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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 41, 17 February 1880, Page 5

During the past three years 132 American railroads, covering nearly 17,000 miles, and representing an invested capital of 728,463,000 dollars, have been sold under foreclosure. The following threatening notice was found posted up near Warrenpoint, Newry : —" Please take notice, any man that, comes into this country to gi?e more than £1 an acre for land may bring his sheet and coffin with him, for' we will not encourage extor- ; tionate landlords like Brady; The nigh* they norae their houses will be reduced to ashes; > ....-■ ;■. , . •• • "••- > . A correspondent writing fr6m Hawera id the \Pdtea Mail, Matei, the Ij/itelten Timis correspondent somewhat roughly, atjd'^in refutation of hi* remark that in Te WfiitVi ' domains hot a drop of liquor , was" 'to $• obtained, he writes.— "lf he would only ■top till the yearlyjneeting in Marcti"tsp£ he would find Hogsheads, of beer, and'gallons of spirits, put under the 1 sfcim > of thia «i^sembled natives; , and if he had 'niv^yridti'ld prowl aboub amonjgf the whares after, 4»'rif, he would find that Parihakft was a den 61 vice and iniquity, such as would not. ba j tolerated in a civilized community. ii~'ik well known fact by all who really ino'y 'anVf thing ofth« ' noble Maori/ that ceot. of the young Maoris only attend 1 fo Whiti's meeting's for what they cab '$£' & eat and drink, and for the midnight l reve!ii that take place in that Arcadian (?) retreat. While Te.W,hiti is holding forth,, like many of the Fakeha sinners, the mass of Maoridom —male and female-r-with a very small ex- ' ception in proportion to the numerous gathering of people, are otherwise] engaged than listening to him, and very few of the | younger Maoris, on returning frbui Tarlhaka, i can state that they know , anything that the prophet had said."