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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 298, 17 December 1874, Page 4

Mr Allen got the sum of £400, and expenses, for a six night's season of the English Opera Company at Timaru. The following are the titles of the new Governor:— "The Most Honorable George Augustus Constantino, Marquis of Normanby, Earl of Mulgrave, Viscount Normanby, and Baron Mulgrave of Mulgrave, all in the County of York, in the Peerage of Ihe United Kingdom; and Baron Mulgrave, of New Ross, in tbe County of Wexford, in the Peerage of Ireland ; a member of her Majesty's most honorable Privy Council, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George ; Administrator of the Government over her Majesty's colony of New Zealand." Paper flour barrels is (saya a San Francisco correspondent) the moßt recent invention, and bids fair to be a great industry here. The paper is prepared from, wheat straw, and the barrels ore made, both in the ordinary way and hy pulping; iho latter process will probably he preferred. For lightness^ compactness, and durability they will excel the ordinary flour barrel. Sugar-makers here declare the straw barrel wiil auswer their purposes much better than the wooden ones now in use. Would not your new Zealand flax make a coarse paper suited to such articles of io.iuatrj. The pulp of the flax (probably such poriions of it aa are unfit for cordage) would make a white paper suitable for the Press. This is the opinion of papermakers here. You have a mine of weaith in the phormium tenax of greater value than the Thames. Why dont you start a paper mill? A company has just been formed here to manufacture what is termed " seamless paper packages," from straw paper, including harrels, kegs, tubs, buckets, cadpeirs, &c.