The Waikato Times.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 588, 26 February 1876, Page 2

The Waikato Times.

Equal and ***** j"» tioe t0 *" mtn> . .. . , Ot whatever iut» or ptrnuiion, rtligi >m »r pohtictl # • • • • Here «h*U the Pren the Pioplb'» right raainUin, Uaaweil by iattueuoc *nd unbribed by gain.

SATURDAY FftBRUAIIY 26 1876.

'I his W ik»to Turf M^tsilDg wbiob oon< laded vt«terd,ty, h • bis» tlio most «uoces»ful of »U the r^c«« eter held to W.iikato, and reflect! ooit cwdiWWy, no* ooly oo tie diitrickj toil ©o

all tli>so aud, t.«pecii»lly the JS«-c t'Ur), of thd WnikMo Tnrf Clu-> (Mr Kennedy Hill) who have had to do vtilh the carrying Out, iv detnil of all arrangomeuts oouuected with it. Th« i\.c.ng has b. en tx3elleut, aud if onr dun Club cannot i>eat the Auc»hißdeiB with the qua, we em at least boi -t tb»L t o la' '.c must een-.l better horfe» to thrt ncit rtct inaeting if t'ley intend t» carry off the pvlm from o\ir raca coarse Aboraall we maat cunphtajut th-< district oa the order, sobriety, and propriety which characterised both duya ainuacme'itu The whole Benf'h of Biahop* might have ocoupied the front seat in the grind utmid *>iid hare heard or witnfice I nothing thut would Lito shocked their sense of decorum.

Vbrt grudgingly doea tin poital department attend to the requirements of the public. Any lhtle concession has to bo literally bounod out of them, as witness tho relitetait yielding of a Ujzht every night in tb.3 week in tv» Hamilton Post office lobby. But in mittera of far more importance than this tbo pubho convenience is neglected. We long «ince pointed out the cl-uin tbo I'i.vko people had to tbe establishment of a weekly service, and to the fact that »no lettlor in the dittriot was prepared fco carry it out at a comparatively small annual ooft, yet we learn thut no steps bare been taken to forward the matter, and Rome forty families, who could be 10 easily convenienced.are cut off from tbe reit of tbe world, as though they were 10 many hauhaus. It is to be regretted that the Government while it is so anxious to introduce now immigrants, hat not the tact to' o>akn «ettlement easy and (comfortable to tfaoto already here, the loss of one family of settlers, disgusted and leaving the country, being quite as great as the gain of half a dozen nw immigrants. So, too, in in the matter of Hamilton EirtorKirikiriroa, at it is called, the same want of consideration marks the conduct of the postal department While Hamilton proper receives its daily post from Auckland the tame evening, Hamilton East ht<s to wait till too lala on Tuesday for Monday* letter* to answer them until Wednesday — and so on all through the week. This U a rttj serious mutter to business men in that towaslnp aufi to settlers residing somu miles away in tbe Kirikiriroa district. And it ia the simple result of anwillingness on the part of th* poiul drptrt* ment to remedy an omission which has b.'en more than once pointed out to them. Xhe thin? is aimply absurd that tbe one half of tLe district, on one tide the nrer, shall receive th<jir letter* in the afternoon or evening of the arrival of tho mail, but that the mail bag for the other LaU the dittiiot on the other niJo of the river must wait for their Mt^s till too late next day for them to repiy by tho out-going mail which is available i-o the favoured population on the West tide of tho river. Wo need not rcpeit here the simple remedy for thi* wliioli we luve before now pointcl out. Mr B» does not nc«d to have bu momory jogged 4 wink is a* good as a nod to a blind horse, or the mora humble domesticated animal of ibomuie ipteien, *n j when either animal wont see, it is useleia wasting either wink or uod upon hu. We woul.i, however, suggest that hii suprrijrt in the postil cupirtment should apply such icild application to the Auckland pottinnater's official eyenght, at would enable liirc bo to conduct the b<uine*» of hid depaitment as I to give satHioctioa ty iKa public *vi avoid bringing through his own lachos, tbe Government of the country into dner-jJii mth the public genrally throughout me Province.

Our Bu*i«i-rM«NT.— We bay« not iisntd fhe uiu4 supplement with to-day* i«ue, in com • quence of hb bviug (race week, the extra work entailod by » co.:p!e of day 'a holidays Dr«v<>iitin^ our <luiue so.

|J*ANKBcrr EBT4TK.— Tb« creditor* in the eitfcb^of lliomaa B a km w>, baker, Newcastle, are rrquMted lo t*n t in their claim* to M<vari M. Levy and Co, Queen-atw*, Auokland, for the ti'UntO"% not later than the 7>h March. W« rNDEBBTAND thtt the ball 10 to giren iv Hamilton on Monday nig'it m rt, >.y rho marrie i ladiea in comilimei.tafj rcui-n tor th it rtcntly giveu bj the b c elura, *ill be he'd in a larger room iv the A C barrack* th-i» Hit Oyuinau urn, UNt-d ou the former o.cihiou. Severn] viiitoia to th* races from Auckland have, we understand, bt'en invited o-od remain >u Uttunlton unilthe 1 ueaday, an.i the ba 1 u expeoiod to bo in evory •way aaucceAt.

