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Otago Daily Times, Issue 201, 31 July 1862, Page 5

Antediluvian Bread.—The most curious article, in the shape of bread, is a very ancient specimen, which, together with dried apples and the stones of various fruit, was found in the Lake of Zurich. It is known these remains are coeval with what is termed the Stone Period, or that far distant age before the natives discovered the use of iron. It would seem an impossibility that so perishable a material as bread couid have survived for so many thousands of years as it has done ; but analysis proves that it is true bread, and there can bo no doubt it h rightly ascribed to the remote period in history given' to it. There can be little doubt that the like remains of the aboriginal inii'ibitants of this country are yet to be found in our own lakes.— Once a Week.

The Slave Trade.—The treaty concluded between Her Majesty and the United States for the suppression of tie slave trale is now published. It is exceedingly satisfactory. It gives both nations a mutual rfelit of search within 200 mile- of the Coast of Africa, and south of the 32 deg-. parallel, and again within 30 leagues from the coast of Cuba. It establishes three mixed courts of adjudication, containiu» an equal number of English and American adjudicj£. tors —one atSierre Leone, one at the Cape, and one at New York. These courts are to pass sentence on the "ases submitted to them; and a vessel of either nation, suspected on good ground by a commander of the other nation of being engaged in the slave trade, is t© be taken to oue of these mixed courts for adjudication.

Tub ILnitkp Kingdom Spii'ownikg Company.— Under this title ajoint-stook company, on the limited liability principle, ha* been skirted." It ia proposed to acquire first-class iron-sailing ships, to be employed in the passenger and general carrying trade, and to commence with a capital of L&00,000, raised in 30,000 shares of LIO each, with power to increase the capital to L 1,000,000, if circumstances call for such an extension. The project appears a feasible one, and so favorably has it been received by capitalists that, although only recently announced, the shares, we are informed, have already been quoted at from § to % premium.— Liverpool Albion.