THE MURDERER WINIATA,

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 592, 7 March 1876, Page 2

THE MURDERER WINIATA,

Thi atatament of Winiata'i toov»menti Vhich we" give •liewhert from ywtarday'i •• CiW* are not ib far wide of tb« "mark for' an A uokland paper. It hat now been ascertained that the Tairua murderers and Winiat* the alleged murderer of Packer, are in biding at or -oloie to T» Kuiti, awaiting the return of Tavrbiao from' Kawhia. Winiata after having ©leaped bj a hair 1 * breadth from Moorangi, juit as we hare before ■tated, the very day beforo the expedition from Hamilton reached tb»v settlement, tucoeeded in oroiiing th« Waikato below Taupiri, and mado hia w*y up the w«it«ro bahlt of iha W»i^i» until ha r«aoh«d a pomt of lafety where he could recros* and place him*elf in the midit of friendi. The Tairua murderers must hare taken a route by Msungakswu and Whani V/hani. What re> oeptiOn Tawbioa vril\ giro to thoie blOoditained visitor* it \» ditfitfult to lurmiio, but in the neat : prospec^of loseUng face to faco with Her Majeitv't representative, the Governor of theie lilandi, their pretence in the very centre 1 point of hit powor and influence can riot but pro to awkward and laconreuient in the extreme.

Thb District Coujjt opens for the dcipttch of buiineit at Hamilton to morrow. There 11 a long ctUke list.

Mails. — The nails for America, United Kingdom, and Continent of Europe, will olose at Hamilton Poit Office on Saturday morniug, 11th March, at 0.80 a in. Wh KKOUKi to learn that Mrs Cox,- the wife of our much re^poctk-d townsman, Mr N B Cox, is tseriounJy ill. Tina lady hid latelj been ■uffering from a Terj icvcre cold, and the symptom* huTtniOft, our readers will rcgrttto loa/n, talidn the more aercrtj form of low foror.

AcbiDßM at ths l'uto.— We regret to'lcarn that yesterday murniug Mr Sheriff of the PiAko, who was !cmdiug poau for Mr Bell, L»d hu leg broken tlirough the uptotting of the drsy. 'The leading hor»» ihied, and caiiso.l tho accidont Mr ShtriiTi son >ai in Htmi'tca Kakt, jeiterd»y endeaTOunng to p oouro o cotiToytnce to get hi* father removed to the tdunship.

Road Woaica. — Xh» improvements whioh bar* latelj been in progress ou the Ohaupo and Hamilton road, between the Kiwi Mills and Mr Atkinson's place, haTO now been doinpletod, aud tbo road u put into a good state ior the approaching winter. Tho cwvractor Mr James Xtnnedy, has completed his vroik to the satisfaction of tho HaniiUou West Town Hoard, from whom be rccohod the contraot, which wai ior cutting through some six bilN upon the road, removing altogether between su aud aereu thousand yards of c artu .

Ordination of Elders.— Hamilton East. An ordination lertiee wai held at the Presbyterian Churoh, Hamilton Ea*t, on Friday afternoon lait, at which the Hot J Neill delmred a leoture on the duties of the Elders of tho Churoh, and the constitution of the Presbyterian Churoh itiolf. After the lecture asßiitod by M«nrt Jaoiti Kauuimau, of Cambridge, and Baruer, of ffgaraawnhifc— tho rev gentleman proceeded to the ordination of tho elders elect, Meitw J. X McDonald tnd W, H«nrj. The Borrios cloied, as iV «m oi>uaud. with prayer.

A Royal Tig bxiCKsu.— Tho tune* hare ohanged and the Prioce* ut W«l«j earn their spurn no».i>-rlavi- not by tilaughtoiiug Frenchmen or Turk.:) on the bekl of battle, but bj the leu I glorious feat* of ulophant and tigtr shooting, or, ; u» in the caao of tbe prenent heir to thf throne, bj uticking a pig. We daro iay Albert Edward hatasmuih jiluck in him at hit ancestor the BUok Fnnre had, but pig itioking aeetn* a tome- ! what iguoblo field in which to display prinooly valour, 'iho Pnnoe, hdwerer, u Un to bkm« than the »j?co|»h»nt jmm§ of Groat Britain whioh flashed through the Empire the important telegran) '• the Prince hat killed a pig." This pieoe of toadyism, whioh ii essentially Eutjlish, is the subject of a small poem which tre print in another column.

