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Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4226, 18 July 1882, Page 2

Thb theory propounded by Mr Den ton on Saturday night that quartz reefs were formed and gold deposited by infiltration was illustrated by the specimens obtained in the Queen of Beauty mine yesterday. Some of the pieces contained vugs, and in these could be plainly teen the little crystals and the leaves of gold forming. Some of the particles of void were only aa thick as a h'nir, while others had advanced to the eize of a piece of thread. The way in which the crystals of quartz had grown over these threads of gold could also be easily seen. Another piece of quartz indicated the manner in which silica, or quartz, is deposited by the water on pyrites of iron, &c.

We mentioned a few days ago that money was hardening, and we are now in a position to a'ate that the Banks have advanced the rate of interest one-half per cent.

The Waiapu correspondent of tbe Poverty Bay Standard says :—'• The 8,8. Rosina arrived here on Sunday, the 18th June, bringing Mr Geo. P. Hilton and the new hands of the contractor for Die Southern Cross Petroleum Company's shaft; also, the necessary winding machinery, and, although the weather was rathe? rough, with a nasty sea, Mr. Walker managed to land everything safely. Mr Hilton and party seemed well contented" with their reception at Te Awanui, and proceeded to Rotokautuku on Tuesday, and tbe hands commenced work on the following morning.

At fhe,P»lice Court to-day, Jane French who has an array of 28 previous convictions against her, was fined ss, with an alternative of imprisonment until the rising of the Court, A prohibition order on her behalf was also issued.

No intelligence has yet been received of the whereabouts of the boys McOoid and Harvey who went fishing on Thutjday laat. Mr W. Rolton and other friends have gone in search of them.

When a Boston woman sees a tramp in the back yard she calls out to him, " You old fossil Saurian, if I catch your Pliocene footprints around these premises again, I'll b/eak your ganoidal vertebra and hand your Silurian remains over,to the police." *

Last night, in presence of the reporters and two medical gentlemeo, Mr Bennie, of Maori Hill, Ota go, gave an exhibition of the lighting capabilities of his new ga*, for which he baj now taken out patent) in Australia and TSevf Zealand, and bes Bold the former. The gt sis manufactured out of air, water, and ordinary beef or mutton fat. He has bad it burning in his private house for 12 months. The light is pure, clear, and white, and more powerful than that of Dunedin. It has no smell. The coat is very small, running from Is 3d to 3s per thousand feet.