The Waikato Times.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 673, 5 October 1876, Page 2

The Waikato Times.

Equal and exact justice to all men. Of uhatcter sure or persuasion, religioui or iK>lltl(.<ll 2 # # • • * Here sliall the Prcsi the People's right maintain, Unawert by influence and unbribed by gain.

[THURSDAY OCTOBER 6, 187G

That the Dunedin Provincial executive ha-ve dove wisely in refraining from rashly acting on the adv.ce ol those present At the late political meetings held in Djwiedin and Balc!utha, even the most ardent friends of Provincialism must admit, and that they do not intend to set the law at defiance and call the Otago Provincial* Council together may, we think, be taken 'for granted, sine** the request that they should do so was forwarded to them so Tafe'baok a 9 Friday last, and as yet they have made no sign. And really what authority — allowing the will of the people for the moment to be above the law and above the parliament — would they have had for taking so q aye and seiious a stej 1 At most the Dunedin meeting numbered two thousand persons and that of Balclutha one hundred and eighty, and might it not as reasonably be aslced that a plebiscitum should be first taken as to whether the Couscil should be again summoned together as that a plebiscitum should be taken to consider whether Abolition .should become law or not. If a plebiscitum is needed in the one case it is equally so in the other, for disguise the fact w» cannot, nor do even the friends of the movement appear to do so, the contemplated illegal act of the Dunedin and Balclutha meetings meant neither more nor less than revolution, which if resisted by the Government must have ended in civil war itself, or at the least in riot and bloodshed. To seize the customs, to wrest the administrative control of the departments from the hands of the constitutional authorities and vest them in illegally appointed hands is simply rebellion; and not as some portion of the press in this province who would fain see Otago act the part of Douglai Bell the Cat, and who are ready to shed the last drop of .their Otagan fellow colonist's blood in the cause of Provincialism, call it, resistance to a mere political party in Wellington. It is neither more nor less th«n rebellion against the Queen. The Ministers of the Colony are the Ministers of the Crown in New Zealand andtherepresentativeofHerMajesty, the Governor of a Colony however willing he might be, however much it might be his duty, to bear patiently with the public expression of opinion amongst the colonists would be bound to remember afc the same time that he has duties towards the authority be represents, which to stretch the point of patience to such a limit would be to ignore. Law and Government whether equal or not must be upheld, and the opportunity afterwards be afforded of righting the wrong, but it is contrary to all our English experiences and political associations to initiate measures of reform by violence. Nor can those who would so madly have urged on Mr Macandrew to such a course have counted the cost even of success. Granted th non-interference of the Crown — granted that the government at Wellington was powerless to have met force with foree — and granttd the advocates of Abolition consented tamely tositdownnnder the tyrannicaldictationof mob rule — what a precedent would they not have established p To what depth of dpgradation would they not have dragged down the chief Legislature of the Colony — a parliament expressly returned to legislate on th» very question — if, when it was decided against them, they refused to accept its decision. Abolition and Provincialism were the questions on which the members ot the present Housh of representatives mot their opponents at the h stings

at the commencement of the proe it ;imi*— t!i« (j-'cs'i.) \h o;i winch they wle returned. Wluf-, the.i, th • u-,e of rejuesenlative institurions it at\ ii]>j)Oil h> the country is to be set iiMile by any section of the Colony which moy find itself amongst the minority on 11 question, the settlement of which rpsta, not with the several localities, section by speiion, hutwiththeColo'iyasa whole. Where s such u com se to st >p, win ro should we draw the lino, if B'ich a precedent were onco set up 1 Where would be tho security of the public creditor, where the confidence in New Zealand of the British capitalist if the law of the Colony — if the authority of the Crown in .New Zealand were to be with impunity set at nought by any portion of the colonists whose interests or whose feeling might lead them to think themselves aggrieved by an act of the legislature, and that too on a question in which even the whole population of that particular portion were at variance, as the memorials from Dunedin and luvercargill, and the late anti-provin-cialist meeting at Eiverton, where 800 persona were present, clearly show to be the case. The Provincialists of Dunedin say that in their belief the Assembly has acted " ultra vires" in abolishing Provincial institutions, but they seem to forget that the British Government itself, as Earl Carnarvon has done in a state paper, endorsed the legality of the measure when he approved the plan which had been actually adopted of remitting the question to the eleotora at the late general elections, allowing the operation of the act to stand over till ratified by the new Parliament elected for that specially among other purposes. There has not 100, &ince the passing of the net in 1875, been such lack of time and opportunity to have legitimately tried the question, that any party in the Colony, however numerically strong or actively hostile to it should be driven to a recourse to illegal measures to attain their object. Since the above was in type our telegrams inform us that Mr Macandrew has taken the step of conferring with tho Governor on Otago's alleged grievance — a step which appears more intended to over-awe the Government by holding the action of Otago "in terrorem" over them, than for any satisfaction he is likely to receive from » Governor who feels the responsibility due to iheJsJjJiJtwn ho represents as the upholder of law and order in that portion of Her Majesty's dominions over which he is appointed to preside.

