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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 167, 12 July 1878, Page 4

Now. that the papers throughout the colooy are teeminp with accounts of the total wreck, of the Loch Ard and the heroic conduct of Tom Pearce in rescuing, Mi&a QarraMjhael, it may be interesting (observes, the Kilmore.Free Press) to supply a link with reference to the history of the young: gentleman named, which we have noticed ,wonting. In" the first place, then, we are in a position to state that' the name of the surviving hero of theXoch Ard is not Tom Pearce, but Tom Millet, the eon of the late Richard Millet, C.E., who, was engaged in effecting surveys in this district under the Land Act 1863, abont fifteen years ago, and grandson of the late Mr Thomas Millet, proprietor of an estate called Millbrook, near Cappawhite, County Tipperary, Ireland, where the gallant ' rescuer of Miss Csrmichael was aiso born, having been brought to the colony when about three or four years of age. Soon after Mr Richard Millet copcluded big professional duties here, he proceeded to New Zealand, leaving behind him, in one of the Melbourne subnrbe, a wife and family, includin g the hero Tom, now called Pearce. Mr Millet had not been long in New Zealand when he took ill, and died, and his widow soon after married Captain Pearce, of the ill-fated Gothenburg. The Btep-children of the latter, including Tom, evidently adopted the name of Pearce, whilst the real name was that we bave stated, a name honored and held in high esteem where it was best known. The strict accuracy of the circumstances related we can vouch for, and we think it well to mention these facts, in order that many friends in the old country who knew and esteemed the Millets will be in a position to know exactly who the hero is that this colony, and, indeed the group of colonies, now delight to honor. The " Scientific American " says :-— " During the past ten years 36,000,000 , {dollars' worth of silver has passed : - through the Lima Mint for coinage or essays, the amount coined being 17,000,000 dollars. Gold coin pays 3 rj^er, cent, export duty. ',, Tbs expor te- . tjoftipi, national silvern, coin is prohibited, hot ailrer bars may be exposed on

payment of 3 per cent. p and coin fa accordingly melted into bars to evade the prohibition, "there is but a slight prodaction b'f gold, but silver is largely produced and exported either as metal or ores, Coinage is limited and gratis, the Mint receiving bullion, and returning its value in coin. Silver' is found in all the western range ef the Andes from latitude 3 dees, to 22 dega. south. The district of Cerro del Fasco produced between 1830 and 1849 475,000,000 dollars. A tunnel on the plain of the famous Sutro tunnel is projected at Cerro del Paaco 150 feet below the present workings, and is calculated to open up 100,000 equare yards of surface and 600,000,000 worth of fresh ore. This is but one of the many mining districts, aa others of equal value with better railroad facilities exist in the province of Puno. Before the modern ays t era of railways the difficulties to be encountered in the way of smelting silver were incredible, the ores being transported great distances on mules* backs over rugged mountain paths, where often animals, with their loads, were lost through a mis-step ; yet, notwithstanding this, immense quantities were smelted at the Government smelting works." The manufacture of oleomargarine — or butter made from fat— has reached immense proportions in America ; one establishment in New York alone uses 200,0001b5. of fat daily, from which 100,0001bs, of oleomargarine is produced. Some, of the dairy farmers have taken alarm at this, and at a recent meeting of the New York State Dairymen's Association, the Hoa. C. L. Sheldon delivered . himself of the following- piece . of rhetorics— " We live in.aji age. when the haad 'eft scientific research is stretched; qjit-tojgr asp the v secret forces of nature,, and!/ who knows bat the day will soon db'wa upon, us when not only the cow shall take a back seat ia dairy science and economy, bqt the whole bovine family shall be entirely excluded; and not, only that, even the vegetable kingdom sivall be discarded ; while science with one hand shall reach down into the- bowels, of the earth, and with the other shall grasp the subtle elements of the sky, and bring together, manipulate them, and name the resultant product butter ? And then we poor dairymen, ouri occupation gone, shall sit with folded hands and muße upon our sad condition, thinking upon our hard loi, until perchance this formula shall come to mind : ( No grass, no cuttle; no cattle, no manure; no manure, no crops ; no crops, no folks ; no folks, no any thing ;' and then beginning again at 'no anything/ w© may reason back until we come to 'jno grass,' and thus for ever, in this circle, we may travel and reach the result that from nothing comes nothing." Well may an English writer, paraphrasing the . above, ask the question, " Is it not posjsible, after all, that the moon may be j made of. green cheese ? " In an article on the poultry supply of England Land and Water says it is common in the southern countries, whence come enormous. numbers of "prim© young geese," for the eggs to be hatched by children. The little ones are kept in bed night and day, being relieved by others, who are kept from school for the purpose of hatching out eggs, that, are thus, maintained at the requisite temperature for incubation. The information may be anything but agreeable for the connoisseurs who dote on the festive bird. IVfr M'Ad.am, a Scotch farmer,, who emigratedto America years ago, has gone a sensible way to work to decide , the question as to the relative . value of shorthorns and Ayrshires as milkers. Mr MAdam kept sixty-four of each breed on exactly the same conditions, both herds being first-class of their respective breeds, and with the following results for the month of June last : —Ayrshire, 64 cows—6s,3Bolb. o f m fife. cheese, 64241 b.; ratio, 1017; daily average of milk per cow, 33 lb ; cheese, 3|lb. Shorthorns, 64 c0w5— 52,680 ib. of milk,; cheese 4797 lb. ; ratio, 10-98 ; daily average, of milk per cow, 27 1 b .; cheese, 27-15 lb.