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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 754, 17 April 1877, Page 2

The Hon F Whitakhr, Attorney General, iViro and Miss Whitater.'iand Mr T Russell arrived at Ngaruawahia. yesterday alternoon, and oame on to Hamilton where they remain at. present. The Attorney Q-eneral'a visit to the Waikato will however be only a flying ; one; as he proceeds shortly to Wellington. Oh. his return from that city, he will, again visit Waikato when he will address his conbtijuents, and as the recess will by then have nearly come to a close, we may, we suppose, look with more certainty for indications of the ministerial policy ,m his utterances then than now. „ , s ". Mrs Malapuop declares 1 that thecourase" of Mr Tooth rewinds htfr.of .CseaarV when he stepped over the '-Rubricon. — Punch. ■■■■■ ' : ■•■ : • Timber. — Mr John Knox, we! see, will hold auoiher of his .timber sales-rat Hamilton we presume, .the" adverfisement does not state where — on Saturday, , next. This time 2(J,01>0 ft will be. offered. .:, ". Importation of Cattie.^ -^Sunday Wiiß the lastday,for two yeauatoicome, on ; whiah it will be perinitted^o-Jand* oattle, . sheep or pi»s from any place beyond the limits of the Australian colofiies? '■ "■■ Tun Reed Brothers, it will be seen, have engaged Mr Le Quesne'-s.-. Hall, and will give a performance on Saturday nitjht next. They have been drawing large houses at Auckland and the Thames. Awkwaed Rather.—' '-"Do you reside m this city ?" asked a mssked man of a masked lady at a masquerade party the other evening, He felt sick when she said to him m a low voice, '' Don't be a fool John ; I know you by that wart on your thumb." It was his wife. The Hamilton Punt.— The tender B for renting the punt at per month were opened oa Saturday night at a meeting of the Board, when they were found to be as follows : — J.. Smith, £14 2a ; R Land, £21 ; Gt. Bentley, £23 ; Mills, £25 10s j J. Uinton, £25 13s 6d ; T. Butler £26 ;A. Potter, £26 13s 4d. The tender of Mr Potter was accepted, ; Selling- a wife.— Ah "extraordinary occurrence took place the other day at Crowle, Liucolnthire. William Liggott, a pork butcher, Bold his wife for £40 to Chapman Pidd, landlord of the Fishmonger's Arms. Tho articles of sale were drawn up at a solicitor's office, the money wa3 paid, and the wife handed over. Both parties, it is said, apoeared satisfied with their bargain. Piu'U has on'y been a widower a lew mo.iths.

On Thanksgiving- Day, m America, poultry of onu description or anoth.r is eaten m all well to-do familios. The 'Norristown Herald,' alluding- to' the -fact of the approach of tins i'linual national festival, cays :— "A Uniontonn turkey was observed on a fenco tho other day intently studying an almanac and reekouing on his toes how long it was from Thanksgiving Day."

The A C Fobce.— We fell into a slight error m our last m etataig thifc, m the removal of the men of the A C Force stationed m tho YYuikato district, Alexandra would receive, a small detachment. The strength of the force will be equally divided bt-tweeu Cambridge and Alexandra. Nominally it shcukl number SO men, but at the pre-ent time, we believe the number of all ranks is not more than 70, or about half the force that with a due regai'd to real economy should be permanently stationed m this district.

The autumn Inspection of farms for Ihe award of pr.zes by the Cambridge Farmers Club, cmumonces on Thursday n xl. The r. port of the Spring inspection ws read with much inteiest uot/i m the dislrit-L aiut out ol i r ., and ive have made arrangements for our s ccial correspondent to;icc>-mpuny thr Ju'.iges, so that a full und particular report o- the i'anns visited, with his remarks, may be|furnished to our readjis as early a3 possiolf.

