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3256. 19th September. Lloyd Aeonzo Kimball, Manager of the firm of Parke and Lacy, of Sydney, in the Colony of New South Wales, and San Francisco, California, one of the United States of America, Machinery Merchants, residing at Sydney, in the said colony.—An invention for improvements in certain descriptions of concentrating-machines. 3257. 19th September. Lloyd Alonzo Kimball, Manager of the firm of Parke and Lacy, of Sydney, in the Colony of New South Wales, and San Francisco, California, one of the United States of America, Machinery Merchants, residing at Sydney, in the said colony. —An . invention for improvements in certain descriptions of concentrating-machines. 3258. 20th September. Bobert Wotherspoon and Edward Wilkinson, both of Melbourne, in the Colony of Victoria, Civil Engineers.—An invention for an improved street-cleaner. 3259. 20th September. Pierre Cheaseman Dv Bois, of Sydney, in the Colony of New South Wales, Metallurgist. —An invention for improvements in rock-crushers. 3260. 21st September. Frederick Valentine Waters, of Wellington, New Zealand, Clerk.—jAii invention to be called " Waters's Patent Manifold Shipping Beceipt and Boat-note." (Bacon and Co.) 3261. 19th September. Joseph Clark, of Nelson, New Zealand, Gas-fitter.—An invention for an improved gas cooking-stove, to be called " Clark's Patent." 3262. 18th September. Bichard Douglas Morgan, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Civil Engineer.— An invention for an improved time-candle. 3263. 21st September. Andrew Bitchie, of Christchurch, New Zealand, Draper, and Bobert John White, of the same place, Tinsmith.—An invention for a new cover for frying-pans, saucepans, or any other cooking-vessel where steam only is required to escape, styled " The Eureka Cover." 3264. 22nd September. Holmes Samuel Chipman, of No. 54, Margaret Street, Sydney, in "the Colony of New South Wales, Merchant. —An invention for improvements in reaping-and-binding machines. (L. Miller.) 3265. 22nd September. Edward Alexander Yon Schmidt, of Alameda, California, one of the' United States of America, at present residing at Malvern Grange, Glenferrie Boad, Malvern, near Melbourne, in the Colony of Victoria.— An invention for improvements in dredgingmachines. (A. W. Yon Schmidt.) 3266. 21st September. Albert Eenest Woodhouse, Amberley, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, New Zealand, Farmer. —An invention for a patent feeding-trough, to be called " Woodhouse's Patent Sheep-trough." 3267. 24th September. James Thomson, of the Arahura, in the Provincial District of Westland, New Zealand, Contractor, and Frank Edward Clarke, of Hokitika, in the said provincial district, Draughtsman. —An invention for composite iron piles and sheath-piles, with solidwelded point or shoe. 3268. 25th September. William Henry Patton, of Broken Hill, in the Colony of New South Wales, Engineer and Mine Manager.—An invention for improvements in the process of treating gold and silver ores by amalgamation and in the devices therefor. (M. P. Boss.) 3269. 26th September. Thomas Alva Edison, of Llewellyn Park, in the County of Essex and State of New Jersey, one of the United States of America, .Electrician. —An invention for improvements in phonographs and phonograms. 3270. 26th September. Thomas Alva Edison, of Llewellyn Park, in the County of Essex and State of New York, one of the United States of America, Electrician.—An invention for improvements in phonogram blanks and phonograms and processes of making the same. 3271. 24th September. John MacCluhe, of Invercargill, in the Provincial District of Otago, New Zealand, Carpenter. —An invention for a fern-vase, to be called " The Maori Bustic Fernvase." 3272. 25th September. Patrick John Henley, of Leeston, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, New Zealand, Farmer, and David Blyth, of the same place, Blacksmith.—An invention for the pulverising and subsoiling of the soil by implements to be attached to any make of plough, to be called " Henley and Blyth's Pulverising and Subsoiling Attachments." 3273. 24th September. Leslie Morrison, of Auckland, New Zealand, Corn-broom Maker.—An invention for lighting fires, to be called or styled " The Everlasting Fire-lighter." 3274. 24th September. Edward Hale Gulliver, M.A., of Mangare, in the Provincial District of Auckland, New Zealand, Clerk in Holy Orders.—An invention for more easily opening boxes, packages, envelopes, &c, to be called " Gulliver's Patent Aperio." 3275. 25th September. Bobert Percy Chatfibld, of Lower Hepburn Street, Auckland, New Zealand, Clerk, and Spencer Derby Chatfield, of Lower Hepburn Street aforesaid, Clerk.— An invention for an improved portable cool-chamber. 3276. 26th September. William Carver, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Carriage-builder, William Bobert Carver, of the same place, Carriage-body Maker, and Arthur Coverley Carvee, of the same place, Carriage-painter.—An invention for a parlour billiard-board. 3277. 27th September. Bobert Skeoch, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Warehouseman, and David Hope Johnston, of Wingatui, in the Provincial District of Otago, New Zealand, Farjner.— An invention for the deodorisation of nightsoil and the manufacture of artificial manure therefrom by kiln-drying the said nightsoil and mixing therewith pulverised clay and sawdust. 3278. 27th September. Bobert Skeoch, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Warehouseman, and David Hope Johnston, of Wingatui, in the Provincial District of Otago, New Zealand, Farmer.— An invention for the deodorisation of nightsoil and the manufacture of artificial manure therefrom by mixing therewith pulverised scoria.