We Have Heard the Like Before.

Manawatu Herald, 19 July 1892, Page 2

We Have Heard the Like Before.

The Wairarapa Daily has the following mysterious statement : — " A New Zealand mechanician has. recently visited London with the object of erecting at the metropolis ft factory at which the imperfedtiy dressed fibre of this Colony may be converted into the ideal texture which has so long been the dream of all interested in the trade. This last invention 1 > May, ol course, be only one more failure but there are in this instance one or two considerations of a very reassuring character, The author of it in a man who has, as an inventor,- already scored a series of brilliant successes. He ie one of those lucky individuals who does Hot know what failUfe irieatts in any undertaking to which he applies his brains and energies, and he has at his command sufficient means to develop any work in which he has confidence. Wa have had ample proof, indeed, that his projeot is one that is pretty certain to be pulled off, and that it is likely to give to the flax industry that element of stability which ia essentially necessary to remove it from the category of highly speculative enterprises. We have had an opportunity of forming an opinion of the methods by which the flax fibre of this colony Is to be prepared for the manufacturer Under the new process, but for obvious reasons we are not at liberty to refer to them more especially at the present time. We are, however, satisfied that a turning point in the history of the industry has now been reached, and that in the brief referrence we have made to the new departure, we are only anticiprting a revelation which will shortly gladden the hearts of all interested in the trade. Indeed, the arrangements for carrying out the ideas of the inventor are now in such a forward state that the project is unlikely to remain in obscurity for a much longer period. So far the promoter of it, with commendable prudenoe, has preferred not to announce his intentions from the housetops, and very few people know anything about a project which promises to give new life and prosperity to the flax 'trade of New Zealand."