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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 3, 5 January 1869, Page 2

The Airedale arrived here this day at 9 a.m.; left Mauukau 3rd at 1.30 p.m.; arrived at Taranaki 4th at 6.30 a.m.; left same day at 6 p.m.; arrived above. Fine ■weather with heavy swell throughout the passage. Through the courtesy of Mr Eastland, the Purser, we are iv possession of full files of Auckland and diggings papers. An improved distilling apparatus, for which a patent had been applied for by the inventor, a Mr Fraser, of Trelissic, is thus described by the Wellington Independent: —The improvements consist in the application, by a new mode, of steam in the extraction of spirit from any kind of wash Containing saccharine matter. The objects attained by it may be briefly enumerated as follows : — (1). Cheapness of construction; (2) economy of fuel in its U9e; (3) the ease with which spirit of auy required strength 'can be procured; (4) the freedom of the apparatus from liability to become clogged; ami (5) the large quautity of spirit which ian be procured from a given quantity of "wa^h; '."•.. . . With regard to the apparatus for which a patent has been "applied, we may mention that Mr Fraser invented it iv 'America and improved it in /: this colony; that it canbemide to pro- .: a large amount of spirits to the ; ; :.v'iWUsh'el; A and that it can be made to run jT ,SQQ gajjions of spirits per hour. . J;^;[%osh- Billings^eays; 'Most people de- , & l&nieW learn bu)y?hy theirown experience 4^a3Pgue^B they r are ! inore ;than ■ half J right gefc a cor- = ; ; teste it for /him. •. : -. *