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Evening Star, Issue 3010, 11 October 1872, Page 3

The Raspberry Jam Tree.— Governor Weld bas sent Dr Hector, for distribution, a small quantity of the seed of the “raspberry jam tree,” so called from the scent of the wood—a species of accacia that grows about twenty feet high, is pretty, shady, and quick-growing. Sheep feed under it, as it grows on a single stem with a bushy top. Sheep greedily eat the fallen seed pods, and often in the dry season live on nothing else. It is short-lived, but seeds itself readily ; it is most valuable for fencing, the wood being very durable. A trench is dug, and sticks from the thickness of a man’s wrist and upwards, placed upright in it, and bound to a horizontal rail, like a Maori fence, and it will lat twenty years and more. Dog and lamb proof fences are thus constructed for 1,40 a mile in districts where it abounds. The wood, though never growing to any size, is used for cabinet work ; it is hard, dark, and odoriferous. The tree grows chiefly in light soil, often where the soil is thin over rocks, but also in richer and deeper soils. Mr Weld thinks this tree would be a very valuable acquisition to New Zealand, especially if it will grow in • the gra j s country of the South, as sheep carry about the seed, but fears that the cold of the Otago winters will prove too severe for it. (For continuation of News see fourth page.) Advertisements received too late for Classification. PRINCESS THEATRE. Lessees ■ Messrs Geodes <fe Willis. Stage Manager - MrJ. P. Hydes, BENEFIT OF MR HOSKINS. THIS (Friday) EVENING, Oct. 11, THE RIVALS. Lydia Languish ... Miss F. Colville Sir Anthony Absolute ... Mr Hostin',s Captain Absolute ' ... Mr H. N. Douglas Mrs Malaprop ... Miss Flora Anstead Concluding with the Domestic Sketch— A HAhPY PAIR. Mrs Honeyton ... ... Miss F. Colville Mr Honeyton Mr Hoskins Steamer will leave the Port, returning after the performance. Seats reserved for Port Visitors. TO-MORROW—THE LITTLE GAME. LOST, on Thursday night, between the Masonic Hall and Albany street, a Parse containing key and sundry papers of use to no one but the owner. LI reward will be paid on the above being returned to Cargill and Lanseigne, Stafford street. LOST, between High street and St. Andrew street, Gold Ear-ring. Finder rewarded on returning to Mrs Thomson, St. Andrew street. THE Party to whom Mr W. G. Geddes returned the Purse ia much obliged, WANTED- A Good General Servant for a family in the suburbs. Light work. —Apply, A. Mercer. WANTED KNOWN —My Establishment will be Closed ou Saturday ; Re-open Evening. —S. Jacobs, Princes street. WANTED KNOWN —Prime ;( ireular Head) Seed Potatoes on Sale.— Fleming, Produce Merchant, Princes street isonth. LOST this morning, between Kirkpatrick’s and Mercer’s Corner, Small Parcel of Drapery. Finder please leave at F. H. Evans’s, Jetty street.