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Temuka Leader, Issue 250, 6 April 1880, Page 2

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Melioukne, Aprils. The revenue for the past quarter amounts to L 1,250, 000, being an increase of Lllo',ooo as compared with last yvar.. The revenues from excise duties, land tax, and railways, show an increase, while the Customs revenue has decreased. McMccknn, Blackwood and Co. have sold the steamer Omeo to Messrs Nipper an I See, of Kelbourne and Sydney. The second son of His Excellency the Marquis of Normanby is dead. Adelaide, April 3. The Orient Company's steamship Chimborazo-arrived to-day from Plymouth. ' Sydney, Aprn 3. Palna rice, LIS to LI 9 ; New Zealand wheat, 4s lod ; New Zealand fat?, 2s 3d to 2s 6d ; candles, 8d to B£d. The following Exhibition awards vrero announced to day ;—First jrizfs— Burt, for lead ;■' Buchanan, for •il'uetrations of grasses ; Colonial Masturn, geology and natural history, .Professor Haast, ethnology ; Anna Wilson of Dunedin, for lace ; Mrs Beal, for shell ornaments. Second prires—For bottling machine, Burt ; for t-xidermy, Jennings,' for stuffed birds. Sundry New Zealand exhibitors in the foregoing classes take third and fourth prizes. Bad wick Paces—For tho Camherl'snd Stakes Petrea was first, Martindaie second, Sweetmeat' third, and Suwarrow fourth. Only tour started. The ( race was won easily.; Time—3niin ; J7:ec. !'

~S\<)\V CLOTH. : • - : : \S] We '.cam ;>t,m Lietlin that an invention has been recently patented ia the capital i-.'V the ' t reduction of a new' kind ofcl'-il), which consists principal'y. or ' entirely ef sponge. The epongss are ■£ lirfet thoroughly beaten with ft heavy J hnmmir in order (o < rush all the mineral . and vegetable irnoii.itirs, so that-, they- : can be easily washed out. f hey are ; then dried and pared, like a pofat", with , .- a sharp knife, the paring being sewn ,-j together. • Hie fabric _thus obtained free . , from all the danger which arises from the ahsor r tion of poiswicu* ~ dj-es into t'..e system.; .ifc. absorbs that ~ wiUn.'it checking th-j perspiration, so as - to diminish the danger of taking void ; it is a bad conductor and theiefore help "- to maintain a uniform temperature ; it "; can be more teadily cleansed than the ; - ordinary woollen garments { its flexi- "- bility diminishes .very, much the ' liability of chaffing ; the ease with which it can be employed in sloes,'blockings, underwear, hat linings, at d ■ other articles of clothing, seems likely . to make it especially useful as a. pre-;.' taction ag;jiiibt rheumatic and pulmo: ary '■ • attacks. Forages past the denizens of iho earth and air have furnished ma:d ind; : with materials from- which Imma.i." ingenuity has ] roduccd. wearing appa- N rei of all kinds ; but it is a marked fld- ;, viiiice upon the past when we draw' oar/ stock of undt rclothing frjrn the depths. - of tao oeerin. '/.- -