— There js now building at Schnectady* the largest electric hoist in the world. This hoist, which is to be installed in the Crown Mines at Johannesburg, is designed to raise 16,0001b of ore per trip from a depth of* 5450 ft at a speed of 5500 ft per minute. The tare weight of the skip is 87001b, and the winding rope, which is 2in in diameter, weighs 6141b per 100 ft. The total weight of the winding motors, excluding bearings and shafts, will be 284,0001b, and the maximum intermittent output from thee© machines will bo 9000 h.p.
—Mr Bennet Burleigh, the veteran war correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, retired from his post with the end of the year. He was entertained at a farewell dinner by the staff of tho paper at tho Garrick Club; Mr Harry Laweon presiding. Mr Burleigh was a combatant in the American Civil War, and was twice condemned to death;.but "tho sentences and myself," as he once remarked with the quiet humour which contributed so largely to his popularity, "were never executed."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16003, 20 February 1914, Page 9
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