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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 909, 5 January 1871, Page 2

A Chamber of Manufactures has been formed in Sydney, and at the preliminary meeting fifteen manufacturers joined the association. A number of fine specimens of the Alamandine garnet has been discovered in the Beechworth district, according to the Ovens and Murray Advertiser, and the discovery promises to prove of importance. By our last advices from Melbourne we learn that it was Mr Charles Matthews' intention to remain in that capital until he sailed for Sydney en route for England via San Francisco by the next mail. He may therefore be expected shortly in Auckland, should the above information be correct. Mr V. Smith, barrister-a Maw, has freely offered to the colony of Victoria a new and cheap method of bridging our rivers by means of wire rope (says the Alexandra Times). A model is at present being prepared, and will be submitted to the public in a few days. Twenty years ago Mr Smith, by means of Manilla rope and stringy bark applied on a similar principle, crossed upwards of 10,000 sheep over the Tuppal, near Deniliquia, during a flood. The expense of these bridges will be about a tenth part of those at present in use throughout the colony, and can, with suitable approaches, be erected above any high water level, Mr Smith declines to take out a patent for his invention, acting on the principle that ne satqr ultra crepidam. Speaking of the flax market, the Otago Daily Times says: —Our readers are aware that a large shipment of flax will shortly be sent from this port (Port Chalmers) to. Boston, the barque Ousuri having been chartered for the purpose. We belive that about 200 tons will be sent, the flax having been carefully selected in the different provinces. It may reasonably be anticipated that a direct trade with America in this article will be established, and if so that the "flax problem" will be speedily solved. A WaDganui paper states: —The imagination can hardly conceive a motive power of propulsion equal to steam, without the aid of steam, magnetism, wiud, or the atmosphere; yet we are assured by Mr Nicholas Temperly that he has solved the problem of using that plentiful and cheap element, water, as the beginning and end of his force, His whole principle might be said to consist in the pressure of water, in the ocean, between its surface and the bilge of the ship. Mr Temperly has submitted his plans to MiMurray, engineer, of this town, who has received the idea as one of the greatest feasibility, and is going to construct a model and test the principle on a smali scale. The originator of this novel idea is a ploughman, emnloyed by Majur Willis, of Kangitikei, We hope his ingenuity and inventive power will be by success,