The Waikato Times.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 677, 14 October 1876, Page 2

The Waikato Times.

Equal and exact justice to all men, Ot whatever «ate or psrauasiuu, religious or political « * * • * Here shall the Presi the People^ right maintain, Unawed by influence and unbribed by gain

SATURDAY OCTOBER 14, 1876

Although members on both sides of the House are gi-adually withdrawing to their homes, and we hear that amongst others is the member for Wai pa who may ba expected up by the next steamer fiom Wellington, there is nothing in the appearance of business to warrant the belief that the session is drawto an immediate close. The ' Cross' publishes an extract from a private letter received from Wellington to the effect, that thanks to ohe interference of Mr Swanson, Sir George Grey has abandoned his obstructive opposition, but though this may be the case as regards the making of an attack in force upon the Govern, ment ranks, a system of petty obstructions by sp j aking interminably on every item of the estimates as it passes under review, appears to be resorted to. It will be recollected that the opposition leaders who have lett Wellington obtained lea re, not for the remainder of the session, but for a month. Can it be possible that for the sake of decaying Abolition it is intended to keep the Assembly talking on until the retarn of Mr Macandrew and others in the hope that even yet the Abolition Act may be disallowed from Home before it becomes *de facto' the law of th© Colony by the rising of the House. The majority of members are represented as being i anxious for work — to bring this long session to a close — but are delayed by the succession of motions made on each occasion of going into Committee of Supply. Thursday, that promised dies irse, l has however passed over without j reference by the member for the Thames to his Permissive Abolition Bill, though our telegrams do not inform uswhtt'ierit has been allowed to lapse, or merely been again postponed. Mr Macandrew, it will be seen, has also forwarded his protest against Abolition to the Secretaiy of State for the Colonies, and prays for a disallowance of the Act. One important piece of legislation was yesterday advanced a stage. The New Zealand Cattle Importation Restriction Bill was read a second time. We have on several occasions drawn attention to the necessity for such a measure as one very closely affecting the intei'ests of the country settlers. Foot and mouth disease at home is becoming more prevalent every year, and there is no knowing the moment th.it it might be introduced into this colony to the ruin of hundreds of settlers and to tno great loss of the general consumer. Some time ago,|in closing our ports to cattle from the mother country the sacrifice would have been great, as excluding wellbred sires, but this is not now the case, as we possess strains of blood of the very *' bluest" character, and that nob in solitary- instances, but of ev«ry bovine family of note in the United Kingdom. In keeping our ports open as we have done, New Zealand has stood alone amongst the colonies of Australasia.

Diftiibria. of a vorulent character bat made its appearance at W»og»nui. Mb Bright will hold an extemire sale of sawn timber, at Cambridge, to-day.

LO L— The member* of Lodge, No 17, will hold their uiual mouthly m-eting ia tbe lodge room, Ngatuawahia, this evening.

Building Timber ron Balb. — Mr John Knox will aell by Auction on Nednusday, at the Wharf, Cumbridge, some 20,000 feet of gon«-ral building timber.

Hamilton Cavalry Cobps. — The next parade of the Hamilton Contingent of the To Awamutu Cavalry Volunteers will taki> place at Hamilton, for half yearly exercise und training, on WednosJuy tho Ist proximo.

The Sufpltjment isiued with ta-daj's paper contains a large variety of useful and interesting matter, ■cintifio, •eusational, and h storioil.

Mr J T John* has loft with vi for inspection a baluiiCf -jhoot of receipts and expenditure of the late Lime light entertainments deiireri'd iv Hamilton, a notico referring to which »ppjart in our idrer tieing column!,

FamjVlF ishkr wis, «s our jportiujj reale.a will be glul to learn, male the h\\ \)\ nw her ol a colt on Ihursd.i.v the 12 li nist to Iradiio.T Peer et>s «tnct Y.it to in>i \>lu aie 'joih in fo«l tv Traducer, mo expected to foul in the courae ot u f. w days.

The Hamilton West Town BardB ard are about to commen<e improvements in Co.li-igwood S.roet, culling and forming t l)e roud in the diro'-tion of the Like, const ucting*a foolp&tb, and carrying nwiiy t e water which gathers in the lower poition ol th« thoroughfare. Ten der-t for the completion of the work will he received by the Chairman up (o the 18 h inst.