PaoDUciiviirßii or Wai^ato LAHD.*-Whe fertile and well gruied lands arc to commoa in ao many parti of tho Wailtato, it may saem almoat absurd to partiuulariss, yet the traveller along the Hamilton and Cambridge road cannot but be struck, aa we wer* ourselves on a recent ocoasion, with the evidonoe of what Waikato land can be made to do, ai exemplified in the paddooki of Mr Ewen. That there are better we are well aware, but lying as they do adjaoent to tba pmblio road, they are perhaps more notioaable. And oerUinly the htfavy orop of olofor and large number Of stock oattle feeding in th^m formed » inbject o. publio comment during the race week, being Men by many. It i», to lay the leait, a cheering light to mo ittoh drop* and •o many and well fed cattle grazing upon them. Bad Boads. — A gtntlemuu who had travelled through yerftorday mor..ing from Taupiri to Hamilton Bast, ooniplamod to us of tta bad ■tate of a portion of the road which rery near brought himself and hie conveyance to grief. If tlm road ut in iuoh «onditioa in tho middle of •umraer what may not unfortuu&to iraTollen •expect, in Iho winter mOnlhi ! We would draw the attention of the llighway Boards odncorned to the 'mutter. Wliioh it is we do not know, but itsconioienoe, that is, if a Highway Board posieuei such a thin«, 1 doubtloso be pricked by the simple narration of the abore f*ot. Whilst on the matter of roads, we noticed whon going to the races the week before last that the Kirikiriroa Board had not yet proceeded to the work of metalling the Cambridge road from the boundary of the Hamiltjft JTast dutriot. This i dme during the flno weather would be uadtr taken at considerably less coat to the ratepayers than loft to ha done when the weather has oace broken, and left undone it cannot bo orer the winter or tne road to Cambridge will be impassable. This ii now the only bad bib of road of a.iy extent between tho two towuihipo.

CoiCfiKT— Thu Hamilton Amateur Society, it will ho Been, grvo one of their entortainiuonU r.n Friday evouiug, aud oa this occasion mi tue Eaat- Ui'A'uship.

DirNtiv ro Mb Jambs Unuu. — The frimds of Air Jmnea Hume, Isq, ol the Buuk of New Zealand, have determined to give Limn farewell difluor at tho Delta Hotel, to-morrow evening, rtn the occasion of his leaving Ng«»ruttwaui* to take up h»a residence in Hamilton. Ng«rnav»Qhi«'« loss on this ofcniion will ba Httuillon'j n+\u M>* Hiano ban made ft largo oirole of friends m Kgaruat.-ahiacrttrttig bis r«id»nc« thire, aud it tag been wilb considerable regrft that his 'icaioral to Haaailton has b«en learned by them.

Waikato Baub. — We would dr&w attention to tho letter of Jjr Lesha in another column, wbiuh correcU «n error we hmd iatdTertently fallen into m notiomg, in our issue of Thursday last, the sale to the order of Sir Donald McLean of tome forty Lincoln rftm« bred by Mr Leslie on his ertdto at Tamahere. Ai the paragraph m question readi it might be suppoied that the ramt in queition were purebred Lincoln!, wbion they were not. Their sirea were pure-bred imported rams, but their dami were Ootoroom," or aevan-eighthi Lincoln only, to th»t the sheep in question were fifteen -sixteenlha, not quite pure, or os the children 6f »m octoroon fad whit* m»D would be called " Maitafindt."

A Dash op th« Merino.— The " Wanganui Herald " says, tbero were landed there six sheep of a breed "which will be hew to mbst breeder* in New Zealand. At ft glance thej would be taken for Lincolus, but a closer exttnihation ■howa that their wool is a deal finer and softer than that of either Lincoln or Leicester. A •light dash of the Merino giren to the former would prod'ico wool not unlike that borne by these sheep. They are all called long-wooled Devon, and haye'of late dado a rapid rise in The favor of English breeder*. It is claimed for them that they hare wool much softer and finer than the Lincoln, while at the same time there ii no difference in the weight of the fleece. "They | are hardier than other lon£wools, and tnrivo on indifferent feed. Their carcase, we should say, i* not quito as heavy as ' that oi rh« Lincoln. They are superior looking sheep, and «hduld thrive on bOtno of the 'higher land where Lincoins h*To been found too hearj.

