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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 212, 7 September 1868, Page 2

A Melbourne telegram says that another attempt to raise the City of Launceston («.) has been commenced by the company owning. Macquay's process. The extraordinary tidal wave which was observed all along the east coast of New Zealand on Saturday, the 17th, was also experienced on the east coast of Australia, with considerable violence. There is no mention, however, of any shock of earthquake. The Melbourne Age of the 18th says : * Volcanic action, or a severe earthquake in some of the islands lying to the eastward, saggest themselves as offering a possible solution of the mysterious upheavinga. We shall await with considerable anxiety the arrivals from New Zealand for the next ten dayß.' The Singleton Times records the death of Ellen Glasspoole, the paramour of the infamous Burke, of Edinburgh. The above journal reports that 'an inquest was held on Monday, the 10th August, before the District Coroner, Dr. Glennie, on view of the body of an aged woman, known as Elleu Glasspole, who was burned to death in her hut on Saturday last. The above creature was, we believe, the last remaining vile relic connected with the infamous Burke and Hare tragedies that horrified Edinburgh, the scene of these villains' wholesale butcheries, and indeed the civilised world, some forty-years ago. _ A waggish journalist, who is often merry over his personal plainness, tells this story of himself: —l went to a chemist the other, day for a dose of morphine for a sick friend. Theassistant objected to give it to me without ajprescriptioa, evidently fearing that I intended suicide. ' Pshaw!' flaiidvl,'do I look like a man that would jksll himself.?'. Gazing steadily at me a momeni he replied, *I dont know. It seems -to me, if I looked like you, I should be greatly 4eaipte<Ho kill myself.' yftyyAMnhpnton polieeman like a Sa-Bttriiair?-—Because be is always to be jeea in Sameri* («om« area).