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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1271, 6 January 1883, Page 2

A remarkable patent has juiit now been taken out in Germany for a gunpowder ' engine, It ii in old idei, but hitherto has not been carried out aucceiitolly, Herr Becki, huwetur, . has : recently devited ad engine, the pitton of which ii driven backwards and forward* by inull' charges of gunpowder aupplisd' at each end by an automatic arrangement, lift ignition ii effected by the raoiion of the piiton, which drawiin a flime.'of.j/H 01 spirit, ike access being regulated Bjf;ilide falves, which alio open (lUtleUlfor il|i ■ escape of tile gaatos by combustion? ': .'■■ ■'!', "The"brickwork of tlie subtorranew ohaO'i';- , bers of the Observatory ;of ParisXcoßstiacttd?i y for magnetio obaervatiofii, ft: tfow finished* -Admiral Mou'chei intends to Oct ft \'.\ part of it, in order to sttfdy-the' changes of ft" mercurial reflecting surface, produced by the ■ attraction of celestial bedies. The ehaußei" the motion of tho_reflected;.im»ge. I'The determinations will take place in an underground jerridor.'df which the length' is up- ,; wards of forty yards, and maybi considered^*