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Otago Witness, Issue 184, 10 March 1855, Page 1

SEEDS AND TREES. FORTY Cwt. Mixed Permanent Pasture Grasses 20 Cwt. Red and White Dutch Clovers 10 Cwt. Lucerne, Trefoil, and* Cow Gras3 5 Cwt. Broom and Gorse or Whin A Large Supply of all sorts of Vegetable and Agricultural Seeds 2,000 One and Two Years Grafted Fruit Trees 3,000 One Year Transplanted English Hoi* lies 6,000 Lombardy and Black Italian Poplars 1,000 Dwarf and Climbing Roses 200,000 Thorns, Privets, and Sweet Briars Orders from Otago promptly attended to, and Seeds, Plants, and Trees transmitted with speed and safety per Steamer " Nelson." W. WILSON, Nursery and Seedsman, Canterbury. Dunedin, March sth, 1855. *T^HE Messrs. Filleul are prepared to take -L charge of a small number of Cattle on their Run at Waitaki. The above could also Jook after a few Sheep on Thirds of Produce. For particulars apply to Mr. Day, Rattray Street. LIKE! LIME! LIME! FOR SALE, One Hundred and Fifty Bushels of Superior Shell Lime. Parties in the town or country may have it delivered at the Dunedin jetty. Apply to Mr. Brebner, or at the Printingoffice. Telegraph in America.-— The length of the telegraph lines in the United States, according to the exhibition report by Mr. Whitworth, exceeded 15,000 miles in 1852, and has since considerably increased. The most distant points so connected in. North America are Quebec and New Orleans, 3000 miles apart. When the contemplated lines, connecting California with the Atlantic, and Newfoundland with the main continent, are completed, San Francisco will be in communication with St. John's, Newfoundland, distant from Galway but five days' passage. It is therefore estimated that intelligence may be conveyed from the Pacific to Europe, and vice versa, in abo\it six days. The cost of erecting telegraphs does not average more than £35 a mile throughout the States. The charge for messages from New York to Washington, 270 miles, is 50c. (2s. Id.) for ten words, and sc. (2£d.) for every additional word. The charge to the press "is lc. a word under 200 miles, 2c. between 200 and 500 ; and the New York papers, bearing the expense jointly, publish every day as much matter received by telegraph as would fill two columns of a London newspaper. Telegraph wires in towns are almost universally carried along the tops of houses, or on poles erected in the streets, instead of being conveyed in pipes underground. — Builder. Professor Ansted, in his newly published work on " Scenery, Science, and Art," thus remarks with reference to the go-ahead Americans : — " The manner in which the Americans have developed the resources of California offers a very humiliating contrast to our dealings with. Australia. Within three years of the arrival of the news that gold had been discovered in California, the Americans had on the Pacific coast 37 ocean steamers and 13 ordinary steam vessels, showing an aggregate of 34,986 tons. The steam marine of the Gulf of Mexico consisted at the same time of 12 ocean steamers, 95 ordinary steamers, and two propellers ; tonnage 23,244. Ttf this day we are unable to establish a regular mail communication witk Australia. Who shall say there is lack of capital, or talent, or enterprise in England ? Yet those most familiar with commercial ethics can testify to an increasing barrier between the capitalist and the unraonied man of ability, skill, and industry in these parts/ . . "At the commencement of 1853 upwards of 700 steamvessels of various kinds were navigating the waters of Kanawha, the Ohio between Mount Pleasant and the Mississippi, below its junction with the Ohio. Through the city of Cincinnati no fewer than 21 lines of rail, containing in all 2,260 miles of road, are now in course of construction, and half the mileage is already completed." A Forthcoming Wonder. — According to^a correspondent of HerapaMs Journal, steam-power is to be superseded by " Poulson's Patent Pendulum T-lever," which will be brought -before the public in about a month. Two men ' in a sitting position will be able with ease to propeta railwayengine of twenty- five horse, power, with, its full complement of carriage, at any-spfeed to be attained by steam-power ! The tenders and boilers ,of the^present engines will be no longer required* and the new engine will be constructed of about one-fourth the weight, and at,; say," one-sixth or one-eighth the cost. .The wheels and frames \pf the present engines will be available for the new ones.