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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1866, 4 August 1886, Page 3

Benjamin Bobbin*, alia* Home, alia* Brummy, wa* committed lor trial at Master ton yesterday charged with robbing Robert Katahaw of hia watch and pocket took eontaining £9 17a.

Natan (says an exchange) know* nothing •f watte. The day is now hastening when art and science will know how to utilise the hundred end one things now thrown aaide a* naatees. Sawdust ia the laat thing we hear of being laid under contribution. From an English paper we learn that water is added op to * degree of plasticity ; the mixture ef one to three part* of resinous sawdust and one part of washed kaolin is ground and pressed by mean* of a press. The lumps thns 1 obtained are dried in the air, then placed in a stove, end, lastly, vitrified m the ovens under white-rad temperature. These blocks can be sawu, planed and polished in the shape of incombustible bricks, which are used io America lor building houses, Our Wairarapa sawaillere should try the experiment.

Electricity as a modifier of radiation is the latest invention on the continent The vine growers are in the habit of protecting their plants from the injurious effects of early frosts by lighting fires and throwing a cloud of smoke over the vineyards, thus retarding radiation. A French teli-grsph inspector has superseded the fireman by electricity. When a mercurial thermometer, placed in the centre of the vineyard, falls to 2deg. above freezing point, in electric circuit ia formed, and by means of eniteble fire-lighters, beape of combustibl* material spread over the yard are ignited, and a canopy of smoke aoon overshadows the vine.