MISCELLANEOUS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 7175, 20 September 1886, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

From information which haß come into the possession of tho English police, there IB reason to believe that intrigues are going on between Irish and Bussian dynamitards. Detectives are to be stationed at different points ia Russia, and instructions have " bee l issued for ail 'arrivals from that country to bo closely watched and vessels Bearcbfcd. Speaking at Wiltoa on Aug. 2, the Hon. S. Herbert, M.P., one of the new Lords of the Treasury, said what Lord Salisbury thought was that Ireland required' to' be dealt with by a firm administration. The argument of" the Conservative party hud been that the whole danger had coirie from concession to agitation and treason. He believed they would find that the Irish people as a whole would be only too glad to come unlf'r'lawß which thf-y respecter. 1 , and gvt p\\u\ fiom Jaws which they did not reFpect but feared. Thtre is a very decided improvement in Mr. Kuskin's condition. He is now so much better that bulletins will only be issued as may be required. The death of Mr. Moockton, of Maids stone, recalls the fact that he was anionu; those who accompanied Benjamin Disraeli to the huhlipsa at Maidstone ia 1837, when he was first returned to Parliament. The lato Lord Ueaconsfield never forgot to inquiro after him,' and on every 'visit to the City of London as Prime Minister always naked of, the present Town Clerk as to hia relavives health. The latter lias a number of early letters both from Mr. Disraeli and Mrs. Wyndham Lewis, afterwards Viscountess Beaconsfield. j

la connection with the movement for promoting the formation of a -Welsh Kr uonal Party in tho llouso of Commons for the furtherance of Weigh legislation, steps aru being taken to hold a meeting in London on the subject on the occasion of a reunion to celebrate tho return of ono of tho Welsh rnei/ibere to Parliament. A meeting ia also to bo held at Carnarvon on the subject during the holding of the Ei&teddlod, when a course of action will probably be decided upon. All the farmers who have petitioned the vicar of Llanurnion-ynyale, North Wales, for reduction in their tithes, have received notice at the instance of! tho vicar that unleaß the tithes are paid in ten days he will proceed to distrain upon their lands and premises for payment. The farmers have announced tbeir intention not to pay n farthing unleßri an abatement of 10 per cent, is conceded. The strained relatious between the vicar and the farmers excite much comment, ami the ultimate issue of the struggle is awaited with grout interest by the farmers throughout the principality.