WAIKATO LAND SALE.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 679, 19 October 1876, Page 2

WAIKATO LAND SALE.

Tub representations made to the Government have, at least, had the effect of causing the suburban lands in the vicinity of Ngaruawahi to be put up for sale by auction. Whether, however, the portion ot the public more direcfly interested in the sale, namely, the settlers of the district, will feel equally satisfied with the price at which they are offered, we are far from sure. Some of this suburban land, adjoining the ! township itself, is, of course, more Taluable than other portions further away ; but, for a very large proportion of it, an upset price of JtlO per acre is 6xed, and none at less than £5 per acre. The lots vary in extent from 2 acres to 6^ acres, and the upset price from £5 to £15 per acre. The sale is announced for the 21st day of next month, and will be held at the Waikato Lands Office, Auckland. A reference to our files of the 23rd of May last will show that the Native Minister promised, amongst other matters, that the next s.tle of Waikato lands should be held in the d strict, and not as heietofore, in Auckland, and this is no more than the settlers of Waikato have a right to expect. The purchasers of these lands are, for the most part, residents in the Waikato, and it is somewhat hard that they should have the expense of a journey to Auckland tacked upon their purchase, or even on the possibility of it, or be driven to the unsatisfactory alternative of employing an agent in the purchase of lands lying at their very doors. And, not only is this a veiy serious inconvenience to the settlers, but o direct loss to the Government, inasmuch as a free and healthy competition is precluded. Many who would be pTPsenf, urn! bid for this or that allotment, if the sale were held in the district, "do not care to, or, possibly are not able to leave home and business for three days to attend an auction held a hundred miles away. It is possible that the promise made by the Native Minister, in May last, has escaped his memory, but, the necessities of the case, on which the representations were made for an alteration ot the place of sale, remain as patent and as keenly felt by the settlers now as then.

Tans Assbssmkst LihTS of the Kibikihi and Kangiura Highway Dutiicts hay« bjtn Hn*lly settled, aud the rutr-i are no* due to th« colltcior, Mr Farr. Ii at hit resilience Kihikiui, where the lea| eotive rate bqoks may be insj ec o 1.

Horse breeding iff Waikato.— The hor«e stock of tbe district mutt be ft>t mcieasiig, for, notwithstanding the number wl entire horses provided by th» • uterpriie of local settlers and others, tie lists of more than one of these ha\e already been filled up.

Tnt Hawkes Bat AaRiooLTUKAt, and Pastoral Society's Gruml Annual Show tak<« p ace to nay autl to-inurrow. We understand that a largo number of • xi.i it* have gone down f>Om thjn Provmcfl, and, amougst tbero, aeveril from tbe Waikato d^tric".

Cambridge Highway District.— Th« »«tes»uieub list is now {tested »t tlio residence of the cbmnnati, Mr James Kiinciman, also At the I'o-tt OfU <", CaiuIrnlge, and the board will «it t» h' ar appeals, if any, at the National Hotel, on Saturday, tbe 18th proximo.

Babt Show. —At thp late San Francisco baby thow. Pr z a were given fur the handsomest baby, the hands unesb twins, the one having the h-avut > cad ol hair, the om with the smal eat feet and Ixiuda, tho fatteit blue-eyed baby, the fattest dark-eye 1 baby, thevmaliest, the b'St dn-HSi-d, the sweetest suiilliug, and tlie loudt-st bawlvr. Then jinz-Ji w-ro to the youngest in.'ther, tie oldest mother, and tho hand«uuie»t mother.

Risk in Breadstuffs — What will b« more genei ally interesting than acceptable to mvny is ihe intelligence that ft consi cierable rise in the puce of b>eid-tufl\ his taken place wiiJnn tho last f w djys. Flour has again rsen, anil thi tint no* ten shillings, but thirty shilh gs per lon. rhnr<ason of this is thai both in New Zealand and (he Australian Colonies ike price of wlieut ii hardening, and stocks are in bat limited supply. The 21b loaf km* risen at Ngaruuwaliia to sd.

