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CORRESPONDENCE.
'?Mineral. —There is no market for rutile
ia the colony.- A parcel was sent to Eng
land tome time ago from the neighbour
Itood of Cumeraeha- which— according to an
analyst* inane oy jur. a. xnonuu, r.v-o. —
contained SI per cent, of titanium. The
returns from this shipment were very un
jatisfactory. The metal is used for hard
ening steel.
'J.A.F..*' Clcve, remarks that 'it is
worthy of being recorded that the intense
heat and continued dryness of the summer
of 1S07-S have had a baneful effect on some
of the native trees. I have a large number
of pines, and many have died; and that nob
withstanding the fact that {rood rains fell
during the winter following the heat. Not
only old pines, but plenty of young ones,
in patches, and also individual trees, bars
died: and many arc still fading. All elder
ly sheaoaks have succumbed, and several
species of acacia have also suffered. No
t nch other instance has occurred in my fifty
years of colonial experience here. All the
eucalyptus family show no Ul-efiectj.'
'Eastern Suburb' has been and is
'pestered terribly with dogs jumping my
fence and destroying my garden at night
time, and most of them have neither collar
nor di«c. I have complained .to the Cor
poration Inspector in the district I live
in, but he simply says that an officer will
Portly be going round to find out all un
registered dogs. Neighbours live on both
sides ot me, and both, have dog*— in fact,
one ha* two lean mongrels, which continu
ally run at large, and are in everybody's,
back yard, fossicking for the refuse of the
house. It is not fair for me to pay dog
taxes and my neighbours not- to do so.. By
publishing this Utter you will greatly ob
lige .me, and .also -other persons wjio- are
ennoyed by unregistered dogs that roam at
night.'
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