The Waikato Times.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 692, 21 November 1876, Page 2

The Waikato Times.

TUtSSiAV NOVEM BE ft 21, 1876

Equal and exact junttce to all men, CM whatever «uit« or persuasion, religious or political • # « • • Here ihfcN the Pre»i th» PEorLl's right mftinUin, Unawed by influence and nnbriherl br «»«'".

Returning to the s-ibject of the C unities Act >md its working, the first question that presen s itself is, v\hat functions has the County Council to perform, and what means to perform them with. A reference to part 8 of the Act will explain the latter, the former depends mnoh upon the course the Council really akuß as regards the working of the Act in its entirety, or, as work may be thrust upon it by individual road boards, which may, if they choose, becmie altogether merged into a county, or may, under certain conditions, arrange to hive certain special works taken off their hands by the County. As the financial part of the question is, jwrbaps, the most important, for, unless the wheel is greased, it will not tarn, we shall first refer to it. The County funds are derivable from a variety of sources; rates made aua levied accoi'ding to the Act, that is, general rates to the extent of one shilling in the £ on the rateab'e value of all ratoable property in the County, separate ratra for particular parts of the County to the same extent ; ami special rates for repayment of interest and sinking fund on loans — the loans, in gros-», being limited in extent to four times the amount ol i one years general rates. They have further, the toll-, which the Council : may decide to levy on County roads, bridges, and ferries, or all rents of (each tolls; moneys recei»ed by the Council, under any grant or appropiiation by any Act of the General Assembly ; the rents of any reserve or other property vested in the County Council, and finally "all moneys payable to the County, under the provisions of the Kinanciall Arrangements Act, 1876." A reference to this Act gives us the important information that one half j the £ for £ to be paid to country districts oat of tb« land fund of the district — or, failing the land fund, fiom Ireasury Bills raised and chargeable against tho land fund of such district, when happily it shall j possess one— will be handed over-to the County, the other half only to Road Boards. Thus the subsidy to tho latter, as provided by the Assembly, will be tho £1 for £1 j coming from the consolidated i revenue, the £1 for £1 to c mie from the land fand beiug shared between the Counties and their respective Highway districts- This will be a loss to the latter, but, against this must be set off the fact that some works, such as mam roads, bridges, Ac., now on their haiids, will become County liabilities. Before leaving the question of County funds, we may mention that all property in the road districts wi 1 bo rated under the Rating Act, 1876, and that the County rating scale will be that established by the local Boards under that. Act. /From the number of rates above alluded to, loviabe by the Counoil, it would lecm at firat «ight that the latter was limply a huge rating machine, which might bo turned with intolorable pressure upon the taxpayer, but the Act carefully provides that none but the taxpayers can turn the handle of the screw. Tne general rate of one shilling in the : pound is the only rate which the Council can levy without the special sanction of the ratepnv«>fH. In all other cases— that

is. in (lie cas>3 Hi a stpavute rale, .wliero *wo op more Highway dis-In-'t^ in a comity imy, detcnnwi" to become jointly HaMe for a special or separate rate, independent of the rest of tbe County, for the execution of some public works of value only to themselves, and not to the County as a whole, the rate can only be levied on the petition of a majority of the ratepayers, and must not exceed one shilling in the £ of the rateable value of the property ot sach districts. In the case of special rates to provide for loans, for which the whole county is liable, such may not be levied, until the Council shall hare published, once a week for one month, particulars of the work to be done and the sum pro|x>sed to be raised, and shall have, at tbe expiration of that time, called a meeting of the ratepayers of the County to consider the proposal. In not leas than one, or more than three weeks, a poll of the ratepayers generally will be taken, and only if the number of votes given for the proposal within the several ridings, taken together, exceeds the number given against it by one fifth, or more than one fifth of the latter, will the Council be empowered to raise the loan and levj the rate. Where two or more Councils join in raising 1 a loan for a work of common benofit to each, the proposal must be can i d by a poll of the ratepayers iv each county. Wo had intended to hare refered to County Council functions in our present issue, but must defer thisuntil our next.

