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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 226, 22 September 1881, Page 1

The 'divers- at work da the remaios of the Dbterel have recovered four bodies. They ' '■■ were at the end 1 of May engaged in getting out the 64-poander guns, beneath which and the chains, anchors, &c., all in a confused tnasd, the bodies were td be sflea lying iq _ail atti tudes. Lieut. Creigh'a corpse was found in a sittiog posture, with bis head leaning on his handj, as if he were reading When the accident happerici He was drowneii and rioj; ' injured in any wfy. "Some of the corpses,^ writeß a correspondent on the spot; " were parboiled. One boiler has beeii found uninjured, but another is not to' be found. Itjia surmised that the ship waa short of water, and, when the donkey-engines pumped in the salt water, the boiler burst. ."''.< In its "Essence of y.jtrliaiiient " the Post of Saturday feaya i^-The! dotipf fe Act-Suai pension Bill wai'cpmmitted, aadMrßallaipJ ,

moved that progress be reported, remarking ttiat it was not advisable to rush such aa important bill through the Hbuse.in its expiring hours. Some discussion on the question of reporting pregress took place, when the motion was lost by 36 to 16. Mr Bryce, who also opposed the bill, moved that the Chairman do leave the chair, and then a mild system of stonewalling'took place. Mr Andrews said he had agreed to support Mr Ballance in # stonewalling the bill; Mr Hursthouse ' (with a chaffing allusion to the afition'of the chairman on the " memorable Friday ") said the time had come to put a stop to ; stonewalling, as a very small minority were opposing the bill. The motion was then put that tke: chairman do leave the chair, and lost «h the voices. Mr Brjce again objected, apd the Premier agreed to report progress, and said he would state in the afternoon wiiat course the Government intended to take.! Messrs Oliver and Bowen urged the Premier to persist in going on with the bill. -The House by this 'time reached the "larking'' stage, add 'every speaker was laughed at, and; -met «yith coughs and interruptions 6f Various kinds. The House in factj became a sprt iof Bedlam, and not a coherent sentence could be heard. : . The mecbaDi6al capabilities of the gentler sj3_c nave Just been reported, upon by Mr Denny, the ahipbuilder'of Dumbarton, who -has, employed young girls in his shipdrawibg .office for copying tracings now for some time past. The "experiment, he saysi haVheen 1 successful |n every way. Not only has he got' his tracings made more cheaply than heretofore, but executed with more care. Indeed, he found, strange to say, that the bent of the' female mind was such as to lead to more exact copies being made, and he no longer had to complain of the copyist, in seeking to improve on the original, failipg wholly in the purpose of his task. By ad d by, however, he tested the imaginative , aiiid inventive powers of his employees, apd found they were as skilful in designing as they were in copying, and with this further -good quality, thai when asked to design they no tri6re tried to copy than they sought b improve upon a copy when told to imitate it. ' Still pursuing hi3 interesting investigation's, Mr Denny found thati his young ladies coujd make calculations, and make them correctly ' too. Altogether, the inquiries into thetniEcbanical,capabilities of the female mind bate proved a financial success to Mr Dennyj arid a psychologieal surprise to the, yqung" men they sugerseded. V I The, most trifling .actions that affect or manfa creditjare to be, regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, a nine at" night; heatd by a creditor makes hiin easy six mouths longer; but if he -sees you at a billiar,d?>tablej or hears your .voica at ; a tavern, he: sends iot hia money next day; , demands if before he can receive' it in a lump. r^Erankliu. ' . > Mrs Parnell (that is to say, the'agitatorfs newly-wedded'bfidej,' has been in Amerioa since 1874. Before that Bhe had lived in Paris for a long time. She became familiar there with all the famous men ahdwonVen <{f the day, and saw all the glory of the' reign of Napoleon 111. She wsb intimately ad- : quaintod with the Empress Eugenie. She had a vast amount of knowledge 1 of Eurppean courts, and iSj all in all, a very interesting lady.