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Kumara Times, Issue 1044, 4 February 1880, Page 4

The Buller Nbwb says:—" It is reported that an application has been made for a lease of the coal area held by the Albion Company at Ngakawau. If we remember arightly Mr Jay offered to connect the mine with the railway for LIOOO. when he had the tools on the ground. If there is any quantity of coal in the mine, as it is supposed there is, the quality having been fully tested, there apppears no reason why it should be allowed to remain idle, and we trust the present application will result in reaction at the Ngakawau." The system of utilisation of small coal which has been so long in France is about to be introduced into the Durham coal trade on a large scale. At one of the large collieries of the Marquis of Londonderry, briquette michines are being erected by a Leeds firm for the manufacture of briquettes, or compressed fuel of small coal. It is stated that, at a cost for preparing, mixing, and making, of about one shilling per ton, an excellent fuel can be made from the wnste of small coa'. In France the use of briquettes so made is on a large scale—one company alone producing 300 000 tons yearly; but the system has not, up to the present, been largely adopted in England. It is probable, howev. r, that if the attempt now being made at the Londonderry collieries prove successful, it will soon be followed extensively in the north. On and after January 21 a fixed white harbor light will be exhibited from the flag, staff at the western side of the entrance to the Wairau river, Cloudy Bay, Cook Stiait. The light is a sixth order port light, and is elevated 38 feet above high water mark, and will be seen about 11 miles in clear weather, and at lesser distances according to the state of the' atmosphere, The Melbourne Argus says :—A letter from Hanlon to Mr Fleming here expresses his willingness to come here and row Trickett about September. He Bays in the meantime it would be well if articles of agreement could be drawn up by Trickett'a friends and sent to him. The race could come off in February 1881, for 10,000 dollars a-side ; or, if Trickett will go to America, he will allow him 1500 dollars expenses. The smallest engine in the world is said to ba in the possession of Mr John Penn, of Greenwich. • It stands on a three penny piece, although it really covers less, for its base only measures three-eighths of an inch by three-tenths. So small are some parts that they require a powerful magnifying glass to see their form. The whole weight of the model is less than a three-penny piece. It works admirably, and, when working, its crank shaft performs from 20,000 to 30,000 revolutions per minute. The New York Herald, speaking of Mr Parnell'B schemes, says that "if Mt Parnell could carry out his crazy programme, mud cabins would be as numerous 10 yea<-Bhencß in Ireland as In 1841. What we say, there.fore, to the Irish in the United States, is not to g\ve one cent for Parnell and his crowd, but millions to help emigration from Ireland to this country Here is work, good wages, no landlords, and no bailiffs are to be found But let us have no Fenian nonsense, and no proposition to free Ireland by procession 3000 miles off. That does no good—it only fills adventurers' and demagogues' uockets. No probability exists of Irish Americans contributing any considerable sum in aid of Psmell's schemes."