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South Canterbury Times, Issue 4997, 3 May 1889, Page 3

Senior-constable Boche has been arrested in Brisbane for being illegally on the promises of Dr Gibson. The doctor found the constable in his house at 4 o'clock in the morning in uniform, but without boots or cap, which were fovind on the Verandah. He seized Kocho, and detained him until a police sergeant was sent for. Eocho’s boxes were afterwards searched, and a quantity of ladies’ clothing was found which was stolon some months ago, so that it is pretty evident that he lias been carrying on a burglarious career. The Chicago Tribune, in commenting on the report that Mr Edison is working on an invention by which he hopes to convert coal into electrical energy without resorting to any intermediate process, says : —lf he is able to convert into electrical energy the power that lies in the carbon and hydrogen of coal, he will have given to man the greatest gift that man can ask nature, unless it be the control of the winds and waves.. Ho will have revolutionised the world of machinery. What the Corliss engine is to the primitive water-wheel of the Egyptian of tlio days of I’hafaub, that will Edison’s device be to the present sloam-eiigino. Slcam-opgiuea a,ed gas-engines will all go to the junk-shops, and now plants—Svhat we canot yet toll—will take their place. Should Edison m ike such a discovery, all wo ask of him is that ho will bo moderate, and that ho will not charge so high a royalty as to heap up for himself a fortnuo of more than a thousand million dollars during the life of the patent.