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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 769, 1 May 1877, Page 2

Sale of Land, Kirikibiroa. — Oapb. t MoPiieraou has, within tha Jaatfew d;vys, 1 effected tha sale of a portion oE his 1 military grant having sold to aMr Wilson i "200 acrea, at tue ratu of Jb*6 10d por aore. i .'The W S n Company's new s'enmer \ Delta, lately called Wiipa, will m future leave Hamilton (sco time table) at 9 a m. .and Ciuibridgj ut 7.30 a m, the: speed of thia boat eu.ib ing her to make the trip m less time than required by the other steamers. y ;' ".Coming " Squalm.— Dr Cumming, preaching at the Scotch Church, Coveut Q-arden, snid nil the student s of prophecy agreed that the world, and Europe especially, were now on the eve of .the .gr.eatO3t, catastrophe that ha? ever happened m the history of mankiud. The Reed Bros we hoar, were thoroughly appreciated at • Cambridge, where they performed on Saturday night. They pl*y a second time, this evening at To Awatnutu, and to-morrow evening .at Alexandra, l'eturning from thence to Hamilton. On Friday and Saturday night they will give a performance at the Q-ym-itasiuin, which has been kimlly placed at their disposal by Col Lyon, when the people of^Uamilton and neighbourhood will have an opportunity of enjoying the best musical performance they are ileoly to have otfe.-e I them m the diairictfor many v long day to come. A Brutal Fathbb. An Adelaide paper of recent data states thtt lately a man residing ut Oaklaud, York Peuias-ula, sont his son,.a^eti 14, down a rattier deep w.rll to fetch up : a bucket. When the boy had . descended, the father to save himMPfche trouble of windiug him ; up, ordered the boy to make fast to the rope, which the man attached to the) team of bullocks and drove them along, drawing the rope over the windlass.' The b'.>y was drawn to the top, both his arms were broken, and he, with the bucket, was then precipitated to the bottom of the well, whence he was taken up dead, with his neck, it is said, broken. He was buried without; an jo quest or inquiry 01 any kind. Onions.— The soil of the Waipa and Raglan counties rau3t be particularly favourable for the growth of onions. Those forwarded lately by Mr McNicol of Oliaupo to tht3 office were a splendid sample, but yesterday we received by the coach a bag containing two samples, one from the farm of Mr Finlayaon, on the banks of the Waipa, tha other grown by Mr John Byrne on the Pirongia. One of these onions weighed a pound and a quarter and the average weight of those m either parcel was three quarters of a pound. Surely the agricultural districts which grow such onions con produce fat geese or succulent young porkers, or even wild duck worthy of being sampled, and put to the best of all tests aloDg with these vegetable wonders. The onions above mentioned, we find, from a letter received later yesterday than ihe onions Uiemsel/ea, were not sent by the growers but by a gentleman who took them promiscuously from small lots he had purchased and " neither of the growers," he says, " had any idei I intenddcl to send you a sample." Mr Byrne's onions grown on the slopes of Pirongia are from the highest cultivated land m Waikato, those grown by Mr David FinUyson from the olher extreme, the river banks, and both show what care and cultivation will do.

The War m the East seems already to have affected us m Hew Zealand m the prica of grain and flour. The millers had only at the first of last week raised flour twenty shiliugs the ton all round, and now again comes an order as will be seen by referring to our advertisiug columns to raise the price another twenty shillings. Moreover and above raising the price of flour it would seem that the Emperor William, or Prince Bismark looking over the files of the Waikato Times has chanced to see ia oar advertising columns that Mr Ruge, the barber is following his calling m Waikato, and further an order is sent out to summon Mr Huge to Q-ermany, m case his assistance should be needed m shaviag the French, with a sword bayonet. In truth, when the German Government deems it necessary through its Consuls to warn German immigrants m English colonies that they are needed at home to complete their three years compulsory service it looks very much as if thu words reported to have been used by Von Moitke m the German Eeubstag the other day were pregnant with meaning. The German War Department may summon spirits from the vasty deep but the spirits may not come for all that; and ao, doubtless, it will ba in the case of Mr Huge and others. The penalty for not au.twering to the summons is fc fine of a hundred thallersorso mnch inprisonment, but m the case of either one or the other our German fellow colonists are not likely to follow the example of the duck who, when invited .to come and be killed, stuffed itself with sage aud onions aud quietly walked home to have its neck twiated. They will either naturalise themselves as British subjects and evade ihe summons or give 'FatherLmd' a wide berth iv the futnre. In Mr Kuge's oaae he has already done his share of lighting for his country and was one of the defenders of a pa*a at the battlenear Worth, down which 750 French tlussars if they ever meant to mess m their p wo qaarl4s£ again must COOie to escape the Prussian forces. When they came to the head of the defile tjjey rose m their saddled, and, discharging a volley from their carbines, which killed thirty of the apijjed caps, charged at a gallop. But sixteen only out of the seven hundred and fifty fought their way through to the French line. Here was a Balaclava worthy the muse of a Beranger. Our fellow townsman carries a scar m the leg from a French eabre as a memento of the affair. No wonder that he prefers remaining m Waikato. to shave bucolip chios rather than have his own skin operated ijpon by some rascally sabrcur.

