UNSTAMPED INSTRUMENTS ACT.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XVII, Issue 76, 22 September 1858, Page 4

UNSTAMPED INSTRUMENTS ACT.

An Act to declare Unstamped Instruments executed out of, but affecting Real Estate within, this Colony, admissible in Evidence. [28th May, 1858. Preamble. — Whereas doubts exist whether deeds and other instruments affecting real estate in the colony of New Zealand, if executed at any place out of the colony where stamp laws are in force, are admissible in evidence within the colony, on the ground that such deeds and other instruments are not stamped, and it is expedient to remove such doubts : Be it therefore declared and enacted bj r the General Assembly of New Zealand, in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows : —

1. Instruments affecting Land in the Colony vot inadmissible in Evidence on account of not being Stamped. — No deed or other instrument affecting real estate within the colony of New Zealand, or power of attorney authorizing the execution of any such deed or other instrument, shall, wheresoever executed, be inadmissible in evidence in this colony by reason of the same not being stamped. 2. Short Title.— -This act may for all purposes be cited as the "Unstamped Instruments Act, 1858."

The discovery has been made in Algiers that a field may be planted with madder, and fed off by cattle for three or four years, without any detriment to the roots, which are afterwards as good for dyers' uses as those cultivated in the ordinary way. The sweet sorgho (Sorghum saccharatum) is found also to be good food for cattle, and paper can be made of the stalks. The sorgho, which was introduced from China, and is known as the Chinese sugar-cane, has attracted great attention throughout the United States, and in every State experiments have been made on its cultivation. Among the most successful are those by Mr. Lovering of Philadelphia. He planted half an acre ; the canes grew from ten to twelve feet high, and yielded excellent sugar, specimens of which were exhibited both raw and loaf. It appears that frost is not prejudicial to the sorgho ; but it deteriorates in the hot autumn, or Indian summer of the States, the juice being aijfected in a way that prevents crystallization. One instance is reported of an acre of sorgho having produced 6,800 gallons of juice, which* »is equivalent to nearly 4,500 pounds of sugar, and %J\ gallons of molasses. , w '