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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 740, 15 March 1877, Page 2

Mr Treewhesllar noti/les that he is selling best bread at 5J the 2lb loaf, weighed over the counter.

The Kihikibi Turv Club intend holding their annual race meeting at Kihikibi on the 2nd of April, the first race starting punctually at noon. Mb John Knox will sell by auction, tomorrow, the furniture and effects of Mr Parfitt, of Hood street, Hamilton, who is leaving the district.

Bank op New Zealand Premises.— To day is the last on which tenders for the erection of bank premises at Hamilton, for the Bank of. New Zealand, will be received by the architect.

Newcastle Riding.—The public meeting of ratepayers called by the Chairman of the Ngaruawahia Town Board, for the purpose of considering the desirability or otherwise of bringing the whole of the Counties Act into force, will be held this evening, iu the Delta Hotel, at 7 o'clock. The nomination takes place to-morrow.

St Patricks Day at Kihikihi.— Tbe good folks of Kihikihi are to have, this time, for obvious reasons, their St Patrioks Bull on the eve of that time honored festival. The invites are many, and the preparations admirable, so that a more than ordinarily successful affair may bo anticipated on the occasion.

Waikato and its Kepresentative. —The visit of tha Hon F Whitaker to his Waikato constituents was expected to have been made during the coming week, but] from what we hear, unavoidab causes have led to the postponement °* the visit until some time early in the month of April. Sale of AGmicrjLrixßAL Implements, Stores, &c, at Hamclton.—Messrs Grant and Morton will sell at Gwynnes Commercial Hotel, on Saturday morning next, the farm implements and stores in the Estate of Mr A A Brissenden, removed for convenience of sale to Hamilton.

A Coming Danger.—Alas no more peacful days for man. The w imen have gone into tbe insurance business. When a fascinating female agent enters an office and lays her hand upon a man's arm in that familiar, touching way, and talks policy, 10 to 1 that he insures. Perhaps wives will hang around offices more than usual, too.

Mr Canny's Sale, Te Awamptu.— Mr Kennedy Htll sells at Te Awamutu on Saturday next, the whole of the household furniture and effects of Mr Canny, who is leaving the district. Two good dairy cows an I the seven years' lease of the premises built for an hotel will be offered for sale at the same time.

Fat Cattle.—Yesterday Mr Henry Reynolds passed through Hamilton with souae five and thirty head of well-fed bullocks for the Auckland market. We also unders'and that Mr Eobert Bruce, of Te Awarautu, will start with a herd of 45 head for Mr Buckland's sale of the 29th insf, and that Mr Seccombe, of Alexandra, will send a mob of 35 head tor the sale of the sth April.

The Murderer Te Pati.—We learn from the «Herald,' that Te Moho, the father of Te Pati, now in gaol on the charge of murdering Samuel Morgan, is in Auckland, haying come to see his son. Te Moho is accompanied by Te Hiwi, of Ngatihaua. They both went yesterday to the gaol, and had an interview with Te Pati, in whose sullen demeanour there 8 no change. They counselled him to remain quiet in the house of death.

The Storm in the Ohinumuri Tea-pot.--The Ohinemviri correspondent of the ' Thames Advertiser' writes as fol" lows:-—" Paeroa, March 8, The only items of newa are that Mr Mackay returned from Te Aroha last evening, safe and sound. He we.it on to the pa to report progress, which, I understand, is so far satisfactory. His position as mediator being established, a few trips backwards and forwards will doubtless bring about a reconciliation between the tribes. Meantime, the natives here intend keeping up appearances to the last, und are busy enlarging and strengthening with double pallisading the pa at the junction."

The Colorado Beetle.—ln order to prevent the introduction of the Colorado pot»to beetle amongst potatoes imported from the United States or Canada, instructions have been issued to the collectors of customs at the various ports of the United Kingdom that Custom-house officers are to look out for the beetle on vessels, wharves, quays, sheds or packages landed from vessels, and instantly to destroy it. To aid them in identifying tho beetle a lithographed sketch and description of it had been forwarded. The colour of the insect is yellow, with black spots on the fore part, and ten blick s'ripes, five on each of the wing covers. It is somewhat like a large ladybird, but is rather longer in shape, and is also striped, a peculiarity which is absent in all species of ladybirds.

