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Progress, Volume I, Issue 9, 2 July 1906, Page 251

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ENGINES, MACHINERY, APPLIANCES, &c, WANTED AND FOR SALE. MOTOR CARS.

'"THE GARAGE, Si Manners St. Motor Cars 1 for Sale • Beeston Humber, 6\ hp. £225 terms ; new Covert chamless, any trial, £215 ; Winton Touring Car, 4 seat, Cars cleaned and stabled from 2/6 per week. Nicholls, The Garage, 81 Manners St., Wellington.

WE have 2.\ and $\ Allday's Motor Cycles in stock. 3-J- Brown's landing this month also Allday's Motor Cars. Call on Jenkmson, Victoria St., Wellington. PURCHASERS oi real estate, either houses, Jr sections or farms should apply to H. Ernest Leighton, 9 Featherston St , or Hutt, who has the finest selection on the market.

SKATING— Winslow Plain and Ball-beaiing Skates, ladies' or gentlemen's. Aluminium bands fitted. Trade discount. G. R. Bell Cycle repairs, accessories, etc., 113 Willis S^Wellington.

J OBRIEN, Premier Asp^alter. Residence • 85 Aro St., Telephone 2187. Old work renewed at small cost. Damp courses and floors a specialty.

TO LET OFFICES in suites, central position, Lambton Quay, with strong rooms, well lighted, electric elevator, moderate rental. Apply The Wellington Building & Investment Company, Limited.

INVENTOR of small article likely to come 1 into large use requires financial assistance to patent and exploit. Curwood, do. Baldwin & Ray ward, Dunedin.

British Engineers to the Fore.

One would have thought that any big railway undertaking m Central America would go to American engineers. Despite the disadvantage ot England's great distance from Central America, however the reconstruction of the Tehuantepec railway, which is 190 miles in length, and connects the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, was entrusted to the English firm of which Sir Weetman Pearson is the head. . British steel rails were found to be the best, and the British plans and materials for the harbour works upon which $30,000,000 is being expended, were also so far ahead of those of other nations that they might almost be said to have been unavailed. „ British enterprise has arranged, too, tor a fleet of eleven steamships, averaging 10,000 tons each, to connect the railway with New York on the Atlantic side and with the Hawaiian islands and San Francisco on the Pacific. " This " says Sir Weetman Pearson, 'is going to be one of the great routes of the world. It will compete with the American trans-continental railways, and will divert some of the traffic that now goes round Cape Horn and by the Suez Canal.

A new method of making storage battery plates has been invented by Mr. Joseph Bijur, of New York The active material m this plate exists in the form of relatively small net-like structures or " grills " set in a rigid supporting frame in such a way that each grill can expand and contract internally without stressing itself or the supporting frame • the individual grills have a large exposed surface, on which surface the active material is held, and in spite of their freedom to expand and contract they have ample strength, resisting even sharp blows to a surprising degree. ****** The nine residences which are illustrated on pages 232 and 233 are being erected 111 Oriental Bay for Mr. J. Charles-worth, architect, of Wellington They are all different in arrangement and design, occupy a frontage of 320 ft. to the beach, and include one of 5 rooms, two of 7 rooms, three of S rooms, and one of q rooms. The situation is said to be the best in the Bay, and is completely sheltered from the southerly winds. The terrace will make a handsome addition to the residential part of the Bay, and the conveniences will be thoroughly up-to-date. The contract has been secured by Mr. A. H. Harbottle, of Wellington, who expects to complete the whole terrace in six months time.