MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1626, 13 November 1885, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

The English p.i. io.jis are • engaging in »>l<k{ b: ">ii,n)ru.i ii.s to whom tlii* 2JJOJJ new vote.* will go fur at lh.- appro ichiugeleetiou. Doth putties daim them. A regiment of Uirycles ib tb* latent inoviition iv the German Army. Tin Munich jjarrison are it is said, vow l.nstly practising cycling a* rlie liieyde is to >h* officially introduced among the Bavarian legiments, and its nne is b-.'ing first tested by or.lerly wt*% ice. Tlif clouds (say 8 a Home paper) would seem to t>e lifting in the direo tionofthe Afghan frontier. That is to s;iy conviction would appear to have bVen bmusght home to the Rnxsun linvt-i miient that its claims to the Zuficar Pa«« could not >>c fttisUiued with any regard to leceney. As this ban mny; r*>en tbe contt* ntion of o»ir Poivi^a Otiice, it iscerttti- 'y not coinplimeiitary to that institution that the point in question w.is cimcwltd, not to its representations, >>ur Iwcanse tlie Riwuahß saw from a map of tlie dispnted territory drawn by lt<« own •>(fii i t»rs o;> tne frontier, that tlu* claim w ncli ha I \^--a Set up was unttimble. Ay lenst, tl.is is the reason jsiven l»y Rusaia foe conceding the point in questio'i, and h"V reticence in this connection, we are sine, will be regarded as remark ib >> if those who know anythiu^ of Ilu^ian diplomacy n fleet for ojip uiouie: t that r'nr once, she has elected to receive tin* evidence of her own offi «-rs as pr-oof of the inconsistency of her claim to a *Hck of ternary whi'li wonli have ;»«en of immenSß advantage 'o her. Onn of the old si Maoris wwident 4t. the Kuk. Ota^o ileiJs, d«> >n Wedufwlay at the advanced ajfe of 92 Waiteto, or, as he was familiarly <-ill»-'l. N"w Z»-:tlnud Jack, has b-» a re&Ment a r the K.iik since theanival of the ship John Wickliffe in he yeir ISiS He was Ihm'ii in the provincial .|ist;iit of Nelson, and held high -auk «>n ).<:»st th»- Natives, and beinsj tik^a prisoner i:» * w« Ivfwpen the So*ttj| and North Inland Natives, was convtyedtottie ii.y of l-.la'"ls. ii»* atterwards s'np,^ «»n i"»ard an A'lieiiran whil'-r, an«l w**»f »" »♦'♦ to tlie Unite.l SUtea After i>-t«rmu|{ to New Zealand he joined *Q Engli«b ship, and mafle a voy*g» 4© iMdoa. Ho tiien tnnl. d I »Htw. ) c" Hiatportma4 CUvrx for s.) 11" rime, and tVvntiuHf joined the ship Johu W.oklifc. wfeiob t.roiiiiu the fist settieti to Onq* uiuKr the bte Cciptain Oar.Mil. Tli*» •Itl chief was gifted w«rh an . \c< Hcnt memory, and was in the IwiMt ofv^. latinu the pai'lv history of theprovin.-© nfOtaifo *i- 'Jl who fiitiied i= ft v ii » vr-rs-iH.-vi with vim. S-nu? uf his i oi'dntes v»ei- very int«'rt-jrtii»-», ;\>:'m-l as th -y di»» a vivid descriptii n > the doi .<;» >t tlie Natives in din 3 ii r »* s *'. DoTT 01 «? W THS HOU^B. -" R) I-!; on Bats" clears out rats, Qice, Ih» tles, roaches, ••eJ-b-i^s. ft» . -i:it», iv. sects, moles, j-vsk rab'^rs. jj'>j»b-*ii, Reiupthornu, Frosser *ud Co. A^iuiU,