LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 58, 19 July 1879, Page 3

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

':■', ; ' ,-.-. ' - — — ♦» ■ - 7. .j. Q-ENTLEMBN All !— " What I are you . Boots ■now?" -said a gentleman . to a. new \ hand at the Denbigh, the other-day. "Oh, yea, air," . respectfully replied Boots, "tlie ■ other gentleman. has left." The moat per: _Bi«jtent- reader'; ; df. Lord Chesterfield could not have returned a prettier answer. AccfDßMT' at ; the Makd-P Sawmill.— - On Tuesday, an accident occurred at the -Makino Sawmill, which caused a temporary Buspension of operations. It seems, as f ar as we can leaim, that the piston . rod of one of the cylinders had b,y some means become bent, and did not work very easily, ; and the consequence wa's'that the end of the cylinder was blown off, and the piston broken. Fortunately up one- wias mj ured, or even hurt. '' ' .:/ ' ! ■ , -„' !.-.";"'>• ; ■ Projected 'li^bovements. .;— - We hear with.sincerejpleasure. that Mr Nathan lias given instructions to Mr Deards to -\\&yQ all his property, ip Btunierstpri properly fenced and improved. Acting upon these instructions Mr Deards pitends; having, that most yalu- " able piecet m "Broad-street, opposite the Catholic , Ob uTOb!, : ploughed and fenced, vrhile we; believe ; he is also "authoriaed to , treat for its sale for building purposts. Mr Nathan owns sq much and such eligible sites land m tbis town", that "we are' pleased "to hear-he is now disposed to part with them to perapns desirous 'to* build;- arid '* consequently we may. soon pee. thosr, many un; aightly gaps filled-up', "";•■:'}& Deards informal us*tliat:he has been commissionedto expend • between £400 arid :^soopri behalf of Mr. 'Nathan before placing his many allotments m the market. "..; ■■ : -' : » :;. Htpbo-dynamics.— -Although- engineers and ! riiiUwrightß^arf.,igeneraUy;Bupp.pse*d .to be well up in' hydrp-dyhamics,. and ; miner». to have a smattering of BpmVof the 1 laws of the science drummed into them ■ by their = .surroundings,, we seldom see; an exemplification of .them;iri our agricultural districts. : An instance of this waa, however,*; brought tinder our notice, the other day." Mr James t Whisker has' : ab6.iit "two miles;' b^low IbV railway bridgebverthe'OroUai adme splendid •'paddocks on the left hand bank of the river. At a part "where the "river m its tortuous '.course forms an immensobend of horse-shoe form, the fallis;yery slight,;; and m conse•quehce of this the inner; bank: qf the bend has gradually ail ted up, diverting the stream across to the other side, where it was .eating < intb the pforesaid paddock, and threatening. : to cut its way into the Mongaona Stream. . ;S.o Mr WhiskeijCut a trench a quarter of a Mjle'long, from heel^tp heel of this hp"M*ahoe bend," and during'the recent' fresh tihe water found its way into the trench,' and the fall being much .greater'in it thanip; thppld round-about cpu'rae/, a new channel for this river was" soon worn away, and the, old left' J higli*andidry.;>By. this littWbit of engiheeringi'L Mr * Whisker has not only saved his; good paddock, but be has; also reclaimed! attend acres of "land; ,- ; , v.]: