WAIKATO EXPORT OF CATTLE.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 606, 6 April 1876, Page 2

WAIKATO EXPORT OF CATTLE.

A few days since wo replied somewhat fully to the attacks made by a Soutu r». journal ou the settlers of this provi cc, whu'h charged theai wi£h want of em rgy ami enterprise in tlie conduct of their l>nsiness. After all, nothing- cirries, conviction with it so much as an airay of .figures, and aa we aie no«v in a position to IVt , the quarterly teturns of the number ot cattle sent from Waikato to the Auckland market, we would ask our detractors in the South, whether fur a'yonng community J hiich aa tni^, the ivfurn does Not show a veiy different state of things to that with which, m common with die rest of the province, vrc are ohnfged ? After supplying our own wants, and sending a quantity of store cattle to the Upper Thames country, as will be seen elsewheie, we are forwarding fat cattle to the Auckland market at the rate of between 5,000 and 6,000 head per annum ; and these, too, are tile best cattle th it reach that nuiiket from any part of the colony. The 1 ord oi 60 head which, passed through Hamilton on Fr.daj, the last day of March, but which doe 3 not figure in the subjoined returns, vere a fair sample of Waikato beef, and a more even lot of large framed, -well tleshed cattle it would puzzle Napiei or Wanganui to produce. The following'return ahow the number "of fot cattle supplied to the Auckland mitiket, frWthe Waikato, during the three mouths ending March 31, 1376 • —

Our telegrams informed us the other da; that Parliament would meot early ia June, and lia>ing paisod the Local Government Bills immediately prorogue, to bo re-assembled in a few days alierwards and proceed with tho regular business and ihidDci.il arrange meats. Tho authority for this, "whether it is a canard or have any foundation in truth, appaari as follows m the Auckland j "Star;" " l'ohtical rumours aro becoming more plentiful ovory day. The lale»t is ai mgenitow uti it u cnvumdtantutl, and it good enough to "be {me. It is to the effeol that Parhaniant Vt ill positively moot on the 15th of June next, not in May, u« hits boen giren out, and that when the Hondo doos meet, nothing more will be 'done thfkii |ms the Loual Government Bills, and at oucj prorogue. Parliament will, of course bo r«-<»3seujblod in a low dayi, the position will be thm : Tho Abolition Bill Will then be law indisputable, and tho Government will hare no dilfidence at all in submitting their financial proposal* respecting tho altered condition of the colouy. It is only fair to say that those who ought to know of this pratty little scheme if it existed at all, assort that it is a villainous fabrication." And so, no doubt it is, manufactured for the purpose of exciting the jealousy aud suspicion of me colonists against the Ministry in readiness for the struggle of tho Coming session. It is peculiarly one of those engine* of war which come so rcadiiy to the hand* of the political party of whtoh the Star is an exponent in this part of the colony — of tho«o political Blink- pots which Sir George Grey has ever reudj to throw into his enemies' camp at a oiuual moment of the content. But, tukt> it apart from that portion of ie which sUva that the ouly work ot tho short session would bo the pausing of the Local Government Bills the ide.i has nothing but should commend it to the approbation of all tlimkiag mon. \ vary great adrantage would bo gained by oleariug away all do'abt as to the fact of the abolition becoming law. Whatevor form b local •elf-goremmeat ibay replace it ProvinoUlism must go. Let the House meet by all means a month beforo its usual timo, tnuisaot ionic formal busmeas of no political importance and formally prorogue, to be called together for a second session at the ut\ia\ time. Members will oome to the task of replacing the moribund provisional system with none the loss rigour that the bugbear of proTiucialistn has been finally laid and buried beyond recall, and moreover tho doing so will remove many obstacles of deUil fron the settlement of finaaoial arrangements whioh every month that they are -left unsettled, seriously retard the work of efficient local admiaistration. To hurriedly rush through a out and dried Looal Government Bill and then prorogue would, of oourao, be most objectionable — such term, indeed, would not near bo sufficiently condemnatory of it— and this, of eour»e, we can quite understand' is tho riew tho Star and it 3 party in this Province would have the public misled into believing to be the intention of tho Governments but wo oan see no objeotioa to any so simple a plan for getting rid of the falsa hopafe which may lead to factious oppojitnu against any subjtitute for Provincialism, however good sadh substitute may bo, as that mentioned in the tologrnoi which teems to have excited the apprehension and anger of our contemporary.

