The Waikato Times.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 654, 29 July 1876, Page 2

The Waikato Times.

Equal anil exact justice to all- men, \ji whatever icato orperiuaiion, rdigioutor political • * • # • Here ihall the Bresi the • Pbopms's right maintain. Una wed by mfluonco and unbribed by gaiD.

SATURDAY. JULY 29, 1876.

The Public Works Statement was delivered by the lion Mr .Kiohardson in the House on Tuesday evening, but beyond the reference to the Auckland and Puniu and to the liiverhea'l and Auckland extension lines, it does not contain much "of Special -interest to our reader*. Alluding to tho former work the "Statement says: — The exceptionally bad winter had delayed the Mercer to .Xewcasfclo line. . Tenders are now being- . called for the permar tnt way. It would be twelve months before the line could be opened. In the reference to the Kaipara and Auckland line, in which, as connecting Waikato with a timber proddcing portion of the country, the people of this district are largely interested, the Statement is equally unsatisfactory. " The proclamation for the Riverhpal and Auckland lino," says Mr RiulunKon, "was withheld, owing 1 to tho lie ivy claJ'ue fjrlaiHlujiiipcnsaUM. Mij;il«l

they be persevered with, it would be the duty of the Government to alter the route." Not one word is said as to when this excepdiue;ty to be desired work will be put in hand. Allowing- that exorbitant claims have been made, and this ia no news for it is the excuse for delay which has been pat forward by the government for Home months past, surely the government do not mean th.it this important work shall rest in abeyance until tho -heart of aome obdurate land owner relents. There has been time enough to bring any such an one to book, yes or.no, and for the government to adopt the alternative which the Minister for Public Works admits it will be their duty to take — namely to alter the route. Mere waiting; for terms, after so much delay already expeH - enced, will have but one interpretation put upon it by the people of this Province — that the (ioverumont wishes to shelve the undertaking, a com so which must not for a moment be put up with in silenc.) -by our representatives. We shall have more to say upon thisvsubject on a future occasion. Returning to "the Statement, *we find that of 'S9C miles of railway authorised for tho 'North ' island, 145 miles are open, for traffic, ,and 1 83 miles, nro in progress of formation ; while of 638 miles authorised lor 'the 'Middle Island,' 404 miles are open, • ?*nd ' 199 miles in progress. The total is 1,030 authorised and 349 in progress. Tho amount spent on railways during the past } r eay wad £1,639,014, making a total expenditure on railways of .£5,213,018, with liabilities, extending - into 1878, of £983,253. This includes all existing contracts and plants and mateviil ordered from home. The Statement cout.iin.s a table of receipts and esponditiue for the -past year on each of the linos opened, and nothing" could more conclusively bhow 'the mistake from a financial point of vii'w of leading the Auckland- lines incomplete and unconnected than this.ieturn. The Kaipara railway has been worked at a loss, and the Auckland and Mercer Hue at a- mere minimum of pro-fit, where, doubtless, had the latter been extended, as, by this time -it should have been, if not to Oimupo at least to Hamilton, and fc'je former had jnnefcioned with it at Newmarket, a very different result would have been obt 'lined. The cost of working the Kaipara line has been £2,688 16s 3d, and tho receipts-have amounted to £2,497 18s 9J. In the caeo .of the Auckland and Mercer" line, the expenditure for the past ye-ir has been £19,410 ISs Id - f the return, £22,487 16s lOd.

It would seera that tLo erection of bridges by Government, like kissing-, goes by favour. Again, and-aguin, the representations of the inhabitants, by meetings, by, deputations, aud through -the press, havo been made to the authorities of the njore than desiribility, fclio istual necessity of erecting :i bridge -across the Waikato, at Hamilton. And yet the only -answers received have beeu at .one time that there were no funds, and at another that under the -Local Government Act we should be in a position to tax ourselves and curry out the work without General Government ' interference of any kind. In the mean time -we see that a very different course h being pursued in other parts even of this Province. TiiQ " Poverty Bly Standard" says that the Government Ijavs intitn.ued their intention ot erecting the bridge over tlio Waiopao.i river, previous to the sata of the Patutahi block of confiscated land. "There, is no cry of lack 6f funds in this case. There is no shuffling off the responsibility .of the Government on to the shouldeas of the settlers and telling them that under the new Counties .Bill' they -will -be able to undertake the work themselves by means of logrl rates. iNo\v wo wish the settlers- of Waikato to thoroughly understand what this means in. the onse •ot the Waikato -bridge at Hamilton. Under the- new Act such a work will lie undertaken, not by the local Boards, but by the County — that in, the cost will fall not on a portion of. ibut on aH Waikato. The question -of the construction of the bridge at Hamilton, is not, therfore, a purely local question, but one which- will -affect the pocket of every rate payer from Waikato heads to" Ataxandra, from Raglan to the Thames. Perhaps had this been more widely known — had it been brought home to each settler, that he was thus individualy interested in the matter — we shouM have had a . 1-irger meeting at Hamilton East, a fortnight ago — pwhafps even now the knowledge of this may excita a little more active sympathy in the matter. Other districts are getting their large- public works — county works ' done before the time comes when they will be left to do them themselves, and why not Waikato? Why should this district enter under the new arrangement .more heavily handicapped than other -active and enerpetic and possibly more united districts, such, for instance, as that aluded to by the ' Standard ?' It is in our want iof unity, i indeed, wherein cur- weakness has too long lain. One -is of Hamilton, and another of Cambridge, and another of Alexandra, each forgetting that, we are all of -Waikato. The sooner this f doling 1 is dead — and we shall do our best to kill it — the better will it be for the district as a whole.

