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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 290, 8 December 1874, Page 2

At Constantinople the jessamine is extensively srown for the manufacture of pipesteraa (rhibdiques) For this - pumose stems are carefully trained until they have attained the desired length and thickness, eire being taken to protect the bark by a am ring of Tarnished linea or calico. Two or three times a year the bark is sponged with citron juice, which is said to give it the light c, lor so much sought after. Pome of these pipestems are about fifeten feet in length, andjsell j for as much as £20 each. Mr Adam, the Immigration Agent for Otago, wns in the txtreme north of Scotland in July last, and writes to a friend in the Brace district an account of his more recent travels Travelling from Lairg to Tongue, Sutherlandabire, he writes: — " On the road the coach stopped and picked up an elderly gentleman who had been angling. On seeing him I said to him ' come up beside me; I want somebody to talk to.' The gentleman smiled and said, ' Wei!, 1 will do so;' and, as wo were the only passengers, we talked away about twenty things during the three hours we were on the coach. Once or' twice I wondered at some things and people he seemed to know, and as he had previously said, 'l see you are a public man,' I was so persuaded that he must be a public man himself that I said, ' What is yonr name, please?" 'John Bright." < What, I said,' ' the great parliameotarist?' I said that I was glad I did not know him at flret, as I should not have been so free and easy with him; but that I was proud to have been with him on the journey to Tongue, and arranged with him to come up to my lodgings and I would shew him a large number of beautiful photographs of Otago scenery and public buildiugs." Mr Adam spent some time with Mr Bright, but th 6 report of their conversations is not very entertaining. "He seemed," says Mr Adam, "to know all about the public men of Sydney and Melbourne, but I had to give him some idea of Mr Yogel and others. On showiDg him photographs of the runs and stations of Mr Stafford and Sir F. D. Bell, he asked me very playfully " How those gentlemen looked after being knighted?" A correspondent writing to a Melbourne contemporary remarks : — Some most inuccurate statements regarding Chinamen have been put in circulation recently, He has been represented as a marrying man. Nothing is further from the truth. lv 1871 there were 18,000 Chinamen in the colony, and thirty-six Chinawomen, all of whom had been born in China. In the saoie year only thirty-three Chinamen got married, twelve of whose wives were Victorian born, six of the wives did not know their birth-place, eight of them were English born, and three of their number were Irish, The respectability of a few Chinamen in Victoria is beyond all question, but, as a rule, John marries the larrikiness to assist him in his unlawful calling about little Bourke-street. It has been erroneously asserted also that the Chinaman settles down. Quite untrue. Only thirtyfour took out letters of naturalisation during the last ten yeare. Out of the 18,000, 500 are now in the gaols of the colony, 250 for the crime of felony. What becomes of John ? it may ba asked. The fact is, he shares one characteristic in common with what we call the elite of Victorian society. He is a most shameless absentee. Fifty or sixty leave our shores every month for the Flowery Land, abstracting all the plunder they have come by through fossicking and prigging, brothel-keep-ing, and gambling. About an equal number arrive.

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