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Patea Mail, 3 July 1882, Page 4

The New York Tribune says :—ln the future, forest cultivation is to be an established industry in this country, and one of the most profitable. Heretofore few could be found to wait more than a few months for a crop. Now there are farmers willing to wait ten years for a fair promise of greater net profit—twenty, if necessary—but forest culture begins to make returns in less than the first mentioned period. In Jura, France, M. Giardot lately proved that the ground was moving. Houses, he asserts, which were totally invisible from a given point twenty years ago, are now plain to behold. First the roof came within sight, then the walls. The villages are Doucier and Marigny.

Edison’s electric iight is growing more and more into general use, especially in London.

At a meeting of the Benevolent Institute in Wellington a few days ago, an elderly woman applied to have her passage paid to Dunedin. The relieving officer had doubts as to whether she was really in want of aid. It was discovered that she had money in the Savings Bank, and property at Dunedin. And people like her talk of poverty !

On the main road between Bath and Bristol there is a parish that must be infested with “ bard cases.” At the union last year, 3,312 tramps were relieved.