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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1354, 3 February 1912, Page 7

Messrs. Baldwin and liayirard, patent attorneys, report that the following applications for letters patent of New Zealand have been filed during the week ending February 2, 1912:—5. J. Crookes, Auckland, charcoal manufacture; W. Stewart and J. Bruton, Wellington, spani?r; K. C. tlardiner, Kltham, safety hatpin; E. ,T. Kobcrts, Christeliurch._ lithograph printing press; T.Shearer, Kapuni, teat cup; Jonson, M'Millan, and Fredrie, Stratford, tool handles; I{. F. Both, Wanganui River, Auckland, cross-cut saw; It. C. Macdiarmid, Huntly, ferro-concrete post; I{. T. Kessell, Hastings, gas-meter rc2tilator; F. North, Wellington, bowls carrier; 11. Ashworth, Wellington, tramway destination indicator. Emanuel I,anker, the champion chessplayer, in a recent address on "The Significance of Chess," said that the preeminence of chess as nn intellectual diversion is due to its creation of an illusory world in which the human desire for witnessing a_ struggle for supremacy is met by conditions of parity of forces, equality of opportunity, and the necessity for quick and irrevocable action, involving brilliant manoeuvres and profound stratagems Jn the hands of experts the game, ho says, is capable of humorous elfec ls, akin to the precipitous flight of a haughty host on a battlofield—a king llceing before a pawn, for instance.