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Otago Daily Times, Issue 216, 29 August 1862, Page 5

Stays and Cobsktb.—The corsets worn bythe majority of females amongst tbe wealthier classe.; are made on comparatively commendab,e piincip!-.. a< contracted with those donned by tio generali..- of the r humbler ilstirs, who prefer an ■■ tide whie. ets at defiance every hygienic rule an . law ; but even these are an improvement to thos.- worn by our grandmothers in their mniden da\ s." for the stays of that period contained almost as iiii h whalebone athey did buckram und'jean; and i nany instances were made entirely of heavy soli.l shoe leather, nearly a quarter of an inch iv thickness. No wonder that the females of George Ill's time were asfffnecked generation. Once a Week.

Mr. Kobcrt Blea dale, a farmerat Grosnaivli, went out to mow some grass for a cow thai was poo.ly, and his wife followed him to pick up the grass. She had come close behind him when he was not aware of her presence, and as she stooped to lift tbe herbage, the scythe he was mowing with swung round and inflicted a allocking gash in her arm. Hie then called out, " Oh, thou hast cut me, Robert!" That was the Hrst intimation he had that she was near him, ns he hid left her in the shippon with the cow. She walked to the kitchen door, and then tbo wound began to bleed profusely. AUw days afterwards she died.