fro. 9, Soya or Ulstbe L. O, L.~Tbe brethron of th« ahuvo Lodge Will moot »t Mr Burke* ttotol, Hurailtou Eiiib/on Siturday eroniug next ot half-past loroa.

taisosro.— A moutiac: of thB raembsrs of the Misonio Lodge Bdta, will bo held thil ereninz «t the Lodgo room, Dm-ke'» Hotel, Hoaiiltou Rut

R &£ OotTBT, HA.MILTCJW.- Ihero are •twal oaiet fbr bearing to-day. The Jwuce of the Peace »re -umrnonsd to-nioTro^ to hold Court for the final aettleni«-t of the Jury lift of the cJUtriot for the ourrent y«r»r. Appe*l» will be ht-trd and decided, tad any e'rori or omii •ion* on th» roll, as compiled and ljing in the Court Home for publio inspection during tho ewlin put lot month, rectified.

R. M. Cowrr, Cambbido*.— Botw»l un'inportant oiyil oun are g«t down for hearing to-moi"ovr. i

A fat shebp. — Mr E McLa»hUn, of Maunga- X laramea, North of Auckland, inforuai us that he killed last week a two-tooth wether weighing 233 pounds, with oaij 16 ponndi of loose fat. MoNTBOKtt T. LaNQBEIDGK & SILTBB. — Ihii

case has been mutually arranged between the parties conoerutd without the further inttrrtntion of the Court.

BhBitittic.~W6 w»« in •rror in itating that the ruarl from Cambridge to Hamilton had not been measured. Wt lsarn that a professional gentleman b*» cbainod the road, mating the di-ttince thirteen iniloi, one chain, and duj teren links.

Snooting Season.— "We dre\r uttantion on Saturday to the fact that the Natire game leuon commenced on the Ist in*t, but this, it must be understood, does not apply to phsasanti, the shooting season for which birdi does not commence till the first of Majnext. The 1 gentleman, however, who kindly «cut us & brace of phev sants yestewlay, hai our thanks, oererthele»i that he has miatakea tht meaning of the notice published on Saturday. We need not fry itiat he may depend on our discretion.

Ebcdi'TiOir Rati 'Ca«K3.— At the Polioe Court, Auckland, dn Monday laflt, James'TJutlar, Jacob Bower, QtO'-ge Rawlineon, Junes Baker, C. Longbottom, Aleiinder Wil«on, Aid "Willitm Frnser, residing in the Wsikato eollector't diitrict, were 'summoned, the first foar' for the householder's r»te, jfad the lnst 'three for the non-homebolder's rate. None of the defendant! appeared, and the liability of each beiufe pro Ted, orders for payment of the respectire amounts and coots Were iri»de.

God's 'Acs*.— We would draw ' the attention of the Hamilton Town 3oard to the bad ojndihon of the ro»d to the Grareyard after tearing the mam road. Some parts of it Are very bad indeed — 10 bad, as on a recant occasion to hare amounted almost to a scandal that the remaini of the dead should bo, in reraoTing ihera to their last resting place, subject to so unseeml y a tossing about. The einplojlnent of a couple of men for a few days would maico the worst part* of the road fairly passable. The subject has been matter of some little local comment.

Hamilton ' Vkstby MtoriNo — At ¥ a meeting of the Vestry of 8t Petor'« Hamilton, held iv the uovt church, the Bishop presiding, it wdj agreed that £he churchwardens should be open to rocene applications for Sittings in the new Church, which should be chosen by lot. Single sittings, si-pci -per 'quarter ; double ilttingi, 7» 6d per quarter ; lour sitting, 10s per quarter; a greater number at like rates, in all cases in ndv,iilcB. It was ilio agreed that the P*rsoa&K< llouso and fencing should be repairs I, us soon u tha funds oould b« prdcufeil. Th 1 ? Bishop informed the vestry that be had an offer from ihe Soeioly for the Promotion of 'Olinstiau Knowledge, in London, of £50 toward* the new St. Peter's Church, if the total cost of the building were not "lai*« than £1000.

