MAYOR'S COURT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 2470, 5 January 1870, Page 2

MAYOR'S COURT.

TaBSDAY^ 4th January.

(Before T. Birch, Esq., R.M., and Messrs Reynoldsfand Burns, J.P. Js.y|s|s BREACHES OP THE BYE-LA^f " John Logan, for allowing a cow ixs wander, was fined 5s and costs. John Gollar and William Turner, for allowing horses to" TsfrayV were each fined. 2a 6d with costs. John Proud and C. KiekeU, were charged with allowing tne-drippings of water from their houses to fall on the footpath. Asthp matterjiad been attended to, the cases were dismissed, i J| ;| James Campbell was summoned'"-on'""» similar charge.. As he promised to abate the nuisance at once, no fine was imposed. Thomas Petty, charged with lighting & fire in the open air without giving notice to the occupier of the adjoining land, "was fined Is "with costs. . James Crammond, for allowing a chimney to take fire, was fined 5s and costs. .' , ' "..■■ •.• ::. ;•■.. ...••■ v ASSAULT. ;• . George Scott was charged by H. Cohea with assaulting him. The complainant said he was the yearly tenant of a.Mt M'Lean, for whom defendant acted as gardeaer. As he was wanted to leave the house and would not do so, various means were adopted for annoying him, amosgsfc others that'of placing a cow on the ground in which his children played, and which belonged to the house. He had heard Mr M'Lean tell the defendant to knock him down if he attempted to remove the and when he ; was turning it out the defendaut struck him in the face, cut Ws lip, and knocked him down.; The-Bench. wa3 of opinion that an unprovoked assault had been committed, and fined th^ defendant L 5, with costs and payment o£ medical expenses. r , OUR LOCAL IKDUSTRESS^

DOOB, SASH, AND BLIND FACTORIES; Till a recent period, it had long been a complaint that with the tariff of Is npoa each door, and 6d upon each sash imported, our own workmen were unable to compete with the Americans in the manufacture of doors and sashes. The value of hand labour in the; colonies had greatly enhanced by the chances of: laige returns in gold mining, and it couldt nofe be profitably employed against the laboursaving machinery of America. Theconsequence was that a large proportioa of the doors and windows made use of in. the colonies were, of necessity, imported. Having^ however, procured, from America the requisite machinery for manufacturing the articles referred to, we can now compete successfully with the foreign •manufacturer.v We: employ our own workmen, and keep our money afc home, instead of looking to a foreign*, country for supplies. We have thearticles too at a lower price, and the establishment of factories here increases the value of property, and creates a home market; for our produce;; We have^ now m. Dunedin no less than three sash an 3. door factories, all of which have^firsfcclass machinery ; for sawing, planing, morticing, tenpning,; &c, worked by-steam—-viz: —Messrs Bennet and Wedderspoon's, Rattray street; Messrs Guthrie and Asher's, Princes street; south ; and Messrs Gibbs and Claytoa's> Cumberland Btreet, With these observations, and reserving the two first mentioned establishments for future notice, we. proceed to describe; the factory" of Messrs Gibbs and Clayton, v, ■'..

About.fiye years ago Mr.Ciayton, afteir a large experience in the United States in the manufacturing business (his father, Mr L. Clayton, having one of the largest manufactories in the Statijs)^ p&xne to Dunedin, and was the first to engage in the making of doors and windows on anything'like a large scale. He engaged? at the time to supply Messrs -WalterSßeliaaiA Go. with all the manufacturejirjmtenal. they might require, and continued, to da so until their failure, about' two years ago.- He than, joined Mr ,6j.bbs, commenced the manufacture ,of foprs, sashes, &c., in tlie presentpram^i^Oaniberlandstreet. : > :? -^ ; ; The factory is a, Building stories. The steam-engine for-|dri]?in^ the various machines is on^ the^gronndflour. A lathe, imported by the firni foe the turning of handles for niopsj brobras^ &0., or anything up to ten feet in length, -is here, as well, as an. ordinary lathe for-bed-posts^ chair and, other work for cabinet makers. A tenoning machine is also-" onthisfloor. It was made by a'local firnt from an American pattern. This tnachine^ we are informed, wiU do as much w;ork: as tweniy men. It can be altered for any size or description of tanon^ wife vesy little trouble, and the''■■■work requires not laying out or: guaging, as when done by hand. TJie firm, we are informed, will. shortly be in receipt of another tenoning machine, which wiU be fonnd^: superior in. every respect to anyttjing" of tke kind ever introduced into* the. colony for thei ,^ variety of purposes for. which, it can, bet ; used. There ia also on this ftpor a larg» | machine for crushing maize, atids a, sala^ '■; bench for cutting laths, pickets s ; On the second floor are ciroulss

