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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 771, 26 May 1877, Page 2

Death op Mr. C E Mabdbn.— Many of our readers will regret to hear of the death of Mr C E Madden, solicitor formerly of Hamilton. He diel m Auokland on Wednesday, and was buried on Thursday morning.

A tery precise poraon, remarking upon Shakspeare'a line, " The good men do is ofb interred.with their bones," carefully observes that this interment oan generally take place without orowding the' bones.

Mr Edwabd's Clearing- Out Sale at Ohaupo.— We would draw attention to the more extended advertisement of Mr Kennedy Hill's sale of the stock and effects of Mr Ed warden, at the Ohaupo Hotel oh Wednesday next. Hamhton Weekly Sales.— We noed scarcely, we suppose,' draw our readers, attention, .to., these permanently-settled institutions m the district where everything, from domestic utensils to Volunteer land scrip, ,can be purchased. Pbpposbd Ploughing MaToa.—Tuesday next is the day for the monthly cattle sale at Cambridge, and after the sale it i B Droposed to hold a meeting of the members of the Farmers' Club and others m. terested m getting up a ploughing match. The meetiDg will take place at Kirkwood?* National Hotel. Cummin&'s Imported Bam.— -We understand that m consequence of the danger from dogs, and m dread, of a similar- losa to that lately sustained by Mr Jolly, Mr W Cumraiug, of the Waikalo Brewery, has had a wdoden box madp as a protection for the "ram" to which we lately drew attention. We fancy wb c:m hoar. Mr Jolly wishing that some of the dogs which peltor him could get their teeth well set m the ram m question.

Looal Q-aowij Quicks.' — ; Should •Settler' allow himself to bo drawn forbh from his anonymity by the challenge of Mr Forrest and the testimony borne by several of the aetfclera to the excellence of the quicks grown by that gentleman, which appears with the advertisement elsewhere, ho will have his work to do to produce better imported plants \ of one years growth than tho3e now on 'view at this office, or to produce anything coming uear them at Mr. Forrest's price for the ooe year olds ; namely, 11s per thousand.

Ladies Shopping.— The latest Yankee notion ia that said to have been introduced m one of the New York drapery establishment. When a lady eaters the ' store ' an attendant hastens up, and asks if ahe wishss to '.buy 'or • shop.' If the former, Bhe is oonduoted at once to the counter where the article she requires is rotailed. If the latter, on the payment of a-cortain 3um Bho obtains a ticket, at the sight of which the shopmen ia the different departments allow her to turn over all tho goods m Block. Shs can then, if ahe wishes, depart without making, 'Vpurohaae,

STftE^aTa OI? RUS»TAN ARMIEiS — The Politiaohe Cdrrespo.-.dez,' a Vienna journal, s<iys that m February the mobilised Illusion aruiy, comptiai'iig two-fifths of th^e whole, was. distributed \rb follows : Iv Ti-anscaucaaia," uiider Lientenant-O-oneralToi-isam^iukoff, 115,000 men'; amoig tham 95,000 combatants. For Lho.defonce of tha Black Sta Const, under

i.i'-iifceriafitGener.i} Semeka, 100,000^ men, 80,000 boing combatants. In th^a number the garrisons of several fortrosifes are includod. In, B,e^|arabia (now for the moot parfcontWpariube), under the^rand Duke Nieholuß,*- 300.080 ' men, am-jng wliohliiS, 00)9 are combatants. Tnere arem udjition to theso, reflervea making up the total mobilised rariny tb 600,000 men.

