The Otago Daily Times. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER IT, 1888.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 6736, 17 September 1883, Page 2

The Otago Daily Times. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER IT, 1888.

The Victorian Tariff Commission was appointed on 20 Th September 1881, " to inquire into arid report on the incidence and working of the present Customs Tariff of this Colony, especially with regard to the continued inclusion therein of items which, neither yielding: any considerable amount of revenue nor adequately protecting any Victorian industry, at the same time seriously hamper (lie operations of trade; and further, to devise the best means of afford ing relief by discontinuing such items in the tariff, and, if necessary, inserting others in lieu thereof." Mr James Mirams, M.P., an energetic and painstaking man, but a strong Protectionist, was appointed chairman, the Commission including 20 other members, 13 of whom were members of the Legislature. The very extraordinary course has been taken of publishing the Chairman's draft report before any final report has been approved by the Commission and presented to his Excellency. Wo are not informed of tbe motives which led to this unusual proceeding. This draft report is now in our possession, and is a very voluminous document, containing a vast deal of tabular and other information, which will bo of great use in enabling the. Commission (o arrive at a final determination. In brief, this _ report recommends the entire abolition of dutieH on a number of articles, the principal of which in point of amount aro thoso at present levied on certain descriptions of woollen piece goods, bottles, coffee, fruits, preserved meats and fish, and live stock. These remissions are estimated to amount to £200,390, and certain other reductions and modifications are also recommended, amounting to £14,750. Tho direct increases of duties proposed are of a most distinctly protective character! Woollen piece goods, other than those proposed to be exempted, it is proposed to charge at 25 per cent. ad valorem instead of 15 per cent., apparel at 33 J per cent, instead of 25 ! per cent., blankets and rugs at 25 per cent, instead of 20 per cent.; there are also large increases on jute piece goods, and on bags other than those for corn and flour, which are to be freo; and the small receipts expected from theso increases, only aggregating £44,300, clearly show that they are intended to be all but prohibitory. New 1 duties are proposed on a few other articles, including 20s per ton on fencing wire, 15 per cent, on reapers and binders, 15 per cent, on gas-engines. The deficiency is made up by a proposed increase in the duties of excise of ls to Is 6d on spirits, and the imposition of 2d per gallon on beer, and £5 per ton extra on sugar used for making beer, in addition to the present duty of £3 per ton, The report does not profess to give reasons for the recommendations it contains, and it is extremely difficult to understand many of the decisions arrived at. Take, for example, the item of hats, of which the report states that " the quality of the Victorian article is considered by importers, as well as by manufacturers, to be excellent, while prices havo been considerably reduced to tho consumer since tho establishment of this industry"; and yet the report recommends a great increase in duties oy way of further protection to manufacturers, who can already undersell imported goods. Again, as regards candles, the evidence taken in the mining districts ia to the effect that they are much cheaper than they used to be, but "although nearly all the candles used in the mines are of Colonial manufacture, tho manufacturers state tbat they have still to contend with the great prejudice which exists against the Colonial manufacture." They therofore cannot consent to any reduction of the protect!vo doty of 2d per lb on imported candlea. Iv other words, the

miners must continue to take bad Colonial candles, or pay a heavy penalty for using good imported c.mdle3. And thia is the JroteationLst mode of euoouraging an important industry like that of raining, yimilarly, tho agriculturist is to bo encoumged by paying 15 per cent, duty ou American reapers and bindera if ho prefers tboui to the locally-made article, and 20i per lon on his fencing wiro. Oa the other hand, he is to be encouraged by tho duty dv all grain, except' wheat and maize, being maintained at it* present high figure of 2a per 1001b. Wheat is to be freej because Victoria now largely exports, and maize is to bo reduced to Od per 1001b. And yet the duty on oata is to be maintained, in spite of the fact that— to quoto again from tho report— " the millers who make oatmeal suggest that oats should be admitted free, cr the duty be reduced to l.s 3d per cental, because for their purpose ihe Victorian-grown are inferior to the New Zealand, and a sufficient supply of suitable qualities of the former is not always to be obtained." Further, tho cabmen and tramway proprietors strongly protest • against paying so dearly for "their horse-feed, and the grain merchants say " that the duty upon oata hampers the Melbourne trade, because oats are sent direct from New Zealand to Sydney in large quantities, and not to Melbourno, for the dealers at Sydney either to ship to Queensland or to nell on the spot, whilst the trado of. this port in many ways' is considerably lessened." It stands to reason that wo should trade most with, those who will trade with us, and tbis argument should bo pushed homo by those who favour intercolonial reciprocity.

