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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 63, 15 March 1871, Page 2

It is stated that the ancient Irish bishoprics of Ardagh and Clogher are to be restored, the latter by the munificence of the Rev. G. Porter, son of a former Bishop of Clogher. Mr. Cowasjee Jehangeer Readymoney, a Parsee merchaut at Bombay, Las scut £1000 to be divided between the French aod Prussian wounded soldiers. This gentleman's public benefactions since 1846 have amounted to £127,000. He sent money to the sufferers in the Lancashire distress, and £9000 to the people of the North-west Provinces of India when the famine was rife.

Mu. Warbuick, the contractor for the mail between the Thames and Tauranga, took some Maori ladle;?, relatives of Mere Ivuru, the renowned Amazon, the other day to see the Post and Telegraph Offices, and we learn from the Southern Cross '• their astonishment reached a climax. One of the distinguished ladies was good enough to express to Mr. Bull, through the medium of Mr. Warhrick, who officiated as interpreter, on the occasion, her entire satisfaction with the ' talking wire. -5 She said that, she had been led to believe that powder aud guns were actually being sent along the wire by some mysterious process which rendered them invisible to Maori eyes, and that generally the telegraph was an infernal machine of the Pakeha devoted to witchcraft and devilry. She was, she said, delighted beyond measure that this was not true, that the apparatus was perfectly harmless, that the telegraphist was not a man with horns and cloven feet, and that the wires were made to talk by simply rattling two little knobs." = -^= --A -^