The Waikato Times.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 748, 3 April 1877, Page 2

The Waikato Times.

, Equal-arid- exact justice to all men, , • 0£ whatever state or persuasion^ religious or ; -..^f... .poetical- . . ' ..-..'. , .. # * ■ # # # Here shall: file .Presi the People's riglv maintain, Unawed by influence and unbribed by gain.

TIPESDiAY, A PRIL 3, 1877.

Ti£& County Council Acfc has ' been done id, death m Waipa. ' That ; Qpimcil lias practically annihilated ibself; and after long- and deliberate -determination. That it has 7 acted wisely, we do not think, but it cannot be said <of the majority of the Councillors by whose votes the* per-, missive clauses have been hung up that th^y have acted other than according to tlie wishes of their constituents/ The matter has been referredjback: to the electors ...pf the several riding's, and the Councillors of the Rangiaohia, Mangapiko, and Newcastle-- ridings, who voted yesterday against the bringing the Act m its entirety into force, at least acted .... according to the expressed wish of their constituents. It would be wo-Vse than useless to- enquire into the reasons why this decision has .been, arrived at*.. The inadequate representation of one : important riding has doubtless had much fo do with it, and local jealousies some■psihg- more, but. the decision of the .Council is not final. It may, at any moment revoke its ruling of yesterday, and we shall therefore say nothing which may tend m the slightest-. degree to retard, that " eu(ente cordi le" between the several ?iocal districts, without the Waikato district as a whole is but a bundle of sticks.. The work now left for the County to do for, the present year, t is absolutely nothing, unless they should deem it at any time advisable to reconsider their determination of yesterday. Under ordinary circumstances they would have had to have made the apportionment of the subsidies amongst the several road boards This function, however, tot having been performed by the 31st of March, will; have to be executed by a commissioner specially appointed by the Government, the fact of the Council yesterday entering into the matter, to the contrary, notwithstanding. And as would have been the case with the Council, so we! presume with fche Commissioner, some fixed proportionate basis of calculation will have to be taken for the distribution of this ir.oriey. Ii ; .was certainly never intended that it should be apportioned at the mere; arbitrary will of a majority of the Councils, or because some large public works m any particular district were specially needed, but pro rata on some defined principle among the ! several Highway Boards, and some: such rule will doubtless be acted upon by the Government Commissioner. ...... It is a somewhat curious spectacle that of one half the Waikato (Waikato County) accepting and vigorously working the new form of. local self-government and the other half (Waipa) Westward of the Waikato river refusing to have anything to do with it, and throwing itself with perfect " abandon" into the arms of the Central Government m "Wellington. Yet this is exactly the position of affairs — the two opposite forms' of government will" be worked side by side, nay closer still, for from the very nature of the case! they will beyoked together. Whether the ox and the horse, oontrary to the injunctions of Deuteronomy can be so worked withput cruelty to the slower animal, remains to be seen We very much doubt, however, whether the experiment will be sue cessful. Already m the matter of the Hamilton Ferry, and the packet licenses, the smarter of the two, is showing signs of an impaiient desire to take advantage pf the situation.

Ihb "New Zeal.niG.z.tte" contain. |^Krocl..mat,on revoking all regulations f^Wtbe conduct of surve^a of »J Vl Z2 ,

Oeiokbt : Zingahi .0 C V*^ CamBridob C C.-Bn* match was played at Cambridge on Saturday, and termin- , ated, Tifl: . :a^drawn. game, - The Zingari Cub won .he tos, and went m, A V L- hnr firsfc anil B «°ond innings made 20d runs. l Q tl.eir first innings t.he. f G A mbrid«e.:jClUb:made 0n1y. 40, There was not time to ulay tneir second ianinga and the stiuips Were drawn.

