Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, 2 April 1892, Page 2

Notes and Events.

— ■ . . .*> ■- ■ Coffee brown in the Shire (Africa) highlands is taking an important place in the London market There was a consignment of berries sold lately in the market at 140s Gd per cwt Owners of coffee plantaV^^^ in the Shire highlands-are thus rPlflr ing a golden harvest. Something rather unusual in the way of agony column advertisements has been seen in the London Daily pnpei-R lately A ynnng lady who ligne herself " Row" ha* beeu pen.

ning loving messages, in Latin, i< one who is presumably her sweet heart. Tho language is dood, bu the love is particularly alive. A party of explorers have recently discovered immense forests of india rubber tree in the valley of Orinocc (U.S ) They have also discoverer other trees very much like, if no identical with the gutta-percha tre< of the Malay Archipelago 'J h< latter being almost extinct-, the new; is Jill the more important T)r Luinhol/., the Norwegian naturalist has just published a bool entitled " Among • nnnibals," which has awakened a good deal of interest Dr Luvnholz is quite a connoisseui in cannibal cookery, and gives mucl: information respecting peculiar der cacies. The natives of the Anstraliat Archipelago, ho says, otten slaughter their children from culinary motives, They regard human flesh as the most delicious of all meat, but nol the flesh of white persons ; that, they say, has a nasty, salty taste What they like is the 'flesh of blacks or of Chinamen. They like blacks best, but if they cannot get a blacli they will eat a Chinaman. The) say a black has a more delicate flavour, because he feeds chiefly or vegetables, and eats no salt ; but a fat, ricefed Chinaman is not to be despised. Dr Lumholz declares thai if the aborigines in Queensland were allowed their own way, and th? Chinese immigrants were not carefully guarded by the police, the Chinese question there would find a summary solution at the hands oj the natives themselves, and would soon cease to trouble the Colonial Secretary.