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Dunstan Times, Issue 527, 24 May 1872, Page 2

The Thames A deer User says,—“ The first flu'h of exultation as to the quartz reefs at luangahua has been succesTeil by the-inevitable relapse, and the pendulum seems as likely to swing as" far in the cnc direction as it did in the other. Possibly the reports which have lately been current, may have a good effect in preventing an overcrowding in the district, of which, a few weeks ago, there appeared considerable danger, but it would be hasty and unfair to conclude that the field is a failure.)’ A sort of thermometer was some time ago invented to indicate health ; by placing the little instrument under the arm pit, thirty degrees marked rnbn=t health, fortyfive certain death. A gentleman discovered his valet, pale and frightened—the instrument in his hand, marking fifty decrees ; “ Monsieur,' 1 said he, “ I haao five degrees of death.”