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Temuka Leader, Issue 1793, 22 September 1888, Page 4

Noeth Island Daiet Paotoeibs.—M r MoCullum has finished his report on the dairy factories in the North Island, Ho states that their condition is by no means so satisfactory as is desirable. Amongst the causes of financial failure are insufficiency of capiUl at the commencement of the enterprise, unnecessary expenditure on buildings, and want of management. The principal drawbacks to the perfect working of the establishments are the irregularity of milk supplies, many of the suppliers preferring to make butter on theif own account as the season advanced and prices rose, and insufficient attention given by the dairymen to the cleanliness of utensils and milking sheds. He favours working these factories on co-opera-tive principles. Mr McCallum recommends Government to reduce the railway rates on this produce, and have specially constructed trucks for its conveyance to the ports. Rubied Teeasueb.—The Pans correspondent of the Daily Telegraph sends a statement concerning a chest containing nearly a million of fiance in gold and silver coinage, which is said to have been reposing for the last 76 years, a foot or two underground, within a stone’s throw of an important Russian highway, in the neighbourhood of Bielostock, in the Grodno district. The Czar’s Minister of the Interior has, it is said, just despatched a special committee to dig up the chest and its contents at the point indicated. The treasure is a relic of the “ Retreat of Napoleon’s Grand Armej.” This research is due to the initiative of a Frenchman, M. Yillebaude Jonnich, who has been ransacking some manuscripts left by his grandfather, one of the stoutest troopers in the Emperor’s host. The old gentlemen related that he was with a detachment acting as escort to this chest, which contained the sum of £31,000 sterling, when the convoy was pursuud by a strong force of Cossacks. Seeing that escape was impossible, the party hastily buried the obeit close to the Bielostock road, along which it was riding, and soon afterwards every man was cut to pieces with the exception of Jonnioh, who lived to tell the tale in some memoirs penned for ihe benefit of his relatives. If the chest be really found, M. Yillebaude Jonnich will, according to Russian law, be entitled as iiformer to a third of the booty, or £II,OOO,