Cebis i mas , Day ,on a Monday .— An exchunj>e rjublislies the following about a -Monday CliriituiaS' :— Christmua Duy fell on,u 'KonHdy- ta.it ye ar .^ tv fell on a Monday also.in 1865,-. ond on tliat occasion thd fo. lowing was unearthed from, it wm sUte.l the Harleian MS3, Ao. 2202, folio iofc4 : -L r ; If Christmas Day on Monday be, f A great winter t.h ib.yeac yoii'll see, : And lull ot winds botn iod 1 and shrill j Hat m sunvner, truth to tell, • , High winds shall 'there be and strong ; - -Full of Winp'esba la> ting long ■ j': While? batts©B- they Bhallmuitiply, • And greut plenty of bfeasta. shall die.' i rMWjtfot b.-j.fbjrn tbat day, I ween, [ =:-.iP?y B ,U»UJ?iß«ropgeaoU one and keen ; : c shall be found that stetleth aught : \i Tho' thou be sick, ihou diest not. ' j Thb ; 'Rabbit , Nuisance. — The destruction pf rabbits is proceeding apace m .Southland. .The "News" learn* that, : witliiu the last, eight mouths, 70 000 have met their. death on Mouut JBeaumuut ■■ station, : and pa tbe adjoining station of Mounf Lmton not fe«er than 100,000 have beeu slaughtered iv the same paii.d. One fact, turn ah ni by Captain Sevens, will illustrate Ihe costly nature of this ; warfare. Ie is, ihat he has ptid tbe handsome «urn of £300 for dogs alone. Another Bigdtfi.oaut atatem- nt is tu»t at 4voudale there will be 7000 lewer sheep ;to-Bhear tiiis year tuau cuere wci-h la-tt ■season. On Mr Holmo's.-atadoa 127,000 ot the pests have been destroyed, and yet at this, os at all tbe other places men tioued, the".f6rceß of " bunuy" have not visibly decreased. This ia the most disnfcartening.feature: of the warfare.

The year 1866 was the year of the Au=tro-Prussiun war, a year of disastrous uaibs^and a year of cattle plague 4gain m lS7l.Chridt.maa Day fell on a Monday. Tue twelvemonth following that day saw England wiili cattle plague m the North, and come grea.t atorwa ; but as to " buttles " we must lO back a few months m 1871 lor the capitulation of Paris and the oiifiut with the Commune. We have had a Monday Christinas for the third time within a dozen years.

-.••IfATijna.-. Meetings are everywhere common now that the crops are m and food plentiful. A meeting to discuss intertribal mutters was being, held a few dnysago at Port Waikato. Many of the Raglan natives went dowu and at-oppeii or a while on the road at Whatawhata. These native meetings must sadly interfere, with habits of industry and thrift. The natives at Whatawhata were doubtless glad to see their friends, bat now that the excitement of the meetings and greetings, is over, will have only empty potato" hils and aadiy thinned herds of porkers to fall back upon for their own winter supplies. : These travelling parties come down like a flight of locusts on a i-ettlenieiit, consuming the whoie of tho availnb.e fooJ. ISo wonder there are so many deman s made upm the Native Office for assLtance, m the shape of seed aud food. "'■.■■ .

Hamiltgn East Sports — Yesterday the weather was all than could be desired, und th >u^h the a tenduuee was not lnr,ge, aa much iuteresi. as usual m the several evems was manifest. d by those present. " The events were lew. Amongst the principal,. the .2oo. race, lor which five started, was won by W ify le, Conuell making -a good second. The hop, step "and --'jump-race; -which generally falls to a Maori, was won by p Munro, John Maori only taking second place; four started. The quarter- mile event was a smurb thing,. W Hyde pulling up at th<j clo-e hand over bum! till he ran m ahead of Vincent a good five or six yards. At one time the race seemed a fair thing for Beruard Coletnan, but somehow, as far as we could see, he was jostled jist at the commencement of the straight running at the finish. Wheelbarrow races, running m sacks, and other sports fiiled up the afternoon.

