SATURDAY APRIL 29 I876 PLANTING TREES IN THE WAIKATO. The Waikato Times.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 615, 29 April 1876, Page 2

SA TURD AY APRIL 29 1876 PLANTING TREES IN THE WAIKATO.

The Waikato Times.

Equiilmnd exact juilice to all men, 01 v> h*te\ er rtatuoi peruuiwiim, reHgiousorpohtiral * * * * * Here 6lip)ltii.Bp»esl thsT'EOPLK's right maintain, Una>yed bvirtflubiuo and unbribed by gilin.

A correspondent in a late issue draws attention to the advantage which Ngaruawahia enjo\sover other Waikato towi - ships in having beeu fieely planted wi'h trees by the loc.il Town Boaid. It'sitree.s are liued on either side with young trees which have, many of them, attained a -considerable height, and this adds not only to the picturesque appearance of the town, but will in summer a fib id a welcome shelter trom the sun and conduce -largely to the health of the inhabitants, the roots of the "trees quickly a-bsorbing as food, those impurities which otherwise would be retained in the soil, and, in certain combinations of heat and moisture, be evolved as poisonous exhalations. Our correspondent is perfectly correct iuwhut he says of the gam or eucalyptus. Above ground and below, it is an active purifier neutralising the miasma of the atmosphere and absorbing the superabundant moisture below the suifuco Irapuiities thrown upon the sue face of the suil and absorbed near tht- I roots of a gum tieo aro not long left there, j but are quickly taken up by the roots of the tr«e whioh penetrate to a long chbtanoe immediately below the surf-ice of the soil, underlying it. uith •» net work of small fibios or root!ot«j Tlitru sro in-i-iy lo^s useful woiksou which a portion of the rates oould be expended, thau in planting i the u»ter edge of the footpaths of 0111 public streets and Mirburban vttad^. Indeed it is somewhat surprising that the attention of settlers generally is not ir.ort* turned to tree plan ting 1 in the open lands of the Wtikato than it is. >Such outlay would be monej well spent, fiom whatevpr point of view it could be looked at. Trans in the foreground are the great want in a Waikato .landscape; and there is little doubt but that if planting were more general, we should in a few years tind the olimate considerably improved, and be less afflicted with long droughts and sudden heavy rains and couscquont i\ >ods. Putting, however, on one side the rmbhe benefit to be derived by the adoption of a general system of* tree planting, individual settlers would find it in many ways to their advantage to attend to this matter. The tree once planted grows while the owner sleeps, and in twenty years time would bo as valuable as the fee simple of the land, the use of which ie took up. Of course some varieties would be more valuable than others, and it would be for tho settler to itudy this point. But in a country like the Waikato, so scant of timber, no orop would ,pay like it. At borne they ruckon a large plantation -to grow to maturity in twenty years and then to afford timber of the vaiue of £20 per acre leaving the ground in better condition for husbandry, than before ifc was planted, and giving a good rent for such ground as would indeed be Ht for little else. Bußide the money value of the timber, 'however, there is its value, as shelter, to be taken into account ; and last, though ,perhaps not least, the improved appearance it gives to the properly generally. And this is ot more importance than many ar-e incliued to attach to it, but the difference is soon found when it comes to the question of letting or selling a bleak hill side and treeless flat or lands prettily and snugly covered with well-grown effectively ,plottod trees and plantations. !

PtTKBHIMtT MUTCAL IMPBOTIMBNT foCmv — Members ate inrlted to meet *t ths School home on sth

Friday May. Cam»hidqb Farms*! Club.—The next meeting oi this Socisty will be htlcl at tho National Hotel, Cambridge, on Tuesday the 9th of May, at the uiual hour. i

10 GT.—We would remind our Cambridge, readers and others, that the Tea Meeting and Concert of tbe Hope of Cambridge Lodge, I 0 G T will ba hold ou Monday eramng in th« Odd Fellows Hall in that settlement.

To SPORTBMBK.- Sir N R Cox, 'of Hamilton, it *ill be perceived by advertisement, is licer.ned to tell ammunition ot all description!, including cartridges. Mi* Cox will doubtlpfi keep a good assortment to suit all requirometrti, ""a.nd vro notice is also licensed to repair arms.

jt,CAy»ttlDO» Litbba&y SooiETT.—Tlie a'nnnAl meeting of this institution will be held at the School Housa, Cambridge, on Tuesday evening ntit, when amongst other business, offions wilt ba electad for tbe ensuing year, and an essay will 1)9 delivered on Spiritualism.

