The Waikato Times. "OMNE SOLUM FORTI PATRIA." TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1874.

Waikato Times, 20 January 1874, Page 2

The Waikato Times. "OMNE SOLUM FORTI PATRIA." TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1874.

Till. Hon. toe I'iemier, iv the course of the speech delivered by him &t the dinner given in bis honor lv I)une<iin, culled attention to a question that deiunuila lue earnest consideration of the Uoverntneut of tho colony of New Zealand. We allude to thi raiuue' in which the tirobsi 1 of this country is boiog destroyed ; we and inauy other writers for tho F ■*.&■> in tli is colony have often called attention to tho fact, and pointed out to the best of our ability, that (he wholesale destruction of our forests was a disgrace to us as colonists,— we say a disgrace because to excessive cupidity, or to utter inability to look forward or care for tho future, must be attributed the existence- of tho evil. Mr Vogol very aptly remarks :—: — " At present timber is being cut and put iulo use within tlnt'e mouths ; it is being cut down ut times when it should not bo cut down. Wo protect oybters, we protect ducks, we protect small birds, nil ot which Nature provides for us afresh in a short time. But those giand woodb which require for t l -eir pel lection scores or even hundreds ol years, we dte.n beneath a moment's consideration. I repeat that the quebtiou of foiests demands the imperative conaideruiioa of the (iovernnient." Beture proceeding further, we m.i} call attention to the wholesale destruction of our kauii forests that is taking placo al iba piesent moment. Large contracts have beeu ukon iv tho north Lo oupply sleepers for the railways in some portions of the fcoutb ) «i do uot ooi.ipUin of tbt« uxidtiince of the fiot, but what we do complain of is, that the contractors aie det-ti o\ i.ig oar forests needlessly. Those who supply the timber are unfortunately not com-]-ulitd to supply that timber sasvu, but are bound to bend nothing but the heart of our noble trees j the natural consequence \a that a great proportion .of tbo hfd.it is wasted and the rest of the tree onth*e}y so. If sawn skepeis only were allowed to ■bj Vjootrackd for the case would be different, it would then be to Cho interest of the contractor to i' ndei every poition of the tree an article of ooniwerce, tl c par-s of the tree not suitable for railway sleepers wumti be useful for other purposes ; under exi'>tn j £ c'Ji-Jiiipas tho trees are cut down for the

ou.j jiuiouso of produunj.* .; coildia numLv*r u» Mc.-j 4<o , ili.« o me »j.ui Hud afterwards *'ad«ed"to the rpquired" size, tlw forftamitur of tho trees being of course left to rot apoa. t':^ ground. Gtfr business,! however, is t j deal with Iho- question us one of iipporluilco lo the whole colony Tho Premier point- out • - "A. ni.iu m.iy no >v bay for £1 an aoro of laud v.:th .tiwU worth of bmh upon it. As ho gels :t .so easily, lie values it but lightly, and the ooi.scquence is th.it it i.s j-umvly 100 much to say that forests are hurmd down for tho sake of light,ing pipes, or buihug puts of U-u. There is a most leckloas v\a&tc of the timbir of tho couutry. No con#(!t>r;itiun is t-huwu for the facfc that thoao who tjet timbiT in impi-op'ei spnsona, or who fell it and ttso it as it shuulcl nut be u^uJ, are mjuiiug not only their own property, but tho property of others, bj the wasteful destiucnou of whicli they are guilty in regard to the umber of the country." Every observautcoloiust must by thistime be awaro that some legislation ks necesiaiy lv oidar to chock the wanton destruction of our timber. To us tho supply may seem iuexhauhtible — and during our lifetime it nmy bo so— t>ut wo must not forget that , it is tho duty of the Government, and of those who hold them in power to look as far iuto the future as their "lights" will allow them. We must not forget that our children have to live after us, and we maintain that as a people we hare no more right to denude out forests of all 'hat is valuable than wo have to, spuid every farthing we earn and leave oar children paupsrs. The only diminution is, that one is a personal and the other a colonial question ; both, nevertheless, are equally dishonest. It is to be sincerely hoped that the next session of the Assembly will produce an Act that will prevent any man from cutting timber at a time of year when it is comparatively useless, the result of such proceedings being that the timber of JSew Zealaud looses caato abroad, and that those who use it in the colony are disappointed. Stringent legisla. lation is necessary, and the speech of Mr Vogel convinces us that a want long felt by the thinking portion of tlae community will be supplied by a ministerial act early next session.

