NEW PLYMOUTH.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 56, 1 April 1843, Page 223

NEW PLYMOUTH.

We have spoken with a gentleman who came from New Plymouth in the Industry, on Sunday last. Mr. Cook had arrived in safety, with cattle and sheep fro m Wellington, and had suffered but little loss. Some experiments had been made by a gentleman, as to the produce of potatoes, in various soils. From a mixture of sand with rotten wood, two hundred and forty large potatoes were grown from one. It would have been more satisfactory, could we have stated the weight of this product of a single plant, hut we are assured that they were all of good size. The schooner Ariel, with coals from Massacre Bay, had arrived, and readily disposed of her cargo. A Mr. J. Hawkins died a short time since in the Queen's Bench Prison, in which he had been confined twelve years for a debt under £30, which he obstinately refused to pay, though whilst in prison he ran through £3,700. The sum of £640 hat lately been given for the bulb of a new tulip called the " Citadel of Antwerp." This sum was paid by M. Yandernink, of Amsterdam, a florist, formerly a captain in the Dutch navy.