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Waikato Times, Volume I, Issue 31, 11 July 1872, Page 2

Jl most lingular ranaotp hits gained CTurancgr, in political circles in Wellimgton. It ii stated that the General Goternment hag Been for some time pa»tengage4 ifinegociafcions with the EVench GoTenuaaent with regard to the Oommnnißt prieootere now being sent to Caledonia, and that, in despair, at the failure of the Fox-Yogel immigration «cheme, an attempt will be to obtain ten or twelve thousand Communists, who will, if the negociations are successful, be transhipped on the high seas and forwarded to New Zealand as Scandinavian immigrants " ' : ',;■■_ v .. .

The "Press," writing on the probable position of parties- slaye-:— " The exact personpgfeof tK'e Opposition, the line they will take, aw,the meet to be seenA Wβ fancy nnim Mr.; Yog el plays cards unooxnmbnly well, they will be dangeronsly strong. ;But to. muoh depends upon theprogramme eabmi&ed' , bf the Government, that nothing can be known with any oertainty till the Assembly haty met; probably indeed no decisive steps win be taken till after the deli, very of the finauoial statement At present -wetjnly" Wtsliliorpoml ouVliolf pi«dictions hare been yerified,. and also what a •ingiilar change has come oTer the Ministerial joarnali in their references to the subject. At first they "affected incredulity. They scouted the possibility of-any kind of Opposition worth speaking of; laughed at the yery mention of a provincial revival; and as for Mr. Fitzherbeffc, maintained that he was, and was likely to be,'among the warmest friends of the existing Administration. Bnt little by little the truth hae dawned on the.slow, perceptions of oar contemporaries. They are now lorcod tp r tpfll . we in ( tban they had imagined, .' f ,'. ,'.'• ~( , ' } The " Times,*' writing of mining in Cornwall, Bays: —" There is a steadily increasing demand for underground laborers in Cornwall, and inferior hands are gladly caught up j nevertheless, in bearly erery mining neighborhood gbod ! are only waiting until they have & sufficient stock of cash to. emigtate. ; to America and Australia. No doubt, the new system of thirteen monthly, payments has done much to check the tide of emigration ; still a considerable nuinbor of experienced and industrious miners evidently desire to try their fortunes abroad."

Tte Writer under> the norn de plume of "Loafer in the »Street," in * n e "Press," Bays: " There are many advantages in being- a member of the Provincial Council—no I'm not allnding to the pay, 1 think some of our members are worth more than a pound a day —not the least of which ia being able to rise in your place and remark upon some fellow's private character. The impunity with which yon ban jump on a man makes one wish to be a senator if only for one evening. In a few short sentences you can settle a man in the back seats for life, and. the victim has to grin and bear it. An hon. member's statements iu the House are never libellous, and if you resort to the 'fortiter in re'you don't pay £5, which J believe is the stereotyped charge for giving a man a thraehiug; but you are arraigned before the Council, and your fata would be a sad one. An hon. member who chooses to make charitable allpeions to a man's private character is in the happy position of the special constable in " Punch," who observes, to the Chartist—"lf t kill you it's nothing, but by Jove if you touch me it's wilful murder."

A novel experiment in telegraphic reporting was made in connection with the Oxford and Cambridge Boat-race. In order,to trarismit a description of the race as ifc was rowed, arrangements were made by the proprietor of the " Central News " to pay oat a cable from one of the steamers which followed the racing boats. Permission to place the cable and pay, it oat from the Cambridge steamboat was readily accorded by Mr. Goldie. There is "no novelty in telegraphing through cables as they are being paid; oat, bat there is no precedent for performing each a work at the pace of the racing boats. Moreover, whatever happened to the cable, « ■ stoppage of the boat daring fclje race was -> impossible, and therefore the most perfect arrangements were necessary to x>btainr success. The arrangements, go far as the cable was concerned, were carried out "By ] the lelegrapn Construction and Maintenance Company, and the officer of the Postal Telegraphs gave every assistance in the use of land wire and the distribution of the intelligence. The difficulties of the work were mocbt increased by the fact'that the whole of the finftl arrangements and reporting had to be done in the midst of an anosaally severe snow-storm j bat, in spite of this difficulty, all the leading-,facts connected with the race, incluciiAg the Taryjn£ positions of the crews an 4 the times at which they reached well-known pointe,; were telegraphed before the race was conclttded. By this means ifc became possible to transmit throughout the kingdom, and to place before readers hundreds of miles distant, more information respecting the race than was known to the spectators on ft£e|banks,ef t&fej Thamesj 7. ••' i ; ■' "•* ■ : • ' ' '■' / Mr. Bright on RBPtrßLicANieH.—lt is stated that* gentleman who had been told that the I£ngljaa Republicans would select Mr. John Bright as their president, wrote to ask ; the right r .hon. gentleman if he would accept the post, and received the following reply:—" Rochdale, ilpril % 1872. Dear : Siij-—Tour Republican frien3~musfc not be a desperate character , if fiei prbpbses to make me his-first president, dpubtirTie can be a friend of mine./ 'As to' opinions on the question of Monarchy, and Republicanism, I hope and believe it wiU. be a long time before we are,asked to. our.opiaion -y par ancestors decided the matter a good while since, and I would suggest that you and I should leave any ;&icther decision to our posterity. Now, from your letter I eonclade ybb; are willing to do this, and lassure yoa \ amiiotlesji" '■ willing.—lam, truly yours, Johh Bright^ ,