planing, morticing, moulding, boring, and punching maoliinea. Baltic deal is used for sashe3, doors, &c. ; and American clear pine for door panels. The planks, after being sawn, are taken to the planing machine—one of Ball and Williaraa's, of Worcester, Mass.—when, by the mere touching of a handle, the machine is set in motion. The plank ia entered between the feed and in a few seconds it conies out . planed and of a uniform thickness. This machine, which is an improvement upon Daniel and Woodruff's, also tongues and grooves boards of frem. half an inch to thicee "inches in thickness, and does a -variety of work. After the planks are planed, they are'taken t<v the critting-off saw bench, whoro they ato cut to the required length. The pieces are then tenoned and morticed, as may beTnecesjgary. The morticing machine is of cast iron, by Rogers and Go. ,&Conneeticut,; This machine is capable of doing as jmuch work? as. fifteen men, and the power required to drive it does not ■exceed that of half a horse. The - &abie upon which 'the wood to be morticed 3a secured can be raised or lowered to "4so.it' the depth of the wood,: or of: the anorticesto be made..;• and by means of a Iliandle, .connected with a kind of ratchet, table is mqYed along,; taking with it Jfthepiece of wood. • During this time the ©bisel.la^moving up,and down wuhgreat arapidity, and cutting into the wood to rilxe required depth; On reAching the ssiatk, by.the, simple raising of a workanan's foot from a treadle, the chisel tturns sound, and the table is moved back again, the chisel still cutting until the -other mark at the end of the mortice i r:fis reached •— the commencement of j 'S&e work being invariably in the middle •of the mortice hole to be made. If i&e material^ now either morticed or jbneiKsd, is for doors, it is taken to the Eaoulding machine, and there, ploughed ■ on Oke edge for the reception of the panel ■ If for sashes, it is moulded and Babbited. This moulding machine does a :great variety of w^ork— it makes, mouldings of different widths and patterns, j^^itravesj; sash bars, &c. The boring isJ&tted with, the various augers "feoiaake holes of all sizes. The punching machine is used for driving the cores out >;©£ the mortices. ? \- '■•'■. ...' ■' ■ ':; :'./- ■ ;.- After the m aterial has passed through •ShevariQUS machines, it is sent up-stairs, «-.w!iereJ;bV.' doors, sashes,.„and ..bluids.'.are. grat,; together and finished. The doors -are then piled in a warehouse, where there are kept in stock fourteen different sizes and descriptions. The sashes, of which Shirteen sorts are in. stock, having been primed and glazed, are made up in pack-; ■ages of ten or twelve pair each, and ;stowed in a separate room. The machinery required for the pro- ... '-Suction of • American window blinds is "the same" as . that already' described, with She exception of a small machine for mounding the ends 'of the slats. These ijlindai have not been in much requeot, "Sip, to t^ie present time, being something •mew in this place; but Mr Clay ton is of opinion that there will be a good demand sor them when they are better known. Illiey are used all over the United States, •;3Sorth and South, being far superior to otKer blind. Being hung on the but•iside of the building, there is no incqnveni-^ <enca r and they do not get out of order. vThey-thoroughly exclude ih© sun, while :|hey the light, thereby being a igfieat .protection to furniture, besides ■Steiiag an ornament to the hcrase. In ■■Tirana weather the window may be raised %|Lile the blinds are fastened, and the air LwU be: admitted, while there is; no danger from without. Messrs Gibbs; jiffl^ Ctayton were the first to introduce; -said manufacture these blinds in this; •• Colony. '•' ' ".■';.'•'•■■ -.'■ ■''■■■. ■-.-■. .. ■.. ■'. ■ ]' -i' r '':We'-'may.-?liere';'iaentiqn that the firm Slave successfully competed with the: Am«rican market'in the production of •doors and sashes, .iayirig had for some; iSame,; however, a.strugglefor the mastery.' ?Tha result 1< that the price of these goods; -2s at least 50 per cent, lower,than it was years ago. The establishment of this industry is of great advanlage" to the "^iiamber merchants^ who are not now com- i Ipelledio keep large stocks, being able to sreplenish to any amount at a moment's In to the articles we have this firm turns out tcragued and grooved flooring and lining, and dressed ■weather boards of New Zealand white pine,are fully equal, if not superior, to' ;she foreign material, for the purpose for! •isrhich they are used, and" about one-half cost. They have given particular , to this branch, determined to the prejudice which existed -aagainst this timber, in which they appeal 110 have been quite; successful; T