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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 769, 19 May 1877, Page 2

"Thou sham not Steal."— Eor;. some time past we have had to complain of the systematic pilfering from <jur columns of Waikato news by the New Zealand Herald. The practice of that journal has been, nob to take the-para-graphs as written by us and acknowledge (the source^but to slightly paraphrase them and paBS-tnem off as original oontributions to t^ff Herald ov as written by one of its staff.' There is scarcely a Monday's, Wednesdey's or Saturday's issue! of the Herald but contains one! or more of these pirated articles from the TiMB3, BOtofttimes a local paragraph or, extract of leading matter, sometimes even a report. We have given our contemporary ropeand he has hung himself at last. In Tuesday's issue of this paper there appeared a sub-leader embodying a ; return of the n amber of • sheep in the four Counties comprising the Waikato district, and, as our readers are aware, a curious nvstake was made (and explained in the following issue), through our reading -the word rams as runs or holdings. The Herald of Wednesday gives the su >• Bta'nce . of our article but re-dressed in language of its own, but the tell tale blunder of the rams and runs is perpetuated by the Herald. For a journal of the Herald's pretensions, to be guilty of such potty meanness, is very sad. Alas, what a falling from the first seven years of its existence, when it was edited by one of the ablest and most accomplished journalists in the colony. Cambridge Football Club. —A general meeting of members for the election of officers, &c, will take place this afternoon, after tue practice which will be held at 3 p. m, in the; Government paddock. Teachers Residence, Pater angh.— Tenders for the erection of a teacher's residence at Paterangi, will be received by Mr W Macky, chairman of the local School Board, on or before Thursday the 31st instil Mb John Knox will sell to-day at the Hamilton Auction M*rt (Potter's new brick building, Victoria street, which he has leased as an auction mart) the slaughter house 'and yards erected by Mr Potter, at Taraahore, and will also hold t usual sale of goods, provisions, &c. - ! jbndebß for the construction of road Ks on the Kiliikihi and Te Awamutu roads, including Bix cuttings, are called for by the Chairman of the llungiaohia Road Board, and will be received up to Saturday next, the 26th inst. r Thb Swamp Road.— We would remind intending contractors, that Friday next is tho Inst day on which the Waikato County Council will receive tenders for the formation of some eleven chains of road, at tho eastern side of the .Piako Swamp. . . L.O.L— We would remind members of the Sons - of 'Ulster Lodge, that they are ' warned to meet this evening, at the • Victoria ball, to make arrangements for celebrating the forthcoming. 12oh of July. The RevD BRUCEwiII visit the Waikato : to-day, preaching to-morrow at Hamilton.' B.fore leaving the district he will hold meetings of church members at Hamilton, Cambridge, Pukerimu, and Ohaupo. t , " ' j The chief difference between; the nice little Sundaj -school . boy, and the nice little' Cannibal Island boy would seem to be that the former keeps a cent for the missionary plate, and the latter , a plate for the missionary sent. ' I. O. G. T.— Brother the Revd Samuel Edger of Auckland. the -Grand Worthy Chief Templar of the Good Templars of the Auckland District will visit the Waikato and attend lodge meeting on Monday night next, in the Victoria Hall, Hamilton. The members of the Order generally are invited to meet him. DEBAMNa Society, Cambridge. — Th6 Literary Society at Cambridge would appear to have collapsed, and it is intended, if possible, to form a debating society, for which purpose a meeting haa been called for this evening, and will be held at the National Hotel, Cambridge. Wab rates of Insurvnoh. t- The " Herald" of Tuesday understands that a telegram was received in Auckland yesterday from Melbourne, Btating that the underwriters there had placed a war risk of ten shillings per cent upon out-, ward vessels and cargoes. This implies that the people of Melbourne see that there is a possibility of England being involved in the present war, but the rate is so small as to show that there is, as yet, no serious alarm upon the subject in Australia. The Piako chief Te