Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, 26 May 1896, Page 3

Notes and Events.

The British Guiana question ii fortunately dying away, our American couaina now occupying ihemgelves in arguing with Spain. The debateable land 19 described as, apart from Indians and Beviardere, having no resident popiilatitin. " The best, the only fairly desirable spot on this bane of contention is occupied by the colonial pt-nal settlement." The land slopes down into marsh and sandbank. The riven — margined with mud and the shallow sea itself, " recall memories of the Thames before main drainage was thought of." The timber is inferior. The soil is thin; podr, hopeless for cultivation. America is the land of w'ondera* What do you think of this ? A mass of 90,000,000 tons of pure, solid, compact rocksalt i Thi3 is located on an island ISO feet bigbj wbioh rises from a miserable aeamarsh on the route from Brashear to New Ibera, up the river Tcche, in Louisania, and is one of the wonders of the world. An engineer Who has but recently visited it estimates that there is not less than 90,000,000 tons of pure crystal salt in sight.