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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 105, 6 July 1866, Page 2

The last English mail brought to Sydney 19,109 letters, 942 books, and 28,958 newspapers ; and the outgoing mail, despatched on 24th May, took 24,716 letters, 671 books, and 20,943 newspapers. The Southern Cross of the 16th has the following :— We regret to say that the General Government have notified to the province that the payment of the surplus of the Customs revenue has been temporarily suspended. Formerly, the practice has been to pay from the Sub-Treasury to the Provincial Treasury in. each province the three-eighths of the Customs revenue, on accouut of the surplus revenue, but this payment, has. been now suspended. Wer make rip comments. We (Tai'auaki Herald) are informed that Mr. J. Perry of this tovyn. has just taken out a patent for smelting the iron-sand, and the process' is certainly a novel .one.. 'The fuel (and only material) ijsed is" crude, petroleum j . or the refuse of petroleum after . purifying ; this is lighted in a furnace and the sand gently and gradually introduced with the result, it is said;, . 'thai;' it is ' immediately' smelted and. runs off ..without in .any way choking the furnace. A suitable furnace for trying it extensively is, we hear, abo,ut to be built. It is certainly hot necessary to point, out the beneficiareffects.which this discovery will have on the -prosperity of Taranaki, if it proves to be what % its inventor believes it is. Mr/'Perry has. long been for his persevering /.Experiments. -on j;h"e "iron-sand. •