H4.aril.TOtf Wblt Bietpday Spoetj. — TllO attentpf; to organise a committee for the purpose of arranging a day's sports at Hamilton West on the 2'Aih insfc, has faMen through . from publip apathy ia the iratter. At tbe meeting called for that purpose for Saturday evening last, at Walker's Comme'-cial Hotel, t?iere wero only some flre gentlemen present. In the fiea of such diar couragement, it wa3 thought advisable to let the .matter drop, though it is just possible that subscriptions may be yet collected and a few race 9 held. Perhaps it mights be as well to let the proposed Bports go by, and aa the football season is close at hand, to hold a grand opening day und piny nn open match of East v. Wesb to iuau^u-ate the season. Such matches take p.'ace m some :omtie? at home, Up v. Down, wbeu all rcs'deuls uarbh of a eerfcuvi lmo play a^asfc all those south oi' it m tie couaty, the goa's being gome m ; 3e or two apart. A match East v. West, o.' Waipa against Wa^alp, all jbasiug pavi m it who choose, and ihe ' goals— say, .No. 1 Bridge und the punt landing on tho west eiclg, would affoi-d a day's sport m wbieli hundred^ might join, and would ut least be a novelty'in colonial football.

Tijb MuEDfcA.Ett Tjs Pati. -Tbe reason of tbo cxf.cution haviug been so long deiayod ia thus explained by the "Herald".: —Tbo papers connected with the trial and condemnation of Te Pati were seat J;o Wellington for tho Governor's con-

sideration iv the usual course, but when they arrived hi 3 Exoelienoy had left .for the South, wheuce he would not return, for a fortnight. The consequence of thia ia, that the warrant for execution cannot arrive fi»r tho next ten or twelve, days. The condition ot tho prisooer remain? tae Ba|ttß.^ He *!e6pa well, anj >ya liii. food, 'and appe'areJ as "callous as ever. regarding hia approaching fate. • " ■»' ■ ' ■<: AppBOPKtATE , Texts. —A , porrewpon. pondent ooncls a (contemporary- tljei following amusing anecdote pfclericariife : -—The late Rev Mr Paul,' who whs aonu sixty ye ira ago minis er of the Pariah of Broughton, m Peebleshire, was much ancl deservedly liked by hU parishioners, but receiving a daH*to v a^%ider (Snd' probably a largor stipenß) frbin a distant parish,- And 4;helapprdval of/the, patron ; of the living, decided to remove thither! And so ifc came that h6 had to preach a iareweii sermon, for which occasion he selected the very, appropriate text, ' And they nil fell on Paul's neck and kissed him.' But with all liis talent and witMr Paul did not get off ,sQOt free;, the example' of many of his brother ministers he got married, and being himself rather under the ordinary stfcturelbe, m conformity with the custom 6t most; little men, took unto himself a; lady who was exceedingly tall, the said. lady being very handsome and beauiiful, and known by the baptismal name of Grace. Now,' it ia U3iial for a minister on the first Sunday, at least, after his riiarriago, to get some brother minister to- discharge r.be duties of the pulpit for bim ; and it fell out that Mr Paul's substitute had us keen a sense of humour as himself, as was evidenced by the text chosen for his sermon. This was as follows : — • I Paul who am the least ot. all saints, unto me ißthisGrreatirac< gjyen.' • ,

