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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 47, 20 March 1909, Page 3

Tvne for piiniing In 15" languages is I owned l.v the Oxford University Pros*.. I'.vevy' shilling turned out liy tin 1 Kuglish mi'iit shows u prollt of nearly threepence. Information from Eastern ltoiijr.il (writes llic Times's Calcutta correspondent) shows that the deportations and the disbanding of the Saniitis have exercised thu sobering clToi't which was expected. The simpl'e villagers around JSarisal aided on the iirim-iiial that tlie man to whom they had to defev was till! man who exercised authority. Many shms have indicated that Aswini Daft was this man. He controlled the supply of the Magistrate's servants, ordered the people to liny dear count ry-iuailo instead of cheap Manchester dhotios, (iliiiei'd pickets before the dealers in European {roods, and had this man heaten and that ostracised for refusing to obev his or.lciv The Uvilkh Haj seemed'helpless to pi..L.v: the loyal natives or to defend UrilUh trade. Now u great change has taken place. The ]ieopie realise that the lSi'itish ltaj is the dominant power. The attitude of (he people has, accordingly, heeoino civil, ami they an .tiger to please. There are many indications that the baneful tyranny has passed away, and that Krilish authority has again assorted Itself.

A writer in the Daily Consular and Trade lieporl.s of the United States observes that from IKISO until 1!M)7 .the nitrate fields of Tern ami Chile produced !i(i,«:i,:i27 tons of nitrate, about twothirds of which was produced during the last ten years. "There has been," says the writer, "much said about the exhaustion of the. nitrate, mines or beds, but from the best information obtainable they are good for two liundrod or three hundred years, even at double the production, which is about 2,000.00(1 tons per vear. Fully one-lialf the production has 'been net pinM, hut a new process has been added that will do for the nitrate business what the cyanide process did for the gold production. Heretofore from 0 to 10 per- cent, has been left ill the waste, lint with the new process it is claimed that there will not be a loss of 2 per cent., and at a less cost of production than by the older method. Even the waste or tailings can he w"rked with a great, profit,"