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Waipawa Mail, Volume I, Issue 19, 16 November 1878, Page 3

A Rising District. —A Wairarapa paper says :—As an illustration of the rapid rise of property in this district we may mention that a Greytown settler purchased six months ago two small properties for the sum of £290. He has since sold one of them for £3OO cash, £lO more than the two cost him. A Cure. —Mr G. A. Sala, in a recent Illustrated London News, states that an unfailing source of relief from the agonies of bronchitis and spasmodic asthma will be found in the following specific : —The juice of two lemons which have been warmed in the oven to dry the skins; four ounces of the best honey, two spoonfuls of the very finest Florence oil/ Mix carefully, put in an earthen jar, which keep covered, and swallow a spoonful when you feel the fit coining on. Nelson Cctter Mines. —Dr Hector’s report on the D’Urville Island copper deposits, states that “ the general average of the ore would give a yield of about 22 tons of copper to the 100 tons of ore as mined. Similar coppor ores are now smelted in New South Wales, the latest official notice available showing the produce of 1876 to have been 3106 tons of copper, valued at £243,142 or at the rate of £7B per ton. Taking this and the foregoing estimate, the average value of the D'Urville Island ore would be about £l7 per ton, less the expense of mining, shipping, and smelting.”