MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1081, 1 May 1882, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

We take the following from the Wanganui Herald : — " We are informed on good authority that His Excellency the Governor app^d some time si a c to be relieved from the Goveruoi>Up of the to'.ony on the ground of tue m.'.p'easaittuess of lm relations witli tiie Ministry and the hostile tone of tue Ministerial Press. Our authority states that the reply of Earl Kimberley was to the effect that be (Sir Arthur) knew the high position in whichJie stofrl with the Liberal party at Home, and that he should pay no . atfcetftion to BOch fcostile cttftfefeflfc^r-^ differences of opinion «s to whfch he had referred. It is said the reply of the Colonial Secretary only half reconciled the sensiti ve Governor to his crosses," De Lacy Evans, the Sandhurst man woman, whose case excited so much pubic attention some time ago, is now reported to have entered a second time into wetUoi.-k, but this time as a bride, haviug niamed a widower with a fami!y ! The ' 'Connor Don, an Irish kind* lord, called a meeting of his tenants on Janua?7 10, aud after reducing the rental 25 per cmt offered to seH them their separate hoUUugs, which offer was a^ept/d nt a number of years' purchase A peasant p -bpiietary has now got its ti-.-.t bi^nal sta <- t Steps a c V ? njj tabm to have the Eoya! B;. eon Society of Great Britain iino-po ai'<! as a 6eiet>tirie society by the Bua-'iof Trade. Tlie society was stevt<<l iT'iut t«vo yea-s ajo for the ■purpose of p'oniot'iig the cause of aerial naviuatioi', more especially in connci-tiou with balloon photography, aud for tiki.-isc meteorological observations at higher latitudes. A writer in the Southern Times, who stgus liiuiae'f "An eye-witness," «ives an account of a visit to the Christchmvli Exhibition, and speaks in by no menus comp'imentaiy terms of the opening ccemony. After describing the li'-st pa»-t of the procession, he t^oes on to say : — The next in order, oi* rather in disorder, were a number of men in long white night gowns, who looked like old women awoke from th°ir sleep by the alarm or fire, who straggled in anyhow. These, I was to l^, were the Ancient Druids. One of these, in a Bky-blue uniform, looked very much like a butcher who had been thrown from his horse, but I was informed he was a high priest. Then followed Oddfellows' odd enough looking to justify their name, and then came some gallant defenders of our country on horseback, from Ashburton or Trnvsru, I think, about twenty strong, in red uniforms. After these came the tailors with a banner which puzzled me, and seemed rather inappropriate. This was a graphic illustration of Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, in a state of nature. Adam was a fine powerful fellow, something like W. G. Grace, a man likely to make a capital cricketer or footballer, and K ye, who held a very large ribston pippin in her hand, was a grandly formed, cream coloured upstanding woman, with any amount of arms, shoulders and bust Altogether they looked so healthy, lively, and happy that it seemed to one at least among the spectators that it was a pity tailoring was ever invented, and I saw at once the full force of good old Dr Watt's objections to cloth, silks, and satins, as expressed in his well known lines. An English exchange says that a number of detectives from Dublin had been in Liverpool with the view of ascertaining whether the publication of " United Ireland " was being surreptitiously carried on in that city, but their inquiries have been in vain. Mr Williams, Chief Superintendent of the Detective Department in Liverpool, however, receved information on Thursday which induced him to visit the establishment of Messrs Matthews Brothers, printers, this (Friday) morn- . ing, when he found "United Ireland " was being printed. Messrs Matthews at once gave up some 12,000 copies which they had printed from a matrix supplied by a Liverpool agent of the Land League. They also surrendered the stereotype plates, but before this visit several thousand copies of the paper had been put into circulation. The printers had received an order for 10,000 copies ; but before the order was accepted they insisted on an indemnity, relieving them from any consequenses which might result from the publication of a paper without an imprint. The indemnity was signed by a leading member of the Land League who has also a seat in Parliament. Superintendent Williams has put himself in communication with the authorities in Dublin Castle and the Home Office, and it it not unlikely that the printers, and others interested in inducing them to print the paper, will be proceeded against for printing a paper without an imprint, the penalty for which is £4 for every copy printed. We recently heard (says the Clutha l.t ;■..-. -■> ,■< :i f -it povt'ormed l»y a Prcs-