The Waikato Times.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 619, 9 May 1876, Page 2

The Waikato Times.

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TUISDA) MAT 9 lh7G

If the iieu pie of the oolony were not .obbed by unholy compacts but little taxiition would need to be raised by the Colonial Government, large as is the Colonial debt incurred tor interest and sinking fund on ■borrowed millions. In the province of Otago 7,215,000 acres of land are held by squutters under pastoral leases, whioh yield an income of L 75,516 sterling. It is said that when these leases fall in in 1880, an average of one shilling and sixpence would be gladly paid for this land. If this were done the income would amount to no less a sum than L 502,959. If this immense landed estate were properly managed, not merely the whole of the duties on tea, sugar and flour might be removed, but tln.se on very 'many other of the necessaries of life. Make as good use of the lands of Xhe^colonists in Canterbury, and the colony might do without taxtion at till. 'Otago and Canterbury, of course, protes tagainst any such misappropriation, as they would call it, of their local land fund, and, might beinsj right in this mutter, are successful in their protest. The iniquity however, is none the less enormous. In a moment of weakness, the Noith Island being then the stronger party in the Assembly, gave to the Middle Island the enjoyment of irs vast and unhampered waste lauds ou condition that the colony as a whole should vote a sum to pay off theNew Zealand Company's debt and leave some surall balance for expendit re in the Kortli. This has been called a compact, though it was nothing ol the kind; and the pleu that a Lrgain, must be secredly adhered to, whatever after circumstances may turn up to render it an unequal one, has been re peatedly urged by the middle island, as a reason why that which is improperly called the •'' compact" Ol 1856 should not be interfered with, it is nocumpact however and the woid sacieu oauuot be applied to it except in the obsolete taeanmg of the word. It was not a compact between two parties, one giving that which belonged to himselt in leturn for thnt which toother i>..ned, t'ov the laud w»,s the l,,nd of the wlony ..ua the N, .v Zealand Company's <leut, was p.a j, nofc fruiu middle island pbi4uj a mouB, but from the gener.il revenn» of bothfcisJundi. It was simply

hi not of th- K'l-.1.u.n-e intend <| f,,i .li J better administration of C .loiral fiivnce, am] when it cp»Bed lo net fairly an 1 .^mt"hlx '** the general good of thr Cdoin ihould liiive brv-n repealed, us it l«,->il v could ha^e been at nny timo, by ti^ i.uin legislative ower which enacted it. lr, was a question just as mnch open to revision us any other question of fin.mcia administration, and the-^e, as every onr knows, have faken, in the hmds of successive miniateries as many different forms as there have been cabinets, we rnijfht almost have said as there have been members in each cabinet. The South however has g ot the voting power, and uses it, to enable it to hold on to this great j)abli(^ 'estate. The wrong is however none the le^s glarmor, and snch fiorm-ps a<? those we have quoted above bring its enormity vividly before us.

In a hte is*u» wo expressed satisfaction of the •tat'rnent made by the London correspondent of the Auckland *• Btar," that free emigration from home had ceased for the net' tew months. The "Cross," how.rer, in iti ismo of Saturday hastens to check the spread of any such impression, and says " The only emigration whioh hat been stopped is that of foreigueri for whom there hai always been oonsider.ble difficulty in find ng suitable employment. The demand for labour in the country district!, though of coumc somewhat slackened during the winter months ii far from fully suoplied. Th« reclamation of swamp land in the Waikato cannot of coura. be carried on with »nch advantage daring the wet season ai at other time*, but it is confidently •.uted that this particular industry will continue to employ labour for at least the next three years." We can t>nly lay if the "Star" is wrong and the " Crosa " correct, which is likely enough to be the caee, that there is much room for regrot. It is qnite true that Waikato swamps will afford employment in their reclamation, not for the next three but the next ten jeais, brt nor m the winter. As far as this district is concerned, and it is for newly-»rrJTed immigrant* the chief field for employment in the province, it would be exceedingly unwise to continue through the winter months the same supply of labour that has been readily abiorbed from time to time during the fine weather. Room oould b. easily found for many more men at the present moment than contractors can lay their hands on. An advertisement appears in another part of today's issue calling for the services of 20 men »t nine shillings a day wages, and probably the adver'iaer could find room for twice twenty if h« couli get them ; bui this state of things wil* cmib« with the fine weather Tlie spemly completion of contracts on the railwuy % works, the cessation of activo roadm iking by District Boards, nnd the impossiaihtj of continuing swamp recl.»m»tioa coutracts at a profit during the winter months, will throw a considerable ! amount of labour on the murket. That the other great work-giving portion of the province, the Thames Goldfield, is not in a condition to come totherescueof ihe unemployed does not surprise us after the Utn proposed deportation of men. but we were scare ly prepare J to hear the following from the "Thames Advertiser." That journal urges that, in the present position of the country, the Government should communicate with the Agent-General and prohibit the ehipmant of any free immigrants. It says *-" We are assured that on the Thames many families would have been actually in a starring condition but for the vegetables grown in their gardens, and the few head of poultry they are able to keep. This statement is a painful one to write, but their state would be even • orse, if nUmb-rs of immigrant labourers wers iinportod, who oould only share their misery And want." We trust that a few months hence we may have no occasion to revert to oar present remark* and point oat that it was not without warning of possible evil that the drag was not put on in time. Immigration should be so timed that there should be as few arrivals as possible of labourors in the winter months.

