The Waikato Times.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 593, 9 March 1876, Page 2

The Waikato Times.

Equal and exact justice to all men, Ot whatever state or porsuabion, rohgiousor political # * * # * Here gh&H the Prein the<Pnori,B\; right maintain, Unawed by influences and unbribed by gain.

THURSDAY, MARCS 9, 1870.

We are informed on good authority that His Excellency the Governor and party will leave Auckland on a visifcto the Luko country, on Monday or Tuesday next, flis Excellency has very sensibly elected to travel to these wonder spots hy, way cf Waikato.

RM Oodet, Hamilton.— The usual sitting of the abovo Court, which should have been held to-day, has been postponed till this day fortniflht, tho 23rd instant.

Accident to Mb Gippney.— Wo regret to learu that a Tory serious accident occurred to Mr Giffnoy, of Ngaruawahia, ytstorday. While engaged working at tho baths a heayy piece of timber fell, striking him on the head, and cutting his fleih to tho bono. The wound was at once dressed by Mr Edgeourabe.

Tiie District Covet was yesterday occupied in hearing the oaee of Seccombo v Moon and that of Wallis t Ilongon. The case Diokaon v Aubin and other?, which would have tested tho. liability of Highway trustees ai mdmdnals, was nettled outside the Court, the defendants admitting that the Board wm wrong, gmng plaintiff £5 to withdraw the Action, eaoh side pajiog tbiir own costi.

Tjieatre Koyali, Te Awamutu. — Our fellow settlers of Te Awamutu are leading the w.iy in tho theatrical world of Waikato, and open tho Public Hall at that place to morrow evening with i grand dramatic entertainment in aid of the funds of the building. The performance ooneludes with a dance, which doubtless will not be the least enjoyable part of the entertainment.

Explanation. — Mr Robert Hill, of Hamilton, bas paiticularly requested us to mention that the subscription raised for him, on tho occasion of his breaking his arm a few months ago, by tho Good Tompl.irs of Hamilton, was never rocoived by him or any member of his family. Ho also wishes to state that £5 granted to him out of the Lodge Ipid was haudod o?er to his wife, but without iiif inowledgo until sonio days after the accident happened.

Fakvurs -Clle Cakfeibgb. — Tho nrual monthly meeting of tlio Club was beld on Tuesday evening Ifisi, vhen a very interesting paper on rcot crops was read by Mr Clarke. Tho genoral business and discussions also were of a ' more tban usually interesting character and soraowhat lengthy. TTo havo tlioroforo deemed it idvisnblo to hold over a full report until our next rather than abreviato tbo acoount of the proceedings whidi would be necessary woro the meeting reported in our Issue of to-day.

I Pxeafithes of going to LAW. — An amusing I scene occured in'Oourt yesterday. The plantiff Mr Socoombe, said he had endeavoured to lettle the case, sooner than go to law. Ho had a dr«ad'of going to law. His Honor — "quite right tco. 1 ' < Plaintiff said he was still of his first opinion. Not bg, said His Honor, you can say with Dr Watts, "I have been once end still I go, 'tis lik» & little heayen bolow." Plaintiff whose case had anything but a bright appearance at the time, and who had just boon lined &• for •an unstamped document, didn't seem to ace the ioko.

The Wheat Caor.— The Auckland "Herald" ga ys :—" : — " We sincerely regret to learn that the crop of whoat in the .North Island has been a Tery poor one thu season. As a rule, vro belierc the yield has boon one-third leas than for the prerious year. The millers have consul or.able difficulty in getting wheat, as a gieat dettl of -t is 'grown out,' and 1»3 had to be refused. Several- thousand bushels of wheat have boon rendered compaiatively worthlecs from this cause. In justice to our farmers, it is f.vir to state that the wheat that has been- allowed to 'grow ovt' is the -property of, the Maoris, and the misfortune is to a great extent ' due to their own imimanagement."

The Steamer Quickstep, which by-the bye, has had its stern roofed in making a large and commodious hurricane deck which will shortly bo railed round, «ri<i protecting the--niain deck aft from snn and sparks, brought up a full complement of p»scengers, aorao thirty altogether, on Tuetday evening, and oomo-200 head of sheep consigned to Mr toon, of Alexandra. Tho accommodation provided by tlie Quickstep for the conveyance of ibeep will bo a boon to the Bottlers gecer.illy. Those brmght up on Tuesday left Auckland by train on the morning of that day, and wore landed in Hamilton the snine crening in godd condition aud none the verse for their short trip.

