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been reached, however, during this last year, by the 

 finding of more than 600 stones of good quality, in a 

 placer along the Mazaruni, belonging to Mr. Kaufmann. 

 True the stones were all of small size, but still the 

 pregnant fa6l remains. It appears that the diamonds 

 occur in a thin gravelly layer between a fine white clay 

 above and blue clay below, but the information to hand 

 at present is, at the best, meagre. 



Rice Growing in British Guiana. — More or less 

 attention has been given at different times to the question 

 of the desirability of growing rice for consumption in the 

 colony, and considering the acknowledged suitability of 

 large tracks of our lands for this purpose, and the 

 millions of pounds of rice that are annually imported, 

 it seems clear that a valuable industry, and one that can 

 be prosecuted successfully by small growers and with 

 small capital, but waits on enterprise. In Berbice, 

 Demerara and Essequibo, numbers of people, chiefly 

 coolies, are interested in rice-growing, but to no con- 

 siderable extent; and up to the present time there has 

 been no organised attempt to test the capabilities of 

 such an industry. 



Papers on Rice-growing by Mr. WiLLlAM RusSELL 

 and by Mr. GiLZEAN, intended for its encouragement, 

 have been published in former numbers of this journal, 

 but hitherto without any marked influence in bringing 

 about such a result ; while, as a guide to the best results 

 to be obtained in the colony, samples, introduced 

 through the agency of Mr. MITCHELL from India by 

 Mr. Russell, have been grown at Uitvlugt and have 

 been reported upon by Mr. MiNTY, in a communication 