Cahbbidg* 3ai* Yabds.— The chairman of the Cumbndge Town Board it calling for tender*, which wiilberflceired until 2 p.m. of Mondn/ tlie 22nd instant, for the material necessary for the construction of the proposed sale yard* for •tock about to be erected at Cambridge.

Church MattbbB.— A meeting of the vestrymen of St Peter'a Churoh, Hamilton, will be held tlm erening at the Church to ■conaidtr •everal nutters ot businesi ; tho boundaries of Ng»rua*ahi», Cambridge, and Hamilton panshoi, the hanging of tho Church bell, and tho necesnty for repniriug tho feuce to the pursonaeo grounds.

The Masoni-c Bubut, SHRnoi.--HaTing been requested bj icveral to publish the Masonic burial servic?, we had fully intended to do so in its proper place in the report of the proceeding! »t the funeral of the late- Mr Leilio, but, owing toiti length, hare boen compelled to hold it orer until our next; issue.

276 Miles in 75Houm.~ Another pedestrian it homo has been whipped bj the American champion We«ton. The latter hat successfully achieved the fent of walking 276 miles in 75 hours, against Crowel], who was allowed to rim or walk, and had 50 miles of a start. Weston finished within four minutes of the stipulated time, while his opponent|covered only 175 inilei. About 6.000 people were present.

1.0. G.T., ALBiiNDRi..— At the nival q ua r. terly meeting of the Alexandra Lodge, the following officer! were installed br Bro Jamei Salmon, D G W C T :-W OT, Bro E L Horn WV T, Bro T Wilson » WC, Bro J S«ge • W T, Bro Brabant ; WF S, Bro MoGrnjther • W S, Bro Qualtrougu ; WAS, Bro Lenange • W M, Bro T Prince^ WDM, Bro Moore • W I *i, Bro McFarlano j V 0 Gr, Bro Monro- R HB, Bro I D Hill ; RL 8, Bfo RD L Duffus PWC T, Bro J Salmon. The lodge numberi 34 brothers and 2 listers, and it in a very satisfactory position as regard* finance. <tc.

Lost and Pound,— A notice appeared out sub the office of the Waikato Tikes oo Saturday ana which attracted considerable attention, announcing the lo^s in Hamilton ol four L 5 notes and a reward of L 5 for the fortunate finder, 'ihe loner was Mr Johnson, of Ngaruawahis, who had received five L 5 notes, new and orup ones, din-ct from the bank counter, and had taken the precaution to make a memorandum of the numbers. One of theia he changed, and lost the other four in a blauk eurelope. The money wus found by a .person named Hi*cox who returned three of the note» to this offioe! retaining the fourth according to the Urnw of the reward offdrett.

;;A Whopper— Talk 'about our Waikato pumpkin growers I -they may reckon thenitelvon »mall potatoes, acd very few m a (heap after which we leurn from a Tamnuki contemporary (the " Budget;") "As to the champion pie melon grower of Hamilton, whose -prortucfciouß were erstwhile chronicled in theie columns i mclon-choly imile of despair will fiipple orer hit (ace whet, lie read B of pumpkins, fire of which formed a good dray load for four bullocks. The»e were grown by a Mr Wells, of Mon B iwi, Taranakl s.nd tht 'bigceat of the five weighed just 213!ba to iti own cheek. It took two men to " »i»6i»t ' it out of the dray into tho CourteDav'o auction room (says our cootomporarv) llio girth tirtrcof was 7ft. «a.

