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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 779, 14 June 1877, Page 2

Europban Nrws is to-day conspicuous by its absence. Our readers must manage to got along •without the usual highly-seasoned dish of devilled Turkey, or .Russian oaviare' with which of late we have been wont to tickle their palates. An accident, moat malapropos^ just now, has happened to the overland part of the line between Brisbane and Port DarwinThe Mbmbbbs of the Hamilton Football Club will meet this evening at Gwynne's Hamilton Hotel,

Ritualistic Hostess—'Are you going to ohnrch with us this evening Major ?' The Major—'Thanks, no! I was at the morning performance!'

Fruit Treks.—Mr John Knox will offer for sale on Saturday with his other goods a quantity of locally grown fruit and ornamental trees. For further particulars see advertisement.

Scarcity 0* Oarpentbrs at Cambridge.—W learn from a correspondent that there is a demand for a few good carpenters in Cambridge, all the hands there are fully en gaged, and four new buildings are about to be commenced upon. Rare Birds.—As an ornithological curiosity, an up-oouritry paper mentions that a gentleman residing near the Wairarapa Lake bas noticed on his run two English larks, the ono beiug pure white and tho other as yellow as a canary. ■»; *Mb S Bhight will sell by public auction, at Cambridge, on Saturday next, a large assortment of fruit and other trees saddles, harness, horses, sewing I machines, butter, potatoes, carrots, and other produce.

The Licensing Court, and the civil oases iu the Resident Magistrate's Court at Hamilton, held over from Tuesday last, will come off to-day. The Licensing Court at Cambridge, was adjourned until to-morrow.

The s.s. Hero.—The Auckland ' Star,' writing on Monday, says :— ■ Messrs Co. have to-day received a cablegram from Australinjistating that the s.s. Hero left Melbourne'for Sydney and Auckland on Saturday, the 9th iust. She may bo expected in this port about the llfch inst.

Cab*.—Mr Ohye, of Ngaroto Villa, near Ohaupo, writes to us on the 11th iust., saying :—' I have often been asked by the settlors around Lako Ngaroto,; if I had seen any of the carp, placed in the Lake by Messrs Scott and Finch. A few days ago, when making a ditch, I saw ono in a small pool of water, in the centre of my farm, about 300 yards from the lake. The fish was about five inches long, and in good condition, but how it got there, I cannot imagine.' Bees. —We have heard a good deal of the system of working by ' bees' in America, and its advantages. Tne following is ft description of the ' husking bee,' given by tho 'Fuitan Times.' A very pleasant occupation for those engaged, but not much profit to the farmer:—• The time for husking bees comes soon. The husking bee is a delightful entertainment given by the farmers, and is generally attended by eighteen young men who kiss each of the girls in tbe house seven time?, husk four ears of corn and go home as soon as thoy have disposed of what cider thoy can find.' The Cambridge , Bridge.—A genble. man who_ h&B recently crossed tho Cambridge Bridge, a structure which has cost tbe Government between three thousand and four thousand pounds, iuforms us that the earth foundations for want of a little work in keeping open tho ■wator tables are bsingr eudangered by every rain. The soil is loose and gravelly and tho wnter running down.the cutting, diverted from its proper channel, is turned into a cours which seriously threatens tho fouadations of ihe structure.

The Ploughing Match tinder the auspicoß of the Cambridge Farmers' Club is to come off on the sth proximo, and, in Mr Fantham's paddocks. As will be seen by the advertised programme, a number of prizes will be awarded in each of several classes, and a very large amount of competition may tbereforo be looked for. At ploughing mathea at home the agricultural implement makers often form, though not ostensibly, a [large proportion of the competitors, their ebject being to thus advertise their ploughs. Apart from this, however, there will doubtless be considerable rivalry between the settlements themselves, and between the settlers of a settlement as to which shall carry off the palm. The rules and regulations under which the contest will bo contucted are given in another column This is the sort of thing they fill up the Wellington papers with during the recess. We quote from the ' Argus':— ' Last week a yonng lady giving the nom de plume of ' Myrtle,' advertised in our columns, offering her hand'and heart, together with a stock of domesticity, good looks and affection to any gentleman not over thirty who should feel 'disposed to accept them.' Letters came to our office from all quarters, but as the lady was not of Mormon tendencies, she accepted only one, and the nappy pair are soon to merge into one with ' two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.' The gentleman who has succeeded in getting • Myrtle' is ' far ever blessed,' but the discarded ones are bitter with envy and disappointment. One there is, however, who has risen superior to such ' littleness.' He has determined to go in and try his luck in another quarter. With this o ject in view he inserted an advertisement in our columns on Tuesday evening last, offering to ' throw himeelf away ' on the first opportunity.« The advertiser will make a capital bargain for some of our cherub readers, for besides being only in bis 29th year, and having a good profession, he states that he Has ' a good character and true heart, sft lOin high, dark, and considered good-looking.' There can be no deceit In this young man for if hte heart is sft lOin high as he states, the whole world may see what, passes within it. All he asks is that the lady shall be 'good looking, affectionate, and. domestic)' and

