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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 11, Issue 819, 19 January 1867, Page 5

Pump for Irrigation.- — A letter appears in the Australasian of December 8, as follows: — " Would you kindly inform me as to the cheapest and most durable machine and conveniently applied power to raise water for irrigating purposes ? The lift would not exceed sixteen feet, and the amount of ground to be operated on is about two acres. I would likewise desire to know the probable cost of what you would recommend, in Melbourne." The editor thus replies :— " We think a five-inch bore lift pump would answer the purpose of our correspondent. One of this size would lift 1,300 gallons per hour at thirty strokes per minute. The cost for the pump and pipes would be about £11 if worked by manual labour ; if by horse-power the cost complete would be about £35; or two pumps of the same description could be worked by the same horse-power, giving double the quantity of water, for £10 extra. These pumps can be supplied by Messrs. J. Danks and Co., 42 Bourke-street west. The size recommended may appear large for two acres of land, but when irrigation is determined upon it is better to do it quickly ; and, moreover, a larger quantity of land by and by may be required to un- . dergo the same system of treatment." Paper from Grass. — Dr. Mueller has been for some time engaged in making experiments on the adaptability of the native grasses, fibrous plants, and barks to the manufacture of paper. After patient investigation he finds that good paper may be made from three, sorts of indigenous grasses, from the confervas which may be col- i lected from lakes and swamps, from stringy bark and the tea-tree, and from New Zealand flax. The best specimen is that from stringy-bark — a strong smooth paper with a remarkably close texture. The success of Dr. Mueller is really astonishing, for of all kinds of manufacture that of paper is the most difficult on a small scale: He is of opinion that the collection of the materials for paper-making will soon become an important industry, especially if combined with some other means of utilising waste timber, such as the distillation of tar. A collection of the samples of paper was forwarded to the home Government by the last mail. Not only may we look for the establishment of an export trade in native paper-making materials, but there is ground for hope that we shall, before many years elapse, be independent of Europe for supplies of the manufactured article.—;-Ausfra-lasian, Dec. 8. The Female Immigrants brought to Melbourne, says the Australasian, under Miss Rye's management, have found employment so readily and so quietly, that encouragement is thereby afforded for a continuance of the efforts of the praiseworthy promoter of the enterprise. . Successful Boring for Gold. — The West Coast Times- reports that gold has been found by means of the boring apparatus, at a depth of between sixty and seventy feet on Tucker Flat. Our contemporary says, /" It is not yet certain whether the cutter baa pricked into the bottom or a reef boulder only, but certain it is that gold is brought up by the pump, and in such quantitesas induces very sanguine hopes of the ground proving payable."