Mb Thomas Russell's return to Auckland, a3 might, have been expected, is noticed by our Auckland contemporaries as matter for congratulation. There is no one individual in the community, perhaps, whose personal prosperity has at the same time that it itself advanced so equally forwarded the general prosperity of theProviuce and Colony as his that of Mr Russell. Men have amassed fortunes, amongst us, perhaps larger ones than he, but in doing so they have only benefitted themselves. Not so Mr Russell. Banking, Insurance, and other Companies, goldmining and pastoral speculations were all in turn made to assist in building up this fortune, but the institutions remain, tnonumeuts of his financial ability and intelligent enterprise, and solid sources of bene fit and profit to the community. The same may be said of other matters, stock breeding and the like, to which he gave more or less attention. In this part of the country we have abundant evidence ol this, and it is with no little satisfaction we learn that in the course of a fortuighi, or three weeks at farthest, Mr Russell amy be expected in Waikato It is reported and, we believe correctly, that his visit to this part of the country may lead to a very great impetus being given to the operations of the Swamp Company with which he is largely connected, and this means an increase to the general prosperity of the district.

This i 8 not from Daniel Deronda : She waß plump and beautiful, and be was wildly fond of her. She hated him, but, womanlike she strove to catch him What was ho 1 A flea.

• That's onr family tree,' said an Arkansas youth, as he pointed to a vigorous hemlock, and added : ' A. good many of our folks have been hung on that tree for borrerin' hosses after dark. ? ' 0* A Picture of Moses in the bulrushes, where Miss Pharoah seems to be •leaving him to be drowned,' the "Philadelphia Bulletin' wants to know 'whttbur it is a water-culler or a Nile painting. Me M Stusholme, who lately pur. ohased the lease of the extensive trace of oonutry between the Waikato Heads and Raglan, is, says the "Herald'' at present in Auckland, on his way to inspect the property. Mr T Kussell and Mr H 0 Young have joined Mr Suidholme in the purchase. There are over twenty years of the lease still to run.

The " Danville News" tells the following :—Not a thousand miles from Danville a wife lay in a dying condition, tlaving brought up a clever orphan girl, who was grown, the dying woman called the young woman to her and said : I shall soon leave my little children motherless. They know you and lo.ve you, and after I am gone I want you and my husband to marry. The young woman, bursting into tears, Baid : • We were just talking about that.' The next morning the old gal was up early and the orphan playing 'St Patrick's day in the Morning' on a Blanchards churn.

It a young lady wished a gentleman to kiss her, what papers would she mention 1 No 'Spectator,' no 'Observer,' but as many * Times 'as you like. We wish to add that she wouia like it do with ' Despatch,' no 'Register 'or 'Journal' kept of it ; and for him not to ' Herald' it, or mention it to a 'Recorder,' or « Chronicle' it abroad, tier lips should be the only 'Repository,' and the 'Sun' should be excluded as much as possible. If a « Messenger' got it, the • World' would soon know the ' .News.'

Ceicket Extraordinary. —Although cricket seeius to have died out in this part of the country altogether, the following may, perhaps, be interesting to our readers :—One of the most singular feats in cricket that the Master ton .'News Letter' has ever heard of was accomplished by Mr P F Tancred in the recent match between Carterton and G-reytown, namely, the taking of all tbe wickets in a full innings by tbe one bowler. Mi Tancred is known as oue of the best allround players in the Wairarapa, having made cricket his favorite outdoor game while at the University at Home. He does not profess to be a very good bowler, and haviug had but little practice, he seldom took the ball in band since his residence here. His pace is medium, and a delivery which variea little except in speed doubtless added its quota to his success in this match. But most of those who were so i s nominiously dismissed by him say that the tremendous " break " of the balls did the miachief. Be this a* it may, Mr Tancred, who is vice-president of the AUsterton Cricket Club, and an active member of the Carterton-Taiatahi Club, has disposed of an eleven in a manner quite uupreceden<ed in the Wairarapa. The oowling an dysis shows that only 16 runs and oiie wide were scored off his bowling. What a terror Lyster-Kaye was lo the batsmen is also to be gleaned from the fact that in the second innings only five runs were made off 55 balls, there'beiu» no less than seven maidens.