It was onre obserrei to Lord Palmerston that & certain M.P., always in debt, intended to bring in a bill. " Let him," cried the Premier ; "but it would do him raoro credit, and prore inoro aatialactory to corUm parties, it ho were to ftke up eno."

At the Synod meeting to-day Arclidea con Harper, (finuru) and tho Roy 0 Stuart (Sydnej) were nominate I to the racant .Bishopric of Waiapu. 'Ihochoic fell on Archdeacon Harper, who is elected, if ho wilt accept tho nomination. [Ho liai unoe refused.]

Stobk Cattle. — Ai fine a mob of atore cattle as we have seen brought into tho district, large framed well bied boasts, most of them, some seventy in number, paised through Hamilton ye»fcerd»y, for Messrs Fisher nad Scott's f*rm, at Pukerimu.

Our next S*tcrdat's Supplement will contain, among other thing*, "Woman's Work"; two luu; tales, " Check -mated," and th« "Faiihlest Lover," "Juggling in theEa»t,"face'iom readings from the " Danbury Kcwb," aud other interoiking matter.

Messrs B Tones & Co., as may bo seen in our advertising columns will offer for sale on Monday next * netr and commodious two storied freehold warehouse adjoining Durham St, Auckland, with three stall stable and cart ibed ; also all the machinery of tbe lutesfc improvements for the carrjing on of a soda water and lemonade manufactory.

St Andrew, A well known itaunch entire draught horst, formerly the property of Mr Cox and kept by that gentleman for atud purposes hot now become the properry of Mr liobert Drabble, and i will travel the Warkato during tho present leason. St Andrew when stindin^ in the South wu much thought of and became th# happy sire of lome of the fineit draft atock in that part of the Colony.

TfalTx AWAMUTUDIUMiTTCCOMPAJ'T, will come forward at Alexandra on Thursday next in aid of the funda beiug raise! on behalf of the widow of tho late Mr Shaw of Cambridge. The performance will contiit of tbo *' Kent Day" and after an interval of ten minutes, a scene from " The Wife" or a tale of Mantua will bo produced. The performance will wind up with a rocal and instrumental concert at which several ladies have promised to aisist. After the performers hare cleared out the audience will take posiesiion of the floor and finish the night with a dance.

The Shiw Akatiub Pmfobmers, in Hamilton, who intend giving an entertainment in Hamilton East, in aid of tho Shaw Belief Fund, had a rehearsal on Tuesday night, when about seventeen gentlemen were present. The several songs and the chair businoM of the nigger performance wai gone thiough very effectively. Another rehearsal will take place this evening, and, it it expected that, in a fortnights time, they will make their appearance on a public stage.

The W.S.N. Company's Stbambb "Waikato" u ■till laid op, and h*r berth taken up by the Blaenose. It wm expected that she would have been ready kit monday, *m it was thought the ahsf C of the ■cioht was oaly » little beat. When, however, the abaft wai got oat at NgaruawuhU, ifc vraa Woken, and it became neceaiiry to forward it on to Auckland, to be repi'red. It may, therefore, be K>mo few days before th<J ■te»raer is agnin'runningr , A critic s »y<* tu*t !ha pig is the great ciTilner of tl>e Pacific, and tbat no preaching agninst oanniba ism has been so effectiro as placing before tho native a moro daiuly disb than man. A few tomitto'plants at tho foot of a f'uit-w»H will profect tho fruiS from fche attacki of waipi. An infu'fon of the k'uie , ut«>d an a will deatioj aphidui, tbo cominuii grocn fly.