The Hero on her last trip brought 35 pure bred Lincoln pwes, consigned to the lion. C. J. Taylor, of Glen Orchard, Tamaki. They are from the celebrated flock of Mr William Rutledge, of Farnham Park, near WarnambooL The Warnambool Standard thus writes of the t>heep ; — "The superior character of tho Lincoln sheep, bred in this district: was well illustrated at a sale of sheep held in Melbourne last week. Mr T. Cochrane, of Moonee Ponds, who w<is in thi* district on business, being impressed with the high character of some of the flocks he saw, purckased ten twotooth ewes at a good price from Mr Wm. Kutledge, of the Farnham Survey, and took them by htcamer to Melbourne. They were exhibitod ulong^de of imported Lincolns, and were admired bj' nil who examined them, being thought by some good judgea to be equal, if not superior, to the imported. This opinum waa endorsed upon their being submitted to auction, immediately after the bale of imported «heep, when the brought the unprecedented [inco for colonial-bred sheep of £37 each." An acci''eDl, attended with fatal results, occurred yesterday evening at nbout 7Lo As William 131,5 ti, )m«ter ol the cutter Lender, »n» walking from his \ebsel, which was moored ulongMile tin- breakwater, towards town, ho 101 l into the water, which wa, about 12-ft m depth. Two lads who observed the a. eult-nt iininechuh lj gave the alarm. Messrs T. Henderson, jitn, George Henderson, and Charles Hopkins, who were tuning iior.i tho jaeht Spiav, ma dingy, hearing tho boys' cues, uacd every exertion to eil'ect a landing without delnj. On arrival, Hopkins ran ol once to the spot, but Bhth had by tliis tune sunk. Without waiting to divest bmiaelf of lna clothing he dived from oil' the breakwater, and after n niaiiuug under water for borne tine he eamo to the surface bringing with him deceased's hat. He afterwards dived twice without hucceas, but the fouitb timo he succeeded in bringing up the body. About from the kc<ch Clematis put otl' and com eyed the body to the outtcr Fanuie, wiiero it was taken on bo«id. Suyeant Haker had by this time arrived, and alter seeing thai every cilbtt to ro»lore animation was being made by Captain I'arquhar and tlie Messrs Hendei>on, proceeded for Dr M. E. B. Nicholson, who arrived a few seconds afterwards. Aftor examination ho pronounced lilb evtiefc. DeceMsed was about 25 years oi age, and unmarried. A man named William. Lloyd, who had been speaking to deceased about 10 minutes before tho accident, stites that he was perfectly sober at the timo. The boly whs immediately afterwards taken to the Dead-houso, aud an inquest w ill be held to-day at 2 p.m., at the Railway Terminus Hotel. — Cross, Monday. Tho following are the rates of w a#es. srourod in Qtago by the immigrants per City of Dunedm : — Single men, from £52 to £55 year ; they wero principally engaged as farm servants. Married couples, from £65 to £70. A contemporary says that notwithstanding the comparatively large number of immigrant who hiire recently a,mved there is ne appreciable diminution in the demand for serrants. In Canterbury the immigrants per ;>lar of India wero all engaged at tho follow inn rates: —Married couples for farms aud stiit ions, £G0 to JL'65 per annum and found. Married men, 7e per day with cottage ; binglo men, £S2 per annum and found, with from 10s to 15s per week extrs during harvest. Single women— cooks, £35 ; general servants, £25 to £33 ; housemaids, £:J5 to £30 ; nursos, £18 to £25 per annum. A caso is mentioned by the Ilawkes Bay Herald which New Zealand emigration agents in Britain should bring under the notn-c of the working elassru there It in that of Mr G. Macdonuld, who hiis bought land at n largo tannery md felhnougf ry. Mr Macdonald wus an assisted immigrant, and he hndod in tho colony only 18 months ago. During that period h<: has not oniy paid oH" his debt to tho Government but has umtuiod rupital sufficient to start him in business on his ovn uocoimt. Tho publication of a few authenticated cuses of uuecebs such as this could not fail to exert a beneficial influence in inducing immigration to N?w Zealand. On Saturday the firing for ehoije of representatives took place at the rifle range, East Hamilton, under the superintendence of Coi. Lyon ; only eight competitors put in an appearance at the appointed hour, 0 a.m. It was a \ery boisteroub ila_\, and we uro sorry to say onlj one succeeded in getting fcli« requisite number of points entitling him to become a representative. The scores wore :— Ensign Coleman, 85, CiijjUiu M(D>n.ild. ','o ; Vol. H. Ilinton, 73; Vol. E Pnar-vn, 70. Vol. Jno. Coieman, 68} Vol. 11. Irish am, i.'s , Liru'. liaao Coates, 43. On rofcrenio to our idvertisement columns it will be seen that Mr W. A Thomson, agent to the Australian Mutual Provident SooieU, is travelling through the Waiktto district, hi company with Dr Tuck, the examining officer to tho society. lutending assurers can therefore be examined and pay their premiums at oiice. The society's new prospectus shows tables for life insurance with or without profit in the society Wr trust that Mr Thomson will meet, with good success, a» hfu a.-tjuranco in the duty of even man. We have i\.eenod the first number of the Poverty Bay Herald, it is much larger than its eldest brother, the Standard. Poverty Bay must, indeed, be going ahead if it can support two newspapers. It is a remarkably fine district, and we trust that the enterprising proprietors of the ne* paper wjll find that their confidence has not been mikplaoed. It will be published twice weuklv. The hfo of the National Punch, like several of its predecessors, ha« been short. Uohke (ume of our Auckland contemporaries, we said very little in its favor during its lifetime, and unlike one of our contemporaries, we^vill not .add te tho chagrin of llit rropi.t::* bj-atuiicg UnarhiEtiScrt.

