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Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1523, 8 April 1882, Page 4

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; iTJie lEarl of Wilton is dead 1 .. There are serious signs of an msniTefi.tfem'Mjy (.movement among the; Poles. ■ • A Prussian legation lias been established at the Vatican. liKthQ.aeulliog race on ,the Thames ,on March" 7th, Sargent beat Jookik, the ASnexican, by two lengths. pThjb emigration to America frojn Gor,niany this year promises to be larger than e«ei\ ci ' <<„'>' nThe intei national hurdle-race at.Croydj)n was won by Glenline, [Ancient Pistbl second, Theophrastus third. Eight ,rah, including Walten's Sutler. o Fredrick Hasse, the eminent German, j actor, it drawing crowded houses 4n . San Francisco by jus rendering of Shakespeare. A.t the approaching consistory, , the Pope, will create seven new cardinals, including the Moat Keverenct Dr McCabe, Archbishop of Dublin. There, is an , ugly, .feeling growing up in London over the Bradlaugh case, and there are serious fears of a popular uproar. , The journeyman printers o'l St. Louis are out on a general strike for 3 dollars pcr 1 day. Leon Pieser, charged with the murder of Bernais, of Antwerp, and supposed to have ' fled to San Francisco, has been arrested at Cologne. He adheres to the' statement that the shooting was accidental The German press is indignant at General Skobeloff s speech at Warsaw, in which he flattered the Poles, raying if there were no Russian garrison at Warsaw, there would bo no German one. Bradlaugh has been returned for Northampton, receiving 3,708 vote* against Corbetfc's 3,687. T. B. H. Stenhouse, correspondent of thoN.Y. Hi mid, for the Pacilic Coa*>t, died in San .Francisco on the 7th ins>t. Ho had been a man of some importance iU'tljo Mormon Church, and cstablibhed the Daily Telegraph at Salt Lake. His wife had recently commenced a course of Anti-Mormon lectures. The Windsor police have been reinforced in consequence of thieatening letters received by the Superintendent avlio arrc&ted MacLcan. The men arrested at Brussels for complicity in the Hatton Garden Post Oih'cc robbery, London, are believed to include the protended American Colonel Caston, and his accomplice, avlio recently robbed a Paris jeweller of 246,000 francs worth of goods. Mr Edward I. Kennedy, a young and brilliant journalist, and ior some time the leading editorial writer of the Alt« California, committed suicide in San Francisco on the Bth iust. He left a letter to an intimate friend, saying that disgust tor life was the cause. Deceased was a nath c of New South Wales having come from thence to California when about five yeaib old. A singular murder is reported from Boston, where a Mrs Harriett Bell, who had just entered her residence, was followed by a sti anger, who drew a long knife and plunged it into her neck. Just before the blow was given, she looked at the man, and said " I don't know you." She only li\ed two minute? alter being Stabbed. Rev. George l.ceininc D.D., Homan Catholic piiest, Lite of New South Wales, and now of Boston, Jlw , made his debut as 'an actor, m that city, February lflth, at the Gaiety Thcatie, playing Othello. He assumes the professional name of Sydney Clifford, and, probably to conceal his identity, claims to bo "a star tragedian from Australia." It is said Lceming was bom in England, educated fit Oxfbi d, and, a year ago, was pastor of a church in New South Wales. Jessie Hellmnnn, the Nihilist, who because of being cnu tlitr, a\ as lespi ted from the execution of capital sentence foi complicity in the assassination of the late C'/ar, died at St. Pctersbuig on the 3idm childbirth. A tremendous labour liot has prevailed for some days in Omaha among the i ailroad employes, who deni md Idol. 7oc. pci day, wages. The cit) is in a .state of much uneasiness, as the nutuis, at one time, had decided to sack the Buihngton and Mission Railroad dejmls and ofhecs, and the oilicc of the Omaha Hi mid. The military wcie finally called out and ended the trouble. A novel case is before the. San Francisco Couits. in which a con tiding -woman named Mrs Etria V % nnctl is the prosecutor. Two female sharpcis, a mother and daughter, persuaded hor that the " Duke of Leicester, " who they said was travelling incog, in California, had seen her, fallen desperately in love, and wished to make her his wife. The deluded woman gave the pair her confidence, and they managed to do her out of a large amount of personal property. Her eyes were opened when " the Duke" did not turn up in time, and now &he sues her dcludcrs as swindlers. The Park-Boulton scandal, which astonished London in 1870, lias been levived. Boulton and Park, it will be remembered, were ai rested for impersonating women, and Lord Arthur Clinton was badly involved in Die allair, so badly, indeed, that ho attempted suicide. It was said at the time that the suicide story was false, and that Clinton emigrated to Australia ; but there wcic no giounds for thi&. Recently a woman named Furneaux has been personating his Lordship in London, and has obtained some £13,000 from tradesmen and others. Clinton could not bonow <i -Co note in London. His family will lie compelled to exhume his body to piove that he really did die at the time stated, and the funeral was not a &ham. The Chief Secretaiy for Ii eland has made a service of personal investigations into the state of the county of Clare, and held conciliations with magisti atcs, priests, gentlemen, and heads of police, besides seizing every opportunity of advising the tenant farmer to take advantage of the Land Act, and to combine to repress outrage, warning them that the Government was strong enough to maintain the law. The courage shown by Mr Foster m thus showing himself in this rack-rented country — the hottest corner in Ireland — is generally commented on. With the exception of a crowd at a Government station, who heartily hooted the Seci etary and groaned for the coercion policy, the demeanour of the inhabitants was one of curiosity, miugled, perhaps, with some surprise at his venturing into the lion's den. He paid personal visits of condolence to the bedside of Constable Mills, who drove the car when Millford Lloyd was shot, and to the tenant Moroney Both lie at the point of death. Forster gave the latter a £10 note. He also visited the house of Col. G' Gallahan, the boycotted landlord. It was a sad picture of a country gentleman's residence in Ireland at the present day, but it is only one among many.

Copperas is the dread of rats. In every crevice and every hole where a rat treads scatter the grains of copperas, and the result is a stampede of rats and mice. But look out for poison. In seeding land, nothing but the very beat part of a crop should be used, and then this should be sowed with judgment. It will be found that with well cultivated soil one bushel of plump wheat will be sufficient to sow broadcast on one acre, and this will produce better results than a more lavish but less discriminating plan.