NEW ZEALAND PATENTS.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 85, 17 January 1885, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND PATENTS.

It has been frequently remarked that the cheap patent laws in this colony would lead to a large development of "New Zealand notions." We are glad to notico that the fair sex have now begun to develop an inventive genius, as in the list of patents recently applied for is one from Elizabeth Barton, of Dunedin, for a compound single bedstead. This, wo presume, means that the bedstead can be altered from ono that can accommodate single blessedness to one for matrimonial requirements. The other day an Auckland lady — in order not to be behind her Dunedin sister — interviewed Mr Greenshields with the object of taking out a patent for a new sort of dress im prover or " wobbler,'* but after mature considoration he arrived at the conclusion that the whole affair was, like the fair inventrix herself, so fearfully and wonderfully made as to be altogether beyond his comprehension. A Maori has also applied for a patent for a " Nonpareil Toothache Curer." Bravo, Maoris ! Mr Joske, of Suva, Fiji, before leaving for America , also applied for a New Zealand patent for extracting the principles of a certain South Sea Islands' plant for the purpose of mixing with spirits or other liquors, said to be a grand thing for gout, &c, &c. He has also applied for patents in all the Australian colonies, and is now on his way to take out patents for America, England, etc. Mr Joske's specification is the shortest we have ever seen for any application. An Auckland inventor has just applied for a patent dial for watches and clocks. On an inner or an outer circle, below or above the figure 1, is 13, then 14, 15, etc., up to 24 o'olook,