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Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1707, 23 June 1874, Page 2

The Tichbome jurymen, it. is saiJ, aris setting apart a portion of the fees to which they are en itled for the purchase of a piece of }• late, of uniform pattern,... bearing an inscription commemorative of the trial in which they took bo conspicuous a part.

The brig Drover, 174 tons, J. Stephens Master, armed yesterday from Newcastle, N.S.W., with a cargo consisting of 250 tons of coal, 5 tons of coke, 120 bags maize, 20 bags maiz», J. Stephens; 180 dozen oranges. She left here on the Bth of May for Newcaßtle, N.S.W., with a Gargo.of timber. ;

A cobbespondent telegraphed the following from Auckland yesterday :—" Keid, Star Editor, left, by the Crown to interview Advertiser people with view to picking up evidence against Eraser... Aftar sending the Thames people to blazes you should give him a rea'' pectable reception. Superintendent and Provincial Secretary by .the Crown to-mor-row.'' The last portion of the telegram is correct, we understand, but the Treasurer oertainly did not arrive yesterday. •

Le&ali expressions must not be taken too .literally.., jSo, according to the Poverty Bay Standard,'a Gisborne plaintiff recently discovered. "It is useless, as tke Cours will perceive," said the learned counsel for the defendant/ "to proceed further with the case. The plaintiff is out of Court." " Indeed he isn't; I'm here," replied the individual referred ;to, rising ; from his s.eat j , while the Court, was convulsed with merriment > . :

The Punedin-Star says:—They knowhow to >So"things.in, Ghnstchurch. . Inspector Peh'der, who for many years Har had the oversight of the police in that' city, J is about to be. transferred to Timaru, and on Monday the inhabitants of the former place intend to testify their appreciation' of",his zeal and ability by presenting him with a. gold, watch and chain and a tea service, tha sugar basin of which will contain 250 sovereigns. i

It is perhaps worth notice that.the .-suit of clothes , which. Qrton- wore on;, Saturday; was the shabbiest hie had been seen to wear lince the trial began. Not. a angle 'scrap of paper was found in anypf the pockets, and the.only article, except the-few BnilliDgs already mentioned, which he'possessed was a small silver scarf pin, which he himself was.never seen to wear, and, which, is of little valued—London Correspondent. ; ■•

The regular half-yearly meeting of the Q-rahamstown branch of the H.A.C.B.S. was held last evening, the principal business transacted being the eleption of officers. The following office bearers were elected' for the ensuing term::—Bro. Gorbett, "President, (rer elected); Bro. Dillon, Vice President, (reekefed) ; Bro. Landers, Secretary; Bro.Foyj Treasurer, (ie:elected) ; Bro. Clarke, Warden, (re-elected) 5 "Bra. Trainpr,. Gusrdiaq.'; Dr. Lethbridge was unanimously rerelected Surgeon toi the Branch; - r l'J'.-'\ '' ..■'■;, :."■■ ; Theee were green peaches on exhibition before one of our markets recently, and there was a melancholy interest,in listening to the observations i of people as: they-passed! the stand. " Our Oharley went to a better world with three of them,"?said one lady in a cracked yoice. "They made me an orphan,'! obgervedla ragged young man,;wiping 1 is eyesi " We'll meet above, dear Danny," and the young cduple who said it,passed tearfully by. " My old man pegged out on them things," gasped a venerable old lady from ihe suburbs; And thus the mournful procession glided on; K-Danbury News; ;■ .-'■,. : r, ] >?l

A becent medical writer Bays :—-" Sleep whenever -you can—anywhere'when you get a' chance ; the great want of the age is sleep.'' This isl not fcaiway's aafo advice id follow, as one of our townsmen (says a Canadian contemporary) knows to his sorrow." I'He was recently afflicted with a bad cold, and to. cure himself of it resorted to the remedy of putting his feet ial hot water and drinking a tumblerful of strong whisky toddy, prescribed by aa aged and respected friend of S"the; family. Having gob everything in order for carrying out the prescription, he.sat down by the fire, his fact immersed in wrm water, and a tumbler of smoking toddy by his side. In this .condition a sense of enjoyment stole over him as he sipped the exhibiting liquid, and he fell asleep. His wife had r gone to bed, and,; on awakening about three o'clock in the morning, wondered why she was alone. Going' down-staiifisho was horrified; to find her liege lord asleep in his chair, th« fire out, his feei 'fllill' immersed in the watrir, over which a cake of ico was forming, and an empty tumbler on the chair beside him. His cold isn't a bit better. .- -■> ■,; ■

The Eev. Dr. dimming, of the Scotch Church, Covenfc Garden, said in tho course of his sermon on feu;: day night, that, according to (ho assertion of those students of prophecy with whom ho hud conversed, tho millennium was imtninont. .He also remarked that according to the ;ff prophecies-" of Archbishop Manning,iiind of an; eminent stnteiman who had lateljr delivered'^ speech in (jUasgow, Europe ,wftß on the^er^of thelniost tremendous religious "Conflict which hail orer occurred.

. Mb I. B. Sheath, of the telcferapludepartment, forwards the following remarks upnn tho <?xplo>tyn; of gunpowder' tq tho Chri^fe: church Pies? •—Sir,—tho follow'ng remark^ may be of e'oine service to those now engaged in the explos'on of. the. niinebf gunpowder, in Lyttelton:—Gunpowder is not bo casil/ exploded as some imagine; thograirs require to be raked to ajdull l'edj heat, orf say to a temperature of 6OOJeg. Fahrenheit before ex plosion, will take, place. .Ignition .depend 3 .upon the >eip'city with which the ■flame is "to raise thtfgfains of vpowder to the required heat for explosion. If the'tem- . pcraturc bo below "that explosive point only a -few"degrees}' thepdwde?'"> ay be decomposed by the partial inflaminat on of the sulfhur, so that explosion will not" then tnko place. If the heat should be siiTcient to ignUo the powder, nnd snduld be passed with such rnpiflity through'itas not to >. raise tho grains: to the requ^ed toroperature;-ignition nnd explosion Will not take place. The passage of : electric fluid through ; gunpowder may: be adduced in evidenc.e; of the igr.ition being.dependent on tho dpgroe of Tulocity, for if tho. cbarge pf;an,.electrical battory be'transmitted through good conductors, such as metallic wires.it will not inflame the gunpowder \,; bufc if only a piece of wetted string form:'part'of the circuit, the velocity will bo diminished by the inferior .conducting power, nnd the..gunpowder will* explode,; time being required to, rains tho grains to the proper temperature of about " (jQOdeg. Fahrenheit before ignition' and explosion can take place." .