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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6143, 15 August 1891, Page 2

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London, Aug. 12. A somewhat remarkable case is before the Law Courts A Miss Cooper, 25 years of age, accepted an invitation from her cousin, agedjitf), to visit St. Paul's. A cab was procured, but instead of going to the Cathedral, the young man drove to St. Bride's, and terrorised his companion to marry him, under tho threat of committing suicide with a revolver. The same | clay ho deserted his wife, upon finding that she had no money, and the lady is now suing to have the marriage declared null. Mexico, Aug. 10. President Porfirio Diaz has made a statement to the effect that when serving under the Emperor Maximilian in Mexico, Marshal Bazaino offered to deliver up the towns occupied by the French, betray his master, and soil the arms and ammunition to the Irish party. The offer was refused, as outside legitimate warfare. Amsterdam, Aug, 6. Mr van Tionhoven, Premier of the new Dutch Cabinet, officially asserted that the losses of the Doufcsohe Bank would not exceed L 50,000.

News from Tasmania includes intelligence of a remarkably lucky " find " of ambergris made recently by a Hobart fisherman. The Hobart whaling barque Waterwitch returned to Hobarfc recently after an extended whaling cruise off the Tasmanian coasb, and jusfc outside port had "tied out" an oighb-fcun whale, a spermaceti, and then cast it adrift after obtaining the oil. A colored fisherman named Louis Smith, who had his weather eye open, took the whalo in tow to Recherche, and there went for the interior of the animal after ambergris. To obtain the ambergris Smith had to cut a large hole in the throat, and make his way to thab part of the whale's intestines where Bach deposits aro usually found He says thai very few whales contain ib. Ho has sought for it a long time, and has rarely been rewarded. Ho obtained a deposit of between 180 and 200 pound* of ambergris, the value of- which is from L 5 to L 6 par ounce. The piece was aboub twentytwo inches square. Ambergris is only Found in the sperm whale, and is a morbid 3eorebion in tho intestinal canal of that inimal, derived from the bile. It is very -arely found in such lai'ge quantities. This md is estimated to bo of a gross value of )ver LIO,OOO. The substance is wholly ised in perfumery. Tho owner and master )f the Waterwitch are said to have been lighly chagrined at all this wealth passing >ufc of their hands into that of ft " lon© isherpia))."