what lady in Wellington, -we would ask, does not possess all these qualifications. The advertisement referred to has been inserted thrice, and no fewer than twentyeight replies hare been sent to U3 for the advertiser. This speaks volumes for the willingness of the Wellington young ladios to come forward and put a ohcck upon the present system of iinmigratiou, by supplying in the province what hitherto we have had to import fron England. The advertiser is now busily engaged picking from the li-it of applicant the fond one who is in future to be his 'clinging barnacle.' Thk Pintail Grotwb.—A gentleman who lately rode from Mr Woodward's place to Mr W J Taylor's, in the Piako district, informs us that ho obtained a good sight of one of tha pintail grouse l*toly turned out by Mr Morrin. Tho bird looked lively, and was very strong on the wing.. When seen it was some ten miles distant from Motu Mahu, where the birds were turned out.

The kindly and yet considerate intimation as conveyed in the following advertisement, clipped from a Tiniaru paper, we should imagine was duly appreciated by those to whom it was addressed. The idea' original, and tho advertisers deserve iminorta-" lizing;—Notice.—We shsll be happy to meet all oar friends whoso accounts are over .three months standing at the next sitting of the Court, Geraldine—Taylor and Flatmau.—N.B. —Luncheon provided for'those who settle out of Court. , A ICoBBESPONBENr writes na from Cambridge asking whether the immigrant cottages which have been granted for a Bpecial purpose by tho Central Board of Education, can be otherwise appropriated. It would appear from his statement, that recently the Board granted two of the cottages lo the Aratapu School Committee to remove and reerect as a master's residence. One of these cottages, which originally cost, it said, about £l2O a-pieoe, has been given to the contractor for lining the other, and has been since sold for £SO as it stands,, while 20u0ft of three-quarter bords, and. a ium of £7 10s for nails and labonr would, our correspondent states, have been all that was required for the lining.

After the late general election, Mglea in the • Australasian' thus delivers himself on the ballot:—lb is a terribly heretical thing to say, a thing abomioiably illiberal and improper. But, for alLthit, 1 must admit that it did seem to me on that Friday as something imperfiut in our exqnisifcely-bal«mced political system to tiud Ah Sin, hawker of green stuff and Chinaman's labourer (duly naturalised), exercising at the ballot-box an equal francise with my friend Suiithjmn, who pays a (hundred a year in municipal and general taxation ; who has given 13 hostages ;to fortune, and who couldn't, if he would, migrate to any flowery land at a day's notice. But what seemed even still more incongruous was to see the professor with 25 year's accumulated learning, thought, and experience standing exactly level at the ballot-box with a raw lad of 21 out of a briok maker's hole. I know that this is flat blasphemy. lam aware that to quest jon the right" of equal suffrage is to subject the doubter to ibe seveiest pains which could possibly await an insolvent malafactor. But for ail these drawbacks, my doubts still haunt me iiresislibly. I would not take a vote from anybody who now possesses it, but I would add another to him who hr.e proved in any reasonable way—accumulation of knowledge or substance—his claim to its possession. When I elect my borough councillor I can give him three voetß against Ah Sin's oue ; but when I get out ot parish politics into matters of national moment I am but a third of my municipal self. Which is the most important occasion for fitting representation ? v

New Hotels.—-There are two new applications for publicans' licenses to be heard, the one at Hamilton Licensing Court to-day, the other at the Court to be hold at Cambridge to-morrow. In both instances the new buildings, designed for hotels, are of a very superior class, and speak for the progressive advancemenfc of the district as a whol««, for if their enterprising proprietors did not feel assured of their bcin£ a financial success, they would scarcely have expended Buch a large amount of money in their erection as they have done. The application to be entertained to day is that of Mr John Wood, for the licensing of a house at the Piako, to bo called the .Nottingham Castle Hotel. Wo have before aliuded to the building a? capable of affording a firstclaes accommodaiion to the travelling p iblic, The ground floor is occupied with bar-parlour, taproom, large diniug-r om, and two sittingrooms, while upstairs there are ten good bedrooms and a faniiy or drawing-room. The house has bean planned and designed by the architect, Mr Vialou, with every regard for comfort and convenience. The rojms are l»rge, lofty, aud well lighted, and the interior work completed with a finish that is not often lo b> met with in up-coun:ry hotels. Whit, parhaps, the public will mow care about is the ample aco i\ modal ion provided in the matter of stabling, there being room for from sixteen to twenty "Irorsas, while in addition to the usual open ijicds for the shelter of carriages, &c, the proprietor has erected a co .cu-aouse, into which a loaded dray m%y pass, the horses passing through, and the dray and load be" loft at night in shelter aud security under lock and key rcarly for the horses to be hitched up to Jn the morning. Mr and Mrs John Wood are both well known in Hamilton, and their character and business habits are a pretty good guarantee of the future conduct of tho house. In Cambridge the new hotel has Keen erected .by Mr Heweit, and like that at Piako, is iully completed and finished,. It is a large, hundaome building, containing some fifteen rooms, and bas been built at considerable expense, and flitted up with all modern requirements for convenience and comfort, The Best Bag of Pheasants wo have heard of as being made this season in a single day, fell lo the gun of Mr Kennedy Hill, on Tuesday last. Mr Hill had backed himself to kill ten brace on one day during the season. The selection of a day was to rest with himself, but having onc« named it, ho was to have that one chance only, and nr.ust start from the Hamilton Hotel on the morning of the day. There were nuny bets made on the result, the general opinion being, that though birds are plentiful, they are far too wild this season to admit of killing tea brace between daylight and dark. Tuesday last was named as the day, and about 4 a.m. Mr Hill, accompanied by Mr Gwynne, drove down to Messrs Carpenter and Byron's place. The day was l a favorable one, though Mr Carpenter, who walked with him over the ground, averred that more ground had been covered for the flushing of fewer birds in the present instance than on any previous occasion since the Bhootinw season began. Nevertheless, by mid-day Mr Hill had bagged Si brace, but it took the whole of the afternoon to secure the other three, the whole ten brace being bagged, however, by tie single gun before dark. The first shot got was from the driving round the Waipa, Mr Hill firing across the face of Mr Gwynne, who was driving, and killing his bird as dead as a hammer, L

