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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 40, 18 February 1868, Page 2

Iv the late American war a sharp in. veDtor obtained an unfailing supply of ■water for the soldiers by an ingenious system of well sinkiug. Mr J. L. Norton, of Manchester, bought the patent for this country, and he is now generally introducing the system. A person wishing to have a well sunk has to answer three questions: — 'At what depth from Burfaco is water usually found in the district? What is the nature of the strata for that depth? In what kind of strata is the water?' On the Heath ville estate, at the foot of the bank, where an experiment was made, Mr Castree recently V&& a well sunk 16 J feet into the sand, and found an excellent supply of pure water. The boring was begun at half-past four, and by five o'clock the tube had gone in 15ft. 9in., and the plumb line showed a waterdepth of 5 feet 9 in.; an apparently inexhaustible supply was bubbling up from the gravel. The agent has au order from Colonel Simmons, of the Royal Engineers, for the apparatus for 50 wells to be sunk through the arid Abyssinian surface for the supply of the English force. The inventor was recently having -wells sunk at Aldershot. Wells have also been sunk at Chelthenam. A conceited coxcomb, with a very patronising air, called 'out to an Irish laborer, 'Here, you bogtrotter, come and tell me the greatest lie yoa can, and J will treat you to a glass of whisky.' By my word, said Pat, 'atrVyer honor's a gentle--20-11-.'