Phlvvni School Basi'lton Eabt — Parent*, whatever the chil'lr«a may think of the matter, will be glad to learn that » want f»r «omo time felt in Hamilton East, in abmit to b» at once •applied in the » i st*b.Mhment of * pri vtite *obool for vh'ldrf n,«ad of k superior kind An i this want hi* b'cu all the more fe't of lute on account of the closing df the public school if th» di'.tno'through the (lenth of the late scho >lm%ntflr. Mi«s R. Bel will enter on lier n«w dutu-a at a time when her t-fFurta will be mnre than ordinary acceptable to the pub ie, and *3 >b«t bruiKH t « th» t »^k th<* r> puta'ion uf coos-flerahle i |j.uu>io aud ability as «n luiiiu i'reii th«re» liltln doubt that the un-'e<t king wnl »>« »»8 wiMf Co; to h»-r*elf aa ti> ilxs; nit vi. it 13 utuudud4>J tCf-vc i

'I iik " No "wick B li.hin" Ims the follow inj» :~ Tiif re wata veiy plistut doiimlioii jiarty trie <>r,hrr t-vrirng, bihl the company aing " We quo up all for Heaven" with <lepp fe img, bin the next •1 ty the minister (xpres-»d a denite 10 r*"Biga. He said tti»t t^rea qu«rtB <if lieau', a keg of dr u«l apple -i, and auuli<o drt'^xiojj gown wcieU'rHiii tflly VMlu»b c in ih ir way, but they te<in d to him to fnim 1111 uiiiutural basis to preauu auun'l tk»*ulo{»v fiom

The Civil Sfrvici? of *^v,w Zk\i,am>. — Tun is the way tho " >•*«' Zmlaucl Time-*" spo.iki of llio Civil Service; — " The best men, including Mni->tein themselvte, are overworked, teoaii-e half the clrtrks in the G.)VeruU;ent i«rvice cannot be uu-Wi tv (l<> tlitir woik lv .11 intelligent manner^ Ttie re>uifc u tl.ai the most lntlini( mit er, involving any ical re-iponatliihty, 13 umua ly ' hung ujj' for an imlefiui c p nn<, and tho gr«at art wf ' htnl^not tv do it' hi* reached a pitch of perfection i» New Zealand, which is probably unequal ed iv any other dependency of tue British Crown."

Cokc«ENTNO Sir Q-eorgo Grey'a resistance to the Government policy, the 11 Wairarapa Sttindurd" says : — '' ft 13 no secret that isir George Grey h»s telegraphed to England for an opinion of one or more of the distinguished members of the English bar, touching the legality or otherwise of the Abolition of Province-! < Act. He and hw friends will coutnve to keep Parliament in ifssion -until the opiuion 11 receive,!, and if it turn out favourable to the views of the Provincialists, Sir George will certainly resist the c ange in l.i» own proper prison as of Auckland. Ho haa all Ihi tenacity of purpose of an old lloman."

>? Thk Wbatheb appesrs to have set in dry ami aultiy much earlier than muni for the season of ike year, and cumllttnt* among the fanners are beginning to be heard ou all hards,' as uiu is not only need«.l tor the growing »p iug cr.)p«, but for the grass land. The ahowem which fell lost week were, it set-tut, hut light throughout tt>4 district, and quite insufficient. To those who have Confidence in the iuiiuence of the moon upon the weather; it may be of interest to know that theie wak a uew moon on Tuesday nifchfc, »i 9 36 p.m , bur, according to their theory, if it brings change of weather, it niUft be within forty-eight hoU'f, or, before the evening of tn-day.

A BREAK IN THB C)-OUDB. — There 13 a ■ilver lining to the edge ol :be cloud of tilk talk, t.ilk, in the Assembly, showing itseU at last. The estimates are bein^ rapidly proceeded with, »he interruption* of the stonewalling party being determinedly frowned down by the common sense of the House. Mr Tonka h-is left for the remainder of i lie session, others will qnickly follow, And though Mr Hichardion's Public Works Estimates have yet to be t* en under consider ilion it ii calculated (bat I lie flexion will close before thu end of tbe mouth.

