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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 47, 25 November 1867, Page 294

A young man at Hereford, on the morning of his expected marriage, went to the garden of Dr Thomason, of that, town, and asked the gardener for a rose to give’ to his bride. On receiving one he fell on the gardeners shoulders and died without a word.

The jSwedenborgians are making a great many proselytes in London, and are erecting a place of worship'at Camberwell; also one at Notingham. - Three thousand five hundred pounds have been voted ior surveying the coast line of New Zealand, which is to be charged to a loan.

Messrs Edward and Thomas Wilton, proprietors of the Bathurst Times newspaper, have been imprisoned in Bathurst gaol, at the instance of Mr Webb, the plaintiff in the libel case of Web b v. Wilton Brothers.

NEW fcMTBSTJTOTB FOB GOED.— IHTCB EASED APPLOATION FOB TlN.— The desirability, for the welfare of the Cornish tin-miners, of finding sorgo new application, for tin, has frequently been pointed out in the Mining Journal, and it is gratifying to find that; these suggestions have not failed to attract attention of inventors. An ingenious American has discovered a beautiful alloy, which has .been , most successfully applied as a substitute for gold. It is.composed of pure'copper, 100 'parts ; pure tin, Im parts ; magnesia, 6'parts ; tartar of commerce, 9.parts; sal ammoniac, 3 - § parts j and',quicklime, I'6 parts. The copper is first melted, the lime, magnesia, sal. ammoniac, and. tartar "are added, a little at a and the whole is- 1 briskly stirred for - about half an ' houiyisb ias, to mix thoroughly, after which ; tin is thrown on &er surface, In small grains, ; stirring .until' entirely, ' fgsed.' ?‘£ke?cracible‘ is coyered, and'tKe; fusion' kept up itir r about thirty-five;-; nunutes,?when ;i the dShsß -is shimmied off, and the Alloy. fej iouhdtxieiady for use; j;v3t is; quite, malleable} and jluctilei may; bp: drawhiv. ytMupedi vrohase'd; beaten v inio powder?or into leaves, ' ‘like in, all of which' ‘ Conditions : it is good judges,, except .'by .its inferior, jyeight. in ;the >TJhited and requires'only 'to l fae ;known in Great “Britain' 'to becomes general favorite*