Settlement of a Lxbsl Cask.— The Otago Daily Time* is responsible for the following story, which has such a strong Yankee flaTor that we fear it has been localised for the take of effect : — There are other methods of settling libel cases without the assistance of intellectual jurymen, and as the following incident oc curred m an editor's room not a hundred miles from Dunedin, it will probably be read with interest. As a certain editor vu busily em ployed m his room writing a leader, a loud thumping was heard at the door, and m came a roughish specimen of a regular Down Eaeter. Addressing himself to the editor, ho said: — " Say, ain't you the cuss that drives the nibs m thia rag faotory?" "I'm the editor, if you wish to see him." "Precisely, you are the man I'm looking for. I intend to go for you. Fact is, I've travelled overland to pound you." "Indeed sir," the editor coolly replied; "how have I given you offence ?" " Well, you're called me an atsi nine abortion of stupidity, which slightly kind of riles me." The man of letters looked at the Yankee, and then requested him to wait till he had finished his article on " The Advantages of the Noble Art of Self Defence." The subject of the leader was hardly m accordance with the stranger's idea of the mau he had travelled overland to pound, still he wai determined to see the matter cat. On the leader being completed, the editor rang the bell, and then turning to the Yankee said "Now, sir, I will attend to you." "Well," said the stranger, "as I want this little affair to be private, what have you pulled that bell for ?" " Oh, that ia to send the boy for some lint, and bandages, and a cab, for to tell you the truth, the last three men that I have thrashed here have lain m the office two or threo daya, laid up with wounds and fraoture*. Now, as the directors meet here to-morrow, I want to get you out of the way sharp." Thi» remark flabbergasted the would-be bruiser. 