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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2173, 21 December 1875, Page 2

The following advertisement appeared in the Greymouth Star recentlyr-f-"The person who, by mistake, removed a white hat and plaid scarf from the Volunteer Hall last night, is requested to keep tho same, as the owner, through having to walk; home hafcless and scarfless in the cold morning air, is now in a galloping consumption, and does not expect to nave further use for them. Gentle appropriator, please attend the of your victim." ' &o^> Teiegbaph, gate, verandah, fence, and any other variety of posts, also pier-piles, i can be rendered nearly indestructible by boring one or more holes,' larger or smaller, in the centre of the butt, the whole length if desirable; then filling .with boiling coal tar and' close the aperture with a long taper "wedge, well? driven home, which will give coal-taric pressure to force the antiseptic ihtb the inner heart pores of the mould, where the dormant seeds of decay will be at once destroyed. Were telegraph posts, piles, &c, thu3 preserved, and the ' exterior surface dressed with resin varnish they would last for centuries. The wood taken out of the post would—so far from weakening it—make it stronger and more elastic. Wood exposed to the air should not be dressed with coal, but Stockholm tar or resinous varnish; the former will rot the fibres when exposed to sun and air. If it is wanted to dress telegraph, verandah, fence,; .gate, or clothes* drying, or other, posts, mark them at six or eight inches above the depth they are to be placed: in the earth,: and-bore tho hole to be filled-with,.the boiline coaltar up to the mark; ThenTfiUtin with coal-tar, as directed, plug up the hole, and the base of the post will outlast the upper part. The writer has also had occasion to stand posts under floor joints; is a support, when, by making a clay-puddled hole, and pouring into it a gallon of boiling coal-tar as a bed for the post to stand in, it would never decay.—English Me. chanic. ■