DISQUAIiIEICATiON% ; OF HOBSES. — A writer m the Neiaon 'Evening Mail,' writing on the disqualification of Fishhook, says : — " I don't think we treat our racehorses well m New Zealand. . It may be remembered that somo years' ago that magnificent mare Peeress, wfth whiqhmanv of us m Nelson are acquainted, wan dis qualified because the poor thing who was so eager to take her put m the con teat wa9 debarred by'her.^waer from starting, and now Fiatihdok, the winner of the Dunedin Oup, who tried his Beat to win, despite the efforts of his jockey, at an Otago meeting the other day has been subjected to a, similar indignity. Why pass such a slur on the noble animals, whose disappointment at being debarred from what to them are the pleasure and excitement of a well contested race is, I really believe, as great as that of their bickers ? They are~hOne3t enough, aud therein they set an example that might be followed with advantage by their professedly nobler anjmal-r-man. . Jfut the saddle on the right horse Messieurs the Stewards; leb the disgrace lie on the j proper shoulders, and whenever you find au owner or a jockey playing such pranks, disqualify Mm, order him off your course, and never allow him another chance of selling tho public, upon whom, after ill, depends the success or failure of your raoe meetings. Racing m New Zealand used, m years long gone by, to be conconducted upon honost and honourable principles, but now — I Yes, what can we say of it now ?" . iirruAMSM IK Otaqo.— The "Martyr Tooth " has his imitators and admirers m New Zealand. Indeed more than, one of tbe Church of England Clergy iv the Colony have laid themselves under the suspicion of belonging to the band of Jesuit agents m disguise who are working for the disestablishment of the Church of England, and. its htnalgamation with or absorption into their own. We learn from the South, that "The Rev Mr Carlyon, incumbent of the ILiiapoi Episcopalian Church,, is still iv hot water respecting Ritualistio practices. At the last meeting of ttie Vestery the following resolutions were proposed: "That tho churchwardens apply to the Bishop for a faculty to remove frdm the church at Kaiapoi the following articles (the use of which has been declared by the highest ecclesiastical Courts m England to be illegal), name y, all candles and candlesticks not necessary for the efficient lighting of the church, vases, table covers (except such as are provided by the Veatry), crosses, re table, or supra altar, candies, <stc ; and that the Bishop to requested to inhibit the oontiouanoe of all processions, with or without crosses, coloured stoles, banners, bowing to the communion table, and the employment of one or more acolytes within the commuiqn rails, which, m the opinion of this Vestry, is not only illegal but highly repugnant to a very large majority of the Parishioners" *'Thao ia the opinion of this Vestry, the sermon delivered by the incumbent m the defence of the Rev Mr Tooth, now under punishment for contempt of the laws of England, was not only uncalled for but disloyal, and that the churchwardens report it to the Bishop." The Key Mr Carlyon refused to put both the motions, and the meeting soon after terminated. ; Other steps will probably be taken m the matter. ';

In Sentencing, Moffatt to. two years imprisonment . for manufacturing powder for the natives, Judge Richmond is reported to have aaid :— "lPyour offence were to ba punished m proportion to the danger which it occasioned to the ; publ«ff, y° u ought to receive a heavy •aieutenoe. Voulire to be looked upon by all well -judging persons as an enemy $o both races m this Island. On one hand you have been strengthening against your fellow-countrymenjmen who are merciless, fpr a "Maori victory, you well know, means massacre, sparing neither age nor sex. On the other hand, you have been encouraging the disaffected m a vain resistance to the advance of civilisation. Tou have been planning disaster for the European, but for the -native you have been preparing utter deßtruplion. The evidence has bub given a glimpie of your proceedings j enough, however, to disclose their dangerous and treasonable character. It is well for you that the time is one of profound peace, or yon could expect, as you would deserve, I nothing but the halter. lam going to pass upau you a most inadequate sentence ; but it is the heaviest which is allowed by the extreme leniency of the law on this subject.?' His IJonor sentenaed the prisoner to two years' imprisonment, with hard Übour.

A Serious AoorDKKT, we regret to say, occurred to' Mr Samuel Steelo when returning homo from Hamilton, on Saturday afternoon last. The horse tliafc ho rode, though a valuable one m other respects, is given to shying, indeed has already thrown Mr S tecle several times, and it is supposed that when passing Mr Coxa gate on the Ohaupo .Road, be must have sliied and thrown . his rider. .Nothing further is knpwn of the cause of the acc'deut, for Mr Steele when picked up was insensible, and though so far recovered when ho was taken home yesterday from Hamilton, whifcher he had been brought back on Saturday evening, as to be sensible of what wus passing around him, he could re. nember nothing of the accident itself. From appearances, it would seem that he was not only thrown, but dragged somo little way by the stirrup, as tb!oso who firafc came up to the spot say there were traces on the road as of a man having heen so dragged ; but a ahower of rain tailing and a herd of cattlo passing over the shortly after, obliterated any such" appearance when pearch waa afterwards raade

for it. Mr Steele was first seen lying on the road by tbe driver of Mr itf It OoxY spring cart, who took him up anl laid him safely on ihe Bido of the yoa^l whil^ he left tbe go^ds whiuh he^ffbrpughV; out, a*; Mr A Coxjs; residoace. /JStJfore 'his return, ho .vover,- to tJieJmain. road; Mr Land, of Hamilton; .qanae hy •cart, ancl ,steeing.';Mrl.Steei^lyiiig atehsetess lifted liim- m and thought bit| v - ojipK/ once to^-the Hamilton A Hotel, ,vy.hei-bji,e Afctencleil J)y ©r ! Vyndding^ii, \i\nd. bo ior rcco\ored ' aa 'to be '-able to'hv , "convoy c^ Ito1 to liif ' V 6yn>- House' yest.ei<iiyraorning". Mr ' Stealo ia Buffering from severe concussion of the bruin, bub no danger ia apprehended,, and a fortnight, 4b ia *said r will see bun about and -welU again.