Drury Cattlb Sale — Ab store cattle are just now in conevlerable request in this district, we would dr w tbe attention of set lers, to the fact that Mr Alfred Bucklund's Drury Cattle Sale takes place on Wednesday next when a mixed lurd of 300 head of store ca»tle will be offered for sale.

Zingari Cricket Olub.— The annual meeting, adjourned from hat Saturday, will bo held th 8 evening at Gwynae's Hamilton Hotel. The first practice is called for this afternoon, on the Ulu>» ground, and will, wo learn, take the form of an alphabetical match, the first bait if the alphabet agaimfc the latter, and be open to all players, whether belonging to the Zingari Club or not.

Black ChampiOW who is tckertised in our columns to travsl the Waikato left Auckland for this district on Wednesday. Aa ho has been broughc to the Waikato at ih««pecialreque*to£»ome of the largest liorse breeder* >n the dit^ tncfc, liis »pirited ownerwill have nociuse lo regret lii* import ation from the South.

; Abbotts Mkibotjrnh Ctjp.— lt was no ?ma:l leat in a community such as ttiat of Auckland, to fill up I wo thousand sub eeiipUons of a pound each to the annual distribution of prizes ou the Melbourne Cup, us was <li>»e bj Mi* Abbott, and when after the driwing took place a second prize distribution was announced, f, w thought that it would gather in more I ban a few hundred subscribers at moat, 'lho second distribution will however, it seemi, be »lmo*t as auecestful asthsfiist. Already 1,200 tickets have been subscribed f>r and it is intended tbat the Its s s tali rencli 1,500 when the drawing will at once :ake place Tbe race itself will bo run on tbe 9th of next month and an we have now regular telegraphic cornmuoi/ation wi»h Australia, ihe result of the great Australian Derby will bo known here almost aa soon as it is over and be published, in every paper in the Colony on the following morning.

Reduction of Government Expenditure. —Dv in£ the timucial discus ion iv the House, oa Tuesday Sir George Grey vrauted progress reported, as he wished to move a rciolutk.n. He And many others th. night the Estimate* ouald be reduced £100,000. Major Atkinson said the M nittry w ere not prepared to nuke Buch a reduction at one sweep. It woult not be prudent. He would not give way to any mau in desire to make reductions. The Home went into Committee, and passed * num'ier of Item*. Several pioposed incre*so« under the heal of ' Legislative,' were inrnck out, but two largo reductions attempted to lie ni*d-> by Mr Burnos and feir George (irey were loat. It will be seen that on Wednesday it was re-o'vrd by the Home and approved by the Govern niout, tb»t during the recess the whole Civil Service should be reorganised,

Opposition Obsthuctivjbness. — The "Cross" of Tnuraday mentions that a private letter from Wellingtun sum .—. — ■< L hunks to the interference of Mr dwamon. Sir George Urey Abandoned his abstractive opposition. Mr JSvraiiron voted against him in several dirisiona ; and intimated that he would not countenwc euon a foolish wusle of time aud money. The party ooald jibt afford to lose Air Swanson, »a>l submitted. This had prevented tue waste of a large max of money and much time."

The Provincial Poli Tax — Tbo household go.. da of the Rev. Father Paul, of Oufrhunga, bare been auzud agaiu lhia year, to comp 11 him lo contribute towardi a *y»tem uf education, from the benetiti of which his 00-religioniats are piaotically excluded. We learn, from Thurtday'a Herald, that a oho*t of drawers, belonging to tbo Rev. J. Paul, Ouehunga, was, on Tuesday last seized uuder a distress warrant, fur the nonpayment of the Eduoation rate. Tula ia the eeuoud time that property belonging to Father Paul has been aeized fur the same tax.

The Weitheb. — Sett' art generally would welcome the showers of r»iu which fell yesterday forenooa, tha want of which was beginning to be felt, etpecia ly upon the light lauds of the district Not but what a far heavier fall of rain would have been gent rally acceptable. Tim ap jearanoe of the vvuathi r it, however, iti luusfcttled. Should there be no further fall of ram this morning, the ground will be ia noae the worse trim to-day for the local criokefc club", the fir»t piaotioe of several of which were to be bell thin afternoon.

