To the Editor: Sir, —Your correspondent "Old Auckland" does but bear out my statements that the first municipal charter was faulty and found to be inoperative. " Old Auckland " is in error in one partic ular, and that is that the Council existed for a year. I think lam correct in stating that six months would be nearer the time, and that the Council were unable to levy rates and were threatened with legal pro ceedings if they did so, so that the conten tion that Mr Philips was the first legal Mayor of Auckland is correct.—Yours, etc., Old Identity,

Mr Brown-Seqnard whose elixir of life creae dao h talk some years ago fa Z ahhr, Ti a B6T t relln( Juished his labour, although they did not meet with the recog. mtion from scientific men which the In. venter himself claimed. He has just made a communication to the French Academy in which he states that he effected 20 000 injections during the last, three years and every one of them has been followed by success. In some cases of men over the ccc of seventy five years the rejuvenescence which followed the injections was moat marked and in some instances people on the very edge of the grave were restored to health and strength. Is the fabled foun tain of youth become a reality J auks * French journal..