Knti, who has been an iamate of the Thames Hospital for some time, suffering from a severe ulcer of the thigh, was removed on Tuesday, per s.s. Buona Veutura, to his own pl-ice on the Piako to die near his own people and his settlement. A spot was selected for his reception near the settlement, where he chose that his last hours should be spent, aud the ground taputd after his decease. His friends were strongly pressed to allow him to remain a little longer in the hospital, but they declined, stating Te Kuti wished to die oa the spot selected for his removal. He was very feebh when removed, and complained of the motion of the steamer, when ha was transferred on a fitretcher to a small boat in order to avoid the motion complained of. He was accompanied by his wife and family.— "Thames Advertiser." Pheasant Shooting.- If the pheasants had made up their* minds that the annual slaughter was to be intermitted for the present year, they will find themselves disagreeably mistaken on Monday morning. They have had three weeks grace >r and mony believe that to have been quite unnecessary, as the birds are both unusually strong and plentiful this year. Sportsmen, however, will take it out of them oh Monday, and there ,will be more guns cleaned than prayers said to-morrow amongst many that we wot of. There will, we suppose, be the usual competition amongst rival sportsmen, to make the best bag on the first day, and Mr Steele will, we hear, have to look to his laurels and keep bis powder dry, if he means to retain the . championship of ' best bag ' on the comino onfiasion. On the first of May, last

• Auction Sales, Hamilton. —Mr Kennedy Hill, it will be seen, has another large auction sale o a for to-day — cheese, poultry, pigs, furniture, clothing,' and a boat for the purchaser, if living; "near the water, to convey them away ? ih. The* .salo takes place at the HamiltoH%otel. X .-■'■'■ C- N •-'•'• ,--•*. *'.": i • .•'<■ v : A Conobbt in aid of the building fund' 1 ;6f the Pdrsonige at Cambridgg- will js; .held in^th'e school room,-' Cambridge, <ra Monday* the |Bth . inafc^ Several lads£. and genilemeit^we anderitandj r 'ißre gora£; •up front-Hamilton to take part in the performance. Thb Shgwp worrtino at Hamilton* -^MrwT-Jblly har now- been- enabled to estimate the casualties which occurred at .4he7 worrying.' of hfß sheep on Sunday ■' night laßb. Ten have been killed outright amongst them- -a—fine Troung pure-bred Lincoln Bam,, for which Mr Jolly had recently paid ' £(5, and : more than double that numbur hive beon more or less .wounded and mutilated. .There is, we. believe , a ohanee yet, that suqh,des. 1 cri'ption of frh e dbgs may be given aa will lead to their identity •••.!■■•!.'.■.:■-•::■: ■■/•.■:■■.;.:•■■■:• j A vbet Curious Aocjdbnt, and, our readers generally .will Tegret to, learn, a^ very painful one withal, happened on Thursday morning to Mr R JF Sandes, chemist, of Hamilton whan drawing a tooth. The patient was a child, and the tooth was, on the upper jaw sharp .pointed; or wedge like. When drawn, the i 'ipat/ument •closed sharply, shooting it upwards wjth . g ro ; at; force.;. 7 It.' struck ; the, operator,, full upon the eyeball occasioning great jmn, which rather'in ; creaßed, for yesterday Mr Sandes was still confined to a dark room and euffering severely. The editor of the ' Lyell Argus makes apology : — '• Those of our subscribers who. got last week's .paper ' ' printed upsid e down' will, we trnst, excuse us, when we tell them that, beint; short-handed, a Lady volunteered to do the printing. She said she could turn a mangle or a sewing machine,' and it was durned hard odd to her if she couldn't' run a printing machine. The 'Deil' and her went at it, and between the two they run the * Argus '. upside down. The woman consoled the editor by remarking, ' « Pever mind, old chap, — they —^will — only — say -The Printer's tight again.' Who wouldn't be a printer." Accident to Mr HiaHtßT. —We have to record another horse accident which { occurred on Thursday morning to Mr Highley of Hamilton East. .' He was riding at a trot .along tha road to Mason's nursery, gardens and before reaohihg No 1 bridge, 'the horse which was thirsty turned off Ehirply to a watering place, and Mr Highley, thinking probably of nothing ia particular, sudden. y found himself going one way and the horse another. Being a large heavy man he fell with considerable force, and we are sorry to say suffered adislocation of the shoulder. He was brought on to Walker's hotel and I)r Waddington sent for, but it took the , united strength of f our men assiited by the doctor to get the jimb in place ?