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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 229, 16 January 1877, Page 2

A Tunstall mechanic has just taken out a patent for a horseshoe, to be put on the foot without nails. A Lambeth clergyman was rather astonished on Sunday, 5, when asked to baptise an infant with the name, or names, of " Little Sandy." He asked the father if there was not some mistake, and in reply received the assurance that he (the father) knew what he was about. The parent in question is a clown .at a well-known circus. It lias been decided to pave the roadway of the Strand, London, with wood. The cost will be £G,160. Capital is being raised in Yorkshire to form a company for the construction of" anew line to connect Hull with the main railway system of the county. Much complaint is made of the injurious effect of the railway monopoly which at present exists in respect to Hull, and the new project is receiving influential support from manufacturers and merchants in consequence. The construction of a new dock, the largest in the world, is about to be commenced at Devonport. The dock will be constructed on an entirely new principle, invented by Colonel Paslsy, and the contract, independent of the work now on th& ground is for about £120,000. Mrs. Maxwell, better known, as Miss Braddon, the sensation novelist, had a narrow escape the other day. She was driving in Hyde Park, when the horses bolted, and after a mad rusl lamp-post. Mrs. Maxwell and her children I escaped unhurt, but the coachman dreadfully injured, and the horses tifSinselves received such injuries that it was found necessary to kill them. yards, smashed the carriage