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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 93, 19 April 1879, Page 2

A coffee and spice manufacturer at Invercargill has applied for letters patent for improvements in an apparatus for roasting coffee, and which apparatus he terms " Mentiplays Thermaeroptocon." He will do well to avoid adopting any relative appellation for the article produced. The Sydney Morning Herald has the following :— " Madame Carandini and her daughters suffered heavy loss by being wrecked in the Ballina, steamer, at fort Marquarie, while on their way here from a northern tour. They lost their concert dresses, their jewellery, and all their music. This last loss was irreparable, for it included a number of quartettes written for Madame Carandini by Mr Horsley, and a quantity of music transposed into different keys by the late Mr Lavenu So popular has trout-fishing become in the Christchurch district that during the season juat closed 81 licenses were issued by the Secretary of the Acclimatisation Societv. It is pretty well known, too, that this gentle art was also popular amongst a few this season who did not care to trouble the Secretary for a license, nor would their constitutions permit of the violent exercise of fly-fishing. The provision, however, that will be specially made in the interests of these latter gentlemen before next season arrives, the Tines thinks, may tend to considerably reduce the value of prepared bait, short nets, and worms. A member of the Society of Friends has been lecturing in Gloucester, England, on Australia and New Zealand. He promulgated some novel and startling " facts "concerning these colonies. In Australia he aaid the hot winds were so fearful that few could bear them and the apples were actually roasted on the trees. To New Zealand he conceded a better climate, but as a set-off ascribed a deplorable moral atmosphere. After praising the climate, " the beautiful forest of trees and ferns and eternal snow-clad mountains," he proceeded to remark that drink was the great curse all over the colony and the natives learning from Europeans this and other vices were rapidly dying out. And here the lecturer made a most astoundiug announcement. He asserted gravely and with earnest reprehension that the New Zealand Government is in the habit of "poisonlug great numbers of the natives to get rid of them!" He might well proceed :— " This is very dreadful i What right have we to take their land from them, and teach them our vices and exterminate them in this way?" What indeed 1 We are not surprised that his Quaker audience quaked doubly at such fearsome storiea, but we do wonder where that veracious lecturer expects I to go to.