Grbowdkd out. — Our NgMiiawaha lrt'er that of Ratepayer, and several maters of local iaterest, are unavoid My crowded oat at the last moment.

Waikato Tbanspohi. — Tne <ime-tible of tho Allert running b«tweeu Jl<rcer and Cambridge, and exiling ot inierm«»liite statiODs, for good* tud p»a!enger«, will be found in our adrertijing cjlumu»*

Tnt iate Rkviejt.— We are obliipd to a volunteer correspondent To" hit letter from. Chimbs idge containing a short ace mat of £he ileeie*, but" he »ill hove leen that it wiu anticipated in our last. ,

Sonoot ajjd School TEAcnsni' Ex AMiSATioir.— Th» liJ^fcior of Schools, ft J O'!Sullir»n, ret -rned to ifsmißon, ye-tflrdmj, Tri'l examine 6h» children of Hamilton Weit School on Monday, and will on luetdfty, oommeaco the teuchers examination, which, it iiei(a -led, will be concluded bj the fallowing craning.

•"Tkk Bitiew PnßiiNrATioy at Cambbidos. — Mr how, our local photographer was on the ground nt Gum bridge on Tueidaj last, nnd mcceeded ia tdking s Tery excellent ■ketch of the cerem ny, jn;t at tlie mo'inent; *Len Mi* Ljon stepped back a(t«r> facteninfr the Crosi upon tbe .brewt of Mijjr Boberli. The Hkruesi of tbe Utter it an eKcelleat one : inrleed, tho principnl fi^urei of tlxo groiip »ro verj c!eur and disliuct.

As ommsiov ssoiiyiffD. — In our report of the presentation of the' New &-■&■ land Crow to Major Robert*, we omited to mention that' Captain 'Macplttrsufi at Haibiltoa actel ot Aide-de-camp to Col 1 Lynn. Tlw omit^ion u tlio more ifnpardonub'e at the wligl* of tho Wrings" monU and in»n»iivr«»'6f the truapt were dnde<* tlio' inirioilicta e.uper4iteudence of (japt Murpb.yr.au. Indead hu atti>tvtion and Ci»c co-iduced in do small lusaaam to the sums* of tlio daj ,

Taiiaiiekg ITiglbway' DiSTictor Avnitai, MBhTitfS — TJje anuual meeting ol ratupiyera of tho Tamahere Highway district waa held on TueSda.' the 21«t mat, Mr Seymour in the chwr. Iho chairman of the Into Boird, Mr Leslie, leid the report and submitted a bala ice 5 »co' sh- *iiu! L57->3i 0d to tho cred>t of the Board. The rate fixed wr.« Id 111 1 lh<i pjiiud on the Tiihit! to nell. 'Tue following wera eieated Truata '» : —Patrick Le^te, William dimming, Uob'rt KirLwoud, William R^cd, and tlakuriwln te Piircwa. Marti C 0 Wood, and S W Steelf wero eUcteJL AwUt r*. and M\»-iirt J Douglua, and sSjymour, Fencj. Viewer*. At a meeting of tho newly elected l'ruito»d ilr Kttrirk I.esiio \riis appointed Chairman. Tins is tha ticst uistano we art) a»nre of ia whicli « ftl.iml- hue been appointed member of a Higlnvay lioit^ iv cjnjunctio!: with Kuropuns, and we nre glud to B(>e it and to Je.trn that tin Tttuiahere L'uard within whoso <Uuiiut are many nitive landowners, h.ire ti>utid the la.ter su prompt und pu-ictuil iv the payment of their rat.s ah the Eiirop-dii i<tileri thorn.selves. Perlups wuru tin* the caie in olhrr districts, lie i ot that Maoris are not invited to tak« .t direct pa t in Ihs atfjuri* of tlioio tliitnctj b>; b.ing elcced ai trusts-*) would i.ii be ao geuer.il ai it i.