Good Tbjttlab Lodges.— Good Templary seoins to hp as prolific of distent as the Christian Church it sell. A riovr form of Tomplary has been established in Auckland, ond iti promoters it would ooom mtend funning a 'Lodge in Waikato. We take tue following from the " ETenmg Star " of the 2Sth uh :— " A Quarterly meeting of the United Order of Free Templars took placcisst opening in the Christian Meeting House Cook-street. There w»* a large attendance of members. The Secretary in hit atatemont taid, the first Lodge of the Order was instituted on the 16th September last -when elcren member* joined. After ita ' formation we found great difficulty in bringing to our aid suob | help as oar onuse required. Cut th« times hare changed. Many ol the real friondt of Temperanoe who stood aloof, or doubtod the propriety of a connection with ut are rallying to our aid. The returns from the outdintricts giro the most f ratifying asiurance of increasing proiperity and ultimate "fiuocew. We now number n no Lodge*, h&Ting 1,056 members. The Secretary then read letters from Waikato, Nelson, NsVpier, Giiborae, | and Fiji for Charters to open Lodgea of the order in theic districts."

The lats 1.0. G.T. Ewtsbtainmimt.— lVe hare' received a second letter from " The Unwilling TeotoUllor," in reply to that of Mr 'J. 0 Brotfue. but canaot allow the 'oorrespondtn'ce to be continued, itaou bai had his taj a* regard» (he entertainment, and any further cornspondnuco boing of a recriminatory %n.d peraoual character, is of no inte*ve*t to th«r public. Injustice, howeror, to "Tho Unwilling Teeto-t-Uler," Ire publish the conoluding paragraph of his letter, as re-butting an attack which, imlem aontradicted, would reflect not only on himself but on thro Tery re»peotable and u»eful order td which ho belong*. H« sayi : " 1 cannot pwnnit that •fetemenL with regard to the olaii of iOiig* which I hare produced to pass unnoticed. I can •nfelv leaTe that queition witli the public of Hamilton -who bn»e formed the audisnce* before whoni I hare h*d tho honor of appearing, »ud I solemnly aisert that so far ftoto producing any •ong wliich would oauie the most faiUdioui voting lady to blutfh, X hara norer tung a long in public which I should 'be akhamed tnat "tay mother or uitoi'B should hrar, and I am oldfusluonod enough to honor and reipect them still."

SriamsM. — Wo are lorry to teea respectable papei hko the "Cross" lending itself to t the tomfoolery of spiritism. That journal of tho let instant, «ayn : — "Perhaps comparatively' few of our reuders have any knowledge of the progross ivbich the belief in '"Spiritism ' ha» beeu <ju\etlj making hi Auckland 'during the past thruo or four nfenthe During this period, .stance* hare been held almost mghtlj m ui*dj place* in Auckland, at which innny co'&T^rta haro boon luado ; and the movement hiw spread to such an oxteul that family wince* Rre becomiui? ijuitc cooxiuou. We lruu, however, that aa Auckland clorgvman — whoso reputation Hand* hi^li for sfieotifio research m the diicuisioQ of polemical subjects — has determined to luvutigutc the lib*oujoua of mamfetWions, und vriih this object has boeQ holding seances, to which tJie most ivancßil spiritists in Auckland have been invited. The rosulb ha§ not yet beeU known ; but we arc informed thai! the Vev gentloman in ends, ■when bis investigation* are ended, to pretieh on the subject." 'We trutt he will, and tuat buforc he does so he may have been able to ico Mr Mmfielf the ' tricks 'by which the " oraclo "is worked. Upiritiiti are divided into two claisei, 'h* rogues who work the aeancei and the fooli who are credulous enough tfc behfvo them. Wo uoWer if Packer has boon ■onding any more mosiagos to his mother.

