CAREY, THE INFORMER.

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1726, 28 July 1883, Page 4

CAREY, THE INFORMER.

" ' r i i TTT i ■ . , ' ' i TIIE l\hiarm [ Herald makes, the following lunusingt reference* tin the case of Ciiicy, tlie jufprnier ;'-^A telegram states that Carey, the potoriotie informer against tho I'hoouix' l'aru marderuis, has left Ireland for ''one' of the colonies in the liastern Hemisphere." This is about as vague an address as could well be imagined. Which is the Eastern Hemisphere, and which the Western ? That depends entirely on the point where th« world is supposed to be divided. According to the ordinary English cartography, that point is twenty degrees west of Greenwich, and on that calculation, the only British colonies that are not in the Eastern Hemisphere are those in North America, the Weat Indies, Guiana, the Falkland Inlands, Fiji and New Zealand. It will thus be &cen that Mr Cat ey has a pretty wide and vaiied Held within which to make a fresh start in lite with the wages of his intamy. He may »o to Heligoland, to Gibraltar, Malta, or Cyprus in Europe : or he may go to Hong Kong, to Aden, India, Ceylon, Bimnali, or the Stiaits Settlement of Malacca in Asia, to Natal, the Cape of Good Hope, Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast, Mauritius or the Seychelles in Africa ; or, finally, to Australia or Tasmania in " the fifth quarter of the globe." The chances are, we should say, that he will not fancy any particularly hot climate during the remainder of his earthly existence, but will rather keep cool while he can ; and for that reason he will probably avoid the tropical colonies, and seek out a home in the temperate zone. The first report that we heard of his movements was that he was going to Australia, and that, we expect, will prove to be correct. The Invincibles have sworn a fiightful oath that wherever be goes they will follow him, and " execute " him in some unusually pleasant way ; and though those amiable enthusiasts do not always perform their promises, it is quite possible that the exCity Councillor of Dublin may find it diilicult to escape inconvenient enquiries from his fellow-countrymen in any p<irt of the Queen's dominions. His best chance ly far would have been to change his nationality and become a Turk or a Russian, or something of that sort. Nobody would have ever detected him, or throw his antecedents in his face, and he might easily have done well and risen to distinction. In any one of the colonies, cither Eastern or Western, he is bound to be known, and if he is known, he will ceitainly not be popular. It will be rather h.ud on the colonists, too, if the secret assassination societies of Ireland &l ould ti.in.sfer their operations to these hitheito peaceful communities. If we had our way, we would mnkc Carey the first Governor of the New Hebrides, and leave him alone, on the hungriest of the group. Nobody would be at all likely to go after him there.

Tub (Ihousc jlincricnn, a weekly newspaper pubU-hed in Chinese characters, ami conducted by Chinamen, beynn its caieer in New York lately, being photolithogiaplieil; 8000 copies were circulated among the Chinese population. A w kit Mt ill the London IhnUi Krwx calls attention to the ciicumatance tlint Lady Floience Dixie is, on her own authntity, a icmaikable dreamer. She published, inuncdiately after the death of the Frinee Imperial in South Africi, a long poem minutely describing the occut tence, which she declared »>he had wuttcusix yens before. Its exactness of desenption may be seenin thesequoted lines :—: — H.irk to th.it horrible shriek, unearthly sounds ' A hundied demons ciowd upon the scene. ith horrid slincki and aclls, and features menThey hurl their d.irts .it th.it pale lonely boy. 1 In* scene hot. inn- unc.irllilv, fiendish jells Inc.irn itc filled the .iir J'.ile unto de.itl), Vet .ill iind, muted, f.i< nip d.irk. foes, De.li itui- in those j; i/injj c\cs, <lesp,nr Stamped on th.it childish linw, lie st.ituU at bay, Itcrou unto de ith. Itri^Ut ule.itns llic -word I h.it Iliislics KH'en md ghost-like in his hand, \\'n\ ififf .il'ifr A hundred d.irts whirl round \nd --tnke him down. That wsm datail IS73— six venrs before the evont took place. Lady Florence, on publishing it, stated thatshe had dreamed it all in 1573, and had immediately written it down — but she waited six ycais for its fulfilment befoic she gave it to the world.

