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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 737, 8 March 1877, Page 2

A Young Lady refused to attend church beoause her hat had not been sent home: ' I hate the devil and all his works.' she said, ' but I hate an oldfashioned hat more.' Larrikikism at the Thanes.— Th c Grahamstowm "Star" of Saturday, say that .the la rikins there have b ome bo great a nuisance that five constables In plain clothes are required to parade the streets, m order to protect wayfarers from insult and aaoyannce. 'Female Beerjerkers' is the name given to barmaidß m Pitsbourgh. By a local ordinance the employment of barmaids was interdicted. Thereupon the saloon keepers advertised that they had engased ' lady conversationists' to entertain visitors. Major Clare, we understand, left Cambridge for the North on Monday, having been appointed by the Government to enquire into the alleged undue interference of the Eesident Magistrate at Waimate, m the Bay of Islands Election proceedings, at the late General Election for the Assembly. CArr. Lloyd, whom many of our readers will remember, has been again m trouble at Tauranga. This time he waß charged with arson, m setting fire to a tohare, used as a living house. The case was tried before Mr Brabant, the R. M., and dismissed, two of the principal witnesses for the prosecution being afterwards arraigned for perjury. A Copy of the Jury List for 1877, containing the names of persons m Waikato liable to serve as Jurymen, is how hung up at the Court House, Hamilton, for general inspection. Friday, tbe 6th of April, is the day fixed for hearing objections, and finally fixing the list by the Justices. The Turf. —During the late races says the "Wellington Argus" a considerable number of horses changed hands, Mr Gilligan as already stated bought Stirabout and Songster from Mr Radwood for £600. St Albans was sold to a Southern owner for £200. He was originally purchased m Canterbury for £75. Mr Walker has sold Tambourini for £200 to Mr Ray, and refused an offer of £300 for G-lenavy, while Mr Rives of Nelson, has purchased from Mr Ray, Danebury and Middleton for £600. The Railway Extension. — There will be do time lost m proceeding with the work of the extension of the Auckland and Puniu railway from Ohaupo to Te Awamutu. The orders to survey and mark off the line have been received, and yesterday the necessary timber for cutting the survey pegs was forwarded to Hamilton. In the extension of the line, the Government have acted wisely, as the additional ten or a dozen miles will open up a iarge extent of the richest land m the district, now chiefly m grass, but much of which, with facilities afforded to the settlers for the conveyance of farm produce to a market, will, doubtless, be placed under the plough. The greater part has probably never been cropped, and would be improved, even for grass, tiy being worked for one or two years, and then re-sown. We understand that Mr Caruthers, the Colonial Engineer, may shortly be expected m Hamilton, when the site of the proposed bridge will be decided upon, and doubtless that work, too, will be proceeded with without delay, j Angtican Church, Cambridge Sunday School Pic-nic.— Whether it be looked upon a3 a reward for past atten- ' dance or as an incentive to new en deavours m the future a children's i pic-nic is a beautiful thing. Who can say what influence on a child's life, the memories of days m the green fields, the woods, and bright sunshine, may have ? what part they play informing the men and women that are to be. We have seldom been present at a more enjoyable one of its kind tJan the pic-nic given to the children of the Sunday School m oonnection with the". English Church, at Cambridge— on Saturday last. Through the kindness of Mr Brunskill, the festivities were held m one of his paddocks at Taotaoroa, and a more picturesque and pleasant spot, it would indeed, be difficult to find. The children, numbering upwards of fifty were conveyed from Cambridge to the farm (a distance of three or four miles m waggons, and on their arrival, at twelve o'clock, were provided with lunch consisting of buns and lemonade. Several of the older folks then engaged'with them m cricket, &c, and at 3 a.m., after partaking <f a most substantial and varied al fresco dinner, all adjourned to the afternoon's games. Jfor the children a programme of foot races, jumps, &c, had been arranged, for which suitable prizes, comprising books, knives, marbles, A,c, had been provided* while the children of a larger growth resorted to cricket, m which game it may be incidently noticed that great brilliancy of play was observable. There were some fourtyjladies andjjgentlemen present, and all lent there aid to make the enjoyment of the little ones as full as possible, and, judging from the children, they were successful m no small degree. Great praise is due to the teachers, and to the gentlemen who subscribed so liberally, | for the really excellent,' character of the treat, and we trust that this, the first of its kind m connection with the Church at Cambridge will be followed by long line of annual pic-nio's, which, if