The Bishop of Auckland risitsPiako on Thursday, where ha will hoM a public meeting ot ihe Peltiers interested m -Church matters. The want of a regular service on Sundays is much felt bythelPiako settlors, and, though tho district is not sufficiently populated to afford to employ tho services of a. clergy, man, there could doubtlOT3^.b^?pund amongst its residents one or mOra geiftlpj men qua.ified and fitted to fijtfthe o]B|.ce pf lay readers. *k(c : jjj£^ b 'The npsibbr of BaiEDiNai.fiii^tlie 'Waikato must bo rapidly increasfog 'for scarce an issue of this journal is published without one or more advertisement appjarinaf for the erection of ono kiud of ■buildings or another.- To-morrow-ia the last day on which tenders for the construction of Baird's new buildings at Bamilton will be received. Those for building a store and dwelling house at Te Awamntu will be received up tp Monday next, the 23rd inst, and tenders for the erection of a four-roomed house, at Cambridge,- will ba received a^Merrick'B store until the 28fch inst. : v

: Victoria Stub kt Hamilton West, -j— The bad slate of '-the lower part of Victori i. street, from the Post offioe do*n to tha punt, hu3 been getting worse and worsa latelj, till the road 'is worn inip' quite deep ruts on the one side. The leiison of this his arisen from an ejfbra amount o traffic caused bj the largenumber pfladi9s and others walking up and down this portion ■ of the street looking for J Moses' drupery establishment wliich used to ,be t;avried on : io. Joseph's, old store, but has been lately removed, to : Lontjbottotaa' corner , To „saye public lnoonrenience and useless wear and tear of a public thoroughfare, Mr Moses ha3.' taken the very proper and business-like course of having a nuir her of large bills printed at tnis office and posted m ill public plucea notifying his cliinge of business premises arid that he is now opening >hia first Bhipment of winter goods.

A cr/Rious btoey is . told of the Wanganui race meeting :—." There were three hoi'3es to run for a certain race, but the owuer of one, t linking his animal had no chance, "would not start. -Auolher owner who felt sure hisnag would win, prevailed, after a time, on the other to let his horse run if -he paid the entrance money, go that the race might not fall through. The race came off ; the horse that had no show Won, and the owner who thought he had; the race m hand had the : satial'aclion of knowing -lh»t .ho pud to enter a horge. that carried ayraybue. priza from, him."

: The Melbourne correspondent of a Southern contemporary : say a : — '• What a cricket fever! No hing will 'satisfy us how but io have W G Q-raee and G F Grace out again from England, with the west te'abi obtainable, m order that we may . beat with a level eleven. Aboub the best \.U-England Elev9n at present is W G Grace, Gt F Grace, Shaw, Daft, Pooley, Jupp, .Gilbert, Ullyett, Oscroft, Green woo Ij and Etnmett. It is stutad that the next team to come out. wi 1 be composed entirely of 'gentlemen.' >( Very good, but njt altogether of the names above-mentioned."

The ' Planet Vplcan.— Our : contem' poraries, we see, are 'Bore, or less exer" cised, according as the dcitorial vision i 3 given to star-gazing we suppose, with tli c 1033 of the planet Vulcan. Only a few spots were seen, but no Vulcan on the sun's disc'b'n the 21st ult. Vulcan itself was not there. Trials never come singly It was" but a little while ago the world was informed that the coal supply would be exhausted m a little over nine million years, and now news cones that the planet Vulcan is lost. We can hardly think anyone would be mean enough to steal Vulcan,: but tho nights have been dark lately, and there are a good many larrikins about. If Vulcan has fallen into the hands of an honest person, it will probably be returned, but perhaps the best way would be to offer a liberal reward and no questions asked.

The auc eland protinciai party, it appears, would very much like to have a return of the old state of things, when tho city reigned supreme, and the put districts were neglected. But a corre3. pondent writing to the 'New Zealand Herald,' 1 says that having lately travelled along the East- Coast, he is m a position to state that the " settlers there would infinitely being under the bene volentand enlightened sway of the Sultan of Turkey to again committing themselves to the" tender moicies of an Auckland Provincial. CpuacU. It is perfectly well uridei4tooi, and Mr Lusk's sp-ech confirms tho rumour, that the order of the to the rank and file of the Provincial party throughout, the colony is 'do all you can lo hung' up tho Act, and then weM get Home Rule.' But Provincialism may be hoist with its own petard."

