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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3481, 20 February 1880, Page 2

It is worth knowing that boiling water will remove tea stains; pour the water through a strain, and thus prevent it from spreading over the fabric. * That ripe tomatoes will remove ink and other stains from white cloth; also from tlie hands, That a teaspoonful of turpentine boiled with wet clothes will aid the whitening process. That boiled starch is much improved by the addition Of a little spermaceti or a little salt, or both, or a little gum arabic dissolved: That beeswax and salt will make flatirons as clean and. smooth as glass; tie a lump of wax in a rag, and keep it for that purpose; when the irons are hot, rub them with the wax rag, and scour with a rag or paper sprinkled with salt. That kerosene will soften boots or shoes which have b«en hardened by water, and^render them as pliable as when new. That kerosene will make tin kettles .as bright as new ; saturate a woollen rag and rub with it; it will also remove stains from cleJkltarnished furniture. That iMwvUnwise for hotel keepers to give • tick' many of them believe, that it is unwise for men in position sometimes to accept it, the following will show :— "At a recent trial in a Justice's Court, a prominent salopnist was called on as a witness. Upon being swora one of the attorneys in the case said, ' Mr Si where is your place of business P ' What, for you ask me such foolish dings! You drink at my <*place more as a dimes.'! 'That has nothing to do with the case, Mr 8. state to the jury where your place of business is.' 'De shury ! de shury. Oh, by jimmy. Efery shentlebndis shury has a string of marks on my cellar door shust like a rail fence.' His honor here interposed in behalf of counsel and in a calm and dignified manner requested the witness to state the place of his business. 'Oh excuse me. Your Honor—you drinks at my blace so many times and pays me nothings. I dinks you very well know where I keep mine blace."

■Ay the Supreme Court, Wairarapa, Mr Justice Richmond said that to admit that every Maori who laid claim to a piece of land had any title to it would be to shake the foundation of the law of title. A gipsy would have just as much right to squat down upon an English estate and lay claim to it as some of the natives who at the present time laid claim to pieces of land in this country.

Notwithstanding- the abhorrence which many men entertain for figures on account of their being prosaic, and to a non-mathematical mind perfectly bewildering, yet frequently most interesting results are evolved. In the ,Supreme Court recently, a witness gave some surprising figures with respect to the manipulation of a sum of £1000. The question at issue, broadly stated, was one as to whether a plaintiff should receive £1000 at once, or simply an amount which would be equivalent, by means of compound interest, to £1000 at the end of 40 years. The witness, in his evidence, made the following statements, which are, we believe, based on indisputable mathematical authority:—£46 at 8 per cent., £97 5s at 6 per cent, or £142 at 5' per cent, would all be equivalent to £1,000 at the end of 40 years. If £1,000 were- paid now, it would be equal at the end of 40 years, at 8 per cent., to £21,724 10s»; at 6 per cent., £10,285 14s;, at 5 per cent., to £7,039 18s. At the conclusion of the witness's evidence, one of the. counsel engaged somewhat sarcastically remarked that, if a penny had been invested at compound interest at an early stage ef the world's history, the proceeds at the present day would have outweighed " the cloud-capp'd towers, the \ gorgeous palaces, the solemn temples, the great globe itself."—New Zealander.

'We learn that the Thames has been constituted an independent police district with Mr Sub-Inspector Kenny in charge. Up to the present the Thames has been included in the Auckland district.

It is somewhat pleasing to know that notwithstanding the dullness of trade last .year, that several of our tradespeople, having finished stock-taking, find that the transactions of the year show a much better, state than was anticipated. One gentleman states that he found the business done by him last year was about the same as that transacted in 1877, and the profits somewhat similar, and another that the debts incurred were less in proportion to the business done, and of a better character than in more prosperous years. '

As many of the Roman Catholics of the Thames as can make it convenient, are requested to, meet at St ,France's Church, Willoughby street, to-morrow afternoon at 4 o'clock, for the purpose of meeting Archbishop Steins, the bishop of the Auckland diocese. As this is the first visit of His Grace to this district, there will no doubt be a large assemblage. ;

In accordance with the annual custom the members of the County Council today commenced visiting the out ridings of the County. Hastings was visited to-day and the others will be honored shortly.

