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Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 114, 14 April 1870, Page 6

The following note from a MS. volume of the 16th century on the " Manners of the Irish " proves that what has been called the latest development in ideas about tenant-right can at least boast a respectablo antiquity :—": — " Lett them a farme — the grandfather, father, son, and they clayme it as their own ; if not, they goe to rebellion." Tenure at will has always been the-4aost popular tenure ; but then it must be at the tenant's will.

Mr. Palmer, the celebrated Arabic scholar (travelling Fellow of the University of Cambridge), has arrived in Arabia, where he and a friend will spend some months among the Ax*abs of the unknown district bordering upon Sinai. The object of Mr. Palmer is to learn and to record the legends believed to be still existing there as to the passage of the Israelites and their sojourning in the neighbourhood. Mr Palmer has undertaken this difficult task for the Palestine Exploration Society. — " Record."

Krupp's cast steel foundery in Essen occupied in 1868 about 6900 workmen, and produced 125,000,000 lb. weight of cast-steel. The establishment possessed in the same year 413 various kinds of smelting furnaces, 239 puddling and other furnaces, 165 coke ovens, 322 turning-benches, 113 planing- machines, 92 boring-machines, 241 steam-machines, with 8213 aggregate horse-poWer, and 51 steam-ham-mers, with a total weight of 2978 centnex*s. In addition to artillery the works produce objects required in industry.

newly metalled was not particularly suited for a trial. The weight of the engine is between seven and eight tons, but the wheels are so broad that the pondrous machine does no more damage to the road over which it passes than any ordinaiy vehicle. Corners were turned without the least trouble, the engine •answering the guiding hand of the i steerer as readily as could be desired. Swanston, Collins, William, and other streets were traversed in safety, the lacomotive being at length deposited in Bell's bond, Little Collins-street, without any trouble. A few horses showed symptoms of nervousness when confronted with their new x'ival, but no mishap occurred in consequence. The distance from Sandridge to town was traversed in something under half an hour, which, with a heavy load attached, would be a very respectable speed for an iron horse to attain. When the advantages of these traction become better known and appreciated, we shall no doubt see them in frequent use in Melbourne. — " Argus."