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paid off: within a term of 20 years by half yearly instalments 

 of £4 os. 3d. for every ,£100. 



The funds necessary for the administration of the Act are 

 to be raised by the issue of debenture stock at a rate not- 

 exceeding 4 per cent., charged on the revenues of the Colony 

 in addition to moneys appropriated by Parliament. 



United States Production of Honey and Wax. 



According to the April number of the Crop Reporter, the 

 Census returns indicate that the number of swarms of bees 

 reported from 707,000 farms in that country in 1900 was 

 4,110,000, of an estimated total value of over £2,000,000. 



The total production of honey in 1899 is placed at 

 61,196,000 pounds, as compared with 63,897,000 pounds 

 returned in 1889; while the amount of wax produced was 

 1,765,000 pounds, or 600,000 pounds more than the yield in 

 1889. These figures appear to denote a tendency on the 

 part of the apiarists to devote more attention to the 

 production of wax than formerly, the proportions being, 

 approximately, 55 pounds of honey to one of wax in 1889, 

 as against 35 of honey to one of wax in 1899. The 

 aggregate value of the honey and wax produced in 1 899 is 

 estimated at £1,389,000, 



Agricultural Exhibition at Vilna. 



The Board have received information through the Foreign 

 Office that an agricultural and industrial exhibition will be 

 held this year at Vilna between the 13th and 21st of 

 September. The exhibition will comprise agriculture, live 

 stock, dairy-farming, agricultural machinery and implements, 

 horticulture, bee-keeping, pisciculture and fishing, forestry 

 and timber industry, farm construction, agricultural and 

 factory industries, hand manufactures and minor industries, 

 and general science. 



It is stated that the importance of these agricultural showi 

 is increasing, and the present time is considered particularly 

 opportune for British firms to push their goods, as there is a 



