MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 21 February 1881, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

Prirnfcll is visiting Puria on a tnysterioua mission Itiseaid Bishop Moron (Dunedin) •will shortly visit Europe The Ladies League in Irelrnd strongly increases -"' excitemenjb in widening circles. There is a report that 500 Irish Americans have gone to the Cape to take arms against the Boers. The rumor seems doubtful. The atiempt made by the Temora diggers to secure the water stored in a ciara by a neighboitfinfiif jpcjfuatter re-^ Otago goldfielda. Ifc i« alwaystue way with there dam disputes. -In the Tuapeka district some 'years during a dry season the miners were at tb'eir wiW endi to obtain water to put through their * stuff,'* which wa* lying, in heaps. They grew desperate :at last, and the way they commenced tto dam wan a caution to longhandled • shovels. Vi s. sir, they dammed the -whole country round about. The * Echo says ;— ' The contrast between the reception accorded to Sir George Grey when he Visits Inver» «argil! and that vouchsafed the other week to Messrs Oliyer and Atkinson was raoet marked. Why was this ? The Tory organs ara in the habit of . boasting that'tbe majority are on the their side. Is that so? Does the Invercargill reception like a straw on the surface of a current, not indicate bow popular feeling is setting ? When the great questions of liberalism .are put to the people there is only one response. 1