MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, 24 January 1881, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

.. Alladin<Ma4b*4^tuutl^4ta<.tfoa*e^H Lords to pass the Irish Con xnvsati^H Bill, wbioh provided that no' evictions tenants who wre un*bl<? to piyrent^B nccount of the faminn sbonld hilto pla^H this year or next, the Brooklyn Tv*2le P>^| diets that England is about to engage a mere gloomy conflict with a sister land than she has ever had. "The P^| pie of Ireland, grown desperate with *<^| fermi, arc impatient of d »lay. They t^M arming and drilling. There will he^M b'tter straggle. Thousands will be sb^J and hundreds will be harmed as rebe^fl The landlords will be murdered ; tlj worst form* of rebellion will be call^H into life. The smoking castles and ma^fl «ions of the landlords their neg'ert^H fields, a peasantry ripe for every form violence, reckless of the life to which tb^H have no right, and preferring death froH the bullet to the more agonising one iH stamtion, will prove the valao of pt^M perty and its rights. It will then hafl been found that it would bare becH cheaper and more economic to be geue^B ons. More than this, whatever may ba^fl been thought of Great Britain's course Ireland in the past, the sympathy of tbH world will not be with those who hayS starved a helpless people into armed reH bellion, only to end the p*ngs of faminH with the bullet and the bangtmn's ropfl The duke?, earls, and marquises who^B millions are squandered in tbe riotooH Hying 'bat correspondents and tbe pre^B of their own country have so faitbfullM and abundantly pictured, may learn witS dismay some day, a* did tbe nobility <H Frnriec, tbat tbe Commons of England dH not share in the belief of tbe right of prtfl perty to commit murder, and sw.»ke tfl find thsmseires stripped not only nf thefl titles but of their property also. The feelfl ins of resentment is not stronger in Irefl land than in England, and a fire in onfl island may create a bI.TZD in another. Thfl English and Scotch farmers hare thfl right to life too, ani if it is not duly refl cognised in time they nny find it necesfl gtry to affirm it with heavy hands." I First boy : « Where yer bin, Billy Pfl Second boy: 'Bin fi-thin'.' F:r«tboyfl ' Ketch anythia' ?' with an anxious ex«H pression on his face. Far«seein2 Second™ boy : ' No ; but I espect ter when I git ml the bou«e.' 1 The Pal Mall Gazette, referring fol Layoock's victory over Riley of Saratoga,* on tbe Thames, on November 6th, says.:l — ' L&ycock's individual performances* knock the sliding theory on tbe bead, for« he might almost as well row on a fixed ■ seat for all the use he makes of hi * slide ;■ bqt he is an exceptionally powerful man,! and the spr.ee at which he is able to travel, be it fast or slow, has sufficed to settle all his opponents before reaching Chiswick Eyot, The probability is that be is a better man than any one has given him credit for Wing, On Saturday it was patent to all who followed tbe race from start to finish that after thefirst hundred yards Riley led only on sufferance. There was nothing to lo gained by Liycock showing- how much, ta could win by, and his staying behind as long as he did put something in tbe pockets of his followers. His two previous victories have made him a favourite with tbe riverside population, for the first lids ings of the result of the race down river brought forth a cheer from cvpry knot of loiterers, from every ragged urchin, and even from the usually stolid barges." Says tbe Sporting and Dramatic Xews : —In a paper which comes from tbe other side of the world — from Victoria, ia fact —there is an article which has a stnugely familiar ring. A horse called Sweetmeat, belonging to a Mr Ivory, was favourite \ for the Metropolitan Stakes, and after having been backed for large sums by the publio the animal was scratched. •We recret that a sense of duty compels us/ the journal says, •in this issue of the Australasian, to refer to tho scratching of Sweetmeat by Mr Ivory for the Metro* politan Stakes just previous to the race. Mr Ivory had been forestalled in b?cking bis horse, and could not get •on ' at a satisfactory price, and, as none of those who h«d backod Sweetmeat were inclined to aceorumexUte Mr Ivory on bis own terms, be put tho pen through the horse's name, and Sweetmeat did not start, and Uis backers were, to use a vulgar phrase, put in the hole.' Sporting pavers in all parts of the (svi.ii might keep the above set up in type, leivtn:; binus for alters-

tions in the names of animals and owners. Unfortunately, it- would be certain to come in useful at interval. Seven silver and 14 bronze medals/ and 45 additional diplomas hove been received by Dr Hector from the Commissioner* O r the Sydney Exhibition for distribution in New Zealand, in addition to those; formely sent, mnkmg the total number of awards to New Zealand 233 medals and 380 certificates. Among those novr received is a diploma, whifib ha< been decreed to the Colony of New Zealand in recognition of its premin^n^e in tbe production of barley and oats ofthehiuest quality, South Australia ha«irur obtained one for wheat, and New South Wales e.oe for ma-Be. Silver jn^ls hflVe t^sn 8.-nt to 'the follovriniTgentleroen in acknowledgement of thdr services c? Cntnrais^ sionersr-Messrs J. S. MD. Thorn p»on, D. M'lnlyre, F. Avltrull, W. H. Levin. William Hutchison, Charles Lemon, and J. Dratirfield.