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Otago Daily Times, Issue 215, 28 August 1862, Page 5

IVATtmE-3UPE Paper.—We have before us a canous sahstaaee, taken from a pool in the neighborhood of Aberleinno, Forfaphire, and which Ls been aptly described by a German naturalist as ■ nature-prepared paper." The portion that has been handed to us for inspection has undercone no operation since it was taken from its natural liabitpt ■ yet it is as white as many varieties of coar^ w'-iitp iJT 1. at tbe ™m, and m texture fc fa i closer and tougher-at least the Ink doe? not run i into biotsupon it as on the manufactured article of the same colour/or even that upon which most American newspapers are printed. From last rears July number of the Journal of Agriculture'^ sublicaton by the way. which is not so well known as it ought to be, aud winch often contains much, that is interesting and valuable to the general reader, as well «L£n s f BB ft r T^ Om {t is more especially desijsned) we Mean the following- particulars reenrdingtow remarkable material:—» The plant termed by Lmnarns conferva, and especially those species of it, conferva rivularv, conferva bullom, confirm rtficufato,«growing plentifuliyon the top of the water m brooks, rivulets, -ponds, ditches, &c, attracted i?sf s notice, because he could not persuade himself that thrjfty nature should have brought forth =o mucn beauty and such an astonishing" quantity of fleecy matter to no use or purpose. I experienced very soon (says he) that it contained a proper stuff for paper making, aud, what is more surprising a paw prepared bj & ature alone. This peculiar web co; - tarns innumerable fleecy parts of vegetation, wiucha" c generated m early spring on ponds and other standia waters. They detach^emielres from the Soa\ and rise on the surface as a handsome green and yellow covering. After remaining for sometime, tS become more united and fitted together, bleached and ft^K UrnedJ5 to a J t<)usb PaP« r-^e covering. Where it has been produced upon clean water, it is not unlik! a superior paper of which some may be 4tWI nearly as whfte as writing paper." As pSeSSkS PT- J 5i <¥ man.d f<>r which is growing every- year "a T 1! 111 to incr*ase more %nd more with r^U 6? a"cH tlontoan article almost ready made 512Si rb Md' tI?" lip^ofwhicll we demand is constderabe. and nugnt be rendered more abundant by cultivation. Were the plant to become an artiVe of commerce, it woaldalso add considerably to tne value ot many meuntain cstates.-^? 0^lan ; Uie It is said that Mr. Jfaylor has settled £S0 a-vear on the jockey who won the Oaks on Feu de Joie. Captain Wilson, of the Erailie St. Pierre haslwn entertained at a dinner at Dalbeatti*; SSdtafehT The marriage of the Princess Ah'ce with th- Pr-r». a he remains are those of Kichard. a&ert Ul*\