (Specification, £3 12s.; drawings, £5.)

No. 6872.-26th May, 1894.-JOHN MORSE HENTON, of Auckland, New Zealand, Printer. An invention for life-raft and deck-chair combined. (Specification, 2s. 6d.; drawings, 3s.)

No. 6876.-29th May, 1894.-EDWARD SEAGAR, of Victoria Street, Wellington, New Zealand, Engineer. An invention entitled "Seagar's Antimony Cruding Furnace." (Specification, 3s.; drawings, 5s.)

No. 6877.-30th May, 1894.-JOHN JAMES TAYLOR, of 40, Courtenay Place, Wellington, New Zealand, Plumber and Tinsmith. An invention for an improved method of attaching the handle of any receptacle having a movable handle attached to lugs on both sides. (Specification, 2s.; drawings, 3s.)

No. 6878.-31st May, 1894.-RANALD MACINTOSH MACDONALD, of Christchurch, New Zealand, Engineer. An invention for improvements in gravitation railways, ordinarily known as "switchbacks." (Specification, 6s.; drawings, 3s.)

No. 6880.-28th May, 1894.-HARRY BARRINGER COX, of Hartford, United States of America, Electrician. An invention for improvements in thermo-electric generators. (Specification, 9s.; drawings, 5s.)

No. 6886.-4th June, 1894.-PATRICK GEORGE SMITH, of New Plymouth, New Zealand, Architect. An invention for improved means of preventing rain blowing under outside doors of a building, to be called "Water-bar for doors." (Specification, 1s. 6d.; drawings, 3s.)

Notice of Acceptance of Complete Specifications.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 7th June, 1894.

COMPLETE specifications relating to the under-mentioned applications for Letters Patent have been accepted, and are open to public inspection at this office. 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 any such patent, stating in such notice the particular grounds of his objection. A fee of 10s. is payable with such notice:-

No. 6340.-9th August, 1893.-JOHN GEORGE DOAK, of Fernside, Canterbury, New Zealand, Farmer. An invention for an improved agricultural drill. (Specification, 5s. 6d.; drawings, 5s.)*

No. 6787.-21st April, 1894.-EDWARD JOSIAH TOBIN, of the firm of Holdsworth, Macpherson, and Co., of George Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Wholesale Ironmongers (assignee of Frederick Boyling, of 1, Marshall Street, Surry Hills, Sydney aforesaid, Coachbuilder). An invention for portable telescopic fire-grate. (Specification, 6s. 6d.; drawings, 12s. 6d.)

No. 6829.-9th May, 1894.-GEORGE AITKENS, of Foxton, New Zealand, Clerk in Holy Orders. An invention for a new or improved pumice-stone burner for lamps or stoves. (Specification, 4s.; drawings, 5s.)

No. 6855.-15th May, 1894.-LUTHER WASHINGTON MENCE, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Photographer. An invention for producing coloured and other effects in photographs. (Specification, 1s. 6d.)

No. 6866.-23rd May, 1894.-ANNIE CUSSEN, wife of Lawrence Cussen, of Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand, Surveyor. An invention for an improved brooch-pin fastener. (Specification, 2s. 6d.; drawings, 3s.)

No. 6867.-25th May, 1894.-PARKER COGSWELL CHOATE, of 38, Wall Street, New York, United States of America, Metallurgist. An invention for improvements in the art of preparing solutions carrying salts of zinc. (Specification, 16s.)