Original Correspondence. To the Editor of the New Zealander.

New Zealander, Volume 6, Issue 487, 14 December 1850, Page 3

Original Correspondence. To the Editor of the New Zealander.

Sin, — In reiding the report of an inquest, which appeared in your paper yesteulay, I was struck with the want of cuiiosity displayed by both Coioner and Jury with regard to the time the knife had been in the hands of Butcher; a circumstance, which, in my present ignorance of the distinction between murder and manslaughter, appears of consequence. Auckland, December 11, 1850.

To the Editor of the New Zealander.Sm,— ln consequence of the reports and reciimum-. tions that have lately appeared with respect to the Inquest of Friday last, we the undersigned Jurois on that occasion, think it our duty to state that the course adopted by the Resident Magistrate on the Inquest, was in accordance with the wish and cntiie concurrence of the Jury. Alfred Jones, G. Partington, Jddn T. Boylan, James Johnson, JullN BIUGHAM, WM. McGaRVEY, A. COCHRANB, PniLIP LEVY. Auckland Dec. 13, 1850.

ExlraJ from the London family Herald, dated May 1845. REMEDY FOR THE BLIGHT IN FRUIT TREES. "As a remedy for blight, and insects attacking fruit and other trees, dissolve 1 pound of soda in a gallon of rain water, shake this up in a bottle with a pint of spirits of turpentine, when they will amalgamate ; then by adding more water make up the quantity to ten gallons ; it should be applied with an engirc having a i fine roic."

' As it would be very expensive to get engines for such a purpose in New Zealand, 1 think that a garden watering pot wilh a rose would answer the puiposp ; means could be adopted by which the party U6ing tl c watering put could elevate lrmself if necessary, bo (hat the water would fall with foroe on the tree or plant. I may here state that about the beginning of 1 ist month, a plant, the Rosa Multiflora, growing at the end of my house had the blight to such an extent, that the bud=, leaves, nnd even the young shoots were falling off; I had the plant washed with Tobacco water, dvg 1 around the roots and found several grubs ; I also got some soap lye of the game strength as they used for washing, with which 1 mixed some wood ashes, and had it pouieii around the roots, the soil having been previously loosened, the result is that the plant is now giowmjr vigorously and in fluwer, and there is not a particle of bight upon it, although before the opeiation 1 scairuiy expected that it would liw. 1 rind wood aslios> anefteclual cure for slugs, \>hcie on the surface. John Macuitiiy. Wellinjton, Nov. 18, 1850.