Sunday School' Picnic. — Yeiteruay the lobolars attending tLc Sunday School connectod •with the Congregational Church, Hamilton East, accompanied by the Bey Mr Davies and their school teaohera repaired to the farm of Captain Steele, n hero they spent a pleasant day, enjoying thoinsolvcs in the recreations and amusements ueur.l on such ooc.nsions, nor were there wanting from the scone many childr-Mi o! an older growth> parents and friends of the younger one;:, who appeared to enjoy (homsolrei quite as inuo'j. Abundance of good chonr win proTidnd for all, and Captain Stifle's kindneaa and hoKpitalitr was duly appreciated. After oti]oying theuiielvc>! throughout the lcngt,h of n tine summer's day, the picnic piity returned homo wetll pleastd with the daj's holiday and recreation.

Salvon Ota Ton New Zealand. — At ft recent mod ma cf the Acclimatisation Society in Auckland, it hus boon resolrjd to obtain no more salmon o,\ from Cab forma, the fish not being of the b st Bpcciecy 1 lit as the introduction of 'iho right sort of salmon liob been most suecesiful in Tasmania, to ws.ii. and obtain supplies from thm Alliulmir to tho tw> kiuds oi fishes Mr Earl said " Withrerird to tho salmon ova, some country *t itlm mitjliL suppose that'tney would afford spo* L ; but- tho Cilrforman salmon could not be ouiiijht witli a rod mid line. It, was ihnilar to tte kind found in tta> Tweed, known at the ' ball trout, 1 and it was an enemy of tho true salmon. He had a drawing of the bull trdut, which exactly reaombled the Cahfornian salmon."

iRitrGDLAKLr Stamtru Documkjtts. — A matter important to country settlers, who have not stamps always at hand wfeeiv malting agreements, cropped up in t,bo caso of Seccombo v Moon in the District Court ycitorday. An agreement was put in but. it was proved that that the stamp was > affixed after tho agreement wns signed. It wai ruled tlret such agreement could net be received in evidence until the fine was paid as it must be treated as an unstamped document. When igMsmeiV.s iro made and em- adhesive ntsmp is not used at tho time th# parties to ibe agreement ■ must not put the stamp on themselves but must forward it to the Commissioner of stamps for the district, to bo olllcially stamp3d, and that, too, within a month of the dat« of execution. After eX4scuti"n o. * tho dead none 4iufc the Comrr.isiionor cm loyally atfllx the It.amp. The satra i would hold q )od m tho c.no of a reco'pt for mONOT.

Koman Catholic Btshopbick x>* Auckland. — From a pnvato letter from Auckland, wo learn tint hn 'Grace the Archbishop of Casbell, tho lute Bishop of Auckland, it interesting himself ?Jk home with the Holy Fittber on behalf of the Auckland diocesa. The Very Rot the Vicar-Gc-ic'ial (Father Fyncs) haa received a letter, written since the receipt bj tho Church authorities in Rome of the telegram transmitted from Auckland in December respecting the need of tli»> Cl'unli in the Auckland dtooese. A now Buiiop is to t)i- .it once appointoi and tho financial .affiunH of, tho Church will receive due consideration nnd attention, loaTin^tho logs important mutters to the caro and attention of the now Bi'h*!) on hi^ arrival. The letter does not intimate who la cxpocted id bo the holder -of 'that offwp, but we may congratulate our Roman Catho'io follow lettlors on the batisfsctory arrangements which have been made in providing for theirspiritual necessities.

