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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XIII, Issue 1028, 18 May 1869, Page 2

While H.M.s. ‘ Challenger ’ at Auckland was saluting on Monday morning 10th inst. whilst the Duke was landing, one of the guns, when being reloaded, suddeuly went off and blew a seaman named George Duck into the water. Mr. George O’Connor, acting sub lieutenant, jumped overboard after him, and rescued him, from drowning. The poor fellow had his right arm and the greater portion of his left hand blown off, besides other injuries. This is the third time Mr. O’Connor has nobly distinguished himself in the same way : on the two pre vious occasions the ship was at sea running * at a fast rate through the water. A Washington correspondent writes : “ Would you like to know the most uncomfortable man on earth ? His name is Adam Badeau. He is General Grant’s confidential secretary. For six months he has spent four hours per day in tearing up applications for office. Grant never sees the letters hence his jelly health. Badeau is a martyr ; but he fights well. You see him at noon grimly grinning over a bushel of letters, of which three pecks are asking for Cabinet offices. At one o’clock you can see his shoulders ; at three the heap is finished, and possibly 10 out of 5,000 notes are reserved for Grant’s opinion.”