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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 138, 2 June 1876, Page 4

The New - Zealand Herald of a recent date has the following significant paragraph :.— "The,- Favorite, schooner, . lately. : arrived . from the? French, settlement ,of New .Caledonia, brings with her a cargo of various articles, each separate iietn. of: which ought to bring the blush of shame into the faceß of our agricultiirftliats and manufacturers— -some sections of them at least. To begin with. la her list of imports are 105 bags salt, and here

we are surrpdnded completely by the briny ocean which onljr requires to undergo a cheap process >;qf«. cpndpnsaj-, tion. f^hen^nj the li(it<^e 35 tonV s of | beans. These are simply the wellknown haricW bWn H , %ftM ire ndth" ing more nor less than the dried seeds of the common French ¥ean^ ( whidh~gf 6 w*i in} such profusiodMn this coantry, and which is, through some Britannic error, ! Igejnertlly ! eaten rin ' J itis: iindVyelopedi / grpep JBtate. 'V^l('^lijßJw v^ if^bpgh,-^ { almost,) a«;.ibpd'! as [importing -itiay and esculent vegetables from Australia, as ijs .done, by almost every ja.teaqner^.arnv-! "ing from that more energetic country. But 1 what can'be said of 'ib'e importation of I a yastj tiu'antity pf ea^thenw.atejto^a 1 place ; noted for the.: adapta^lity pf; ; its. aluminous earth }toi- fictile ' purposes ? i The little vessel which bnngi us these reshjpmeq'ts , Npuibei, ,\haa V just| diigprg^d, " a, rv^riety , of !: , pbttepyiLare ', ,|Which. should put to shame the fea^le of pur workeri in clay. Most r uejaf^i' ■:artic'l*s f(^|e. ihe'r^— wate,r ! ; jari,', pojrous '* monkey »/* and^pther.'jbmgfrr^,; nojt to mention huge jars of the kinJ into which Morgiana inveigled i(he' forty thieves before she boiled them in oil. :Reftl)y; Auckland enterprißp ii at a | low ebb (indeed;! when AWftU import scpond hand from .a French colony such a | variety, of articles weU and better '_< be "gro^jrn, ; anji; minu-" fsetured in our owp territory*?: . ' r (Talking about the, Wanganui River,* thje Mayor of . „thab^Bpypugh recently observed at, a public , meeting : — " He was certain tKat £9500 would not clear the: river. It would: take thousands: and. hundred of thousands, and to make it | what thfe people '. imagine.' they^are v going to do' would require a million of money." -, ;