NEW PLYMOUTH.
..•'■ Last night., Capt. Skeen opposes Colonel Trimble for the Grey and Bell district.
A Mr Davies of the Ksbank Iron Works, New South Wales, writes to the Taranaki Herald re tho iron sand. He says he is 38 years of age, and a blast furnace keeper of 27 years expedience. He writes—" I hare made good iron from here after all others hare failed. There hare been four or five different men before me trying, but they all failed though I
have brought it to a success, and the Company have mado the rails for the ♦Sydney Tramway of the pig iron that waß made under my supervision. The iron is equal to any of the English iron. J am still laboring here, but on account of the low price of iron and a heavy stock of pig iron on hand I have the furnace oat oi blast. lam only twelve months out from England. I was working only two miles from Earl Granville's works at Stilton Haudley, where some of the pig iron from Taranaki, N, Z., was tried, and I heard a puddler say it was good and could be made into good steel. Trusting yon will place this before the shareholders, etc."
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3322, 15 August 1879, Page 2
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207NEW PLYMOUTH. Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3322, 15 August 1879, Page 2
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