FLOUR MILL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume II, Issue 96, 6 November 1852, Page 6

FLOUR MILL.

To the Editor of the Lyttelton Times. Sir,—The interest you have ever evinced in the progress of Canterbury, leads me to infer that you will be highly pleased to learn, and equally glad to convey to the public the information, that within a very few weeks we shall have a Flour Mill amply sufficient to grind every bushel of wheat the settlement can produce this season; for already Mr. In wood, a Miller of long and extensive practical experience, has completed the formation of a mill-dam with an - inexhaustible supply of water at aii elevation sufficient to give an unlimited power. The "Race" from the dam to the mill is now in progress of formation—the bearings for the wheel are sunk, the materials for the building are strewn around, and several men are engaged in effecting the preliminary work for its erection: The stones to be used will easily grind 50 bushels of wheat per day, and still larger stones are at hand to treble its efficiency if required. Now the quantity of wheat within the Canterbury block is very nearly as follows:—

On the Plain .... 300 acres. At Akaroa 100 do. Bays of the Peninsula . 50 do. We have thus . . . . -450 acres, Which at 30 bushels per acre would give 13,500 bushels, a quantity the mill would grind in 270 days, leaving 43 days of the year for crushing oats and barley, as well as for contingent delays ; but if from the foregoing quantity we deduct next season's seed wheat)' we shall see that a mill far beyond our requirements will be completed long before wheat harvest, dispelling the fears which, as a grain grower, in common with others I had very prematurely indulged in. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, A CultivatoKi Christchurch, Nov. 1, 1852.