LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 184, 13 September 1845, Page 110

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

Furniture Wood. — We have lately seen some fancy articles of titoki, made by a turner named Robinson, which surpass in beauty anything of the kind we ever saw. This wood, though not usually spoken of as one of the best adapted for furniture, is unsurpassed for figure, we believe, by any in the world. It also works very well, takes a good polish, and the shades deepen by age. Hundreds of tons of this valuable timber must have been consumed for fuel within the last three years, as it has been in particular request for that purpose ; and there is now scarcely a tree of it left in the town. The price which good samples of this wood would bring in the London market would be considerable, and well repay a little labour in the selection.

Flour-Mill. — The Nelson flour-mill has been let for five years, to Messrs. Campbell and Jenkins. The lessees, we believe, intend putting it in such an efficient state that it shall be fully equal to the increased wants of the settlement next harvest.

A wind-mill for grinding flour has this week been completed on Waimea South, by a man named Andrews. The machinery, we understand, has also been made on the spot.

Celestial Phenomena. — A meteor of unusual brilliancy was seen on the evening of Sunday, the 24th ultimo. It had the appearance of the comet of 1843, only larger and far more luminous. In fact it was generally believed to be a comet ; and great disappointment was felt at its nonappearance on the following evening. It was first seen about half-past eight, in a S.W. direction, and attained its greatest brilliancy about half-past nine. At ten it disappeared.