THE NORTH.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2306, 27 September 1870, Page 2

THE NORTH.

Mr Kynncrsley ami Mr Harrison, two of the Westland members, have been honored by the Nelson ( o’onist of the 20th with a leading article, anim dverting in no measured terms on til ir conduct during the h.te session of Parliament. The members are called the “twin brethren,” and are styled political adventurers with “wings bc : smirched and feathers plucked and dragged/* We should imagine they fed flattered. V/e learn from a Napier contemporary that a purchase of 430,000 acres of the Seventy, mile Bush, in the Province of Hawke’s Bay, has been made for immigration purposes— Advance little Napier, say we. We take the following from the Press of the 23rd inst. : —“A young man aged 23 years, about to enter into business, wants a young lady that will make a good wif \ Address, in own handwriting, and enclose carte dc mite, Thomas Robert Peabody, Post ollice, Christchurch.” The surname is certainly inducing. The Dally Southern Cross, Auckland, must he hard up for a “local.” We clip the following from a late issue “It will be seen from an advertisement that Mr Perkins, of the Occidental Hotel, lias by the arrival of the Wonga, been provided witli a very lar c e selection of American newspapers. We o' - serve that of Days Doluys he has no fewer than seven copr s.” Such important intelligence, however, we suppose pays. Query j proprietors or readers ? Mr H. S. Harrison, M.H. R. for Wanganui, has taken leave of his constituents and of public life. Says the Post, in referring to the fact“Mr Harrison’s political connection with the district of Wanganui is coeval with the Const!tut on given to the Colony, and if ho has not taken a leading place in Parliament he has at all evenfs maintained the character of an enlightened honorable gentleman and secured the personal respect of all parties.”—For the representation cf the Wairarapa district, Messrs Bunny, Reeves, Pharazyn, John Martin, and the Rev. J. C. Andrew arc in tire field. Mr Bunny still seems to he the favorite, and is almost certain' to have ope seat, whoever has the other.

Tlic flag bearing the serrated cognizance of the Circular Saw Company has disappeared, and, in ils stool, “a banner with a strange device” now “flouts the air.” The new flag is of brightest crimson, and bears in its centn the two magic letters J. M., in brilliant yellow. Yellow is a color in bunting to which mariners are by no means partial, and we trust it is not symbolical of anything in reference to the ships or the company. It is rumored that Lieutenant-Colonel Harrington is to he appointed to the command of all the militia in New Zealand. Th • office of the Chief Registrar of Titles, under the Land Transfer Act, has, we understand, been accepted by Mr W. S. Moorhouse, A correspondent sends the Pimwr the following sad and inti-resting particulars with regard to an incident of Cashmere rule ; “ (Several years ago,” he says, “a conspiracy WflS f’onpcd by son)e of his subjects, mostly, I believe, moo of rank and influence, against the rule of Maharajah, The plot was discovered and the ringleaders either executed or imprisoned for life. In a barred wooden cage in the guard-room of the small fort at Kargil, a place situated on the road running nearly east and west between Srinuggur and Leh, the chief town of Ladak, may he seen one of these political prisoners. ' The unfortunate man has passed eleven years of captivity in this cruel cage, which measures about 4A feet square, and is so diabolically contrived that he can neither ait, nor stand nor lie at ease. He has never, since his inearocration, boon shown the smallest mercy: no respite from his painful confinement has been granted him ; God’s sun, the fredi air, the sight of the common objects of nature have been denied him : the four mud wads of his prison rooms are his horizon j the sepoy who from time to time brings him his scanty meal fu’rnishes Iris only connecting liak with the living world,” '