Eastbb Monpay Fhstivitim.— lt tons b«cn ■uggcsted to us that as Lent bat now sot in, and the wholo "Waikato population it scrupulously abstaining from the übo of meat stronger than bcof, or any liquor more potent than brandy, that * hen Easter Monday comes, as it will do on the 17th of April, wo should oomraemorato tho conclusion of our forty doyi fast with a monster picnic. This was suggested to us for Hamilton, but of oourso what is good for the goose is good for the gandor, and the suggestion applies equally to all other Motions of the distriot. And really wo think there is tome sense in the suggestion. General picnic*, if peasant «poti could be ohoson for them and public conveyances put in requisition; would be as enjoyable a. way of spending Eastor Monday as could be devised. Games and ammemonts could bo extemporised on the ground not forgetting tho good old English ono of "kiss in tho ring," and out of the ring, too, for the matter of that, and family parties could bring their own proviiiono while for such as did not feel so disposed there wouid^no doubt, as at race oonrses and elsewhoro be found public caterer! to tupply thorn. Suoli festivities olsewhoro in the Province aro hold in country places and participated nil by ( poricni of. all classes and conditions and do much towards promoting general good feeling and harmony by bringing neighbour* together and polishing down tho hard corners and angularities wbioh causo society ao a whole to split up into far moro cliques and sets than it neod do, and for no rea»on whatever but the ignorance of one another >7uioh keops peoplo apart who would hko one another well enough if they only had the opportunity of doing so. There ii yet ratlier moro than a month to think the matter over, and study tho preceding loii£» «cntence, and so we throw out the suggestion for what it it worth, loaving it m tho hand ■ of those amongst us who take the initia tive in mch muttons to bring it to fruition. 4

AmuvATj or Immigrants. — 'lore immigrants from the 'Salisbury' arrived in Hamilton on Mo.ulay night, aud those yonng men m barracks loffc for tbo Pinko swamp, whore there is work for any number of hands ns lor»g bs the summer lusts. There -will bo ho difficulty in the ttpj of those latest smred arrived finding employment, as their predecessors in thp immigrants' cottages had the choice of two jobs, that of the swamp to vvtich tluy went and one at Te Awamutu, disappointing the latter partj Tho fact w that Wuikato can during tho summer absorb a large amount of labour, and men should continuo to be draftod up in small numbers as quickly as those already arrirad clear out of the cottnga% which they can do if thoy cUooaa almost immediately.

The Boad to Ohimbituri —In a rocfnt com- ' municntion written for 1 1] n journal by *' Silver--pen," giving <\n account of nig overland journey from lluimllon to Ohmomuri, momtion vm made oi ft bid piece of road botween the Waiton and Thamoa "ircra, wboro, in consequence of a few chains of swamp boiDg loft untouched the tiaTeller is obliged to make a detour of some seventy miles by way of Mata Mata and Omahu. We learn that since, attention has been drawn to the matter by the nativee thomaelvee — the land through which the line of road runs is native property— 'have commenced faacining the iwamp portion of the road and will ioon have it completed. When this is done it will be postiblo to get through from Hamilton or Cambridga to th 3 gold-fields in a single day, and possibly before long the Waikato settlers may find an outlet for their beef in that direction.

Hamilton Ewteetainkbijt. — The performance of the Hamilton Entertainment Committee will take place in the East township, the Court House not being available during the sitting of the Distriot Court which commenced yesterday, and is likely to *it for the remainder of the week. There will be a full muster of amatour performers of both instrumental and Vocal music on the present occasion, and the Entertainment will bo otherwise deversified by humorout readings, recitations, &c. Hitherto these entertainmunts nave been but thinly attended by the public, flLhou&ii tho price of admission is a shilling only. This has beon owing to want of publicity given to the performance, although judging from its merits on late occasion!, the result should hare been very different. In the present caso however, the Entertainment has beon duly-advertioed, and we hope to see these attempts to cultivate a love of music in the public generally bettrr attended than they have been. The Hamilton Entertainment So-ciety,-we look upon as the nucleus ef the future Choral Society of Hamilton, and u such, we wish it the success it deserves.

Interesting Event in High Life. — The Colac heifer Roan Duchess, recently purchased bv Mr S . G-ardiner, of Chelswortb, for the sum of 2,200 guineas, has lately giren birth to a bull calf by Karl of Chmeva. The price giyen for 'Roan Duchcis is the highest ever paid in the world -for a Jieifer. Twenty-fife yoars • ago American breeders purchased Duchess cows m England at from 600 to 1,000 guineas each, | 'which at the time w«re considered fabulous pnoeE, but m 1576 the descendants of these tame Duchessei realized under the hammer at the New York Mills' sale from 4,000 to 8,000 guineas each. Again, recently at Lord Dunmore's bslo one bull of this famous tribe brought 4^500 guineas. This shows the high value set upon pure blood and certified pedigree. < Pedigree and purity on the part of both sire and darn are essential requisites to ensure potency on the purt of tho ofopring toprdduce their like. This is a lesson well worth learning by those vrto desire to possess animals capable of transmit! ing to their progeny those excellent quitlitiei for which the beat tribea of ehorthorns are bo highly esteemed.

