PURGING THE ROLL.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 606, 8 April 1876, Page 3

PURGING THE ROLL.

Sib,— You have (Joneyour duty well in rounding up non-eUctort and rushing- them into the registration ofiioo to make good their claims a* rotera. This is ot it should be. It is desirabla tbat ervry man entitled to vote should be in a position to use that privilege in a colony where the 'squatting clatt it too clonrly •nde^rouriag to create a landed aristocracy, which, ridiculous in this gwierntion, may 4?e dragerous in (he next, when educated as well hi territorially •nrinwed. But of this anon — whit I was going to my ii that .you have only half done > your work. ' While it ii detirab'a to hate ererjone on the eleotoral ro'l who has a right to ba there, it is rqually deiirsble to tee that there are- no dummy votes, and I bear that not a few hare been added to toe lift, with the view of working tbetn in another election. Who doei th« right of ob« jecttD)? re»t with?— the re^uU-ttion oflieer or tbe Elector?. -Youri. Obtho. JUar^pipi, April 6th. .

Thb Whakatanb Mukderer.— As our teleenuiis of last Wednesday mfonned us Huniona, the ruurder«r of TuJuno to Marae, at Waitapu, near Te Telo, has been sen cnced to doalh. Smco Bimiona committed this cnire another murder in ilia same loculity has been committed by natives on a native limned Fetei-a, supposed, as m Tuki-no-V cuse, to hare been u wizard, whose murderers haie, with Wiuiata, tukon refusje with the Kui£. Aa tlie ciccumsluuceg of the first murder, which occurred more than a year ago, may hare escipei the memories of many of our readers, we trai'sciba thnm from the ovidenco given at. tin lute (rial: "lulino t« Map*? wa» »n uld-iuan of uea'ly sixty y«vro of ago, who Uved an indmirious, inoffensive hfe on his palernal acre* at K< kohmau, a Maori settlement near Te T</fco. He had nerer professad, and was not credited with, himng dealings with the Evil One. flitmona t« Run belongs to the same tribe as lii« victim, i. c , to a branch of the Ng&Mawa, of Whakatane, and is mucli youuger. He himself baa as wile an Urewer* woman, andbehred with h«r tribe at Ahiker«u. Of late three persons of the Crew era have died,, and (»s i« usual in all deaths among the Maoris) the relatives puzzled their brains -(o find out a special cauae, for which they da'ight to look to the wo. Id of •pirns, i. «., departed splr tt or perhaps evil spirits likewise, the latter having a human agent (& witch or wizard). Last month a young girl, one of tho above Mirer, Ngaw'ni, daughter of ilimiona's wife by another husband, died, ond forthwith the relatives, upon vnai data dors not appear, camo to tho ronclusioji that these three had all hern bewitched, end their death* cuned by the evil maoliniiilion or witchcralt of luiiino te Marae. Ilnniopa, »purred on by hie fealty to Kt» adopted tnbo, ana inc.tect by his wife and others, determinuU, or was itppoii te<l, to tnk» revongo by idling the alleged w.ztnf. This evil work ho enrrud <»ntoii the I3fcn Novetnbor. Oa that day T«kiuo, le lian»piu, To Uuku, and c woman wers busy planting, th» fii-dL-namsd being hidden by a lirge mpaki bus'a from the others. The Three ethers Man Lliimonp., gun in hand, advanfkifj towards TuLino, and presently heard the dn«r.>a i- gc. No' warning at all seems to have beon given oi the intended assault. The bullet entered over tho region ol fch-s Madder, &nd cutne oil*, at the buck of the pelvis. Uroxa the first the wound was by ull tot down as mortal, and the. poor fellow seemed convinced that his days were numbered. He received «7ery attention from Captain Preece, commanding A C at Te Teko, ,-na likewise from Dr Kn viand, department*! n edicai mun lor the district. He died after lingering for nearly o fortnight. The District Curonei heli un inquest, aud after a full and patifiit heuung of all the witnesios, he and the jury brought id a verdict of " "Wilful -murder" against Uimiona Te llua. Good Milkhes.— Thera are four points that •hould be specially studied, and woich o«rve us irifßlhble indications 'of milking qualities. First the milk veins, so called, passing from the forward side ot the udder along the under tide of ! the animal toward the front. They are either I small or large— straight or very crooked. ConsiI der the <tze of these veins f>ir th« size is one of thft infallible tests oi a good milker. Be careful to see whether the vein is double or oot, for it som»tinw?i branches out, and if double, the two should be added togother, because they may be equal to one large vein. The veins sometimes form an angl* on the front side of tho udder. This seldom occurs except on a very good cow, On calveiend fleshy cattle it is difficult to find these veins, therefore the test can only be applied to cows in milking condition. 'A network of veins on theperinium is a good tost and indicates milk. The chine, reaching from the shoulder half wav to the hip, should be examined. If it is doublf, i, ie cow is above the average. Sometime! with a »ingle chine, there is a depression into which two fingers can bo laid if the animal is not too fat. This is good. Tt indicates a lax physical condition of the animal, any way this is favourable either for milk or b«ef.