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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4386, 24 January 1883, Page 2

- The time" of the departure of the R>tomabana from the Thames to-morrow will be | six o'cloek'a.m. sharp, instead of eight o'clock, as previously advertised I Several cases will be brought before the Warden, on Friday next, by the Mining In. spector, charging various persons with nonfulfilment of mining regulations, non-payment of rente, &c., unless the law in the Various cases is previously complied with': Thebe was no quorum at a meeting of the directors of the Thames Valley Railway Co.i last night. Only Messrs Fraser, McDonnell, and Mennie turned up. The Secretory informs us that there is some important work to be done. THE sale of the plant and horses b-longing to the business known >ts the Stage Company was to-day completed by Mr M. Hennelly to Messrs Bradly and Co., for a satisfactory sum, which has not transpired. Ahotheb inconvenience contained in the Volunteer Regulations is the necessity ef .having a J.P. present to swear membars in. Why the old system of allowing officers to swear men in has been departed from,, it is hard to say. It is much more difficult to obtain the attendance of a J.P. at the requisite places and necessary times than it is evep to get them on the Bench, and muoh-inconvenience and annoyance is suffered by both man and officers when they find, upon assembling, that they cannot get the Justice they require.

"By a communication received from Te Areha we see that at about 11 o'clock on Monday night a fire broke out in a building used as a mattrass factory by Mr J.-F. Cocks, and which adjoins a stable, the property of the same individual. The fire was promptly extinguished. It appears that Mr Cocks left the place about 8 o'clock th« came evening, and no fire or light remained. No one stopped in the building. The stables, harness, and materials were insured in the North British Company for £100, which amount would not have covered the loss had the building been destroyed.

Bboken weather still continues. Captain Edwin's predictions are turning out correct. The heavy rain this afternoon will do a deal of . good. The County race showed, a considerable increase in depth to-day. Sevbbaxi of the witnesses in the EhronfriedGudgeon case missed the Bptomahan'a this morning, and will have to get up early tomorrow morning, ac the steamer time table has been specially altered for them. She leaves the wharf at 6 o'clock sharp. An those deeirous of joiniDg the .Thames Rifle Rangers are notified by advertisement to attend at the Volunteer Hall to-morrow evening for the purpose of being sworn in.

Mb 0. D. Whitcombe, of Taranaki, in a letter to the Taraaaki Herald respecting the Eotorua district, says :—" I should be ungrateful if I allowed the remarks. of' A Visitor' to this district, which appeared .in your columns of the 23rd ultimo, to remain unanswered. I c-smo here a few months back a mere wreck, sinking under a most painful disease, and my case declared to be medically an utterly hopeless one, my span of life reduced to a few short months at the most. lam now not only free from all pain, but almost free from the disease that was killing me, and rejoicing in the certainty that, though I dare not immediately leave the district without suffering a relapse, yet that a few months will see. me radically cured. Six months ago, to me life was .not worth living; now, thanks to the springs and mud-hole so contemptuously alluded to by 'A Visitor,' I am strong, hearty and seem to have renewed my youth. And miue is no isolated case."

Now that the fruit season will shortly be upon us, fruit preserving will be gone into by industrious housewives with rigour. Last summer a considerable amount of fruit was preserved by the salicylic acid process. There has been some controversy as to its merits and usefulness, owing to the action of the French Government. The Germans do not endorse the opinions of the French savaus, far at the Congress of the German Bociety for Promoting Public Health, held at Hamburg, Dr Renk, of the Royal Hygienic Institute of Munich, issued a report on the preservation of alimentary substances, in which he asserted that among all antiseptics salicylic acid deserves the preference for this purpose, as it did not in any way affect either the good quality of the articles preserved or the health of the consumer.—Herald.