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1132. 2nd June. James Lees, of Oamaru, New Zealand, Sheepfarmer.—Brake or signal shafts. 1133. 4th June. John Douglass, of Hampden, Otago, New Zealand, Blacksmith.—A compound shifting-gear for double-furrow ploughs. 1134. 6th June. Thomas Haycock, of Richmond, Nelson, New Zealand, Manufacturer.—The New Zealand Eureka Knife-polish. 1135. 3rd June. Charles Williams, of Auckland, New Zealand, Manufacturer of Grocers' Sundries.-—An invention for packing and preserving paste-blacking. 1136. sth June. Robert Fergus Smith, Painter, and John Eustace, Tinsmith, of Dunedin.—An invention for hermetically closing tin boxes with the lid without soldering. 1137. 7th June. Edward Wilson, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Engineer.—An invention for fixing and securing barbed or other wire fencing to posts or standards, and entitled '.' Wilson's Wire Clasp." 1138. 9th June. William Edward Barry, of Narrandera, New South Wales, Miner.—An improvement in amalgamators. 1139. 9th June. Cabson Woods, of 253, George Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Importer. —Improvements in railway cars or wagons (being a communication from Matthew Van W Tormer, of Dayton, Ohio, one of the United States of America). 1140. 9th June. John Macdonald, of Sydney, New South Wales, Agent.—lmprovements in telegraph posts (being a communication from J. Oppenheimer, of No. 52, Brown Street, Manchester, England, merchant). 1141. 11th June. James Bruce, of Timaru, New Zealand, Millwright and Engineer.—A graindrying apparatus, automatic in operation. 1142. 23rd June. William Pryor Gaedner, of Reefton, New Zealand, Engineer and Surveyor.— Gardner's No. 1 Combined, Permanent, and Endless Wire-Rope Tramway, for the economical transportation of ores and goods over mountainous and difficulty country. 1143. 23rd June. Reginald Donkin, of Auckland, New Zealand, Engineer.—An invention for giving alarm of fire by electricity. 1144. 21st June. Richard Poole, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Agent. — Poole's Patent Safety Folding Fire-Screen, Guard, Damper, and Fuel Economizer. 1145. 21st June. James Gray, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Agricultural Engineer.—lmprovements in double-furrow plough. 1146. 23rd June. Richard Thomas Webb, of Christchurch, New Zealand, Merchant.—An invention for cutting and trimming hedges, to be called " A Band-Saw Attachment." 1147. 23rd June. Peter Duncan and David Duncan, both of Christchurch, New Zealand, Agricultural Implement Makers.'—A combined broadcast sower and disc harrow, which may be used also either as broadcast sower or disc harrow separately. 1148. 25th June. James Robson, of Birmingham, England, Engineer. —Improvements in obtaining and applying motive power. 1149. (L.R.) 25th June. William Bartholomew, of Messrs. Doulton and Co.'s Sanitary Engineering Works, Albert Embankment, Lambeth, Surrey, England.—lmprovements in flushing tanks or vessels for receiving water or liquid, and, when full, automatically discharging it. 1150. 26th June. Samuel Bawden, of Grahamstown, New Zealand, Mining Engineer.—Bawden's Triumph Pulverizer and Amalgamator. 1151. 28th June. Jambs Gray, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Agricultural Engineer.—lmprovements in disc harrow. 1152. 30th June. Alfeed Robb and William Stokes, both of Wilson's Road, in the Borough of Sydenham, New Zealand, Carpenters.—A cup-headed self-adjusting tinned-wire roofing nail, requiring no washer. 1153. 3rd July. Robekt Woolford, of O'Connell Street, North Adelaide, South Australia, Watchmaker.—lmprovements in registering machines. 1154. 28th June. John Spine Hudson, of Auckland, New Zealand, Gentleman.—Hudson's Rotary Engine. 1155. 4th July. William Thomson Hay, of Hokitika, New Zealand, Chemist.—An invention for making and extracting essential or volatile oil from manuka (Melalenca ericafolia), and other indigenous vegetation of New Zealand by the direct application of steam. 1156. Bth July. Conrad Icke, of Sydney, New South Wales, Engineer.—An invention for the extraction of gold, silver, copper, lead, and other metals from pyrites and other ores and substances, such invention to be designated " Icke's Improved Cupola Oven or Furnace for the Treatment of Pyrites and other Ores or Substances." 1157. 10th'July. Chables Ashburnham Floyd, of Eastbourne, Sussex, England.—An improvement in hansom cabs and similar vehicles. 1158. 9th July. George Cookson, of Christchurch, New Zealand, Gardener.—Cinder-sifter. 1159. 15th July. William Rainbow, of Christchurch, New Zealand, Engineer.—An invention for churning, mixing, breaking-up or agitating liquids or semi-liquids generally, and called " Rainbow's Improved Churn." 1160. 15th July. William Rainbow, of Christchureh, New Zealand, Engineer. —An invention for raising and forcing water and other liquids by the action of a jet of steam or air injected through a nozzle and receiving-cone, fitted within a bulb or vessel, the apparatus being applicable for raising water from a well or other source, tank, vat, or ship's bilge or other place to any desired distance; also, for ejecting foul air from holds of ships and from mines, and called "Rainbow's Water-raiser and Air-ejector." 1161. 17th July. William Creed, of Warmatta, near Corowa, New South Wales, Surveyor.—An improved machine, convertible into a wire-strainer or auger. 1162. 14th July. Francis Heney Asbury, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Engineer. —Improvement in an apparatus for generating steam,