Tukkb Cuildbin DaowintD.— W« regret to h»»e to rrooui a fatal accident which occurred TCBtJrftfcV morning to two haK-cn»le lit tin girt and a Miuri boy at the foal mi'ios ut Mr Ralph'i p son. A canoe it necms >ran> driwu h»lt vr*j on to the rifpr* bank and the ohidn-n g»t into it to plij. All three being at the extreme cud upsrt tliobalanco anil th"y wore all |trecip.tutnl into tbo rirc »od drownei. The bodies of the two litil" q rla were picked up shortly after, but that of fiu littid tioy has not been fuund.

SHUEP TOH THB WiIKATO. — A CO»'SUer«ble number oi tliu imported alte p lately arrived Imvo tound thoir waj to Wmknt A . Major jAokaun I)ft4 nHe 1 (o bis Book five of the clioio-«-t bre 1 r m* bit erto r^ce'/od in the ProTincr, nnd which h ir« not cott him lens than £700. Our reader* will rommntw tlmt Mr Alfred Buckland Mitlidrevr tio imported Li wool n ewes of tin celebrated flock of Mr M Will* Smith. Of" Jht'ic it »pp»irn tw^nlT-ou^ we^c puri-hj»i:d by Mr It Fdigiuun, MrC^xof Hamilton Ukiug • h- balance.

I Tbk htk Mr — Mr* Btev*m deal et u« on her bthi f to thank the m*nv Kind p-uple ; in Hamilton in t elsewhere who «»me forvr>.rd ■o com'o t <in<l a sict i e>* in brr Jate ber-ave-u.eut and «a\t ah' cm hirdl) tind wor>l« to ex. pre s her th nus f r the kinineu of tlio-e oa vh'ta nn & s range ohj bid nu claim at aI. We ua U-ritand <lii be' liudbi»d di i not d c of dy-eutry as vepn ted. t « -juij >>f «ath beiie a aa\-» cue, for »bioh howti tro.ite i f om fie «r.t bv Dr O-ir-y f om whom Le receiTed every tare and atteu ion.

SBKIODBAOCFDENTWrrn FIBR*RICS •— OurAl'l andra correspondents writes mf jruunit U N } hib Mr J. Hibit' n of the A 0 Force met with » very •■riout accident while thooting on Tuosmy mornitiK last at Pirongin. He w«a piston ihoot* JDff ftt the time and somehow in loading hit gun, a breechloader, the cartridge exploded The fall force of the txploiion wm reoeired by Mr Hibiton in the fare and un^ortunstely hit *yei have tuffired lererelj. Dr W»d<Hngton who»r ten ■*■» men ai soon »t possible called into requisition, hat sorioas fears that hit si^ht may b» permaa cntly injured.

Win i ATl '• Mov^mmt*.— The latt iwl authenticated r«poiU of the wharrabsutt of Wmiata term to doretail into one tin.jt her at lair. *nd gift tomo re««onablo urn mnt of probability to Ihe rep>rt that b« hat armed nt Te Kuiti He is believed to have chaug d oot)>ei with soother nam« «t Wa<r<tn«>». On Fri>i-i> l«»t, a uaiire who ki.ovr* him well report* to huTt* »»cn him on tli« wi*t>t tule 3f ih* nver below Whata Whiti, a-id he u«it'Oc retried to h»ve been iohii near Aleiunilra, on the following Sund»j. ymcp lh n n nxs tip lomewhat authentic repon of hit anif.l ut To Kmt'. T'mlp r iorU ■re th» onr tue n >tural 0 qu'U fi <>' t>e o h-r, ••nd nwnß ** ih«k (to trom r< liable nouroe^ in wioh inbUnce, a c purhapt nearr t'ifl tru'h thiin UioM iriitoh Lito boretotoro giauai curreooy.

Tim hE*au.& —W-> uni.iaunl tlia « u Thuradty, two ot tt>eso now nuturiou* mongrel-, who hare killed more poultry m Hamilton, and deatrojed more pheajanti in tbo neighbourhood than a jmoU of well bred dog* of the tarn* kind would bo worth, wre og Thursday »urround«<l by <h» local constable and Jippreliendud. Our informant wyi thit they were being drugged along the pui.ic tlroet v»hen hn •»* them— et a* hupe to execution. Wo shall b« happy to rl>ron\de the oQl<iaL nolifioitio 1 of ianr doceaae kt* Of ab »rge _ _