DB(JKKENKE:33 AVB IT* OACBP3. — It U BOttbe use of /vine and bpiritt that is injurious, but that of tho deleterious compound* sold now'a-tiiys under the name of mch. Check the adaltera* tion of alcoholic licquor* and nint-tentht of the drunkenness, »ad one half of tho toil* 'of intemperance would bo remoTfld. The real friends of temperance — moderate drinkers-a re begin* uing to lee this. An American contemporary regrets that " delirium tr&nerii ha* almost dit appeared from our community," md says " It is now a very raro apectaclo to witnea an indirid'ual labouring in a fit of good old-fashioned dolirium, luch at we used to witneu so often in our eaiiier life and in the Eastern State*. Thora ii certainly abundance of drunkenness, and the number of drunkard* ii not diminishing. Hen and women d:o of all sorts of diseases direct lj attributable to alcoholic driukt- But for tho snakes that vied 'to get into tho drunkard's booti, the monkeys that invaded hit brainj the cat that grew upon his hearthstone to the lize of tho tiger, and all the quaint and curious animal forms that created for the riotim alternate amusement and terror, we hear in these latter days but little of. It id oortam y observable that time has wrought great changes in thq drunkard's oaracr. We remember in the days ot our boyhood a sobre ot old 'toper*, their Bardolphiin notes retombling the fruit of the c^ctui, who were dru ik erery day and had been so within the memory of the generation; they lirtd to good old ages, had the delirium tremeus half a dozen times, and final'y di«d ripo in years. It seenwd as though they were proscrred or piokled boyond the possibility 6t premature decay. Now, when a young man enters upon * cowe of dissipation, ho growa pale and thiu, instead of old, fat, and rosy ; in five years he is a Wreck ; in five more he filN a drunkard's grare. Our theory in reference to this matter .s the difference between the liquors of the present day and those of the olden time. Now all liquors tire adulterated, and bring with their \Ua horrors undrcimod of in (he olden time; a decay of faculties and premature death; softening of the brain, pantlynu, a shattering of the nerrdus lyiteui, do trud.iou to tho coatings of tho stouiaoh, ioßomaaia and want of appetite ; all these and a hundred oilier forms of dneaso are substituted for delirium tremens. It is said tlmt nine-tecn-twontieths of thu liquors consumed in San Franoitco are mide of deleterious and hurtful drujs. 11

lHV.Cnutt.cn Gizb+tk for March has oorae to hand, but wo have »"e<*iTe<l M jet no ropy of the Presbyterian G«ette for the same month. A presentation of a pastoral stuff and Crozier haa, we m«, been umdo to the Primate of New Zealand. The question of what; constitutes Church ineuib«rfchip lately cropped, up at an annual Church meeting ia Waikato The following letter stating how the matter is settled in th» pan»h ofSt iTohru, Invercargill, which appear* in thu "Gazette," proposal a plan whick would defluitfly sottle thn question. Proposing members tign the following declaration :—": — " Declaration of Membership with the Church of New Zealand. Tj the Churchwardens of 3. John's, Invercargill. I, — , -do hereby deolare that I am a member of the Church of England, and th*l 'I denre to be recognised at iuch is tan pariah, and I therefore state that I will pay annually the sum of £ — — ai Christmas Duea in acknowledgment of zuj memberahip, until I bar* giren uotice to the Churchwardens that I with to alter or withdraw this promise. Solemnly undertaken by me and signed, this day of 187— Witnessed by Deposited with Withdrawn — Tbt leading article contains suggestions for holding special semce* in our Ohurches, and especially on Good Friday, in whish though the clergyman use *Ac prayers of the Church lervioe, he isay Select tfioh t* seem to him most fitted for the occasion.* The Rev B Y A^hwell has concluded his " rtcollections of a Waikuto missionary" with ihi following iting for the settlers of Waikato and the Government of New Zealand. After quoting a letter showing how highly aivilised aud religious a race the Waikato Jiaoris were before the war, he says: — " seven" (» misprint for seventeen) years have elapsed line* the above letter was written. Tht real itate of Waikato during that period is well known, a» v regards its political, social and religious aspects,. I fear we have yet to learn from experience that honesty is the best policy. Any departure from such polioy — either by Government or individuals — must t)e followed by misery and ruin."