KEWS BY THE HAIL.

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1736, 21 August 1883, Page 2

KEWS BY THE HAIL.

JuikS MoDiskmott, an American newspaper iiiiin .and llcpublican politician, w.ib shot in t!ic head on July 22 by James (i.ijnor, "\\lio b.iul, as ho mised big rc\ol\cr. " Mel >ermott, yon traitor, I've followed you tlnce thousand miles to kill you, and I'll do ituow.'. It is said McDermott -was •shot by outer of the Fenian Biotheihood. lie v.is turned informer, and it was on his e\idcnee Feiithei stone, D.ilton, Deasy, .uid otheis were arrested for conspiracy to murder. Uaynor was one of tho membeis ot the l)rotherhood who had followed McDermott from Ireland to slay him At a meeting of the Catholic Hierarchy in Dublin July 5, a motion was adopted condemning State aid to emigration, and pointing out that there are large tracts ot land in Ireland which, if cultivated, would maintaiu a surplus population. Judge O'Bticn, addicting the grand jury in Limn ielc, July o, deelaicd the diminution of the number of outrages since last August amounted to asocial rovolution. A national meeting was held at Belfast on tho night ot July o, to oelebiato tlio declaration of American independence. Sexton, Byirar, and Sullivan sent letters of U'giet. The Rev. Mr Rylett denounced the Loid Lieutenant of Ireland, whose name, he said, was more detested by the English people than that of Guey. The Parnell fund had reached €17,065 on July 4. Bcechei leccntly announced himself as a "cordial Chiislian evolutionist." Ho believes the animal part, of man is evolved tiom beings below him, while, in his spiritual nature, he is the son of God. "Man," lie said, "is not sinful by natuic, but become so voluntarily." He does not believe in the fall of Adam or the inhciitancc of his guilt. A daughter of Vice-President King, in Tierce's administration, and widow of General Hunter, General Jackson's Minister to St. Petersburg, recently applied for admission to a Washington almshouse, She is 70 yeais of age. A despatel), from Cork, July 8, says tho detectives had exhumed at Michigan 0000 dynamite cartridges, part of the proceeds of the dynamite robbery in that city two years ago. The knowledge that a large quantity of dynamite was in bad handy since the robbery has been tho cause of continued anxiet) to the autholitk's. Cardinal Howard has left Home for England. A despatch of July 13 saya hi*> mission is to establish, if possible, diplomatic i elation!) between England and tho Vatican. Kcwsfiom Stanley, via Libson, July 15, represent i him in good health, but live Belgian membcis ot his Congo party ate dead. Additional aduces fiom the West Coast ;ay that Stanley was, in May, about to st.n t for a ten months' journey tow aid the East Coast. He lias formed alliances with two Upper Congo chiefs, thus checking Do Bwi/za, the Frenches* ploier. IV-ie Hyacinte will sail from Paris on August 23, accompanied by his family, for Amciica. He proposes to lccturo tluougliout the United States. Tho Panama Canal Company met in Paris on July 17. Tho report of De Lesseps repealed his former statement that the canal would be finished at the end of ISBS. The Piince of Monaco is negotiating with France for tho sale ot that principality foi 10,000,000 francs, subject to the recognition ot the gambling concession for twenty-seven years. The Irish Land Act report of the Committee of the Louis, was submitted on June 9. It finds that the emigration clauses of the Act have failed, that tho modes of valuation ot land are umeliable, that the relations between landlord and tenant have not been improved, that the tenants ha\e become demoralised, and cnteitained the hope that fresh agitation will bring about tho passage of a new Act. A despatch at Paris, July 5, says tt French column, after a successful campaign in UppcrJSeueg.il, Mas attacked with typhus fever. Tho situation becoming giave, Colonel Dcsbordes tho French commander, instead of matching to St. Louis, the capital, resolved to leach tho coast and embark on tho French transport (lai rone. This effort proved fatal to the column, as the commander of the Garonne, fearing his ctew might become infected, refused to receive the atllicted soldiers on board. A despatch of July 7th says the bishops arc "soalaimed by the storm of cuticism evoked by their opposition to the Deceased Wife's Sister Bill that they Ime prepared a reply in justification, explaining their motives. The despatch says, fiuther, that the royal family is much vexed at the failure of the measure, which puts tho intended marriage of the Princess Beatrice with her widowed brother-in-law as far off as ever, that project being said to explain the warm advocacy of the Bill by the Prince of Wales and his brother.

A meeting of the Pinko Turf Club will be held at the Phoenix Hotel, Morrinsville, on Saturday next, for the transaction of important business. Mr A. Bromner has been appointed rate collector for the Waitoa Road District, and all rates must be p.ud to him. Mr G. A. Laidlaw, Te Aroha, gives notice of his intention to apply to the Piako County Council on the 12th September for a slaughtciing license for his yard at Te Aroha. Mr John Knox will sell at the Hamil 4 ton Mart on Saturday next, one ton Te Aw a* mutu cheese (Walpolc's make) ; also, a large amount of drapery of all kinds; also, 200 fruit trees from Mayo's nursery, Drury. Mr A. Isaacs, general merchant and auctioneer, Oxford, Cambridge, and "SVaotu, notifies that ho is prepared to supply contractors and sun c>ors with provisions at tho lowest possible pnrcs. Attention is directed to tho advertisement of the AVaikato Company's consultation on the Melbourne Cup. Mr W. H. Neal, Cambridge, announces tli.it he is prepared to give lessons on the pidnofoite, organ, violin, flute, and m smtfing. Piano* fortes and harmoniums tuned and regulated. Notice is given that 'the special rato levied m Te Aroha riding on 20lh July last, i$ now due and payable to Mr Bremner, Piako. / Mr J. L. Mandeno, To Awamutu, in« vites tenders for the erection of additions to a dwelling at Rangiaohia for Mr T. Hunt. All claims agaiusfc the late Richard Gwjnne must bo sent in to the solicitors for the executors, Messrs AVhitakcr and Campbell, "_/> on or before the Ist September. . In another column will be found tho^ ad\ertisement of Ellison's celebrated Druifl Plaster, which is said to be on good authority a, reliable cure for many ills to which tho human flesh is heir. Particulars, testimonials, See, will be found in tho advertisement. Mr J. Moses notifies that having disposed of his Cambridge business to the NewZea«. land Tweed Company the whoie stock will ho . % slaughtered at cost and under. * " i Mr J. S. Buckland will sell at Cam* bridge on Saturday next, nevy farm waggon,, , s | secondhand waggon, staunch draught horses,.. tM j Gang* active plougli hor3es, hacks, ' ttc^, &c. v Oi^jftf Tuesday next Im-will seil afc the »Gbfiupo r Y?t^s s f^ I<k)' mixed stoies^S j.ydwng, bulfsi £«Q!j~vBsC<|""att(^^[