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New Zealand Tablet, Volume X, Issue 514, 16 February 1883, Page 25

We understand that the success of the Irish Colony in Greeley County, Nebraska, has encouraged Mr. Lane of Cork, Ireland, to form a syndicate of capitalists, with the view of establishing a similar Irish colony in that State. — Pilot. After seventy hours' unceasing labour on the part of several large gangs of workmen, the passenger train among the Welsh Mountains, between Bala and Festiniog, has been dug out of the great snow-drift, The disinterment was a work of great difficulty. Five miles of snow, which in some parts had attained a height of 18 feet, were cut through from the Bala side of the train, and a passage of four miles was effected through a similar thickness from the Festiniog end. The rescued passengers and railway officials are recovering favourably from the effects of their thirty hours' imprisonment and exposure. A number of cottages in the deep Welsh valleys and ravines have been completely snowed up, the inmates haying been imprisoned for three days. Some of the families are suffering greatly from fatigue and cold. An old man, named Jones, at Llanuchllyn, has perished in the snow, and other lives are despaired of,