Shewing a tuprVioritv of rirarlv 3 lbs w#ight per bushel m the produce of No'YIII enr * over that of all tlio other cars taken collectively. * Prom thi* number- YIIJ car all the podigrco bnrloy ii directly deieendud, with the si/baequo.it nnnual rcielection. "How far tho results us lioro intimated arc verified bj actual facts wo shall leave our onn observations to decide. " Our visit was made jmt as tlio com was ripening for the sickle ; indeed, harvest had already ooninioneed. Both the wheats und barle> s presented a tall and heavy crop when looked at from above, but the individual plant* were at ■uoh a diitanoe from each other tut to Glrike one with astouuhinent. But the real heavinoks of the crop was soon accounted for when it was found that both wheat and barley hud stolen from a single faced into from twenty to over forty •t.raw«— tljeoo latter, 100, all with loug, full eni-8, no bee wheat and no !>liurt barley vnra. " A« we wore curioiu upon this point, we were allowed to take the firut root botli of wheat and barley that came to baud, uud we nun gnu tbo lolloping (jeUilb counecttd

therewith. Tbo whr>^ was Ililiett'i Podi^mo Kujli»h Ked,. ,Ije lurlev ll*!lett'i Podi^roa Oiiev^tor. " Dotails of Halletts wheat : One root contained thirty - ;hroo ear 3 j three of these yielded 180 grains of head and ,hreo grains of tail corn, tho avorage lenghth of an ear aeing &m. Tho corn from tbo three ears weighed 15 i jra.nn ' ' " D.'tsita of tho eatno sort grow"n on a farm dn tha oppolite side of tho road : An average root contained throa c*ri ; the 13 tbroo cars yielded 100 grain* of bead and 10 f»r*nn of tail corn ; the uvorage length of lbs brat oara 3in. Tuo kvoig'it tlireo ?ars was '/o■^rainB. " Deta»ili of lfalletl'u Pedigree B&rloy ; The root we took liad twenty-eight eara of corn ; the average yield being thirty grains ; the average length of ear from the b*ie of the bottom b^rry to tho apet of tho top one being 4Jin. iC Details of an ordinary Barley crop : Four ear* of corn to each root ; tho average yield per ear twenty-two grains ; average length of cur, measurcl as above, 3m. " The barley was not quite ripe, io wo do not contrast the r»rain ; but, from cxpenencu, we are enabled to report a deci'led increase of weight per bushel, and what is still more important, the tail in proportion to head- corn which we havo Bopiirated with the body is as 2 per ceut. compared with from 8 to 15 per cent. " From these details, then, there can be no doubt that it U possible to improve gram in all its eisential paiticulars, at tho result of selection ; but at the tame time we should say that the mode of cultivation bss also great influence on thf results — a subject on which we ahall oiler a few remarks in a <übsequGut paper " We would remark, in conclusion, that oats, like barley and wheat and even potatoes, are being educated for pedigree stock ; but, from our notes, vrt do not consider the fonuer gram so much improved in weight %» the latter."

The Hkalino Pbopebtiks of Cabbage Leavfs.— The therapeutical value of cabbage leaves, which has lonjr been recognised in household medicine, is discussed at considerable length by Dr Blanc in the JRevue de la Therapeutiqut, and the conclusions to which he comes, concisely stated, are as follows: — 2. The cabbego leaf exeitjs and augments suppuration of the secretion of ulcers, aloerations, vesicles, and pustules. It has the same action on the integuments affected by nn erysipelatuous or furunculous inflammation, but removes tissues in a morbid condition. 2. This augmentation of suppuration is constantly followed by an amelioration, and ofte» by a cure. It is the condition necessary to the result, and the- property of the leal which determines thik result is an indirectly curative property. 3. This property does not consist in any~pnn(*lple winch the leal yields for absorption, but rather in an affinity which the leaf has for the vitiated secretions. 4. The leaf exercises affinity on open ulcers, or on ulcers covered by a thick or thin scab or crust ; it exercises it on Ihe thickened epidermis or vbero it is converted into thickened rindhke membranes ; in simple or confluent variola, throughout mortified tissues, through the integuments, whether inflamed or non-inflamed, but removes tumours capable of absorption. 5. When the tegumentary affection ia wide-apread or general, the action of the leaves on the parts where they are applied benefits the whole disease. 6. The matter in the parts not covered by leaves is absorbed, and at onco directed under the leaves, to be immediately excreted at that part. 7. Treatment, by the leaves, of a suppunitive affection prevents reabaorption and consequent pysemia. 8. The cure obtained by this means is more complete and certain than by any other, because it is brought about only when the cause and products of disease aro eliminated from the system. 9- This mode of treatment is in perfect harmony of actio \ with the vis medicatrix naturte. This essays, in skm diseases, to eject from the system their causo and effects, whilst the leaves aid this action. 10. The cure of an ulcer by the leaves, however widespread and long-standing it may be, is without danger, and relapso is very rare. 11. The cicatrices obtained by the leaves are remarkable for their small degree of deformity. 12. Small-pox, measles, and scarlatina, treated by applications of the leaves, have few or no sequela ; e.g., phthisis is not to be feared.