The skill of the Celestials In Legers

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 19 May 1880, Page 2

The skill of the Celestials In Legers

demain is even exercised in their cookery, and at a recent Chinese banquet to Americans in ftan Eranciae<v some very curious dishes were pros dneed. Each guest received an orange whicJ appeared to be in its prestine cond lion, but upon being opened was found to contain five different kinds of jelly. No trace was visible of any cafe in the orange to extract the pulp. Colored eggs were also filled tvith jelly, nuts, meat, and sweets, in a simjlpp manner. The interpreter, when asliied; For an explanation, declared " Melicaa , man heap smart, &hf he .not findee , out." ' Another company has been launched as a candidate For the favor of the cap-* italics of Great Britain The title is , (he Waikato Land Company, and the [ chief promoters are Mr Thomas Bussell (of Piako fame), Mr Maun del la, ! (Chairman of the New Zealand Land ','< and Mortgage Company), and Sir > James Fergnsaon, who is the proprief tor of a large estate a f^w miles north of Cambridge, Waikato. I*, is a mat? I f er for gratification that this scheme, j which will be the means -of bringing 3 into, cultivation not much less than , 100,000 acres of ihe fertile lands of . the &ortb Island, by inducing^ English <■"' Farmers to settle «pon them, .has so » rapidly followed the similar scheme ■ for settling' lands In the South.^ The ' capital is J6600,000 in 30$Q0 shares air ' £20 each, and the objects of the Oainpany will be the acquisition of five '' blocks in the ''Waikafo District, viz*:— Eureka, containing 14,0 ~G> 'aerea; Kokonui, the . area of which is not stated j Woodlands, containing 20,. 000 acres y. Itbuidfeofan, containing 17,0b0 acres sand Towbai, containing IU7OO acres. The operations of the Ooaipany'wni also ineliide the acquire ing k f shares in steamboat and railway companies.