CORRESPONDENCE.

Waikato Times, Volume IV, Issue 216, 27 September 1873, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

We do not necessarity endorse tha opinions expressed by our correspondents.]

To tlio Editor of the Waijuto Timks. Sib, — In your paper of Saturday n l«Her appears signed " Rnihia te Kuune," bearing primafdcie evidence of having been written at the instigation or dictation of some interested piikeha, evidently with the intention of defending Mr. Muckay'a turning the two Turn aher© sawyers out of this district, but in reality bringing him deeper into the scrape. It is quite inconcoivable that a Government agent should have allowed such language as it reported to have been used in the conversation between him and this Maori, without having remonstrated seriously « ifch him, as such bein^ permitted must necessarily be calculated to do serious mischief among the natives. If Biich a conversation really did take place between this nati\e and Mr. Mackay it is high time the management of rmtive affairs here was placet! in the hands of one who would uphold tlio majesty of the Uritiah law and let the Maoris know that they must bo nmonable thereto. On behnlf of the poor sawyers, it may be said, it is sometimo3 \ery difficult to say whose wives sjin«» Maori women are, if .wives at all ; and, if all pakehas living with Maori women arc liable to share tho fate of poqr Sullivan, others beside the sawyers might soon have to clear out of Cambridge. I am, &c, I Unhappy Jack

[ A reader sends us a plan by w hich he lias cleared off a great many large stumps very cheaply and easily. His way | is to bore a hole from the top of the stump to near the bottom with a two-inch auger. Another whole is bored from the bottom inwards to connect with the first hole. Fire is then put to the lower part of the stump, which is fed by the draft of air drawn by the upright hole, and the heart of the stump burns away leaving a mere shell, which is readily knocked to pieces. The writer status that many stumps which he has burned by this method have had a great portion of the large tooti consumed far into the ground. A dairy farmer of Chester County, Pa., lias had made four milk pans which arc sufficient to serve for liis dairy of one hundred rows. They en''h measure 12 feet in length bv 4, feet in breadth and 6 inches in depth. They are double* bottomed, with a space of one inch between the bottoms, which is divided into four compartments lengthwise, through which a stream of water "is made to pass up and down, and keep the milk cool or warm, as the case may be. The owner of thesn pans, Mr. Eno* Jiornard, claims not only to hare less labour in handling his milk and oream, but also to procure a large proportion of cream from the milk by their «v. When tin* '••••am is skim mo 1 off from the surfaco, tho milk is drawn off through pipes in the bottoms of the piust.