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Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 66, 15 May 1869, Page 5

Red Stockings. — M. Tardieu, the celebrated chemist, has made some interesting and important • experiments with red 1 stockings imported from England. After extracting the colouring matter, he introduced a certain quantity, of it beneath the skin of a dog, which died in twelve hours. A rabbit, -similarly, treateted, expired in eight hours, and a frog in four. Opening the animals, M. Tardieu re-extrac-ted the red colouring matter from their bodies, and with it dyed a skein of silk. In his, report, communicated to the Academic des Sciences, M. Tardieu condemns the use of " coraline " (the mineral poison to which the fatal stockings Owe their brilliant but deceptive hue) as an article of general commerce ; and -recommends that the importation of red stockings from England be absolutely prohibited. — The" Queen."

Me. Dilke, moralising in his "Greater Britain " on the separation of these colonies from the mother country, concludes by Baying : — ; Separation, though infinitely better than aya v continuance of the existing one-sided tie, would, in a healthier state of our relations, not be to the interest of Britain, although ~it" would perhaps be morally beneficial to Australia. Any relation, however, would be preferable to the existing one of mutual indifference and distrait. Recognising the fact that Australia has come of age, and calling on her, too, to recognise it, we should say to the Australian colonists :- " Our present systerij cannot continue ; will you amend it, or separate 'I " The worst thing that can happen to us is thajb we should " drift " bliirdlgrcinto- separation. After all, the strongest of the arguments in favour of separation is the somewhat paradoxical one that it wouldbring us a step nearer to the virtual confederation of the English race.