Kiflb SHOOTri?» Match. -^-Ifc had been arranaed tbafcariflemitcb betweensixuf th Hamilton Cavalry Corps. and six civilians should come off on the Queens Birthday, at the bubts,- flamiltou. Owing, however, to the unavoidable absence of .-.,80 m on both sides-^-certain of the civilians employed on the Sw>mp Company'H works haviug had their camping place eouverted into au island by the late rain, and having no means of getting off, a BWtepstakes was got .up" by those present at the butts, whou thy folio wiug acores were made :— '

The stakes -were divided into five prizes.' ■■'■>'■ ; Oufi Naval. SiuiENaTlt. — • A London 'correspondent flays a -return has just* Been issued by: tlie Admiralty, which gives' a complete' list of England's ironc'ai navy. A large fleet of magnificent ships has lately been orderod to the Mediter-

r.»oean, though 4ts presence 'there will bo more fer the protection of the English residents ttmn f«r taking any hostile action ag dost other power.-. Still, it.is ready, for whatever eventualities may turn up". Some of. the Load on newspapers have been trying to terrify susceptible Eiigßhmeu by pointing out supposed deßc ; encies ia our naval strength. The return I refer to demonstrates very clearly that if war was to break out England has vessels m the Mediterranean — or wuhi.i reach of it — strong enough • and . numerous enough to blow any opposing fl9?t out of. the writec. Accofd.iog to tbe statement of the Admiralty,, thirty-eight broadside ship, one raui^and, ipurteen turret ships, carrying .625 of our heaviest guns, could be got read} for an engagement within a comparatively few hours. No .fewer tbaa six of these broadside monsterssuch, for instance, as the Northumberland and Black' Prince — are over 6,000 tons each ; two "are mora than 5,000 tons; and ten, like the Royal Oak.and Bellerophon, are over '4,000 tons, 1 " Thereinainder are a11. 3,000 tons each or near it, Only three of the entire fleet of broadsides are classed,. A3 gunboats, and two as sloops.;, but as they are all fast sailers, and carry our heaviest ordnance,' they would not fail to be extremely effective m times of need. Many of tbe oldest of these vessels have had their boilers renewed during the last year or two, and. are, therefore, m admirable order.- ]n cases where a similar venovation may be desirable now tbe work could be so quickly accomplished, if necessary, as scarcely to cau3e a delay - worthy the name. The turret ships, headed by the Devastation, all rank as iirstclass, and a half-a-dozen heavier samples like the Inflexible are m course of construction. — ' Belfast Nowb;' : h- ■. •■■;.•• .

Te Pati is now executed, but there is one thing the'-Gl-overnment has yet to do before the matter is cleared off its hands, and that is to suitably reward the man who played a principal part m his capture. Sums of £15 have been awarded to Messrs Norgrove and Kirk, who' actually stopped and arrested him, and suma of £5 each to Mr Roberta— whose vigilance- as telegraphist enabled the capture to be attempted m time — and to Messrs FitjsPatr'ick, Hedger, and Eay of Ngaruawahia, who also did' good personal service ; but Mr, William Higginson, to whom, as Major Mair can testify, perhips more credit iu'the matter belongs than to any one else, no reward has been made

