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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 827, 4 October 1877, Page 2

The result of the .Government escape from the no-confidenoe vote on the Waka Maori, question appears to bf the only two truly we predicted, 4 contiuuauca of biokeriog rather tbtaa. ei-tiug down to the practical, work of the-session; The threat of another non confidence motion is held in terrorem oter the Mineetry, and as an earnest, of how einal the work of Parliament is held in com parison with the opportunity of indulging in petty party disputations, tho whole afternoon on Tuesday was wasted in discussing whether the proof-slip* of the Hawke'e Bay land purchases debate should be laid on the table.

THfc THOBOUGHBRKD ENTIRE, MANGLE, will be offered for Bale by Mr Alfr d Backland, at the Uaymarkec, to-morrow.

The Russian and Roumanian loss before Plevna was by a misprint in our last- made to appear 2,700 instead of 27,000. The ate to be levied in the Manga* piko district, aotioe of which appears elsewhere, is for the period of niae months ending the 3let of March, 1878. Cambride PRESBrrEBiAN Church.— The annual meeting of the mo.nbersof the abore body will be held on Saturday next, at 4 p.m., when a fall attendance is requested. New Sbbds. —Mr Millar of Paterangi notifies that he has juat received per Galatea, a second consignment of new carrot and mangold seeds.

Cambridot Puclio Hall—Tenders for the erection of tins buildiug mast be in by Saturday n<;xt at 3 p.m., to the architect, Mr l> Kiuhardson, of Cambridge, at wkote office the plan may now be eeea.

Tenders are called for by the Hamiltoa District Highway Board, for a variety of works on che JSTgaruawahia and Ohaupo roads and other parts of the district. The tenders moat be aeut in by 2 v.m. of Saturday, tho 13th iaet.

The next Ohaupo Cattle Sale takes plice on Tuesday. It wili be seen that a aumbor of fall grown store cattle and some fat beasts from Raglan will ne offered, in addition to some 300 head of well bred steere and heifers of all ages. A pure bred shorthorn bull will also be o&tred for sale.

AT thb Waste Lands Board meeting on Tnesday, a letter watt received from Messrs Starm, ani Co. of Raglan. asking permission to cub batth a chain wide, along the boundary faace which they had erected, for the purpose of pro* tooting it from fir<i. After some con* alteration, it was decided to grant the required permission.

dAMILTON AND CAMBRIDGE RoAD — The time for sending in tomdere for gravelling two to four miles of this road baa been extended by tbe Cambridge District Highway Board to the 13th instant. Tenders will also be rec ired ou the same date for the construction of a bridge or- r the Mangakau etre*m. Sale of I<and.—We understand that Mr H. C. Yjuug has Bold his property »t the Piako, consisting of 4000 :tcres, te * Mr Stead, of Canterbury. The purchase money was 38 per acre. The report that M»jor Wil-on's five property at Cambridge had changed hands for £20,000 is iacorreot.

The Public Business in the House. —With all these disqualification oases, and -ill this business of a personal nature, there is (says the ' Herald's' special) prospect of a lively time in the House ; but as tor the progress of the business of the country, that is quite another thing, and what, the pubic think of it all I can on y conjecture from the feeling of general dissatibt'aotion which prevails here. Never before since the fireb Parliament met w%a there such a crowded order paper ac now. it presents 85 orders of the day and a large number of notices of motion. Measures and motions which have been lyiug untouched for weeks and weeks are at ill there, —useful measures amougsb them, — and little or nothing done, if ever lh <re was a lost session this has been, all but one, and as it is the second eeesion of Parliament, and offers no symp oms of improvement, it is not surprising that •he feeling in favour oi a dissolution is gradually gaining ground,

Mr John Knox iG will be seen, has opened Joseph's old et>re, Wharf Road, Hamilton West, for the sale of *roc-jnes, farm and dairy produce, &o. A large and varied assortment hue been laid in, and the stock will be sold at Auckland prices. Mr Knox solic s a trial, and doubtless he will receive a fair share of public patronage if he continue* to combine high quality and low prices.

The Auckland ' Star' ia responsible for the following telegram from its Welling, ton correspondent, headed,' "Tawhiao a Drunkard." He saya :-" A recent visitor to the King Country states that King Tawhiao has turned a great drunkard. Hβ was not sober all one we»k. He ia losing his influenoe We very much doubt whether this is not another of the cmards on native matters which have lately been flying about and found publication in variou3 journals.

Mr Innis, it will be seen by advertisement in euotlier column, lias re-ocened the Waikato JS'ated Sodawater Factory, at HumiltOD, iorrnerly conducted by Mr Johns. Tho premises have been greatly improved, new machinery, introduced, and Mr Innie has provided all the neoeeaa y Appliances to enable him to keep up a regular supply throughout the summer of sodawater, lemonade, and the vrioue and cordials in demand during that season both by hotels and private families, the latter of whom can thus be supplied direct at wholesale prices, Mr Inneas b.-in* prepared to send paeke*i cases by boat 4>r other conveyance to all purte of the Waikato. . Ales and porters of really exoelleut quality, equal to those of the celebrated Thames beera, are bottled on the premises,' from beer in bulk received from the Ie Awumutu brewaiy.

