The Waikato Times. TUESDAY, NOVEMBERS 6, 1877.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 841, 6 November 1877, Page 2

The Waikato Times.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBERS 6, 1877.

Equal an<l exact iustice to all men, Of whatever state or persuasion, religi ms ■• political ***** Here shall the Prcai the Pboplb's right maintain. Unawc! hv inttnene," ami unbribeil hv <j-u

The example sot by the settlers of the r e Awamutu district m the matter of the Indian Famine Relief is one which we trust will be generally followed m other parts of the Waikato. On it's broad grounds, the cause is one of humanity, and as such alone should recommend itself Jto each one of us. JBul it is som I

thing more also. It is a national cause, foi 1 the people we are called upou m tlie dictates of humanity to assist are not merely our fellowcreatures, but our fellow subjects. And still closer again is the claim drawn upon us when we bear m mind that this famine is raging- m the centre of Madras, a presidency, the native inhabitants of which were staunch to us during- the horrors and troubles of the late mutiny m the j Indian portion of the Empire. Remembering this, that these people are our fellow subjects, governed by our own Queen as Empress ot India, we cannot but feel that they claim a warmer sympathy from us m their distress than they would as aliens ; we cannot but feel that some day m the defence of our Indian Empire we, too, may be glad to turn to them for national sympathy and assistance. The facts of the case are, we may presume, patent to our readers. Some sixteen millions of people m the Madras presidency are literally kept alive by the charitable intervention of British aid. The population of the famine-stricken districts are entirely agricultural, dependent on their grain crops, and these have failed, not alone m the first, but m the second season. The failure of a year's crop was no ordinary calamity m such a country as India, bufc the aggravation, of its horrors can scarcely be realized to a European mind when a second year of famine follows on the first. Half-a--million of human beings have already perished slowly of hunger. Millions more have nothing but the dole of charitable aid served out from day to day to preserve them from a like fate ; and to keep that supply from being broken is now taxing the benevolence and charity of the nation. And of all parts of it her Australasian Colonies should help the mother country m this matter. To us, the horrors of famine and war are unknown. We live a life of quiet, peace, and tranquil prosperity, and such a call as this upon our sympathies and purse-strings should be met and cheerfully and m thankfulness responded to as a votive offering for the immunity from great dangers and great troubles which we enjoy m these most favoured portions of the world. Nor, as we have said, is it quite possible that we should fully re ilize the misery we are called upon to alleviate. A despatch dated London, August the 28th, says that the editor of the Madras ' Times,' a member of the Relief Committee, writes under date of August Ist : — " The population of Southern India more or less affected by the famine numbers twenty-four million. In the most favourable circumstances, at least one-sixth will die. In the interior, the distress is fearful. A gentleman passing down the valley m Wyland district counted 29 dead boJies on the road. A coffee l-lanter, seeking shelter troin the rain m a hut, found six decomposing corpses m it. On any day and every day mothers may be seen m the streets of Madras offering their children for sale, while the foundling portion of the Poor House is full of infants found by the police on the roads, deserted by their parents. Since the famine began, 500,000 people have died of want and distress. The first big tragedy ma ybe expected m Mysea, m that Province. Indeed, information has reached me from Bang love of three cases of cannibalism already." Erom other and later sources, we learn that it would be impossible to exaggerate the sufferings of the population of the Madras Presidancy, sufferings which it taxes not only the wealth of Europe to find the food to aleviate. but the administration to distribute. An eye witness, who had lately arrived m Melbourne from India, and who had travelled through the Presidency, related at the public meeting held m that city, a heartrending descriptionof thestate of the country. When he landed on the beach at Madras, he saw 11 sacks of rice and grain piled up two feet higli for a distance of two miles, and waiting to be transported to the interior for tho relief of the famishing inhabitants." Tbe colera and other epedemics, he said, were also raging m Ma-Jras, Though il was the hottest and most unhealthy season of the year, he saw the Duke of Buckingham and his staff toiling from morning till night. He was petitioned for food by living skeletons, and he saw women and girls send m their jewels and trinkets to pay the taxes. The men had parted with their agricultural implements and all they possessed, so that if even rain came and made the ground productive again they vvaukl still be impoverished, m the absence of means lor tillage of the soil. But why multiply these instances of the terrible destitution affectinga population more than half that of , England. The press teems with the horrors met and told by those whose duty or inclination has led thorn into the interior. That riding through the country, m fact, "is like riding over a battle-field where some fierce contest has raged, so many are the dead who are lyiug around." All this wo know, and nothing more need, we believe, be told to cause the people of this colony to do their duty manfully and nobly. All that is needed is, to afiord them the opportunity of doing- it, and it is therefore, we say, that to the people of Te Awamutu all honour and praise is due for the example they have set to the settlers generally of this district* ,

