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l?t8K and Marine Ins Wheuwu went io press yest. the Chamber had under its the following resolution, whic by Mr McMillan and sccom. Jakins, »iz.:—" That the opinu. various insurance corapauies be Si. before any action is taken by the Chai _Wo subjoin ac abridged report ot discussion which ensued :—Mr G. P. P stated that a meeting of the represent ot tho various local and foreign insv companies was held on the 4th instil whioh the following resolution was pi. " That this meeting approvos of the gc principles of the Fire and Marine Insm Company's Bill, but would suggest cc amendments therein."—ln answer to Shera, Mr Pierce said that an ami ment affirming the dosirability p poning the motion ■was lost.—Mr jl. Clarko thought that the discu sioa should be confined to the principles < the Bill. In his opinion some such mci sure was required for the protection of th interests of the insured. Some notoriouslj weak Companies had done business in New Zealand, and quite recently an insurance agent arrived in Wellington for the pur pose of opening a branch office, when the I brittlo British Company which ho repres ented suddenly burst up. He did not ap prehend that the Bill which had been laid before Parliament would have the effect of driving the foreign companies out of the field of competition here, and to his mind some of tho objections which had been raised against it were of a trivial character. He approved of the recommendation that each Company should appoint a general agent, upon whom law processes, &c, might be served. The gentleman con cluded by moving as an amendment, " That this Chamber considers that a Bill similar in its provisions to that now under consider ation is desirable, and will conduce both to the interest of the public, and to that of the insurance companies now carrying on busi ness in New Zealand."—Mr John Lamb seconded the amendment,—Mr J. M. Shera wished merely to correct some false impres sions which appeared to have been produced upon the minds of several members. It was not true that foreign companies always paid by drafts on their London office, for their payments could be, and often were, made in gold. Neither w&s it a matter of option with the agents of foreign companies to re ceive law processes, &c. They were prac tically the offices! which they repre sented, and they had full power of attorney. —Mr J. M. Lennox spoke in support of the Bill.— Mr G. P. Pierce said that urgent as was the necessity forprotection to the insured against bogus foreign companies, such as the notorious Northern Counties Insurance Company, there was equal urgency for pro tection against bogus local companies. Of such there had been many within his own experience. He might instance the Toko mairiro Fire Insurance Company; the Hawke'a Bay Insurance Company, and the Auckland Insurance Company, all of which had come to the ground for the obvious reason that their operations had been confined to particular districts. He did not fear the withdrawal ot the stable foreign loss, in consequence of such a Bill as that laid before Parliament, and he might say, that if such a contingency were thought probable, none would deplore it go sincerely as the principal local companies. They were fully impressed with the convic tion that it was a matter ot impossibility for them to overtake all the insurance business that was to be done in New Zealand, and, consequently, they welcomed them, not as rivals, but, rather as colleagues. He would just ask them, for instance, to reflect upon the possible results of a fire in Wellington, ■where £25,000 worth of property might be destroyed in one night. In that city, the number of risks were very large. It was manifestly impossible for the local com panies there to accept all the business that was to be done, and while the foreign com panies carried on profitable operations, he felt assured.that they would not withdraw. At present the Liverpool, London and Globe and other celebrated companies which were represented here, were placed under far more stringent regulations and conditions in Canada and the United States than those contemplated in New Zealand, and in no case had there been any talk of withdrawal. The young David, who had just fought in that Chamber the battle of the foreign com pauies, had acted with some precipitation, for the responsible heads of the various offices were already signifying their ap. provalof the Bill. The local representatives who had opposed it had therefore, done so in contrariety to the opinions of their superiors, whose instructions came subse quently to hand. This fact he communi cated for the information of the gentleman who had undertaken the defence of the foreign companies.—Mr McMillan said that as he doubtless was the young David re ferred to, he might be permitted to say one or two words by way of reply. He had not spoken in ignorance of the matters under consideration, for before coming to the Chamber he had taken the trouble to wait on the local agents of the various Companies, and to ascertain from them the views of their superiors with regard to the Bill in question, and he had simply given the result of those inquiries. He thought that Mr Piercers remarks came with a very bad grace, seeing that he was the principal official of one of the leading offices. He came to the Chamber when the interests of that particular office were likely to be called in question, but if he attended its meetings as regularly as he himself did, and spoke less as an insurance manager than as a citizen anxious to conserve the public interests, his opinion would come with better grace. It would be time enough for him to bo jocular when he was indepen dent.—Mr Shera also replied.—The motion and amendment were then put to the meet ing, when the former was lost—Mr Mc- Kenzie moved, as a further amendment, " That this Chamber endorse the resolutions of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce." —Mr Masefield, in seconding the amend ment, expressed his opinion that we had no right to place restrictions upon Companies which came to do business here. People who chose to insure in non-solvent offices did so at their own risk, and the fact that so little losses had occurred from this causa showed that very few risks indeed had been taken in bogus compauies.—The amendment was rejected and the motion carried. Proposed Duty on Maize. — The Chairman read the following telegram which he had received from Mr W. A. Murray, Chairman of the Parliamentary Agricultural Committee at Wellington : — "Chairman of Agricultural Committee considers it probable that import duty of Is per bushel will be placed upon maize. Wire opinion also effect upon Fiji trade, Auckland shipping, shipbuilding, agricul ture, and on local consumers also if duty imposed. Would the duty increase trade there and what Auckland sends in ex change.—Mr Lamb said the effect of a duty upon maize wonld be to send the vessels engaged in the carrying trade with the Islands straight to Sydney. It would act most detrimentally upon the trade of Auckland. The effect of the wheat duty had been to increase the Southern farmers to send their wheat to England, and the result was that tho price had gone up 9s per bushel within the last fortnight. Oats were now being held in reserve, and as maize was therefore the principal food for horses, of which, a great number waa em ployed in Auckland, such an impost would be severely felt here.— Mr Jakins considered that Is per bushel duty on maize would be simply prohibitory. Still he could not see why, when wheat, oats, and barley were taxed 9d per cental, that the duty on maize should have been taken off. He firmly believed that 9d a cental on maize would not prevent1 a single bushelß,of Fiji maizo from coming jhere, while it would prove a great boon to the East Coast farmers, who, last season, had grown two-thirds of the total quantity consumed here. Fiji traders