Exikaordinary Pu Miao.vs. — Mr Riploy of Hamilton West, has now two pio melons mowing in hu garden, of a lire 4o Urgo as to rondei them refcurkable ai a curiontv, foi tiny are a8 yet far from being ripe or fullgrown. Thi-y 'are boch growing "on tKc iaroe vine, and mpu»ured, the one 4ft Biin, and the otlior 4,ft 3slu in length; haying, the One an arerugo girtli of 18m, and the other oJ '2hn. The other fruit, of wbiek tboro is a lurgc number on the tines, are §01*11, an I ica.celj appear us if they would come to perfeution, the whole uouushuieot from the pant being Boemiugly absorbed bj their big ljrotber» The seed wns a single one of the kind, obtained bj Mr Ripley, and is from a noted »ort oi which a great deal has bten written by Dr lloriip in the Auckland papers. Mr Biplej intends' to let thuss ffait go dokd ripe for tho suko of flo leod, »o that so valuable a description of lneloo inaj be widely diffused throughout tlii> dutriul-

SiMHLtT Ffivuu.— At tEo present time, whon ecarlct foyer ra^iug at the Thames, may *ny day be introduced into the Wauato, we wou d reoonimend e>ery mother of a family to clip and pieserVe the following ' from our columii', boiug the direotiona giren in "Good Health," a periodical published iv tbo interest of sanitary reform, *16r' the t'rtatment of scarlet fever : — "Undress the child and briug it to bed at the very first iign of sicltnes*. QWe it, if it bi3 atrtudy ferdr, ndthirig but Nourish *arra loruonudo, with tome gam srabic in it. Then corar its abdomen with »Omo dry fl»nnel. Tnko a woll-folded badskeet and put it into boiling hot water, wring it out! dry by mrfaus of dry tovels, aud put thu over the Uannel oa the child's abdomen; corti- the whole and wait. Ihe kot cloth will, porhips, require repeated beat. Acoordmg to the soventy of the case, aud its stage of progrcs«, perspiration will comuuoucii in the child Hi from ti'ii im.utes to two houn. The child then is saved ; it suon fulla to sleep. Soou after 1110 child awaken it shows Blight svmptoiut of retuthuig inclination for food; hi'lp its bowel.i, \f uou-oiaary, with injection* ol oil, soap uud water, and ita recorery will bo *t -«idj us the jtrowth of a greenhoaio plk it, if well trea cd. Of coumc, if the child wub already d^inij, n 'thing could »are it j or if it h»a already cffuiio'is in ihe lining of the heart or brain, it it) much bettdr that it should die, but if ihe above u applied ih d\u time.'Uh ler the eye and direction of a uumputent medioal physician, not one in a hun Irud uhildreu will orur di« of bearlot fetef."

Uate when passing Name of Owner. Qn's ltdt January 7 Mr Gane „ 13 Me«sra Fisher and Scott „ i7Mr 0. Storej „ 23 Mr Taylor „ &4 Goodfellow & Botianko February 4 Mr J 801 l „ C> Secoombo und Harper M 7 Mr David Bruce „ 7 MrJC Reynolds „ 7 Mr Sinclair 8 Mr Gibson „ 21 Mr Douald Br«o» „ 21 'Mr a Mure „ 22 Mr Short (( 22 Mr Vornon „ 26 Mr Gane „ 26 Mr Boon „ 28 Mr G.baon March 1 Mr W Scott „ G Mr A KamseT 1) MrCStoroy" „ 11 Mr Livmgitone „ 18 Mr Andor.on „ 19 Mr Juinos Ruucioian „ 20 Mr Short „ 20 Paulworth <t Walk«r „ 25 BoianVo & Caley „ 27 'Mr CLI Woodi „ 30 Mr Walton Total No. of Ca tie. ... 47 ... '60 ... 64 .. 35 .. 55 ... 42 .. 70 ... 31 ... 76 ... 44 ... 43 ... 11 ... 26 ... 51 ... 13 . . 46 ... 19 ... 50 ... 20 ... 82 . . 70 ... 99 . 35 ... 70 . 00 . .'.O ... 02 . . 40 ... 19 1309