It was by Higginson's advice to Majo Mair that Livingston's Greek (the pom where the capture was made) waß specially guarded, Higginson him,eif not only being the first civilian who volunteered to* assist m the capture, but volunteering for fchia special point as the one at which the murderer was moat likely to be met, and he was only sent to Heather's Greek with Cohriell 'beoausS " r ho was the only man procurable who knevr the country well enough. But f or HigginSbn's volunteered assistance the murderer -yonld not have been secured at alj, 'or, but for hjs' bouncing Norgrbve into taking part m. the capture* the lattef would not have come forward, and others who were asked, ' point blank refused to assist. Yet, of all those concerned m the capture, Sergeant Higginson— and we are glad to learn his gallantry was acknowledged by the members of the Volunteer Cavalry troop, v of which ho waa a junior sergeant, m securing for him the step' of sergeant-major — the man whose services should have received special acknowledgement, has been left unrewarded by the Government. The Latb Fiee at jNapibb.— It i 8 seldom that fires m the colony are at. tended . with danger to life, owing, perhaps, to the large proportion of houses having'only a ground floor. There seems to have been a narrow escape at the burning of Wilaon'B restaurant at Napier on Tuesday lasfc,. One of the lodgers stated— " There were two lodgers m the house. They went to bed at nine o'clock. Mrs Wilson slept . m the front room upstairs. My fellow lodger (whose name 1 don't know) and myself slept m the same room at the baokof the house, also upstairs. When we went to bad the fire was apparently quite out, and everything appeared safe. ' After we had beau asleep for some hours we were awakened by Bcreams of 'murder!' 'fire!' and cries of alarm I jumped out of bod at once, fearing aoufebodv might have broken iuto the house, and was attacking. Mrs Wilson. I "opened tho door leading to the hoad of tho stairs, and was almost suffocated with .flames. I . was. horribly burned. The sensation was like putting ones head into a gas retort. I shut the door and staggered' back to the window, where my fellow lodger was standing. He said, ' It's useless to try and got down by the stairs, we must jump put of the window/ He opened the sash and lowered himself down, holding on to the sill, and thon dropped to the ground. He did not get hurt. I followed m the same wap but I was so soared and m such pain by burns, I don't think I drdppod right. I .reached the ground, and got into a neighbour' 3 houae, and sat down for a minute, and then went out, I 101 l down, and was picked up by a gentleman (Mr 0 Mann, of Auckland), and carried across the road to Mr Riber's. Mr Riber took mo m, and made a bed for ma on the sofa, and Dr I)eliale soon afterwards eatno and set my log, which wa3 broken, and dressed tho burns;" Our informint v dreadfully burnt about the face, tunds, and arms. Mra Wilson; made herosoapo

by tho verandvh. - Finding the staircase m flames, sbo got on to the verandah from the window, and then junped, the fall being brok-m by two oi« bhrij' pji- 3 ona whoiieid out thsir arm3-; to receive her. '

The TmtKisH._SbriDißß. — la introducing hU description 'of the' battle', of Giurgevo, on the Danube, m 1854, immediately after the raUing of the "siege <: 'ol Siliatria, /Ktnglake remarks :•— •' T'fe Ottoman soldiery are of so warlike a nature that, when thoir. enemy » at lv.nd', they' are oftentimes served with a raging desire for ihe fight ; and the one check, which tends to keep down this passion, w. a sense ,of" the incoher.ency w!ijo}vrß|Buj-tg from the want of good 6(BcorsT s " raady and bo de«p is their trust m any 6 pur .country men who wfl take' the trouble to lead them, that, "if Turkish soldiers be camped within roach of the enemy.' thf coming amongst them] of a few English youths,, supplies. the ono.'thing needed,' completes the electric circle,* and m general bungs on alight. 1 ' - ' " Kb-Ca.thoiioipjn(J the Cnr/ncm of En&iand. —The Bishop of Manchester, speaking at Bradford recently, observed thatif the Church of Bnglafid;feil iOiroiigh intestine divisions, no heavirfr blow could be struck, at sober and. rational Chris lianiiy. Men are talking about re-catho-licising the Obur-h of Kngland. By it they' meant .going back to certam dark ageß when suparstitioa overlay faith, and picking up certaiu mediaeval- customs -and imponiag them into the riiail and csremouyofthe Church. ' But if we could on 'y bring our If ear la and minds back to something like ancient simplicity Of faith, and ancient earnest oesis and parity of HF<?i that wou'd be re-CAthol'cising the Church of England. In conclusion,' his lordehio urged upon his hearers the dcv strabi'itj ol x carrying out fc^iej- principal of soldarity m the work of the chu*ch."By this ter/n he meant that' they ought nrf ; t to regard their own individual parish, or individual iutere3t», as having nu exclusive claiua upon their time.fefforts and money. The strength off the Church of . England - always had been m the past — he believecl w, uld be even more bo m the future— in the hold Which, through God's grace, it has been enabled to get upon the hearts and affections of the poor.

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