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Lyttelton Times, Volume C, Issue 11647, 2 August 1898, Page 5

i sent time several coloniais, including two ! mining parties, are en route to Kalgooriie, Coolgardie and Kanowna. The last to leave . was Mr J. Mackie, well-known in mining ! and stockbroking circles, who is returning j to Kanowna, where he formerly was very I successful. White Feather has rapidly ’ come to the front, and the -recent discovery of an immense nugget has resulted in a very large increase of population in that mining district. A party of eight miners, mostly from the West Coast and Otago, left Auckland by the Westralia for Sydney, en route for - Kanowna. j TARANAKI IRON SAND. I The “Oamaru Mail” says that Mr John Dennison, M.E., has expressed his firm belief that the Taranaki iro'n sand can be successfully treated by a process of which he is the inventor, and the complete efficacy of which has been proved elsewhere. “ As to the manufacture of iron from the Taranaki iron sand,” says Mr Dennison, “the difficulty with it hitherto has been to manipulate it for smelting by the ordinary process in the blast-furnace, and that having failed, i it is necessary to find the means of doing 1 so, and to make it marketable by a method hitherto untried so far as lam aware. I consider that it is practicable by mixing the iron sand with a flux I have in contemplation. To effect the purpose I contemplate injecting by compressed air a pulverised mineral into the well of the furnace, by which all impurities contained in the carbon used in smelting will be dispelled, leaving <a first-class steel, for railway plates and rails.” It is probable that Mr Dennison will take an opportunity of demonstrating the practical character of his process.