they cannot be better may be as delightful as this one. After, tea the children returned, reaching Cambridge at sunset. The Pintail Grouse. — Writing furher on the subject of the so called prairie chickens, Mr Hugh Craig, who forwarded thm to the president of the Acclimatisation Society says : I expected the real article from Omaha to patch this steamer, but my correspondent retarncd the remittance, stating that after a great deal of trouble he found it impossible to get them. I have also sent to Illinois and lowa, and hope to be successful yet. To Oregon I have sent for elk, mountain quail, |Qregon pheasants, and Oregon grouse. Mr Cfrpjghton ship 3 by this steamer another box of while fis}}oya. XViu ought to get some of these ova, if you did not get any of tbe last lot, befoi c they go to Wellington. If you have the opportunity you might send me stuffed specimens of the phesai-fc}, New Zealand pigeon, and tui, or send the skins and I will get them stuffed here. The "Herald" alluding to these remarks says :" It will thus be seen that Mr Craig is likely to be an active and useful agent for our local Acclimatisation (society, and it is to be hoped that the society will generously make use of his good office*, There are many things which might be beneficially introduced from California, which an agent like Mr Craig would have no difficulty m procuring. For instance the Italian honey bee might very easily be intrpduced into Auckland through his agency ; also cuttings of the celebrated mission grape vino from the southern districts of California besides other] vegetable and animal pro- , ducts, |wMch are liktly, to be beneficial here.

The 'Thames Advertiser' anticipates that the row amongst tho Maoris at Olrinemuri will" end m a reconciliimon,and thab tho fortifications will be abolished. Cheap Dbapebt. — We would draw the attention of the feminine public' to the ; extraordinary cheap lines of goods offered by Mr J Moses who, hairing purchased a large assortment of goods at half price, is enabled to retail them at a proportionate cost. Ohaupo Cattle Sale.— i Tne cat'le for the Ohaupo sale on Tuesday next are : already beginning to show up. In our last issue Mr Buckland advertised forty head of grDwn steers, and m to-day's issue an additional numbar of 150 well bred stores also appears. • The Chronological ,Tbee of New. Zealand will be on exhibition to day and to-morrow at Eirkwood's :JSfttiAnal Hotel, Cambridge. During the last two or three days it excited a good deal of attention m Hamilton, and Mr Meek, we understand, has added considerably to the number of copies ordered of the wSfk when; lithographed, In any case, and as a work of art and curiosity, the original is well worth inspection. Sale of F^bnttube, Japanese Curios &c. — Mr John Knox will offer for sale on Saturday next the household furniture and gooda of Mr Longbottom who is leaving the district. Amongst these are--a quantity of curios lately imported direct from Japan m the " Louise" — laquer worked cabinets, work-boxes, and cigar and tobacco boxes, cabinets, ladies fans, and! hand screens ; porcelain tea and coffee service, and porcelain toilet services Also a variety of pairs of porcelain vases of different sizes and patterns. For a full list of goods to be offered we refer our readers to the advertisement. Cbiozet. — From tfhe telegraphic account of the cricket match finished yesterday at Dunedin, it will be seen that our brethren of Ofcago succeeded m averting a defeat by making the game a drawn one. The English cricketers have now made the tour of the colony, and Auckland need not fear a comparison with any other town m the stand made against the champion players. She has shown that she posesses the best batsmen m the colony, and can point to the fact that her score is larger than that of any of her old rivals. Wellington and Nelson have been beaten inj gloriously, while Taranaki, Greymouth, Ohristchurch, and Dunedin have managed to take the sting out of the defeat, by making the Englishmen exert themselves to prevent a close and exciting struggle for victory. Canterbury has just cause to feel jubilant over the result of the visir, and we are sure Auckland now desires nothing better than once more to try conclusions with the pastoral province of New Zealand. She owes Auckland a visit, and now that the players have acquit ed a little confidence m themselves, and are beginning to re-assert their preeminence m the handling of the willowwe trust that fact will not be forgotten. — Auckland Herald.' TheAmeeioan Labob Mabket.