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Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 83, 30 May 1902, Page 4

• A new attachment to marine oil engines;'With the object of elimiiiafciqg f the noise and smell caused by the* bkhaust, has (says the Auckland Star) been invented and patented*by Messrs F. Henderson and Go., of this city. Under the new system an exhaust chamber is fitted to the engine, and a pipe to carry off the; exhaust* leads y thence to tbel*bottom of the. boat. Aft ejector on the end of this pipe causes a vacuum in the chamber, the exhaust thus being for ced out under the water, -which deadens the sound; A trial of the new patent made on Mr H. H. Hayr’s launch Waitiri proved a thorough. success. Formerly the puffing of the exhaust cpuld be heard half a mile away, while now it is quite noiseless. The new patent does not add to the cost of the engines. The Clutha Leader states that nearly 400 cows have been promised for the proposed creamery at Balelutha, and that there is ever.C prospect rf its being erected in time to deal <v 7 ith the next season’s milk supply. The Woodslee Downs Estate, Toitoi district, which comprises over 14,000 acres of freehold and some 3000 acres of educational endowment land, has been bought by Mr Joseph Preston, of Tokonui Estate and Lorn'lands station. The estate is stockc d with 12,000 sheep and 500 head of cattle.

Miss Mitchell, the schoolmistress at the head of Lake Wakatipu, had a rather singular experience on Sunday, when she got benighted in the Bueklerburrr Creek, on her way back from a visit to a sick person, and had to sleep under a cliff all nignt. Sir Albert Hime, the Premier of Natal, announced on 17th March that the Government was was preparing a scheme for the settlement in Natal of suitable European immigrants. He feared that the whole scheme would not be ready until the next session, but he hoped that an Act would be passed for the compulsory acquisition of land for such a settlement. The N.D.L. steamer Batavia has established a record on the Atlantic by taking 2690 passengers on behalf of the Norddeutscher Lloyd from Bremen to New York. Adding to the passenger list 163 men of the crew, the Batavia carried no less than 2853 souls on this trip. The previous record was held by the N.D.L. liner Rhein, with 2633 persons on b oafd. The passenger traffic on the Atlantic has been very heavy during the last year, and big figures are expected from a statistical standpoint.

A policeman, who evidently prides himself on his pugilistic powers, caused a little merriment in the Dunedin Police Court the other day, when des ribing how he downed an assailant. “1 gave him,” said the constable, “the pr ettiest fall you ever saw in your lifetime, and I told him that if he did not go away I would give him a butt under the ear that he would remember for all his life,” You put a rod of steel in at one end of a machine, and a weldless chain comes out of the other. Such is a brief description of the marvellous work done by the Strathern patent weldless chain making machine. The machine is of a massive description, and has been designed to turn out weldless steel chains up to one inch diameter. It is built close to the furnace which heats the bars.