&R ter the operation, which he bore with great fortitude, was over, he was driven home to Hamilton JSast, and. we are glad to hear, is favourably progressing. ~ Worth KNOWiNa;^-H6w to make butter hard (says the " Adelaide Observer") in hot Weather is a problem which vexes the souls of farmers, especially in such a climate as oursi : . The following hints on theßubject by an English butter maker will, therefore, probahiy prove' acceptable.' The" best makers in England, it appears, use for the purpose of. making butter firm in hot weather a mixture of powdered oarbonate of soda and alum. For twenty' pounds of butter, [one teaspoonful of carbonate of soda and one tea-, spoonful of ' powtlered alum are mingled together at the, same time of ..churning and put into the cream. The effect of this powder is to make the batter come firm* and solid, and to give it a olear sweet flavour. It does not enter into the butter, hut its action is upon the cream, and it passes off with the buttermilk. The ingredients of -the powder should not be mingled together until required to be used, or at the time the cream is ih the churn ready for churn* ing. Local Grown Quicks. — Now that the season for planting live hedges has commenced, Waikato settlers will be glad to learn that they have the opportunity of purchasing well forward quicks grown in tho district. Mr Forrest, of Cambridge, is prepared to receive orders for the supply of one, two and three year old plants. Mr Forre3t has been experimentalising for some years post in the growth ol quicks, and has now got a full stock and plants and, seed in the several stages of progression, so as to be able to keep up a continuous supply. The quicks now advertised by Mr Forrest are from eighteen inches to three feet high, accordiag to ; age, v and : very strong. Most' of the quicks sold ia Auckland 'are sent from the South and their smallness has ilwsys been a great complaint against them, to say nothing of the damage by heating caused by long packing. This latter evil, of course,. wUI be avoided in the use of local grown plant?. An Important Life Assitbancb Case has been pending for some weeks past, and has at last been decided. We learn from Wellington that, on Saturday last, in the Supreme Court, the Chief Justice delivered judgment in the case of Hammond versus the Public Trustee, in which one of the creditors endeavoured to recover from a life insurance policy which Eobert Sparke Lome, a bankrupt, had effected with the Victoria Life Assurance Company prior to his decease. Lome left the policy to the widow and five children, and the point involved was whether a policy of insurance is protected to the family from the creditors on the deathof the assured. The Court decided ■ that it was, and judgment with costs was given in favour of the defendants. An even more unjustifiable hoax than the ' Kaekowhiski ' imposture has been practised on the people of flobart Town, in the issue the other day of the followiug ''extraordinary" by a local journal:— " War declared between England and Russia!' 'A Russian fleet in Hobson's B*y !' ' Melbourne is threatened with bombarlment !' • Cruel and bloodthirsty foe!' 'The enemy threatens to reduce Melbourne to aehes!' 'The streets of Melbourne are 0 cupied by Russian soldiers !' • A Russian fleet of seven huge ironclads has sailed through Port Philip Heads !' • The Victorian Volunteer Force, who opposed the foe, were shot down and slaughtered like sheep I' 'The streets of Melbourne were clamorous with the dying shrioks of men, women and children, butchered by thousands ; the chaunels. running with the blood of the slaughtered !' • Children have been torn frcn their mothers' breasts, and butchered before the eyes of their parents i ' " A Floating Field.— The following is from an Alabama journal : — "At the Dickenson Palace, on Bullard Creek, near Six-mile Station, there is a ten-acre field, whioh is nothing more nor less than a subterranean lake, covered with soil about eighteen inches deep. On the soil is cultivated a field of corn, which will produce thirty or forty bushels to the acre. If auyono will take the trouble to dig a hole the depth of a spade handle,

