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NOTICES. /CAMPBELL'S BONE MILL, Halfway \J Bush.— Depot : Athol Place, Ducedin. Large quantity of Bone Dust Manure For Sale this season. Samples and price free by post. Liberal discount given to purchasers taking a quantity. BOARDING and DAY SCHOOL for YOUNG LADIES, Lackbeg House, Upper Walker street, Dunedin. Conducted by the Misses Sproule. Established January, 1866. Prospectuses on application. 14jy DOUBLE FURROW PLOUGHS;— We have for sale a consignment of the above, of different designs, and prices from £12 10a, made by the celebrated Murray and Co., of Banff, who hold a first prize from the Royal Agricultural Society for their manufactures. _ Parties have now an opportunity of supplying themselves with, an excellent article at a very low price, as our instrnctions are to sell. NIMMO and BLAIR, Dunedin. HISKY.— A skilful blend of the best Whisky, thoroughly matured, is sold by BANKS, BARRON, and Co. (successors to Barron, Grant, and Co.) at 42s per dozen. This Whisky pleases the most critical. TNVALIDS who require Port Wine, and JL have difficulty in obtaining any they can rely upon, should send for their supplies to BANKS, BARRON, and Co., Dunedin successors to Barron, Grant, and Co.), who deyote special attention to the' sale of a suitable kind. Their Port Wine for Invalids (Yellow Seal) is pure and agreeable. It is sold at 5s per bottle, or 60s per dozen. When requested, samples- of this wine will be submitted for approval, free of cost, to any Medical Gentleman.

TO CORRESPONDENTS. Correspondents must enclose name and address, not for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. We in all cases claim the right to correct or abbreviate communications. We cannot guarantee the return of rejected MSS., unlesß accompanied by a stamped envelope. NOTES AND QUERIES. A.B. wishes to know the particulars of flic Gowrie conspiracy to dethrone James VI. T.C.B. asks certain questions, about the effect of marriage upon the property of the wife, which cannot be answered this week. ANSWERS. MECHANIC— The best work published, of the kind you require, is " Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary." It is in three large volumes, and describes the tools', machinery, &c. , used in every art. It also gives an account of .the processes and histories of the arts themselves. _ There are 7,500 engravings. An English edition is now appearing. W. J.M. — The earliest mode of writing was on bricks, tilea, oyster shells, stones, ivory, bark and leaves of trees; and from the latter, "leaves of books" is probably derived. Copper and brass plates were early in use, and a bill of feoffment on copper was some years since discovered in India, bearing date one hundred years B. 0. Leather was also used, as well as wooden tablets. Then the papyrus came into vogue, and about the Eighth century the papyrus was superseded by parchment. Paper, however, is of great antiquity, especially among the Chinese ; but the first paper-mill in England was built in 1586, by a German, at Dartford in Kent. ' Nevertheless, it was nearly a century-and-a-half — namely, in 1713 -7- before Thomas Wat kins, a stationer, brought paper-making into antyhing like perfection. The first approach to a pen was the stylus, a ■ kind of iron bodkin; but the Romans forbade its use on account of its frequent and even fatal use in quarrels, and then it was made of bone. Subsequently reeds, pointed and split, like penß in the present day, were used. CHOIR SINGER. — Church music was first introduced into the Christian church by Gregory the Great in 602. Choir service was first introduced in England in 677. Church organs were in general use in the tenth century.