'OmuFo Cactlb Sair. - The regular monthly "ale of «tock will bake place to-day »t the Ohtupo

ITappt Cahtkrbury.— The ctatement of the receipts and expenditure of the Province of Canterbury for bhe year ended the 3 1st Maroh. •how* tlint the eoverument of thnt provinoe if absolutely unablo to spend the inoomo, of which through the aid of the s>o.o*lled compact of 185G it h«8 rohbed tho colony. The exeoutiro had L 8 21,924 revenue at its diiposal for the Tear, of which it managed to sppnd L 769.861. IM-ring a balsnoe to o-edit of L 131.062, «onsid»r« ably more than the whole provincial revenue of Auckland. ReoeipU from the railway* for the yenr *er« L 178.940, and the -expeaditure LI 22 080

On Saturday apun a large drore of fat cattle paseed through Hamilton oh their tray to the Auckland mnrkei from one of the tip-cotintry farms, A third drore, consisting of more thaa 100 head, passed through yeiterdaj afternoon, making the third mob from Waikato ip three dajv so that beef is likely to be rathef more plentiful in the Auckland market than will <be good for the teller. Thii might be aroided if, as we haw> pointed ont, notice »( intention to i^nd fat cattle t* market were forwarded to the Waikato Tinas for publication in its news columns, a w#ek beiore the caftle started Thi* lait mob of cattle belong to M«ir§ Fisher nnd Scott, of Pukerimu, who nre drinng them down by e.-ny stigei, and intend to roach Auckland en the 18ih mit,

Monstcb LoeriitT.— We learn from the " Cro?a" that His Honor the Supermtenkent and the Inspector of Polioe We giren their consent to what is called an art union, but it neither more nor less than a lottery-, agents and «ub agents for carrying out which ka»e beea »lre»dv appointed. By this ichama it it proposed to raise £10,500 by 10,0 TO member* at £1 Is eioh. The money so raised is to be thus dispoied of :— £5 000 in purehwinfj and -making the raoo-course at Ellerslie a beautiful recreation ground ; £1,60] to be deToterl to agriculture and local mdustn. I in the province ; £600 to be paid to the iUokland charitable institution! ; £3,000 to b» paid for the 900 prizos to be distributed amongst the ticket holders. The first prue is to bo worth £1,000, and to ootmst of a mrgniflcent dinnei service in gold. The other prifce* range from the value of £150 to £1 each. The ba'ance of the monny, £600, will be required for Tarioui expenses which may be incurred.

tfOOD Tkmplart — On Saturday, in Ancle land, a new candidate has made its appearance in the sbapu of a Good Templar c-gan for th< North Island of Now Zealand, entitled " Th< Good Templar Columni." It, is ismed at lh< price of one penny, and i« intended to be tin official organ of the Order of Good Templar* The editor ptomuet a rigorous war against th drinking hab.ts of Society. Within the last fei months two " Licensed Victuallers' Gazettes"one in Cbristchureb and one m Dunedin— have made their appetrance, and the publication andei notice, t jgethi>r with tho Dunudm "Liberator," roa 7 be reckoned m tho counterblasts to th( TictuftUer. guiettci. Amongit other items which telli of the advance made at, horn« by the Order, we read that the Marquii and MHrcln.meisofTownßhend haf« joined thi Good Tempkr* m England. The Ifarquia ha j c osed all the publie-houiei on his estate, anr o ened a Good Tempi »r Lodge, in which he anc tho Marchionow are office-bearert Their *on Viscount Rayuham, bu alio become a Gooc lemplar.

1.0.0-. T. LXTERTAiNMBirr.— The entertain mem in aid of the Jnrenile Lodge of Goor ieuipWb.u Ha-nilton, wbich was to hare beer held in the Wosleyan Chur. h, will f.k* place ir the large room of the A 0 Barrack*, Colon* Ljon having kindly girun hit permission for the u<i of the room for tuo purpose. Our Good Templai riende, and indeed the public generally, will hove a more than usually interesting treat pre pired lor th-in on Friday evening. The pano. rmna, wo are toid, u a rery excellent one, ali uvleed lh.it is wanted being some one who hu dono Mount Blanc to describe and discourse or the v*uou» aoenea as they pais before the eye oi the au-jence. and cren rhis may perh.ips be col over Ihe di^olTing T ie ws will form a newana 1 to the children osptemllj— . pleasing feature in the entertainment These we hare fleen, and th.'y are excellent, and their performance will be enlivened by the ungiug of appropriate song* of the sea, d.vcnptire of tho Tarjing positions at the ship, the gtorm, the fire, the wreck and the raft, ihe immcal portion of the entertainment has been well proved for, the E-wt Hamilton ionic Sol-Fa Ulan and Mr and Mri Oulpan taking part in t he variotu glees, See.