are diffore*Es from others in not haviugv either scales^ eyes, and are porch-likjrtn shape* The ground is black nv»s7alluvial in itanatuh, anofin all probability, at one tlriaiEfit was an*;b'pen hody of water, on whioh was accfrmjjlated ; matter,^ which, hasjjjjjeii incrfcised 'from^ 'ibMs agonist; uffiwefrtly stpdng af|;rioh%tq p!&duo# me »top;HjJißugh it JtaVfo \m 6ulfi*3ite& by tenfl/aWit is isMßtronl^nol&J4t6> bearytire wetehti of .wpes. ! WKUe^iodningj jjtb'e fiek^ands v o4t6h great strings of* delicate fish, by merely punching a hole through the earth. A person raising on hia heel, and coming down suddenly, can aee_th.e growiug.corn.shakeallround him. Anyone having the strength to drive a xail through the crust will find, on releasing it, that it will disappear entirely. Hamiitdn East School. It is with satisfaction we learn that the Central Board of Education have condoned their offence, in bo long leaving the district un-. oared for, .by .exceptional, liberality towards it j not hut that' the importance of . the county; town :of Waikatoi-'fully warrants the attention paid %- its requirements in the way ; ,of education by : the Central Board. 1 : Thd tWimmigrants' cottages, which we noticed as being in course of removal to the education ■reserve, are -to be". erected; fpr a 'school teacher's residence, and the Board have granted a further sum of £41 towards'; their removal and re-erection. The appointment of Mi* iand'Mrs Meld air master and mistress of the East Hamilton school has given much satisfaction to the residents, whose children' have shown marked signl/of progress under their charge even during the short time', some three and a- halt mintha, that the echool has been opened. On the repreaentasion by Mr A t totter that such was the case, the Boardhas increased the joint salary of. the muster and mistress-: by £oO per annum. The erection of the schoohhouse itself will shortly be proceeded with, : some S,OUOJt of the timber to be used being already landed below -the , Company's Btore, and the remainder with the blocks being now on its way up. The building will be the counterpart' of the schoolhouse erected 6n the west side the river. New- Native Lands, Bill. —We take the following <rom Thursday's ' Herald ' : — " Considerable interest is fell in this comrauniry with respect to the Native Lands Bill which the Government are to introduce into the House of Representatives in next session. It is known that the bill has been drawn by Mr Wh'itaker with the assistance, of his Honor Judge Fenton, and that the advice of several gentlemen, who havebeen connected with the working of the present Act, has been taken on points of importance. There seems a general agreement amongst those who ought to know something of the measure as to its geneial scope and design, and we have no doubt that the impression, whsther founded on surmise or information, is correct. \ iThe new bill : will, it is believed, be devoted mainly to. simplification, which, after all, is the one thing needful with respect to native lands. The present laps, are ;sp complicated, so multifarious in their requirements as to witnesses to Signatures, and so forth* that it had bocome almost impossible to get a title for any piece of native' land. The new Act, it»- ; is believed, will start with clearing the ground, and will then embody all the. procedure necessary on the subject. The Government will stop the native land purchase system, but of courso they will take ample powers to comp.eie the transactions into which they hare entered. The constitution and working of the Lands Court will be made as pluin and simple as possible, consistent with the ascertainment of the rights of the '- natives. ~. There can be ; no question; as to the necessity..for, a new Native Lands Act, . aad we believe that the present measure will fulfil the purpose for which it is deeigned.' •• J ' ' ' ' The Noble Savage— A Nice Pabty.