Dangerous Sfoht.—'The King of Burmah,' says the London * Echo,' ' has mounted 24 guns on his mud parapets. These are real guns, so that the 200 or 3„0 wooden ' Dummies' need not be referred to. One of the bona fide cannon is a Krupp, of which his Majsaty of :he Golden Foot is naturally proud. He has lately amused himself i.y throwing shot from this gun into the Irrawaddy iiiver. A few of these shot have been well directed, and afforded the Lord of the Seven Umbralla-* considerable amusement. One struck a rice-laden dhow, which filled and sank, drowning the captain. The King was in raptures, for it appears he pointed the gun. After a time, sueLs were tried at long ranges. The target now was the village on the opposite bank of the Irrawa idy. All Mandalay turned out to watch the result. After one or two ineffectual shots, the village was espied to be in flames. The inhabitants ' ran about like mad,' in such a comical manuer that the King again had a hearty laugh. Then the crowds on the Mandaty side of tbe beach tempted his Graciouß Majesty, who suddenly gave the sightseers a dose of grape and canister. 'l'he crowd instantaneously dispersed, leaving some 20 men, women, aud children behind, His Majesty was highly amused. The Krupp gun fully answers his expectations. Tne next criminal is to be blown from its mouth. He has heard that the English have adopted that mode of summary execution. He must test it for himself, which he will as soon as possible. But, hitherto, shot, shell, aud grape-shot have proved tolerably successful ; ana his Majesty feels quite equal to the exi gencies of a European war.

A Shrewd Female Swindler.—The ' Bjston Herald' thus relates how a J Boston dry goods Establishment was victimised :—' One of the snarpest case« of swindling which has recently occurred in this vicimty took piace yesterday at one of our piominent dry gods stores, not far from the corner of Winter aud Washington streets. A finely dressed lady appearel in the shawl department of the Btore in question, and, af cer careful examiL»,ion, selected a camel's hair shawl costing about lOOdols, for which she tendered in payment a lOOOdol bill, which was carefully scrutinised by the cashier, who, doubting his own power of discrimination, dispatched a messenger to the bank to ascertain the genuineness of the bill. Meanwhile the lady customer had become anxious to procure the change, and had approached the locality occupied by the man of scrip when the messenger returned and announced in an audible tone that the cashier of the bank said that the bill was good. The lady upon hearing this waxed exceeding wroth and demanded to know ' whether he thought that she would attempt to pass a counterfeit bill.' Of course apologies and explanations were of no avail; and assuming to be highly indignant, she refused to purchase the shawl, demanded her money, and departed from the store ihe Vrfry embodiment of righteous indiguatiou. A couple of hours afterwards she returned considerably mollified, aud confessed that she was pleasad with tae bhawl, and that her inability to fiud one wtiich she liked aa well was the only reason aha returned, and she concluded to take it, which the obliging salesman proceeded to have prepared, while the courteous cashier, disdaining to entertain a suspicion against such a lady, proceeded to count out the OOOdols change, with which and her shawl the lady departed. The feelings of that storekeeper can be better imagined thao described when he awoke to a realising sense of the fact that his lady customer had, after all his precaution, succeeded in passing upon him ac mnterfeitlOOOdol bill. It appears that anticipating just what had occurred, she had provided hersoJf with a bill, which played its part in the early stages of the game, after which it retired in lavor of the counterfeit,

i ?,**? Sparbow Ntjisanob.—Another half-dozen of these birds have been killed by ihe Acclimatisation Society, in the neighbourhood of Mount Eden. In only two-coses did the examination of their crops show the presence of insects. In all the others they were filled with maize or grass seed 3. :V < & r

Pooley Committed for TarAL.--The case against the English cricketer, Pooley, has turned out somewhat seriously for th it individual. Though only fined £5 for the assault, he has been commuted for trial on the "more eerious char-ge of wanton destruction of property. Bail was allowed.

