SILK CULTRE IN NEW ZEALAND.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VIII, Issue 1491, 2 December 1881, Page 2

SILK CULTRE IN NEW ZEALAND.

It vu some time ago announced that the Gorernment had seat to Japan for a consignment of mulberry trees and silkworm eggs in order to encourage the development of the Industry of silk culture in the colony. We hear that by the last mail from San Francisco the Government received, through Mr. R. J. Creighton, one card of the best green kind of silk worm eggs from the Othin district, and one card of the beat green kind frum the Linichin district, the two best silk districts in Japan. These egga have arrived in excellent condition. Mr. Alcock, of Yokahama, who procured them for Mr. Crei^hton, writes on the 27th September last to say that by the following mail he hoped to have further onpplies of ogps to hand when he would be in a position to send the other varieties which were ordered by the Government, viz., orange and white cocoons, annuals as well as bienuials or vivolteni cocoons. The samples sent by the last mail were procured by Mr. Alcock as a favor out of the bulk, as at the time he wrote the supplies of eggs had only been very sparingly Drought into the market, it being too early for the uttual operations which take place every year, Mr. Aicock also hoped to be able to ship a supply of mulberry trees from Yokahama as soon an the trees were in a condition to bear removal.

A London correspondent of an American paper astonishes his readers by this assertion relative to the daughters of the Prince and Princess of Wales ; — •* I have seen them at charitable ceremonies, which were attended by much pomp and magnificence ; I have seen them riding, driving, walking, boating, and on none of these occasions, I venture to say, did the wearing appxarel of each one of the little girls exceed in cost a ten dollar bill. A simple whito muslin frock, nndecorated by any lace, unrelieved by any silk slip or expensive sash, formed the opera costume. The winter and boating dresses are of serge, the summer dresses are of washing prints. And all aro made in the simplest stylo.

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