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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7541, 23 January 1896, Page 4

Olaf Madsen, a sailor, 20 years of age, belonging to Veile< in Jutland, was bound for the South Seas on board an English ship. In the neighborhood of Cape Horn the ship was overtaken by a storm, and went down with 18 of the crew Marsden was Ihe only person able to save himself. After he had been clinging to the wreck for several hours, he saw near him another jship which lay on its side disabled, and upon whose decks some persons were visible. Happily, among the ship's d&bris was a boat. Clearing a passage for the boat, he 'made towards the disabled vessel, and saved from an otherwise inevitable de>uh no fewer than 16 persons 13 seamen, the wife of the captain and two children. Scarcely was his rescue work completed than this ship went down with 5 men, among whom . was the captain. Brave Marsden was quite exhausted after his heroic strain. News of the occurrence went to England, and when Marsden returned to Hamburg some years ago and was domiciled in the English Seamen's Home there, our consul presented him with a large silver medal with the diploma, as well as a good round sum of money in the name of the Queen. The younger Dumas' advice to the younger men of his generation is contained in the collected edition of his works, and may be taken as summarising the leasona which he had learned from a life's experience. " Speak only," it runs, " when necessary, and say only half of what you think ; write only what you can sign ; do only what you can reveal. Esteem money neither more nor less than it deserves, it is a good servant and a bad master. . . . Forgive everyone in advance in order to be on the safe side. Do not despise men ; do not hate them and laugh at them beyond measurepity them — Think of death every morning on seeing the light once more, and every evening on returning into darkness. When j you are in pain, look suffering in the face ; it will console you in itself and will teach you something. Strive to be simple, to become useful, to remain free, and wait, before denying God, till some one has proved to you that he does not exist." The elopment is reported from Dublin of a Jew, a boy only 12 years of age, with a Jewess aged 25, whom he some time ago attempted to marry at a registry office, when the registrar declined to perform t' n e ceremony on the ground of the juvenility o f the bridegroom.