Thb Wajkato Swamp CoMrANT are advertising for teudersfor olmigluug nouie 400 acres of fera land, Tande<« Mill be re> e:ved by the M»n»gtr, Mr Henry Reynolds, up to the 6tn proximo. PinsoNe desirous of getting up «n entfrUi'iment iv aid of the fund beinu raiaed fo* the family of the late Mr lya'ham arrt icq <oired to ineer at thKoyal Hotel, H*iailtua V**t thia evening. Tae lat« Rtorit. — Amongst tha damage done by the lat<» thunder storm, waa we learn, the killing of four peac tree* in the garden of Mr Hn^h McPheraop, of Hamilton Weit. Theatres were entirely nonrohed np <and withered by the elect ri > fluid. AHOUdtt the p»'-en^er« by the cr»-h ast bight, from Auckland, win Mr Soil", ou whone tie* sy«iorn of nfld cnnipe i tion »h< ot.Dg—the iubi'itution of hUck targets f>r whire — * t>oard « f enq iy. over whiuh Colonel Lyon will preaidf , will hi' to-mmrow in H^mi'ton. Mr Joseph M«y and Mr J.hn Wal.aoa wora alu passengers to H «mi)t>n. Mr Kinneot Hill will hoH a large mnd important sale, a l^aruavtah &, on h" 3lLn Mr., when »« will offir a pubhu ancti<-n, the plant used by he oat tructora in the freotioi of ih« Kg>-ru»w»hi» bridge, includintc * uwehe bor» -power pnrtiblo en^ino und a targe variety ot ui«ful|iinplecoeDU, tools, eto. Sir Gxonaz Grey at the Thames was received on Saturday by * Urge number of p»ra •»•, andme* at the wharf, whore add>e>.s^ we?e ir Bdi»t«d to him. In th evetii i|{ h« adarnjs^d a larffe number <•{ | c p'« in the Theatre Rov»I, wheu the fi I owing reio'ution wan ca>ried by a Uryo m»j inty :-° I hat this ineetinft b»a the h ghest reipe-Jt for Sir George Grey, aud o >rdially approve* of bis action in the Lit* Par'ument at reprotentative of the Tbamea dutrict. The Sale or Govervmk^t Stores on Situaday lane artracced s ttlera fr< m all parta of the Waikato dtxtrict. Therr waa a largo crowd upon the grouD 1, aud v>Ty •4ti«fact>ry pnc<"t were realiaed Ihe lota were made to auit | urchasrr*, and aold pnncipa ly to private pernona, •torekeep»r< being unable, aa arul<, to obtain anything at lena than, or even at the wbolexa'e price*. In aome inatauuea new HOO'U Jo.nld have been buu^hb cheaper at i he morea. TheJ Weathkr hae undergone a decided ohange f>r the better amca the turn of the new mo"v on Sa urlay cv • j "ing. The oold equally th. >*tri and violent hfctinn »f tho preceding fortnight ' having been replaced by tine aettled warm growing weith^r. The early ramand fine waim weather of aix-wo ka aid a mouth ago had bisught tin gr»»» rij.idly forward, and wo may expect that ("tn« <f tl'O early growing laod n t»i d strict will soon bepUcednndr the toy the. The hly crop p oiniae» | fcj l,e ■i fe o <J one generally The Hope of Waikato Lodob, I. .G T., h<»Ma an open meeting o<l'hiraday earning next, and invitt-a the general public to come and sre how coiiu-nraie people tan on joy t'^m^elvfh withou the vi« of atn n = or s imilanta than the flow of good animal tpitna and without tho aaaituice of tho Rum Fiend. Ir will he aeen that tb y have ttkeu the p>e:aution to exolude nil boys, unlea* a iconj a ie t by their pa>e .t^ I hii haa be » fouml nccctßai-y on account < f the rough and un»e mly onuduct of th« larrikin elemeut at the l*ot open lo ge meeting. Tns Waik*to Cattl* Show will take place o i Thn^d«y u>-xt, at Ohanpo, and th<m^ tbt-ie me -oarcrly ao m<ny eutri n aa it waa expected thtra wonlri be, will d> u'>tlf-u prove a larc» ->*tfacti«>n t<i the eettlera and thoir famihea. T ieio ire no Uaa tna<i tnirty-Mx entrits in bowes, and as mauy in o>t le. In ahrop, the chi f c nueoitiun ie iv L'non'u ram-", for uhi;h tho'6 are fleven entrien. Amnngat the m acellane«-us ait le», we notice a cnlltc tion of "«ol and fellmongery, e'lti-rad t>y MexsiK Caiueuter aud By run, of Ng.ruawahi*. A PCHER FOB THE PARfiOS.