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Wanganui Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 5316, 19 April 1884, Page 2

An English mechanic has invented a horseshoe composed of three thicknesses of cowhide, compressed into a steel mould and subjected to a chemical preparation. It will last longer than the common shoe, weighs only one-fourth as much, does , not split the hoof, requires no calks and is very elastic.

Archibald Forbes, in the Sydney Morning Herald, relates the following; concerning Mr Gruneisen, the Morning Post correspondent in the Carlist War of 1837 :— "Gruneiseri took his chances like other people, and one of these was a very near thing. He was sentenced to be shot the following day, but was able to get off a messenger to the British Consul at Bilboa, who galloped all night up the Asturias Mountain slope, and arrived just before dawn, barely in time to save Ginneisen, the hour for whose execution was fixed at sunrise. Long years after, at a dinner party in London, he was presented to an elderly Spanish officer, who, glittering with multitudinous decorations, was among the guests. ' I have' had the honor, Senor, to meet you before today,' observed Gruneisen. The Spaniard piofessed himself desolated that he should have no remembrance of the occasion. ' Your Excellency,' said Gruneisen, with fine politeness, ' did me the honor of sentencing me to be shot up the Asturius in ! 37 !' It is not' recorded that his Excellency made the retort General Sherman is said to have done to the American newspaper correspondent who met him after the war, and told him that he, Sherman, had ordered him to be hanged. Then bow the devil are you here now?' queried Sherman, with disappointment in , his tone." '