On tho subject of intercolonial Freetrade there i 3 a long paragraph which we would specially commend to the notice of the Chairman and Committee of tbo Chamber of Commerce. Mr Mirams considers thero is a want of dofioitencss in the ideas of the manufacturers on this subject, and puts into the mouths of the Commisnirin tho following opinions*, which we hope las fellow Commisßioners will not adopt: "So far as their evidence affords any indication of their ideas upon the subject, we are satisfied that they are impracticable. We are convinced that it is useless to attempt the establishment of anything like a Customs Union between these Australasian Colonies. If Buch a thing conld be done, and an' agreement como to by which a tariff could be, adopted which would completely protect them all from ihe rest of the world, whilo leaving their trade with .each other absolutely free und unfettered, this Colony _ would bo immensely benefited thereby." Certainly, whilo the subject is approached in such a spirit, thero in not much hope. To ask to be " protected" from supplies brought from all quarters of the globe in the way of interchange and commerce, and to shut up theso Colonies in a .little world of their own, is about tbo depth of Protectionist folly. A few grains of sense are contained in a later paragraph, whicli refers to the possibility of a partial reciprocity. " Take, for example, Queensland, and its product, sugar. It ia nob beyond the bounds of possibility that we might make a bargain with that Colony to give it the command of our market for its product sugar on condition that we had the command of its market for certain specified articles of ita manufacture which could be agreed upon, and which would bo accepted by us aa an equivalent." We very much fear Mr Mirams' idea of an equivalent would be a very one-sided one, though he evidently tries to be fair, and is so as far as his prejudices will lot him. But the same principle applies to our New Zealand oats, and we ahould be glad to see some approach to reciprocity, even if absolutely free interchange is a droaih of the future. There are in tbo report many interesting though one-sided particulars of the growth of Victorian manufactures, but we should like details of those of Freetrade New South Wales to place . alongside them. The paragraph about excess of imports over exports contains but a very narrow view of the subject, and loaves out of the account the increase in capital which every vigorous young Colony is making from outside,—-thus drawing. inferences which aro totally misleadiug.. Tho report as.a whole, nevertheless, is an interesting document, and reflects great credit on the industry of its compiler. Wo would recommend the Chamber of Commerce to obtain a few copies for distribution among our principal merchants and traders; and a discussion upon it, so far as it affects the interests of New Zealand, would not be out of place.

It ia with grave conoern that we learn from our-"Wellington correspondent that "little doubt ia generally entertained that Longhurst will be released at an early da'e, in consequence of the strong expression of opinion during live debate in the House of Representatives on tho Bnbject." We have already given the reasons which lead us, affctr a most careful review of every point iv the case, to agree- with the Governor, the Chief Justice, Mr Justice Richmond, and the Minister of Justice, that fjO.VGHURST is guilty, and should not be released. But apart from these, we think that every impartial person must admit that a groat injustice will be done, and a most mischievous precedent set, if the Government allow their hands to be forced oh a subject of such gravity by popular opinion as expressed in the House of Representatives and by the Wellington Press. No fresh points hive arisen in tha case since the Executive decided upon it some five months ago, and if thoy reverse that decision now, they practically admit that they did not give sufficient attention to the case when it last came before them—iv other words; that they were guilty of gross negligence in tho discharge of one of the most important duties which can fall to the lot of any man. Thero has beon, we notice, a strong disposition to argue that an error on the side of mercy would be of little consequence. To this viow we altogether demur. If there exist any doubt as to Longhuest's guilt he should certainly be released. But we know that those who have had the best opportunity of considering the case have no doubt about it. If he is released, then, it will be selfevident that the concession is made not to justice, but to what are called "political exigencies." We cannot understand how Mr Cojs-olly, holding, as he emphatioally stated, no doubt of Longhuest's guilt, waa weak onough to consent to the reconsideration of the case. His plain duty was to stand upon the unassailable ground he occupied. Probably he was overruled by colloagues anxious not to offend thoir supporters, without reflecting how important was the principle involved. Itisdiffioult to imagine any precedent more mischievous than the releasei of LoNGHDKST would afford. It would mean nothing loca than that justice in New Zealand is capable of being turned aside by popular clamour. At the time of the first decision of tho Ministry our Wellington correspondent stated that it was rumoured that, the majority of Ministers wished to yield, but that the Governor, backed by the Minister of Justice, refused to exercise the prarogative. Should need arise, we trust that his Excellenoy will havo the courage to refuse again. It was with the special inlentionofpreventingsuchmiscarriagesof justice as this that all the Colonial Constitution Acts made the Governor the active and responsible agent •in tho exercise of this prerogative, Instead of leaving it to the Miliioler at the head cf the De-part-

