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Waikato Times, Volume VII, Issue 435, 2 March 1875, Page 2

"Wo. call the attention of \{t tiers to a telegram j from Canterbury in reference yto the poisoning of; cattle nnd sheep by ergotising of rye grass. "We. would remind our fifoac.*^ that Wednesday next, March 3rd, is the lasCspay f«Jr receiving en- j tries for the Waikato CattleN_Jhow. This early ! date is fixed by the committee in order to give , them time to provide the nec<s.**ary accommodation ! for the stock. It is to be hoped that every settler in the Waikato who has stock worth showing and j who can by any means manage it, will bring them : forward on the occasion. No doubt many visitors from Auckland will be present, and they will judge of the district, not from what' they hear, but from . what they see, and they may reasonably expect to see the best of everything exhibited. We who reside in the Waikato know that as much stock may be found in the district as in any part of the province, but strangers do not know it, they only know that after such a length of time and with good land, good Stock should be found, and the show is where they expect to find it. It will be a pity if the indifference or indolence q£ owners should be the means of causing the district to appear at a disadvantage. Intending visitors willbe glad to. kn.ow that the committee have decided not to charge any admission to the ground. A meeting of the members of the Church of England was held yesterday afternoon at Hamilton. The Revd. F. C. Lloyd in the chair. The object of the meeting was to decide what steps should be tiken to provide Church accommodation for the congregation. y The. minutes' of the last meeting were read and confirmed. The chairman briefly explained that the object of the meeting was to decide whether the present church should be added to or a new one built. He had been requested by Mr Searancke to protest against the sale of the present building. The chairma-p thought that if it was intended to build a new Chursh it would be a pity not to sell the building at the same time as the allotment. Mr Cox asked if Mr Serane -e was the only subscriber to the builc-liug, if not, he did iiofi consider that the meeting was in any way *houiid to hold his request sacred. He wished to know also , whether it 'i. was trust property and outside the j Bishop's control. Mr. Soddon explained that Mr. Searancke was one of masif subscribers and he coasidere^Hliafe ■«_»• fc tfHfr.a_i one of *he only six j of th^ SAbseiibei. iraidiiig . in the -district ' he had greater interest i_4Ui Ms fellow i churchmen, -and that he tiad %0&n foremoßt in getting the allotment difficulty fbeitled, on these , $*oiA#dshe asked as a favour that 'a douceur should be gi-ven towards fhe repair of tn^.t^gajiuawahia Church. JEIe nio\ed a vote of thaiiks to Mr. Seafor his exertions, which was seconded by KMr. Cox and carried unanimously. ; Mi*. -Yialou that to -add a transept, which would ac- * Commodate as many people as- the present church "filbiild cotst I r 35Q. To build a plain church -w^ittld fst S £ ; SoO^. aiid a'decent one would cost .£3OO more, vremdve-tbe pre^rit "church '"to the new site* ■ -^y^d <.Qat about £50. After - dOiisideirable ctfe^us-i ,^^P|thw4no\ying resolutions were agreed, to. — . -^'Tj^fc,jp.^ec\sion : as to what should be ' done, l^§'t^-*J^^fb.tilh-«jrter the sale, and that a meeting 6_^-^*d_w^^pfthe ;^u.if«h'- be held immediately •^te^_^^^g(lie inptioh.of Mi. Hammond, it : >^&Jb l J^^ the pur'cri'aslkjfttbe 'vhjr.ch . builiiihg,. without fittings." ] Be .QuiTveEY-^was.it-'.^'iiad a pleasant way W arguing v agaTf^t^Capital _Pi_in-H.bmt.nt. -He represented that if a'man were let off without incurring the extreme penalty and after a time discharged, he. would gradually relapse iuto a common thief and end by being elected a vestryman. So it may be said in answer to those who appeal jfor mercy to tl^ Provincial Governments that have so clearly, been convicted of the most constitutional crimes, that if the last ceremony of the law is not performed upon them, they will certainly assert their baneful propensity for petty larceny, and, when denied the opportunity of this dangerous .diversion wiil unblushing!*,-, seek -'to employ their talents by offering to utilise them in the way of municipal administration. It . is perfectly * clear that the majority of those holding office under Provincialism will, with its abolition, find the hope of their gains completely gone, and be in some danger of becoming, in another way, a burden on their country. In snch circi.mstances, it is not surprising that thay should, if only let off with their lives, be willing,' for to .go, for to come, for to fetch, for to carry." fit. any species of work which, like their present, may cost their incompetence nothing, nor east .'*he slightest reflection ou their want of principle. While yet at large, the emissaries of Provincialism will be careful to preserve their dignity as long as possible, and when they can no longer trade on the capital which a well feigned show of submission to merciless oppression may bring them, they will yet support themselves ior some time on th.ir misfortunes. Like Puff, in. "The Otitic," they may be'profitably assisted by long si-ckrifivss, and comfortably exist upon other occasional disorders, which will appeal to.-' the charitable for consideration. By' well simulated cahvmitits they may survive respectability aad- 4 s9cietly bid dan-tnee to consistency. Like the mendicants of the play, they will return at night and unwind the 'sickening bandages that ; impose upon a too credulous public, they will j itascrefc the wooden, legs that stumped the country I they wUlJbrget the racking pains that tortured j only the passers by ; and, restored to a degree of freedom with the use of all' tfieir limbs and in the possession of rude health, will pass their private meetings with song and dance as Jolly Beggars should.^ Puff told his frionds that he managed to live quite comfortably with misfortune, and subsisted grandly ou the charity of the benevolent, for Several years. He was (according to hia own representations) five times a bankrupt and prospered ; he waa twice tapped for a dropsy which declined iuto a profitable consumption; he then became a widow with six helpless children, after having had eleven husbands "pressed" for the navy, being every time eight, months gone with child, without money to get himself into an hos- I pita!. All these trials he bore with commendable latitude, aud was serenely comfortable under '-fuiytio-.i. Hia occasional attempts at suicide were iiGt to pay, yp he left off kii'Hng himself very soon." ICit^jjtibj" tli oan expedients -the utility nart on any terms, or the "mendicant, one. pn thu most -

Mr Dargaville's address to the elector's will be found in another column. We learn that it is probable that two other gentlemen will contest the election.

There was a heavy fiost on the .morning of Monday in the high portions of the district, considerable damage has been done. We have been shewn a water melon plant from Mr Mason's garden which has been completely withered. Ohinemuri will be gazetted open on Wednesday, 'here is a large number of miners waiting on the ground to commence operations. There is not liktly to be much delay before the value of the field becomes known. We learn that several miners who have prospected the country, have now returned to the colony, in order to be ready for the opening of the field. This gives room to hope that the expectations of the sanguine are likely to be realised.

The London Correspondent "of- a contemporary writes ; — ". Whilst on Parliamentary subjects I may mention that there is to be a marked change in the repotting of the debates in the morning papers. It is found that the lengthy style of reporting hitherto adopted is painful alike to editors and readers : to the former because it excludes other geneial new;s, and to the latter, because it occupies too prominent a positjhuj, and is such dreary reading. So in future in<|.st\>f the papers are going to employ peris reporters, and numbers cf Parliamentary shorthand- writers will find their occupation gone. The tact is there is very little shorthand reporting in these days. People of business, to whom reports are of most real consequence, cannot spare the time to labour through a column of flowers to get at the little plum that may be found hiding in the thickest of it, so nearly everything is condensed as much as possible. And this will be the case more and more every year. Facts are the thing.', we want in these practical days —not flowers."