A MOd JPLAOU TO MVB IV. — A Col). temporary l-oi" from )\upi> t'mfc Mount I'ungiriro id at tiio pro cut fur c iv a hi k h -t-itu of aotivify th-o ling stones for a •h-tafire of c wht mi es f on t 1 c i-r»ter. All the spii. as »nd q jjjr* ar« ia full play, and ho uc wonderful sights may be ; setn in th,s extrst>rdii)ary region. A I l.irge num'ier of vioN.rs m>v be eicpeotctl i »<ext «umiuer, I ut it \* j o..iMb that, bo far us seeing the *r>id.'raot" the pl.vco in concrted, a hotttr tirai* oouKl not bo « hoB(-n lhan th" present. Prom the same locality wh ha»r that « day or two a^o a home w'lioh was turncl out looso near the h »tel afe 'f upiKebci'.-in, whilat straying ftb.iut, Ml through a thm oru*t of earth intothj boiling water beneath, and wm killod in a few minutes.

Ovu Railways.— Tha London Corre«pond of tho 'Auckland Star,' for iome tima sub-edimr cf the Aiwklaivi "Herald" thui writes t> the former journal :—" It icuia a thouiand pities that your railways ar<» managed «o badly in JN'ew Ze»l«nd, and that thpy are so oomp e'e y spoiled in the original aim of their projectors, by incapacity, or stupidity, or both, of tboeo who control them. An English line managed in such u way would be bankrupt in six months. Here tho aim of companies is to accommodate and nob anuoy the pu')hc, and to run as cheap y as poisitly, compatible with adivideud. Thci-e are c»aes, at for inatauco, the North Eisteru Railway, wbero companies hare » m^nop ily, and th6n, perh»pt, they aro rot quite co aocommodatsng, bat even then they never dream of conducting their alfa.rd as your Govirninent do«s. You item to have suoh a shocking set of ' Jacks in Oflic » such a» Mr Paismore, whos« ntme fit?u»o« oxtenaively, whoever ho may be. I He sceuia to f mcy bimaelf inuiennety even if th« oi jpo lot dou't se« a. y beauty in him that they should doeiro him. i Our tram services between North and South aro just now magnidcent. Toe ' Fly inn buotohman,' as it is called, does the 397 miles between London and Edinburgh in 8 hours 48 minutes, which is at the r<ta of a mile iv 80 seuondn. Grand travelling it if, a> d tl.o oani»ge», even third < 1 1*9, are cnoruughly well found.

Political Brno. — The Auckland ' Star' «aya : — "So far|as we can are, the c ii no mtd<lle courts between the acceptance of Abol tion, for tho present, and ai opou defiauco of the Autmbly, ProviDcitl Council* cannot be convened without a direct breach of the lair, and if. us Br.utl.ern t ok grams have intim*to<), Mr Miuiimirew intends to call the Council toother, be must be prepared to tubmib a policy placing tho powers of the provinces in open conflict with, the Colonial Puiliameut, While the General Government re'ain complete control over the purio »tring» — tlio Custom Houte, C'turts of Justice, and othor imp rtaut public department*, and tho adminiat rat ion -of lands remain with » board which ha'i already ahown its rendinesa fo do tho bid'liog of Wellington, Alt M*ov drew'a Convention would bi poweiJeis for good or evil, and deititute of the mean* to prolong its own existence or »u»taio its own authority. A step further, therefore, is necessary, and ii the people of Oatjo are to make up their minda for the first act of roiistince, the}/ caunot stop ihurt of thoso wh eh log cally follow — iba «eizu c of tho ('uatom-house and genaral rebeli o.i This u a very terious step, but one which find* ao close a parallel in the past political hiatory ol Otago, that we cannot regtrd it m imposiible. Wo need hardly iay that iti •uoce«sful accomplishment would depend eitirely on the unanimity of the people. However closely wedded to Abolition the Gorcruaieat may be, they daro not force it pa a people in at mi ; and are, moroorer, powerlew to do io. \Ve Jean •oaroely conjecture what would be the outcome of kuou a criins, hut we cannot cose our eyi-s to the fact tdat Mr Macaodrew may make the effort in the belief that th.i Assembly would yet retrace its atepa and give its aiaenb te premissivo provincialism "

