The Waikato Times.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 758, 26 April 1877, Page 2

The Waikato Times.

Eqiial and exact justice to' all men, Of whatever state or persuasion, religious or ■ • political . ■;;-..'. ■: : *■# ■/ #:•»#;- i»#' •. # rHei'e sliall the i?resi" the People's riglvt ,•■ 'maintain, ' i-:-'ji. : . :..! :'• ;'•' .■. • • ... ;Unawotl by influence and unbribed by pain THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1877. •Mb Benjamin Maclean, who for so. many years discharged—'the duties of Provincial "lAuditor,' -has ''been gazetted auditor for the:, f olio wiugn-Oounties : — llokianga,Bay of Islands, Wangarei. Hob laoD, .Rodney, ■,Waite J mata, Thames,; Wai- : katp.| . .'. .*.,'; '"., ' v ,' : ■)' „. ' ._. '. :f _, At the meeting • of^ sthe CambridS c'e ' Farmers' Club, tlie report of which' w : iU. appear m- our next, it'was resolved "That as the. Waikato Agricultural andiPastoral-'. Society seemed. in J no : 'way«iaclined to do) so,. that a Spring Exhibition ...should be held in 'the Waikato district^ year ,atj Cambridge, under the auspices of' the Club,' '- and ' that to make it :more attractive/especially to Hadies, a horticultural show, on the same .day, should : b> Jield m with . it. ",,,,? r . ; The SovM BBiirsnvlNSUaANOß Compauy, one of the soundest -and mo9t flourishifig Of tho'coldnial^iastitutions of the kind, is, it will be seen, a' candidate !for extended m the Waikato district. Elsewhere we publiah a list of. its local ageuts, Waikato people have Borne good reason to remember" vie South Bri.ish, behaved. r sq": liberally to. a burnt out ettler here, some fifteen moatus ago when, though^he.pqlicyliad jiist expired, th'e premiumnot haying been paid, the sum assured wa3 generously handed over to the sufferer, and. without^delay by the company. . , ( . " { „" ,' „ '^.1 *' ' „ • :SAiiTBDAY-will;inrfuture bea.busy day m Hamilton ■> West.? 1 ? Mb Kennedy Hilb will hold a. weekly imarketifttf the tlamilT' ton Hotel , on -Saturdays;, 'until .< his : ' jo wn : large 'matt .in^.the ; brick, buildings m course of cousWuctiQUi ja 'built. ; Mr, John Knox, too, will hold a i regularweekly auction sale- on the -same day, m Joseph's old store, lately occupied by Air Moses". ; All Borts of produce will thus ha* enabled to be cent m by country settlers likfely to find .a. market amongst the local public, and Auckland .stores will be re-, ceieed for sale.: p . •-:' :i' : ■ YestbrdAt - there was a marriage in* Hiunilion, tbe daughter of- one of the oldest selilars m the district, Mr John Knoxi having been' married to Mr GUlard (jiui)'of Papatoitoi. : The msirriage, after tue fashion of the Preabyteriaa Church, took place privately in' the' house of the bride's parents. /At the same timb that the Rev S J Neil married Mr Knox'a daughter to Mr Gilliird ho baptized the inl'aiit' sister ol the bride/ so that, to'paraphrase Shakespeare, " The '. chrisieiiing baked meals would serve the marriage supper." ■-.■■■■•• '•■•.;•.-; Jambhidge Haemonio ! Sogibty.— r-The members of this "society commenced their i-ocond season on Thursday last, the 19 th inst. There was a fair atitendauce, some thirty being present. The balance-sheet showed '-that the receipts for the first season had been found just sufficient to cover expenses, and:, the, subscription per quarter was therefore fixed at tbe same tvmonnt as last season-^-naiiielyj five shillings. The remainder of the evening wus given to practice' under their able conductor Mr Mclntosh. : ■ - At a meeting of the Cambridge Presby. terian Church Cotnmittee held after service on Sunday morning last, a letter was read f-'om the Church of England Vestry, staiing that after 'the' 31st of July the building would be required for the use of the Church. •A" resolution was passed thanking the Church for the use of the' building for so long a time j and othera pointing out the necessity of erecting a chu'-ch of their own at once. Since (he meeting, we learn that a sum of over £150 has been collected towards this laudable object. ■„■■•••■■ • Native Land .Acr.'