Hamilton United Cricket Ci.pb. - The tirst annual meeting of the above Olub wu held at VV.ilkwr'« Commercial Hotel, oa Thursday evening la«t Thoio was a good attendauco, and Mr C. C. Danvers having been vote I to the Chair opeued the proceedings by reading the advertisement in the Waikaio Tim«s, convening the meeting, and called on the Secretary to read the report and balance shrefc for the* past year. The Seoretary, Mr Scott, on ruing, said that the financial statement of the Club, although not ao^elabctafco »• that of Sir Julian VogeU wjl*, he' cou a assure them, far more s.iusf ictory, inasmuch a« tht'e was a balance iv hand, after paying all expeosef, of £1 1* 21. the report stafc-d tbat the Club had b> en in exist auce twelve uionbLs, Mid. numbered sixteen metub ra That, although there was only onetn.it h playtd lxst seaaort, still, there had b< en a couki lerablH amount of praoticus ; but, the committee ho^t-d, wi<h a froth accession ci members, that they wouM bs in a pouitiou to i.ooept any fr.endly challenge they maight receive duriu> the ensuiog season ; th*t ihe club was fairly provided with tools, die, and that the question of grouud f >r playing oiatohes on would be take . into convideratton at an early date. The baiauce sheet vat then read, wb,ich ivas as follows x— Dr. : To subtcriptiona, £8 15«. Cr. : Advertising, G» ; oo(ta, £1 7* 6i ; stnttonary, 1« 2d ; implem nt«, £ , 19* ; balance, £1 Is 2d ; total, £8 15s. Mr N. Jft. Cox, in moving the adoption oi the report and balanoe hheet as read, conxratuiated the club on bsing in such a flouri hmg condiUou, and gave it as hm opiuiou that it would be au important seavon to cricketing circles, as it woulil bail the advent of »n Euglish eleven to the colony. The meeting then proceeded to the eieution of oflic n for the ensuing year, with the following results:— Cinjnutleo : Mossrs Taylor, Miaaen, Danvera, Cox, Scott and Tanner. Mr Scott was re elected Sei rotary, Mr N. H. Cox, Tie«suier ; »ud Mr Taylor, Captain. A resolution wa« then, pasaed, ttjat Col. Lyou be r< quested to allow himself to be uoiuiuated as preideut of the Club, which he his siuce expressed himself as uiiluig to be. The enrollment of now member* was then proceeded with, and 13 new mcmbjra had their namas ia-

scribed on the Club-< book", making t ie to r .il iiuiiihcr oi members 29, An umnniU d (]i>c'h<43'»ii tlitu t ok place can ueriimg the'Cri-ket ground, aud delegates wcte appoin ed from uiemi>«rs of ti o Couimitti p to Wiiit upon the Z nxari Club <it their auuual uncling and u< go upon ihctu the necessity of coon ir to some uinicibie arran^t'itieiiu ia 11 matter in which ihe btS 1 interests of (Jriek tamconcempci, viz : A. gojd ground. Tins beiug nil the businocs <>£ the me -ting a vote of thanks to the oufcstouijrofll^rS, andto the ohurnwi brought iho pr ceeding* to a close.

Buxiarcs.— Roberts, the billiard champion, hus arrived in Auckland, and play's his first mat eh' on Monday ni)jht ntxt, at the Mechanics Institute, ugains an i m teur who will receive fcOO points out tf 1000. We h»Te heard that it is more i him probable that inducements will be held out to him to viiit (he Waikato.

Manx <. f <nr readers will still remerntbe Canadian attempt at revolution made 6O(oe few years ago, by a section of the colonists under the leadership of Louis Kiel. It now appear that this unforlun ate young man instead of having as many supposed, escaped and retired into private life, is the occupant of a mad home. A fct legram to the ' Toronto Globe' announces the faot that be was some mouths ago brought secretly into Quebec, labouring under insanity, and was placed in the Long Point Asylnm, near Montreal.