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At lengt! stores had • food but tL which was palatable to determined "white mci natives said, ally. A part. Laville, Luri named Jack (t and fourij oth Langlan in acs whither, exeep find the " white compass nor se ever to guide or beyond the scascd of the si natives. It may Europeans, with « were still sufferu weak and almost 1 ing two days they the natives were fri succeeded in procui nut', taro, yams, ai mained here four day was occupied ifl- puttL and in other .Ways maY the voyage, ' On the 26 this island at 6 o'clock i reached, the island of T at 2/ o'clock the L As .Boon as the nativ. party, they surrounded prisoners, and confined with the avowed intentio. meal of them. "Jack," native who was captain of the cannibals that they h attempt to carry out their pr. while men were all armed wi to which he ascribed miracu Tiiis seemed to have the desi nothing further was heard of t cannibal feast; and fortunately men, notwithstanding that armed, were incapable, from exposure, and hardship, of maki> resistance. At it was, however, i fellow named Luria succumbed effects of the shock, which was too for his shattered system. He was i in front of one of the huts by Hovrine, erected a rude cross to indicate the where his comrade was buried, and then silence and alone, knelt down and iircd revolver three times over the grare.

Next day Captain "Jack " and the part left in the canoe without interruption fron the cannibals, and sailed to the other end o, the island, where they had to stay a day and a night to get provisions, &c. On the following morning they went to sea again, and after touching at several islands they reached the island of Teste, where they were received with the greatest kindness by a native missionary named Geerery. Rose and Laville were so ill that they had to be carried ashore from the canoe. They were placed in a hut, and everything that kind ness could suggest was done for them by their sable hosts. The whole party, indeed, were treated most hospitably, and informed that they might remain at Teste as long as they chose, or until a vessel touched at the island. The hospitality so generously offered was accepted, and the party stayed at Teste for a period of three wefeks. On the 3rd of May the mission steamer Ellangowan arrived, and as soon as Capt. Dudtield heard the story of the unfortunates, and that there were still 13 men at Langlan, he determined to go to that island to render assistance, and offer them a passage in his vessel it they wished to leave. Accordingly, the Ellan gowan left Teate the next day, having on board flovrine (who went as fireman), Row:, and Laville, and arrived at Langlan on the 12th May at 12 o'clock. It was then found that out of the 23 men left on the island four had succumbed to disease, while the remaining nine were completely prostrated from the same cause. Finding nearly all the poor fellows unfit to be removed, Captain JJudfield gave them a supply 'of stores, tobacco, and medicines, besides a quantity of "trade" with which to traffic with tbe natives, and then on the 13th May sailed for New Guinea, having with him Hovrine, Ko*e, Laville, Godard, and Vau Lierde. Seven men were thus left at Langlan. The Ellangowan completed her cruise, calling at all the mission stations in New Guinea, and then returned to Cook town, which was reached on the 19th of June. The immigrants on board were even then so ill, with the exception of Hovrine, who kept in the best of health during the whole time, that they were all taken to the Cooktown hospital. About the 22nd June, 11. M. schooner Conflict arrived at Cooktown from Langlan, having the remainder of the men left at that place on board, particulars of whom have already been published. Hovrine remained on board the Ellangowan as fireman, and came to Sydney by her on Friday last, when he was paid off. It is stated by Hovrine that though the men comprising the immigrants joined the expedition most eagerly, they very soon found out tho mistake they had made ; and if it had been possible, they would have left the vessel in a body, seventeen days after the Chandernagore sailed from Flessingen, I and when they were at Porto Praya.

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h TL be t the i a mot by im within iuto do*, yeast or i and also v fermeutatio which (the digestibility After the k weighed out form the kirn portions of do and set aside fo, sury proof; tL soon generates carbonic acid to c: double its former considered fit for finally baked into los quit the oven, after . baking are twice as bui. tcredit. The generation of gas within the dough i. placing it in the oveD, becai dough is exposed to a great h\ of fermeutation ( is arrested, am previously contained gas whicu the heat throughout every part that swells out its whole volume its piled vesicular structure. '■ well-made and well-baked loaves taken out of the ovens are composes infinite number of cellules, each of * is failed with carbonic acid gas, and it is that communicates the light, elastic, port, tex are to the bread. It is an impossibilit for loaves to be manufactured with greate'i purity of materials, or manipulated with mo™ cleanliness and efficiency, than those we had the pleasure of seeing produced by the Glasgow Baking Company. Indeed, the important and |somewhat obscure pheno mena underlying the baker's art are so ably mastered by the proprietors and the manager of this establishment that we have no hesi tation |in saying that better loaves are not produced anywhere. As the loaves are taken from the oven they have an aroma that is highly suggestive or a sweet, " nutty " taste" to the palate, and possess a richness of color which we greatly admired. If bakers in general -would persevere, as the Glasgow Baking Company do, in adding nutrition to their products, than in rivalling each other in whitness—many of winch suggests the employment of WeacniDg materials—the degeneracy to which the public taste | has been reduced as to believe that -white bread possesses

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