Mr \JaCINDBIW* fla>» 'be Wellington correspondent ol the Cross, is cainy and unc.inny ; he prefer* having two string* to his bow. Oa the one hiud be Mud* to tl>e Ministry supplt-mp tarjr estimates of the Provincial expenditure, and on the oMipi h< t'ominunu'a'e* with the Otagn ii cm' en, t tlti >q if they will auppnit him in retaining Provino al establiihinenta, »'id eeizuig tboGorrrnment, thopropiiel y of carrying on the Piorinciul ariuumstra. tion and reci-ting the Abolition Act, or any of itd sequences. Thin high and rni.'bty p.opnsition U>d been die sutj c: < f the cubdued talk of the lobbies to-day. What answer has been given has not trai spired, but I know -of one Otago m«m er who said that be declined to 100 It at the proposition, to thp ivp y, or anything in th- «hipa of tuggusted rebel-ion He ii, however one of the minute abolition unnarity in 0 aj»o

Sib Jvuvoi Vdoei. (fares new Zea'aud to-muirow. lt» is satisfactory to line] th it he will not be pisriniticl to leave thu C-iloay without tarns i»p|>recintiT« murk of die good -will and respect of the colonists. A fnrewell address togoih p r with a piir*e of 600 sovere gn?, ..subscribed by a few of li's admirers will ho pre«a-ited to Sir Julius previous, to his leafing VVtJlington. The time will come, nty, is not fur diftnnt, when the glamour which now blindt so many will Imvo p-issedaway and men will come to it>e in the grp»t, id erne of the lute Pniaier wrested from its ori{.i lal intentions hi i hat bt-en hy the harper fi<'g<T» of Pr <vmcijil corruption, a poll -y which neveriheledi has done muuh to ra se New Zealand from astute which wa» then lusl becoming like that of Tatmnni* to one ot firct rank nmonijst the Col m-o of Au^trulisia. If theexpen imie on Public Woik# hn*b'eu f-xiravkgant and m «ptacd the Assembly niuotat least chare the blame with thu Government and with » he lute Prrrni. r. Thi» grpafc 8' home of 1870 was mid© the scene cf Prorincial scramblini!, and works were forced upon the country by a system of log Tolling which no Q-ovrrntncnt fould oppose and live. It is tin* whi h has marrei tho symmetry of wbat was a oomprehi nsive and stuiccm inliko conceptim, a d for this tl>e House of Kepiosonlatives, far more thin Us projector or his colle^gu»*s are responsible.

Ihe Cattm Nuisanob is it teami as bad at Kilukihi as eleeuiiorp m the dis'iict. A correspondent writing us from ahat place yesterday, «ay 3 : -" At a meeting of th» Town Bjard a few dnjs ago, the tru-fcecs caused not icet to b • imied for tenders for iratpri* 1 to comtruot a public p>nnd. I don't think tliis news will bo at all welcome to those non-resi-denis who, having no propo-ty in tlie township, havo neyertlieless hitherto raised lots of young cattle on the quiet here. Ai d as for mobs of horse «took - oh, Fancy ! thia i» the place abore all ! other towna in the doita, whtre they arc. and where the brutea take th ir own meet way in racing and roaming through the settlement Where do they come from ? and who are J-heir owners ? re cul'utions that would puzzle a Philudolphi.t lawvtr."