" S ATUBDA.T Night." —To day's istae, ive see, oonU.ns another song "#aily Flowers" wici piunoiorte accompAuiment. This new i'oature in the publication in question, is adding much to its popularity. The erigwal talcs and seleotea matter ai'a, lou, we obscrv* of a better cla=s than 'o.'merly.

South Aotmalu* HA»MOOK.—We hare to aoknowlodg. the recipt of ft oopy of a work entitle " South Australia, it* hiitory, resources, and products," bj W flarcu., E.q, JP. Th, book contains u l«rg» Amount of useful inform.tion relative to the affairs of that Colony ard » at UieserTiceofanyof our lubsonberi or the publio who may d*i» to contult it. W« h*Te also to acknowledge the receipt of the Annual Bcportof the Dunedin BoneTolent Institwtion.

Pheasamt Shooting. —We need, wo scarcely suppoie, remind oportimen lh*t the shooting ••aeon commences on Monday, and the birdi will •oon findul out fortheraselvM. Nor, we »uppose, to far from the Cookney iportsmon of Auckland, cot up in correct co«tum«, and trtnting only in 'kill to make up a bag, need we caution poultry owneu to keep a blooming-eye oa their winderiag turk»ys and other domeitio fowh. 'Lhofß-ifho 1 hare any respect for their poultry don't ©are to hate dthor* make game of them.

'OrißCoM^o thb "Would — A "wretched hypooi itc named Otikley, the whilome manager of the "00-operatiTe Cwdit Uank/' Vitfcori*, has, we perceire by late Australasian exchange*, be»a «rreited>for <mbejalin^ deposit moniei. 'In hi§ pocket at the time of hia arrest were found two books, entitled " The Buffenngi of Jeiu»." Mi.l the 4l Treasury of Defotion." 'In tbe latter ■wm 1 written :— "-Pretented from R B Oakley, fiiq. 4 In the world ye shall hare great tribulation ; but be of flood cheer: I hare overcome the world.'" On the preient occwion Mr Oftkley u lappoied to hate ' OTeroom© the world" to the extent of about £40,000.

Hotisl Chakses.— lt will bo ieen from our Cambridge corre*pondent'« Utter that Mr Cumminrg bM become the proprietor of the Duke oi Ctaibrldge Hotel, at Cambridge. There would ««em to be a spirit of emulation 'between the Waikato brewers in pushing thetr 'trade to the utmost. Cambridge beer detenained >to make its waj into Hamilton giret u« * •eoond hotel, andaow Mr Gumming carries beer into the entmjr't carap.aud takes * hauie with theobjeot, of courie, of running his -own beer in Cambridge. Whuteyer effect thi* may hare on the ipablicani and brevreri' buunetn, it ii likelj to lead to smart competition which cannot but contribute to the gain of the general public.

Cbvxck Htuns. — " Anti-Hymnal," -writing l from To Awauiutu, nays, and th« writer 'Will find numerous sympathisers in erery choir *nd congregation m this dioct»e :: — u To the -Editor : air, — Porhapa tew books ore moro unpopular than the '2few Zsalund Hymnal.' Almost all -our olioirs, though professing to use it, moit of the tunes from other book*— generally from ' Hymni, Ancient aud Modern' — being thus compellad to read two books ak once, trusting to one for th« words, *nd tho other for thwrnuiio ; while the congregation and those of the choir who are uot fortunate enough to hiwreboth books, ha?e the mortification of hearing a tuno itruok upquite different from that «et to the vrorchrin tho>Trroi,ohovl bjmnal with which onr ohuroh tuppliet them. Iho clergy are often aokecl why they allow th» vie of two booki ; and all that they can reply i«, 1 That the tUuea in the fljmnil are to inutilstod, and so wretchedly arrangftd, that it is .quite unpoetibl* to kwp their •ougregationi together union they adopt better music.' Now, while other dcnommttioiM are fully awake to «rerytb mjj which may render their churches attractive can ! o»r't)lergy rest content with *uch «n absurd airangementP They toll mof * molt suitable boolr lately publiihed called ♦ Churcu Ilymns ;' but we hour ot no steps bsing taken to introduce it, although,! think, all eonfes* Uiat iti? high time thnt sonrething was done in the matter."

