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Lake Wakatip Mail, Volume II, Issue 82, 10 February 1864, Page 6

New Mining Intention.—The company which are about to introduce a very novel but useful invention for the first time on the Dunstan, to be known as Dunn's rotary pumping machine, are getting on very satisfactorily with their model, which they expect will be completed and ready for trial in the course of about three weeks. This machine, if successful, of which the inventor and projectors have little doubt, will be one of the most useful inventions in hydraulics, that has hitherto been made. It will consist of a vertical wheel to be worked by the power of the stream alone, and will act either on the top or under the water, irrespective of the rise or fail of the river. The machine will not be of a very costly description, simple in construction, and not liable to get out of order, and will be within the reach of any ordinary mining party to purchase, so that instead of having to cut laces as hitherto for the purposes of hydraulic mining, they will be enabled to place the machine in the river opposite their claims, and have a full sluice-head of water, as high up the steep banks as they wish.—Dunstan News. Stockriding Extraordinary.—A correspondent sends us the following:—" Many anecdotes have been told and written in proof of the sagacity of the horse, but I question whether Youatt, Stonehenge, or the facetious " Harry Hieover,"* can adduce such another instance of equine sagacity as the following, which came under my observation:—On sth March last, a gentleman residing on the Billabong determined to test the capabilities of his favorite stockhorse in cutting out cattle, which, as most bushmen know is the most difficult of all bush equestrianism. Accordingly, he took the bit out of the horse's mouth, tied the reins to the saddle, and, folding his arms a la Hamlet, proceeded to cut out forty head of cattle with as much ease as if he had been guiding him by the reins; and this, too, in an incredibly short space of time, and without making a single mistake. To an experienced stockrider this may not appear extraordinary, but to the uninitiated the feat will appear almost incredible, when they know that —merely guided by the motion of his master in the saddle—the little horse walked into the mob, 4 spotted' the bullock his master wished to draft out, dodged him out of the mob, and ran him into the mob of fat cattle'which were standing some 200 yards distant, with as much ease as a well-trained coolie dog would single out a sheep, and take it from one flock to another. I should hardly venture to give publicity to this, were it not that six or eight others were present, and witnessed the feat as well as myself."—Bell?s Life in Victoria.