ment, as in Jingland. No doubt such a refusal would raise some little popular outory, but all thinking men would agree that the Colony had been savod from a grave misfortune. It is to be hoped, however, that tho heed for such a refusil will not arise. The Ministers of New Zealand havo ever beon guided by a Htr'mg oenae of thity on matters of (serious import to tho reputation of the c 'muiuaity, and wa cannot think that they will be found wan:iig tn this uceasiu'n.

As the Government have not thought fit to send na a copy of the Hallway Improved Landa Bill, we cannot at present enter at leagth upon a criticism of ita provisions. Our Wellington correspondent aeuds'ui a pret'-y full summary of ita provisions, which waß published in our columns on Saturday ; but aa the measure is one of groat importance, wo prefor to await receipt^ of the text of the bill before reviewing its provision* at length. Shortly put, the bill introduces two important principles, which limit in favour of the Stato the almost absolute right of privato property iv land whioh now exists. Those limitations are ; (1) A provision making all privato lands aituato within five milea of a new railway subject to a rate or charge in aid of its construction. This ia as it should be, and we only regret that such a provision was not introduced with the Public Works scheme. (2) A provision onabling the Crown to resumw such lauds on payment of 25 per ceut. over their assessed valuo. This may be a useful provisisn. It will certainly be no terror to monopolists in its present form, if wo understand it aright. "What we deiiro to know, however, is: Whether . any grade ia established makiug the rate less and less as the lands are moro and more distant from the line; ia what way the amount of tho rate i 3 determined ; and whether the lands aro. to be valued from year to year. If the Government may, upon an assessment made now, take the lands at an advance" of 25 per cent, two or three years henco, the bill goes in thia particular beyond tho, scheme advocated by Mr Chapman at the late meeting of the Otago Institute.

■ Letters to the editor, a report of the land i sale at Oamaru on Saturday, and sporting j news by "Beacon " appear on our fourth page this morning. - The groat rowing champion Hanlan will not, | aftor all, have to visit New South Walea. | Laycock, with whom ho was to.be matched, | has met with an accident whereby his leg has been broken, so that the negotiations will come to an end. The Doric (sister steamer' to the lonic) arrived at Auckland on Saturday, after a pas-' sage of 49 days from Plymouth". She called at the Capo of Good Hope and St. Vincent. She brings 580 paSßengers, of whom .270 are Government immigrants. There have beon 2" cases df measles during the voyage, and seven cases aro now under treatment. The wholo of the cases were amongst the ste'orago passengers. The Union Company havo received a cablegram announcing the arrival of tho Takapuna at Cape Town, and her departure thence on Friday for New Zoaland, via Hobart.. The Takapuna is the Company's express steamer. ' The Nelson-Wanganui football match, played at Nelson on Saturday, was a notable game. One player had his leg broken, and another was stunned for a time; whilst a disputed try led to such an unpleasant wrangle that the Wanganui players left tho field beforo the match was over. Football will be getting a bad namo for itself if matches like this and the Auckland-Wellington ono are of frequent occurrence. The nominations for Dunedin Cup, Jockoy Club Handicap, and Forbury Handicap, which are to be run in February, were received last night. There are 49 nominations for the Dunedin Cup.

The annual meeting of the Carisbrook Cricket Club was held on Saturday evening last. Messrs J. P. Maitland and Allan Holmes were unanimously chosen as presidents, and Mr E. T. Collinson was ro-elected captain of the Club for tho ensuing season.

