VALUABLE SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 44, 3 December 1869, Page 3

VALUABLE SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY.

The following extract is-worthy attention of our readers, and we may inform them that we have seen this new and remarkably simple automatic pump at work in Dunedin. One has been ordered already for this place, for raising water for domestic uses, but if it can be applied to raising water to almost any height with very little expense, and we believe it can, the invention will be of the utmost value io our machine drivers and others: Water Engine.—-A discovery connected with the raising of water is" claimed to have been made by Dr. Bourbon, a physician of some reputation at Haberville. By a very slight piece of mechanism, he says he can raise a continuous stream of water to almost any altitude, without labor of any kind, and without expense, beyond that necessary for the first cost of the machine, and this is by no means hvge. Dr. Bourbon states that the power of the machine is based upon a natural and immutable mechanical principle.'and that by it there might be created a continuous current of water at the surface of the soil, wherever a sprint of water exists—no matter at what depth. The machine is intended to supersede all existing-pumps. Dr. Bourbon also states that, however paradoxical it inay appear, he has found 'the greater height to which the water has to be raised, the, greater is the power of the machine.' '--V Cromwell Argus.'

Mr. Tiioinas Morgan, a miner well known upon the iianieri diggings, Westiand, writes to the ' ,Wesif Coast Times' regarding the state of matters at the Thames, as follows:—" I arrived at Auckland this day week, and in going through the town nothing could be seen but the 'Thames scrip,' and long lists of companies stuck on every corner, i happened to be looking over one of those lists when a gentleman walked up to me and asked me if J had any 'scrip in the Thames G-oldtieid.' 1 told him tuafc 1 had just arrived by the John Penn, s.s. Then he commenced blowing at a great rate in reference to the exceeding richness of the field, with its hidden treasures, saying that when thoroughly developed it would be the greatest in" the world* Afterwards he offered 400 scrip for the small sum of £ls, which would give me an everlasting pile. I congratulated him on his blowing abilities, and respectfully declined doing any business. When X arrived at the Thames lioidfield I found hundreds (i do not think I would exaggerate if I said thousands) walking about in want Vf work, but none to be got, and the scrip market iu a very low state indeed. 1 visited the sale rooms, where 1 found thousands of scrip put up for sale, and no bidding whatever for any, and to my knowledge there are any amount to bo purchased at any price; in fact, Wood's in Victoria, was supposed to be a great swindling place, but-this beats ail that I have seen. Wages are' only e&2 per week, and the necessaries" of lii'ti the same scale as Hokirika, with the exception of the 4>ib. loaf, which is lOd."

Teinperence puts wood on the lire, meal in the barrei, fiour in the tub, money in tiie purse, credit in the country, contentment in the house, clothe* on tue children, vigor in the body, intelligence in the brain, and spirit in the whoie constitution.