MISCELLANEOUS.

Waikato Times, Volume VI, Issue 318, 28 May 1874, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

A Presi deipatch from Boston, Massachusetts, states that Mr Martin Griffin has resigned hit office of State Police Comtnisiioner. la connection with his resignation Mr Griffin •art : — ' I am now fully convinced that the Prohibitory law as it now stands on the statute books is detrimental to the cause of temperance, and that it leads to corruption and inefficiency.' The discoTPry has been made, says the Ycus Courier, that the words, ' You horrid butcher, Orton. biggest rascal here,' constitute the anagram of 'Sir Roger Charles Doughty Tichborne, Baronet.' A correspondent, writing in the Canterbury Timet on the deferred payment system, says :—": — " Under the present system of cash payments it takes ten or twelve year's wages, at £50 a year, to buy and start fairly a 100-acre farm. Under the deferred payment system only five or six year* at the same rate would it be necessary for a man to labour before he could become the possessor of the above named amount of land, as about half the amount of money would be needed in the latter case, namely two or three hundred pounds. Then again it will be readily conceded tbat there are few men who could find steady and certain employment at £50 per year for five years, much lesi ten. As a matter of calculation, the thing would stand much as under. The deferred payment system : — Five years' wages at £50 and found amounts to £250 0 0 Deduct personal expenses 50 0 0 Balance £200 0 0 100 acres at 25 per cent. 50 0 0 Balnnoe £150 0 0 Buildings and stock, &t\, for the farm ... 150 0 0 Under the present system of cash payments £400 at least would be needed, and the matter stands as under -.—. — Ten years' wages (at £50 a year and found as before) amounts to £500 0 0 Dednct personal 100 0 0 Balance ... . £400 0 0 100 acres at £2 cash 200 0 0 __ , , , £200 0 0 House and other buildings, and stock 200 0 0 Tlier* are other advantnges tbiit would accrue, as I shall bv-amUby show, in the wuj of stock that would be bred jwd crops thi.t wonld be g-cvn, wh:efc would cro to bt carried b} rail to plae»> of shipment, and consequently greater rtturu* from railways would be rioened."