— The ' Brisbane Courier ' gives the following account of an aboriginal 'orimihaT:— It will be remembered thab Peter, the aboriginal charged -with the murder of i/jiv Wilkinson, at Wangawallen Creek, Upper Cobmera, diod;. in Brisbane Gaol on the. 22nd ulfc. After the commission of.hu. crime he betook himself to . a mountainous and almost inaccessible region at the head of Nerang, .the head-quarters of hia tribe. A gentleman who recently visited the locality gives us some particulars in connection, with this notorious, criminal. It seems that since, his departure from Nerang ho news has been received by his kinsfolk of Peter's fate j it was natural, therefore, that the bereaved darkies should come nocking around our iuformant, eagerly asking for news concerning him, who says, ' when told of his death iu prison, the intelligence was received with anything but; dissatisfaction. There was no?denying ; the faot,that the assurance of : Peser's veritable and. 'eternal I absence from the hunting-grounds of his sable brethren was to them a cause for rejoicing ; for he bad been a terror alike to friend and foe, and the possibility of his esouping Che dutches of the whitefellow aad returning, haunted them like a nightmare. Peter is credited with the murder of three giu's— done to death, one after another, as ha wearied of them. The way in which he got rid of his father-in-law reads like a ohapter from a yarn by Fenimore Cooper — th-3 romancist of that unsavoury humbug, the Hedludian. The old man was blind and was a burdeD, so Peter invited him one flue day to take a walk. The walk happened to conduct them to a precipice, but the perceptions of the blind are profcernaturally acute. The blind man declined to walkover the edge, and was pushed over by his affectiouate relative. So great was the terror that the powerful Peter inspired, that when his capture was resolved on, nearly the whole tribe, assembled to do the deed. The course of action adopted was to rush him iu. his sleep— to attack him in broad daylight was too hazardous. On a given signal, a dozen blackfollows, tomahawk in hand, rushed* in on the prostrate and unarmed man. Ths struggle for a few moments was desperate, but it waa soon over. Peter lost one of his feet aud a thumb, and received other severe wounds, tie was soon a prisoner in the hands of the troopers, and thus ended the career of one of the most determined scoundrels that utter savagery, tainted by the worst vices of civilisation, could produce. Bathe was not all bad— who is? With all his cruelty and lust, Peter had one soft place in hid heart. He loved his old father, and when he was flying from justice, aided by a friend, he actually carried the old man something like 20 miles, rather than part with him." : .■■■■-' ' How to. Cook and Eat a Potato. — Snyder disc.ourseth in the 'Poverty Bay Standard' as follows :— " 'For the Ladies.' Such is the heading in the Auckland ' Weekly News.' Always interested in what concerns the ladies, I look with intense- interest for what comes next. It is another line in large cap. letters headed • Useful Household Hints.' Good: and I proceed further. The next line is iu small cap letters, and reads as follows : ♦Baked Irish Potatoes/ now comes the receipe :— Boil soft eight good-sized Irish potatoos ; mash them, and add two teaspoonfu's of butter and a pint of milk ; salt to ta-te. Put into a diih and bake mlf.mv.Wr." I have no doubt these

Irish potatoes? Wouldn't GKaborne grown, or Auokland grown potatoes answer all purpoaos. I intend to try. Why send to Ireland for eight good-sized potatoes when they o»n be got at our own doors for the buying or the stealing And why eighc/pofcatoea ? * Wgtildn'fc ten be better. TbM again it ,-ia £njy ladies who like potatoes ? >Mf so, w !|?J" an< * w^ at * or » and how, knd^,wh«in d$S/it happen, aud would any tiling 4n jMjFticular be the consequence*^ ■ they .'■'didn't. Isn't there a good deal of'alioddy reading shoved into the3e weekly papers ? Now, the proper way to cook a potato ia to choose the mealy one3, and when the 'jaiSket'begitfs'tcf 6isck Sbd p3eT dff, tike him red hot and dodge him from one hand to the other until hia courage cools down. Then akin him, capsize some salt out of the salt oellar, and .dip";:him "tend-on aa you proceed. That's the proper way to deal with a potato. -vEve seen ladies aerve them up to themaelvea this way when there was no one particular looking on. A pretty woman - eating a hot potato from band to mouth fashion is : a good deal more than a thing of beauty and a joy for ever. AH potatoes are good excepting those grown. at, the, North Pole, which are generally frost'bitten, or those cultivated in lake C6unfirieß, which are\vatery j or those grown where bees are kept, aa they are apt ' to be waxy. The beat are those grown in a flower garden, as they will turn out floury : \ •