-— The condition of the labor market m Hew York is absolutely appalling. In a country teeming with vast and varied natural resources, aud with a population far above the average of civilived nations m natnral aptitude for industiral persuits, there abounds a degree of social misery and suffering which we shall look for m vain m countriea leas favoured by Providence for political advancement, and less fitted to become the happy home of a great people. Even m Great Britain, where the remnants of the old feudal system, the crowded state of the population, aud the keen competition m all trades and professions render pauperism and scarcity of employment practically unavoidable, we find nothing to equal the present condition of the working classes of New York and other paits of America. In New York alone, according to the returns of the States WorkingMens' Assembly, there were m January last 45,000 people absolutely unable to obtain any employment. The Last "Flitting" of the household gods of the late Provincial Government was performed on Monday. The old tables and benches, says the "Herald," the counters of the Land Offices and the Treasury, the empty till, the Superintendent's writing table, and tbat chair m which so many successive Provincial Chiefs have dreamed dreams of coming glories that were to mark their terms of office, but which political events refused to recognise — all, all are gone, removed from the official chambers and transferred to the old Provincial Council | Chambers, which are now the Auckland Branch Offices of the Central Government. If departed ghosts are e'er permitted to review the fields and dewellinga where once they held grave council, one can imagine a troop of exSuperintendents, like discrowned spectres of a past epooh who might be supposed to pass and drop a tear over bygone 'glories. First was Colonel Wynyard with his martial mien, and his sudden resignation by the "order of the King," the Colonial Office disallowing its military administrator to hold such a place of power and pay. To him succeeded William Brown,' the bold politician, who was followed by his Mend and partner, Dr Campbell, the sagacious. Then goodnatured John Williamson who had, sometimes unwisely, the full courage of his opinions. Like Whittington, who was thrice Mayor of London, so was " Honest John," peace to his memory, thrice, yea, four times Superintendent of Auckland. Next, with portly presence and undaunted front, behold liobert Graham, the bluff, who now listens to the purling streams of Waiwera, keeps his friendß m hot water, and bottles up the medicinal springs redolent of carburetted or sulphuretted hydrogen j and so he passes on to make room for the keen, deap»thinking lawyer and politician, Frederick Whitaker, who has filled so many high official positions and has again returned to a loftier administration than ever Superintendentalism bestowed. Next m order came another lawyer — T B Gillies — and before the time he fought the fight which, by a narrow majority, raised him to the chair, Provincialism was seen to be on thfc wane. Leaving tho field of politics, he now sits administering the law as one of the Judgeß of the Supreme Court. Following him came forth, for the fourth time, John Williamson, who died m harness j and then — ftoorn for the great proconsul ! Last and greatest on the ljst— from his retirement, and from the high ped^s^al pf epme 30 years of vi3eregal status, Sir George Grey, at the call of the people, emerged onoe more into public life. But not even his earnestness, his affection for the constitu'ion of which he was the father, nor his generation of high command, could save Provincialism from its fate, and his well-known name fitly closes the roll of Auckland Superintendents." Pbofessob Talmage, m a late sermon, addressed to newspaper men specially, sa y 8 : — <? One of tlfe great trials p,f this newspaper profession is the fr»pt that " they are compelled to see more pf the shams of the world than any other profession. Through every newspaper office, day by day. go the weaknesses of the world, the vanities that want to be puffed, the revenges that want to be wreaked, all the mistakes that want to be corrected, all the dull speakers who want to be thought eloquent, all the meannesn that

wants to get its wareo noticed gratis m tba editorial columns m order to save the tax of the advertising column, all the men who waut to bo set right who ever were wrong, all the craok-bra : ned philosophers, with story as long as theijc baifKai^d^aa * gloomy as their flnger-npils^in mourning because berefc of Boap ; ./all the itinerant bores who cpmo^to etey^five niinutp and stop an : frbur* From, the editorial and rcp3rtoriol brooms, alU^the follies arid aha'na ol the world are seen dajsby dky/i and the temptation islofbelievo rieither-!in God, man; nocH^bpian/^-pt is no surprise to me that itf'your profession, thttre are some sceptical men. I only wonder tint you believe anything. Unless an editor or reporter hive m his present or his . early home, a model .of earnest character, - or he throw himself upon the upholdiug grace of G-od, he must make temporal and eternal shipwreck." Russian PniTATEEBS. — A riiniour "lia's been going the rounds of the English papers that m the event of a wnr between Great Britain and Russia, the fbet of the latter power would be laid up m American harbours, while the crews would be drafted iuto privateers, with, the object of preying upon British Commerce. A Charleston telegram of Jan Bth states that the Russian : Minister, has received : in. structions that the Kussim fleet, which has been for some time m American waters, is to winter m Hampton Roads, and the Minister had accordingly left for Washington. The Rusaian plan may be very feasible at tirst sight, but it is hardly likely that it can be seiiously entertained. If the Russians could man privateers, Gt-reat Britain oould produce ten for her one, and the Geneva award would be an awkward precedent for thoje Americansjwho might favour the proposal to assist Russia by providing cruisers for her seamen. The Times.