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New Zealand Mail, Issue 19, 3 June 1871, Page 16

Smoke Consuming.—Can smoke be consumed profitably? This question, says the Leeds " Mercury," so important to manufacturers, would appear, by what has transpired at the Dewsbury Court House last week, to be settled in the affirmative. Two Mirfield firms had been summoned for permitting the issue of a dense smoke from their mill chimney, so as to be a nuisance. Convictions took place, and the defendants were ordered to abate the nuisance within three months. To show that this would involve no pecuniary loss, Mr J. B. G-reenwood, the presiding magistrate, read from the bench the report of the Directors of the Sowerby Bridge Flour Society to the shareholders, for the half year ending 31st December last. The directors stated that they had expended £460 in an apparatus which not only effected the consumption of smoke, but enabled them to grind 3150 packs of flour (theirs being a corn mill) more than they did in the preceeding half year, and save theua in fuel no less a sum than £123. Pkacticai, Campaigning.—ln view of an experimental campaign on a large scale, it is proposed that a force of 20,000 men shall march from Aldershot in the first week in June, and occupy the country between that place and the New Forest for six weeks, engaging every day in sham battles, field operations," and all the manoeuvres incidental to actual warfare, and bivouacking at night wherever they may find themselves located. The troops expected to take part in the great campaign are the C Brigade and part of the B Brigade Royal Horse Artillery, a number of field batteries from various brigades, the 9th and 12th Lancers, 3rd Dragoons, several companies of Royal Engineers and the Mounted Engineer Train, a large number of the Army Service Corps, and numerous regiments of infantry. It is also stated that a brigade of G-uards and several foot regiments are shortly to be sent to Aldershot for the purpose of participating in this great lesson in the art of war. Novelties in Cigaeettes.—The demand which has sprung up in England for cigarettes has resulted in the establishment of several large manufactories there, which are now producing an article bidding fair to become a formidable rival to the high priced imported cigars.