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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 4472, 15 October 1883, Page 2

We learn that Mr. J. George's mare Confident has dropped a fine filly foal to Resolution A recent opinion given by the Bankers' Magazine, published in London, is that cheques written with the new copyingink pencil should not be paid by bankers. The s.s. Napier, which left Wellington at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, for Opunake and Waitara, had to put into Wanganui on Thursday through stress of weather. She maybe expected about to-raorrow. The following tenders were received for rationing the Armed Constabulary stationed on the West Coast: —Accepted : Farmer and Maclleynolds, 9d. Declined : F. K. Crowther, 9d. ; Stitt and Ching, 9£d.; E. L. Smith, 9£d.; E. L. Humphries, Is. The last tender was informal. Letters have been received from Major Tuke, Captain Morrison, and some of the A.C. who recently went to Kawhia. All are highly pleased with their surroundings. It appears there is plenty of shooting to'be obtained. It is stated (says the Egmont Courier) that Tohu has lately gone in for white and gold china cups and saucers, white-handled knives, and silver-plated forks. During the past few days, at all events, tho stores have been eagerly searched for the orthodox pattern of tea-cups. One disciple of Te Whiti's, living near Opunake, wanted four dozen cups and saucers. No other pattern but the white and gold would go down. A heavy gale was blowing all yesterday, and it was a work of great difficulty to tender the steamer from the beach. Inside the breakwater, however, the sea was perfectly smooth, and a steamer could have run up on the tide and discharged cargo in safety. Had the s.s. Roturoa come close into the breakwater on Saturday passengers could have been landed in the boats with ease. We think in exceptionally rough weather arrangements might bo made in future by the Union Company for landing passengers at the breakwater instead of carrying them to Nelson or Manukau, as the case may be. Some curious information as to the bean from which Indian soy is made, and its nutritious qualities, appears in a recent number of the Cirenccstcr Students 1 Agricultural Gazette. Professor Kinch, writing about it, says that it possesses a composition more nearly approximating to animal food than any other vegetable, and that it is largely consumed in China and Japan by the Buddhists, who, as is well known, are not allowed to touch animal food of any sort. Pastry, conserves, and a vegetable cheese are made out of the ooy bean, and are said to contain a great deal of nourishment. Referring to Mr. Rusden's misleading work on New Zealand, the Athenamm says—We scarcely know who will care to wade through tho interminable repetitions in these 1,800 pages. The English public do not care sufficiently for them, the,colonists are not likely to spend their time or money upon them, and the inhabitants of "Maoria" will not appreciate them. Whoever makes tho attempt had better procure a good ! English dictionary, unless he is able to affix a meaning off-hand to such words as " pervicacious, " procacity," "protervity," "ochlocratic," "cntachrestically," and many others, in which Mr. Kusdcn at once indulges his fancy and displays his research. Forty thousand poundß are spent j9very year in London for whitebait. There are 113 newspapers published in Japan, besides 33 miscellaneous publications. The great bridge joining New York and Brooklyn is lighted by sixty-four electric lamps. One hundred and fifty-four million tons of ooal were taken out of tho British minos last year. Late tho other night a man was seen to approach in v stealthy manner a deep pool in a retired spot in Dunodin. When lie thought no ono was observing him he dropped a bulkly parcel into the water and made off. Here were the materials for a delicious tragedy, a maddening mystery. Information was taken to the police station, and the intelligent inspector on duty, recognising tho gravity of the situation, sent for a detachment of the fire brigade, and commenced pumping the water out of the pool. All night they pumped, and when tho sun was winging his measured course across tbo eastern skies, the mysterious parcel was displayed to light, lying flat and squat on the bottom mud. A vast crowd pressed forward, thrilled to the finger tips with expectation. Was it dynamite cartridges, or the limbs of a man, or the head of a man, or the head of a woman, or the body of a murdered child ? It was neither of these. It was a case of sharland's moil brand baking powder destroyed by the order of a combined company of. rivals.—hb g