It is probable that a company with a capital of £3000 will be formed for the purpose of manufacturing hematite paint on the Thames.

We hear that the case Ifcaika Whakarbngatai v. O'Brien and Co. for moving stone from the Karaka quarry has been amicably settled, the defendants paying; plaintiff £20. ! V ■

Thebb are no less than eight cases of assaults upon females—most of them with intent to commit a felony—which will come on for .trial at the next session of the Supreme Court. The first view which the new judge—Mr Justice Richmond—will have of the lower strata of society in the North of New Zealand will not conduce greatly,to his.edin'calion.—Herald.

A-jfEW mornings ago Mr Prince, a son-in-law of Mr Joslin, was in the garden of the latter, when he was astonished to hear the report of a gun, and the next iristani p. bullet ploughed up the soil a few yards from where he was standing. Immediately after another shot was fired, and again a bullet whistled by in dangerous proximity A No one could be seen, and the cause of the firing was a mystery. Prince spoke to Mr Allom about it, and yesterday morning that gentleman was awakened by the,report of a gun. Jumping out of bed a native on the opposite bank of the Kauaeranga, gun in hand, walking through the mangroves. Mr Allom dressed and hurried across the bridge to where he saw the native, and found^ him in a hot cleaning his gun. A conversation on sporting matters was initiated' by Mr Allom who speedily learned that toe native had been shooting at trespassing pigs. This careless use of firearms by our Maori friends is strongly to be deprecated, and they should be made aware of the penalties they incur in firing their guns off promiscuously.

Tk Whiti, in his speech at Parihaka a day or two ago, made use of the following:—" Even should the bayonets of the soldiers shine so bright as to dazzle your eyes, don't be afraid ; they will go no further. I am telling you this, that you might not be led blindly by the Government. The surveyors may commence, but the Master (God) will not allow them to finish. We are; approaching the end of all things."

The terms and conditions of Mr Stewart's new Special Settlement in Te Pake, near Tauranga, are set forth in tha Gazette as follows :—"1. Oilor before the, 15th day of April next, the selector shall choose out of the said block atlenstfifteen thousand acres of land (such selection to be subject to the approval of the Governor), and shall cause a plan of the exterior boundaries to be deposited with' the Chief Surveyor at Auckland. 2* The price to be paid for the fifteen thousand acres shall be nineteen thousand seven hundred pounds, being a competent valuation at the rate of twenty-six shillings and threepence per acre. No less an area than fifteen thousand acres (exclusive of roads) shall be selected, and should a greater area be included, then for each acre in excess theie shall be paid one pound sterling. 3. The selector shall, at his own expense, cause the said land to be properly surveyed and laid off in sections of convenient size for occupation by settlers within one month after their arrival. The cost of the minor triangulatiou shall be borne by the Government of the Colony. 4 Main and occupation roads shall be laid out through the lands so surveyed. Boad areas shall remain vested in her Majesty the Q,ueen;,j;%o(i| be deemed to be public highways. ;5f :AH surveys shall be conducted in acpordauce with instructions to be given from time to time by the Surveyor-General of the Colony, and subject to his approval in every respect. 6. Within three months after the deposit of plan of esteriop boundaries as aforesaid, arid not in any case later than the fifteenth day of July next, the selector shall pay to'tlie Agent-General, in London, the sum of three thousand pounds sterling; and before the first day of January, pne

thousand eight hundred and eighty-two, sixteen thousand seven hundred pounds, or other balance of purchase-money, in instalments as hereinafter provided. The Bank of England btook of paid notes, for five years numbers about 58,000,000, aud their original value was over .£2,200,000.000, and their weight over eighty tons. The notes; fill 13,000 boxes, which, if placed side by side, would reach two and a quarter miles, and were the notes placed in a pile they would reach to a height of five miles, or if joined end to end would form a ribbon 11,000 miles long! '