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Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 147, 6 September 1876, Page 2

The Wainifite - Hoad Board, in>Canterbury recently transferred its hanking account A from the Bank of New Zealand to ther ] Union Bank of Australia. The little balance, which it is- said was handed over in gold, amounted to £30,000. This i> one of the Road Boards so often alluded to lately as having more money than it knows how to use. A woman in Auckland has been arrested, for attempting to palm off spurious coin for sovereigns. From the description of ther coin given in the Cross no< one but a fit subject for the Lunatic Asylum would bo likely to bo taken in by them. That paper says* The sovereigns are about the same size as the genuine coin, but only about half the weight. On the obverse of. tho coins is e representation of the Queens head, slightly larger and with a different head-dress to that on tho real sovereign, with the usual words “ Victoria Eegina.” On the reverse is the figure of a lady, either playing a piano or sitting at a billiard-table. The superscription on this side of the coin is “ Keep your temper.” The coins were proved to be spurious by being touched with aquafortis, and they are altogether unlike sovereigns. To produce forty bushels of corn above tho natural productions of the soil, Professor Stockbridgo says that there would be required of nitrogen sGlbs., and phosphoric acid 241bs. To supply the first take 64 bushels of cotton seed and 50 bushels of stable manure, and the second will be furnished by 2401b5. dissolved bones. Worth knowing and trying, now that tho average crop of corn on our older scrub farms is down to 40 bushels per acre. Tin ore of superior quality has been found near Lake Hawea in Otago and the Waste Lands Board has granted a license to prospect.