THE FIRE BRIGADE.

Southland Times, Volume VII, Issue 517, 12 July 1866, Page 2

THE FIRE BRIGADE.

(TO THE EDITOE OE THE SOUTHLAND TIjEES.) Sir, — I loeg to correct a statement that appeared in your able leader of the lith inst. It is there assumed that the wells sank for the supply of water for the Eire Brigade was constructed by the Town Board. Now, sir, such was not the case. All the Town Board had to do in the matter was in exercising the power vested in them, by not allowing the Brigade to sink any wells, unless the plans proposed for their construction met with their approval. Consequently the plan and specifications were submitted to that augUßt body, and met with their approval The wells were sank at the sole expense of the Brigade, and by money collected by the members from insurance offices, merchants, and othera, the particulars of which appeared in a former balancesheet of the Brigade, By inserting the above yyu will oblige A Tfimuteu Inverrargilij Uth Wy, 1860,

Physiological Action of Iron. — A new theory of the action of iron upon tha system has been started by Herr Dr. Sasse in a paper reported in Schmidt's Jahrbuciier. This savant considers that the salts of iron replace, as it were, the blood-globules by acting as carriers of ozone. It is of no importance whether the iron be administered as an oxide, & per- salt, or a proto-salt ; for, when once it has entered the circulation, it coutinually takes up and gives off ozone till it is expelled from the body. Dr. Sasse concludes that we have in iron a means of promoting the process af oxidation ; but we shonld never administer this medicine except iv cases where the process of oxidation is not sufficiently energetic. He considers that iron should not b 9 employed in tuberculosis A letter from Ventor, Isle of Wig h gives a long list of sprine and summer 1 flowers, &c, in bloom there on Christmas Day.