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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 736, 6 March 1877, Page 2

Tenders for the erection of a sevenroomed bouse near Ohaupo will be received by the ar hit eoi, Mr Vialou, up to Saturday, tha VJhh iust. B&.NK Buildings, Hamilton. — Tenders for the erection of new bank premises for the Bank of New Zealand at Hamilton, to be built of brick, will be received by the architect, M. ifi Muhjney, up to noon of the loth insb. At a parting at a Chicago railway depot, •Do not forgeb me, or Coase to love me,' murmured the husbaud. 'Never! never!' soobad the wife, and she pulled out a hauduerchuf and tied a knot m it, that shy might remember. Pedigree Sheep — The ' Hawkete Bay Meicuiy ' supplies us with the ptdigreea of two CotiwolJ rains receuily imported by Mr Melville Suuth for Mr (Janniug from tbe flock of Wiliam Lane, Esq., o Broadfild, GriQUceotershire. Mr L*ne writes: — 'Ifo. 1 Greystonfl, dam Excel, -ior, got by Woupa'rtil, a firot-class'btu.l ram. No. 2, Cotswold Kwg 11, daui stud ewe, by L'otswold Kiug. Cots wold King 1 gave 230 guiueas for, and haye Bold many r«ma by him at frpm 12Q j gumeaa up to 210 guineas, aud was con sidcred to be the very beat sheep shown m EugUnd.' UsEFTTL Wbinkles. — If rats enter the cellar, a little powdered \.o ash tbrowii into their holes or mixed with meal and scattered m their runways never fails tj dr>ye them a^ay, $dyenne. pepper will ueep tbe buttery and siore-rooni free from ants and cockroaches. If a mouse makes an eutnmee into any part of jour dwellings, eaiurate a rag with cayenne m solution and stuff it into the hole, whicb can be repaired with either wood or tiiOi'tar. i|o rat. or uiouse will eat that rag tor the purpose of qpeniug communi cation wuh, a' depot qt stiivlies, Assault >ymb Intent.-^A t th§ E.M. Court, held uu Saturday, at t garuawabia, Williatn Gibbons, a youth of about 18, was charged with assault with m cut, o» a ctjild nine ye. v* of age, named Kliz ibeth Troiheaway, the daughter of a settler ou the Waipa. Ou Friday, the girl and htr brother were re.uin.iiis from, school, an..i at the turniug of ihg Hamilton ipui, were met by the prisoner, who r^ade'the attempt complained of. The coach coming by, he |eft< the children, b\\f, afterwards ivturup4 a °d fQ'lowecl th m towards their horn**, and ft^aiu assaulted the litfcle girl. Foriiinatey, Mr Jam s W. Martin riding by, the pri oner took " the a'iirin and weut away. Th character oi the asi»nlb *a-> fu' .V P rOT d » anr i fche prtßiding inagijtrat , W N Searancke, Ktq., commi ted h'm t ake hia trial at ths nt-jft j}gs."»ion «f tbe Supreme O.urt. We riuy °meution that 'wibbon« v.^-, c'^r^ed some tea mbji'tbs'ago wj^h'a similar offenca. ' \

Thb San Fbanoisco Mail, we learu from a despatch jist fpr"w»rJed to the Colony by the Ageufc-Creneral will be forwarded m future by -the slow steamers which takes full two' days longer on .he TrauHatlantij passage tuau the Inui-iu ntt;aniers by which the mails have been hitherto seni to Nd w York. No reason is giveu by thejEngliih postal authoritiaa tor tne alteration. . . , >v Immigration Retprns. — A return received from the Agent General by the last mad snows that the following immtgrants were sent to Z aland between tne dateß pf"jane 30 h to December 31st, 1876:— Otago, 1353; Canterbury, 1340; Wellington, 736; W«stUnd, 2i7;-Tara-naki, 114 ; Nelßon, 104 ; Marlborough, 96 ; Auckland, 650 ; Hawke'B Bay, 654, statute adults. Otago, Oanterbmy, Wellingiion, Wesblattd, Taranaki, and Nelson nave an aggregate of 173 more, and Auckland, Hawke's Bay, and Marlborough 100 Uwjsv than were ordeied. The total .excess for the whole colony is 73. Waikato County Wobks.— The rate" payers of the Waikato County have not only brought the Act into operation, but are evidently bent on nuking the most of it. The councillors of Cambridge ftiitiug h*ve called a meeting of ratepayers for Saturday next to consider the advisability of pushing county works ahead, the bringing the Slaughter-house Act into force, the making of the Piako Road, aud other matters affecting the interesta of i heir riding. Thb Noabuawahia Murderer.