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Globe, Volume IV, Issue 412, 7 October 1875, Page 4

The Turkish Budget for 1875-76 was published on the 12th July. The total revenue may be stated in round numbers at £19,000000, and the total expenditure at £23,500,000, and the Ministers affirm that no reduction whatever can be made in the credits taken. The budget shows a decrease of receipts of £739.584, and an increase of expenditure of £3,035,612, or a worse condition of affairs to the extent of nearly £4,000,000. The Ministers state that the service of the debt costs £11,883,883 a year, or nearly three-fifths of the Jwhole revenue, and admit, according to the telegram, that the interest on the public debt has augmented in one year by £3,379,912, which seems incredible. They affirm that they intend to produce an equilibrium by a tax on patents, by a revision of the customs’ tariff, and by a modification of the commercial treaty with Persia. These promises are, of course, futile, but the Government is not quite at the end of its resources, for it can apparently sell its Treasury Bonds at some rate or another, and it will, the Ministers state, issue them to provide for its daily wants. It is when the local power of borrowing comes to an end that the Sultan will realise the condition of his treasury, and his first orders when he understands it will settle the question of the solvency of Turkey. The Judge of the Court of Arches has justified the Rev Flavel Cook in refusing to give the Communion to Mr Henry Jenkins, on the ground that the latter was a “ depraver ” of God’s Word, and therefore disqualified, under the Canons and under the Rubrics, from partaking thereof. Sir K. Phillimore held that Mr Jenkins’s denial of the eternity of future punishments and of the personality of Satan disqualified him from receiving the Communion, and he held that according to the law of the Church, the Bishop should take proceedings in Court “for the salvation of the soul ” of Mr Henry Jenkins, in order that he might be brought into a state of penitence qualifying him for the reception of the Sacrament from which he had been repelled. .Notice of appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council was, of course, given by Mr Jenkins’s representatives. Indeed, after the decision of the Judicial Committee in relation to the doctrine of Eternal Punishments which came up upon Mr Wilson’s essay in Essays and Reviews , we cannot understand Sir R. Phillimore’s decision. If judgment be not reversed on appeal, a more startling step will have been taken towards disruption than either Ritualists or Rationalists have yet had it in their heart to conceive. We have recently noticed the fact that we are in the habit of importing a number of articles which might easily be produced in this country (says the Taranaki flews'). We have now to add another article to the list. We learn that New Zealand tanners have hitherto failed to discover an indigenous bark which possesses in the same degree the tanning properties of the wattle or acacia barks of Australia. A tanner informs us that he is now purchasing Australian wattle bark to the extent of £6O worth per month. If so considerable a sum is expended in this article in so small a town as ours, how much must be expended in it in the whole of the country. Now, the wattle grows as freely here as it does in Australia ; it is a very pretty shrub, it blossoms in autumn and very early in the spring, and makes an excellent shelter. How many a rough hill side or narrow gulley is there which is at present not deemed worthy of cultivation, which might be profitably planted with these trees. The only difficulty about their cultivation that we are acquainted with is the fact of their bearing seed in this country but very sparingly. Seed, however, can be procured cheaply and in sufficient abundance from Australia and Tasmania. We have recently inspected some samples of leather tanned with this bark, and found them very clean and thoroughly tanned.

TO ADVERTISERS. FOR the convenience of persons desirous of advertising in the Globe, arrangements have been made with the printer to receive advertsements at the Press Office, Cashel street, as well as at the Globe Office, Hereford street. GREYHOUND. P REWARD will be paid on the conviction of the parties who stole a brindled Greyhound slut pup on Wednesday last, answering to the name of Nellie.— Apply Globe Office. 1199 A JOBBING GARDENER is in Want of Employment.—Address Gardener, Mr Brown’s Boarding House, Lichfield street, Christchurch. 1200 WANTED, an Active Mail for Kitchen work.—Blighs’ Restaurant, Papauui road, H 95