The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1868.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 229, 26 September 1868, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1868.

The Spectator, in referring to the new description of boring tube used iu the Abyssinian expedition, said that Lord j Napier compelled ' a lofty African desert | to yield Mater by an American device not yet a twelvemonth old. A halfdozen mules are drawn up, loaded with thin steel tubes. Tap, tap, tap, goes a hammer, rigged up in five minutes, and in tea more the curse of Africa had been conquered as if a new Moses had smitten the rock, and pure water for an army is spouting among the rocks.' Such is an unexaggerated description of the admirable machine known as Norton's Patent Tube Well, which is being very generally adopted at home, and the use of which might obviously be extended to the colonies advatageously to all who desire to obtain pure filtered water with ease, cheapness, and rapidity. The invention is especially calculated to be of service in connection -with mining operations, and, we imagine, requires only to be better known to be generally adopted on the goidfields of these colonies. To builders and contractors requiring only a temporary supply of water, the system offers great advantages as the Tube Well can be sunk on the spot where the water requires to be used, and, when a work is completed, the tube can be withdrawn. For testing the drainage of localities, the depth, at which water lies from the surface and its temperature ; for watering cattle, and supplying ploughing and other machines, the invention is most valuable, and a variety of other purposes will suggest themselves to which it is applicable. A pamphlet illustrative of the invention has been brought under our notice by a gentleman in this neighborhood, who takes much interest in such matters, and we believe that we are doing a real service to our readers by directing their attention to the advantages derivable from this admirable machine.