—We finH tlim amu n>g geatton quoted in the '•New Y .rfc Suu"'— •' W.rr^n Chase prop"uee tha' ' the 60,009 clergy mtn ot the Omted State* meet in Philadelphia thia oenteuui il year, and deoi It* by vote. as the old ooiiotls di I, jatC wh»t ii th* word of God, what it m ariß, and wlnoli •l.jotnua la true and » hith i* (»!»« ; (viU reporta of the debatt-a an I votea to bpublished. Ano, that until thane queat loan are aettltiH, the people build no moio onurohej, employ no more preacherx, ami piy tio moro pew rent, ai they n>*y be i-na ainiag error by doing to, and it ought to be known what tht trttih ii." B»«BP SniAJtlKO, aara the 'Portrtj Bay standard, it atill act ire 7 pursued at the various atations in tha Bay whio'i are *u(Bci"ntlj advanced. Already 850 btUt hare be-n deported bj ti>n to Nu pier and Auok'anri, and tha G-o-Aheid wul take About another 100 on herntxt upward trip. It it not generally expocte I, that lb-ro will beunj increase, if, indeed, to muoh of thia atapleaa wna cli pd last year. lh« lambing haabeen giH)d so fa : feed abuudtiut, and the wuatiicr genial.

Dr-ti^o th« Inqosst, yesterday, n qu stitM put by one* of the jury, through tid foroisin, ♦•licit* d t^e r»p'v fr»m the Oi»*f>ner i»nd constable that th-re «e«e no itr«igi aviiUble f >r pu'>'iiJ na>* in • ■ <MV« r<nt{ the hodltfl iff iie/non* lro«-n d »* in the ousts Of the Unfortunate, lad Young, and the CoroHer further remarked that though he hid previously drawD attention to tt.e mutter, the Hamilton punt w»s nt\\\ unp ovided with even a angle hiebuoy, in c>se of accident. The question in, on whom doea ihe duty of providing these very neeon!>»ry imjl merit* fall, the Government (whatever that m»y mean) or the Town B>ard ? *In the ease of lifehnoy« tor the puot, decidedly on the latter. Drags, too, forreoovenug bodies, in a dittriot where •>> many deaths by drowning ooour, nhould be provided for the nse of the police. Cricket — Auckland C. C. Y. Locaj* Team —»n Friday next, a team, of cricketers belon^jing to the Auckland Cricket Club will arrive in Hamilton, to (•lay a match, on Saturday, on ta-i Zingari Ground, againat eleven Waikato players. The following lut ot names shovva th*t the local mm haveth-ir woik cut out if they wish t.» hold their own. It co ) lists of Messrs Buakland, Blackett, 0 ition, Browning, Yatas, Abraham, W l\>nlw, E W WhiUk«r, W Philaun, G McLean, and Ward. It is gratifying to find tbat the A .CO. have had the energy to come aw*y from home to \i*it us, and it u to be hop«l that their example may he followed 0/ other Aucklnndca, who, a-* a rule, are vtty har.i to diair from their own gronnl. Th i ma' oh on Saturday « ill bo si »rtei vtry early, in order to have the ga no played out, an n<» hiug in ra*»r> unsatisfactory than an uufiuisued match. Ttie list of local pUyers will be uubl"-h*d iq our next i«»ue, THE Kaimai O unhcld.