A Yarx.— "When I was in California in '56," ho be^an, " I didn't strike goM rj'iitn bo well ns aomo of 'em, a id so I went about with my gun, and for a y-*m or two liTed a kind o' as 1 i' ul< ural life Jiiie. Well, one day I met a grizzly , and he was n hoallhy one — heft and bold as tlie day o* judgement. I ecu'd not buck ; I had vo chance, for I had ju«t come down a hill ri^ht on top of 'm. My gnn w.vsn'i loaded neither, and I couldn't do any good by clubbing with it neither. I wa* stionj; enough, but lorrymitey yon couldn't make no more imp-ession on that bar w th an iron club than if it was made o'glass. Well, 1 hadn'l much tune to tbiuk over matters, so I jmt looked ttraiglit into, his darned ejes. Prett? soon they bi'gan to twinkle ; the bar opened his mouth wide fo a good bite, and just then, sir, then in the nick o' time, 1 put my ar>n down his throat, grabbed at his mio, and pu le I him clean insido out. before he could s»y his soul was his own, und, tint's in tiue as I am nettin' her.6 " — Uaobitry News He was the proprietor of a restaurant and a prominent member of a (.ishionab'r church. When the, brethren pis«ed>round to collect the subscripuons, he fumbled in his pocket for his slip, drew out a i umber of papers, and drop|ie.-l one into the plate Tbe next d»y he wus astonished to rraeire it buck again, und'much more ajtoni-hed upon opening it to perceiv« that he had rontriUuti'J not exaci y » suHnorption, but » j'aper beinnjj (ho )fgei'd, "'Q-oii for twelve drinks." i

TKITOTALTSM EXTRtOhDINAUY — A on.m has jut, ociuie.l ,n ile io> h of King ami vvhicli lia< < aused a g<md rl>al of mmh ti >i> aiDiin^ t is »lio r>-R!y dpKiri* !ii>i liy to a etnin (i in « chol. Tiie 'ef ct-.' of a compound ial ed ginglr iO<-'UhI, largely u-t-d by G »>d Templarx ia Durham and I^orti urnberlund, we o ob-ervcd to tinve a Ktrik)i)(r resemblm cc *n those ir<>dio**d by too fre« iot..ti •••« f the liquoig dia]'<n<ei l>y the mm h-uO-pined publican. Some of the atucier irdiirl IVnipiars insisted tijon an iuve»-t — nation, and specimen-* vee nubtmtted to an expert. Shortly afterward* he »pI eire 1 at a Tempt rauce meeting at Now Herringtnn, and convinofda 1 r e as emblane **y rtir^ct fxperim nt that 'there w-ib »« mnih alcohol m one botl'if yinger-CO dl^l AS in two <.f he«-r, and that ie was iiliiKist on a level, so far as spirit n> conccrued, with rum and wbiHkey ' 1 The spirit «k r.icte \ from one bottle of cordial burnt for one lu.ur mtl eleven minutes, and then had to be blown out.' Vast Bur^rife w-»s expreeaed at tliia revelation, and some of those present gave a manafacturcr of fcivh'a bit of their mind ' He oouf- ssed that the cordial contained a g< od deal of spirit, but signifirantly adcei the ' teetdtalle a like it beat so. An old Highlander noted for his love of whiiky most of his life, wna indue d to sign the teetotal pledge. After abstaining for some tune, ndt fiehng quite so well as he usrd to do, he t hou^hi he would consult Jthe doctor. Mieuogtlie d<icfor on his way to another putient, Donald, stopping him, told him how hifel', and atked his advice. The doi tor saul, " 1 b lwve Donald, you hn\e been used to a little spirits in your time !' That I have, *ir, and too mudh nt odd limes " " VVell Donald, take my advice ai d take a little eiich day." " Uuf , air, ye ken, I am a teetotidler now, and dare noit.ko whiskey." " Pooh ! pooh," said the doctor, "It is no violation of your plrdge to take it as medic ne." "And how much should I take nt a tune, air P" " Oli ! about nn ouce." Donald ,on his way home, |nondered how much whisky went to an ounce. When he got into the house, he got hU eve on a little boy, a grandson, who had junt come home from bcliOjl, and said, "Johnny, just take your slate and count up to tne how much whisky goes to an ounce." The lad turned up one of his tabie->, and bawled out, "(sixteen drachms mii>e an ounce." Ihe old man knew well bow much went to a drum of wluskj. but sixteen of them as medicine was a staggerer. However, he very prudently (onaidmd there was little übq asking advi.e if it was not followed ; so off he sent J hnny at once for the medicine, shouting eft r him to be sure and call at old John M'Dou ala on his way and t-ll him tint lie wanted him immediately. When John aid the whisky at rued the two north es rat down uud had h jolty evening over the doctor's medicine.