rPKBRIjniMDTaALIMPHOTKMIIKT SOCIBTT. ■ The mcnbers of the abore association met at the School house on Friday evening lost to opon their •eoond seasion. There wer. ten gentleman present. Mr P Cooper was roted to the ohair, and in a few remarki roviewod the p»st history of th* society, congratulating it on its put success, and wulung it much prosperity. Messrs Gome »«d H Turner were re-elected 34 committee-men, and Air H Buttle as secretary. The Rev Mr Smith, who was preient, farored the meeting with a few telling and appropriate 'remarki, urging upon the young men oip«cit»lly the importance of improving their minds and the taking adrantige of improremrnt classes as a means for utudying tho »rt of public speaking. Sppechei were mado by other membon, who •xpreued x determination to make the seision more successful eyen than the last one. A programme was arranged for the next meeting, and the me«ting, and the business concluded. The Pukertmu Society hope to tee and hoar of other and kindred a-.»ooiations bomg commenced in other parts of the Waikato as a meant of bringing out and i stimulating ihe youn« men in the art of public speaking, id which they are with few exoeplions •o very deficient.— Communicatkd.

A good bag— Two leading meabers of the Opposition hare been disposed of. Mr Fitxherbert will bo nominated fop the offloe of Speaker of the Homo of Representatives, and Mr O'Rorke for re-election as chairman of cominitteei. WhaS erer may bo the qualifications of the first named gentleman for the office of speaker, ther* can be no doubt whaterer as to the great capabilities and ntnejt of the last mentioned, for th» position of Chairman of Comimtteei. A Southern contemporary when alluding to the late rumours ooncermng the ipeakership paid him but a justly merited corapKtnent when it laid .—" There wer« •everal candidates whom speculation and rumour had fastened upon for the speakerihip. The Chairman of Committees, Mr O'Rorke, had claims which would hare been freely aoknowlodged bj a large party. I horoughly ind.pendenl, poaseu.ni a liberal knowledge of parliaments ru!o«, and endowed with conspicuous firmness of characUr, he would have made no commonplac« Speaker. But it is known that ha does not teek the position, and would probably decline it wero it offered him."

Flexure Bacon.— A eorreipondenli writei »kii.g u» respecting the best mode of psckiue baom for the luiumor, and we have referred the mabtc-r to one or two experienced iettlers, one of whom s.i 3 s :—»The best plan lever adapted, after 35 jean experience, is to paok bacon and i hams in fieah dry wood ash^s, the charcoal to hemftpd out, the meat to be packed in layers ! alternately with the ashes. Hams I put m oaJioo ban as ioon as the pickle hat drained off, I and tUia dried in the bags ; this prawns hop- > pen or the hopper fly getting to tuem. iWe ! kept haras 12 months, and bacon nearly at long as that, perfectly free (from ruit." Another •ay» i- I have been constantly curing baoon in the Colo iet for *ne last 27 years, and hare | aUajs uni time to pack it in. I ftm « u ite t»t.,fiod th«t there is nothing to equal hme if proper ' owe be taken. It must be thoroughlj ilaoked »nd sifted ; if kept dry a n 1 clean it w i be used for seroral y^ Ti , I have mod the aame lime for five or „x years ;it .hould be what a plaiterar would call 'demi lime.' If freih hino w nsod thr) bacon would blister on the rind, and came af.oth in the pan when frying €are ihould be taken toLl^u the baoon quiledry before packing, for if damp the lime would adhere to it and be difficult to remore, but if dry it can be brnihed off as caiily as flour. Baoon, jf carefully packed when d o , will not rutt but retain moisture «o that it can bo cut the aatne ex when fre»h. '»nfl I believe could bo exported io ai to keep *ood for along Hme in an j kot climate, free from infect* oi anj kiad,"

