Pages from The Textile Mercury of 18 May 1889 (pp. 68-70) in the 'Machinery and Appliances' column. The lead article describes G. H. Holden and Co.'s improved patent stop-motion twisting machine for flax, hemp and jute yarns, covering its creel, drop-wire detectors, draw rollers, spindle driving straps and claw clutch. Two shorter notices follow, on Spencer's high-pressure and low-water boiler safety valve and on a German carbonising and drying machine for wool, and the scan ends with a 'News in Brief' column of trade items from English textile towns.