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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 781, 19 June 1877, Page 2

Trb 'World 1 says there "will "be an awfui monetary crisis in ; Rusaia. •

'Oh, she was a jewel of of a wife, said Pat K mourning oy.er.she loss, of \M •better half ;\i she. »lw.»yß;Bt'raqk:me .with ,the'soft ehd'of themttp;'-'^ : ' : - ; : '

Tenders. -foe engineering and 'survey work whenever required by the Waikato Council w}ll l>o. received up to Thursday next. ' l r }■■:-<■*-■ ■*

The. Native Jojfp^inp at Raglan have reduced tb» rate of freight between Raglan and Onehungo, the "details of which s may be seen on reference^ advertisement in ; another column.

Me MoBBl8 lt B farm, between Hamilton and Ngaruawahio, will be offered for sale, \m inay.be seen elsewhere, off Friday . next at ; the. Haymarket, by Mr Alfred Bucklarid.

Tendees for taking down one of tlie immigrant; cottage's at Alexandra, removing it to Harapipi, and there re-erecting it as a teacher's residenca, will be received by the Chairman of the Harapipi School Committee, until the 30th iiist.

Tenders job. Forage l for the supply of the Armed Constabulary force in Waikato are palled for by Col.. Lybn, and will be received at the. A. o. District Office, Hamilton, on or before Saturday next, the 23rd inst.

The Imperial Ictsubanoe Ofjiob, the Waikato agent for which is Mr J. M. Gelling, of Hamilton, is prepared to renew risks at lowest current rates, including builders risks, and hay and corn stacks, which can be insured lor terms of eith er J, 6, 9, or 12 months.

Hamilton West Cemetery. —We would draw the attention of the committee to the necessity of repairing the gateway of the cemetery, which has been blown down or broken do wd, and has allowed free access to the cattle; Not only will the young trees bo; destroyed, but. the graves even now are more or less trampled. This should be seen to at once. ■ - '■

Monstbr Pumpkins. — A gentleman informs us (^ Tarauaki Herald') that he had this season grown on one plant two pumpkins from the one seed of the. late monster Taranaki pumpkin, to which we aluded,last week, and that they weighed together just one pound moro,- -yiz, 2141b;?, and to his mind showing that tho plant would probably not bear more, but :he pumpkin grown .this'eeuaan by Mr Z W Wells is far in excess of this, weighing by itself 2<Li\bi.

Public Gaol.— Yesterday Mr Stewart, C.E. inspected the large barrack building still loft in Hamilton with the view of ascertaining the availability of some portion of it aa a public gaol for the .district. It is the intention of the authorities to bnild a substantial gaol or lock-up for the •Waikato_ district at that. township. The more suitable building, for such purpose, would we. 'should -think, be that on the top of the hill by the church; a central and commanding position for a police station, while the other building might be more appropriately converted to the public use as a hall, and offices for the Local Board. "

Db Mambt, an eminent English agriculturist), and the author of a prize essay on the cultivation of early potatoes, saya in that essay, , which has recently been published, that 'a flower to an early : potato is considered a sign of deterioration, the first symptom of growing oat, it baing contended that all the strength of 'the plant should be thrown into perfecting the tuber, and not in the opposite extreme.' Ho would therefore eradicate them as soon as they appear, and save the seed from plants which have shown no indication of flowering. 'Experiments kayo -shown that potato plants beginning to Bhovy "a tendency to flower prfecS their tubers less early and perfectly than before that tendency was developed.

At the meeting oftbe QonteralEducaMon Bo u*d held on Friday, a grant was made of £40 subject to the Inspector'a approval, for fencing in the school i-e.Jßecveut Hara • pioi. A letter also was received from Mr W Aitkqn. offering to purchase a block of laud \ia ilautapu, Waikato, at 30s per aorft; It. was part of a largo swamp which cqMd not be drained without this portion was acquired. —* The Chairman explained the position of the land in question- The larger portion of it was swamp, but there was somo good land. It was decided to offer the Jand by public tender for lease for a term of 21 years, and, in the event of gefctit.g no reasonable offer, the Board would consider the advisability of soiling it.

