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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1385, 22 May 1883, Page 2

The leaders ot the Salvation Army are men of; great expectationi. 41 'the " Holiness said that he .'believed, that.'niilllona of ainnerß would; be oonverte,d/in:N«w Zealand ,this year, .Staff-officer' Matthews said be could hot trust as far as bis friend Captain" 'Edwatds, but he did'beliera that a'million' and a half Would be converted in this colony, ..For otir ! part, wa see ({rave 'difficulties, in 1 the Way of even the more moderate expboiatibns ;of Staffofficer Matthews; : anion? ..them tb fact that the whole populace of the colony is only half a million. But then we are not nlenof ' Paii-' Nobjtj,, an ; English .convict burglar,-wKq in, London, was one of the« most danng of his guild; he. always? !•{ playejt for big atekes," •Fe wjll be- recdly as tbs man who robbed the Royal Insurance Company in New York in 1866, when he obtained 275,000 dpi, He deoeived his" pals/' 1 who:turned infarjulrs, and Noble was convicted and sent to Auburn. Afterwards he escaped and went to England, He was one of the fanciest of the "fancy" a-.Joan of winning address and'inJponngpresenoe, There has been for several years the greatest dismay amongjtha,deer forests in ; Inverness-shire Pall Mall Gazette) at theprosppat of the whole country comiiig ; the possession of an Anglo-American millionaire, This gentlentih 4as added forest to forest, outbidding all the old sportsmen, and,, if;deer-silking as generally practised' can be fairly described as depopulating the hills and valleys, the deer-stalkingpfiMr Witians drives ,away n6C only the shepherds arid the crofters, but the deer-stalkers themselves. It is believed that this gentleman's ideal of sport is io leave the vast'traot'whioß' controls for several years imvisited, until it becomes a nanctuary for all the deer of the neighboring proprietors, when he will solace himself with one gigantio "driye. Tfee iidignaf;ip^ { Bportamen who are thus encte'd is as that of the peasants j it can be better imagined than described, The HousS^ of Commons was informed last, week, ' in answer to a questio,i} (l tktfno' legislation was in' contemplatM on the subject of the eviction of the crofters } a fortiori, there will be none for the deer-stalkers; but it seems a hard case both forjthe one!an<l' the other. . Mttam eminenmrsonagss are knewu to'aneot various .kinds of far, says the writer; of " Town' Talk" in the Argui, The Emperor of Rmsja wears sable, the Emperor of Austria atraschan, and the Queen of Spain beaver. If Mr Parnell should over , be president of the Irish republic, and be in doubt about a far to suit ine recommend as eminently : cnarapteyißtio botH'oif Hißfeell and of the odour in which he is regarded—the skunk, It is itipoßsibleWdtfiiceive ho* a man who has once occupied an honorable . position-." a white man," as the American? lsjt«:r?ot|i| pWjijjbimself to sink sn low. Silence go at least direotlj. together, but silence without shame is b'aßeindeed."The character* less creatures that form his following avow their. /sympathy with outrage loudly enough j but tome fragment of Qongoieno? reatMihß hlm'i'jnd, on the other hand, he dareß not denounce murder lest he should loieihe suffrage of " the party of ofl pve&be i(s next victim, .. One,,of the jetlioorA (says the Otasjo Timesj th'at are now passing current inthetbwns and district* of Otsgo, isthit Mr Jaines-Ashcroft. editor of the Otago Daily. Timea, has latelweceifed notice of dismissal ofiwhat he has written/in that pltger on file now notorious caa'es of alleged land And in connection with jjiat rumor there ii another which aHould be of • more Mr Ashoroft, We . hear that •*-nambatLofjentlemcn partly out ofrsympathy with Mr Ashoroft tor the position in which it is averred he hat been viniiictively plaeednand-pMlly out of adthe publio interestSrhare determined to g^t ! onhis 'behalf, The amount which is mentioned for presentation to Mr Ashoroft ii no less than JlQOfrsterlipg. Should this piesentati io be. made, a good mauy editors may be foundeourtiojf arbitrarydumUsa). v