The quarterly summoned meeting of the Dunedin branch of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners was held on Saturday evening at the Working Men's Club. The president (Bro. W. C, Jackson) in the chair. The following officers were duly elected for the ensuing term, viz. :—B.P., Bro. Crawford; V.P., Bro. Cross; B. sec, Bro Pole (vice Bro. Thorn, retired) ; B. treasurer, Bro. Palmer (ro-elected); C.S., Bro. Lodge.; sick stewards, Bros. Fisher and M'Guffia; U.K., Bro. Baird (re elected); B. trustees, Bros. Baldwin, Connor, Steven, Watts, and Taverner ; B.A. Bro. Moffat; B. committee, Bros. Al!an> Baldwin, Findlay, Pickard, and-Watts ; B.R.> Bro. Taverner. It was resolved to pay the expenses of sending a member to Naseby (where work had been offered), owing to the depressed state of the building trade hore.

Early on Sunday morning a man: named Wm. Ramsay met with a fatal accident at Green Island. He was riding along tho road, when hi 3 horse reared and then fell with himIn the fall Mr Ramsay's head struck the ground, and the base of his skull was fractured. He was removed to the Commercial Hotel, and was there attended by Drs Fletcher and M'Caw, but only lived until 4 a.m. It has been deemed unnecessary to hold an iuquest. Deceased was a collier, and was a married man with a family.

There were but few cases on the charge at the Polios Court on Saturday. Four persons were convicted of drunkenness, a charge of vagrancy was withdrawn, and a woman named Jane Brown (for whom Mr E. Cook appeared), was sentenced to four months' imprisonment upon a charge of stealing £1 from the person of Frank Jauany on the 10th 'inst. Messrs J. Logan and R. Chisholm (Justices) presided.

The business at the Resident Magistrate's Court, Port Chalmers, on Saturday, before Mr I. N. Watt, R.M., was confined to two cases. The first was that of Catherine Medex, who was charged with using insulting language to Jane Brown on the llth inst. The case, a paltry ono, was dismissed. The second case was a claim mado by W. Innes against W. Price for £44, and at the request of plaintiff's solicitor it was adjourned for a month.

The Dunßtan Times states that G0,0(X) rabbitskins were collected during the month of August on one station in the Dunstan rabbit district.

The foundation - stono of the Beaumont bridge will be laid on Friday next by "Vincent Pyke, Esq., M.H.R. It is expected (says the Tuapeka Times) that the ceremony will be a very grand affair.

Bishop Nevill, accompanied by the Rev. W, H. H. Jervois (son of the Governor), is on a visit to the Wakatipu district. The Bishop will consecrate the Queenstown and Arrow churches during his stay, and induct the Rev. D. O. Hampton to the incumbency of the parish.

The .Melbourne Age (a penny paper) has beon permanently enlarged to eight pages daily and 12 pages on Saturdays.

According to a recent decision by Mr Justice Johnston, games at cards, whether for money or not, are not debarred in licensed houses under the present Licensing Act. The Lyttelton Times thus explains tho alteration of the law in this rospect:—" In the old Licensing Act publicans were made liablo to a penalty for allowing 'gaming or unlawful games' in their houses; the words used boing copied directly from an English Act. In the Licensing Act of 1881 the word gaming was omitted, and the penalty attached only to permitting an unlawful game to be played in a public-house. Now what is an ' linlawful game' ? Does this expression apply to any game of cards for which money is staked f Certainly not. The courts in England havo decided directly the othor way. They have held tbat tbe game ia not unlawful unless it ia fraudulently played or unless it has been expressly doclared unlawful by statute. "Various English statutes, from the reign of Queen Anne downwards, have been thus branded by enactment. Among them are old friends, like faro and the famous basaett, synonymous with gambling in the comedies of the eighteenth century. Strange games are also mentioned, such as 'rowleypowley,' ' puff-and-dart,' and others. But euchre, being distinctly an invention of the nineteenth century, has naturally escaped the legal censure of the Georgian era. Mr Justice Johnston, thorefore, considered that it could not be called an unlawful game."

The bouquet carried by the Princess of Wales on tha occasion of the Savage Club on" tertainmont was remarkable. It was composed entirely of large lilies, tinted with the most delicate bluo and pink hues by th c absorption of dyes through the stems. By this process, which was discovered by Mr Nesbitt, the well-known analyst, while experi. menting upon the anatomy of flowors, very beautiful results can ba obtained, without in any way affecting- the psrfume or freshness.