Imfoh^bd Shkkt.— rA writer in the Auckland " Herald " sayi : — " It must Lave become patent, to the importer of tho Lincoln rams, per G-leu-lora (pym London, that the trouble taken by him m selecting and bringu'g out the iheep from home has proved unprofitable. The freight and rost of keep amounts to between fifteen and aorenteen pounds per head, jet at the sale of nine of the sLeep on Friday last only three obtained bids, nnd these averaged under £2U each. The queition tlip.t is asked in, 'Why did not those sheep find favour m this market?' The answer to this is that the Bheoß-are not suitable to tho place, and woM-growers will not h«ve them. 'The next questicn that naturally auggesta itsolf is, ' How is it that Smith, having twice before brought out aheop from Home, and conseou ntly con»vdered it a profitable undertaking, should bring out a third comignmtnt and meet with no buyers ' ' This car be - readily answered. Wool growers were before agreeable onough to enter into competitioa for the imported Lmcolns, but now discover that tho shpep arfrnot suitable to the climate, und they cannot get the price for their wool sufliuient to compensate them. The wool hr.s been found in the home market net to tnedi the reqiiiremontn of the yarn buyers. It lS'too hard and rough in the staple, the yarn made from it is so hard that it possesses scarcely an.* spinning properties and i* that cbjoctionablc. A cloie soft wool' is required, something after tho Port Phillip, and this is difficult to procure from the. Lincoln and Leicester strain. A wool buyer here has often said to tho growers ' Give roe a wool of thu quality and I will pay you two and three pence per lb for it.' Growers lrave found' out that unless great, attention is paid by them to tho strain of their sheep coarto wool is the result, and it is better in the long run to be particular in this matter and the result will be found more profitable acc 1 the. wool obtaiu a high character in tho home market instead of at present being doicribed as ' mongwl.' "

Haud Times. — The " Coromandel Mail" has anaplicle on " haw* times," on which it sayt : — Ihe cry throughout the Province at the present time mod indood for some time past is that thingi are very bad in Auokland. •' Very bad, trade ■horribly dull and no money afloat. Couldn't possibly be worse, sir v «ays-Mr Croker. ur« at a dead standstill. There vrill bo a general burst up, iir, you may take my word." And what Croker says of Auckland, Downinthemouth saye-ab tho Tharaos, scd old Dismal when he speaks of Goromandel. Times indeed must be very bad in Auckland whtn inside of a few weeks 4he people of that utterly shipwrecked City 'hare only boon aWo to spend five thousand pounds sterling in witnessing the performances at Wilson's Circus, Blondin's rope entertainment, artu bho Imj sensation drama 'st the Prince of Wales. Auckland must bo in a profound state of commercial prostration, for she can only afford to burld a second theatre at the cost of seven or eight thousand pounds, and stono buildings, shops, stores and warehouses to the paltry extent of a hundred thousand pounds. •In Auckland the people find themselves necessitated to live on butchers' meat, and' it is only by the greatest economy they are ablo to obtain poultry and sucking pigs on Sundays. Bat if Auokland City is bad, how much worse is tho Thames, where labouring men are by a contemptible Government paid six shillings a day for roadwork, which of course no man can poesibly live on. Pour nobblers a day, two shillings. Losses at euchre, say another two shillings ; beer one shilling, and just one shilling left to provide food, lodging and clothing. Goodness preserve ut from such calamities. Bettor that men were never bom than compelled to submit to such hard-ships. And what shall we say for Coromandel ? Never were things in so low a state. It it true that one man cannot walk many yards down the street without moetmg another man who s&ys " what will you havo," and straightway they adjourn to an hotel and they have it. If it boon board a uteamcr, one man will say to another "lob us go holov/," and thoy descend and thero and then they " bolow it." It is true that on Sundays our four churches nro filled with handsomely dressed womon and children and mon togged in bronrloloth. It is also true that if an acrobat, or a performer, or a mesmerist were to come htiro tomorrow, tt'o largest room would bo crowded at two and six penco a head for several nights running. If a butcher has half a dozou young lambs in his shop there is a scramble among customers for loina and fore-quarters, and the same in respect of tender veal ; still things are so bad in Coromandel that it's just awful ; indeed past thinking about, and what it is all going to com* to wo cannot possialy pretend to lay.

