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a commutator-switch and contact-rods connected therewith and adapted for contact with conductor-rails placed on or about the railway-track, for the purposes set forth, substantially as herein described and explained, and as illustrated in the drawings.” To alter “single” to “signal,” line 22; to omit “which has been lowered,” lines 22 and 23, and to insert instead “when the said signal-arm has been raised.”
(28.) On page 47 to insert the words “electrical and” before “mechanical,” line 27.
(29.) On page 52—to insert “it” after “track,” line 11; to omit the words “conductors and non-conductors respectively,” lines 11 and 12; to insert “non-conductors or leaves same rendered conductors” after “track,” line 13; and to strike out the whole of the fiftieth claim.
(30.) On page 53—to alter “77 (b)” to “77 (e),” line 8; to alter “78” to “79” and “078” to “079,” line 15.
(31.) On page 54—to alter “079” to “078,” line 12; and to alter “77 (e)” to “77 (c),” line 14 and line 26.
(32.) On page 55—to alter “77 (e)” to “77 (c),” line 2; to insert “and 273” after “271,” line 15; and to insert “272 and 273” after “266,” line 21.
(33.) On page 56—to omit “conductors or” after “track,” line 8; to insert “or leaves same rendered conductors” after “conductors,” line 8; to alter “the” to “a,” line 10; and to insert “or signal-arms” after “arm,” line 10.
(34.) To alter Figs. 2, 3, and 21 of the drawings.
The applicant states: “My reason for making the amendment is in order to correct misdirections or misdescriptions in the specification, and errors in the drafting of the drawings, to more fully explain the invention, and to make the specification and drawings correctly, and clearly describe my invention.”

J. C. LEWIS,
Registrar.

Request for Correction of Clerical Error in Application for Letters Patent.

NO. 27519.—American Box Ball Company, amusement apparatus. (J. F. Hoke, jun.) (Advertised in Supplement to New Zealand Gazette, No. 49, of the 19th May, 1910.)
To insert the address of the inventor—J. F. Hoke—as follows: Corner of Draper and Van Buren Streets, City of Indianapolis, County of Marion, State of Indiana, United States of America.

Applications for Letters Patent abandoned.

LIST of applications, with which provisional specifications only have been filed, abandoned (i.e., complete specifications not lodged) from the 14th to the 27th May, 1910, inclusive:—
No. 26234.—W. F. Johns, lift-door releaser.
No. 26236.—A. E. Foothead and W. Harwood, button-clip.
No. 26238.—H. Dunn, disposing of sand on mine-dumps.
No. 26240.—C. F. Lungley, torpedo and gyroscopic engine.
No. 26241.—L. G. F. Spry, candle-extinguisher.
No. 26252.—H. North, bedstead.
No. 26254.—D. M. MacGowan, phonograph.
No. 26257.—D. S. MacKenzie, dental-filling apparatus.
No. 26258.—G. W. Davies, raising temperature of gases.
No. 26259.—R. Thomas, billiard-game.
No. 26260.—J. Bate, flax-washer, &c.
No. 26265.—A. J. Whiteside, flax-handling device.
No. 26266.—W. S. Ramson, child safety-strap.
No. 26273.—E. Potts, tool-holder.
No. 26284.—C. J. H. Thomson, flax-treatment.
No. 26285.—A. M. Hansen, standard.
No. 26289.—H. Anscombe, water-heater.
No. 26290.—J. M. Taylor and H. Oakley, snow-board.
No. 26292.—W. E. Holden, advertisement-displaying.
No. 26293.—M. A. Sinclair, plate-warmer.
No. 26294.—E. J. Chilton, closet-flush.
No. 26299.—W. T. Taylor, dredge-grab.
No. 26300.—W. V. Page, label-clip.
No. 26301.—W. T. Buckland, cycle-driving mechanism.
No. 26302.—W. T. Buckland, brake-block.
No. 26303.—W. Weir, clothes-washer.