The •' AvBVß.ma.tioh'' ap^aking of the rfigiiatifn of Sir Julius V.^el, sayß :—: — "Sir Jnliua Vugel apu,<r«si>t y now goes boii'fj ■ Agent-General, and it cuuuot be .lei ieJ ihdt the colony in h.tn wilt pitha a very effioi. Nt representative. It oannut hwdly be supposed, however that the not very onen.u* <luti> s < f his office will aif rd hulficitit oc upation for bis active <tud energ-tic mind, and ho will very likely before long bo 100- inn out a course fo r himseif in the split rd < f finance, or in i bat of B Hit-h poli i», or m both. It such is the case, we ghoul t expect; to see ai'inething more than a. common everytiny success. Such busiuens laluuts com, bi ltd wiih cucli power* of npeakingsuoh prxctical exierit-ncf, auch broad atlv nt <rous conceptior », an have been ahowu by Sir Ju.iua Vcgel, are 1 y uo m«»ns common to ilie Erg iah poll ic%i world at the present lime; aiul if h* dvvotea himrelf to thnt h 11, he hi* Hi »'l po ability » fn me hi fore bun in which Home of the brilliant mucto a of te p*»fc may bo repeated. As to the position of hia ministry when be h a left it, the pr >S| out, we should «ay, is by no means unfavorable, 'ihe rutiieuient of Sir Julius Voj^el may aave the Minittia mary atucks that are uxtigiited by personal hos'ility to him, ami for ten rf«t the Ministry has in the patent leader of the oppobition a, aouree of «tr»ntte which could not be given t<> v by the auppoit of the mo it powerful ally."

Road from Hamiltov to titr Wathou Riveu. — We I<am, imm the Croi-> of yest>"day, 'hat the A«*eujb y has voted a t.um if £1000 for the opening of a road from the Hamilton district to Omaba, on the Waihou mer. Alludiug to the iuafl'quasy of the mm voted, our Auck-1-imJ contemporary Bays :—": — " But £1,000 is not enough fur the purpose of completing fafe and comparatively easy otuaiumcation from the upper country to Omaha, and thence l>y river steamer to Ohiietnuri and Thames, and ultimately to Auckland itse f. A passible rond to Onmha may be formed for this sum, for there in a long stretch of level country over which whueled vehicles can pius with cane for n any miles, only the lineot route is intercepted liy *ever<tl creeLs and puces of swamp which leqmre rough bridging and m.iking up in order to complete a coutinuous fciid Rerviceable road. But tlie river from ( 'mtba downwards requires attention. It n the abode of immerom miga which endanger uaviga tiou, and a few hunrlred* more r« quire to bo "lac<d on the En'im'tes for the ie mo\ 1 <>f ihetesnng"." We undenU d tSat Mr Firth, who has lately t'aveiJtil horn his ontate down ail the way te Omaha, overcoming creeks and difficult flax-swampy in] 'heir present otat'-, h^s t' legraphe I to Mr G-orge dcy and Mr W. Kowe, the m^mbors for the Thames urging on them thu necessity of a further Hum being voted, in onUr Jo clear the river of the too prevailing snsgs, which, while they exist, will always, more or less, impede navigation.