--Tlje "Waiaansa" o£ April 2<st Kas tbe follovv'og : " VVe hear oa fjocd aulhoritv tliat tb« pomtJie ipacle by tha . Attorney-Genera ', Mr Wbitakev, to tlieHouse of .Repie3eufcative3 Unit he would dra'fc anew Watlve-j jband Bill du'Mig ;be i£cess has been frlS'lled. A new bill r sweep/ug aw«y all exheipg /ibis ha 3 been drafted by Mr Whita^:? wi'h the a66isi:ance3 of Chief Judge Fe'nton. We hope that the Governmeut will secure the coufidc-uce of tho natives m this iniportflut matter by circulating the bill amongst them io. the Mao i Ipo^uiige at Jti.'it a month before Pa J : ?mtflt meets.' ; . The TnofiooGBEKED Honss Feve. — iWe )er n n tbat the owner of this ao'uial is likely to tend him to New South Wnlc-?. It would be matte? for regret if Fe*e should leave the Waikato district when there are quite mares enough of a class iike 7 y to require his services to ensure his owner a full proGt by still keepiug him lieve, or where we should think puvuhasers might be found willing to give j full value for bim with the object of keep- ( inghiuilnthe district. Indeed we have ' heard that oue " horsey " gentleman ia < quita willing to give tho sum of £250 for j i<'ere. As a matter of business, of course, I j

Mr Eergusson will naturally like to gob the highest price lie can for him, but we feel sure that the consideration wo have tiia^ed, the keeping him if possible m the 'Waika'to for the improvement of our local horse slock, will carry its full weight, and that when a preferenca can be given Mr FertfiuHon will exercise it m the; interest of the district. ?. * . A 1 "WOHTIIY citizan of our plicei wh6 'has :*; graab partiality for Scriptural names, rhaa a dog ho calla " Moreover."^.BEe i was. asked wero ha got the name for ffia dog. "Out of the Scriptures'^ he replied. Don't you remember," where it speaks of 1 azarus, it says, • ai.d, moreover, the dog - Hckea-hi3*aorjßs; ?' n — \ Diinbury-Ne ws^N/ot long sinoo, a young man made application for a permit to tonch school, and utterly failing m the necessary eionii' nation, wu3 finally asked when it was that Napoleon Bonaparte flourished. Before or altor our Saviour? After meditating some time He replied/ " You 1 hare gotme this time, gentlemen." ■■'.'. i v A little girl braids the hair of tho one who sits m front' of hor, instead of studying, when the teacher remarks, " Home is ithe ;plaqe for arranging the hair nothere. What would, you think of my' firaiding my hair la Bchool ?" Presently' Susan's hand.is raised, and, the teaclier, supposing shV'waneed" to ask^dme question about the. lesson, npds, w^en she .hears the 'following :' "Mary says your hair is false:' aM'that ybu wouldn't; dare todoifc here." • : " :-- --i Dbainaqb on. aT iARaB } soilb^ m \. the Swamp, is' a,lready ..commencing. 1 ; Mr. !J?hos. Jenkins calis for tenders m to-day's issue for completing some 1,200 chains', or fifteen milei of drains, and as these are to be B : feet ? wide and: 6 feet deep/a ' very' large number of men will find employxneiit m what h more a canal than a drain. It will, m faofc, do, more than drain our ;big swamp of. water, for it will drain r off the surplus [labour of the Auckland' -market.:;. ;.; .a '. i; •,-.