Application for Letters Patent void.

APPLICATION for Letters Patent, with which complete specifications have been lodged, void owing to non-acceptance of such complete specifications, from the 14th to the 27th May, 1910, inclusive:—
Nil.

Applications for Letters Patent lapsed.

APPLICATIONS for Letters Patent lapsed, owing to Letters Patent not being sealed, from the 14th to the 27th May, 1910, inclusive:—
No. 25225.—F. Owen, oven-shelf.
No. 25236.—A. W. Reid, vacuum-pump for milking-machine.
No. 25274.—P. Boyd, seed-sower.

ERRATUM.—No. 25075.—Macgregor and Reid was inadvertently advertised in last Gazette as lapsed.

Letters Patent void.

LIST of Letters Patent void through non-payment of renewal fees, and through expiry of term of fourteen years, from the 14th to 27th May, 1910, inclusive:—

THROUGH NON-PAYMENT OF SECOND-TERM FEES.
No. 20720.—W. M. Davison, vending measured quantities of liquid.
No. 20721.—W. M. Davison, pump for vending measured quantities of liquid.
No. 20725.—A. T. M. Thomson, telephone-exchange system.
No. 20726.—A. M. Day, ore-smelting.
No. 20727.—N. A. H. Abel, hoist.
No. 20729.—C. H. Withers, bath.
No. 20732.—M. and J. Robertson, fence bridle.
No. 20735.—I. Stevenson and J. Cook, stone-shoot.
No. 20741.—International Telegraph Construction Company, wireless signalling. (J. T. Hunter—H. Shoemaker.)
No. 20743.—A. S. Ford, forcing liquid from containers.
No. 20748.—W. Allen, jun., timber-flitch carrier.
No. 20757.—J. Rose, clothes-washer.
No. 20758.—A. E. Luttrell, pump.
No. 20763.—C. Cannell, cutting and searing machine.
No. 20767.—H. G. Smith, fencing-standard.
No. 20772.—R. H. Carter, horse-collar.
No. 20773.—N. Nielsen, roofing-tile.
No. 20776.—J. McLean and T. R. Archibald, flooring-crimp. (H. V. Gazzard.)
No. 20778.—E. C. Pohlé, recovering values from sulphide ores.
No. 20780.—E. H. Bock, game.
No. 20781.—A. T. W. Allan, chimney-top.
No. 20791.—H. W. Downing, horse-cover.
No. 22428.—H. W. E. Josling, preventing fraudulent refilling bottles.

THROUGH NON-PAYMENT OF THIRD-TERM FEES.
No. 16010.—F. J. and J. H. McShane, ore-concentrator. (R. E. and E. Waugh.)
No. 16012.—The Westinghouse Brake Company, Limited, resistance device. (J. T. Hunter—G. Westinghouse.)

THROUGH EXPIRY OF TERM.
No. 8522.—Biernatzki and Co., refrigerating-apparatus. (The Economical Refrigerating Company—G. F. Knox and E. L. Sharpneck.)

Designs registered.

DESIGNS have been registered in the following names on the dates mentioned:—
No. 509.—W. J. Scammell and W. F. Thompson, trading as the Sterling Electroplating Company, Wellington, N.Z. 5th May. Class 2.
No. 510.—S. Perkins, Wellington, N.Z. 25th May. Class 1.
No. 511.—G. Methven and Co., Limited, Dunedin, N.Z. 26th May. Class 1.

Subsequent Proprietors of Design registered.

[NOTE.—The name of the former proprietor is given in brackets; the date is that of registration.]

No. 335.—Arthur James Billows, of 123 Moray Street, South Melbourne, Victoria, Manufacturing Chemist. [Billows Carbonating-machine Syndicate.] 4th May, 1910.
No. 335.—Robert William Berry Mackenzie, of Queen Street, Melbourne, Victoria, registered as proprietor of a half part or share. [A. J. Billows—Billows Carbonating-machine Syndicate.] 4th May, 1910.