Mr. Smart, of Port Wakefield, S.A., suffered from a cancer for years. He cured it effectually by the application, twice a day, of an ointment made thick from the yolks of eggs and salt. At a meeting of the subscribers to the Patteson Memorial Fund of the Melanesian Mission, held in Sydney, Sir A. Stephen in the chair, it was resolved to invest the money (£1015) in the New South Wales 4 per cent, stock, the income arising therefrom to be handed to the Melanesian Missionary Bishop, for the support of the mission. Some of the blue gums in Mount Runaway Forest, near Melbourne, are over 300 ft. in length ; 250 ft. without a branch, straight as a gun-barrel, and. almost always perpendicular* These giants of the forest measure about five feet in°diameter 'near the ground, and quite three feet where the branches begin ; their taper is therefore very slight.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 233, 26 February 1876, Page 4
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