LOCAL INDUSTRY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXII, Issue 7413, 2 December 1884, Page 6

LOCAL INDUSTRY.

4 Nmsiitembh. activity prevails at the Canterbury Foundry just- now, several Job# of importance being in ham!. The principal of these in the construction of two .jimru.crusliing batteries, each of ton head of stamper*. One of these i» for Johnson's United (Juart-ininfag Company at Collingw*wd, and the other for the Croat Republic Company of Westport, Both totteriea are precisely similar in their details, hot while the Cullfagwoud Company intend to work their* by itea.ni power, that for the Ureat Republic mine i« to be driven by means of a turbine, which In also to he constructed at the Canterbury Foundry. Kaeh of the stamper* weigh* 7001 b. The toiueaare two tons in weight, and each has been castle a single pk-«w. Two berdatm are to to supplied to each battery, together with tto usual table* am) other appliance*. Ilrawiuga are also being uwpuva in the establishment for an aerial tramway, over a mile and a-half in length, which I* to connect the mine of the threat Republic roaijsuiv with their tottery. It la to to oruvuled with an ingenious nrmagnmnat for tUiing the bucket* which are to carry the stone to the tottery, and of which about 30 nr# to to employed. In tb«« toiler shed, an order from Hie Auckland Ifofriger* ittiug Company la nearly manphttod. This was for 19 Iron girder* for mm in their new building. The girder* in qmwthm vary in length from KUft to lUft. and lu weight from a ton and a half to four ton*. The toller for the Lyttelton Slip hi anottor fob In hand. It u to to a umltitubular toiler of 40 horae-power. Mr Andrew Aadeiwm, one of the drat, has just left Christohurch for the river Hope, a tributary of the Waiau, over which Uomr* Rutherford Bros, ate stout to plaoe a suspension bridge, of 340 ft «n», for the passage of stoop. The SrorrS the bridge hn» been w SSatttoCanterhFry Foundry.