MISCELLANEOUS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 7067, 13 February 1893, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

“My little sister’s got measles.” "Ho ! So has*mine " “ Well, I’ll bet you my little sister’s got more measles than yours has.” Tbe Broken Hill Proprietary Company voted £2500 to the officers who loyally watched over the company’s interests during the late strike. The Sydney Bulletin of January 21 has the following “ The ‘ New Zealand and River Plate Investment Company,’ a year or two ago, gathered up its spare coin and retired from Maoriland to Buenos Ayres, under the impression, so it is alleged, that the former oountrr, under the Ballanoe regime, wasn’t a fit place for the investment of British capital. This unhappy institution has just been heard of once more, after a long silence, as having paid an emaciated dividend of 2 per cent per annum in Argentine. It used to pay an obese IB per cent in the old days when its coin was lent to Canterbury farmers. _ When the Company wound up its NZ. business all the Tory papers whooped about capital being * driven out of the country.* That capital will never drive hack to the same country any more, but it hopes to walk back on crutches some day when it has got rested after the Argentine experience.”

The Pennsylvanian Railroad Company recently ran a special grain train through from Chicago to Jersey City without uncoupling a oar. A distance of 824 miles was traversed, during which time the locomotive was not uncoupled from the train. The total length of the train was 160 ft., and it carried 2,240,0001 b of grain, or au average of 66 000 to each car. The locomotive and oars were equipped with Westinghouse brakes. The locomotive and tender weighed 88,6001 b, and the total weight of the train was 4,030,0001 b, or about 2000 tons. Tbe statistical reports submitted to Congress show that the United States is (he only country in the world which exported more this year than last year. Tbe Freetraders have been saying continually that Protection t waa a sort of Chinese wall, which closed to the American farmer or other producer the markets of the world ; but instead of closing the gates through which our produce passes in to foreign markets it has opened them wider than ever. With reciprocity as the key. Protection has opened markets to us that have been closed (o us for decades, and while exports in other countries have been falling off ours has been increasing. The falling off in exports has been most pronounced in the most pronounced Freetrade country in the world —England. The only country where tbe record has been maintained and improved is ia the United States, and here we have both protection and reciprocity. This is a fact worth remembering.—American letter.