Thb ' Abgtos ' of Tuesday, takes the Speaker of the Assembly to task for declaring that the publication of Mr Maofarlane's latter to Mr Lusk by the pres3 before it was presented to th* Home was "highly improper and diereaptsotfal to the House " It says :— " The question of dinrespecb for the Home ie another affair—we respects;shat Mients that complaint, and we £ek Sir William tfuzherbert whether, as chief »f that august assembly, he em forjfVt the language, tbe p n r»onalities, the aerify the acrimony to which thoee wUls ha?e echo d wishin the t )a>t few weeks! Impropriety I 'Tie nothing ehorc of Parliamenmuntary libel. Oα a newspaper virtue I'he public is the gaardiaa of it« own rights, and the sooner it knows that aat«rcioQß have bean mule th<it taeir rights have be n violated the better. It is a duvy the Press owes} to the public, and one which it : w:,'aHWays ready to perform. Would iveurprieei the Speaker and tbe the peccant letb r (whiob, i^-appt-are had already Undergone legal public nioa by being p *sse<i from hand'tfr'haad amoag various persons last Sattlfiiay) was* published iv the *N.Z. Herald' at day morning? Mr" S:out had^bg.tei , telegraph and «nqmre wh<s6faer this ie so, and t'jen, be ng a lawyer, he can pe/hvp maUea case of privilege thereof;-perhaps out. It will be a sad day for Now Zaa? laud if its Parl ament, eitiier through it* Speaker or otherwise, shall forget wna r . it owes to the people, \vhuae it i.3, by trying to atifla the Press for doing their <iaby which the two estates oiagbfc conjointly to perform " . ..'.

Mβ Lpbk's DisQUAiapickTibar I)i¥Fi« cuLry wutiid appear co pa -the worse for eXjjlauatioa if we take thetremarke of the 'Herald's' special as correct; He says ;?*>■ There was qaite an excitement last nighv {Monday) on Mr Lusk'e iiSiw. Hie expUuacion was aa foliowa: A moach lief ore last eeasion ooinme.uoed, the Mayor., of Auckland waited as 1113 offioe, an<i' requested him to draft'a bill to meet the. pa<tiuular wants of ' the Corporation of Auckland. At that time ha wai anacquainted with the forms of the H>>uae. Tub price agreed upon was £50. Wh-,n he came to Wellington he waited upon tir J. Vogel, and they oomparodtlie draft of the bill and it was found ihat there was nothing in the Auckland bill which could not be incorporated in the Municipal Corporations Act, to be brought in by the General Government. The bill was then brought into the House, and ht was not aware that a single provision in it wae inserted in the Municipal Corpora* tions Act. He wrote to the Auckland Cir-y Counoil to send down a commissioner to look af i.er their interests in connection with any bills they were interested iv. That commissioner was sent down, and the amount paid to him appeared in the letter. He (Mr Lusk) had not received a single penny in connection with any cervices rendered in Wellington. Tuie afternoon the following paragraph appeared in the * Argus':—"A telegram has been received f: om Auckland, aiating that application had made for a copy of Mr Lusk'e aooount agaiust the City Corporation, The copy was refused, but the tulegra'n siys : ' There is one item as follows : — Attending Ministry, £10 ; altering clause, ditto. , ThU is reliable."

Po3TAti Irregularities.—Oα the 17th ultimo, Major Wileon, of Tβ Kaoa, gave to the mail boy, Tβ itikau, a parcel containing five letters. They were wrapped up in brown paper, and tied. The boy (a was directed to give the parcel to the Post master at Newcastle, bat he hiring failed to do so, and one of the letters having found its way into the post; office, sue piciou was aroused, and the case put in the hand* of Detective Dool id. Dool&u at onoe proceeded to make enquiries, and found ctiat the Postmaster had received a letter notifying him of the contents of a paroel addressed Go him, requesting him to WJign, stamp aad post the enclosed four letters. He was rather puzzled, but having questioned the m*il»boy, who denied all knowledge of tne lecture, he came to the conoluakm thas they were to arrive y next mail. Detective Do >Un wene at once to Te Kaoa, and while proceeding along the road between Mossrs Carpeuter and Byron's and Major Wiisjn'a, saw some papers in a sw mpy ' place. He dirm unted and found a large envelope torn i j two, directed to she Engiueer-m-Chief, Mr Cirruthers, and near the same place, the contents of the same envelope was found coru in two. Later iv the day two m >re of the letters were found by D.iolan; they have been identified by Major Wi-Boa as his property. One, tne moat important, has not yet been found. It was addressed to Sir Gγ. drey, and contained a petition from the ratepayers of Ngaruawahia, for presentation by iSir G. Grey to the Assembly. Tnis letter, the moac important of ail, cannot be found. The mail by, we are informed, since admitted that he did receive a brown paper parcel, and says that on arrival at Ngiruawahia, he opened and pasted the contents, one letter only, addressed to the Postmaster. Ie is said that Detective Doolan al o found other envelopes in c>lo Borab, wuioh tiayo not been reported as lost. Some mootbs agOi a geutlemau re iding near Wileon'e, gava a parcel of letters to the mail boy for delivery at the post office here, aad some time afterwards they were found iv the scrub. Mapr Wilaou, it atp<iare, allows the mail boy to pass through his private property, and in return the contractor 00 iges the Major by directing his boy to carry M.jor Wilson's letters to the post at Newcastle. Te ttaku, the native post boy alluded to, me Oft Monday last brought before

W N Eiq, charged with m Jioiouely destroying property, and remanded utitif daturduy next. Hβ eaya he can fiud the mis«rig petition to the which hid been addressed to Sir George Grey. ' v