Russell, John, Cooper, Christchurch, with branches at Islington and Templeton. Bankers, Bank of New South Wales. Private residence, 17 Antigua Street. Mr. Russell was born in Scotland in 1846, came to New Zealand at the age of sixteen, and worked at his trade. He established his present business in 1887, with a complete plant and a ten horse-power engine. Mr. Russell is the Inventor of a patent chiming and crozing machine for grooving the ends of casks or barrels. It is very simple in construction, and does its work cleanly and accurately, reducing the hitherto laborious effort of planing to one of ease and expedition. The machine is a solid spindle, mounted on standards projecting about six inches on each side beyond its bearings. Four cutting tools are fitted on a circular cutter head at each extremity. By means of this very simple contrivance two casks can be accurately cut at the same time, a regular groove or croze being made round the inside of the staves. The machine is so adjusted as to insure a straight course for the teeth of the cutting tools, and there is a complete arrangement whereby the cask is held in position during the process of the operation. The spindle revolves at the rate of 1500 revolutions per minute, and at the same time the casks make a rotary motion in the opposite direction. A single revolution of the cask is sufficient to bevel the ends, plane the inside surface of the staves, and cut the grooves for the cask's head. The machine is simply invaluable for the purposes for which it is constructed, and is so rapid in its work that two ends of a large cask can be completely operated on in less than a minute. The machine is compact in size, occupying a floor space of about three feet by two, is strongly built, and is already in considerable demand in New Zealand and Australia. It is manufactured by Messrs. Scott Bros., of Christchurch, and has been introduced into England.