Mr J. Moses, who evidontly has made a fortune already ini Hamilton or is under the belief that the millenium is close at baud, announces the sale of his goods under original oosfc, and is selling off, not for his own, |iit for the benefit of bis customers. If is seldom in this world, or at any rate jiv. this part of. it, that we see these lovely and philanthropic principies reduced tft practise, and' doubtless but for the pit|ess spite exhibited by the clerk of the weather ever since Mr Moses' new adrertiaeiwnt has appeared in our. columns, it would hare needed Sergeant Green and 'hg; posse of constables to have kept the road clear at the corner -of Victoria audi Hood streets, so great would have bien the concourse of bargain seekers. | New Zbaqlnd Hy.MNAx v. Hymns Ancient anE Modern-. —A meeting of parishoners ttill be held to-morrow evening in St|Peters Church after evening service, with the object of determining whether Jhe hymn -book now used by the choir,?the ' New Zealand Hjmnal, t shall be substituted by "Hymns Ancient and/Modern.' It .would seem from a letter^ elsewhere that some of the congregation/' are suspicious that the chan-'e is spught to be made in the interests of Ritualism, but the matter we believe is oke simply of musical tasto. The hymns "in the New Zaaland Hymnal are good antf-appropriate enough but ihe effect J is injured by the very inferior mnsic to which they have been set. St Peter's choir, as it is, uses the words of the New Zealand Hymnal and the music o v f Hymns ancient and modern and to do so uses both books, thus making a compromise between obeying the orders of the Synod and conforming to muaic.il taste. Should the meeting decide in favour of Hymns Ancient and Modern, the choir will be uaved much inconvenience in being iio longer obliged to sing from two books at one time. One objection on the part of the congregation is,

we are tbldY that people^ hav)ng how supplied themselves with New Zealand Hymnals will then have ti purohasd new" books, Ancient and Modern, .Should^ytlio ;Bhftngobe made. Anyliow'ib'>wbulaßeetn that' new books wilt shortly, have to, bo procured, as w|ixm .-tlje next Syno^ meets a prnposed dh'ajige 'ini the New "'Zealand"' Hymnal will have been marde. whipli-'\?ill ; render a new edition neceasaipy." r r - -■}'.'•' ':■.

Ceimb . raa- ebsui.l; of )Drink.^lri; the c« ?6 --of - thft civil abtiojn, Wi nttir.y . Sohuliz, for malicious 'prbaecution,^trie4at Wellington last week, Mr Justice Richmoud, in allusion to the evidenca regarding an evening spent by the parties in ;: rariotia pu blichousesj paid; : ; : no. doubt~ a ludicrous Bide to such discourses, but something of a very difforent aspect lies not far off. lam shocked at the pioture ; 'of cofonial 'society'' fiuch^facts. present. Ido not speak as a teetotaller or Templar, but as a Judge of the Supreme Oonrf, occupied day after day in crinrinal cases caused almost entirely through drink ; fclireefourtjas of vthe business on the criminal side and a great ■deal on the "civil side are directly owing >to dfiuk, and L'am saddened when I reflect ,on tha state of society. disclpsed v

A Horsex Rbportjsb. m Church. — An Irish reporter, who was sent down to .Newmarket.. to •write an account, of the races,, was told that tlie correct thiiig was to. - attend, .church .'on ' Sunday ' and report what he saw and heard. The organ being somewhat out of order the music was intermittent'/ ajKT- the result was thus reported :— ;< At one moment the organ would be -galloping to ke?p up with the chohy and the next minute the choir would get up a trotnendous burst of speed to catch the or^au. Finally the two started offside by" side as they went into the doxology ; but as they reached the latter part of tho second line and : were going -finely" and squarely, tho wind of the organ gave out completely, and the choir had to finish the .race alone,; which it. did in excellent time.' -