Singular to say, flowers refuse to absorb certain colours, while they 'dispose of others indifferent manners. If placed in a mixed solution they make a couipleto analysis ; and some of tlio lilies whioh had beon treated with purple showed distinct rod veins and bluo veins, tha colours having boen divided in tha process of absorption.

The denizens of Pleasunt Point (-"ays tlio Timaru Herald) are considerably exorcised by the appearance among them of a niobt un3xpeotod visitor. A few days ago Mr Robert Anderson discovered, snugly ensconced under a large gorse fence around his garden, a hue specimen of a hedgehog. Whence it came remains a mystery^ as no one in the district was aware of the presence of a single specimen in tho country, and great interest is takon in it, especially by the young folks. It must have boen tamed, aa there is uo difficulty in gotting it to stretch itself and move about and feed freely.

A paragraph reprinted by us the other day gave a very ugly picture of New York in regard to its sanitary condition. On tho same subject the correspondent of tho- Sydney Morning Herald writes that during what the New York papers call " tho heated term," the overcrowding iv the city leads to a terrible increase in tho rate of mortality. In the poorer quarters; at all hours of tho night, the streets and the housetops are filled with peoplo half-undressed loitering about in the hope of now and then catching a faint pufE of cool air. The direct loss . of life from sunstroke is soniotimos as great as 100 a day in the city, aloue. Tho greatest mortality is naturally a-vuong children under live yeara of age. Of late years one of tho charitable societies has chartered a steamboat each summer, and daily takes gratuitously from 800 to 1000 poor wouien and children for an all-day sail on the harbour or up tho river. Tickets are distri' buted, mainly by physicians, who have formed themselves into an organisation for the unpaid treatment of children of tender years during tho hot season. Several hundred doctors hare volunteered for this service, aad mako a daily house-to-house visitation in the worst tenementhouse districts. But these aro at best but feeble palliations.

A trial of Swan's electric light was made in the Picture Gallery at the Melbourne Public Library recently, Sir George Verdon, Mr Ellery, and a number of other gentlemen were present, and the trial was regarded as successful. Altogether 120 small lamps wore usod, each being equal in lighting power to 16 ordinary candles; and, notwithstanding that the engines were not in proper working order, a comparatively soft and brilliant light was (says the Age) shed through tho gallery, renj dering oven the smaller pictures as distinct as thoy appear by daylight.

The Saturday Review has an article upon the unwisdom of allowing cricket, aa is only too Btirely though gradually occurring, to fall into the hands of professional players. It concludes the article with these words:—" We are to some oxtent fortified in the opinions we have ventured to express by what we understand is occurring in Australia. There the distinction between tho amateur and professional player is not so well marked as it ia here. The professional, in the strict sense of tbe word, is the ground bowler, but all the great players—such, for example, as the members of the eleven which played in England last year»-are paid, and some make cricket their principal source of income. There are vory few people, we understand, in the position of the so-called 'gentleman' player in England; the result ia that disagreeable incidents are not uncommon, and that the game is played with a keenness, hardness, and gr t ed very different from tho good feeling which is almost invaiiablo in England. Tbis Baeraa to us the inevitable result of making cricket a business, and it is an evil we Bhould desire to postpone in this country as long as possible."

A correspondent sends to the Jewish World a now method of combating smallpox, communicated by its author, Dr S. Swan, of New York: —" I firat scarify the arm in the usual way, then givo the patient, internally, a dosa of a very high potency of variolinum, and with adults repeat the dose next morning, but with children give only ono dose. In a few days tha variola pustule appears on the arm, runs its course, and disappears, leaving sufficient scar to confirm the variolation. Tho introduction of the awa variolcs by this method protectrt the patient from smallpox, without introducing any foreign diseases, or waking up any hereditary taints in the system."

The Mexican Government has concluded tt. contract with Mr Oscar A. Droege to plant 2,000,000 of trees in the Valley of Mexico within four years, commencing March 15, 18S4. Half a million trees a year are to be planted in such places as the Govorment shall decide. The contractor pledges .himself to establish a number of nurseries,- and to have in them each year at least 80,000, ash, 35,000 willows, 120,000 poplars, 60,000 eucalyptus trees, 60,000 tranoa-japones, 60,000 mountain cypress cedars, 60,000 acacias, and 120,000 of miscellaneous varieties. The trees must.be in plantations of from 50,000 to 100,000 each, and Mr Droege has to maintain them for two years after planting. He is not compelled to plant trees along the highways, however. Three graduates of the School of Agriculture are to bo received into the nurseries each year, there to study the science of forestry. -He is also to raise fruit and other useful plants for free distribution. There is to be translated from the German every year a work ph arboriculture of recognised merit. An inspector is to superintend, and Mr Droege is to receive annually 40,000d013, till tho sum reaches a total of j 200,000d015.