-•!. -,■■ : The SyBLEA.s^. op tee .Rev. A Tpoth. — If the inprisonment of Mr Tooth, was an instructive example of the power of the law, his release, -says the "London •Times," is even. more, instructive. Mr Tooth waß imprisoned for coutempt; he ha.H been released .with contempt. On Saturday the three aggrieved parishioners appeared before Lord Penzaace, and said that, as a new clergyman had entered into possession of St James's,: Hatcham, and -the ceremonial of worship had been reiduced.^to.pfche. Bi,mplicifcy. prescribed by law, they Had no desire that ,Mr Tooth should any longer be detained m prison. • The .Waikato Poiioe Disieiot.— ■ Serjeant Green, ,qf the^ Auckland Police, 'has drnvedih'Hamiiton to 'arrange" and take charge of the ordinary' police force •m the Waikato district, the Police and, ! Armed Constabulary being two entirely forces^ under the new arrangements. Hamilton will ba the headquarters of the local police, and an officer will be stationed at each of the foljlowing placea : Hamilton East and West, ;Cu'rtthridge; '- Abxandra,- Whata Whataji jNguruawahia, ...and \ Taupiri. . Neither'Piako nor Te Awamutu, both of which h ,ye need , of. police, protection, will bp inclnded m the. list of stations. One 6'r two members of the Auckland force also came jup with Segt. 'Green. : 'We trust that the ! new police force m "flTaikato will not attempt to carry otit m country districts 'such as Waikato townships- really are the very many provisions of the Rural .Police Acb, " which, though legally are riot" Iworkably applicable to placesTbf small population. To do so woud be tp i make t the law mot.a blessing but a. nuiIsanoe.' • The Customs Re^enxte. — The last I ' • Gazette" contains * a bles._ which sho w 'that the«Gu'fltomß''reVenue for the'colony (for the quarter . ending March last, was £298,031, as -'against '£3l 7, 744 oolleoted dunug the corresponding quarter of 1876} the "decrease on the quarter being £19,705.. ! The/reveniie for Auckland last quarter was £49,119, showing a decrease oii .th'e' correspondent; quarter |of .£4^954 ; for Wellington, .£44,886," showing an iu:crease of £3i735j;- fur Lyttletdn! f U'491579, showing an increase, "pf £1,322 : for • D.uaedin, £84,600, showing a decrease of £15.218 ; for .papier, £1d,Q.35.i showing ;an increase of £329- for Nelsdri, £12,802, ■showing a decrease of £3,145; for"Grey- : i mouth, £9, 263, showing an increase of £1,241,; for; Hokiiika, £8,168, showing ad increase 0f f£1, 721. . '■ ■ The Dissolving of "Bones. — An 1 American writes as follows on dissolving ; bones :—"l have a large water-tight hogshead standing out-of-doors near the • kitchen. In the spring I cover the bot- ■ torn about six inches deep with dry soil. •On this I put a layer of bones about the , same depth, and cover them entirely with unleached ashes. On these 1 place . another layer of bones, then ashes, and. ' so' on 'till the hogshead is full. .: I leave it then ; exposed to the rain all the summer and wiuter, until the next spring. Than on removing the contents of the hogshead I h'nd nearly all the bones so soft that : they will crumble to pdvider under a very : slight preasure, . and. mixed , with the ; ashes and, the soil, they give a small fiile of most valuable manure ready r for im • mediate use Any of the bones not suffi- : ciently subdued I. return to the hogshead aefain for another Wei veraouth'a slumber, : In this way I have had no difficulty m > transforming all the bonei I can get into ' bone meal. . . .i: ... . The Bishop 3 ;MoT£mbnts.