Flogging iw Mount Eden Gaol Briley convicted of a enminil nssmtlt on a llin S noluir, ofl'apakura received hjs first 25 lashes on Monday evening. Alter beiwj stripped to tho want, he was tied to tho triangle, his hands being fastened abo»e his hmd and hu f.-et. strapped to- • eth«r. All the necea«ory prrpura'ions harmg been compl. ted, ih lagellutor » tapped forward wnh an cdiniiry " cut" in liis hand, midy o inflict the flirt Ush. lie was a smart, athletic men, who hwt evidently performed similar operations before. He wnfu no hat, and d ve-trd himself also of coat mid waictcoal. On coming fjnvutd ))« saluted in ibi'itiry style, and was told to do Li* duty. The word " one" was given, end, nfu-r two or Ihrce •witchea in the air, the whip came down with full force unon Brih-y'a b.ck, leaving eev.Tal long weals HCron it Bnley'» back tr<mb'<d violently and be •<emod about to f .mt, but be ut-tered no ciy. lhe second blow fell nlniOkt on iheanmo spot, and the succeeding blo»« aUo ftll vry «enr it, the ea!e gcttini; Heepor and d«n| er a e<oh I«,li wa« de- i h»ered. At 16 the blood b.g»nto fl .w along (ho wfal<, and continued to do bo till iho whoo nu-üb^r, 25, was mflioted J lu>'fl i^elktor then ogam mluted thiso! prettent *nd letirol, 'lho flo»gmg di i not take more than three minutes. Bti'ev »UTe uttfrence to no cry ; fmi. wm trembling from the biginniim to ihe do c I'll, re is o doubt that if t « p mts >ment hud bopn toi tinned much loi<gfr he would have fainted ; muc'i of hit llesh w..ul I licivu been diawu oH. W'luu the .ksl

Ih-Ii h cl bun h lii> ,td h. re uro-e iiaiij.hi euppicH-cdcu «'i ir iiu ilx* < c upn.> <»vi tii« piMul Hcrvil.ul.- eel s T ou^h >\i-\ cuiili not w.t'e-s the r r«.ni>i,y, tin-v mud li ar wiiht \uoi jilne, niiil luus exprc-.Sf(l 'heir admiral n oi Bnltn's endur»tjcp. Atlhnco c'ufi'tn ol tlieCtMe-nnnv Bnley, nfter being reldistd lioru the tuniyi.-, wiilkprl buck lo liv cell apparent y imi iiiucli the vrnree lur t e pun aliment ho Imd tiniiprnoiie. tin will rei- iv« t'»p r<«iiKiining 25 lushes on the 2,4 id Ueoe id be r.

The Shaw Entertainment,, PTamil. TON — The Lun)i>a t o MnßUelu Mill make the r first appearance b. lr.ro a liauulton hUiiomc to-n^bt, in the New H«il, hai.iltoi. East, (ii behall of the fluid* of tl.e hh.iw hubtcuptiuu. Tue enttrtain111 •nt tvi'l, how. vc-, ai mny le rein ly tbe progidiiime published thewhtre, be a. variidand *ttrnotivo one. fivea were it no% tLe fcxc«lleuce of the caubi could not but, ensure it. cmwdtd house, and we tiu-t to bo »ble to fctnte m our next issue toat IJamilton has Cm tribute*! ita lull sh^re tow aids the commou fund btiug now raised in W. lkato for' the widow aud children of the 1a c Mr SLa*-.

Pin-backs is England. — X vwiter in I he London ''Sporting Gaz tie" say* :—: — Never Imve I seen ihe hideousne^s and absurdity of the | rtSt-nt fuauion of u,ht < outlines to greater advantage Ihun at Lord's pricket ground. Mary ladim wore rash enough to recune on the grus* tW ird, and tlioir frantic eff rts to rise from their recumbent poiiii m were a sjurce of great iimustment lo the tnstandi-is. The spectacle »ppenred lo afford aa much fun a» aa ck race, to which, indeed, it bore some respinblw c. A certain Duchess, I Hin told, bchafci with the t reattlsl a lf-po^se sion unaer the-e some a hat liuiuiliating ciroumslances. Finding she cmid not \iia in the ordinary wt.y, she tiling heuelf on all lours, and by throwing hpr weight alternately to uglw and leit finally succeeded in training h.-r perpendicular. These costi>m-8 are the jo»e ol the season, Crowd* ot gamins gaihi-r round the carriage* in Urgent street, in order to wuto-h the swathed and waddle 1 mummies of fashion utruggle to mount, (heir carnage-step ; and the other day I was the witness of a wry funny scene in lralalgar Square, A iady trim bandaged made no less than six ineffectual i-Ujris lo get into a 'bus. The p.vusengor* grew aba lutely apoplectic with suppressed laughter, and cren the gallint conductor v^bo was doing bis beat to heJp beauty in distress, could hardly btranglo his c*cibina ory inclination. In m sure that the street bojs, at any rate, »ill be diseiaisuUte when tins amusing fieak of fashion dies out.

