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Patea Mail, Volume VI, Issue 527, 1 June 1880, Page 3

A Reign of Terror exists in the borough of Alexandria, N.S.W., owing to the Jamkinism in that town It is said that the evil has attained such a pitch as to have a deterrent effect upon the letting of houses in the locality, for householders in front of whoso places the mobs congregated were literally afraid of ordering them away. An instance was given in which an able-bodied ruffian went into an hotel and demanded a drink, but on being refused at first, because he had no money, be threatened to smash all the bottles behind the bar and thrash the keeper, and the landlord had to comply with the request. M. Dronier has patented in Germany a process for rendering bronze as malleable as copper. About 1 per cent of mercury is added to the tin in a warm state, and this is then mixed with the melted copper. The agitation in California has frightened the Chinese as well as the millionaires eastward. New York has now nearly 5000 of the “ pig-tailed heathen”, and there axe fresh arrivals every week.