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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 94, 21 April 1881, Page 2

The inci'edsfi in grain trade between London -and Now fcealancl is remarkable. Messrs «?G}"i Shaw and Sons in then* circular say :— "lt is worlli noticing that the perennial rye-grasses are now oiten."^ "'om ssc\v Zealaiid, .which is quite a reversci P* llle ordinary state of things/ A telegram received at Lloyd's says :— " According to the Courier cle Brotagne, the Plongeur, schooner, belonging to Messrs. Guerin, of Brest, which went; to Lannion with several divers for the purpose of finding Mip Ninon S'here was lost in ISSI a veasel late S ingots Of "Ivor and lead has fallen in with the Ago in 10 lai£o™ water, quite close to the Trfagos Hocks. The u-ers **™ already brought up several tons of tii«-. se precious methls. Salvage arranged at 75 per cent, on the value recovered." The largest toy factory in the world is iv New Yorfy where piaytbiogs are manufactured literally by the million. It stands five storeys high, and tnffla oat 1007 distinct varieties of tin toys. No. 1, of course, is a tin horse- Ho. 1607 a tin menagerie. The oUlpufc of circular Un whiles to 12,000,000 per annum. Everything la made uu the establishment excepting Wheels, which are oruCea in lots of 1 , thirty tons at a time from a foundry in the East. Two handred men, women, and boys are constantly employed in toy making. - To make a tin horse twelve inch dies have to be cast costing £600. Toys are exported from New York td all parts of Ihe world. The children of different countries have different tasteß. The passion of the young Brazilian is a for a toy water-cart, while in the United States the rage of the American boy is for tin horns and " putty blowers/ "Tin swords are wanted all over the world," the military instinct being as universal in the nurseries as in the Courts dnd Cabinets of the world. , Hungary is a great grain « producing country, and there is ft keen competition going on between the Hungarian and the Yankee farmers and millers in the market of Vienna. An American gentleman has recently gone to Hungary to study ibe flourmills there, which are said to be greatly superior to those of the United States, producing SO per cent of flour from the wheat while the American mills only prodflco 69 per cent. The Hungarians us 6 a large number of rollers — between 30 and 4o— made of chilled iron and porcelain^ in place of the •♦ burr " stoneß used in other countries ; but their machinery is more expensive than that of the American mills. They have sent a commission to America to study the con struction of the mills there.