POSRIDGE AND THEIR VIRTUES. — The Edinburgh correspondent of the ' Otago Daily Times ' writes :— Dr Begg has been again proclaiming the virtues of porridge. In opening the first of a series of cookery classes to be hold m the schools of the Edinburgh School Boaid, the Doctor said : — ' In addition to plain dishes, the pupils must learn to make porridge well. Porridge was the life of Scotchmen ; he had prov. d that by very long experience, and had seen it m a great variety of m stances. Some would say it was quite an easy thing to cook porridge, but it was not so ; to boil it well and make it thoroughly palatable was a great achievement." These observai ions wer^ received wilh much applause, and Dr Beg^ also evoked the amused approval of his audience when he said that 'he snould like fosee"a diploma of ability to cook their Husbands' food properly, requi ed of all young women before they were allowed to be married." As.regHrda the worthy Ooctor'a ponygeric on oatmeal, we are mcliued to think that he h.is overlooke I one little drawbaok. If porridge mukes fl«sh and muscle, it wastes them m a fur greater degree; for if a man uses it for a steady diet he will scratch ab mt a pound ami a-half of hi'uself away every day, ond wurry himself into a nervous fever trying to reach over his shouulera or under his arms to get at the middle of his back. Heuce the national aerugginesß of so large a proportion of Scotia's har.ly sous.

The New Zealand Champion Bollock. — : Iu reply to an inquiry whic!) ap-p-'c-vred m the ' Australasian ' as to the weight of the heaviest bullook known, a correspondent writes as follows from

-ccrington, England : — ln December, 1873, there was a fir^fc p ize bullock shown at Edinburgh, Scotland, weighing, when living, 28c *vt of 1121 b. He w;is purchased by Weight at MM per pouud, and slaughtered by Mr Thomus Townsen, bul.ch.er, at the village of Wray, near Lancaster, England. At the itbovu price per pound he amounted to £84 8a 41. iie weighed m pounds 2,< 26, and was a magnificent rich roan, standing 16 hands 2 inches high, four years old. tie was brud and Jed m Ssntland. Many ing lirics have been made m Er.glan I, but. •.oihing equal to him l)aa barm heard ol'. l-'bo abo\e p'irliculais are well vouclie<i lor by jnioy persons well known, s w.;ll as by the t 'Stimo y of feeler, ca'lle dealer (who brought him out of • v <3nland) m t Die atiuiiin^ of the ouicaer." This English bullock must, h'>wuver, give tiio pas io .the Wang.nui builock ' fr> d- ' \vhi h w is exhibited m VVe.lin^ton ■>y Air Alur io MoLean a i tie m >r • t i.i i . \Birago. Mi- ,VlcLeau £12J for him- HisUre wei^hb waa 35cwt ot J.l2ib;

atjn, 8 years ; height, 6ff j m length, lLft »»■ ; girih at bolly, lift llin; Widlli across loins, 2ft llin. At the tin)e, we spoke of him as tlio h.<avi ;st bullofk.south of theLine. It appears now th'at;Bhgland cannot 'heat him.

While the More Oentbal parb of the lowpship of Hamilton has rapidly pr <■ gresj-ed of late, tbe older portion, down byjhe river, seems fro have fallen back. From 'the post-office down to the punt used at one time to be H+milton, but the r moval of both Moses store and Woo'ia' butchery und the bad 3tate of the road m wet- weath«r -have all tended to make this portion of the miin afreet less busy than it; used td be. ' With the prospect, however, of ihrt bridge goiig up a little abuva the punt, -inquiries for allotments are bein^ mivie m this direction, and already we see Mr Webber has m>ide considerable improvements and alterations to his workshop. New appliances have been procured,.and Mr. Webber is m a position to undertake the making or repairing of agricultural implements of all kinds. He has al«o procured a liconse as a gunsmiths so that sportsmen m Waikaf-o whose guna may need repairing will be ablo to havo the work done upon the spot and at once, msteai of sending them to be mended m Auckjand