GENERAL EXTRACTS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 103, 4 May 1869, Page 2

GENERAL EXTRACTS.

By thb arrival of the barque Moara, we are informed of the rapid progress made in the coffee j anil cotton plantations at Tahiti. The Company formed some time since, under the title of the Tahiti Coffee and Cotton Plantation Company, are carrying on an enormous wdertaking, under most skilful management and with apparently very profitable results, under charter from the French Government. The Company have leased an immense tract of country, extending four miles along 1 the sea coasl,an<i running inland a distance ot eiyht miles, for a term of twenty-one years, free of all taxes. Some 10,000 acres are already under cultivation, and there are over 1,000 men, including 800 Cliin imen, kept constantly employed on this farm. These men pick at the rate of 2,5()0 lbs. ol cotton per diem; they are housed and fed by the Company, besides receiving fair wages. The whole of this gigantic enterprise is under tha management of William Stewart, Esq., a gentlemen specially adapted to superintend the carrying out of what promises to yield a very handsome dividend to the shareholders. — Weekly News. The Ne Plus Ultra of Economy. — The following causerie is reported to have taken place at the last ball at the Hotel de Ville, in Paris, between two ladies who had been at school together, but had not met for many years: — "Are you happy?" " I have a good husband." "How much does he allow you for your toilette?" <l Ten thousand francs (£400.) "It isn't much, but when one is economical " — " And you, my dear?" " Ah, I have a miser for a husband : there he is, with his bunchy rsd whiskers, looking at me with one eye closed." " Why does he not look at you with both?" "My dear, he is too much of a raiser." Toothache. — The Lancet says toothache can be cured by one drachm of collodion added to two drachms oi Calvert's carbolic acid. A gelatinous mass is precipitated, a small portion of which inserted in the cavity of an aching tooth invariably gives relief.