NEWS BY THE ENGLISH MAIL.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2348, 25 September 1880, Page 2

NEWS BY THE ENGLISH MAIL.

AX INFAMOUS MAI? 11 TAG-F ITIFVFXTFb. AT, Kilbnrry, near Clonmel, early in August, the siierilT, in proceeding to execute a writ against a Mrs Meagher, foil ml the, house barricaded, trees felled and laid across the road to prevent the passage of vehicles, and a party of men inside armed with weapons of various kinds to resist an entrance, which was ultimately forced. On JulyoU a party of twenty men, with faces blackened, forcibly entered the house, and obliging the bailiff in charge of it to kneel, put revolvers to each ear and made him swear that he would leave and not return. An arrangement had been entered into to let Miss Meagher, sister of the evicted tenant, have a lease of the lands on her marriage with a person who is in good circumstances. This arrangement was set aside by the armed party, who forced Meagher to swear that ho would not sanction it. They then put Mrs Meagher again into possession. The land is laid out in meadow, and no one can Tie got to cut it. FLFCTHICA F I’AVFMFXTS FOl? CITY IdIC.UMOTIUX. The latest suggestion for the use of electricity as a motive power is to have the streets of cities paved with iron, either in blocks or so arranged that the pavement will form continuous electrical conductors, divided into suitable sections, each section to he charged with electricity by a stationary steam engine and dynamo machine of proper size. Uu the electrical pavements thus provided, wagons, carriages, lire engines, omnibuses, Ac., each provided with an electrical driving wheel, and taking electricity through the wheel from the pavement, may bo run in any desired direction, with more ease and certainty than by (Tie present system of horse locomotion, although that system would not be necessarily interfered with, as those who preferred to use horses could of: course do so. Iron pavements would doubtless he made that would bo ipiite as serviceable as the present stone blocks. The subject presents a line opportunity for students of electricity to exercise their head gear. —‘‘ Scientific American.” KIG H-CL ASS EMIGRATION. A new experiment has been made in emigration, and wo shall be curious to see what success attends it. A distinguished general oliicer, Sir John Bisset, has started for the Cape of Good Hope with a party of young men, whom he proposes to initiate into the ways of the colony. The novices, like their leader, belong to the upper classes, and are mostly young men of good family, who take with them to their new homo a fair amount of capital, in addition to a good education and plenty of muscle and pluck. They will have, moreover, the advantage of the advice and experience of a veteran soldier, who has known the Capo almost from childhood.