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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 795, 21 July 1877, Page 2

Mb Bbight's sale at Cambridge, of Government drays, horses, &c.,' takes place to-day, at noon.

• Mr Alfred Buckland will hold his monthly sale of cattle, at the Cambridge Yards, on Tuesday next.

The New Bi-laws of the Waikato County Council, as published, in our issue of the 26th of June last, come into force to-day. A native named Marsh was apprehended by the Police, on Thursday, at Cambridge, for stealing a loaf and assaultiu a female. He was to be brought up yesterday before Mr Searaticke, at the Police Court, Cambridge. -Mr J. M. Gelling has been appointed collector of rates for the current year, and Mr Charles Mullions collector of oattle fees for the same period, to the Hamilton East Township Highway Board.

Mr John Knox will soil to-day the household furniture and effects of Mr Charles Veith, also a variety of »oods at his auction mart, consisting of dairy and agricultural produce, machinery, sadlery, tools, and other odds and ends. CAMBEIDGW Fa RMERB* Club. The next meeting of the Club will take pi ice on Tuesday evening next at the National Hotel. A meeting of the committee of the Agricultural Spring Show will be held immediately afterwards. Cambbidgb North Township Highway Board. —The Annual Meeting of ratepayers of the above district will be held on Monday next, at the Ma-joaic Hotel, for the transaction of the Uoual business, and for any other business that may be brought before the meeting.

The Weather.—We have never experienced iu this part of New Zealand so long or so seveiM a frost as that which broke u ■ on Wednesday night, something Jiko a fortnight in. duration. The rain, however, held over till yesterday- evening, the wind blowing strongly for the last day or two from the eastward.

The first of the Hamilton East cattle sales takes place this afternoon, when Mr Kennedy Hill will offar for sale four head of fat bullocks a quantity of ewes and lamb 3, and Beveral horses. MiHill will hold his usual Saturday afternoon auction sale of produce &c, at Hamilton West, at 2 p.m.

The Waikato County- Council and the Ngaruaw-hiv Town Board joined issue yesterday on the proprietorship of the wire ferry rope which Mr Knox c fftsred for sale. The Council protested through their appointed agent, Mr TV FitzP •trick and the Tdwa Board Knox sell on and thfty we*ki see him throujh it. Accordingly the rope wafl sold and realized a sum of £p.

The Railway wozks ara rapidlv progre-'Bi-ig between Mercer and Newcastle, wemay almost say arojin a state of completion, for- it is intended to throw the line open, to trafic as far as Newcastle on the nrat of August. A JTitniTFtTL Vina. The Lyons Medical' Journal relates the. case of a married! woman living in Paris who haa just given birth to a triplet. In the course of her married Ufa, of nine years, sho has given birth to 24 children, all horn three at a time and in perfect health. Unfortunately for ike husband, who is desirous to transmit his name to posterity, this remarkable- family here consisos entirely of girls.

Ike Hamilton Ferby Aipboaohes. Whilst the Waikato County Council are repairing the land stege at the Hamihon ferry on the iSudt side of the river, they m-iy as well make a good job of it and render the* road safely practicable for vehicles from th 6 punt up as far as the Company's Store. At- present it is a touch and go adventure with a side wall on one side, and a shelving bank on the other, and just enough of road-,way to pass if nothing goes wrong. It would be no costly work to out away the bank on the upper side the road, throwing the soil oyer to widen it upon the" lower j and when reformed the roadjgsbould bo made wide enough . for one vehicle to pas 3 another anywhere upon it. As it is, this small piece of road is positively unsafe and unsuibeil for the large a'mouufc of traffic passing along it. Says the «Nelson Daily Time3':—ln the matter of weddings it would bs somewhat hard to find one similar to that whioh took place, on Monday last at Hope, when Mr James Harford, aged 69, led to the altar Mrs Elizabeth Hyde, a blushing bride of 67 summers. The.combined families of the couple are thus represented :—2B children, 122 grandchildren, and 22 great grandchildren. Three grandsons acted as best men upon this auspicious occasion, and thre3 grauddaughters did duty as bridesmaids. A correspondent who forwards the foregoing particulars, urges that their publication should tend to oheck free immigration, as useless, expensive, arid unwarrantable in view of the innate colonising capabilities of New Zealand.

