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Otago Daily Times, Issue 8862, 21 July 1890, Page 3

\TIIWB FROM FIJI. Lbvuka, 19th November 1889. Gentlemen, —" Desiring to express my admiration of the Waterbury Watch, Iplace on record the following facts in connection therewith that I am personally acquainted with —viz., that for the last two years I have constantly carried a Waterbury, and have always found it to keep excellent time. I have mado a point of often comparing it with a £12 12s Waltham and a ship's chronometer kept by the harbourmaster, and have very rarely found it to differ in reading from either. I can also state for a fact that Waterburys are worn in preference to others by several of the most prominent business men of this town." —L. Johnston. r".S.—I also time the Bank of N.Z. clock with it. 11 LILY OF THE VALLEY. No garden, conservatory, or house should be without this favourite flower, which is so easily grown and so well repays any little attention it requires. Perhaps no spring flowering plant can equal its delicious perfume and lovely deep green foliage. It is admirably adapted for pot culture, but flowers equally as well in the open. Hyacinths and Tulips planted now in pots, glasses, or in the open border will bloom when the, majority of the earlier planted bulbs have passed into the seared and yellow leaf. LILIES.—Few flowers require less care in their oulture or give more pleasure to the grower and all lovers of flowers than lilies. The bulbs may remain in the ground undisturbed for several years, the bulbs increasing in size and number, and the flowers giving a corresponding increase. Lilium Auratum (Golden-rayed Queen of Lilies), considered the finest of all lilies, their immense blooms measuring nearly a foot in width when fully expanded. These and all the other varieties of Japan Lilies may be obtained from George Matthews, Moray place.

Dr Macgowan, a well-known scholar, recently read a paper ou the aborigines whom the Chinese found on the Yellow River in arriving from Akkad, These people, unlike the Chinese, were destitute of civilisation. The Chinese invaded their country before the invention of the cuneiform writing of Akkad, and used knotted corils or "quipos" in keeping records. These quipos, according to Dr Macgowan, were tho bases of the archaic annals, and from them the earliest form of Chinese written characters was developed. The pne-Chiuei-e race had several curious customs aud practices of deformation, such us drinking through the nostrils, and Bub6tiuting dog's teeth for their owa front teeth. They also flattened the head, like the Chinook Indians of British Columbia, and they attempted to raise a polyriachylous race by destroying all chililreu born with the usual number of finp'.rs and toee. The result was a tribe with 12 fiiijrers and sis nmny toes. Amazohs al?o pxi-ttd nmong them, ftnrl a " gynnrchy," or political state in which woratn were dominant over men. To this day nmong the original trihps tho chieftaincy belongs to the women. Dr Macgowan thinks that, rumours of these tribes gave rise to the fabulous titles in ancient Greece n-gurling th« liiclo-Sn.ythi.in Amazons. It was among these tribes that the successor of Confucius arose, tbo proto-altruist or philosopher of Uuiversal Love, Motzu, whose doctrines are in accordance with those of modern anthropologists as regards the evolution of the family and thtj State.