Tm lam Lt -Col. St. John.— A wrtl-timed tribute to the mem >ry of this gallant flfficer is paid by a writer in the " Tunaru Herald," who »«eaii to have been well acquainted with the subject of his brief biographical sketch. He says :— " In the old lighting days in the If orth Island ten or ■eleven years a-ro, St John performed a aeries of exploits against the natives such as would do no discredit to the heroes of romance, and earnsd the reputation of being— without one exception— the bravest man in the colonial forces. His otter disregard of dmger, or rather hi* absolute lore of it, led to his being constantly chusea whenever any particular desptrate work had to be done 5 and lie never on a single occasion showed in aay way that he knew what fear was. Ah officer under whose command he wji, and who for certain reasons had a strong personal antipathy towards him wai oaco tpoaking against him in un neanaif od terms M But yon surely admit l.is ©outage," said one of his W.t#. '" Courage 1" exclaimed the officer, *' If I were to tell him to climb up that wall singlehanded, and meet oertaiu death at the top, he would go without a question, and really enjoy it." This inordinate passion for military adventure, indeed, sometimes rendered St John rather an embarrassini-nt to his superiors or to the G-o Y«rnment, for there wm no knowing what com plication* hit dare-deril dash might give rise to, Oo'.o iel 8t John was formerly ia the 2t)' h Regi« maot of feot, and set-red throughout the Crimean war. He was the ton of the Hon Captain St John of the 12th Lancers, and was great-great-grandson of the fl^tt Viscount Bolmabroko, Queen Anne's illustrious, but eccentric Minister. In many resptcts the character of the late Colonel &t John closely resembled that of his eeUbrated ancestor. H« had the same brilliant parts, the same unsteadiness of purpose, the same buoyancy of disposition } nor wouli tho history of his lift much spoil th» companion. His viuiisitudes were not less marked than those of the authoi of the peace of Utrecht ; and those who know -what he was roally capable of, do tot doabt that on a larger ttage, he might hare aoled as prominent a p»rt. Phbasants after all must, it would ieein, be scarce, even in Waikato, this year. Few large bags are now being made, and us yet only 7i brace of birds, and a rumpjr containing two dead cats, faavs beea sent in to compete for the Times prize offered in the issUß of this journal of the 29th ult. Of these 7* brace of birds, two were too high for the proprietors' taste, and one, was «o shattered with shot that X had much to do to keep itself together. These therefore, coming from the lame psrty, R ol Alexandra, were excluded from competition, but were not wasted as they Were sent into the editor's room and duly disappeared, though thej do not seem to hire been d«ein«d worthy au editorial paragraph. The remaining sii brace were tine birds, of excellent flavour, the remembrance of whioh still hangs about the palate like the scent of the roses round the broken Tase, (tihakespere) but the flavour ol none of them came up to the beau ideal of what the taste of a pheasant should be, neither were any of them as heavy by several ounces as tut WBi^lit plieasants often reach in this part of the country, s> that Waikato sportsmen need not f«;«r but that they havo etill a chance, m future entries, of winning thu Inndiome prize of a y-ar's volume of the Waikato Timks, without which, no library is pmf ot. The propriety of the WAijCAioTiicm, it will be seen, hire again bfl'-n nude the victims of a cruel atticn, not ilus time bj a looal would- be- wit, but by Caxco of the "Cross" Tnat wortny after quoting thu notice in this journal of the 29th ult 0,1 :— •• ' May good digosiion wait on appetite ! say I to the Messrs of the Timbs office. Since I rea 1 the notice I have been watching thd adrertisements in the dailies to^ee how many extr* couches are to be put on to carry the enonuous nuiuoer of birds that, must certuialy be fomvaried in response. What will the Hamil-on baker* do wnen they are cal'ed upon to provide breau f jr all the sauce to be c kton with the said birds ? I don t indulge in such luxuries myself, being obliged to content myself with a wuuplo chop, but I am told the price of a brace ol birds will probably average 3s 6d during the ensuing three months. Supposing that many are allured by the te npting btit of the ' haudsomely bound 1 Waikato £mm, it will not be an exmuagant estimate topufcdowu the number of bird* from which selection will have to be u ade at three braco a day. Ninety-iwo days would give two hundred and seveuty-iix brace, which at the pnoa named would give the neai, little amount of £48 odd." Her* is the base insinuation tought to be conveyed that the phe.sants received have a money value. .What money value indeed oould repay the unpaired digestion which a three months devotion to the task of eating three brace of pheasant* a day would entail, were Cairo's •stiinuto a correct one ? or wtiat monty payment would repay the responsibility of usm* so nice a discrimination m tue exoellenoe of 552 birds as to select, the best flavoured brace out of so v.any P For shame Cameo. Stick to your modest ihop and be thankful that no ouch responsibility rests upon \oue — stomach.