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Lyttelton Times, Volume XVII, Issue 971, 1 March 1862, Page 4

Striking Thirteen.—The Duke of lMdgwator Avas very fond of watching his men at work, especially when any new enterprise was on foot. When they wore boring- for coal at AVorsley. the Duke came every morning- and looked on for a lons time together. The men did not like to leave oft" work whilst he remained there, and they became si» dissatisfied at having to wovk so long belli ml the hour at which the bell rang, that Brindley luul some difficulty in getting a sufficient number of hands to continue the boring. On inquiry, m> found out the cause and communicated it to the puke, who from that time made a point of immediately walking off when the bell rang, returning when the men had resumed work, ami remained with them usually until six o'clock. He observed, however, that though the men dropped work promptly as the bell rang, when he was not by, they were not nearly so punctual in, resuming work, some straggling in many minutes after time. He asked to kuow the reason, and the men's excuse was, that they could always hear the clock when it struck twelve, they could not so readily hear it when it struck only one. On this, the jsuke had the mechanism of the clock altered so as to make it strike thirteen at one o'clock, which it continues to do until this day, Three Younu Ladies.— Mdlles. Corsini, Uluthner, ami Bagdanow—who attended tho lectures at the university of St. Petersburg, have been arrested, and it is asserted even that ono of them, Mdlle. Hagdunow, has been whipped at the office of the secret police. It is reported that the Russians have taken possession of the island of Isles Sinta, after a short engagement Avith the Japanese. This island is about 30 miles long, and 15 wide, lying midway in the Straits of Corea, and forming the key of the Japan Sea.