Pbnamy foii Kr srso Tvro'JfcmrßTr.s Ago — It would seem tint atnon?at thi Pu-itan settlers of the American 00l )t*i"*, five trade in kisses was m>t permitted, fur an ancient >Beec!ier tiial m?y »be 'found among* tho profec'in^s of a Connecticut court held at New Haven, May. 1. -tC'JO, jnsttwo hundred and flf-.eon years ago. In this cu-e, the-ku-wr was J.ico') M Murnui, t>nd tho kissee was Miss ijiiraii Tuttlc. ic is demuu^trntod that Jacob ' tooke. up or tookc away lior g\'6<tet. Sirali desired him to gfve tier tlio^gldvcsjto which lie answored he would do no if sho would q re luui a kysse, upon which t\iej ant tKivn together, his anne bumg about lietv«r.it)tp, and her aime upon' bis *houl<lcr or 'about, his neck, and he kjs»<rd Lor and siic k\ wed him, or th«y ky6«cd one another, coi/:mui:i^ in this posltuo about Jt«l.*-un-hour.' Ou exauiinuti >n, the amatory Jteo 9 coufuserily admitted that ' hetf laokis her t>y the hand, and .they both tat down upon » chest, but whether his avme weru^abuut her «a»te,.uud her anne upon hit shoulder or about b:a ue -k, he knows not, for lio ne»or thought of it iinCe, till Mr Raymond told tuui of it at Mannatof, for which ho waa blamed, ana told him he bad not layed it to heart a? hs ought.' < Ami after contfhmve CTidence of t<ho~ 'waot)n r unfivil, immodest, aud la^eiviouii' osculation Aforesa.d Jacob and Sarah wore •noUiilued twenty ihilliugs.

The CoiiOMAb'DiTj Mail.— *\Ve eanuot ray that we regret to ire in -oar telegraphic column* tltu announcement of *tha death of thw jjunul, /or, during <tke pa«t tyro year*, it h-as done l>u:cli (a dottroy the prosperity of »ho district, botli from a fjrulduiinmtr and bmines* point ot view. 3 il nisi bonum fie. morlu''* miy brf a very good maxim in dealing with the memories ■at dopirkcd •individuals, but not in thd onse-of a suspended journiil. The 'Coromundi'l Slut' wag purclia ci by n, Jocil propr t % t rj, «oniß two anil n linlf years ago, and has been uica in ih.* interest of a "»crip- ring," "till speeuJaUm in <J»roinandel mine* c.i i c to bo looked - upon hj all outside iho 3tvim us hazirdous in tlio .extreme. And-thn pownr «a« nsed :uimioa'lj to^he yeneriil interest of the distri -b, till it became nppnren^ kemie mx or eight months sgo, that a change muofc bo made. The x> a P er w os placflf* in tlie hand« of Mr Jaine» .Brown (Snydfci ),- but, even in hie hands, cierer and rtrs-aiilo a* bis tiritin^s are, llie iaiut of au-pio on th*t the clique who still retlly^wueil it had power over tha direction of it* jxjltry, was tc-o tnu<-h for it to stand ng iimt, and it, his finally Huocunibed. t -Thore iproom inCoroiniuidi'l for *, public journal, but i imiKt atnvk- vith n> such ont*:edentsMtho«cof the ' Mail,' and be free from alt taint of suspicion, tb it it is publ shad to aff ct tLo mxrkor thU way or- th* otfcccj in-the inttr-itf. of a clique, whoso preponderating inn sunuo in any Coromandel mine lueaus d«iath to tho interest* of outside shar^ho'derj.

CttIMWAL ASSAULTSSTPOX CUJlirfttKN — The parly fighting, the annuul struggle for the Treasury Bunches, whioh trouM eaem to be tiie ulphu and omeg* of legulatiou in the NewSanlaad Aujrably, and which occupies two-thirds of the tuna of eveiy •es<ion, )g not only to bo regretted for u self, but alto 4.hat it it ft bar to uny but huriied legislation on social and other matters of the very hit importance to the community. Such seems to bo the case with respect to a mat er- mentioned in our Houae report to.day as having cropped up in the Legislative Oounci), iho uec-ej.-i'y for apcjial lo^itlation for the prevoutioti of criminal .amulta upon children and nomon. In all purts of the Cnlooy during tha past, fcwclre mouths there hti b«en a largo increase in these crimoi— crimo* whicu in tbo eaitor colonies of "Australia are punished with death, but hero in Nor/ Z 'uland too oflo 1 but lightly punished. We are quitu aware that cozen of this kind aro very difficult to deil with — that experience hm thown that .many of them »re t umped up, and that such charges are, a$ a rule, far more easily made thau disproved, but there ure oceasiont wliere the question of. guilt is brought home ■without a doubt, and where the circuiuttancet in connfction with tio crime are more than usually aggravated, ani it is therefore witli iv^ret ihat the public wdl lourn that t'w Government are nob ■ prepared during the present sesn on to legislate in order to meet such cases.