— On Monday afternoon («»ys the •• Bay of Plenty Timet" of Wednesday la*t) fourteen intending prospectors, repre«Huti(ii some thirty men, w^i'ed on Mr Commission. <r Braban , aud told him they were prepared tog« out to Kaimai, provided he would kjive them written authority to prospect. Tbej majority of them declined to go out nnl> as aot-ouipaniad hy aome of the trading Ng*iterangi men, such as Te Kuka, To Puru, Te Manauui, H-uawira, Euoka, Hlmi. or Matimutt. Mr Peter Grant, one of the intending prospectors, | •luring the interview aiked the Cum- \ misaioner for authority to arrest any obstructing uativnu. Be told the Como.kmouor that it did oofc require an arniy 'c cover prospecting parties, the o:»~truoti"ni*t4 on ! y numbering tome d zan orso of tne Pirir-tkus. Mr Bral>eut decline 1 kjiviDg autnonty to arre-t nativ. s found dhctruoting. and stated tbat he had no control over the Pinrakus. There arma>>y Thtm^a and Corouiaudel diggers in au<a gv jutj ut now, waiting to go out to Kiimai, wlteu *H*ured tliat. an owitructi.iu will be placed m their way by the Pinrakau*. A Vicious Horse — The accident to Mr CariDtchau'* ihi d, which oc urred at Cam'irid -c, on VVeonesday, was, we re. grtt to l<arn of a m<>re srrious character tnau at Brat, reported. 'J he boy, who is nine years of ago, vtas not pluying near the i orne, but hvl been sent on a meeiage, and wav returning, but when (tear the c»ttage of Mr Cttnp, a tuare hiving a foal at foot ran at him with open month. Tne boy tried to k et away fro-n her, when she slued round aud let fly with her heel*, hurling him several yarda intotuof'rn. When picked up hy Mm Camp, his uoie was cut aoroic, aud bin riu'ht cheek laid op«n to the bone, and if it hid not been for Mrs Camp, the child «o "Id have bl<d to death. As it m, hwill he dUfigured for life. The mare is a nntoii'Udly viuioua »n mat, tn too mauy horats are, and bad the same day chased two littl- girls passing along the road on their way to school. n SundHy luat a li tie tmy uanted Charte Collius had to run below a baker's oart f«r protection from tier heels. Such an animal ahould mt be allowed to be at large on th" public roads, much less in a township, indeed it might prove anexptutivo animal to its owue>a, StrsDAva Accidbnt.— Greit credit for th-ir efforts iv atsuting t« reioverhbody is due to several of the towns people of Hamilton, add ••p.-oiaily to cerUia members of the Armed C ns abulary tor who exertel themn'lrea to ti>e utmost, in one ca^e, th-it of Com 1 ah c Mulling, aln.ot to exhaustion, up to a tate hour on Sunday uiult, an/I a t ain at <a> 1 ght on yesterday worointf. A curious exiieritnent was tried in coun»c tm wrh the reoovery of thi body. Shortly before dudinsj it, a loaf of bread was hollowed out and fil el with as muoh qiiioU^ilver as it would float and piaoed on tie watnr, no*r the spot where the body was euppoitd to be. The loaf, in u said by th.me pre<«ut, floated ri^bt over the body almost at once. Th theoty is that the quicksilver is attracted 1 y tha remains ot vitality or e'ectricity Mtiicb e«irtis in a u^wly deoe<u< d boly, aud gravitates towards it. Whatever may have been the came if yesterdays ezperiment r<salung a« it did, whether there is any virtue in tbepiactc, or whether the 1< af fl atu>g to the spot imme«ately above the I ody was a mm u >c ctiual coiniidence, we caunot say, but, h-> experiine..t^was tried, aud with the roi-u't atat d. Squattke's TENrRE.