— By migta'ie a pa? jiqraph couceraing £ : sh6p CowJe's move meiits, written for inseiiion m re:;i iSitaiday's issue found its way inlo pub! cat 'on. m our last. Tlie "tomor i o'w" alluded to iv it !e'er3 of course to ne.it Sunday, and not, as when published on T.ie-«clay la3t, to ye3terd?y. We repv'nt the par33rsph agaia to-d*y as foMows... m ils . fp'.m ; — "The KiaaT Reverend Bishop Cowis will hold a oonSruni'ioa s<" /ice at St John's/ c Aw-i'nuLa, on Sjnday at 11 a.n?. A mee.iog of tin Ciifvch Cda]mitiee wilt be bt '1 aftar tertce, at which tbo Bishop w,'l pres.'d.e., Tbe Bishop wi'i also ndmiiiisicr tbe x'ue of conß)'aia* tion m St Sav'Oih's, ; Ale;andra, at 7 p. to, and onMomdDy wi'l meet the Chuch Con? mi! tee iv the Cbiirch at 3 o'o'ook. The liSMual Sr.nd:>v<-chool treat will be hpld hi the Erbool-hbu*e at 4 p.m., wbtn tbe B ; fchop wnl dVtv.bute tte pn'zf s to Hie !?uiida.v&chool cbildrsr. Un Tuesday liext D: Cowie will pres ; de at a meeting at Ohavpo, to b<j held m the aohoo)---house at 3 p.m. The Annttaii Sunday.school Feast m connection with the Presbyterian Church J a Hamilton took place on Tuesday last. The cbiklren met at the Church with their teachers at 1 p.m., where iliev were suitably addressed by tlieir minister, the Rev S J Neil. They fcben repaired to Mrs Webb's paddocks on the wpst side the river, where the afternoon was spent m football and other usual games, the monotony of which was broken later m the day by tea m tho open air, ard Ihe abundance of cakes, &c provided for them became small by | degrees and beautifully less as the infantry again and nguin returned to the charge. The mouotony of eating and drinking was then varied again by play till the gloansing warned children, anl parents, too, that it was time to separate.

Which is thg most obedient church instrument— the bell or the organ ? The bell, because it will speak when tolled ; but the organ will be blowed firstly v ■ ■* When an original poem? comes ; m written on both sidoa of a shee,t oilpaper tnereditor is nappy/ It goes to jhe jvastcbasket under : rules that take -the plaod of readjng. t ' As a young jjhaver.of. fivetpr 'six : ye,ars wais;reanii>i>at a school oneway, beanie r upon the passage :*' Keep 'thy tongue from evil, and thy lips, from guile.' Master Hopaful drawled out : ' Keep— tby — tongue— from evil— and— thy— lips —from— girls:'-;- ■^" w v' ?s **-":: ■*' i ~ ; ~ t*~ i His Father's Biq^estOaot t-f-^Fellow at a cattle show, where hfl made himself .co.nsßipupua^by. his,, .bluster,, cried out, , "call these prize cattle f Why they ain't nothin' to ..what? {our folksiieared. My father raised the bigge*t -calf- of- any man around our parts" "No doubt of it," s*aid a bystander/:' • and .ffie^npisiqafc;" f\ "I, '^N Odd Wbapon.— ''And now^lVlra §ulliyan,'\sa.id the, counsel, !' will you be kind eriodgh'to tell the jury whether ybiiV husband was m the habit of striking you With impunity ?." ■ Xffid what sirf ?" With impunity." He wuz, sir, now and then ; but he struck me 'of bner wid his fhist." 'Advance .Oambjwdgb.— We /are gladi to find, that Hamilton - is , not the - only township m Waikato 'where progress and prosperity. -is to be found. : "We understand that Mr A Clements . has instructed Mr Vialou to prepare plans for a block of 'building^'' extending over' the whole frontage of his acre. f|irst,, there will be a handsome structure ''for*, the Masonic 1 Hotel 6>j)f fc frontage, , m .'the 'most modern and apji. oVed style p fa^hitecture, 1 Which he intends -to be* second to nothing m Hamilton ; ,aai next will be, two hand- ., some shops with plate-glass windows, to be fitted with such modern' appliances as* will meet the growing requirements of the township. • A special eff>rt is about to~ be.;m < ide< for ths .erection of a Town Ha11. .... .The Government has oiven a site near, the j new; post-office, ' and promised £10 towards : t he. coats of its erection. Many names have been given for fair contributions, and if the settler j and their friends will only bestir.themselye? a little, sufficient funds will soon be forthcoming for, the ; accomplishment of hthis : muchneeded public undertaking. There are rumours that a .Presbyterian Church will shortly be commenced. Alleged Cube fob Smallpox.