2138 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 99

No. 10146.—22nd November, 1897.—Dennis James Hee-
nan, of 2, Commercial Chambers, Manse Street, Dunedin,
New Zealand, Farmer. An improved tool for boring holes in
the ground to receive posts and the like. (Specification,
5s. ; drawings, 3s.)

F. WALDEGRAVE,
Registrar.

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. An
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.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 24th November, 1897.

Applications for Letters Patent, with provisional
specifications, have been accepted as under :—

No. 9919.—21st September, 1897.—Henry Dose, of 181,
Blackwattle Road, Pyrmont, Sydney, New South Wales,
Cooper. Improvements in casks, vats, and suchlike vessels.

No. 10057.—27th October, 1897.—John Henry Coxen, of
Stand 224, Lorentzville, Johannesburg, South African Re-
public, Contractor. An improved apparatus for washing
textile fabrics, wool, and the like.

No. 10067.—26th October, 1897.—George McLaren
Campbell, of Portland House, Hobson Street, Auckland,
New Zealand, Commercial Traveller. An improvement in
the treatment of metal for roofing and inside and outside
wall purposes.

No. 10104.—4th November, 1897.—Richard Edward
Green, of Andover Street, Merivale, St. Albans, Canterbury,
New Zealand, Carpenter. An improvement in or relating to
high-pressure boilers in kitchen-ranges.

No. 10108.—5th November, 1897.—Irwin Faris, of
Napier, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, Railway Official, and
Frederick William Mason, of Napier aforesaid, Photo-
grapher. An improved process for the production of em-
bossed or bas-relief photographs.

No. 10109.—10th November, 1897.—Harry S. Grady, of
Woolcombe Street, Wellington, New Zealand, Watchmaker.
Improvement in bicycle-crank and crank-hanger.

No. 10114.—11th November, 1897.—Mephan Ferguson,
of the Olderfleet, Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria, En-
gineer. Improvements in machines for forming dovetail
edges on plates to be used in the manufacture of rivetless
pipes.

No. 10115.—11th November, 1897.—Mephan Ferguson,
of the Olderfleet, Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria, En-
gineer. Improvements in machines for closing the locking
bar or bars used in the construction of certain kinds of
rivetless pipes.

No. 10118.—13th November, 1897.—Jean Campbell Cor-
bett, of Melbourne, Victoria, at present of Hawera, New
Zealand, Lady. An improved basis or foundation for work-
ing drawn-thread stitches, &c., upon, or for other purposes.

No. 10119.—13th November, 1897.—Jean Campbell Cor-
bett, of Melbourne, Victoria, at present of Hawera, New
Zealand, Lady. An improved method for making flax, or
Phormium tenax, rugs, &c., cosays, &c., from the dressed
flax or fibre.

No. 10121.—13th November, 1897.—Wynford Ormsby
Beere, of 54, Lambton Quay, Wellington, New Zealand,
Surveyor. An improved magnetic motor.

No. 10122.—13th November, 1897.—John Algen Belk, of
54, Lambton Quay, Wellington, New Zealand, Coachbuilder.
An improved motor.

No. 10123.—13th November, 1897.—John Algen Belk, of
54, Lambton Quay, Wellington, New Zealand, Coachbuilder.
An improved means for and method of raising sunken
vessels.

No. 10124.—13th November, 1897.—John Algen Belk, of
54, Lambton Quay, Wellington, New Zealand, Coachbuilder.
An improved propeller for ships and boats.

No. 10126.—10th November, 1897.—Walter George Col-
lins, of Caramba, New South Wales, Miner. An improved
prospecting-dish.

No. 10128.—8th November, 1897.—George Lambertson
Thomson, of Middlemore, Otahuhu, Auckland, New Zealand,
Farmer. Improvements in and connected with the con-
struction and fitting of roofs or coverings for stacks of grain
and other farm produce with galvanised corrugated or other
sheet metal.