The Missing link, tho man with a tail, hatt been found by n missionary a'Uohed to the New Guinea Minsiou, the Key. George Brown, who writes under date of the 4th Febuary, and from whose letter wo exfract' he following in reftrenca to a race of men with tail* : — " I have explored ft long line of coast on New Briton, from a point about 12 milei I cyond Cape Pallitar right down to Man Inland. Wo hare been twice round Cape Palliaer ; the other part* we have often visited. There ia a large population on all that coast, and they aeem quite friendly. By the way, the native* her* are m®it poiittve in their assertions that there is a race of men with tails at a place called Kalali, quite close to whore we wete. They nay t)»afc thoy are dwarfs, and that the tail, whioh they represent as being bard and stiff, ii an extension of the »pinal bone, and .that if the people wUh to sit duwn they must first di* a hole to reoeive this emdal appendage. They quite scout the auertit.n that t cv must be monk-ys. The nek, • Do monkeys talk? or make taio plaiitatit n«? or light with ■[ ears, as theue rueu do?' I toll tho tale au it is told to me. Promotion bt purchase! still obtains we »cc in the United States Array. A Dnnver pontleman th«s speaks of his experience :—": — " While in St Joseph we nere intrjduced to a reporter of oi,e of the city paper*. said to be the oldest in the ci'y. He took us cordially by tho hand with the remcrk, 1 How do you do, Mr L, how do yoi do ? .Aftir iomi little conversation we invited him to stop in and imbibe. ' Ci-rfciinly captain, certainly. Would ai soon drink with you as anybody.' So we drank Presently wo asked hrm to drink again. 'Certainly Major, never refuse to drink with a gentleman. Here'o to you. A short pause «ikl we repeated the invitation for a third time. The tears c»me into the old man's eyes as he grasped our hands and fluid ' Coluaol, you do me proul. Am glad t> meet you. Here* myr«-garls.' We saw wo were growing in his estimation, so we presently rem«rk that ho looked dry, and asked whit ho would take. ' Whiekoy and sug.ir, General j Whiakey aud sugar. It has bee a my steady diet for twenty five yeara. I never take any other.' We OJnclaied there was no chance for further promoti n, so wo bado our old f nond goodbye, and as we left him we noticed that ho wore one boor, ono canvas-hacked ■hoe, no et )cking», a pair ofjjlincn pants ■usta'ned by ouo auipcuder, and a shirt as unfanidtr to tho water as he was himself. But ho was happy and appreciated us, as was evident from the following personal which ftppcare I in the paper next morning—' M*j»r General L , of Denver, Col., is getting outside of provisions at tho Pacino, untd Uncle J< hnoy begins to fe*r a famine. The general is a whole touted, genial gentleman, a Christian, and a scholar, and we hope ho will vint ut often.'"

Waikato Chee.sk — Somo of tho beit cheete ever seen in Auckland, is novr on ■ale «t the store of Mr G. W. Owen, merohsmfc, Fort-itreet. Each oheow ,aVor»get 401bs in weight, and is really of excellent qaality. This cheette in th« produce of » dairy in the W»ik*to distriot, whore mv*y ton* of it ara maJo anunnllv, namtly, J-hat of Mr Gubbius." When the s-ip> nor quality of the W*ikit.j oheeae buoomea better known than it is, w© have no doubt fiaf tho riem«nd for it in Auckland will bo grrat, and tbat the tr.iffiu in 'hit commodity with the rfjU'.h will bo le ihvc! in coatequv noo.

(JiMuuiuoE Karuiks Czua — The >• p,rr <>f tho m>e iv of Tue«d«y ni t ,ht list will aipdir in mir r.et .

GutOKK Shbds — P,r on* desirous of procuring go A and true igirden needi of alt ktuda o*n, as they m»y «c by »Jvortis maut elsewhere, promre the eaoie trom tLo establishment of Mr Browui of Auoktaiul. Orders will bo osrefulty fucked and iorwarded por du-eotiona, and price 1.8 ■ forwar.lod on app.ijatiun. We would eugijest to Mr Br-win, or other •feiiemun, that, in a dutriot nuoh »s this, if the plan weie a loped of mdvertUliig parcels of flowor sueds, aui.uals, Ac, to contain so many varieties, cay '25 or 50 packets tot hj much tho parcel, as in done at hiiiJif, many putchrbcig would be found, and now is the time to do it.

