TALISMAN MINE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 21, 26 January 1911, Page 8

TALISMAN MINE.

♦_ . Work at the Talisman mine after the holidays was resumed on 4th January, but very few men turned to on that date. It was not until the 9iih before the operations were in full swing. Pumping pn the Woodstock property is proceeding satisfactorily, the water having been reduced 45ft. As soon as more men are available, developmental work will be resumed at the south drive, thirteenth, level, and the drive will be resumed in the No. 12 winze. Colonel Chaytor wiH this evening in spect the work done by the Wellington Engineers in camp at Mahanga Bay. The Engineers have erected a temporary, bridge across the gully, and hay« doaae other useful and instructive work while in camp. There will be an "At Home" on Sunday next, when the training finishes. Ifc is proposed, as recently stated by cable, by the British Government to invite attention in the International Conference on Trade-marks, to be held shortly in Washington, to the system of applying false trade-marks and. misleading descriptions to goods offered iot human consumption and otherwise. The Federal Customs Bureau points out (says an Australian journal) that under the Commerce Act some thousands of descriptions of goods have been challenged. Numbers of the articles were proved to be fraudulent, many seriously misleading, and not a few of undoubted danger to the public health. Through--out the whole range of commoditieb there are, says the department, few exempt from misdescription. "British" steel girders, for instance, manufactured on the Continent : "best Sheffield cutlery" which never saw a British factory ; one-carat jewellery marked as nine-carat ; concentrated cream artificially prepared from skim milk treated chemically and unfit for human consumption : "sterling silver" plated cruets invoiced at Is ; boots with paper soles ; insulating wire covered with an alleged insulating material, an imitation of rubber which rapidly perishes and increases fire risks; woollen goods made of cotton; a notable beverage containing over 90 per cent, proof spirit, ac companied by claims of medicinal virtues with the assurance that if taken in excess it will not be attended with injurious consequences ; quack medicines of inappreciable value, intrinsically and useless medicinally, but guaranteed to cure all diieasM., "European" art treasures from Japan, and Asiatic antiques from Birmingham : pirated copyrights from America; British patriotic emblems and sentiments from Germany ; petroleum for turpen* tine, barytes for whitelead, 60 per cent, of rice flour in pepper, and scores of others equally fraudulent are passed off as genuine. The department has in cases found proprietors readily assenting to the deletion of extravagant descriptions. In one case, however, the manufacturer wrote that he would neither • obey the outrageous demands of ignorant, and interfering officials nor recognise the ridiculous laws of ths Commonwealth He refused, therefore, to transact any further business with the Commonwealth. Mr. Tudor proposes to ask the co-operation of the States to make the laws against misdeacribed and frau- , dulent articles moro effective. *