The Dibatt thus comment* upon the recent 'transfe^^B political power in this country :— " How enviable is •Ut* of England f Thtnki to a long practioe of the Ph^H mentary system, our neighbour* hare been enabled to e &^H quietly change* which oould not be carried out among °^H selves, perhaps, without a revolution. A Ministry ba» d^H rejected by ths nation ; it has not sougat to- maintain^H position hi opposition to th© national will, it has not sugg^H ted that the electoral system ought to be modified, it retired and giren place to others. The- new Phrliam^H meets to-day ; it is expected that it will elect its Speakei^H its first sittings and that t ie speaker «ill be Mr. Brand, i^H occupied the posfc during the last Minhtn r and wBO-efficien^H exercised its functions. All parries seem to be disposed^! his favour. In England, wbsn the Government is chato^H nothing else is changed but that which requires to>be chang^H »id every thing else is retained," A Victorian journal (the Wesleyan Chronicle) thus bre^H a lance with th« critics of Methodism :— ' We dare **^M that Metliodism will bear favorable comparison with ■■ other ecclesiastic organisation, it has ail 1 the order of Romish Church* without its worse than Chinese dlespotis^H it has all the liberty of the Episcopal Church, without^! distracted anarchy. It does not find its raise* d' ttfr* the Baptist Church in a thing so minute and non-eiien^B as the amount of water to be ussd in a givtn sacrament, the mode in which that water is to be applied. It is not |^H the Independent Church, a rope of sand, a number of i^B lated congregations, absolute destitute of corporate "^H and life. It it not like the Calviamtk churtbts, termti^l by the Nessus shirt of a hideous doctrine, from whichl^H moral sense of the world revolts. Pure and reasoaable^B doctrine, exact in discipline, compact yet flexible in ovganfl tion, holding its members under the common reign of l^J yet with abundant room for liberty at every point— girH its churches generous powers of self-regulation, and H n Staining a corporate vwiity which no other church si that of Rome can rival ; with a. glorious past behind it aB yet more glorious future before it, what Methodist may s^J under God, be proud of bis church ?* H A Danbory younjf man, who- was once- a clerk, lately wH on to a farm to work. The first night in his new poiiH he was detailed to remove a calf from the apartment of ■ parent* to- another shed, and while engaged, as thousaS luxe been before him, in shoving ths contrary beast n^M the mother reached under the tails of bis coat with htr hcnH and suddenly lifted him up against the roof of the ktuldS with a force that threatened to- shatter every bons in ■ body. The first thing be- did on returning to earth *«■ rub himself, the next thing was to throw up his pIiKM. ■ said be didn't doubt that agriculture wa* a nobto pnrsH and that the farmer needed an assistant ia the discharge his multifarious duties, but he- didn't believe h#- «h ■ signed for making skylights in- cowsheds. ■ We bars- received the following letter from a oozrnpß dent :— u The injury which the Rey. Father Hoyne rtceil while roturning from Auckland in the Waikato coach, *■ that Tehicle broke down about two months ago, wa*, ttoaM nature, snch as to prevent for semal weeks the rtr f«nß man paying his customary yisifcs on horseback to th+vacfl settlements under his spiritual direction, lhe inoreasjH population in all parts of the Waikato, together with tbJH isting necessity of imparting rsligioiss instruction to ■ Catholic children of his oharge, at a- time when secular «fl cation only is the ordei of ths- day m our publlo mosS have much added 1 to the dutiw of one Catholic clorgyn* residing in the district. At any hour of the nighty op- d| and in all weathers, be may bo suddenly called" upon to-rfl at a rapid pace perhaps, to yisit the sick in sonic dwtfl part of his rather large parish— a duty .whick of itsel£ i» M ficient to test the powers of the mosf 1 robust conatitutiß With commendable consideration the Roman Catholics! this, and the neighboring settlements of Kikikiki.EangiaoM and Alexandra, have generously come forward and htM somely contributed towards the purchase of a buggy M horse'for presentation to their respected pastor, th« B»M Hoyne. lam conrincad that it only requires to be fool to tho Catholics of otlwr settlements in the Waikato* wl they will also join in subscribing to a gift which is intanifl to facilitate the conveyance of their priest in duehwging fl duties of his sacred office.'* . I There ii the immense aum (* £3.898,800- lying in ■ banks of the colony on deposit. Mom than £2,00CA of this «»m, aay» the Wanganui Herald, is not bearing* terest at all. the balance bearing interest at 3 p«r ctl The Treasurer of New Zealand has confined his system! floating loans to the limits understood 011 the Stock M change! but the above fij ures go to. show the fea^iHtyl a popwlar loan be»»g taken up iv the colony. IntUadl £100debentur€!i > if the issue were equivalent to the Frtil rentes. » larfie poilion of tht wealth Ijinj: ulle might | pyofitably eniuloyett i» the execution of public -works. Stl j pose three millioa «r these deposits were m the l>anks| the form of UoNerameut securities^ therts need be no v4 tinvetion of ci«<Ut ..r »>f trwle, while tfte. iutgrest y»MIJ the colony would if main w ithiu it, intlwut of !>eia« ithipd to Enuland. The iutwest «»n £3J)OO.0O4 at 4 per oil v. oul<l be £ 1 20, 000 per ann urn. This would \m a haadsoJ saving «o the colony, ami the (i«e-.ti»n ii> one 84ir«ly «oifl of the financial ability of the Colonial Treasuren J 11 Dwclli-rs id (.rvi-Ul po!»f«» sliould i«fram Jrum the ji pnUion of irrcpularfy sibapetl \>m tides of fomisatioi ! i 4 the «ny in which a Cahfornian tdiior yuta Mie Ingll prorcib about stones and plaw housss. J Japamese oißcinl* nr<? brgumuiK to try their hand at | iod mat ions in tl\f English lanpunee. a»-r« i*wi exanplt '• The trees cutting, birds and beai-ts killing, nnd corns- a horses wttifig ia frte at ta« gjco«ndUloß|;iiig; to ftowruai are prohibited. An Indiana patitnt to whom was- prescribed le»eb»K U them inwardly. He sang a loud, long, high toaed solo, the doctor wk-o h«d lie*rd ©f his ease gnvt hiHi an i*«i«t-< j remedy. Au emetic is aieant to be •oiiTcytui by th* dtlic metaphoric la»gu»ge- | I find plenty or peopl* *h» are willing Uw toll you* 1 they kno, if you tell them allyou-kao, but themizcry ot^ trade iz, they don't kno much.— Josh BillingsLady (to Jeames, wh» has brought up a note): " ©id y ask the young person to takea s«at?" Jeames: "Begpard m'lady, she'd he^idently been eatin' o' onions so I as'd 1 to be s'good as to wait outside !"— P«nch. " There is but phew things on the face ot this esrta mi wortliless than a poodle, and yet i am glad tkere is poadl for if there was not there iz sum peepta who woalda t hi enny object in livinir, and harnotbug tew lut. Old party (to Tomkins, whose pug bas been seized with fit): "It strikes roe, sir, your dog has had too macb. dinner Tomkins : " I beg your pardon, sir ; mj dog does not di till balf.past seven !"— Tunch. "You haten't put on a clean shirt t«-day, said an Arne can capUiu to his corporal j " you never saw m» withoul clean shirt on parade when I was corporal." " True, capta but then your mother was a washerwoman I