May Pheasants.— In explanation of pheasants being plentiful in Auckland market during- the first. three weeks of May, it was jokingly said that '"-they came from Taranaki where shooting cpmrnenced on the Ist of May." Ther seems however to have probably beeu some reason' in the explanation judging from the following paragraph which we take from the "Taranaki Herald" of the 9th iDat : — " It 'is probable that no leas than 900 brace of pheasants wero shot in this district -during the past month. AUowiqg the. moderate number of 150 brace to private guns, and a couple of hundred hen birds shot by mistake, we tiud that some 530 brace JQaye been exported by oar dealers alone, thus making a total for the month of some l,7so^birds, a sign that the district is by no means badly supplied with this dainty and favourite game. V

Let the Lepers go pouth!— 'The Ritualists,' Bays the London 'Echo,'' 1 have decided on the formation of ao. entirely new communion, and to secede from the existing Church of England, it is said, on the 29ih of May next.' 'An archbishop and two bishops' are to be consecrated by ' two foreign prelates ' — we £Uppo3o theee must be Mr Koiukena and the Jansenist bishop — aud, *in order to avoid transgressing the law of the Church, 1 they will taUo 'English episcopal titlea which have lain long injclisuetudc' Mr (Tooth 'is to bo one of the iliree. The misaal and manual of the ne.vseot haa been printed. It; contains directions for the administering of the Seven 'Sacramants 'appointed by the Roman and Greek Ciuirches, with the three creeds now : in use, and the Decalogue after the English form, thereby cioaely resembling the" Liturgy in use by the Irvingitfcs.'

', The Latest Naval Monsteb. — ' Vanity Fair' says that an amazing activity has reigned at the 'Admiralty duriug the past few weeks, and, drawings are now being prepared in great haste for a vessel of a more tremendous kind thau has yet been conceived by even the most ambitious naval constructor. This vessel is to carry several*2oo«ton guus ; It is to be cohered with armour three feet in thickness;. is to have a speed of 13 knots; -and is to cost only a million sterling. So astounding an enterprise has been undertaken, not on account of tho JEas^oru Question, but merely in competition with Italy, which is about to biiild a vessel to carry Sir William Armstrong's 150-ton guns, to have three feet o f armour, and go 17 'knots. Where and when is the insano competition to end 1 Armour Waß formarly measured by incheB j i,t now measured by feet, and-fioonvwilT be by yards, until it ,ia' Bome day found), in practice, aa it will, that the whole system is a. craze founded upon a delusion.

After rofering to the Press of America, Mr Travara, at the dinner given in Wellington" to celebrate the 4th centenary: of Caxton, concluded with the following remarks on the New Zoaland Press :— 'On iho whole it is conducted f lirly, and although at times public man are mado, to a greater extent tbau the}' consider desirable, the buti and objects of attack, and their faeliug3 in some degree outraged, yet, on the wholn, I have no hesitation in saying that,. in that respect., cvon tho conduct of the press is not much to be deprecate J. (Applause.) I believe, and I am novv* echoing the words which fell from Mrßowen, that fehe character of the people might be judged by the characters of the papers, a'id.it miy be said that there is no more independent bo3y of men in New Zaaland than those engaged in editing and pub-.. Jibing the newspaper literature ' of the colony. I believe it to be the reflex of the feelings and understanding of tho people themselves, and it u doing one of its- duties in tho great battle now. going on in the world, with knowledge on one side, and ignorance and superstition on tho ofcher.' . -

A . SMM.LEE' THAN TOM THUMB.— The New York 'Sun' states that a large number of physicians went to Totiey Pastor's Theatre lately to see the Mexican dwarf, Lucia Zarate. They measured her and ascertained her height to be twenty-one inches, her feet three inches long, her legs below the knee four inches in circumference, and her handß one ineh aud a qurter broad; Her mother, who is robust, and of v a medium size, says that Lucia is twelve years old. Her face ia older than that. Her features are Spanish ,and her complexion dark. Her activity is incessant She played pranks with the Physicians, and talked fast in Spanish. She stopped into a high silk hat, crouched down, and was oat of sight excepting her head. She squeezed one of her pliable Httlo hands through a rather large finger ring, Tha hand of an adnlt made an ample seat for her. Standing |on a chair, and- holding to the back of it her Bngera stuck through the spaces in the cain work— uo!e3 that just admitted the passage of a small penholder. She was not weighed but har weight if» said to be 51b3, and poised ia the hand she does not seem heavier. Her clothes are comically small, aa though intended for a doll, the shoes and stockinga especially toy-like. Tom Thumb has grown appreciably sjnco he was exhibited by Barnumj but when ho lint astonished the pubiio he was twice as large as Lucia, and he was then about her present age. She haa not grown •any,' her mother Bays, since she. was a year old,

