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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4430, 16 March 1883, Page 4

Some time ago Dr J. Vander Berghe was struck with the constancy of the 1 proportion of copper found in bread, and made an examination of wheat. In '1.000,000 parts of the grain there were 9.24 of metallic copper, and oats yielded 10 8 parts in the same quantity. He made, of course, the usual preliminary tests to ascertain the purity of his reagents, and he took care that his gas burners were made of iron. Even the porcelain capsule was supported on a platinum triangle. The' Courier dcs Etats-Ums states that among; the number of the .Post-office employees of the United States are in" eluded, one thousand cats, distributed in the yjarious Post offices of the country, whose/ function, it is to protect the mail bags against rats., The cost of maintenance of tbe cats, is duly inscribed in the Pest office/estimates. When the personnel of an office is enriched by a new family of cats, official notification of the event is given* to the Director General, and' an additional sum is'inscribed in tbe Budget for the Heeds of the hew born employees.

COMMERCIAL & GENERAL PRINTING ES T i B'LI SHME NT, - ! ALBERT STREET, . -. : :-j...- .}•••. TH-AME9.' r ' ■ T ARGE ADDITIONS of PEINTING MATERIAL, PAPER, &c, have just been received from London, jtfel-. f'. 1*; i'> i• r . > '' ■■ ' 'xi r ■ -. n . bourne, and Sydney, aid the Proprietor is now in a better position than ever to upply every 'descripfibn I'of Printing at the iowest ruling rates, and in a style that will bear favourable comparison . with' similar worlc 7eiecuted in any part of the 1 __ Colony. WILLIAM McCULLODGU, . Pbopbietob. '■ , THAMES VISITORS TO. AUCK. MES CABHEL has Removed from Exonia House, Hobson street, to the more convenient »nd commodious premise known-as « Harbour.View House,'? Shortlufd ftreet (Sub above fcberPost Office), lately en dence of •-superior and •elect kind oan beobtained. Private rooms, with separate table, Required Sh.werbath.. Withm 3 minute, walk of th« Wharf, Baiiway Btation, and the