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New Zealand Tablet, Volume IX, Issue 465, 10 March 1882, Page 17

Two weeks ago there appeared tn the Pilot a lettei from Miss Fanny Parnell saying that there was a need in Ireland of women who could address public meetings and assist the national agitation. Miss Parnell has received letters from over a hundred ladies in this country, who volunteer to go to Ireland and perform this work, the majority refusing any salary. London, Dec. 17. — The Paris correspondent of the Daily Newt Bayß -.—Lieutenant Lullier, an amnestied Communist, waylaid M. Sibour, a nephew of the murdered Archbishop of Paris, and struck him. Lieutenant Lullier threatened to murder M. Sibour if he refused to fight with him. Otago Land Boabd. — The application of James Smith, to purchase section 87, block V., Hillend, was approved, the section being considered too small to be put up to auction. A reduction of £62 10s. per annum, recommended by Banger Adair, was referred to Government for favourable consideration, in connection with the application of Mr. Meiklejohn for a reduction of rent on run No. 9A, Wakatipu, owing to the increase of rabbits. The recommendation of the Mining Association was adopted, that sections 13, 14, block I , Waikaia, should be cut up into small sections and sold as suburban land for cash, and that sections 25 and 26 should be thrown open foxapplication, as recommended by the Warden at Lawrence, the other sections included by him in his recommendation to he withdrawn from sale for the present. A suggestion was approved to insert a clause into the conditions of sale of the Clutha Trust runs, that the m-esent lessees be allowed two months after sale to remove their stock The application of T. G. Belts to pay the purchase money on sections 3 and 4, block V., Mid- Wakatipu, was approved on condition that the back rents be paid up. It was resolved to forward to the Mount Benger Mining Association the report of the District Land Officer at Clyde, that 25 acres of the coal reserve at Coal Creek Flat is not required for mining, etc., so as to have it stated whether the land in question may be sold. A license, at £1 per acre for seven years was allowed on the application of Robert Tuckey over part of section 26, block XIX., Tuapeka East, for the purpose of quarrying stone The following applications to purchase under deferred-pay-ment leases were approved :— Thomas Hand, sections 4 and 5, block 111 Benger : John Forrester, section 10, block 11., Mamototo ; F. S. Murchison, section 1, block IV., Waikaia ; W. Aitken, section 11 , block 1., Chatton.