— That squatters have any) hing but u m >no»polj of the lurid may be seen from th« following which is »aid to have occurred recently in the Ki»erine Dittriot : — "The othttr diy a «qu<it<er in tb le parts •'anted a tank eunk and enclosed on a ceruin part of hi* rua. He wiih waited on by two simple-looking hero 8 who ri quired th? job. iH* made up til* work, aul was ready to go as far as £60 or £70. Judge ot his surpri-e to find thtt the pair would do it fur £37. fbi*, At a time when wool iru g)ing down, wus too good a thing not to be ombric-d at oaco. Ho agreed, and the ra-n comm-nced to woik. They -built the dam, not their £37, and both were sii isfled or appareutly a>. Th^ s quel hit, however, to come. The dam-make s came to too nearest land oltica on the following Tnur«dnjr and selected the Und on m hion wn the tank they had j st complete I. The improvement. «rat not worth £4) — if had o.ly cost £37, you sei, to erect — »nd coiiaeq>it>aily bbe>e was no bar to gel etion. After this, who will say thar the Heathen Ohineio has ft monopoly of the wayj tifttar- dark, &o?" Mabx Twain's detc^ip'ior of the happiest boy in the village : Huckleberry whs always d ened in tlio aw olf clotie* of full grown 'i en, and they wore in per uin il bio >m and fl ittsrin^ wi h rag*. His htt «a« a vait ru v, with u wi c cre«o<;at ooped oiu o itd brun ; his cost, when ho «O'« o c, hung nearly 'o his hsels, and imd the rear wo ni huttotu far down the baok ; but ons suspender supported his iroui-ers ; the font ot h's trousers bagged low aud containei nothing ; the fringed leg dragged tne dirt when not rolled up. Huckleberry oamo and wout of his own fred will. He«:«pt ou door stops in tine -weathsr, and ia empty hogsheads when wet-; he did not have to go to sohool or ohurob, or to call any being muster, or obey anybody; ho cwuld gn fishing or •mftitnui£ wli»u or where U« oh(»t and stay as long as he pleated ; he was always the first bjy that went barefou in sprigi q nnd the last to resume leather iiith* fall j ho mver had to wash ot put on olean clothes ; he could swvar wonderfully. In a word, every l hing that goes to mane lite nrcoiouf, tbat boy had.

jAfl>?s~ i» Office. -A-"-C*s« of very jener^l interest; wa« tried at the Court, Oli ri*vhu roll on th« 19tTi ult :—: — Kt-iley v. Roitaton (Superint nde'it) —in which pluinl ff nought, to re< over £500 f>r assault and false imprisonment. Tlie question wan raised as to the response bility cf tie Superintendent His Honor said it was very ciear that some one taunt be male responsible for such toi'U. It was a matter ot great importance. Government could not not in a tyranicai ra inner, cren upon their own railways Mich iel Reiley, the plai- tiff, deposed he was & plumber, liring in Chris'churcti. Remembered February 141* st. Oa that day he travelled on the Great Southern Railway between OhrUtoburch and the Racecourse Junction. Leit Chr a cburcb about 10 minu'ei to 7. JCruvelled by seoond-olass, and had a return ticket for which hep lid ei.hteenpence. Had on prerious ocoa<ion« paid eight^enpcnce fo* the iimo kind of ticket. Went into a second-class smoking carriage, when tbe guard CAtne in and snipped his tioket, and handed it ba> k to him. Kcturned *o Cnriitourch by the last train that da; fro'n the Kfc ecourse June' ion. Had then the lame ticlcet at ho had received in the morning. On arriving at Addington the door was opened, the guard cone in and 001 l ced the tiokets, witness ara^ne the ot liars, and then went out and locked the dojr. Tnere were a giol many pople i>* the compartment. 