A Tea fight and muffin- worry m connection with St. Peter's, Hamilton, is spoken of as about to come off at the full of the Moon. The boa-constrictor parb of the proceedings will take place, we believe, m the Gymnasium, after which the public, m a happy state of repletion, will adjourn to the large room m the barracks close by. to have the value of their money a«ain offered thmn m the shape of a concert and general entertainment . Fresh from the cup which cheers but not inebriates, and from the demolition of the good things provided them m the Gymnasium, such an audience is not likely to be hypercritical, but to accept contentedly the efforts of our musical amateurs to please them, so that the latter may on this occasion leave their nervousness at home. Not that we wonder that amateurs performing to a Hamilton audience feel nervous, for the \ latter are far too chary of applause and encouragement, the value of which they would know and appreciate if they had ever "smelt the lamps '' themselves.

Dumas on Woman.— A new p!ay, " Lea Danieheff," by Dumas the younger, has met Avith success m Melbourne. The following is an extract from one of the dialogues:— "I divide women or rather woman into two classes: one that of grace and beauty or the true woman, tha other that of everyday life of tho half of the human race. The first makes us great .mon or great criminals, the 6econd is indispensably necessary to our wellheing .m the ordinary affairs of life— to wash our sluldren, or Bew buttons on our shirts. One is called Cleopatra, Sernirumis, Elizabeth or Katherine the Great; among Queens ; Joan of Arc or Charlotte Corday among patriots ; Sevigne or Stael among authors; among artists, public enthusiasm s louts the names of Malibran, Mara, Rachel, or Siddons. The other is called my aunt, my cousin, my moi,her-m-law, my cook, or even my sweetheart. And mau is so made that ho seeks to, and b lieves he cau, give to her whom he loves one of those brilliant 1 names I have just mentioned, bin, aks Ihe day will come wheu his id.-.al faies t ', tho vulgar level of Mrs WhatV-ner-nanie or Miss So-and-so."

The Champion Prize Fighter.— The objuct oi'Mucc's visit to the colonies was 1 at the time, a aa'ter of curiosity to the general public. Sonio t.'ioughc lie was to exhibit the art of pugilism, but it how turns out that he is engaged m Sydney m giving lvpresantatious of certain classical subjects. The ' Sydney Morning Herald' uaa the folio v ing : — -'lu ttu<3o s.udies he has beeu nioso favourably received elsewhere, and it is certain

that m thorn his splendid physique givca him every advantnge. Last night be appeared m seven characters — Herciles struggling with the Lion, the Quoittbrowei', the African alnrmed by tlAgnfr*; t defying ihe lightning, Sitt^pn pg away tha Gates of Ghzis [the w~Tyyin&ffila(Uator, THpB/arl -nil, vere, The prelimfnriry |j [ion ef f*a' l a k9s§|f n " .l^^,insjv r v9B3e grejmiina«tpa ant^orkif^/then^np ftF/tho cliniax. For insfcancp, m the Dyin Gladiator— which is the beat of all th". representations— Mr Mace not only give* the combat a9Sumo>, but also adds the byplay (if ,'shj9^expj»eßaion may; be/used): leading up to each position. At first this ..will manjuto^ detract from the pose itself j and no doubt it h.13 that eifecV>bipe < c:aHy- : li3itlferdltitude ia not -sufficiently long preserved I o make it truly effective : but, at the same time, it mUitKUfc adrifi|te<? jJjJlaXJitf > SJlibj& eon- "" sifoAWfeJkudy^AnllPtw^ttHil tnsyf "be. added that there is nothing forced or strained;;^ j;h;e> way m -v^Ji^hj the?pfelitoinarie'3 are repzesented. The gladiator fights, -•^ru^giejS^ - and pauts ; beforea he sinks on liis side, which ia the pose j he recovers himself and faces, his enemy oncj more before the 'strength utterly deserta him, and he falls to rise* no more, which is thp final scene. , r XJiisis. quo^d. .simply . as an' exdtiiple of What Ml', Mace itpp*rently thinks is the most Vf&ctive' method of.depjcfjng. the 1 !Rar ; tß; m -which, he^-ip. pears, and fcomi that point ot view they are unqueslionably^rendered m a powerful manner;-- Jb may be added that'eaoh presentation was received with great applause^ ,-andv- thfat Mr Maae 'was' twice called before the curtain at" the conclusion.'^ '■ '■■'■■■■ :■•■' ••-!••-.: . ■-..