SHE FEARED HE WOULD STOP.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 303, 29 September 1888, Page 7

SHE FEARED HE WOULD STOP.

Softs >;Vmie ago, anu aotion oi: breach of t promise w as brought by a young woman presiding in the country against a young |Van who; had been keeping 'conipahy "with -her for a long period. She was subjected, to a most severe cross-examin-ation by, = the counsel for the defendant, t/yHo^as usual with "men of tho law" : in < "-these cases, seemed to take great delight in adding to the confusion of tho ■plaintiff by a number of very inquisitive ■questions. ' You say,' questioned the lawyer, that the defendant frequently sat very •close to you at your mother's house?' 'Yes, sir,' came the reply, with a blush. * How close ?' *he counsel queried. ' So close that one chair was all we needed to sit upon.' - ' And you say that he put his arm around you?' 'No/l didn't.' * Then~what did you say ?' ' I said he put both his arms around me.' ' What then V ' He hugged me.' 'Very hard?' 'Yes ; so hard that I was nearly screaming out.' ' Why didn't you scream?' 'Because 1 didn't (another blush). ' Gome, that cannot be the reason. Be explicit, please, Because what?' ' Because I was afraid he'd stop 1' The Court exploded, and the learned judge had to be carried out and placed under the watertap for the purpose ol resuscitation.

'As illustrating one of the causes by which the mining of very low grade ore -can be profitably carried on at Sandhurst, a correspondent of the Lyttelton Times -describes the pneumatic drill at work :—: — "The drill (he' says.) was not unlike a bigsquirt in shape, its nozzle being tipped with hard steel, which pecked away at the "rock with astounding rapidity. Though the rock did not appear to be very hard, the drill struck out sparks from it at every blow. As the rock crumbled before it, the nozzle was guided by one man, while -another man, by turning a screw, mam--tamed it at the proper distance for making -an effective blow. With this drill the "progress of sinking and driving is wonder* fully hastened, and work that otherwise would take weeks is done in days,"