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Waipawa Mail, Volume I, Issue 17, 9 November 1878, Page 2

Auction Sale this Day. Mr Coward will sell to-day a quantity of colonial produce, harness, drays, &c.

The Fire at Ormondville. —ln our last issue we recorded a fire at Orinondville, by which Mr and Mrs Robert Groom were heavy sufferers, having lost almost everything belonging to them. The parties are well known in Waipawa, and we are pleased to see that interest has been taken in their behalf here. Several ladies have kindly given clothing for the family, and the following subscriptions have been received: Mrs Todd £1 Is, Kathleen Todd 2s 6d, Ida Todd Is, Tom Davis 6s, A Friend 4s 6d, Mrs Grimley 10s, 11. M. Browne ss, Mrs Atchison os, E. Bibby 10s, A Friend ss, W. Harsunt os, W. Rathbcme 10s, A. Robb ss, Mrs Britton 10s, Mrs Collett os, Mrs Johnson 10s, A Friend 6s Mr and Mrs L. £l, E. Harwood 7s Od, Mrs W. White ss, Mrs Twomlty 3s, Mrs George Os, Mrs Snonce 6s.

Fatal Accident. —A Maori was killed at Waipukurau on Thursday last from a kick from a horse he was driving. Auction Sale. —Mr J. J. Tye will sell at the Repository to-day a quantity ol' miscellaneous goods belongingto an estate in 1 aukruptev. Waipawa Library. —At. a meeting of the Library Committee held on Tuesday last, Mr Westmoreland was appointed Librarian in place of the late Mr Bickerton.

Cricket. A cricket match will be played on Monday next at Waipukurau between representatives from this district and the Kopua Cricket Club. Monday being a public holiday, no doubt there will be a good many visitors present to witness the match. County Council Elections. The following gentlemen have already been returned as Councillors for the Waipawa County :—Waipawa Riding, Mr Rathbone ; Waipukurau Riding, the Hon. 11. R. Russell : Norsewood Riding, Mr Levy : Tfiniumu Hiding, Mr Johnston ; Woodville Riding, Mr Sowry.

Draught Stock. —Of late years those desirous of improving the breed of horses in New Zealand have spared no expense in importing the best stock. Not enough attention, however, has been paid to draught stock, which is certainly the most useful class of horses in a new country. We yesterday inspected the pure-bred cart stallion Model, and we must say that he is well named, for there is not an objectionable point about him. Model has an excellent pedigree, and was bred by J. Paul, Esq., at his celebrated stud farm in the Wairau, Marlborough, and has taken three prizes at the provincial district show. The hoi se is rising five years old, and is of a steel grey color. Model is a perfectly quiet animal, and well calculated to improve the breed of draught stock in Hawke’s Bay. He is owned by Mr Symons, who it will be remembered lost Biack Prince a few weeks back from an unknown cause. By advertisement elsewhere it will be seen that the owner has fixed the fees for Model at an exceedingly reasonable rate, and it is to be hoped that Mr Symons will be rewarded for his enterprise in bringing such a splendid animal into this district.

Trouble in America. — A manufacturer in Cincinnati is making large quantities of hand grenades ; an order for 26,000 had been received from California, supposed to have connexion with the proposed uprising by the Socialistic labor party all over the country.

Rats and Records. —The Corporation offices at Wanganui have become so infested with rats and vermin as to be almost uninhabitable. The Herald is much exercised in mind about this. It seems that the rats, having finished all the candles and soap to he found in the building, are now commencing to devour the borough records. The Cook’s Perquisites.—A revelation, by which housekeepers may profit, appears in the Lyttelton Times. At the meeting of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, Dr Turnbull said that the system of giving fat to the cook of the hospital as her perquisite had led to gross abuses. Joints of meat had been dried up until the bones projected from the sorry remnant, and all the nutriment had been destroyed, in the endeavor to extract as much fat as possible. Outsiders were accustomed to go to the hospital cook to purchase dripping.

The House of Commons. —“ The House of Commons,” says Truth, “ instead of legislating for the good of the country, has become a great talking club, to enable bores to show off their specialties, to ventilate their hobbies, and to puff political adventurers, crotchet-mongers, needy gentlemen, and ambitious barristers into commissioners, colonial governors, and judges.” The above extract is somewhat severe, but judging by the results of this session appears to be appropriate to the Parliament of the Britain of the South as well as that of the mother country.

The Coming Ministry. The Wanganui Chronicle says : —“ Such men as Mr Rolle6ton, Mr Walter Johnston, Mr Wakefield, Mr Stevens, Mr Montgomery, Mr Seymour, Mr Curtis, Mr Thomson, and a dozen others we could name, would probably talk less about building up a great nation, and about the interests of the countless millions of the future ; but they would attend to the business of their departments instead of stumping the country and setting class against class ; and they could meet the Parliament next year with a rational financial policy, with a fair electoral law, and with such a scheme for the adjustment of the representation as would make the Parliament a true rellex of the popular .will. A Large Sheep Run. —A correspondent of the Southland Times sends the following sketch of a large sheep station in New South Wales, owned by the New Zealand and Australian Land Company (Limited): —“The run in question is known by the name of Till Till, and is generally regarded as the crack station of the back blocks. It was formed by Mr Crombie, the present manager, for Mr Fairbairn, in 1872-3, and sold in 1875 to the company for £IIO,OOO. The run comprises 600 square miles of country (six ten-mile blocks) fenced into twelve paddocks, and carries 100,000 sheep, the feed being principally salt bush. There is no disease among the stock, and consequently very little trouble with them from one paddock to another, when the feed is eaten down. During shearing there were 150 men employed on the station ; at present the number is reduced to 50. The annual rainfall is about 15 inches (considered a safeguard against selectors); the highest temperature is 120 deg. in the shade, and the lowest say 28deg. Since the property came into the hands of the present owners a large sum of money has been expended on improvements, and Till Till is now far ahead of any station in the neighborhood, although the others are of much longer standing. There is every reason to believe that the company will find the property a very profitable one.”

Recently in the Supreme Court, Wellington, Mr Justice Richmond said —I hope the time is coming when the criminal may be heard in his own defence. I may now call myself a criminal judge of some experience, for I have presided for something like sixteen years in criminal courts, and my own opinion is that such an alteration would tend in favor of the innocent and against the guiiy.”