House Colulbs, sijs the Sydney 'Town and Country Journal, are rarely made to fit t!ie ueck and ehouldere of the weather. It istix>ofi« i tlio caw thtt any collar that ca-i be readily p-oci:r«d it made to terra the purpoio after a fashion, bik! palled necks or shoulders xvc the usual inevituble consequences. Few farm 1 horses are free fro a ga'U upon tlu ehoulders aad the top of tho neck, and thus* troubles all result froni b»dlj-ft tint; ollari. When a new collsr is needcl it •houid be made to order, if possib'e, and the IiOTBi meaiured lor it. Every fuiinor •hould insist upon this, and every harness-maker should admt it. For accurate measuriuj of fahoulden aud neck a fr>mo coiisisiatinj of asjuare, akipel like an ordinarj cjrucntei's square, made of wood, with a sliding lrms at tko top and sereral o(Ji>r eliding arms, fitting in the post of the square, -trmch arm may be -faitensd in tlisir places bj set screws, shonld. be^uifti. In mnasuring the horsa the frame is placed on the ueck wii»re the collar should reifc, sud the upj>!>r sliding arji is made to touch the top oi'Uio next, the arm at the bott >m rtiitiug in its proper posit on under the throat, l'ho otlirr sliding armi are then pushed forward u.itil thrj touch the ueck, and *<c then held in place by tightenuni tho letlorews- The 'fruao may he lail upon a piece of p/aptr, und the formief the inside of t!i« collar murked out, giving <m eiiet mould of what' ilia oollur ou?lit to -be. ( Ihi« -eaGily-censtructed appiratun will enable the maker to fit the collar rxictly to the size of the neck, aad to allot*" for eTery irregularity of shape.

. Bmlow's Ci»^»3. — Ye9 ( «idty morning the appearance of 'he pop'o'ininsj pofiieg ia the j;inl of the Hamilton llot)l, three very psetty .little fellows, and llu erecfeicji of tlie Urge p'rfortinng tent oa » v«,eant space in Victoiii Stre t, alongn\e the bank of Jfew Zeahuil, caused a c>n»i(Jerftre furorn nmougit tin Htuall fry of Hamilton. ' Lut night fchera wr« * crowded l;ou«c, mine 4&0 parsons being prpsent, aa'l the rnully first clas« pcrf jrrnaneo with which the- public were e^i'ertainod wao <de>ecving of the support accorded, flic riding of <h« boy Koma, wa§ pArticulikrlj gooi, and his performance wHI: tke 'f.irv pomes' wui very loudly applauded What, liowerer, appeitiel' to inlch' the 111010 jurcnUo portion of the audiuuca, and 1 indeed, to ■euously i 4crcit children of an older growth, '\naa the extreme tigacityof the pcrft>rinini» do^a s Prince' and • L j o' Apart from this, bowerer, the eutertaiume it -whila strictly correct m • every particular, \rn • ip*rkling with fu i t'irouglioiit, whot'ior witli llio j )kcj of tliu tiuiambuli", Mr Beruacd, the tigh*rcp 1 d:vncm» of thennouknv or fie Inck* of the poi.K'9 and doj»a. His ponica «f eiursa v/sru general fHVOnitte«^but the d<»^s and monkey:, we ik'iilt, uttjr till wtrothe morij pipuUr v'th tlto youn^ folk. ' The porfo 'm.kiice wis br >'it»ht to a clone willi n buuio-ioii edition of u n Itv-tt/ Dimny^rook F.ilr, and ih.-) 'large audience dispersed well ple.nod with th • most «>x iting e*«ninj'« nuiiiae neat witnessed in Hum lon lor many a iwj day. This a'tv-noon there u ill be a special inilday pprfunnanca for the conveniei cj of »-i}ioolii and fr.inihea, 111 tlii* ereniiip a complete rchan^c of perform<iiice twLtikc puice a'. 'B o'olo-lc, TLe Company proceeds feu Oambridsi* on Mond ly, wlhtc, h8 will bo been by udwrlijeoient th«y perf jren on Tuegilay evening.