The Waikato Times. "OMNE SOLUM FORTI PATRIA." TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1874.

Waikato Times, Volume VII, Issue 404, 15 December 1874, Page 2

The Waikato Times. "OMNE SOLUM FORTI PATRIA." TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1874.

The newspapers by the European Mail viA San Francisco arrived iv the W»il.ato last evening The majority ol $he letters by ibe innil vme delivered by last coach. A bridge w very much needed across the Wuipa at Te Bori ; it would be in the <U<ect line of road from ihe Waikatr. to tin- seaiost. r lhe Pirongia Highway Board, we learn has ofltr*d £2(0 from the rates, and the Gn\eru punt, grant for the constn.ction o the work : to a Board f.hat otlei s so large a sum is certainly due consideration at the hands of the Government. ' On Saturdiy lust we were shown a private letter from Nefcjon, in winch the following remaik'a occurrod :— " We na\p had a «phndid view of the latter pait of the transit yf Vsnus, and i egret much that Major Pulnier did not establish a. fUtion here, us he might have known that the fhances of a clear sky were greater here than an) w her. elie in the eolouy. 'Kelson weather' hating passed uito » proverb,' 'lhis information is cmfjrmed by riference to our telegraphic columns. There it will pc seen that Captain Sharp, of Nelson, had obtained an pxeellent view ol the egnss of the planet, and Captain Sharp had taken the precaution to verify his observations by releivnce to a chroni m> ter. Win n the fact ►ecauie known, Dr Hector communicated with Cupt. Stiarj), |iid it was fourd that the cliiononieter used showid tw<i minutes dtifeience from the true tame. Tina, hoj*e\er, is ol fo importance, il upon trial it is found that the chronometer as been recording tune regularly, t ougli two minutes out ST c observation made u consider d ot such unpoitunce, tliai Mujoi P. aimer is about to proceed from the burnham Obiw jatory, and converse with Ciiptam Sliarp upon the subject. Professor Peters' ob»einations tit Queen&town wtin to b< «Ten ot more value tlmn was at one nine anticipate d. A Rredical officer m ChciiU-hurch bat officially announced tp the Ten.plar Loduewith vrln<h he is conneded tlmt *ome pf the lyrnpi he has. tested, arid known us "teatot 1 ( B nls " iConUin pieparations of opium to a considerubl'' esteiti, and that indulgence in, two or three wme glasses ol such, fit hough it did not produce intoxication, certainly induced $|eep or stupor. Tun u what the Eev. John M<Crtrtuey of Me' bourne, LlniiLb of l.orsr racing. On the Sundit.v beioie the meeting lung Sacrament Sunday, he sind, " You «re askt-d by tiie i^oid to taste Hi* cup; on Thursday l lie detil mil ask ,\ou •Lo lee ln» cup." Severul oi the eoitgregutwn wlio were ?ood at buok-inaking did not ike the allusion, and left the liurcli, he.ided by one of the \)u.iges. Ihe lollowing extract from an llnglish newspaper should possets more tuun usuul inter, st heie, wheie w>o I is so ex-ieii-ii\ely uf>ed in tlie buildings, public and pri ale, in the mt\ : — tioine experiment* ha.ie been recently m do u 'Devon poit Dockyard b^ ortter ol ihe Admiralty, to itsi u method d( rendeimg wuod uninßaumiuble, by saturating it with Lungetate ot poclh. It hus been cleui'l) ihown tuat. the pre fiund wuod is, under all cncunisiances, much le?s reutlilj liiflunni able tlian oidinaij wood, and that prepared tnnbei qtedfustly usistß mere tiutue, although it may be made 10 feuin v*hen acttd on continuously by great heat. The cost oi preparation mid the largely increasid uei^lit ol the prouaiid wood are disadvantage* Beloie Di- Jones, the patentee trceives liom the AdmirHlty ihe large sum he asks ibr the right to u^e his patent, luither trials will be ordered ihicli the I/jrds oi tlie AUumalty will Lheinsi-Uei wanes*. " A letnule coiicspoiident, writing to the Melbourne Argus on "Slavery in ViLtoiia," B»}b: — 'A | oor womnn wliw in.ilti-tf •hirlu tor one ot the wurolioiift-i in Fiinders-lane has just i'iiOvMi me the work for which she receives sd. It is a tuil•izeu man's »hn-t, umi out ot thr 5U she has to pa) tor thread, cult* id, so thai pu&itnol) ail «he gets is 4^l No», lam veiy quak at the t-eunig-ma( Imio mj sell, and lain foeitne thai 1 could notuwke more than twoot these glmts were I « iting cl< se at it fioin 9 in the morning till 10 ail ijiliht. So al that rat» all thai a wuman can make at this sort cf woik le 4ii 3d .i week ; apd jet we are pa) ing our cooks £40, our housemaids JtSOuieur wi'.h board und loil^ing. wdl our jouuti womeu came to lueir seizes — or iiitliei rtlit-n will the mothers come to tl>eir senses? £or i\» to girls who have already commuted tbenißi Ivi's lo tiat slavery Ilieir tonpiitutiyns ure nenemlly so en ee bled that the) vie until lor domevlic service. Bui let n otheiß who have gins yet at t>chool take warning b) wJittt n now pussing lound Hii'in. Which w best— tp tets their child tlaive ut 4- 3d u fte<k QTiir a Bewing a-achine, or to be, a domestic in a v**, ectublc l»niilj P— to bi e her health steadily umieimined by her Jctupauun, or lo bee her gj'ow up a strong heallby woman?"