Show austra ian hemp crop when charles lamb used to write to his old friend baron field a judge in sydne N S W in the early days he invariably asked in III a postscript how Is the hemp crop out your way waya these inquiries puzzled the judge for a long time till one day an other judge sugg suggested esteA that they might have some playful reference to the large amount of hanging that was going on mostly through baron fields strong views about the proper punish ment merit tor for bush rangers and kindred evildoers no hemp was grown at the antipodes in those days when it was required for home consumption but the industry is likely to become an int one now the government of new zealand has encouraged its growth of late and now it appears that during the past twelve months hemp to the value of 3 has been produced in that colony |