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2806. 16th February. Balph Sneyd Smith, of Leinste.r Boad, St. Albans, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, New Zealand, Mechanic.—An invention for improvements in connecting telephone relays, to be called " Sneyd Smith's Telephone Belay Connections." Not proceeded with. 2807. 17th February. George Abraham Goodwin and William Field How, both of Westminster, in the County of Middlesex, England, Engineers.—An invention for improvements in the manufacture of lock-nuts. 2808. 13th February. Thomas Bell, of Auckland, New Zealand, Engineer. —An invention for kerosene soap-powder. Not proceeded with. 2809. 15th February. Walter Booth, of Oamaru, in the Provincial District of Otago, New Zealand, Agent.—An invention' for a high-pressure dripstone filter. 2810. 20fch February. Henry Aitken, of Falkirk, in the County of Stirling, North Britain, Mining Engineer.—An invention for improvements in preserving timber, and in rendering pipes a/id pipe-joints, walls, and the like impervious to liquids, damp, or acid, and in apparatus to be used therefor, which apparatus may also be applied for the coating of metallic surfaces with tar or compounds of tar and other substances. 2811. 20th February. William Craig, of 222, Crown Street, Woolloomooloo, Sydney, in the Colony of New South Wales, Miner, and William Burns, of Auburn, near Sydney, aforesaid, Shipwright.—An invention for improvements in decoy-traps for rabbits and similar animals. 2812. 13th February. Edward Beauchamp Singleton Mercer, of Brighton Boad, Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand, Photographic Artist. —An invention for the use of wooden mounts for photographs, pictures, or ferns, &c, in lieu of cardboard as at present used, to bo called " The Patent Bakau Mounts." 2813. 20th February. Percival Everitt, of London, England, Engineer.—An invention for improvements in completing electric circuits, and in apparatus embodying such improvements. 2814. 20th February. Percival Everitt, of London, England, Engineer. —An invention for improvements in or applicable to apparatus for indicating the force of a blow. 2815. 20th February. Percival Everitt, of London, England, Engineer.—An invention for improvements in machines for testing muscular power. 2816. 20th February. Sir Henry St. John Halford, Baronet, C.8., of Wistow, England, Colonel, and William Ellis Metford, of Eedlaud, Bristol, England aforesaid, Civil Engineer. —An invention for improvements in the manufacture of projectiles for firearms. 2817. 20th February. William Webster, Junior, of 50, Lee Park, in the County of Kent, England, Electrician.—An invention for improvements in the treatment of sewage and other impure liquids and water for the purification thereof, and for obtaining products therefrom, and in apparatus for these purposes. 2818. 20th February. Edward Waters, of Molesworth Chambers, 75, Chancery Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Patent Agent.—An invention for improvements in autographic telegraphs. (The Writing Telegraph Company.) 2819. 20th February. Samuel Phillips, Photographer, and Adam Stephan, Lithographic Printer, both of Sydney, in the Colony of New South Wales. —An invention for improvements in photo-lithography, photo-engraving, and other photo-illustrative processes. 2820. 17th February. William Henry James Basell, of Caversham, in the Provincial District of Otago, New Zealand, Wheelwright. —An invention for an improved adjustable seed-sower and -coverer. Not proceeded with. 2821. 20th February. Mark Saunders, of Pleasant Point, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, New Zealand.—An invention for separating grass seed from the hay and refuse, to be called " The Combined Grass-seed Stripper and Dresser." 2822. 21st February. Christian Meyer, of Marton, New Zealand, Farmer.—An invention for an improved washing and scouring compound. 2823. 22nd February. Edward Purser, of Blenheim, in the Provincial District of Marlborough, New Zealand.—An invention for the protection of lifeboats at sea. Not proceeded with. 2824. 22nd February. Thomas Mason Chambers, of Tauroa, in the Provincial District of Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, Sheepfarmer, and Frederick Cook, of Hastings, in the said district, Builder.—An invention for an improved woolpress. 2825. Bth February. John Inglis Wright, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Stationer. —An invention for the protection of cheques, receipt-forms, and forms of a similar nature from forgery. Not proceeded with. 2826. 23rd February. William Harper, of No. 37, Flinders Lane West, in the City of Melbourne and Colony of Victoria, Merchant.—An invention for improvements in the manufacture of telegraph poles, columns, pillars, flagstaff's, signal-posts for railways, fence-posts, and other posts, rolls, or rollers for various purposes, pipes or tubes for containing telegraph-wires, railway-sleepers, pillar letter-boxes, urinals, chimneypieces, slabs for use in the construction of urinals and chimneypieces, and for pavements and stair-treads, and for other uses; tiles and slabs for roofing sewer grids or gratings and other gratings, cellarplates, wheels, pulleys, sheaves for pulley-blocks, dead-eyes, buckets, coal-boxes, and^ cocks or taps. (D. Wilson.) 2827. 24th February. Charles James Pownall, of the City of Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, New Zealand. —An invention to be called " Pownall's Patent Babbit Paddock Trap." Not proceeded with. 2828. 21st February. George Treacy Stevens, of Auckland, in the Provincial District of Auckland, New Zealand, Surveyor.—An invention for fastening boots, shoes, &c, to be called "The Stevens Patent Lacer."