MR. TYRELL IN EXPLANATION.

Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 109, 11 May 1881, Page 3

MR. TYRELL IN EXPLANATION.

TO THX EDITOR OF THB EVENING POST. Siß— Will you kindly allow me a little of your valuable space to correct an error which occurred in your last issue, relating to a law case between Mr. Reynolds and myßelf, and to dear myself of the imputation therein contained. Ihe offence which your report, headed "Actors in Court," states to have taken place at the Academy of Music, but which really ocourred at the Theatre Royal, was not of so flagrant a nature as Mr. Reynolds sought to make it appear ; but he seized on it as an opportunity to break my engagement after he hacflft the Theatre to Mr. De Lias, and no longer required my services. The offence was merely a fineable one, and I suffered the infliction of a fine. So it was neither out of consideration for my sick wife nor myself that Mr. Reynolds condoned the fault (if any), -but simply the knowledge that he could not break my engagement on such a 'pretext. If Mr. Reynolds' heart was teeming with such noble impulses, it should have prompted him' 'not to equivocate and urge me on to extremes, but to have paid me what he must have known to be my just due, in order that Ijnight return to my wife, who is in almost a dying state, and not to have kept me from two permanent engagements, which I lost through him. I am, &c., 10th May. John W. TrBBELt..

There is an old superstition among sailors, says the Hawkes Bay Herald, that vessels whose names begin with T are unfortunate. The experience of the Union Company daring the last fOHr years affords what Jack would consider strong testimony in favor of his beb'ef . In that time the company has lost three vessels, the names of which all began with T— the Taupo, Taranaki and Tararua. Each vessel met with an acoident before its final wreck. The Taranaki was once eunk in Tory Channel, and was raised again to be finally wrecked near Tauranga. The Tanpo shortly before its' wreok struck upon a rook and had a marvelously narrow escape from detraction. It will be remembered that the shook was mistaken for an earthquake, and it was not nntil the vessel was docked that it was seen how near to destruction it Had been. The Tararua, on her hut voyage but one up the coast, ran down a sohooner and severely injured her own bows. A story is told of Van Amburgh, the great Hon-tamer, now dead. On one occasion while in a bar-room ho was asked how ho got his wonderful power over animals. He said, '• It is by showing them that I'm not in the loast afraid of them, and by keeping my eye steadily on theirs. I'll give you an example of the power of my eye." Pointing to a loutish fellow who was sitting near by, he Baid, " You see that fellow P He's a regular down. I'll make him come across the room to me and I won't say a word to him." Sitting down he fixed his keen,- steady eye on the man. Prosently the follow straight enod himself gradually, got up and came slowly across to the lion-tamer. When he got dose enough he drew baok his arm and struck Van Amburgh a tremendous blow under the chin, knocking him clean over the ohair, with the remark, " You'll stare at me like that again, won't you ?" The world is always interested to know the last words of a man. It doesn't care so much about those of a woman. She had her last word all through life.