, GUu&NANr states that Lieutenant Zabovilz, of the Austrian army,: whose ride .from Vienna to Paris may be rememperformed the exploit of .c^ssmgthe Danube- at, the former city, where the river is T6Py wide, mounted on with a floating am>*i?%°^ hlch ho "-the invented :^SS^V?"'? no f be from:. WM Retrial, and rode on tha quay at. aboulT four in the afternoon. Th^ia! ,uib>rair reservoirs which were td keep the horso aHoat wore attached to the saddle on each side. The rider wore an ordmaryhuufcing-dress with high Twate" r .P f oo •:boot3,,a^dM.not,ca^:witrh?many hfe-saviag apparatus. The animal at first refused to enter the rirer, ba'th'e nder soon j overcame his resist no", and ■$2.*fw«i«4 v »»i-»nd- sankuntil only hU : head was left aboVe' thV^ur^ef *& crowd, .who, lwelthe quays.and hadbeon looking on anxwusly, caliod io hiin to return but he S purred on, and, carried aw^4>y the. rapid ourrerit; WSS tfa m ddle of tho stream, rUin^anSp W with the aW eil.;--Afc]a 3 t,fe V enmit utos after lenving the right b^nk lie touched the left side 'fiudtfr- the arch of theJ bridge^ -.'and -wad received wiih loii'd:cheexs.v'H« was. immediately dHven- to .aaeiglAouriiig hotel to change his clothes, whuo h^oiderly gave the horse V sharp ..alop to. w.aym it after its bath; -j' The Wf Vi ■?•"-• Qri . me P' was to 'show :that ; with th»a apparatus, wide rivers may be crossed wUhQutbridgeigpr fords. "What's yotras ?"' it,, at thig season .ot.the ..year, seldom answered . by the reply of ; • Beer, thanks.-" Th.^b it is not, however, is more the joint fault of brewer . and publican Man of the' general. public whe yould drink beer insteftd oT spirits were a good strong bodied ale for winter's use brewed instead of ihe usual summer drink, The question, we take ifc, is one of malt chiefly, and if the hotel deeper would serve u medium sizecl glass, "something between the. small and the so-called pint glass, of:Buch ale fot ": sixpencVmany would- stick to beer all the year round, winter as well as- •summer. 7 .'lt is well Known that .b'ser is the moat profitable liquor tho publican retaiis and that it is lesa pbjeclionablo from a temperance and Healthful point of view thaaariy othet retailed in our hotels, and therefore -the matter is woithy of a little, serious consideration on the, .part of all concerned. J?hat we can brew as good beer within the district as any that can be ; brewed outside it has been amply testified by the proprietors of the Waikato ahd-:lM Awamutu bre\yerie.3, Me.iars pummingi Lines, respectively. In both breweries , of late, improvements have been made and in both skilled labor of a firat class is available, so that there is no reason the ales now browed should not successfully compete with those , that are imported from oubside the district. Mr lunes has on hand just now a. large; quantity of ve;'.y superior bottled ales of good body and in order, and at Mr Oumtning's i; Waikato Brewery a ne* large copper has 'just been fixod_ which will enablo a better beer to be brewed from the same quantity of malt than with the old one. Our local beers, too, possess "an advantage over much of that which comes into the v district from larger brewerie3, they are more pure and less heady, and consequently more wholesome, and wMle this is so, hotelkeepers and private families "will have no need to send ■ their nidnej out of the Waikalo.