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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 818, 13 September 1877, Page 2

Anotkbr. B[Uoration m the steamer's time of -leaving Cambridge and Hamil ton has, it will be seen by reference to their time-table, been made by the Waikato Steam Navigation Company. Auckland and Nbwcastm Railway. — In answer- to a qUestiou, the Minister for Public works stated, m the House, oh Tuesday, that arrangements should be made for the stoppage of trains at certain places on the line now passed. "As VTsi^rT iSftilMe^fncreiasing value of property m( the township of Cambridge, we may mention the fact that the fortunate possessor of the corner acre, opposite He wifaiV Hotel, Mr Roberts, has refused at different times lately offers for various portions Of the lot, which, if he had accepted -them, would have given him nearly £1,100 for the entire acre. Catholic Chubch Cambrtdob. — The following tenders for the erection of the* new Catholic Church at Cambridge have been reeeiv.ed~:jSl. Fraser, .Te Awamutu) £270; MrSimma, (Ngaruawahii) £298; Mr Wright, (Cambridge) £348 ; Messrs Madigan arid 'Millar, ( lo) L' 45 6; Mr Stewart, (Hamilton) £403 ; Wr Anderson, (Cambridge) £420. The tender of Mr Fraser was accepted. There has been a slight ebulition of rowdyism at the coalmines lately, amongst the men employed there. Two of them had a little difference, and m settling it m a rough and tumble kind of way, "one of thein^playfully nibbled tho top off the otber One.* Car. The police were sent for from Ngaruawahia, and we are told that Detective Doolan left for the mines to make enquiry into the matter* Thb Shbep Farhbrs and others m the district of Paterangi are about to take active measures for. tb§ suppression of the dog nuisance, and advertise m to-day's, i§sue the laying of poison until further* notice., We have not heard of any raids upon sheep m Hamil con lately, owing probably to the extermination of a number of dogs by strychnine wh.cb followed on tlie last mutton-bee held by those interesting animals, which from ' * dogs or high to curs of low degree " infest bu streets by day and make night hideous with the performances held under their canine etttertwweat coaij-iitteg3» '

Geo. Jones, Jnr.— The Wellington 'Evening Post' h*s the foi owing : George Jones is determined t\ .fight? his •libel case to the last. He appears to hay '" numerous sympathiser^/ especially m * Otago, judging from the faot 'that, during „ the last two days, he haa received a lage . number of telegraphic money to i : assist him m his defence. Yesterday a ' parcel, oame for him from Dunedinj ad> ; dressed;-' George Jones,; breaoh : of- ' privilege man,vßeporters' Gallery, House of Representatives.' '. . .'.-■■ An accident which waa, however, easily repaired, happened on Tuesday to the "machinery -of: the- paddle .steamer; Waikato. The men were unloading oats from the hold by means of a block and taokle, worked with a winch. A Maori | was at the winch-handle, and when a load of oats was part way up, suddenly let g of the handle, which spinning round came m violent oon tact with the Maori's head, striking him on the right temple, and -catting the Bkin. The iron handle having been straightened as quickly as possible the * ork of unloading was proceeded with; .._''.. j Youe .Monet and your Life.— The Grahtimstown " Evening Star" says . — ■; The indefat gable life assurance agent who hiw r;centlf been doing the Thames die* trie' has changed the scene of tiia labours to Waikato.' When going away, he remarked to a friend that he would do a good stroke m the capital before trying the Waikato. The friend profif red a bet of a new hat that' be would riot succeed m tbki'ng the life of Mr Blank. The agent said " doner" H<T had not been at it a week m Auck audi but % day' or two. ago he wired down : "Have gob Blank for £1000; Sill arid Fenton will send you n. account for the hat." . Another Railway Accident to the evening down trim from Auckland to Newcastle has taken place. On Monday, as the train was coming towards th Maungawhara bridge, two horses were on the line, and the engine struck them just as it entered on the bridge catting them m pieces. For uoately, on this occasion, it was not the engine but the last carriage, of the <tr.iin which was thrown off the line. Had it been ths engine, the whole train must have b< en precipitated into river, and a fearful sc^ne would have been the result. As it wan, no ono was hurt Tho carriage was speedily jacked onto the line. and the iraiu pr^e-led. Apart from the probubla loss to life and" property, the result of accidents of this nature, sohhm hing must be done, or the line will gain an - unenviable notoriety. The engines employed are, we understand, too small to carry a ''cow-catcher,' and i .this being so, there is all the more necessity thatthe line should befenced, and at once. In some parts of it, the curves are sharp, and there is no time for catt-j strayiug on the line to get out of the way nor for the train to slacken speed before the danger is seen. Kve's Fall.