.Pigeon Match. -We understand that the pigeen shooting match between Auckland and Otago teams is expected to come off during the present, month, though no date has as yet been fixed for the erent.

Jury List fob 1876-7-— A list of all those persons resident in Waikato, who are qualified to serre on juries, is now lyinf* at the Hamilton Court House, and will be open for inspection during the first three weeks of the present month. On Thursday, the Oth of April, a Court mil bo held in the tJourfc-honso, Hamilton, for the purpose of hearing appoals and rectifying all omissions or mistakei.

Pallino op thk Waipa — Th» late continued j fine Weather ha» had the effect of making il low I water hi the Waipa, io much so that the rfteamcrJ is not at the present lime Able to get a* far up J as To Ron. ffliis is, of coarse, t*n inconvenience j to the iettlersof Western WaWsto, bat to meet ! the difficulty us much a* possible, arrangements Lmve been mnilo vrith Mr Vickers for the landing of gooils at his farm, which ia about a^.high up as ttio steanurcan roach ; and Mr X L Hope, the obliging local ngent at Alexandra hai erected a marquo on Mr Vloker'a farm where gcods for up country will ba received and housed. The Company, however, will not be responsible for any goods after boing iwndeJ at Mr Vicker'B farm, nor will they land them there unless specially directed. Shippers who prefor it may have thoi»* goods transmitted to either of tho ports on the florofciu or main branch if they choose, but, as will be seen by the advertisement elsewhere, they nvuet give instructions for landing tho goodi at such stations.

Thatghnkbally mwFirr. oittL. — One evening last m«nth while luxuriating on dry tcait and watercress, Mrs J says, ''Now, Jingo, as we have had an increase in the family, you muit get a generally useful girl to help me." "All right, my dear," lays I; " I'll advertise in the Waikito Tihes." I did, and we had a whole sohool of usefuls applying. The first girl that came along found me -weeding in our front /garden. " Ten by twenty," says she, "you're Mr Jingo." " I am," sayB I. " I thought sc, you look as if you wanted t uioful help ; will I luit?" "What are your qualifications''" 1 •eked. "My what?" she echoed, opening her mild bluo optics to the fullest extent. " What are you used to do ?" I said. She said ahe used to do prttty much as she liked when at home, but wanted -a change, could wash, scrub, mind babies, saw on buttons, darn stockings, get up early in the morning, and sib up late at night ; wages no object. The last quality settled the matter. So I said, "Yoa'll do; you are engaged." " No, said the girl, lam not engaged, my young man is waiting till he has got a borje and express of his own then he will ask me." I smiled at the gushing simplicity of the fair help, and said, " Y»u can come to-morrow morning." She did come. The young man having deposited her box in the hall, saluted Betsy Jane affectionately on each cheek, and exited. That day things went smoothly enough, but the next morning trouble began. Not having <riien with the lark, that hired girl, to make up for lost time, used kerosene pretty freely on the kindling wool, and s Earc-up was the result. Mrs J, scenting the trouble, caught her better half (myself) by the hair of tho head, and, after a vigorous shake, Says, " Get up, Jingo, the house it on firo ! " I was at the scene of the conflagration in no time ; and seizing a -bran new xjounter/pane, I held it in front of the fireplace to shut off the draught, and my energetic- exertions was soon rewarded by seeing a bole that you might pass a chum through burnt right in the centre. Things were now getting rathor warm, so I grabbed a tin loillie that was on the table, and pitched its contents (which I afterwards found out was milk) up the chimney. Then rushing into the pantry, upset several pans of preserved plums in my hurry to dud tho salt. Meanwhile the friendly neighbours were not idle : one red bearded man wrenched the Knocker off the dcor and flung it into the middle of the road for safety, another carried the children's perambulator down tbo ;ebty, where it is supposed.to have met a watery grave, further heroic efforts to save kfo and property were only stopped by tbo information that, the lire had burned itself out. Mrs J had Lcen aroused by those stirring- scenes, and made a decided impression. When tranquility once more reigned, and the neighbours hai retired to their neglected breakfasts, I discovered that the generally useful -girl had wavfcd her box and departed for fresh fields and pastures n*w.