Bight of Colonial Bishops to the Title op "Lordship."—" iEgles," in the ' Australasian' of February 3rd writes : —A clerical friend has an especial obj dion to the title of Lord Bishop in the colonies, and he has favoured me with an apologue thereanent. The last time he read the epistle far Dr Sumner, the Archhishop of Canterbury, was -when that benevolent dignitary had come to Blackfriars Koad to preach on behalf of the ragged schools. When his Grade came oub of his carriage he had no head covering but his wig, and all were hatless but the beadle. This imoortant functionary had received a new hat with a large gold band iu honour of the occasion, and he felt bound to keep it on his head. Tbo Hon Sydney Herbert removed his head covering, so even did the American husband of Mrs Bet-cher Sfcowe, who followed the Archbishop. Not so the beadle. He marched in front of his Grace, but clung to his hat with the gold band. " So," savs my correspondent, "do colonial church elignataries cling to the title of 'Lord Bishop,'" although they know its bestowal was a blunder—a Queen's blunder certainly—but still a mistake. The title is like the inappropiiate gold-laced hat of London beadledom.

Russian Cube for Drunkenness.— The • Ameticaa Journal of Pharmacy ' «ays that for some past Herba Serpylli (wild thyme) has been used with greatsuccess to effect a permanent cure of drunkenness. In case of a relapse (only uftcr years) a short treatment will effect a cure again. The treatment consists in making an infusion of wild thyme (loz to 14 pints), and giving the patient a teaspoontul every half hour. The next day it is given every two hours, and then four to six times a day mntil the cure is complete, which generally takes from two to three weeks. The effects are in the following order : Vomiting, diarrhwa, increased urine, strong transpiration, then generally increased appetite and craving for acidulous beverages. The diet: Easily digested food ■and lemonade or other acidulous liquids. The Shoo-two Season.—We ate glad to find that the Auckland Acclimatisation Society is advocating the postponement of the opening of the pheasant shooting season to tho latter end instead of the be* ginning or May. This will give time to the late hatched birds to mature, and. for one season at least two months shooting instead of three mays erve to prevent the birds becoming scarce. At the meeting aeld on Monday, Mr Earle said that it was ibund that the first; of May was too early. «be birds were then too young, and the weather, besides, was so hot, that many of the birds we re destroyed by putrefacadon. It was a great mistake to kill the birds too e».rly. He thought the 24th "f May would be early enough to commence the season. He moved, 'That the Society recommend the Governor in Council that the shooting season for the >forth do not commence till the 24th of May and terminate at the end of July.'— vlr Ohamrjer'lin seconded the motion, which was agreed to.—Mr Earle also suggested that quails should be thrown to sports men this season, but after some consideration it was decided to postpono this till next season.

Civil Service Economy. —la the ne'giiboariag colony of Fiji we find the practice of economy in the Civil Service be,'un„ as \t should be. This is what has been done, and for the second time by the Governor of Fiji. Hia pay is £5,000 a 3 -ar, aud he handed back £2,000 of that jum to relieve the shortened means of the colony over which he rules. Imagine the Marquis of Jtformanby making a similar return. Ministers could scarcely do leas • han follow so good an example, and with what graje could they not then go to the Assembly and operate upon the salaries of Under Secretaries a; id the host of well-salaried officials to be found on the muster-roll of our noble army of martyrs.

Arrangements in case ©* the Pope's Death —The Oolonge 0-azette of November 13th publishes a report which it announces has been present ed to the King of Italy, sigued by tne Mini* ters Depretis, Manciui. Jficotera, and Mezzacapo, respecting the steps to be ta.'seu oy the Italian Government on the contingency of the demise of Pope Pius IK. and after that event. The proposals made by the Ministers are as follows : To immediately occupy, by a military force the neighborhood of the "Vatican. On the death of His Holiness tne Prefect of Rome will at once request the oamerlengo, the domo, tne maestro dell* camera, two Papal physicians, aod the Papal secretaries, to be present at the body and the other necessary formalities. In the event of refusal the prefect will forcibly enter the Vatican, accompanied oy the qua?3tor, physicaas, two notaries, and four witnesses, and after viewing the body will take possession of the Fishermau's King, and will send it, together with a formal rtcird of the proceedings, to the cardinal deacon. Seals will be attatched to all the furniture in the appartments of the Pope, and will remain nntil the body shall have been removed. The necessary measures for maintaining order within the Vatican, will be taken by the An accurate list of all persons in the Vacfcican,. as well as a complete inventory of all the objects found in it, will be made. After the expiration of 24 hours the body will be at the disposal of the clergy of the Vatican Basilica, in order that they may make the funeral arrangements.