— From many parts of New Zealand complaints are coming of the overdoing of the labour market, and a general depression m trade. Otago is crippled by the large amount of money sunk latterly m land. In Nelson, as m some other places, the credit system has been carried to such an extent as to have thoroughly undermined the commercial soundness of the community. In Taranaki the dulness has been general for some time past, and a local journal, the 1 Herald.' m referring to thejpresent condition of that district, says, " From all parts of the colony we hear the same complaint, and persons are beginning o look forward to future prospects with no little anxiety. From Canterbury come similar complaints, especially from the farming interest. Auckland, m preceding times, has bee a foremost and loudest m ibs complaints, but on the present occasion, its voice, we are happy to say, is not heard above that usual low rumbling note of discontent for which even m the briskest of times it is noticeable. For our own district of Waikato, we are bound to say there is no observable cause for uneasiness. The work of reclamation and occupation of our country lands is going steadily forward. Our townships are increasing, and the Government expenditure on the railway extension and the Waikato bridge, will absorb any surplus labour that may remain, when the swamp contract works are suspended by the breaking up of the fine weather. The Queensland Flag.— Says the " Queenslander," all we wanted was a flag. We a great country. We extend from sea to eea. We likewise extend from shore to shore. We rise gradually to the top of Mount Lindsay, and we do not Bee how it can be disputed that we extend downward to the centre of the earth. We are a great country. We own a great segment of the tropic of Capricorn, We have four cardinal points and two bishops. We are trebly privileged m the matter of zones — temperate zone, torrid zone, and ozone. We have a lot of climates, and water sheds, and rain, guages, andthings like that. Moreover it is to be remarked that we are a great country. We have the Barcoorot, the marsupial plague, and Walsh, We have an advantageous position, and a rampageous Opposition. We have snakes, and crocodiles, and the " Evangelical standard," and bushy-tailed rats. We have politics, lunatics, and sheep-ticks. It is further to be observed that we are a great country. We have population, legislation, immigration, and separation. We have a Governor and a King. We have bananas, Pecheys, Thorns, and Lilleys. We have the requisite amount ol Smiths and Browns. We have a destiny before ixs ; that is to say coming after us. We have all the elements of development and mineralogy. We have a great deal more, but we have just been reading that bruin work alter a full meal draws all the blood from the stomach. But what we particularly wished to insinuate was that we are a great country. All we wanted was a flag, and we have got it at last. We are not going to criticise the selected emblazonment. We had no ancestors ourselves, and our heraldry was neglected. We know that azure is the hue of our usual Christmas look-out and that is about, all. As for argent, we hardly ever know the colour of it ; and when it comes to wrestling with a "Queen'B crown proper," we simply beg to state that brainwork after a full meal draws the stomach up to the cerebrum, or something to that effect. We cannot, (or dare not) verify the passage, as our spouses are reading the book, and are constitutionally cantankerous after a full meal. We have just awakement enough left to ask why doeanot Mr J (pourqoi) J always ? — we all know it"s plain James Brunton Stephens give us an ode, or a hymn, or a psalm, or something, on the subject ? It is a great event — much greater than the exhibition. The latter is of the things which perish with the using ; but our azure Maltese on a crosß Queen's proper argent crown is meant to last for ever, sir. The meteor-flag of Queensland shall yet terrific burn !et cetera. We feel as if we could do it oursa^ves, But beware, sir. In agonising after a rhyme for " flag" avoid " lag," as you would avoid mashed potatoes. It- might be insidious, you know. We inimu to say, invidious j but brrinwork after*-a— full— meal. St. Peter's, Hamilton. — We understand that the Rev. Alfred Peony, of the Melanesian Mission, will preach at the morning and evening service, at the above Church, on Sunday next. The Pintail Grouse, immediately on being released the other day, on Mr Morrin's • property, at the Piako, gave evidence of usefulness. They had been turned out on a piece of land oa which crickets and grasshoppers were abundant, and being toleiably tame after their long confinement, did not offer to fly away, but commenced grasshopper hunting, and to good purpose, picking them up here, and darting at them on the wing there, m fine style.