3?hereia a possibility of lar.'e fortunes beitig made’in New Guinea (remarks the Pioneer Mail) by the cultivation of the niitmeg.’' "fhe rtutmesj tree i» found in graatpbupdknce inthat island, and gives its ha’ttie to oue of the finest pigeons in the hir'd as large as the hen turkey. Since the collapse of the nutmeg at Singa* pore' we have been indebted, for the most part,to bur old rivals, the Dutch, for nutmeg'and mace. But the nutmeg trees of Singapore were importations; the tree wapod -t'indigenous to the place as in New Opinas.//The cultivation is. or wa*, the motif (Profitable of anything we know of, surpassing cinchona and coffee in their beibdays. Singapore owners of nutmeg plantations—mere compounds planted with.tba.h . ndsoroe tree—used to realise their L 4.000 or L 5.000 a year; but in one dark pnd memorable year the trees were all stricken’ with a blight, and numbers of planterp pnjoying large incomes were reducp(| id. poverty. The tree became white a; vegetable skeleton; and no atteinpl,; to revive the cultivation of the nafm&r at,, Singapore has since proved successful. Wells’ “Rough on Corns.” —Ask for Wells* ,“ J Bbugh on Corns.” 7#d. Quick reliefj PdipTetv Jipnnaneht cure. Corns, warts, bnniohs: "‘--Moses, Moss and Co., Sydney, Generkl Agents. 3 Holloway’s Pills, —Health or Wealth. No sane person would hesitate an instant in the’ choidi between these two conditions. Now is the. season to secure the former either by restorihg- or confirming it. These Pills expel pll impurities from the system which fogs, Ibutivapoury stud variable temperatures ingehdetf during winter $ this medicine also acts most wholesomely upon the skin by disgorging the liver of its/ accumulated bile, and by exdtigyf to i more energetic action ; Increases the,appetite for food and strengthens the process,' The stomach and liver, whieH most dJsdfders are fully under of -these regenerative Pills, which act wßiy ikindly-I yet most''efficiently bn the ten|t^rboa^-^Advt] ' 'filii'li .*aS»W,I O* r r ‘ l 'r '
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1014, 6 August 1883, Page 4
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321Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1014, 6 August 1883, Page 4
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