Summer at th* Seaside. — The following ia an extract from oae cf Jo«h 6,11ing'a letters written at the aeaiide : — " l'here iz az little nonsense here generally as the «ama number ov »iaitor« are capable ov. Fern tilt predominate b >re, at everywhere elm thia teason. It Iz perfekly hart-rending tew ieo the f emails here in search of na'uial protektirs. I kounte 1 sixteen yesterdiy in oue pile ; they all sighed az I pastel by them, and with down cut eyes. I felt sorry for them, but couldn't help the a, for l am tourrowly marr ed, and ie en 1 to remain so." The ammusemetitj are crabbing and bathing, Of the fiist Mt Billings obgwrves : — '•Yesterday i went out krabbiug, and ketched a peok of them ; they bit •idewa>s, and hang on like a ded hots-shoe ; they make good vittle* enough, but they ain't profitable tew o»t, if you kount your tuna worth anything." As to bathing :— " It iz luxurious, and the bathers resemble inerinvles, hulf mon. and h*lf woioen j they awl dreis in the (Jboct»w kostoona, and when they em r^e from the water ye k*nt tell Whuh u whj, un!e s ye a«k them."

Tnt: Waikato Pastoral and AgricuLTtTRAL Ass ciatiON. — The following strictures on the time of holding the Wmkato Show appear, under the head of Farm Gossip, in a Into issue of the "Cross": — "I notice by advertisement that the annrnl show of the Hawke's Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Society is to bo held on the 19th and 2Otti October, while the Wuikuto show, to ho held at Ohaupo this year, is to bo held on the 23rd November. One ct these times must evidently ba wrong. Napier is a couplo of hundred mil s s mtli of the Waikato district, and the eetisnns there would consequently be later thin iv the more northern settlement. Yet to judge by the time selected for their annual shows, it would appear that the more northern district were the later of the two. Shoep shearing forms put of the day's programme at Ohaupo, but I do not think many sheep will be left unshorn at that time. Surely the Waikuto settlers do not intend to exhibit sheep for their mutton abne. Some unwise counsels hare evidently prevailed in regird to this show. If it is postponed to enable cattle to be in better condition than they would be a month curlier, I am afraid the expectation is vain, for cattle in low condition at the end of October will not have recruited to such an extent ai. would justify the postponement of the show to a period when sheep cunnot conveniently be exhibited. Besides, the postponement of the sheep und cattle show to the end of November will confey the idea to those at a distance that the Waikato district i* a cold and Inte one. The shows in the Province of Canterbury are to be held in the first weeii in November.

En br Bathing.— Now that the warm weather will aoou let fairly in, we should like lo see the »aine ticcoinmodation provided for river bather* in Hamilton and other river townships as wiw complete I at the cml of the bathing season lnat j'par m Ngaiuaunluu. A lur^o frame of a bAthiug homo wat cortatruu'e'J, r.iile 1 in, nnd s»iibnu«ig'd, so Unit bathers had % con rttnut Ujw of fro3h water without dung<r to t omselvesj or annoyance to residents and other* in the vicinity of bathing places. This was done, wo believe, bj n company formed for the purpose, nnrf we do not see wliy the • •m- thing should not be attempted in Hamilton. It talus a good strun" swimmer to breast tho waters of the Wnikato, a lei» able on*, mnj venture into the back waters, but^to others there is more or leas of danger. The present time is none 'oosoon to set about the mutter, if, »s we heard montion kit year by more th in one, th to are S 1 ill amongst uj those who would j.>in together for tho purpose of providing sife and decent means of procuring a plunge in the nrer during the summer months.

