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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 13, Issue 661, 4 March 1869, Page 3

The Marlborough Gold-Fields.— The intelligence to hand relative to the Havelock Diggings does not appear to be of a very encouraging character, although wa are told by telegraphic correspondents that some wondrous " finds" have been mada in some mysterious manner by mysterioua people. We learn on good authority that even supposing the glowiug accounts already published to be true, there is really no ground to be worked even by a party numbering 300 men. —New Zealand Ad« vertiser, 26th February. Mixture tor Branding Sheep.— A correspondent of the Australasian writes as follows: —I have been for many years seeking an inexpensive and cleanly article for branding sheep, and have tried coal tar, pitch with fat, and other similar things, but always found them weighty in carriage, dirty, as well as troublesome in use, and not permanent. For the last two (seasons I have used with advantage a mixture whieh 1 can recommend with confidence to those interested in sheep farming for economy, permanency, and saving of trouble. It is made with lamp blaek, or any other coloring matter that may be preferred, and boiled linseed oil, in the proportion of a packet of lamp black to a gallon of oil. This will brand a thousand ehoep, and will remain visible from Ono shearing to another,