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Southland Times, Issue 1767, 15 July 1873, Page 3

Always " hard pressed." — Bricks. " Great is bankruptcy," says Carlyle : "it brings an end to all shams under the ■un." The Recorder of Manchester has decided, in his capacity as judge of the Court of Becord, in accordance with a curious rule of law, that a person who has been bitten by a ferocious dog cannot recover compensation unless ho proves that the owner of the dog knew it to be " vicious." In order to establish the fact that a dog is ferocious and dangerous, it seems to be necessary that several persons must have been bitten by it. The Dover Chronicle states that a steamer is being built having six keels, placed at equal distances on her flat bottom, intended as a Channel steamer, her sides being perpendicular without any curvation. Being of light draught, the keels being only two feet deep, and rolling under such circumstances impossible, sea-sickness will be obviated. It is confidently predicted, under sail and steam, the passage will be accomplished in little more than half an hour. i