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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 42, 18 February 1879, Page 2

i {Vty^ityf^ftMt*' looking wiry little Jtfahmari walked jfaU* our.fcoihpo'slrijr office' this morning, and, flourishing a, whip in A formidable manner, demanded to know which was the reporter. None of the 14 typesnatchera would claim the honor, though they would all hare been " chief " of the staff if the enquiring individual iiad presented a Heunessy's patent pocket pistol instead of a green hide whip. The overseer thinking things looked dangerous, referred him to the biggest man in the room. Taking a Dundreary hop across the office, the " anxiou9 enquirer" drew the whip in a menacing manner, whereupon the big comp's cheeks blanched and hid fists assumed a definite form. " Is yer the rephorter ? " said the " anxious enqurier," smiling benignly, and dropping his whip. The overseer, beginning to discern the situation, brotight the individual into the reportorial sanctum. " Oh, yees the re phorter ! " said the " anxious enquirer," leering at a radiant-headed individual who draws a salary as a reporter and general useful; " Well, yees needn't put mv name in the paper." " Why ?'' enquired "the reporter. " Oh, I was chuched in the jug last night." " What for ?" " Oh, nothing ; I gotdhrunk." " What's your name ? " " Flannigan's my name, but you needn't put it in ; I don't Want it ; put some other name." " Oh, ah !' said the reporter, " we'll see ; I'll meet you at the court, and heat what it's all about." And, giving another hop and a flourish of his whip, Flannigan (whoever he is) vanished.— Chronicle. The trial of Mrs Malinda Mack, indicted at Janesville,, Wis., together with a hired man, Frank Diekerdon, for the murder of her husband last July, closed to day, thejury brioging in a verdict of guilty. She was sentenced to the State Prison for life, the utmost limit of the law in Wisconsiu. Dickerson, who turned State's evidence, will be tried later. His testimony was to the effect that she did the killing with a stick of firewood, and that he assisted in conveying the body to the stable, where they backed the horse over it several times to give it the appearance of having been kicked to death. Illicit intimacy had existed between Dickerson and Mrs Mack, according to the latter's teatimdny, for several months. The case was a very remarkable one. A discovery is reported by a newspaper of Chicago to have been made by a Mr Stempel, of that city, which eclipses not only the electric light, but telephones, phonographs, and all the other wonderful inventions of the day. Mr Stempel proposes not only to light, but also to heat and furnish water power for the whole of the Uuited States by one immense and magnificent scheme. His proposition is that the tides of the ocean can furnish a constant and unlimited power which can by friction be converted into an amount of electricity for the purpose of creating light, heat, and power for the use of man. He proposes to build immense basins in the sea, in the shallow water of an inlet near the shore, where there are high floods. Two walls are to be built 9trong enough for the purpose. One will be built at the mouth of the inlet to shut off the sea; the other a certain distance apart, to divide the inlet into two basins. Each wall will have a flood-gate, through which, when open, the sea can flow in. At high tide the flood-gate nearest the land is shut. Six hours af ter, at ebb tide, the gate of the outer basin is closed, and thus Mr Stempel will have one great basin fulfof water. Smaller gates in the wall of the first basin are then opened, and the water rashes through, turning as it runs a thousand turbine wheels, which in their turn keep in motion the electrical machines from which it is supposed to generate sufficient electricity to furnish the entire country with light, heat, and motive power. The cost will, it is estimated, not exceed 2,000,000,000dols. ; and Mr Stempel proposes to bring the matter before Congress in its next session, and urge upon the Democrats • to go in for this scheme, instead of paying the rebel debt and claims. 3 The Right Hon. Sir William Goodenough Hay ter, who, as announced in the telegraphic . mail summary, has been foond drowned in a lake on bis estate, was born on the 28th January, 1792, called to the bar in 1819, practiced for some years in the Court of Chancery, but retired in 1839, having shortly before obtained a silk gown. In July, 1837, he was returned to the House of Commons as one of the menbers for Wells, which he represented until the general election in July, 1865, when he retired from political life. He was Judge-Ad vocate-General from December, 1847, till May, 1849, when he became Financial Secretary of the Treasurer, and in July, 1850, Parliamentary Secretary. The delicate and responsible duties of this latter post he discharged, except in the short period during which Lord Derby's first administration held office, till !858, when he retired, and was rewarded