FENIAN OPERATIONS.

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1494, 31 January 1882, Page 3

FENIAN OPERATIONS.

The Press Association (America) has published a long statement respecting the designs of the Fenians, which professes to be based on information received before the discovery of infernal machines at Liverpool, and is now issued in order "to put the public on their guard and to warn those who are responsible for the safety of public men and public buildings that there is a i % eal danger in their midst." According to this statement, the head centre ef the movement in Europe is in Paris, but the chief direction is in the hands of O'Donovan Rossa in New York. For several months past, and up to within a few weeks ago, what is known as the Fenial Mail, has been conveyed to London by a man who was formerly an engineer living at Woolwich, but who became storekeeper on board a vessel belonging to the Natioiicil line. Each time this steamer arrived from Austx-alia the storekeeper was met by a woman who took from him such letters and documents as were directed to leaders of the movement in Liverpool and Dublin, and who conveyed them to those cities secreted about her. The Fenian leader Stevens is living in Paris, and is acting as the correspondent of the United Irishman, of which O'Donovan Rossa is the editor. It is added that there are now in London a number of men who are cognisant of some, at least, of the projects of the most desperate of the Fenian leaders. A " feaiful retiibution will be taken for Mr ParneU's ai rest ;"' Mr Forster's assassination has already been determined upon ; and "Sir "William Haveourt, Mr Gladstone, and other persons of the highest distinction are spoken of as in peril of their lives." The latest design is> to hold a permanent council at Holyhead to arrange for effecting the release of Mr Parnell and the other suspects from Kilmainham, and to organise a l-ising of the Irish population of Liverpool, to be followed as soon as the attention of the Government is sufficiently engaged by a rebellion in Ireland itself. "It is understood," however, that the " authorities do not attach much importance to these threats, regarding them rather as means of getting money from America."

The Scandinavians believed the world to rest upon nitie pillars. The new pure cash system now being initiated by G. and C. will certainly prove a benefit to the public. It has been a great success in Sydney and Melbourne, and when strictly carried out the customer who bu}b at an establishment where the goods are marked low to ensure a rapid sale must be .1 great gainer. G. and C. selj their drapery, millinery, and clothing at surh prices for c.ish as gives the buyer the advantages ot a shareholder in a co-operative society, without tbe risk of being called upon to bear a portion of the loss should (he j car's business prove unsatisfactory. Garlick t and Crumvell will aim to retain the confidence which the public lia\c hitherto shown them, and are determined to give the pure cash system a fair trial; whether they gain or lose the first year Country buyers on remitting cash withordci will be supplied with goods at co-opcratvc prices ; {'ust the same as though they made a personal sccction. Furnishing 1 goods, such as carpets, floor cloths, bedsteads, beading and general house furniture, the largest portion of which is turned out at our own factory, willbc marked at the lowest remunerative prices, and a discount of five per cent, will be allowed to those who pay at the time of purchase. G. and C. having realised the entire value of their stock during their late cash sale, the present stock is nkw axd chlaply nought. — An inspection invited. — Garlick and Crvnwblt, City Hall Furnishing Arcade Queen street, Auckland. Death of Miss Loxgworth. — Intelli gence has been received in letters arriving by the Cape mail that Miss Longworth, the prosecutor in the well-known Yelverton marriage case, has died at Pietermaritzburgh, from dropsy. She claimed to have been married to Major Yelverton, now Viscount Avonmore, according both to the law of Scotland and the law of Ireland. The major repudiated her claim, and defended actions brought by her in 1861 in Dublin and in ! Edinburgh to have the marriages declared 1 valid. In the Scotch Supreme Courts Major yelverton prevailed, but he wa« unsuccessful in the Irish Courts. The Scotch decision was affirmed by the House of Lords, and Major Yelverton married another lady. In the Scotch courtb it was attempted to prove the validity of an irregular Scotch marriage. In Ireland the question was aa to the legality of a marriage performed by a' priest, but in which the contracting parties were respectively a Roman Catholic and a Protestant, Miss f Loneworth being a Roman Catholic. After the law courts had decided upon her case, she : continued to style herself first ' Mrs" Yelvirton, ' and then, on the major succeeding ,to. the title of viscount, Lady Aydnmore. At the time her case was one ofhiiuch notoriety, and she was the object of considerable popular interest and 1 sympathy .- Withthis helpj £nd,,aided^ajs*&"j>y.respectable attainments as 1 a" reader Vand elocutionist, she afterwards won^ some t gucoeaa as a*public readei'^and^lecturei'? Jn this oharftcter «he had sjnoe gravelled both at home and abroad, and has from time to' time .been heard. Of in Amenta* ,