— lhe following is said to be a Frenchman's account of the temptation and fall of Eve :'— Monsieur Adam, he walked up, he sees une belle demoiselle aslip m ze garden. Voila de la chance. ' Bon j'Ur, Madame lv.' Madame lv she wake ; she hole her fan before to ier face. Adam put up his eye-glass to admire ze tableau. Zey make one promenade. Madame fv, she feel hungry, she see appal on ze arbre. Serpent ze promene sur l'arbre, make one walk on ze tree. • Monsieur. Serpent,' says lv, '« weel you not have ze bonte to peck me some appel, j'ai faiine ?' ' Certairiment, Madame,' say ze serpent, ' oharme de vous voir.' ' Holo, moa ami, ar-r-r-.eter vous,' say Adam ; 'stop que songez vous fairs? What .madness is zees— you must not peek ze; appel.' Ze snake, he take one pinch" of •snuff, he say : — . Ah. ! " Monsieur Adam, do you not know zereis nossin prohebeet for ze ladies? Madame lv, penneet me to. offer you some of this fruit defendu.' Iv, she make one courtesey, ze snake he fill her whole parasol wiz appel. He say, ' Eritis sicut Deus. Monsieur Adam, he will eat ze appel, he will become like ohe Dieu, know ze good and z i evil ; but you, •Madame lv, cannot become more of a goddess zan you are now.' And zis finish Madame lv. Gambling, m Hotels.— lt appears* says the ' Herald,' that the Minister of Justice, Mr Bo won, is determined not to make fiah of one and flesh of another set of offenders against the gambling Acts, but bas issued instructions to the police to put down all lotteries of whatever kind they are. We know already that ' sweeps ' have been suppressed here, ><nd Yankee grab is said to have seen its best day, and now it seems the 'innocent ' raffle is also doomed. We oannot; say we are sorry, nor do we sympathise with those who say thab raffles were only got up for a charitable .bjflot. '"' If the' principle of staking a small sum m tbe hopeß of getting more than its value be a bad one, whether the person who stakes nopes to w'n a glass of beer for nothing, a prize m a Melbourne sweep, or some elaboratelyemdroidered piece of finery at a bazaar. And, m truth, these r; flies at bazaars were far greater nuisances tnan the s<*eep3 or the * Yankee grabs j 1 for the general principle used to be to take all the articles which, if nob worthless, were hard to sell, and demand a shilling or half a-crown fronr every luckless visitant bo the bazaar, the chanoes being that, m B"me instances, the donor of thi money would not have taken the article at the prioe paid for tbe chanoe of winning it. The police are to pnt the law m force afc the next religious bazaar. American Humorists and the Wab. — The humorists who write. the funny paragraphs m the American papers have struck, an apparently inexhaustible mine m the war between the Russians and Turks. Some of the paragraphs are good of their kind. Subjoined are a selected few : —An ent-rprising dentist should advertise false teeth that would assist one m pronouncing the Russian and Turkish names. •- Philadelphia Bulletin The Burlington Hawk eye says the price of Turkish baths m that city had been rushed up, all owing to the war and -probab'e blockade?. .The same paper fears if Phelim Khaboolish Pasha moves from Rougtschak l>y way of JB_itchen»ff«nder towards Blakdr, the Russian auxiliary force under Prince Yldmrant chikipdff at Wrmtpeohaki will be cut off and conciliated. The 'Philadelphia Times,' after a prolonged wrestle with the newest map of the seat of war, makes the fiendish suggestion that the spelling bee be revived.— lt is interesting to sit m a- flour store now as the proprietor receives a despatch, and yells, ' They're a throwing, shells across Grassaooralitohz^ffla. varina, an' some one is going to get hurt. Turn out all hands, and mark every darned bar'l up half-a-doliar.'— Rorne" Sentinel. When the foreman of a Cleveland! paper calliopes down tbe tin telephone for ' more copy,' the editor calmly 'lows the foam baok from the e&ye of a half-gallon measure, and replies m unruffled tones, "Hammer another Black Sea on. the war m»p, and give ifc 'em again.'— Pittsburgh Despatch. Alexander pacing up and down before his tent ' Pshaw ! Let him wave his Sandbag Sheriff if he wants to. Would, however, that Alexis with his bold white terrier wre here.' Enter a. Coßsaok ' Sire, Djbfcubrichktivobmagdebig is taken J' A lex. — • Upo •> me word. Well, speed the news to Ivan Bull. Ho, villain: Say to Nnkopoitcbitsky that ere nightfall our flag must be m Wbaudispakomensivd' sky !' (Retires to consult tbe nap.)