— The ' Heraid'a ' reporter, from the following, appears to have interviewed TePatui. Writing ut'the murder, that journal saya : —"re Patui, the Maori, who is now awaiting trial at Mount 1 Eden gaol on a charge at having murdered Morgan m the lock-up at Ngarutwabia, although he evidently rcco^uised the fict that hid life is likely to pay the forfeit of the crime of which <>c is acisused, doaa not appear to be much impressed with his terrible pomtiou. Hu converses little with the warders, but he soint times enters into conversation with the othdr prisoners, asking what death he will be subjected to ; otherwise he appears to evaiCj little interest m hid fate. Te Patui is evidently one of tne lowest lypos of the Maori race -a genuine savage possessed of no education, but having tne savtirge characteristic of stolid courage, which enables him to look forward to his fate with apparent indifference.'' A Presbyterian Pkbdic won. — " If the time ever should come — though I trust it never will — predicted as at least possible by Lord Macaulay, when the British Empire shall have perished like the ancient Nineveh, when the British Isles shall have become a des.rt like Ihe arid plain* of Babylon, then the New Zealander will not bo a Maori. He will be some New Z^alaud born Presbyterian miuister, or some New Zealand bom Presbyterian elder, from the then renowned Province of Otago." Thus pronounced the Key Mr lnglis at the Mission meeting oi Monday night. But the reporter has done him an injustice m omitting the ooneluding Benteuces of his speech. Whit Mr lnglis did Bay was this : — "That flew Zealander will not be a Maori. He will bo some New Zealand born Presbys^rian elder, from tue then world renowned Province of Utagj. In his right hand he will cany gen le peace m tne shipe of a bug-pipes and a '' deliverance" m favour of iostrum^ntal Music and with his left hand he will griud a hurdy-gurdy ; his feet snail walk iv the paths of peace, vvhLe on either side will be heard tue strains ol the " Old 100-h" proceeding from a thousand organs, aud ten thousand fi idles. In the dim distance he will observe lue vision of a precentor wiih open lips but a stillod tongue. The enemies of instrumental music will, be swept down m v mighty flood with the current of the Tuauies, while he, dressed m a suit ot Mosgiel, and sm n kmg an Oamarumanufaotured cigar, peacelully daugies his legs over London Bridge. Away on the pinuaole of >t Pam's will ba B fated the great-gran ison of Sir Julius, dutrioutiug tracts to the heathen of London, who will hold up their eyes m admiration of the giorios of Piesbyteranianism m Otago. Yea. yenly will they sing praiaea upju the lute, the paalter, the big drum, and the bagpipes to the tuue of -iuld Lang Saug, and "Scois wha ha'e vi' iVlucaudrdW bled." Tuis bit of allegorical eloquence wus received with rounds of up'piauae, which the reporters failed to note, because, poor frail and sinful men, being neither New Zjaland born Pr^sbyt Berlins, now New 25 aland bora Presbyterian eiders, they were neglectful of their souls' welfare, and unmindful of .heir edu ation, and the enlightenment ot the public, only doing their whisky and playing billiards at the G-lusgow Arms — Southern paper. Chkonologkpal Tub a of New Zea-. land. — A large number of persons inspected Mr Meek's chronological tree of iNew Zealand, on exhibu ion yesterday and again i.oday aud to morrow, at Q-wynne's Hamilton Hotel. The drawing, which is the wortt ot pen and f ok, ani m itself a wonderful piece of art, occupies a space of 6ft 6iu by 4ft 6in. Iv tne centre is a targe kauri tree, the Dammar a Auslralis, representative ot the forest growm ot jNovv Zealand, en the trunk of whic/i, m regular order, fiom the roots i^pwards, | are curoiiicled the