NOTE FROM A COUNTRY CORRESPONDENT:

Otago Witness, Issue 2699, 6 December 1905, Page 47

NOTE FROM A COUNTRY CORRESPONDENT:

" We observe Mr Murphy and his partner are hard at work in the scrub,"

taking apprentices, and explain your wishes ! to him. tour year's service at sea will be of assistance to you. The advantage of being apprenticed is that the master is bound to give you instruction in seamanship and navigation, which, were you to "ship as an ordinary seaman, yoii would ' have very little chance of acquiring. Of course, if you are apprenticed your indentures will set forth all you have to do and what the master is bound 1 to teach you. If you desire to learn you will find very little difficulty. Turbine, Winton. — Mi H. M. Davey, consulting engineer, Moray plaoe, kindly replies: Taking the fall you have, and say your average is seven heads of water, a turbine, say, of the " Register Gate Victor " type would travel at' about 275 revolutions per minute, and it should! give you 5J horsepower. Re your final question, a turbine might work une'lar the condition you ask about, and, as, you must know, so will a wheel; but in both oases this condition is equal to putting on a drag or the brake, for not only ia it co xnuidh. less per head, but it does away with free discharge, and also forms a positive hindrance. However, if you have such a thing to deal with you must put up with it, though you might be able 'to lessen the trouble perhaps if you cleared the tail race and perhaps widened it where the obstruction was most -in evidence. I am aware that this is impracticable in some cases, but I am also aware that it can be dome in many others. Under conditions' such as yours a low-pressure turbine should give rather the best results, an overshot wheel the next, and a 'breast wheel the worst of the three, though in your case there would not be a great deal to choose between all the three. Farmer. — (1) The earnings'" of the railways for the last financial year were £2,209, 201. (2) Tho working expenses were £1. 492,900. (3) The percentage of profit t-hus shown to ,

initials and the- quantity of gold used. Messrs G. and T. Young, or any other reliable firm, undertake the testing of gold jewellery, the charge depending on ihe nature of the article to be tested, but which would not amount to more thana few shillings.