On Saturday evening, at West's Academy of Music, Mdine. Alexandre Kerr, a recent arrival in Dunedin, gave a short series of readings from the best-known French poets and dramatists. Mdme. Kerr affects uo manner of display in her elocution, which is quiet almost to a fault. Atthe same time her reading is marked, by a gdod deal of sympathetic appreciation of the subject, and her purity of accent and clearnes 8 of delivery help hor considerably with an English audience. Thero were but few people present, but theso listened with attention and pleasure to somo of the most familiar lines of the most familiar authors, read with expression and taste. A few of' the passages selected lost something by the interpolated explanations furnished by the reader, but these were generally to the point, and framed in very passable English, although Mdme. Kerr was once unintentionally amusing over one of La Fontaine's fables. La Fontaine formed thestart-ing-point, and thence Mdme. Kerr passed on to Moliere, Racine, Corneille, and Lamartine, the latter of whom she designates the Tennyson of Franoe. The reading was short—lasting less than an hour—and was by no means wearisome. We understand that Mdme. Kerr contemplates forming a class here. If so, she should find little difficulty in executing her project.

The annual ball in connection with the East Taieri Rifles was held in the Garrison Hall, Mosgiel, ou Friday evening, and was a great success. About 60 couples were present, and dancing was kopt up with spirit till about -1.30 on Saturday morning. The refreshments, supplied by Mr H. Mills, were of the best description. Capital music was provided.

Next Saturday evening Messrs Stanfield and Dark (members of the Tambour Major Opera Company) will open their Merry •Thoughts and Happy Moments entertainment for a short season.

At the Juno complimentary concert ou Wednesday evening Miss Juno will contribute " Jeauie Deanß' Interview with the Duke of Argyle," " Pittin' in the Cries," and (by special request) " A Newhaven Fishwife's Interview with Her Lover."

The second performance of " Withered Leaves " and the burlesque of "EastLynne" were favourably received on Saturday evening at the Princess Theatre It was intimated that the next change of programme would be the repetition of the sensational drama "British Born," with the burlesque as an afterpiere.

Messrs M'Landress, Hepburn, and Co. will sell sections iv Williamsliurgh, Mornington, on September 22 ; and on Wednesday will sell furniture and electroplated waro. In the case of Jos. Ha'llnaii v. John A. Burnside, fo bo heard at the District Court, the amount was wrongly statol in Saturday's is3uo as £211. The claim is £200, beyond which amount the Court has no jurisdiction.

Mr J. 0. S Grant s»nda us No 6 ot his Dv edin Review It contains two reviews of recant works.

Adamant's consult»M"n advutiEemsnt will bo found on page 16 of the Otago Wilness [Advt j In o.inseriuenco of the very lari-o amount of doubtful and bad debts on my bcoks, 1 have decidrd to make a reduction in prices for cash and shoi t credit * ustomora will bo pleased to learn that every article is prime, and that I shail maintain tho proud position of beiniir the cheapest and mist eh il bafcther ln town. F.w prices, sco now price lists, ard compare them with what is charged by others This day 15 very large O.ton and abovo ICO Siheep will bo Bold, at the new prices, both at Qeorge and lllgh Btreets.—A. DoexWELt,.—[ADVT.]

Cast Tiihsi Oct.—lf thero aro any diseases which deserve tho iianio demoniac, Dyspcfisia is ono of them It attacks and tortures tho system liko a veritablo liend, and renders life a burden. The medicines of the dispensary will not expel it. Cast it out with Dn ■Walkhr's Vkgbtablk Vixkoar Biitbhs. There is no form o( indigestion or liver complaint that can withstand it. Tho California root* and herbs from which it is prepared are of more valuo t-o mankind than all the gold of tho Paciiic States. Aj-mils, P. H.uhan is'b Co., Dunedin.—[AnTt.]