The Monarch oe the Age.—A gentleman in Berlin thuß writes of the venerable yet vigorous appearance of Kaiser William :—" The Emperor celebrates this month his eightieth birthday. He is strong, lusty, and full of spirits. He gets along very well now with his parliament, because in cases of difficulty they always yield. In his Ihedries of parliament and prerogative his Majesty holds about the standpoint of Edward 1., but the people respect the old hero for his unconquerable honesty and for the fidelity with which he fulfils all the duties, however severe, of his great offlco. It is a curious circumstance, however, that this prince, who has fought so many great battles, has always refused to sign the death-worranfr of a prisoner. Capital punishment is still the law in Prussia, but his Majesty has commuted every sentence of death passed since his succession to the throne. In some respects his heart is as tender as a woman's." According to the 'Prairie Farmer,' the position of Coroner in New York is more lucrative tban that of the President of the United States. The Chicago paper goes on to say :— * At a lute meeting of the Municipal Society of that- city, Jackson S Sehultz said, there were instances in which a Coroner had made 50,000 dollars a year, and now that official often made 15,009 to 20,000 dollars. He*knew one case where a man died N in his bathroom, and it cost thousands of dollars to have the result of the coroner's investigation ni*de to suit the relatives. The attempts of families toconceal suicides cost thousands yearly. Men of low character, such as those selected by Tammany Hall to be coroners, had almost unlimited power and facilities to extort bribes and blackmail. Ex-coroner Adolph Kessler gave some of his experience in lhe office. In the case of a sudden death of a relative or friend of Mr Alexander, of the Equitable Life Assurance Cotnpauy, at the Windsor, he had been offered a roll of bills by a friend of Mr Alexander to conduct the inquest to suit the views of the relatives. He had been astounded- at the persistent efforts made by persons in the highest social circles to influence him in discharging .his duties. He was offered sums of from 1000 dollars to 5000 dollars, and even 10,000 dollars, to acquiesce in the wishes of relatives of the deceased persons.' ' AcrOLYCU-s,' of the 'Nelson Times,' fails to appreciate the local option movement and thus jauntily treats the sub j^ct:—"The*local optionists' are coming to the fore, and a little weak agitation is being got up to serve as an excuse for wasting the time of Parliament by introducing prohibitory measrues in reference to the sale of intoxicating liquors. The Hon Wm. Pox is riding his hobby in the Worth, and down South—Dunediu way —Mr Stout (What's in a name ?) is promoting meetings to check the sale of beer. lb is no use : a custom that has flourished for five thsusand years is uot going to abolished by colonial legislation. Shut up the publichouses aud open the _sly-grog shops, or turn private houses into liquor stores, Will-the change be beneficial ? The reformers prate of the success of the Maiue Liquor Bill, but it is a well known fact that the enactment did not lessen the consumption of ardent spiriti a solitary tot. Pass a prohibitive law here, aud introduce a similar order of things to that described as existing in the teetotal State of the Union. This is shown by the following narrative of fact:— A Yankee went, to visit his relations in Maine, and naturally thought he should have to submit to an enforced abstinence; to counteract the effects whereof ho took a bottle with him. On tbe first morning- of his visit his uncle said, John there's no drinking allowed in this Stat», bub I eannotfio well without - a 'morning,' so as you're tired to a. dram if you come over to the barn where I keep the bottle we'll liquor.' After breakfast, when the men were afield and the visitor loafing around, the aunt said, ' Nephew, drinking ain't allowed by law nor encouraged in this family, but, being subject to colic, I keep a bottle for medical comfort, and if you, who are used to nipping, like to try a dram, why say so. John said 'so,' and strolled out .to (There the sons were putting up a log fence. They paused in their work and, ' Cousin said the old folks dont believe iu whiskey drinking, and the law forbids it, but we find a drop helps the work along, so we keep a bottle under the ricks, and were just going to refresh, join us.' So, concludes the visitor with a temperate family located in a teetotal State, I had hard work to prevent being ' corned' before dinner." The Hon MrFoy ok Colonial Sports. —Mr Pox declines to be a member of a committee to conduct a colonial regatta at Wanganui, aud gives the following as his reasons for re fusing : —"As an old Oxford and London oarsman my sympathea are very much with the exercise of boating, aud I should bo glad to see it practised in the colony whtrevor it can be done But I have observed that in the colony all these gathering*, which are commonly <jaije<i ' sporta,'. whether regattas, rapes,

Caledonian games, oi* any oth; r, have bup roundings and accompaniment* which I cannot consent to countenance. There is the publican's booth, for which the conconductors of the sports generally receive a large pecuniary consideration ; betting on the events ; gambling tables, thimble* rigging ; prick the garter j and other practices carried on in open deliai.ee of law, but with the general .acqutesancs of tho police, and of any magistrates and even, higher functionaries, who may be present. Ab a member of the commiltee, 1 should consider myself responsible for any such transactions, which observation'. has led me to believe are, ail or some of them, never absent from ' sports' in the colony. [ cannot help observing also that the first meeting of the committee-to which! am invited by your circular is to be held at a public, house, a practico against which I always protest in matters of public business. Under these eircura~ stances! beg nust respectfully to decline the'honor intended m.i by my election to the committee. ■' vVe are to dby the Wanganui * Herald' that the reading of this letter at the meeting of the committee " created much amusement."