for his services by a baronetcy. In 1861 he was entertained at a banquet given in his honor at Willis's Rooms, by upwards of 300 members of the House of Commons, and presided over by Lord Palmerston, when a handsome service of plate was presented to him. Sir William was a Deputy-Lieutenant for Berks,andaßenchflr of Lincoln's Inn. The Surgeon, First Officer, Chief Engineer and one seaman, escaped from the wreck of of the steamer Byzantin. The disaster occurred on Wednesday night, during a heaw gale. The Byzantin, on her way from Marseilles to Constantinople, was proceeding up the Dardanelles, when she ran into the British steamer Einaldo, of 1660 tons burden, at anchor off Latakia, bound for Hull. The Byzantin, a vessel of 900 tons burden, belonged to the Fraissinet Company, of Marseilles. The Kinaldo returned to the Bosphorus for repairs. The Fraissient Company have received a telegram announcing that nearly all the Byzantin's passengers are among the saved. Female Heroism.— Two English ladies have won awards for gallantry in saving life. On Sept. 8 three young women named Pfell were bathing at Broadstairs, London, Eng., when one of them was carried off her feet into deep water. Another sister, going to help her, was clasped by the neck and dragged into deep water, and the third si9ter, who went to help the other two, was carried out of her depth. All three were in the utmost danger when, an alarm having been given by a man on the cliff above, Mrs Disney Roebuck (wife of the well-known Capt. Roebuck, theatrical manager), followed by Miss Bond her sister, with all their clothes on, rushed in immediately and rescued the three girls from their great peril. Mr 9 Roebuck was the first to reach the ladies, and was dragged out of her depth. Miss Bond, partly wading and partly swimming, saved the whole party, the difficulty being much increased by the incumbrance of the clothes of herself and sister, and the strong current setting to the eastward. The Royal Humane Society has awarded a bronze medallion to Mrs Roebuck, and a handsome testimonial on vellum to her sister. At Llantrisant, South Wales, a boy 15 years old recently attempted to hang his sister, aged 12, and would have succeeded but for the breaking of the rope. Advices from Moulon report that ironclads there are being rapidly refitted. Some rumors connect these preparations with, the Tunisia difficulty. v *~

The Star says there appears to be £ gai/g i of skilful scoundrels at work in Auckland watchiug every opportunity to rob the coffers of tradesmen and hotel keepers. Twentyfour sovereigns were abstracted from a box in a bedfooffi Of one of the hotels, but do clue has been found to lead to the conviction of the offenders. A mystery still hangs over the more extensive robbery from Mr Wafreflj no trace whatever of the guilty patty hatlflg been discovered. Other robberies of a simllaf flat are are reported. Ttie Dlmediri Age in referring to an action for ilDel brougut agSinst it by a lawyer uamed Denniston, says : — lt is well that this question of libel should be fought out. For months past the Press of New Zealand bas been subjected to a species of terrorism at the Haitia of j d fe# obscure members of the legal profession. We bate ftilly determined in this instance to see whether the privilege of fair and honest comment, which journalists possess in every part of the world where a free press is tolerated, will be maintained." Some time since a leading merchant in Wellington, named Nathan, let bis house and furniture to a man named McDonald, who became insolvent. His creditors tried to seize the furniture, but Nathan prevented them, and sold it himself The trustees got a verdict in the District Court for £200 against Nathan, on the ground that McDonald obtained credit through the supposition that the furniture belonged to him, and that Nathan had not registered a lien over it, though it really was his and was let with the house.— A\ Z. Herald. ~Do you know what the fundamental difficulty with the world is ? It is the universal delusion that a No 5 boot can be made to fit a No. 6 foot. Change that misapprehension, and you will alter the complexion of history. The bank cashier takes a few thousand dollars from the vault with the expectation of becoming rich on Wall-street, and returning it ; the clerk drives a fast team, and indulges in all its concomitants on a salary of SOOdols ; the business man lives on the avenue, and accumulates debts with the hope < that something favorable will turn up ; the young lady marries for money and dreams of a happy home. They are all trying to get a No. 5 boot on a No. 6 foot.— New York Herald. Miss Hosmer is expected, before the close of the year, to give a practical exhibition of her new invention, through which she confidently expects to supersede the use of steam and all other existing means of producing and utilizing force, by employing the permanent magnet for its generation. • The exhibition was to be first at Lady Ashburton's, and then made public at the Royal Institution.