Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-03-26
Kauri Gum.

I. X. Webb, who for five years has
held the position Of United States vice.
consul at Auckland. New Zealand. ar
rived from tho antipodes yesterday.
says the San Francisco Chronicle. He
has resigned his position in New Zea-
land aud m to take up his resi-
dcnce here. There are about $40. 900
people On the island" he said, ''about
10000 Ut the number being Maoris.
Many oil the natives are quite wealthy.
and by selling and leasing their land
TO foreigners live in comparative ease.
As a rule they live in villages apart
from other races. This year New
Zealand will export ). 900 900 sheep. the
%carcasses being iirsi frozen aud then
sent around the horn to England i'm
vessels with refrigerator compartments
to preserve the meat ut tho proper
temperature. Sheep-raising is tho
principal industry of tho country and
there are about Is, GOO. 900 grazing
there now.
Another industry, perhaps next to-
sheep-raising, is gathering kauri gum.
which exudes from kauri trees. and
furnishes employment for upward Of
p 900 persons, who dig for it at the
root OF the trees. The gum has been
accommodating for ages. and is usually
found in a semifossiiized state. 1t is
used in the manufacture of varnishes,
aud the greater proportion is sent to
New York. In the last twenty-five
years over $50 600 IONS of it have been
shipped away. about 20 per cent of is
going TO New York. The kauri tree
grows in the Auckland district only.
aud the vast forests Of this beautiful tree
are largely owned by "a syndicate.
Some OF the trees are fifteen feet in
diameter.
The wood is close grained and tough
and is used for shipbuilding to q large
extent. II Is especially valuable be-
cause there are no knots in it. and it is
not unusual for a ninety-five-foot matt
10 be without a single knot. New
Zealand Is n great country for flowers
aud fruits, although there Is not much
OF a market for the latter. l saw 400
varieties of apples exhibited Mt one
horticultural show. No rich finds have
been reported of late from the gold
mines. but they arc being steadily and
proiiiably worked. Tho total export
from them has been 454 600 600"
Sleep as n Fat Producer.
Did you ever hear of anybody sleep
Ing himself fatp No! Well, it's q
common enough thing. / assure you.
Almost every young man who has lived
leisnrelyy all his life until he Is thirty
VIII begin to show signs of fat ut that
age. The usual theory that obtains
is that n man only grows fat on the
food that he consumes. aud technically
that theory is all right. But il makes
all the difference in tho world how q
man lives whether a given mount of
food taken daily will have any in
creased effect on his av0irdupois.
There are thrce simple rules that I try
to enforce on men who come TO me To
be cured Of fat. First. I say, Eat
less." Then. Work morc.r Aud
then. sleep less" / have often noticed
u curious look 10 tho eye OF tho patient
who Is told 10 sleep less. lilo inwardly
Jests ut such advice. or he grumbles
against 1t. and concludes that Il may
be ~disregarded. But let me tell you.
sleep Is tho great f~attener. 1t will pro-
huce icsh moro rapidly than anything
that know of.--InterU:cw NTH q
Boston GyDmast.