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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 21, 3 August 1889, Page 3

The following items are from the London Letter of the Dunedra Star: — Mr Malfroy, the superintendent in charge of the New Zealand Court at Paris, was for a long time Engineer of the Public Works Department at Rotorua. He speaks French like a native, and is very popular with the colonial visitors, to whom he can, and does, give many useful " wrinkles." [Mr Malfroy is a frenchman El>. F.S.] — The appointment of Mr P Uonnskev as a New Zealand Commissioner at Paris, coming so quickly after that of Phil Robinson, has excited a good deal of comment. — The sneers and " pshaws" of chemists notwithstanding, the Food Preservative Company continue to make prograss. Amongst recent converts to their fumigation progress is Captain Hector, of the P. and O. Company, who takes a sample carcase that has been, treated out with him on the Victoria this time.— Dr Manniugton Caffyn has, I learn, sold the patent of his new essence of meat to a syndicate for £70,000. They ouly await the arrival of certain documents from Caffyn's partners in Melbourne to begin business.