The Murmbeb Winuta.— The opinion learnt now t > b« tnut Wim ita, th mgb. at ono time in the lowr Piako »f ttleuaents, is now at Te Kuiti. The Go?ernment we see has mnnifl. contly mpoudeil to the suggestions of Vvs Waiicato" TrMKB, and has nude the reward for hia apprehension £200 instead of £100 Doubtless* th»y would have goue to the full exfout recoramended by this journal, and made it £500, but. the trartlling expense* of rainiiter« hare be^ n so heavy of lato — three gumua* a day bciuiei pfttsag* and onrri*Ke money, independently altogether of the regular icreir, does run up io confoundedly quick —that they've had to put the break on iomewher* you know, and they reallj cant afford to sport, more cren though the delivering him up or catching him might »*ve hundreds o r thousand* of pounds. We f-eo that iv tlie offer of the reward Wimata » still described us diessed in the same clothes as th>«e he left Kpiom in. This is a pleasing fictioa but. it were as w<4> that tlie truih'were kno*n VVhea at the iettlemeiit of Waerenea, Wimata changed clothes with another native and this, whi"h after all was no more than tie might haro been expected to hive done, io#tns to have somewhat misled those searching for him. Information tiai given to Ex- Const ible Ralph and two others of th« appearance of a man at one of the settlements whose drew answered ex ictly th • dascriptioa of ttint belonging to WiunU. Tiiey ran him to caith %nd lo! tlie dreis inn the dress of Wntiata, but tho nan in them was not he.

A Bridgk for Hamilton.— lf ever bencoi of a bridge in heu of the present puut between Hamilton E»t and VVeit wm instanced it was on Thursday forenoon last, when all tbe world and hu wife were going to the raoet. This spot was the converging point of all thetritffio, and for s good hour the long •triog of carnage* and veMcles of every description B'ood in line slowly advancing as those in the foremost rank wore ferried aoro«, sometimes eight or ten h>nrmtn and lume foot passengers got over, sometimes a yi hicle and three or four hursemtn, an. l to on uuhl the tide of coming raoegoeis slackened. I'was nearly ai bad, though not quite so, ooroing home. Now we dont have a raco d*y every week even in the yea-, but rhe state of things on Thursday only brought out more clearly the general inconvenience to which the publioareput •t other times by the want of a bridge Residence on the Etft tide of the river is cut off from those whose oocupition keeps ih^-m engnged late at night on the West >i le, an I gen> mlly speaking tie moouvenie'ice is grear. At ot ier townships half an hour is no uncommon interval to elapse at v j time in the day between tbe times that the punt ls.requirad to crois, but if anyone would tike the trouble to w.itch th« Hamilton Ferry he would see that no soomr acro.4s than it is back again and so on all day. Thu other day the Ngaruawahi* ferry was let at £78 per annum. That at Hamilton waj let Unt yp»r for £151. When a speculator o^n afford to give £151 for the year's 'e+so if a ferry the legal charge for croitini; wuich is J 1 for foot passengers, and 21 f«»r horses, it is pretty clearly t > be seen that th« reqinrement* of tbe public warrant the erection of a bridge.

BUTIEK i.KD CHRESC FAOrOttt«B. — In arfotlier column will bo found a letter f>-i>ni Mento, »g" n directing atten ion 10 'he de>iwbi ity or e»tabIhWuk butter and ohrese factory in »ne Wtakiio rimtrii-t, j«st vii done in tuo United States of Amencv- a system which hat been f <uad not only more profitable to the firmer than uinkinsj thucberseand butter at hjjne, but tare* hi» wife and family » large Amount of drud««-rj. Tue m Ik it called for mor.iiug and eTening bt the factor/ cart, taken to tbe factory, and th ro Mt The milking inulf being thr only work in connection with dairying done by the farmtr or his (an illy* Vhe miller i« ono which mii;ht well o<->U|<y the attention ot the C*tnbnd|(e Farmi>rB Club i find if we mistake not the Pr?ii ient some year* •iice, in 1871, tf we rtmeubor ritfhily, with other gentlemen in the nt-iglib mrbood of Auckland, intereiUd tbemMlrfi on thd aubj ct, and acquired » considerable anonut ot u-teful n»f.>rtn:>tioD upon it. Tue lands of tho \Tmkitu arc eminently adopted for the raiung of dairy produoe It whs only a few days sinoa tbat *c reciived from Mr S Steele as a Simple, a fit.c ihi'ese, which for quality is quite equnl to any thing we have sesn in tbs Pnunce ; c ose, well (queered, und well favoured, and such as it would be well for Wsikato if we could report ii« « port at ion from the diitriot by to is weight at a time, for is there any reason why this should n>t be B>, if only tbe factory system could bn brought into operation by moan* of j>iut stook oompaides as eipluined in our iaue of tbs Ist init. On a future occasion we sba 1 har« more to say on this matt *r, and will 'h-J result of butter combined with cbreae-matinj; m factories instead of cheese alone, as camsd on in some of the States.