FitoviNciALiSM in Otaoo. — The ' Otago Guardian' in au*\»er to (ho question •• of wliim ore thr Otago Provinciali-ts com-po-ipil," thus replies to a co uinpoiary : " We apprehend that our contrmporHry will change bis opinion nbouc the shrewd and canny peop c ol Dutiediu ere uiun> tiayt* have passed, and regret to find I hut 'the loafers kicking up u dust' constitute n di«gu*tinp)y large proportion of our ' shrewd and cauny' community. This of M epeuted charge about the • scraps of br< ftd und cheese' ia an oft repeated impertinence, and comes with a bud grace from Wellington, * plxc** thu imrly reek* With the fllenoh of officialism, aud wh<re but for ' the scraps ol biead and cheeeo' iloalt out fioin the public pantry, it:»:-bop keepers would, every one, bo nuolvent in six month.-', and tub pi opje would fly frnn it as if it was pli'gue-»tnken. Eiery one know* why Weliiugton und all itbu'Abolilion at, teeing ihtt f Oui Mil istcr^dowuto thecroa- ng- w e, er di*_) aie nikn dei<tndfut on pub.iv torn 0 ago q ovvs it 4 bivad a. d < he< be, mid only mint* to kei'p and eat it, and mt t» huvu toki-ey tlie stirred and hungry cri vv ol oon regaled ofllciilism at Wellington, dial takes our bread and cheese und tl en reviles us. For once in a while oiu ct ntempoiary speaks huly when he sa.>*, ' Wliet. it becomes nects-tiry the Duucdiu people can speak out und to (he point.' 111 1 u ' ni-c» scary' now, and l<y th« ln.Jp of prov dt-nce they 'will' i-pak out vow, and to the point "

Disease amoxg Pigs— Two or tbreo years ago the great prevalence ot t ici inoiis in the pineries of Germany ea se.l ii much lessened consumption of pork in that colintiy, and also made m ?t i e<>ple in these countries who had read anything about the disrate, pause before eating porrine flesh. Our friends at the Clutn* are e vidently pltoed in a tuntlar poatlion, as we learn from the local jounibl that a diseanu is at present prevalent aim ugst the pigs in thut dutiict. In a numKer of chb'4 1 hus pro*ed fut.il, and in each case within an hour at er i he annnnl was noticed unwell. On b ing opened, the i lie cjinpioms in oith case were the same —I ho htsmt was fillt-d with blood, and hardened into the consistence of a griatle — not clotted tscold blood nsunlly in. If the Clutha pigs are not afflicted with the presence of trich »c, they bate endmtly got something quite at> bad.

A noR«SE DEAMBIud a6on, who, being a lad of ipirit, prop sod &■ a novel iipoHiont lo open as able <>u tbe principle of etrctly lionesl dealing; but the l.itliM' disooura^rd tbo i lea, observing, "he disliked specula'iou "

SEASONABLE — Trie latest receipt for making on cream— winch we puhiisli lor tho benefit of our re ider?, without com-ment-is this : "Pick out the prettiest girl 3'Ou an iefl, ttir her gfntly into a corner, and nsk her to Rive you a kiss. You will theu have a nice scream.'' WllY i« a. drunkard like a bad account ? — Becauso he generally overbuluuees.