Nbwspapih Ltiso.— Some people harp an idea that newspipers will lie. Other* nro 10 wise that they will only believe a newspaper repo t whun they think it would be easier for the paper to tell (ho truth than lo tell h ho. O hers think it the evidence of fl shinfc wit to reject with a derisive laugh any evidonce f>r authority which cotnrs from "the papers." To pitch an extent has tfiii tho ightlrs* judgment of the presn hi»<sn oitrried th it rnu<'h of ita sphere of ngefnlness has been circunncrbel. It is true there mast be some occasion for this widespread impreision — " thero must bo »omo fire where there is such a smoke ;" jet how many men can show a reco d for correctness, * accuracy and truthfulness, that will at onct compare with the average news paper? The editor gathe-s hi* news from a thousand sources, from acquaint ancs and st anger*, from letters and papers. He aifti and culls, hunts and details, and ondearours to get " the straight" of every story he publishes, for it goss to the world over his own name, and he knows that in a great measure he will be held responsible. The private mdividuil hoars a piece of go«*ip, Jis'ent carelessly, telln it to another with equil carelessness, and if callrd upon for details, in nino cases out o f ten cn-inot give enough of thorn »o make an intelligent item for a puje . " Writing makes an exact man," s»ys Lord Bacon ; the newspaper verifies the •ruh of the slntement Let any one who doubts tbit sit down and put on paper some pieces of goisip, with the purpose of having it printed over his own name, and he will leo iv a moment how little he know* about a matter he thought himself faiDilinr with. And he will wonder, not that the newspaper should contain occasional inaccuracies and misstatemonts, but that it contains so few. And Ins- wonder will wonderfully increase when ho remembers that the e.h or kas to depend for much of what he publishes on the comraoii run of mankind.

A Firb occurred yesterday, under «mpicious circunaiUncet, in Stokes buah, near Hamilton, by vrhich the whare of a sawing %nd timber party of fivo of thn A C. Force, ■tationed iv Hamilton, w*« destroyed with all their goo Is, and it r-o tion of their tola and a quan<ity of timber. The party came iato Hamilton yesterday mortiing about 9 o'clock, leaving everything ia ordf r, aad n t in any danger from the fire in the ci oking placet, which w»s »t toma di«tince from the wtiarc. About noon y*-aterd»y, the o derly, who had occasion to j;o to Dr Cirey's, cill^fl at tb.3 oamp, an I foand the wh' re burned down and atill smoking. Some of the party are Joiera to n cousiderable extent, every thing they had •»ye a few art'oles of cl< thing then in Hamilton, hnviog betn diBT>yed. An enquiry will doubt'e.s ba hell into the iau c of ths fire.

The W\ik\'io Ufsidbnt Magi&tratk's Di-u-iuct — ll^re mint bo surely aomo mid-apprehension iv tho nffi hi uimd a; respecting tho area of the Waikato Undent AJagi.tMtea disfnot a id the dmtm.co apart of the priudpal places at »h oil couita are htld, or such a proclama ion ai tk«t contained )u trie Now Z al.i.d Gaz.tte of tho 14th mutant would never have been issued. 'Jhj VVaikato Kanident Ma fi iatr*to's diatiict id ' already tully as Ur^e as it m possible for the moit energetio ofGjml to attend to, and, t» include Mercer within it, ounnot batcerioufly inteuere w iih the due per foiinuuce or his <!u it». If tta« addition u made, it will be impo«Buiie for the Kesideut Magi Btr*te 8 tr*te to give th,»t careful attention to the duties of his office iv W «ik»to that he hs«, with » large amouut of he ivy travuthng, hitherto been enabled to .fford. Mercer lies full forty miles •way from the c ntre of the district, aud is, moreover, * court whwa is conatantly r quiring the pre 3 UCO of tha Resident Magißtrate. On the other haud, Cambridge hea ue*ily thirty mdes in the opp.>si»e direction. Thu faot will aloae •how the »b«urdity of tho propoied arrangement. Iho proolamatn.n states that tbe change shall cum j mt » op .ration on the Ist of October, tnafe u to-morrow, and vie would therefore recommend the i'nmadi»t(s attention of the Gotftrnment to the matter, for, whatever may be said I to the contrary, it is impossible but that the time lost by tho Waikato Kesident Magulrate in going to and from Mercor will prevent h a giving the same att^nion as heretofore to the upper portion of hit dutriot, aud this the more especially as under the ntsw Coroners Act increased duties will be added to tho office.