1 hr» uuard returned in abjut a minute, and showing wi nest » ticket, asked him if' it wai the one ho had given him. Wit'ies' rip ied that he did not know, but that he had given him & return ticket. The guard laid he hid not, ani asked f>r a shilling, wlnoi lie rpftned to nay. The guard then went ami brougnt lh- stationmaster, "ho also demanded a shilling in a very bnllymg .manner. Witness ag»iin refused to pay it. He th n Baid, "Cjme out — out of that ; take him to t ie guard v»n and lock him up." Holmd no* asked witness fo.t his namo. The do >r was then opened, and the guard not hold of hi n by the ollnr. Witness tnen -sai i, ••Hands off: I'll wulk out, I wm't be d lagged out." He wai th*n taken and put into the gu^rd van, and lorked-»p nil t'loir uniral in Chutchuoh. On arrival at Chfisichu chtne station -muter s id it wm a mistake, nn I he wai very sorry for it. The gu^rd deposed that plaintiff was travelling with a tingle tiok«t. He nnd the station-master swore that they hid never put a hand on plain tiff. The jury, Hfter a short de'ifc»«T>it\on, returned a ver -ict for tie plaintiff, and a-sessed the damages at £150. Journalism in Tkxas - The " Printers K.fgist»r s -ys : — '• J>umali-un has h<d an astonishing nr iwih in l'« zu since th« war. Out of one hu >dred and forty newspapers now print eJ in ihe State, one h in. dred and ten hive been sta tM since- ih<* close of 'he g'eit struggle Ihe snull n»w towns btve all two or three p» era, and suop >rt them hanrt-oraely. Tue prop-i* tor of a weekly jxirnal, ii one oi the uiu-h^o >m c.ties, io d me that five columns oi his papar vai i him sit tho twin I dollar* clear profit. »n lUnliy. Everybody meroant, gambler, railroad contractor, clert>ymtin,dtieperudo — pitronize tnepaper nnd pay large prices for adverting" Some of thesi) jjurnils. hjw-Ter. mut b regular " on-« uorte" conceriit far we find the Editor of a Tex >s paper, the " R,ft." thus alluding tz the cjlum i* of a quarto contemporury : " It bears the word • chea,/ in ©very wrinkled, blurred feature, nnd ba« the «p i«arjnoe of an im pre.-si >n from sorabbeu type, set by crazy rats, led to » warped press by a aorti-eyed feeder, and superintends! by * drunken p'oasmtn." Slightly personal, we should unigino. Victoria Statmttcs —The Statistical Register of the colony of Victoria jiHt itHueil by the Ooven.mont St>ti»t. H H Hiytar, E*q, contaiu* a vastam*uut<f information relative to the agricultural, pastoral, mineral, and indus<ri Ins >uroes of Vioiona. From it we gatber that during tbe pai>t yeir Cr.'wn lanrN h*v« bisn alienated to tbe nzteut of 418,561 itCr^i, yielding » revenue of £630,00-) No laud wa* a ranted wi t.out purohate There war*- 863 'quatt'ng ran*, embr-oiug 23 000 000 aurop, from which a rental of £ 1 39, 3 i 4 was roaived. Tlb uum-'trof perkous f.niiage»i < n farms and station* amounted t<> 94 7i7 namely, 85 9^2 males and 28 78.) feuules The average rates <»{ va^n ( th ratv>n»\ paid to farm labourer* ««'« 17* 7i per week ; p'ougnmen, ditto, 21s 41 ; married c>up. s dito. 1U 61; feaimles, ditto 10* 7d. On stations t«e raes (with rut <>n>) were: Stockmen, £4> it* per an> urn ; nheph^rds, £35 3s ditto j n.arriud c uple* £ 0 ditto ; labourers, J7t 2i per wee* ; sb«-ar«rs, 13h p-r 100 «bep shorn. Tbe «heep-»l»e*rersof <it»go, by tbe way, h»v« just struck f>r £1 ver hundred, or 33 per on . over Victoria rates. The value <f agricultural mictiinery employed ou fa ran and stations amounts t> £1,701.164, and the v.tlui offaroaimprovtmouu £13,877,684. BHRXP Brkidiko. — Lord Kinnaird writes -• f 11. Wi to the " N«ith Brituh Au'ricultuiiat" :— Sir, — [ think tho fol lowing bis'ory of sheep breeding may nut be unint*reiitin« to yonr read n : — I commenced ia 1828 with • fl >uk of >outh lo wns from th« flocks of thw Duke of Richmon 1, Sir J <lly. an IMr Watson of Keillor, but I *i>Ou found that though the wool at th-tt time wn wortb from 2 1 to 3 1 per Ib. m ire than Lotoester- fin« oi t.iis bein^ then in iteimud for general wear in«t»a 1 of two^d* — yet the euro st did not su t the work n^ clas«ei, <tLer beiniit neitbrr size nor f »f. I tbeu weut f c the pare bluefaco Dituhlr-y L-ioe»ter; but I crotte 1 the Sou^hdiwa «»«< I bad with 'he I eiof »tor tnp and f uud tbtproduce, wli:h resembled Soutiido«n«, comrt to a great size and tity matu i y, brought the highest prije in lintuion, an I were pirohased eagerly by tn« ifirst-olaes butoier* th«r», hii oro<« n>t b mj th«n ki,o*n ; so thtt for some ye+rs I o t f r «in Englaud purer red Mout d >wn gimmers, and t- ok several crops of lamb* ioiD them, and feedjug tb-m in loft* on sparred fliort, m>ld th«m at fcigncn months old ia Jj >Q 'on, getting tatf top pnos as Southdown mut£in. A fur t.r. efin^ the Engli-h Lice*ters from the fJooks of Bu g«w, Stoiie. anil Stanley for some tim , 1 became impie-sed wir.h the grea'e retura to be got from tbe 1 »r t e•iidd B »r ier I.e'ot<»'er>»,, and oouimttice * tin* br ed in 1865. a -ing always ram» t.om th<* Pol war th, B■• tuque's Mihk Stark*, aud fott<r lilootia, netting some •wet from Mr Boimiiqu t. O c ram f»ou this fl ok did good »ervioe ia the Polwoitii fluok Some yean ago 1 met with a breed of shexp, ombiuing ti>e eice'lenoe of th« S <uthdowa mutton with the long wood of the L*Moe«t«r— a well* •jtabluhed breed oanied oi from father to son on a farm in Gloucestershire. The sbeep were original 'y a otks bewuen the Ootswold ami Hampxbire Dowu — tbe oross*bred rams boing usnd to oonntttuto the breed. This breed I fiod to be tbe mtist profitable, 'lhey are superior to the breed now knowu as Oxford Down*, Inwmaohlas the clip is twice the quantity. The quality of the wo >l, whioh boinx long wool, Mils at a higher figure, and to* ranttou is as wood as Southdown —indeed, has been pronounced i.y com* petent judges as q od as old Highlaud mut on. ia (he ' Transactions of tbe Huh acid Buoiaty' for July 1864 will be found ian sooount of th* <very c&rafal experimsnt I made in 1863 to acoortsia the relative value to the farmer

of "»i>m«r dTff erSbftfitfadg intnTloTsbf ten wedd^ra-Tope pure Leicester, bred in England ; one pur« Leio««ter, bredty roynelf ; nnut'i<>r of Border l.ocester*, bred by Mr R H*rdie, n*>»r Kelso ; mid » fourth, the GUrnet-ten-hire -heep above refer© j t'» — the result be n^ in favour ot Border L«tcestera over Kngttsh Lciostes, .and Gloucestershire over both in weight and value at the end of the experunouta, whivh were carried oa for twelve mi>utba. 1I» Bockiaitd'9 Fimt Wool Sal* will 36 held to-day. In our lut we d ew attention to the improvement* in the wool market at home. The advices which hnre been received unoa then all go to sho* that the ri«e in the price of wool is likely ■o be permanent, and tout tho tendency is i till upward. This intelligence is &l>o b >rn»j out by the report* of aales held at Melbourne by Mesar* Goid*borou«h and Co, where gre%«y wool brought ir tv 6|d to 121 1. A superior olip of limb's wool in grease brought 13} I, and wailj.d woois an^ed from 14-i to 22.1. The higher price* in each secti >n were obtained for very gooi sample* well skirted. Thi* information snoull f-irourab.y influence ti>e Auckland prices Aktif.cul MiNUEE3.