leading, events m the uistory of the colony ' since its discovery j by Tasuian iv Ib 4£ to the middle of thd past year, wneu Mr Meek entered on his worK, which, bythe-bye, occupied hi.n until tue beginning of the present one. Tne tree, or rather the drawing, is encircled by a' deep border, the sides forming pillars, as it were, supporting the border or cornice at the top. i'hia border is artistically wrought m sq uares with qyal medaUuns and qfcher ywga^d work, each one of wuigk performs its special functions of usefulness, the tquares con tami .g the history of tue Qobuy from its ea> iy days to the present one, and the nine oval medallions the area, population, and general hisrory of the r^sp^ctive provinces, i. hero are four large sized maps, two on either side the trunk of the tree, repre-e sent ing t.hg iSjgri.^ {sla.nd a^d the Sjouth Isiaudof NewZeai. nJj atnirdasi appears m reference to Meroator's plan of the world and a fourth "to the Australasian and Po<ynesian groups. There are also tables UeVoied to a variety of useful inform,* iou such as a short Qompendii^n^ of the history of most of tue principle highway districts, lists of members of both lioines, ' of the various Miu.str}e3 and Governors which b,aY«J ru.led and other mattersi. 'The picture is a piece of most skilful penmanship, the drawing and the lettering being well and artisti Ctiliy uiauag =•!, and as a matter of exhil iLion it is well worth a visit. Mr Meek's o jecb is to obtain a list of subscribers, as he intends to have a uerfept lithograph, of the reduced sizj of Bft 2iu by 2ft 2m, a aiounled copy ot which "will be supplied to susscribers. Those paying the subscriptiou—one gu^nea-=r^t t^e tin^e of entering i he} i- nailed \ylH receive a duplicate but unuiqunte4 cqpy m addition. As a work of art, Me Meek's picture i^ exceed ingly lqteres^iug. Ha a. pompendiQus reforeiice lor- a l<tr t e and couiprehensive table of events i>> the hiatury of the co.iyny, it is inv.vlu..b <*. What M.T Ikiltjence a. Jubymak - (i M y es,' m the 'Aus alasian/ wri.eo : "A cuiivact^rijtic " ius an o O whab may ii fj tiiiice a juryman wa8 V t<^ 'd on excellent, ty'.iti.or.'.y the other day. 'A

b.mk cuitomar whoia^Lhjsqua hadgbaen improperly c^fihgnovig^|P^:\a''^!^^peL > - haps throujj||piii idvortenoo — brati jhs>an action for iaamages W^nst £he¥bi|njj_>r. The case was'^atienfcljjheat'd, Cqi^fsJMuddrestfred iha^ury, hisj|ionor|etiaf|p J,£a^id the foreman Vexprea^ed tb%J'd6iir^ot6tlie t»v«|vii good'tjflon to ;retire§?? Haifclly Editing for lha,d6op to be qloSid, a's aiwai't jurytiian stt-ijcS flip tv6lorwit.li his fiji", by wu*y" of emphasis, p v a.sf be oriad,..*** "Not a fanning leas than £10,000 damages. That scoundrel o ice ha I the insolence t.o write to via thit my account was 15a overdrawn. 1 An.l it<was. with great d'ffi-~ oulty lie could te iuduced lo agree lo a verdict t»v uUo.u a fourth of b:io arnou-it he had named-" Nativk Doas:— The matter of the dog tax was discussed m a desultory rnanoer at the Waipa County Ooanuil meeting, oq Friday last, when a remark feil from Mr G-errnarin, which show a tbab it altogether fails to meet the uuiaance aid danger likely to arise from unregistered dogs running at large m this part of the country. Mr Gdrniann stated that | thongh tha Dog Nuiaince Act was put strictly m force among the settlers, yet frequently the natives *ould come clown to certain lakes to fish, cunpin^ there' with numbers of doga, wbica "roauie I through the settled country at night, a terror to the farmer's aheep. Fiking a Mayor for Non-atten. danck.— At the Naaeby .Resident Magistrate's Coutt on the 2ud inst., «ays the Otago Guardian, a somewhat novel case was decided by H VV Robmaon, cgq, ii.M. It was an information J aid by ci T George against L W Busch, Mayor of Naaeby, in' which it was alleged that the defendant, being die Mayor of Naseby, h*d absented himself from the meetings of the Council, without the lee.ye of the Council, for a period exceeding one Calender month. ' Thd allegations were sustainet by the evidence, which showed that the defendant nad declined to attend the meetings b^OiUso they were held m cue afternoon instead of at nignt, aa formerly. His Worship, after reviewing the law of thd case, iunicted a fine of £1, and oosts, £4 10s. Ths Commebciai, Centre.