Cot Feed fob Horsbs.— An aomraie farmer furnmhta us with a statement of his experiment of furtiinhing cut teed to his homes, accompanied with weighing and measuring, iie euta oats and straw about »u iuoh long with » raw hide cylinder ra.-chiue, and thia chopped straw is then treated with coruuiea! mad bran mixed in about equal quautitidS ai to weight, so that tacU horae hji a bushel of cut load and thr^e quints of th« me«l and br»u twice in onch day Som t uiea bay is cut instead of oat-stiaw, or botU mixed. It is found that 2()01bg per week of this mixture of euro nieai and bran, auded to tho cut food, will keep a pair of \vjrkiug horses in the bust condition. Tins, ho la satisfied from txp^rimunt, ii leoa than two thirds the cost of keeping tliem on uncut dry and whole grain. Tho corn-meal alone is not ao good for torses as when mixed with bran. An excellent meal is made of ground oata. The fodder is cut by horse power, on stormy or spare days, and stored in lar g bins (>o as to furnixh. always a surplus on haad. — 'Country Geatlemaa.'

Masonic Hall, llamuton East. — i'endora for the erection of this building, latour only, have beea accepted, aud, as soon as the material is upon the ground, the wok will be at oace proceeded with. The tender of Mr Straimaa, for brickwork and plastering, at £60, and that of MrM. J.Taylor, for carpsntore work, £45, were ihe succssful ones. From the plain of the Hall, we should say that, when completed, it will bo au ornament to Die town /hip. It will be built on a piuce of laud lacing the main street, on the name iiile of tha way, and about a, hundred yards further up the nvor than tne Koyal Hotel. The fac*de is a, hand■ome and imposing one, having a frontage of 80 feet, which will be occupird by two *L.te-ruouQH of 12 feet ayuare each, and a cent at entrance hail 6 loot wide, leading to the main Hall ltsalf, 20 feet by 30, at the rear. So doabl the foundati. n tioiio will be laid with all due form and ceremony, in regular Mmouic order.

Limb Light DrtsoLvrsa Vnwg — Tao Hall w«i welt filled on Tu«»d»j er.-n. ing at Hamilton E»»t, *\na the fir3t of <ha ooneii uf rxhibition* o' Di-s .Iving Viuws took placa. Some of tho news wero gooJ, but. the mechsuical apparatm, or the ni.nipuiat us wero not up to their work, for the light at no tiuiA wa§ superior to that afforded by aa <,rJiuary magic luutboiu, and before the porforminoe was half over, a muhup occurred, w..ich proveuted the dusolving process fiom b -nig earned on, and the vie* s wero ai uply inaerto I aod te moved as in the ordinary nng-c lanthoru. During the perforuuaoe «ov«rnt long* and yorii.DSc of eongs wero sang by Mr Gulpan, whicb. w, re he utily applau ted by the audience. Last m^ht however, on the second occasion of this performance mutters went smoothly enough. Mr Ueunei who hid armed too late on 'Juesdjy tJinako that erening a full suceesj, let mat tors right yesterduy. The light W.13 fuller and ttronger, and tho Jecmrer, no longer anxious the mo- , 0 itnicAi arrun Koiuents, K oiuent5, more at liome in In. subjret. There was an interval of 20 minutes, after which Mr Johns deli vcred uu extempore addrea* explanatory of tho objeot ot these entert»innu'nts, and •Lating that any aurplua funda would under bis man. gement b.j devoted to the moral and intellectual improvement of the Hamilton youth Some of tb« liens , were really excellent, espeoiolly thoie of ! the lakes of Kill»rney and the appearance of the Bl» r „y atonr, fairly roused the Hibernians preicnt to a l.uh pitch of excitment and cnthu»i«s-n. Tli^ enter tainment was a groal Bucceis, and at it close the aiulien. o s-iug tlio new versio ol t'lii iNationul Anthem aa follow* :-- GoJ bless our native land, May Hoaveu'a protectiug h»nd Hull guard our «hore. May Peace her power extend ; Foo bo transferred to friend, And Britains might depend, On war do more. May just «nd righk«on« laws Uphold the public cau«e, And bkss our lile. Home of th* bravo and free, The laud of liberty, We pray that still 10 Thee, Kind Heaven may «tml«.