Business . m Nelson must be dull indeed when the following story "ta told infthe 'Nelson Daily, Times,' as the bona "fide history'of a day's trade, m a second I rate Shop, m Sle.py Hollow :— " — 'induced me to go into partnership. The ;Stoofcjan-trade was small, but he said the' -retail;businesß transacted m the {establishment was as good as any-estiihUstffnent ., m Nelson, ■ and conducted upon oish' principles. I was not required to find any capital, but had to keej^tdre; and for cervices rendered was to receive b half-share m the profits. I .started on Monday morning, swept out, 'and got ,e£e ryjliing^ii* order^J^ade^uip a fgw 1 ifcely parcels of tea and sugaryTn! csale nfe* customers came m with a rush. I About .11 o'olook, the collector o> lied; for an .unpaid water rate ! he was referred to she sleeping p irtner', ■ andlolt murmuring loaiatliing about .proceeding^;; .At noon a ittle girl came it. r fpV'.m^|ijcp^noeß for a shilling. About entered, upon -whom T bestowed my blandest smile. She asked if I knew where Mrs Fisher lived. I was jmable to furnish, the information. She .Bsrfd the pea-nuts looked well, took a .haudful as a sample, asked the prioe of butter, and withdrew. At 3.30 a smair boy' called to enquire the time. 4 li, J a about time. '■£ was out of this business/ I rhutteffJd.sava (9 ely. five a young larrikin broke a window with a stone, and disappeared round the corner without being .captured. Ati six I put up the shutters. My partner passed and remonstrated' about the early dosing. ' I opened too soon,' I replied. I ought to have let the, one-horse concern remain shut up for a week, to let the customers gather the uselves together.' Tbe partnership was dissolved the same J night by mutual consent," Fousts Hay Loader.— The 'Rural New Yorker' thus describes the newly invented implement:—'* About the most disagreeable duty relegated to the farmer was pitching hay. It .certainly was one of the meanest gifts m the agricultural Pandora' 8 box. . It not only broke the back, but uuinged the temper, -and was no holiday work anyhow. This has been remedied, we are glad lo Say, by Foust's hay-loader, whioh has been characterised by Mr Coleman as one of tlio most important improvements m agricultural implements shown at the Centennial. As Mr Coleman was chairman of the agricultural judges gf award, this remark may be taken as' high and discriminating praise. We saw tbe loader m successful operation during the field trials of Schenk's station last summer, where the test was. both Exhaustive and severe. .. It worked:: admirably, .takiugnup t the grain rapidly, and without hitches- or drawbacks of any ..ind; The following* are some of its advantages : — lt requires no extra men or horses* to work it. lt will elevate a ton of hay from .the window m five -minutes, thus more than doubling the speed of securing hay. It is easily attached and adapted to all farm waggons and racks. It adds to the draft on level ground only the power of one man. Tt takes the hay from the ground as claan as is usually done by the hand-fork, lt is adapted to all ordinary meadow land. Will pitch barley and &l\ kinds of loose* grain aud flux m the most • satisfactory manner. There is no violent motion, and being strongly built arid of good material it will last indefinitely. It must be conceded that such an implement is an important adjunct to the farm machinery, and, now that the successful working of afaim so much depends on the judicious use ot practical , lalioNsavirig :. implements, we cannot to strongly urge ati investigation of "the thjjt -Hay-loader. When? we take into consideration the .fact of so many crips .being lost- through Atho scarcity of i labour. Wharvestingii-ne^'the l&ttsi hay-' loader must be regarded'- as a highlyvaluable machine. When it. blows hard, iri exposed paddocks; what' is termed- a wind-break, a kind of light frame which resembles a low tilt frame for a cart, iB added to. the elevator." '