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Southland Times, Issue 708, 12 August 1867, Page 3

A recent issue of the "Wellington Independent" contains the following paragraph : — " A Happy Man — When that notorious but very pretty young lady, Miss Madeline Smith, had been acquitted on the charge of poisoning her lover she received some .excellent offere of marriage ; and such a thing does not appear to be uncommon in tl^e rase of other ladies who have achieved a certain Itind of* reputation. An instance oi this is ailbrijed in 'lie recent marriage of Mrs Maria .Klien Kinder to a Mr Stanley Williams, at Grt-y---mouth. Mrs Kinder, it will b<» remembered, was the heroine of the Sydney tragedy, in which her husband is supposed to have been killed by her lover, nertrand, Mr Stanley Williams is a bold and highly favored man." New Kind of Gxass. — The -Sew York Glass Manufacturing Company of Newburg, Wisconsin, are now successfully turning out quantities of glassware from rock, with the peculiarities of unequalled toughness and unapproachable cheapness. This ore (remarks the Building News) which is really pure glass or silicate of iron in a crystallised and hence opaque condition, exists in many parls of the world, as in the columnar basaltic rock of the Palisades of the Hudson, of St. Helena, and of the famous Giant's Causeway, But all efforts 1o utilize it foi" the manufacture of glass have proved singularly unsuccessful until the invention of Mr Waehburn. This gliss ore, or silicate of iron, is to be found in unlimited quantities on the shores of Lake (superior.