— A correspondent of the ' Stockton Herald' (America) gives the following as a cure for smallpox :— V Cut this: out for. future reference ;-: I herewith Append a receipt which ,,, has been .used, to, my, knowledge m hundreds' of cases'.' It will prevent or cure the smallpox even though the pittings ars filling. When Jenner discovered the' cow-pox m -England the world of science hurled 'an avalanche of fame, on his head, but f wheji the. most scientific scti6oi ; 'of medicine m "the world -—that. of Pai^— published jjfcbis. receipt as a. panacea for smallpox: it passed unheeded.' It is' unfailing' as fate, and conquers 1 in 'every instance. It' is perfectly harmless when raken by ' a • well person. It will also -oure scarlet fever, Here is the receipt as I have used it, hnd cured many children of scarlet fever. Here, it is aeilhare usiSd it .to' .cure, the small pox, when learned physicians said the patient' must die :— Sulphate of zinc, one gr*in j fox-glove (digitalis), ont grain ; one-half a teaspoonful of sugar, mix with t two tablespoonfuls f | of- water. When the abdve'has' been thoroughly 'mixed.a(ldv four ounces of .water. . Take, a-teaspoonlui every hour. Either disease'will disappear m twelve hours., fpr a, ohild, smaller doses accoHing'tb age, ' If counties would ■compel phyucians to.uße a t,hisy;thereL would ;be no need of pcsthqu^esi If you" value . ad vioe and. .experience, use this^ for jthat terrible ecouige. , "~ ' ' . ' _LORD EIQHO. ON IHB EABBIT-PBSX..^ ; We have heird of the lady who, having wallow.cd ia ibuse, sentE iii' terrdr for' as doctor, and was gravely told thatf- the only cure was immediately to swallow a cat. Lor,i^jEloho'e (prescription '{to our suffering * runholders is of so similar a ■character that for its very aosurdity we cannor, refrain, from copyingr.it from the 1 Daily Telegraph * :— " I have read m this - norning'a *- Daily Telegraph ' an article.jhowing how man is m danger of being oasted ,' from the Australian wprld by the tuitful rabbit, unless this ' nimble' .skipping little animal* is kepb within bounds. .This certainly , is anU alarming proa pec t 'or our colonial fellow-subjects, but m tha country, at any. rate, we can as yet secure ourselves m possession against tie invader by the use of guns, traps, stares, and, aboye all, wirenetting; md my object m now writing is to point oit how this lost remedy can be most choply and effectively • applied. Wire nettng, as generally used for rabbit fencing, 'equires to be made to rest upon a tolerably deep foundation of broken sones or concrete ; otherwise this'feefle ' but cunning 'folk ' burrow under it This adds greatly to the cosh, am does not,< after all, insure the desirid protection, as the rabbit will, even thet burrow under, the stone foundation. Bit if about six or eight inches of the wirainettiag at the bottom of the fence arebent back at right angles to it, laid dowj, and pegged along the ground, tbe neeiful result is attained, as the grass, falen leaves, &c, soon , conceal from view the wire that is thus laid down, and the rabbi vainly scratches upon it when, attempting to burrow under the obstruction of thHUoright • fencing which stop 3 his way, His intelligence, great though it be, fails tateach him that his labour is lost, and that he must commence his . tunnel furfaer back. It was at Mr Hibbert's near Uxbridge, that I saw wire netting this used, with, as I was assured, . the most complete success ; and the knowledge of this cannot, I think, fail to be of useto many of your readers."