Me R F Sakdbs —W« olip the following from the Graharastown " Evening Star," of the ,22nd inst. .—". — " In yesterdaj's issue of the ' tiUr ' appeire 1 a paragraph notifying that Mr R F B»ndet had made a valuablo donation of mineral specimens to the Mechanics' 'Institute of tint Borough. Mr Sandes has laboly removed from the Thames te enter upon & bunuegj at Humiltou W*it, Waikato, and apart from thi" raluabla gift to the museum of the Mecttanios' 'Imtrtift^, hu departure from the district with which he has been to long iiUnuflod des«rret more than a passing mention, »s lio Ims in an unostentatious way been a Rood citiz«u and an enterpriiin;* pioneer. If had buen mwro gcnocully known that Mr Saiuies was about t > nuk« his exit from tlia place we have uo doubt that tome more public demons tratum than ttm brief notice would hara bteu arranged to m«rk the approval of hu nuiuerout friend* But he has gone to a now place, ami to a large and important district, aud we trust tliat tho obango will b» all that he could wuh. We can only hope that prosperity #ill attend him in hit new »puere, and that ho will never hnv« occasion to regret the obange. The m»ny trwuds that he hti left behind, aud the friendi of hit esteeme-l wifo aud fatndy. wiife him good luok oa h» departure troin the Thames.

Thi Qibbn'b Bihthdit.— We wondar whnt Her Majeitj will say of it, should it como to ■her rojal tain, that the people of the Waiknto settlements, and e*p»oi»lly those of Hamilton, are allowing the anniversary of her birthday to pass ovsr without providing suitable sparts fur keeping it as suoh a holiday should be kept in any part of her dominions. And this matter i« all the more important at the prossnt time, when the question of whether the royal titles and designation should include that, of " Quetn of the Australian and New Zoalaud Colonien " m well as that of Emj-rew of 'India it 'under disoumon. As a matter then of Stat» policy, at much as of local enjoyment, it bohores our settlers to let no further * tima elapse without their taking steps to organise tome buitable sport* for the 21ch of May, which' will *oon be here. In Huiiulton, at v« aaW on a recent occaiion, wo hare had no hone raomg whateter for a long time past, but there ii plenty of time, and, to judge from the alacrity with which all book debts are paid up at the first tiaie of aiking, any amount of money 'in th« iettlement to be collected, to •mure a good daj's sport. At any rate, the experiment is worth trying. It only'needs 'faifly sotting mbonfc and tho thinj; ' 8 done,— but the races won't get them selrGs up. There is no doubt about that, nad when we hear, as we have dono, so many laying — " what» pity it )■ we can'tget up some decent sports for the 21th," the Tery nataral reply we are inclined to give is wby don't you forcn a committee and cet so work, and initiate th« moTemei/t instead ctf being content to indulge in idle complainings.

Tub Rules or Footium — SVhil art they ? This is a question being seriously utked, not oaly at home, but, we aw glad toiee, by the Auckland papers ; and now that the -football sea«on i«jusl «orameneing, it is tiaa for serious consideration whether the rough play which too often accompanies Iho game should be allowed. A similarly anxious fooling was exhibited by parent* and others about this time last y>ar, when the intelligence was receiv/jd in the colony of the death of a promising young man, the son -of * clergyman at home) killed upon tho football field. At the E resent tame coinrt iritelligence of a second Victim aving beon sacrificed to the quite unnecessary roughness of the rules nuder wbioh the game is played. The " Pall Mall .Gazette" says :— " The death of another football -player will, it h to be hoped, at last lead to some modification of the deadly rul<?i under "which the game n occasionally carried on. The viotim was a young man namad Ison, who died last Sunday morning at Moss Bid 9, Lancashire, from the effect of injuries he received at a football match on the pretious day. From the eyidenee gircn at the inquest an Tuesday, it appears that in the conrss of the game, whi )h it was stated was played "in accordance witbi ' .Rugby rules,' h« was «charged' by another player. Tho deceased was itruok on tie righ aide of the chest, was lifted off his feet-, ami toll baokwatdi to the • gr6utid. Ho managed to regain his le<{s, but a few miwutus later was seized with a fit, -become insensible^ aad never rallied. His death, was the result of compWMiion of the brain, caused by tho sudden shock fiom the ' charga' and the fall. ' The charge,' said a medioal witness, ' would be more likely to produce mischief th-m the fall, and was in his opinion extremely dangerous.' The jury were of the same opinion, and in returning a verdict of ' accidental death* reoommendid that the pract on of 'ohnrgiog, buttioe, tripping, .aid scrimmaging 1 should be diseoutinued by football p'ayert." We aro of t»ne itme option aslUjurv.