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Dunstan Times, Issue 535, 19 July 1872, Page 3

Coasiteablo anxiety is felt for the safety of the ship Ariel, which is 153 days out from Loudon. The heavy cannon received from England for the protection of Sydney harbour have been placed in position. Some wicked rascal says that he has invented a new telegraph. He purposes .to) place a line of women fifty yards apart, and commit the news as a profound secret. . 7,1 The promoters of a mining company in New South Wales have adapted'a very peculiar title. They call their association the “ Honest Lawyer Gold Mining Company,” The arguments of counsel against making absolute a rule nisi for prohibition in the case of Regina v Beetbam and Eager, ■were continued ia the Supreme Court yesterday, but were not concluded when the Court adjourned. We have just heard 'a story which is too good to keep out of print. The other flay a telegrapnic clerk at one of the stations telegraphed to a brother clerk some himflred miles away, to the effect that his sweetheart was then in the office, and she had promised to marry him in a month, it so happened that the manager was In the. operating room at the time, and reading off the message by ear. he sent back a reply which was short, sharp, and severe : “You are fined I/, for allowing strangers inside the office ; turn the woman °«t. Poor fellow! the “turn her oot,” tacked on the money penalty was adding insult to injury, i