— A matter arose at tue iate meetiug of the Waipa Council at Ohaupo, showing the abauruity of the Council meetiug m a place lo which even the telegraph wires do not penetrate. At the commencement of the ineetiog, when the Uaugiaohia represeutatiou question was under discussion, Mr Mandeuo was moot auxiuus, as were those with him, that the matter should be dealt with uuder the 20t)ih clause of the Act, which gives ihe Governor gre*t power m bridging over difficulties, aud amending flaws iv i h j Act. lo set ab ut the alteration of the representation by ua.ag the macniuery provided by tae Act would eutail a ddl .y of 18 months, that is, until the next, general tl-ction of Councillor.*. Ihe award of only one member to Ran>iaohia was a mistake, admittedly so eve i by the Government, aud it w<w thought by several of tno Council that it was just one of those mwtak.es th <t c>ul<i have b;eu remedies by the Governor, uuder clause 209, by a single stroke of the pan. Hail the G'ouucil met at- a place where therj was a teieg<aph .station, cae opinion of tue At-O/ney-GeneraJ, whether tne Governor hadpiwur to amend tuis lnatter uuder clause 2u9, could have beeu asked aua received au least a couple of hiu s before the meeting, wmoti sat Iron a quarter to one till five o'clock, broke up. Improved sooial state of Ireland. — Tue Duo. in correspondent of the ' P<»it Mill GaZdttts" saya : At thd Duoliu Statistical Society Jouathan Pirn, th-i late Liberal msmuer for D ibliu, hai road a paper on the soci il and economic condition of Ireland. Me states that there has been since 184S an increase of the number of tanns of the medium size, which are now m proportion of 87 holdings to every 1000 inhabitants, aud were then only 46 to every 1000. lie attributes the decrease m growth of cereals entirely to tne operation of tree trade aud tne increased prosperity of meat consumers. He status tb»t one-seventh of the area of Irelaad has been sold m the Lauded Estates Court, amounting to 3,000 000 acres, aud have bean bougut by 16,0:0 purchasers. The number of tenants . who have purchased the fee of their farms under the " Bright clauses'' of the Land Act is 530 Tn* number of first aud sejoud-ulasa houses m {re and increased between 1841 and 1871 mure than one-third. The mud Cibms have greatly decreased iv number. Many Colonials prefcHnd to turn up their noses at even th< be it opera, tragedy, and comedy placed before them by enterprising manager* m the Colony, the a tid colonials wishiu g it co be understood, we suppose, that as habitues ot Oovent Ganleu and tha Italian Opera House at home, their musical taste has been spoiled for aoytbiug outside the pducipal Opera houses aud theatres of Europe. Strang) to say, however, tnat none have made such decided bits m the world of art at home as colonial favorites. We have auother recent instance of this. Miss Alice May, the prima donna of the opera compauy some time uiuoe m Auckland must be recollected by.nja.ny. of our readers. The following, respecting this talented lady, appetrs m an Euglish exchange: — 'Mr Richard cioutn'a comic opera company appeared at the Opera Cotnique on Wednesday afternoon, when I Miss Aie May, a youqg Australian prima dtnna, tftade her debut as th* neruiue ot Offeubacn's ' Graurf 'Juchesse.' She possesses a swen* soprano voice, and sings with an arts 'ie iiuish which gives every possible effect to the oha racier iatio music. Her acting U graceful, and, while tree from obj cbioo, does x\ .t lack eitner spirit or ahiuiation. Great applaum grettied the debutante on Wednesday, and her first app a<-anca m London was decidedly successful.' The