POLICE COURT.—TUESDAY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume III, Issue 901, 3 October 1866, Page 5

POLICE COURT.—TUESDAY.

Anotiif.u Anecdote or tub Do k i: oi' Wki.linoroN> | n the winter of 181-7, tlio wife of an industrious blacksmith in E-sex resolved to knit a pair of mittens for tho Duke of Wellington, as she had to ask his Grace a favour, to which tho gift was to bo introductory. The mittens were roeeived at Apslev House, and the Duke wore thera the Burnt day at tho Horse Guards, showing them with a smile to his military oolloagues there, and desiring that the honest, dame's rqquest should ho immediately attended to. She stated that her husband had tho honour of being one of his Grace's soldier.;, and that he had tho misfortune of recently losing his Waterloo medal, which he had always worn cm tho anniversary of his marriage. Sl'.u elated that' this was again approaching, and that she would ever frol deeply grateful if the Duke would allow anothei medal to be issuod, as the loss had seriously affected her poor husband's spirits. She would only further tresuass on His Grace to Bolicit t ; ie medal should be sent to hor privately, as she wrote without her husband's knowledge and wished to give her partner an agreeable surpri-e on tho arrival of the wedding day. This wa? speedily approaching, but tho poor wife hud received no medal. She ventured to address a second letter to the Duke, "which was very soon known ,at the Horse Guards, from his Grace arriving in a towjring passion, dashing tho letter on tho table, and demanding to know why his ordors hid been neglected. Tho wholes nutter had been overlooked. An insta't request was made to s, gentleman connected with ffssos, .to. inquire if. the claim ,wi\s u correct oao. This proving to bo the oase, tho medal was despit 'hod without delay, but whethor in tinio for tho nuptial day is uncertain. —The Gentleman's Magazine, The agents of two rival iron-safe manufacturers were recently presenting the claims of their respective articles. One'was Yankee—tho other wasn't. He that wasn't told his story. A game cock had. been [ shut up in one of his sates, and t.h 'n it; was exposed three days to the most intense heat. When the door was opened, the cock stalled out, flapped his -wings, and crowed loudly, as if nothing had happened. It was now the Yankee's turn. A eoclc had also been shut up in one his safes, with a pound of fre h butter, and the Bafe was submitted to the trial of a tremendous heat for more than a week. The loss of the safe were melted ofl', and tho door so far fused as tn the use of a enld chisol to get it open. When it was opened, th» cock was frozen doad, and the butter was so solid, that a man who knocked off a piece of it | with his hammer had liia eye put out by a frozen ' Bplinter.