ROAD STEAMERS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 40, 14 November 1868, Page 3

ROAD STEAMERS.

We extract the following from the " Scotsman," in the hopn — vain hope, we fear — that the Executive, before incurring additional debt by entering into a "grand trunk railway " scheme, will investigate the truth of the statements made in reference to this traction engine, with a view to introducing it into thi3 Province :—: — v. " On Saturday afternoon, August 8, a very remarkable sight wa3 seen in this city. A train of heavily laden coal waggons, looking exactly like a luggage train, was observed coming steadily up the steep incline into Edinburgh from Dalkeith. Ifc wa3 one of Mr. Thomson's patent road steamers, with india-rubber wheel tires, having four huge loaded waggons in tow. Each waggon weighed, when empty, 2^ tons, and carried a load of 5| tons of coals, making the gross weight of the waggons 32 ton 3. The road steamer weighs 8 tons. Thus a total of 40 tons was in motion. The road steamer had drawn the train from Newbattle Collieries, eight miles from Edinburgh, over a hilly ro;id, with rising gradients of 1 in 16. TJiere can be no doubt this invention of the application of vulcanised india-rubber to the tiros of road steamers forms the greatest step which has ever been made in the use of steam on common roads. It completely removes the two fatal difficulties which have hitherto barred the way to the use of traction engines, viz., the mutual destruction of the traction engine and the roads. The india-rubber tires interposing a soft elastic cushion between the two, effectually proteot them both, from Bvery jar and jolt, in fact, so much so as if tlie engine were travelling over a tramway of india-rubber. It is, we bolieve, destined for Ceylon, for transporting coffee from tho' plantations to the railway stations. MoUovsay'i Oinimsnt and PL'fc.-— lnstant Relief. — Soros which are daily exbaading, ulcers which aro hourly deepening may be arrested in their torturing progress), and induced to assume a healthy acbioa \>y applying this healing Ointment and takiftg those purifying Pilla. It sooths? all dwteuvers of, and extracts, ft U morbid humours from, the skin. Old ulcers of the leg«, inddiunntioas caused by vnrioose veins, and crimp* oF Hio lower limbs can sensibly be CiVsed and shortly cured by Holloway's neyt»rfailing Ointment, which 'represses ' excessive, j «ml stimulate!! slu^gidx vascular and nervous notion. In constitutions breaking down under piles, flstulavnn-1 oHior similarly painful inal<^. iliei a few applications of this cooling Ointment will (•Wb comfort, and, a |>ersißt«nce iv it* use will offM a sure, '" 40 I