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New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 251, 1 September 1864, Page 4

i'Jain AV. Vai.i.isei:, of the IS'Oi ]russars. is said, in the Tutu's, to have mado a most valuable discovery in artillery. This is tlio use id' ",h;l!,d shot, shot, east in ''old sand mould instead of hot iron ones. Those plearant projectiles, large enough for 100-pnundors, pass through the tar-el solid, and then split into " minute fragments" ol Jour or eight ounces, dealing death around like shells. They cost, moreover, 2s. instead of ops. Oiptsuii Pallisor has also invented a mode of rilling iron guns hy introducing a coil of wrought iron, which has hf'ii tried at AYoohvirh with very great, success, and will make hundreds of useless pieces useful again.— Spectator, 2,3 th .Tune.

" One \\ Oku jMouf.,'*—A clerk in the Dead belter Oflice, ol nn inquiring niind, was curious !o iind out liow many letters were written without a postscript. One day lust week he found that, out. ol' G.fWS letters written hy females, only 375 were without poatcripts. Some of the oilier letters contained tin CO postscripts.