Miscellaneous Items

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 155, 28 June 1892, Page 4

Miscellaneous Items

I Apropos of Mr Ballance's frequent I denials that recent financial* legislation I has influenced the withdrawal of en piI tal from New Zealand, it is interesting I to note that at the annual meeting of the I Trust and Agency Company of Austra* I lasia, held in London lately, Mr V, A. I Bevan, banker, and Chairman of the I company, stated, "We have had to make I some change in our investments — that is ■ to say, we have had to move a certain m. amount of money from New Zealand to K Australia. I wish, to state that, because. ■' I should like to impress upon the author in ■ ties in New Zealand that the course they I hare .taken with regard to legislative aem. tion has had directly the effect of a cer* I-, taiu amount'ot money being withdrawn I' $rom that colony. Whereas we had over ■ £500,000 invested m New Zealand, we. ■ have now only about £360,000. It shows ■ that if the authorities in the colony do I not consider the English investor— if I they, as we believe, with their shortI sighted policy, just for their present ends, I think they can impose taxes upon the ■ English investor as they please, they will H. xnn the risk, to use the old proverb, of I killing the goose that lays the goldon I - The eucalyptus is declared to he the valuable tree introduced icto France, -cultivation is rapidly extending H ia the southern departments. Its bark I is in great demand by the French tanners, ■ Its fibres are employed, in the making B oE mats and baskets, cordage, packing H\ and blotting paper, and filters. A resinI ous substance is extracted from it by H distillation, which is known in commerce I as vegetable naphtha. An illuminating H oil is obtained from it which affords a H brilliant light, without smoke and withH^ out odour. Fragrant assences are distilled from its flowers. Its chemical H products enter largely into the French H pharmacopoeia ; and a decoction of the H\ wood, after having beeu cut into fine H flakes, is found to be superior to any H other agency for cleansing the calcareous H incrustations which gather on the inside of the boilers of steam engines. ; The great war between Chili and Peru jjj already ancient history, crowded out (I mind by the more recent civil war in Chili, but o traveller who has just returned from South America states that the battlefield of Tarapaca, in the the dead are still lying just as they There were 4000 of them, and nearly horses are left unburied, for the who were marching through a region of drought and death, had no time to dig sepulchres. But it nejer rains on Tarapaca, and the sun has dried the corpses and the nitrate iv the soil has preserved them, and up on the 5000 mummies lie iv ghastly confusion, with their broken swords and bayonets all has fresh looking, as on the of that memorable battle. There is bird or beast or insect in that horrible and if nobody interferes with relics they will remain the same for — Napier News. Rev F. Willett, a clergyman ia the village of Lind field Sussex, is the owner of the only in the Scaynes Hill The landlord of the inn is to give it up. The rev gentlgtherefore, has declared his of entering- into possession it himself, and woriung it iv his iashion. The place will be well with wines, spirits, beer, &c, the same time non-intoxicating-of various kinds will be otfered all comers, ihe common-room will open to drinkers and nouso long as they behave decently, and they will be with newspapers and various, Everyone will be at liberty as much or as little as he although no one will be allow pii get drunk. Mr Willett is evidently the right line. A little practical such as he proposes will do toward Diminishing drunkenness hundreds of temperance ud- \