Pintail Grouse were safely turned out on Mr Morrison's property, at ihe Piako, on Saturday, Before leaviug again for towu, Mr Morrison sujgest^u that \yo should impress on sportsmen, during the coming season, the necessity when m pursuit ot pheasants of carefully avoiding the killing of these birds. A season's grace m a thinly populated district sucu as tha Piako would give them ft faiy start. Sportsmen, properly so called, will scarcely need reminder. Ailudiug to these bi,rds, the * Herald l of Stturday saya : — * Wo understand that the birds brougut from Amerioa by the (nail steamer oi Monday last weie not j the real 'prairie ohickens,' but where I what is kn wn as the pointed tail grouse. The subjoiued extract from a letter from Mr Hugh Craig to the Preui.ient of, the Acclimatisation Society se^ thi^ matter at rest, qqd e^^ws how "the mistake occurred. Mr I r^tig eayi :— I send you, on Mr Dunili'a account, two boxes Qontaining together 26 i-oiuted tail groisi from Cori^ne, Territpry. Tnese birds been sent to me as prame uhickeua, but a, few days after their arrival I found |hat cajled at Utah prairie cUipk^i'S, ih.ay are different from the Illinois or lowa bird, SOI3SIQHB and PABTB. — The man who has to do the work of selecting new* for a paper from oth r journals i< th bu;t 0' m-uiy ;. joke ; Max Adeler goes so far as to say t .at he edits his jjaper with t pair of pieua or,v shears and, - qißhonest patte-p-it. But^th^-rs hi^ow \v^t an arduous "^i-k i* ln«,' •te thesueera nd a^rc&. Ms that are cor^tiav^ally leveled at him

a-i vvituess clia fallowing opinion fro u^one, whose dictum bears uiucU weight^gf 3)iaa people estimate the ability of 1^ n^vv-ipa^er aa 1 the talen; of thi ,eili^ by tho quinlity of matteri^lli||| comparatively an e^y/ufeitter for-^fro'.KK wricer bo pjur out 'da|iy}i a o^lauia'bi words — words upon auyl'inJ all^bj{c|*t Hu itleis m»y flow m oi& wstk^i^nxa'vy^ everlasling fljod, annl ;|he cjm'mandVi of his laaguit^e may enable him to string ihem tu^elher like bunches of ouiomi aud yet, h;a (j*per miy be a meagre aud'poyr ouno-iin. Indeed, the m-ire wribio^ p^rt of eilkiag a paper i* buc a small portion of tbe w<>rk. i'be eire, the time employed selecdug, is far more import aat, an I the tacb of a good eiitor is better showa by his solectioud than anything eliti, and that we know is half bha b-tttte. But, as we luve said, au editor ought to be estimated, and hia labour understood and appreciated by the general conduce of hia pap^r, its tone' its ucifdrua consistent coarse, its aims, its management, its iliguity, and its proprie'y. To preserve iLn.ie as they should ba preserved i 3 enough to occupy fully the time and attention of any man. If to all these be added tha general supervision of the newspaper establishment;, which some elitura nave to euc muter, the wonder is that they find time to write at all. AnEcokntbio Cow. -An anecdote is m circulation at Waiutcu, which serves to shovr the attachment fjrmed by iv nb animuU 1/b human beings, who are m the habit of attending to their wun<s and treating them with kiudaess. Mrs Oldfield bad a little cow, a good milker, with one horn up, a. id one horn dorm, a peculiar looking creature, but hur looks ward not half as peculiar aa her temper, and she would not allow any other than Mrs Oldfisld's hand to milk her. When her mistress was absent it was often a source of great annoyance, lb happened that her mistress fell sick, and the person m attendance was determined not to be thwarted by the [cow. "When a woman will she wiL, depend on't, ' says the prov-crb. In this I case, however, the feminine elements ctmo iuto collision, aud the cow would not give m. The plan was tried of dressing m Mrs Oldrieid's dress ani hat, but without success for the cow would not allow her milk repository to be touched, and the last resource was to take the cow into the house. Ibii wus done, and she was milked m that way— by the only hand that dare attempt it.