The Suturdtty JRcvicw says :— There is is at present under discussion, nnd there will, in all probability, be shortly submitted to the public, a plan for constructing a new canal to the Red Sea by an entirely original line — namely, the Valley of the Jordan, the depression of the Dead Sea and the Wady Arabah. Now that we ate prepared to cut the rough Panama, to flood half Algeria, and to make a waterway to tiie very door of the Manchester factories, Wu are in a liien&ure prepared for a project which will conveit Palestine into a peninsular like Denmark, and will, for the good of trade, sweep away for ever certain " ancient monuments," hitherto deemed worthy ot respect. Wilkik CoiiMvs, in a recent letter to a friend in New York (Mr William Winter), refers as follows to his own recent novel and to his lately deceased literary comrade, Anthony Trollope :—: — " This new book, ' Heart and Science,' so mercilebsly excited me that I went on writing week after week without a day's interval ot rest. Rest was impossible. I made a desperate eft'oi t ; rushed to the sea, went sailing md fishing, and was writing my book all the time 'in my head,' as the children say. The one \\is>e couimj to take was to go back to my desk and empty my head, and then rest. My nerves are too much shaken for travelling. An armchair and a cigar, and a hundred and fiftieth reading of the gloiious Walter Scott (king, emperor, president, and god almighty of novelists)— there is the regimen that is doing me good. All the other novelwriters I can read m hile lam at work myself. If I only look at "The Antiquary " or "Old Mortality" I am crushed by the sense of my own littleness, and thete is no work possible for me on that day. * * * You knew Anthony Trollope, of course. His imlneasuiablc energies had a bewildering effect on my invalid constitution. To me he was an incarnated gale of wind. He blew of my hat ; he turned my umbiella inside out. Joking apart, as good and staunch a friend as ever lived, and, to my mind, a great loss to novel readers. Call his standard as a workman what you will, he was always equal to it. Never, in any marked degree, either above or below his own level. In that respect alone a remarkable writer, surely. If he had lived five years longer he would have written fifteen nnoie thoroughly readable works of fiction. A loss— a serious loss, I say again." Rats axd Mice. —lf j'ou wish to destroy them get a packet of Him.'sMagic Vkrmii* Xii 1 1 it in p.ickcts, Gd, Od, and Is, to be obtained of all storckrepcis, or Irom T. B. Hill by en* closiny an extra stamp. ' LiKh rx tub Busit— Then and Now. — It is generally supposed tli.it in the bush we have to put up with many discomforts and privations in the shape ot food Formerly it was so, but now, thanks to 1\ B. Hill, who has himself dwelt in the bush, if food does consist chiefly of tinned meats his Coionial Sauci: gives to them a most delectable flavour, making them as well of the plainest food most enjoyable, and instead as hard biscuits and indigestible damper his Im* i'rovrd Coionial JHking Powder makes the very best bread, scones, cakes, and pastry far superior and more wholesome than yeast or Ic.ivcn. Sold by all storekeepers who can ob« tain it from any merchant in Auckland. You will do well to furnish your house from Garlick and Cranwell's. They have now the most complete Furnishing Warehouse Sn Auckland, .furniture to suit all classes, good t-trcAg, ,md cheap., They have Tapestry Carpets ..•om "2s 3d per yard,' Brussels I ,' from 3s lid per yard. Linoleum from is Od to its, Oil Cl»ths from lsOdtodsCd per yard, good 12 feet wide Oil Clofhs at 3s, 0(1 per yard. Immense assortment of Iron Bedsteads from Infants' Cots to s' iiet 'wide half-tester 'Bedsteads.' Double"irbn* *Jle'd k steads from 255. 480 Bedsteads in stock-to setect Irom.' Beddings o) all , kinds and sizes" kept in readiness. Dining, Sitting, Drawing-room Furjniture/and and a large assortment of Manchester and' ' Funushinp i Goods, including a lot of Cretonnes. Book Catalogues sent free to intending,, pujjhasqrs,! jGarlick and iQranwelL City Hall^rcadeVQW»^^ f