The following atory may possibly amuse those interested with the vagaries of fashion:—At a dinner parly lately given in Pwis one lady was remarked above nil others for the elegance of h-jr figure and the perfection of her toilette. During the mauvais quart d' hear before, dinner sho was surroundel by a host of admirers, and one less bashful than the rest ventured to offer her the flower from his button-hole. It was accepted, bat as Ihe * princess robe' worn by the graceful creature waa laced behind, ib was necessary to fasten the flower to the front of ber dress with a pin. The operation was successfully performed, and the fair lady was led into dinner by the donor of the flower. . They were hardly seated when he beard a curious sound like the gentle sighing of the wind, and, on turning to his partner ho saw with horror that the lovely figure was getting * small by degrees and beautifully less.' The rounded form had disappeared before the *soup waa over, and long before the first entrea, the once creaseless garment bung in great folds about a scraggy framework. It seems that the newest dresßoafor 'slight 'ladies are made with air-tight linings, and inflated when on till the required degree of-embonpoiub is attained. The unfortunate lady mentioned above had forgotten this detail when she fastened the fatal flower to her bosom with a pin ;'hence the collapse ! Foot Ball Rules—A writer in the Herald says:—"Nob very long ago, certainly not 20 years, football when one's school cereer was over was very seldom played in Engknd. Here and there a club, composed principally of the old public school men, wa3 formed, but the outside public took very little notice of their doings, and the sporting Press htd hardly as many lines about them as now they have paragraphs. Even at the Universities, as lately a3 1865, no football clubs existed, and it was not until Mr C W Alcock and others took the matter seriously iff hand that what are now termed the Association rules were framed. The rules which profess to have footb.vl played as the name implies, a game in . which the feet alone are used, were drawn up because it was thought that Rugby Football, or " the carrying game,'* was too rough for men. By these rules of the association, no player except the goalkeeper, could touch the ball with bis handj or hold another player under any pretence whatever! He might charge him, if he wished, under certain conditions, i which it is needless here lo enter into,] but this was the general principal.of the Association clubs, that tin ball must be kicked, not carried. However, there were those who schooled at Rugby, Marlborough, Clifton, Uppingham, Haighbury, and other schools who played Rugby rules who objected to have thjir ideas of fodtball thus taken from thorn, and so as the love of football increased, it was determined by those who had left school to carry it on in the way they had been acoustomed. Still there was this felt, that aback, though of no nonseqiience, bar immediate pain it caused to a boy at school, given by a boy of his own size sizi and nge, was quite another matter when given by a full grown man to another. So it was resolvod to revise the rules, in order that no -accident might occur, and for this purpose the Rugby Union was formed, under whose rules, with very slight modifications, the clubs of this country now pliy. Those rules forbid hooking and tripping two very necessay restrictions where men are playing and not boys—but the theory

of the game is pretty much the same. It u against this game that some nieu iu Auckland, especially those who know little about it, are speakiug now. They advocate what they term the less dangerous game of the Association, and call the Rugby game brutal and barbarous. It is not really so. The fatal accident to Mr Pilling might have occurred in exactly the same manner, had the match been played under Association rules- The Victorian Association have, we see, taken the matter into hand, and

suggested certain amendments which will certainly tend to lessen the danger of the game' however played. One of the principal of these is the rule proposed that a player must put the ball down directly he is held, not when Jthe ball is held as is the rule in jAucklaud, and this will, if adhered to, do' away with the practice of * slinging' or catching a man round the neck, throwing Kim, and often falling on him, the most likely way of all to cause a broken neck. Another ammendation the Victorians propose to make is to abolish 'rabitting.'/jr stooping down ; 'in a ecrimmige, or elsewhere, so that the player falls over your head on to his own. Theso two rule 3, and the necess : !y of the ump'ras insis:ingtbat the bail should be put down directly the player Ja held, also that no hacking Bbould ever be allowed, are all that ever can be done towards modifying the preseut rules*