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Otago Witness, Issue 341, 12 June 1858, Page 3

SALE BY AUCTION. &***s£& . Tlf ESSRS. W. C. YOUNG vllj«s™K T^B -***-*- and Co, have received instructions to offer at Public Auction, (if not previously disposed of by private treaty) the well-known thorough-bred Entire Horse "BAY MTDDLETON." Sale to take place on their Premises on WEDNESDAY the 16th June, at 1 p.m. J. M^ISIEL, ~ PIANOFOBTE TUNEK AND BEGULATOK. Pianofortes, Flutinas, Accordions, Concertinas, Musical Boxes, Sfc, TUNED AND EEGULATED. Orders to be left with Mr. BEVERLEr, Watchmaker, or Mr. Fegek, " Queen's Arms," Princes Street, Dunedin. LOST FROM THE DUNEDIN JETTY, A BARREL, containing Bedding and other Articles, marked " J. Jeffries, Dunedin." Whoever will give such information as will lead to the recovery of the above, shall be rewarded by applying at the Jetty Office. Dunedin, June 10, 1858. WAKARI ROAD DISTRICT. IVTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to those -*•" Parties recently assessed for the District Rate, as authorised to be levied by the General Board of Road Trustees, and who have neglected to pay the same, that the time having expired within which they were bound by the "Roads Ordinance, 1856," to pay said Rate, the Collector will take immediate proceedings under the 29th clause of said Ordinance for recovering the respective amounts still due, unless payment of the same be made to him on or before WEDNESDAY, the 30th day of June next. JAMES A. CHEYNE, Collector. 20th May, 1858. [advertisement] . To the Editor of the Otago Witness. Sir,— ln this morning's issue of the " Colonist If the Editor has been pleased to favour the public with an account of the Public Meeting held on Monday last, in the Mechanics' Institute, on Dr. Menzie3' Scheme. You will see that, while he correctly reports the remarks of the various movers and speakers, he has chosen to omit mine, or rather, he has sneeringly dragged my name, in a most unwarrantable way, before the public, as all the Meeting knows well. God is my witness, I never ; amused a man in my life, I have always aimed at ! edification. Therefore, Sir, till the "Colonist either reports my bona Jide remarks, or offers a public apology for this unchristian abuse, I must decline even a formal recognition on the street. A brave man will do justice even to a foe. "Do as you would be done by.'' J. G. S. GHANT. P.S. — "Blessed are ye when men shall revile you." Dunedin Academy, June 11, 1858. The Brain in Childhood. — It is a fact well attested by experience that the memory may be seriously injured by pressing upon it too hardly and continuously in early life. Whatever theory we hold as to this great function of our nature, it is certain that its functions are only gradually developed ; and that, if forced into premature exercise, they are impaired by the effort. This is a maxim, indeed, of general import, applying to the condition and culture of every faculty of body and mind ; but singularly to the one we are now considering, which forms, in one sense, the foundation of intellectual life. A regulated exercise, short of fatigue, is improving to it, but we are bound to refrain from goading it by constant and laborious efforts in early life, and before the instrument is strengthened to its work, or it decays under our hands. — Sir H. Holland's Mental Physiology r The Times advises English Capitalists to hold back from making any advances up to 8 per cent. Debentures of the Colony of Victoria, insisting that as the value of money is 8 per cent in the Colony less should not be accepted for capital supplied from England. Sapphires by a Chemical Process.— 3VT. A. Gaudin has communicated to the French Academy of Sciences a process for obtaining aluminium in transparent crystals, which therefore present the same chemical composition as the natural stone known under the name of sapphire. To obtain them he lines a common crucible with a coating of lampblack, and introduces into it equal portions of alum and sulphate of potash reduced to powder and calcined. He then exposes it for a quarter of an hour to the fire of a common forge. The crucible is then allowed to cool, and on breaking it the surface of the lamp-black coating is found covered with numerous brilliant pointa composed of sulphuret of potassium, enveloping the crystals of alumina obtained, or, in other words, real sapphires or corundum. The size of the crystals is large in proportion to the mass operated upon; those obtained by M. (xaudin are about a millimetre (3-100ths of an inch) in diameter, and half a millimetre in height. They are so hard that they have been found to be preferable to rubies for the purposes of watchmaking. A Scottish Minister administered a rebuke to his man John for getting occasionally a little elevated in the course of his peregrinatient on sessional business ; and John excused himself on the plea that his country folk pressed hipi so heartily to take a dram. "John," replied the minister, in a tone of grave rebuke, " I also visit my people, but nobody thinks of pressing me." " Ay, but," says John, " that's may be because you are no aae rospectet in the parish as I am."