The three months during which ap. phcationa to register a claim to vote will be received by the registration officer will soon have expired. It has only a fort, night to ran, and as yet, wo daresay, scores, perhaps hundreds, in the Waikato and WaipaE.ectoral Districts who may be entitled to have their names placed on the Electoral ro Is, or whose names, being already on them,need to be re-registered—-the nature of the qualification having been changed sines the last roll was made up—have failed to exercise their ri<*ht of application. It is true that there°ij no general election stariug . the electors in the face, but there is no telling what may be the outcome of any session, or how soon from any special oause the electors of a particular district may be called upon to return a member. It is well therefore not vohmtary to allow oneself to be put politically on the shelf, as will be the case with all those whose claims to be placed on the electoral roll shall not have been sent in by the 31st insfc. Double and Triple Ploughs,— la the old country, to economize iabou,r a new triple plough drawn by horses is exciting attention. This simple and effective implemeut ploughs up throe furrows at once, and is likely to prove veiy valaable, not only in. Englaii i where labour is dear •

but in other countries, where with variable olimate: large tracts of > land have to be P *sif^ltaE«^^S^ a K? orses or two atMMWeT is not however as H^P 080 a nfeder%ilnplement, it Ml^lf* 611 in iusfjpo lTOg.,ago as tbg ml ■ la * t oenfca ?|S ; ItWdnly durin ;ttte lasjyfew years that the'fgojibie pl< ugh has to inEngl**^lMW 9 - lnan y other; countries, where iramence ; traots of virgiri\soil are brought under it is comparatively aa unknown implement. Thia is -the more surprising when it is con« sidredthat one man with three horses ban with a double plough, do as much work as_ two men using two singl ploughs with four hors'e>,-r-thu3 ensuring a direct saving of at least one-third during each ,wprkiug day, so double ploughs, as many farmers in the"mother country have practically demonstrated, soon pay for themselves by the economy they effect in labour and horses. In England the various.agricultural.societies are fully alive to the importance of this matter,- and thus we see at their annual ploughing match, several of the moat important prizes are alloted to classes in which double ploughs only are allowed compete. - By the mail just in we have received a report of the last of these competitions for 1876, which took place in December, at Cotteriham, hear Cambridge It is said to have been not only the last but the largest match in the Kingdom. No fewer than 23 teams entered the field, and every one of them was under the management of local ploughmen ony. The test was therefore looked upon sn fair and genuine, professional ploughmed that is, plbughmakers' men with traine • horeses and racing ploughs being ex eluded- The ploughs were by Homsby, Howard, and Ransom, and the match excited wide spread interest. At the public dinner, at which there was a large gathering, it was announced that all the h>sk and second prizes were won with the Howard plough. Next year we may have ! to report that the new triple plough has | so far advanced in the old country that as the double is superseding the single, | so the triple will supplant the double!

Cost of Workino the Count* Actin Waipa. —une of the chief, obj actions raised against the full working of the Counties Act in the County of Waipa is Che expense of working it. The question, however, is a very simple one of account and contra-account. A sum of £250 ft year at the most would probably be the cost of working the Act, while against this may be set the whole of the licenses, which, if the Act is not worked, will simply go into the treasury of the General Government, and not, like tho subsidies, be paid over pro rata to the several highway boards.' : They will go from us altogether. INow, it is not very difficult for us to roughly calculate what these licenses will amount to, and then it will be at once seen whether, as a matter of £ s d, we can afford to work the Act or not. In Ngaruawahia, there are two houses paying, each, a £4O a year license; in Hamilton there are two also. Ohaupo oontibutes £3O; Te Awamutu, £2O; Alexandra, £4O; Kihikihi£4o, and Whatawhat, either £lO or £2O. From Pu licans Licenses alone, then, in the County would be drawn a revenue of £3OO or £3lO. In addition to this, there are. the steam* packet licenses, the auctioneers' licenses, slaughter-house and o her licenses, or a sum more than equivalent to the cost of ! working the Act. Apart from these, it is, moreover, exceedingly doubtful whether the one half the tolls at Hamilton, the gross amount reaches £3S J per annum, will not be lost to the C maty, it the Act is not worked. The question of cost ia working can scarcely, therefore, we think, be urged against the bringing the Act into full operation in the Waipa County.