No. 10132.—16th November, 1897.—William Moriarty,
of 54, Lambton Quay, Wellington, New Zealand, Store-
keeper. Improvements in shop-windows.

No. 10133.—12th November, 1897.—David Estler Blacke,

of Invercargill, New Zealand, Accountant. A blotter, and
ruler, and advertiser combined.

No. 10134.—15th November, 1897.—Henry Alfred
Ladbrook, of 53, Esk Street, Invercargill, New Zealand,
Engine-driver. Improvements in automatic extension crank
for bicycles and the like.

No. 10136.—18th November, 1897.—Alfred Drake, of
54, Lambton Quay, Wellington, New Zealand, Bacon-curer.
Improvements in driving-belts.

No. 10143.—19th November, 1897.—Philip Smith, of 54,
Lambton Quay, Wellington, New Zealand, Sheep-farmer.
An improved saddle-cloth.

No. 10144.—18th November, 1897.—Henry Wyatt, of
183, Hereford Street, Christchurch, New Zealand, Ma-
chinist. Improved window-fastener.

No. 10147.—20th November, 1897.—Ernest Hill Brown,
of 183, Hereford Street, Christchurch, New Zealand, Con-
tractor. Improved pneumatic harness saddle.

No. 10148.—22nd November, 1897.—Helen Jane Camp-
bell Scott, wife of Joseph Scott, Landbroker, of Eldon
Court, Hawera, Taranaki, New Zealand. A new method of
wood-carving.

No. 10150.—18th November, 1897.—George James
Alexander Leslie, Cabinetmaker, and William David
Kenealy, Carpenter, both of Auckland, New Zealand. An
improved potato-peeler.

F. WALDEGRAVE,
Registrar.

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 11th November,
1897, to the 24th November, 1897, inclusive :—

No. 8654.—F. W. Page, fencing-staple.

No. 8723.—R. W. Rutherford and J. A. Jackson, lighting
cigars, &c.

No. 8796.—S. Hardley, sen., seed-sower.

No. 8834.—A. W. Legg, pulverising attachment for
plough.

No. 9017.—Cudlan Patent Sew-round Machine Syndicate,
Limited, sewing-machine (P. Tracy).

No. 9077.—W. Chalmers, lime-spreader.

No. 9264.—Maskinforretningen Interessentskabet Daa-
wrud, printing (G. Eickhoff and P. E. T. Juhl).

No. 9653.—F. Lee, nailing-machine.

No. 9663.—J. Garside, spray-pump.

No. 9723.—H. J. Vickery, bracket.

No. 9788.—E. W. Lycett, lubricator and wire-rope cleaner
(W. H. Richards).

No. 9809.—E. A. Ashcroft, treating zinc-ores, &c.

No. 9817.—W. J. H. Richards, hanging window-sashes, &c.

F. WALDEGRAVE,
Registrar.

Letters Patent on which Fees have been paid.

[Note.—The dates are those of the payments.]

Second-term Fees.

No. 6538.—The Society Aktiebolaget de Lavals Ångtur-
bin, turbine wheel (C. G. P. de Laval). 11th No-
vember, 1897.

No. 6553.—T. and W. Bennet, mangle. 22nd November,
1897.

No. 6556.—H. de C. Hudson, medical application of elec-
tricity (H. J. Purbrook). 22nd November, 1897.

No. 6586.—C. G. P. de Laval, supporting rotating bodies.
19th November, 1897.

Third-term Fees.

No. 4541.—J. C. Fraser, ore-grinding and amalgamating
pan. 15th November, 1897.

F. WALDEGRAVE,
Registrar.

Notice of Request to amend Specification.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 24th November, 1897.

A REQUEST for leave to amend the specification (in-
cluding drawings) 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 of opposition to the amendments.
Such notice must set forth the particular grounds of objec-
tion and be in duplicate. A fee of 10s. is payable thereon :—