--At the Cam bridge IJarinara Cub the other day a mem er *i.ated that the want of a quicker acli ig manure than bo ie* was mu,oh fe't i i wurr 1 ai.d turnip culture an i i idfed fur moat craps. It wi I be seen fr >m the following, which we take £om an Auuk/and eonte-upoi'ary, thai the want is likely soou to be supplied -.— " it will be latiefaciory to many of my readers to 1 am t'lat there ii a rea-onvble prospect that in a short lim > a chemical work* will be in cour#e oi erection amongst us- Tue tstabli->huoenl of such a m tnufactory will oreate a nan era m agricultural progress in Aucklind. Ch-«*p mineral aoid* wi i be pro tuoed by whose agenoy nuny now iutr ctabl< uinteiiila will be rend»ro>i iumceible ie a^ncu ture na minurei. It; wa-t ii Tait ti t attempts weru made to prepur chemical munures sui<»ble to any parti cular di ti ict or fi.-l > ao lon* a* all th< acid* and oth>-r cuemical* used hud to bt 1 1 ' pored. The oolt. of freight of the • daugeroua artulei wat % pmoti. al bir t( their introduction, ami the umnu'e prepitri-d under such circumst >ncea havi neces-anly been to; hi^h prued for then genera uee. but wi « a manufactory oi i ho north r«nk of t>>e Wutemita thu obj eti n will bo done away with, ano net tiers will not only be en bled to el valuable m >nura* muoli o'le^per thai formerly, but *ith the guarmtee o\ puri y ora minimum a and»rd<>f efren^tli Thu will enable many to mix t ieir owr manures, and thus *zre not ouly expjnie, but ihe needle** oa>na.e of matter u*ec a« drier* fur the Various caumioil mix tv es I >im not at hbeny tt pr-sent te duel >se tho nam a of tnose moving in th< mutter, but thoy have aecurei a large olock of land containing very tngh p-r <eutige of culphur. Fiom ttu* will b< prep»r«*d i-ulphuno aoid, which forms thi ns-iuof all chemical manure m mut oture t.n I 1 t»n uerauaded (hit bo ora tw.-lrc m>n>ns run their course, if a start ha 1 , not been made m the manutm-ture oi manure, the er o'kiu of tie plant will bt nearly completed. Tbe first ton ol locally nude nulphurio he d will form th< fint soli 1 f jundauon of tctenufic farmiuj in New Zetland. A Max Diuwwed —Another om* ci dro«rnmg occuned on Sa U'diy. Whan the Aieri, steamer, wa* Koing down <ro n Hamilton, and about three miles a'>ore Ntiarua^iihtasomaof theoe.» comtneio d skylarking and ontof them, » mau n«m A Ne*on, stepping suddenly bac-i, toppled over th>j atdo cf tbo vec*el. The Capta.n of the <i«ri. at OhCa stopped the w-iy upjn the Teresl and lotwred a box 1 , but by tbe time the boat reached the opjt where the oecurrenoe happenol. Nel*;n, who c>uld not »wim, bal »un> and disappeared. A 1 efforu io recover the b idy^were fruitless. It u a a nnewhat cunaua circumstance thit onh a x montha ago we reported tbe narrow e>>-apo of K«4*ou from a similar death. On that ooi-asmu ha manag-d to *lip bei ween toe a* earner and a bir^e, but wa» sared by the exertiois oi two of the crew of the »teamer, G-li and Spargo. Th-» COTTAOB OF COSTBNT HoTIL, Viet >rta and tlobson Streets, Auckland, W, B LaNGBEIUOK, Proprietor, iiaving been Rmarged and Improved, aff<rd« mil qualted Accommoditiou, and wnl be found a Really, Wed-a, pointeJ, iTir#tcUsi Hotel.— [ VDVi.]