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1882. NEW ZEALAND.

LETTERS PATENT AND LETTERS OF REGISTRATION APPLIED FOR DURING 1881 (LIST OF).

Presented to both Souses of the General Assembly by Command of Sis Excellency •.

* # * L.E. means Letters of Registration and L.P. Letters Patent. 499. (L.E.) 7th January. Ezra Hinckley, of Melbourne, Engineer. —A spiral spring-bed. 500. (Not proceeded with. See No. 540.) 501. (L.E.) 19th January. George Heney Jennings, of Palace Wharf, Stangate, Surrey, England. — Improvements in water-closets, and in traps and appliances for controlling the supply of water. 502. (L.E.) 19th January. Sir John Coode, Knight, of 5, Westminster Chambers, Victoria Street, Westminster, England.—lmprovements in apparatus for landing or delivering sand, mud, shingle, gravel, or such-like materials from barges or other vessels, especially such as may have been raised by dredging. 503. (L.P.) 25th January. Thomas Haxton, of Gore, Otago, New Zealand, Blacksmith.—Teethed flexible folding harrows. 504. (L.P.) 28th January. William Stewart James Hoene Mtjnho, of Wellington, New Zealand, Doctor of Medicine. (Patent granted to Mrs. Isabella Scott Munro, executrix of Dr. Munro.) — An invention for making cement. 505. (L.E.) 12th February. Alexander Donald Macleay, of 107, Victoria Street, Westminster, William Abchee, William Atmar Fanning, G-eobge Fairbairne, Francis A. G-winne, Alexander Caldcleugh Macleay, and Herbert Maguire Whitehead.—lmprovements in machinery or apparatus for the artificial production of cold for ice-making and other purposes. 506. (L.P.) 23rd February. James Munro Bertram, of Halcombe, Wellington, New Zealand, Settler. —A machine for stripping or scraping and cleaning all extraneous vegetable matter from the fibre contained in New Zealand flax. 507. (L.P.) 23rd February. James Munro Bertram, of Halcombe, Wellington, New Zealand,, Settler.—A machine for softening the fibre of New Zealand flax after having been cleaned in a flax-dressing machine. 508. (L.P.) 23rd February. Julius Shadick, of Wellington. —An improved saddle. (Not proceeded with.) 509. (L.E.) 7th March. The Anglo-American Electric Light Company (Limited), of 74, Hatton Garden, London. —Improvements in electric lighting, and in apparatus therefor. 510. (L.E.) 7th March. Thomas Alta Edison, of Menlo Park, New Jersey, United States of America.' —Improvements in electric lamps, and in carbons or incandescing conductors therefor,. and in means for and methods of manufacturing the same. 511. (L.E.) 7th March. Thomas Alva Edison, of Menlo Park, New Jersey, America. —Improvements in dynamo- or magneto-electric machines and other electric motors. 512. (L.E.) 7th March. Thomas Alva Edison, of Menlo Park, New Jersey, America. —Improvement in system of conductors for the distribution of electricity as a lighting and motive-power agent,, and in appliances connected therewith. 513. (L.P.) 18th March. Eobeet Lockhead, of Dunedin.—An automatic adjustable gas or heater plaiter machine. (Not proceeded with.) 514. (L.E.) 25th March. Hermann Hirsch, of 4, 5, and 6, Great St. Helen's, London, Middlesex, Great Britain.—lmprovements in the shaping and constructing of hulls of vessels, propellers, rudders, and other bodies which have to act in or be acted upon by water. 515. (L.E.) Ist April. Thomas John Mullings, of London, England, Gentleman. —-A new and improved process for extracting oil and fat and oily and fatty matters from wool and other substances, and the apparatus connected therewith and applicable thereto. 516. (L.E.) Ist April. William Eobebt Lake, of Southampton Buildings, London, England.— Improvements in grain-binding mechanism for harvesting machines. (S. Johnston's.) 517. (L.P.) 9th April. Henry Preston, of Waikiwi, near Invercargill, New Zealand, Woolscourer.— An invention for washing wool and other material, to be called " Preston's Self-acting Wool-wash."