CORRESPONDENCE. MR JOHNS' CAMBRIDGE MEETING.

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1471, 6 December 1881, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE. MR JO HNS' CAMBRIDGE MEETING.

TO THE EDITOR. Sin, — I was rather -orry to see a letter in your issue of to-day, from Mr Johns' impugning 1 the correctness of your correspondent's report of that gentleman's addresat Cambridge West, because I aa well as several others of whom I have since asked the question — and who were present at the meeting — are fully of opinion that Mi Johns did make use of the words he now tdkos exception to, and we expressed our surprise at his being so indiscreet especially after ha ring read telegrams from Sir Geo. Grey in which Sir George expressed his mtontion to come and stump fehe district on his Mr John's behalf. I can only account for it by the fact that the unusual excitement in which Mr John's, during the last few weeks, has been living is too much for his mental equilibrium. —l am &c, The Chairman oi 1 Mr Johns' Meeting Cambridge West. Cambridge, December 3rd.

It has just been discovered that there is no stone to mark the resting-place of Brigham Young. This is one of the resalts of having twenty- two wives. The harrest prospects throughout Southern Russia are so brilliant that if they Bhould be roaliaed the farmers think they will he able to dispense with any harvests during the next four years. A Bbazilian paper speaks of a neg o who died there, recently, aged 130, and of several other persons who reached remarkable . ages, and attributes this longevity principally to the fact that the men and women referred to were vegetarians. Railwat time tables in the South Island do not appear always- to give unmixed satisfaction. The Oamaru Mail says of the line to Eurow that "the ause of the mystic time-table can. only be found in an abnormal conditition of the official intellect, occasioned : ;by plethora of rhomboidjcal knowledge. 11 ,