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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 261, 16 February 1889, Page 2

The late Peter Lalor was born in 1827, at Tennikill,Queen’s County, Ireland, his father, Mr Patrick Lalor, being an M.P. for the county for several years. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, he became a civil engineer, and in 1852 he emigrated to Victoria. He first came prominently into notice in 1854, at Ballarat, as leader of the band of miners who resisted the efforts of the authorities to enforce tbe use of mining licenses, on 3rd December, 1854, and in heading the attack on the stockade occupied by the troops and tbe police he received a hall in the left shoulder, which ultimately caused the loss of the arm, He was carried by his comrades to a place of safety, and though a reward was placed on his head, the Government did not succeed in capturing him. On representative institutions being established Mr Lalor was returned as one of the representatives of Ballarat. At the next election he was returned for South Grant, and he has sat continuously as a representative of the Grant District ever since, with ths exception of an interval from 1871 to to 1873, when he had been defeated by only 20 votes, Mr Lalor held various offices in the Barry administrations, and was Chairman of Committees in the Legislative Assembly from 1856 to 1868, and afterwards Speaker, which exalted office he held until about two years ago, when he relinquished it on account of ill-health.

A Christchurch paper has been informed by several farmers that they have been annoyed by persons travelling on the roads with carts, cutting sheaves of unripe grain from their crops, To such an extent has this gone on in one ease that a farmer inserted thefollowadvertisement: ‘ Wanted, a person seen out; ting green oats in my paddock not to call every day, but to try somewhere else.* It is said this party called once too often at one place) and received a sound thrashing.