MISCELLANEOUS.

Timaru Herald, Volume L, Issue 4867, 12 June 1890, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

A 'vegetable cartridge sho':l, which is entirely consumed m firing, has been brought out m li>anca. Tho cartridgo haß scarcely holf the weight of ono with a motnl shell, the cost is considerably less, and the inconvonienco of removing the shell after each shot is avoided. Tho past has been a wonderful yoir for British shipbuilders, as tho aggregate tonnago has actually exceeded that of 1833, which bent tho record. 'Iho latter was 1,250,000, and thnt of 188 D 1,272,000 tons. The order m which tho shipyards stand is thiß : — Tho Clyde, the Tyne, tho Wear, tho Teea, tho nartlepools. Bolfust, tho Mereoy, Hull, and lirith. It ij interesting to nolc tho reviving pro'p-rit-y of Ireland under tho firm rule of Mr Balfonr. In 188S Belfast built 34 000 toi:s of Bhipping. Last year it constructed 80,000 tons. M. Nnymarclc has communicated to tho Paris Chamber of Commerce a taUo of the profits which accrued to Franco by tho Exhibition. Tho doposits at the Bank of Franco were £3,000,0(0 m excess of tho normal total. Botweon May nnd tho cloeo of tbo Exhibition 600,000 English and American tourists arrived ; tho Americans had letterj of credit and cheques, for which they obtained gold amounting to £14,000,000 and thero woro 1,500,000 other foreign visitors Deposila m privato banks rose by a sum of £3,300,000. Tho railway companies incroHßod their usual income from passengers' traOio by £260,000. The Soino river steamern gained £03,000. What wasgonettos and other whcolod vehicles carnod seemed incredible. M. Koymnrok kiowe tbo owner of a waggonetto which did thirty-three double joiirnoys a day, conveyine at each journoy eight persons at a franc a piece, thus taking nhout £20 a clay. It is Dialed (snys tho Sydney Montiii/j Herald) that tho fulling off m tho coal trado of Newcastle m so marked that both the miners and Bton-kcnpors regard with dismay tho position of ttffitirs. 'i hero are many of tho very largo Bteamera which nowlnad solely southern coul. As waß pointed out some timo ago a considerable margin is loft m favour of tho southern coal whero largo cargoes nro concerned. Tho manager of ono lino of big carriers reckoned that close upnn £200 \»us saved upon a Binglo ourpo nn compared with tho Nowcaßtlo coal, and this win not, talcing into tho calculation tho cost nf shifting ports. If that bo ao, if n large Bteamor can ho loadod m Sydney with coul from tho southern mines for £200 less than, would bo paid wero sbonont to Newen6'lo for hor cargo, it ia no wonder fewer steamers employed m tho foreign trado find thoir way to Nowcastlo. Our correspondent says that rumours aro about that a reduction is likely to boinado m Ihe prices of coal at tho port of Nowcastlol Among tho remarkablo examples of bold engineering m tho groat sugar refinery of Olaus Bprcokcls, of Philadelphia, Pa , ono of tho most unique is tho hanging or aerial stenm-engino foundations. The engines used m this establishment are distributed prnoticully all over the buildiiiftfl, a largo proportion of thorn being on upper fioora. Somo of thnao engines are bolted to iron brnnis or girders on second and third storoys of tlio building, and ore consequently innocent of all foundation. , Somo of these onginoß run noiselessly and satisfactorily, whiln othors produce moro or less vibration and rattle. To correct, tho lutter, llinungincers simply suspended foundations from tho bollomo of Iho onginea, bo Hint, m looking at (hem from Iho loser lloora, thoy were literally hanging m the air. A foundntion does sorvico fo an enpinc, or any mnchinory, it seoms, by itn weight nlono ; honeo it makes littledifference whother tho foundation be firmly embedded m mother ourth or m the air. At tho London Shoriff'B Court, a fow cloys ngo, Mra Kmma Garman, of 7. Rugby Placo Kcmptown, Brighton, sued the Hovo Electric Litfht Company to recover ;tiiooo aa damages for the loss of her husband, who wns killed by a shock from ono of their elcotrio wiros. Tho ■ defendant company wero lighting a portion of |Bri{hton by means of thn electric light, and m consequence ono of their wires was hung over tho premises of of Mo.«nra Abby nnd Hallott, brnworn. The plaintiff's bus--1 band, Thomas Hill Garmnn, wns employed i thc.o as nn o.iginoer and night watchman. On tho night of July 14, 1889 ho was i onjpgod m tbo latter capacity, having as n ■ portion of his duty to attend to a vnt on i tho tap of tho building, over which was i hung an clectrio wire. That wire, it wna admitted, on Iho part of tho defendant i company, was negligently hung m a drooping poiition, nnd Iho deceaood, m attending to i iho vat m question, accidentally lonchotl tho win. Tho result waß that tho unfortunate I man was killed on tho spot by the curront. i The jury gave a verdict for tbo plaintiff, and I, avtmilod £300 a? compensation j £200 for (lie ■ widow, and £100 for each child. Judgment ) j wus accordingly entered wjih costs.

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