SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Evening Star, Issue 11863, 17 April 1903, Page 7

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

WELLINGTON, April 16. While many settlers in various ports cf the colony regkrd gorse as an unmitigated evil, and spend considerable sums of money in removing it from their properties, a farmer in this district wishes to utilise the shrub for fodder for his sheep. Mr Dick, the settler referred to, has some poor, hilly land at Belmont, which he purposes devoting to the cultivation of gorse. His application, which came before the Hutt County Council yesterday, was entertained. Here are many patents on the market at the present lime for the lowering of beats from vessels, the recent disaster to the Elingamite having doubtless been the cause for so many inventors coming to light. Probably one of the best, simplest and easiest controlled is that with which the Huddart-Parker steamer Yictoria is fitted Do Vos patent. I* ia a Dutch idea, and an exhibition of boat-lowering by its aid was given by the crew of the Victoria yesterday morning. Six extra largo lifeboats are grouped amidships close to the bridge, where they can be under the immediate command of the officer in charge. A splendid set they are, too, each capable of holding sixty people; water casks (filled), biscuits and preserved meats (encased safely from air and water), lamps, and sails in their places. They were all swung out and ready for lowering in less than three minutes. There are no guys at all, the davits bang connected with a rod. One man disengages a lever and chocks, and the grips fall away like a house of cards. Another man turns a wheel, and the boat swings away in less than a minute ; she is ready to be lowered as the result of two minutes’ work. Captain Waller states that the system is the beat he has ever seen fitted. Dr Albert Edelmann. a Russian by birth and education, who has the Now Zealand patent rights for a chemical process for manufacturing briquettes from coal Mack and lignite, is at present in Wellinrton in connection wUh this invention. Ifc is not unlikely that Dr Edelmann will establish a plant for the manufacture of the new process at Kaitangata. 1 The Minister of Mines wishes to get awav from Wellington in a few days on a visit of inspection to the West Coast of the Middle Island. Mr M'Gowan will subsequently journey to Otago.

Mr J. B. Heywood secretary to the Treasury'. Las been in bad health for some time past, and he has gone to Rotorua for a month's respite from officialdom. Meanwhile Colonel Collins, assistant secretary of the department, acts in his stead.

Colonial engineers will doubtless be very indignant at the somewhat rash remarks made by Mr Hogg, M.H.R., at the Victoria College Council meeting ou Wednesday night, when the question of increasing facilities for students in civil engineerin'!- was under consideration. The elect of Masterton declared that many of the engineers in the colony had not known their business and the consequence had been that thousands of pounds had been wasted on abortive works. Whether Mr Hogg meant to include New Zealand-bom engineers in his sweeping assertion, or was alluding to experts brought from other places, is not quite clear, but two ironfounders of this city repudiate the truth of his statement so far as it affects those engineers who have been trained in colonial workshops.

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