Bank Holiday. —Friday being the Prince of. Wales' Birthday, the Banks will be closed. Ciibap Grocebibs. — Our readers attention is drawn to Mr John Knox'a cash price list of groceries oa our third page. The Taotaoroa Highway Boabd are calling for tenders receivable till noon of the 24th instant, for cutting and removing some 3,000 yards of earth. Mr I) Richabdsov, of CambrHgTi, will receive 'enders for alteration to the house of Mr Arnold, of that place, up tj Saturday, the 10th instant. Phiob of Oats.— Mr R. Tianib, of Ngaruawahia, has, it will he seen, nit only reduced the price of fljur, but of oat* to 4s 6d per bushel. The Waikato County Coonoii, will receive tenders until the 27ch instant for clearing and formiag % road from Coite's farm to Cook-struet;, East Hamilton. Cheeries, grapas, currants, and strawberries are as fashionable aa flowers for trimming bonnets. This gives a new means of recognition— " By their fruits ye shall know them. Tenders for forming the road near Mr Lake's property at Oliaupo, and for putting m a new culvert at the Pukekura Eel W-ir, will bs received by the Pulcekura Highway Baard uufcil 11 a.m. of the 13th instant. Messrs Hunter and Nolan's cattle fair at New Market we would remind our ! readers will take place to-morro • . Eight hundr d head of c ittls, and among them a large portion of grown stock, will be penned. Mr. Charles Yeith, formerly of N<rarnawahia, has, re-opened the Oiiginal Blue Past Botrdiug house, m Victoria street East, Aucklani, where he •* ill be happy to see Waikato friea Is visiting Auckland. Potato Eisbash:. -By the last Snez mail, we learn that the potato disease has broken out to a frightful extent near Poole, m Dorsetshire, aud there is every j prospect of a potato famine, only to be met by lar^fe importations from abroad. Sale op Farm Stock at Te Hahu.— Mr Kennedy Hill announces the sale, early m December, of the Jive and dea I stock and household furniture of Mr James W. Martin, of Te Kahu, also the lease of the farm for seven years. The Committeb of the lute Cattle Show, desirous of winding up forthwith all money matters m connection with that .undertaking, give noticu that sub- ' Bcriptioaß promised are requested to bo paid to aDy member of that committee, or to tie secretary, Mr Q Buttle. It would seem that wjrk nius!; b^ plentiful near Hamilton, as well as m other parts of Waikato, when an exaallent job m the vicinity of a towuihiu, as m tue case of the Piako S ump und Hamilton Road, goes be^giug. Ouly oae tender, and that at a rate disproportionate to the value of the work, was received by the Waikato County L'ouncil. The MELBoaRNE Cur. — An im passion is abroad that this race comes off as a matter of oourse on tho 9ih of November. Not so, however, bu 1 -, on tb.3 6;h, aid will consequently be rim to- lay. Make your bets while the bull U rolling. la oar next we sh*li b j enabled, thanks to eleoiric cables, to give our readera tho names of the winners. How lUuTaii's War Telegrams ah-j Sknt. — The Lontlon 'Daily News' war oorrespon lent informs th.it journal that Rt-uter'a agent at the seat of war is a militiry ductor m the Turkish servioo, and unless he submits his telegrams to the Turkish officials for supervision, he runs a chauoo of b ing shot. It is just as well to remember that the ' D.uly No vs' is not remarkable for the veracity of its correspondents. A GOOD CIRCUtiVTItfG LIBRARY, a want much felt m Waikato is aVmt ho be startled m Hamilton by Mr T C Ham* mond, who has purchased over a thousand volumes, of whiuh a largo proportion are good standard works m nearly all departments of liteiature. The library will be open m a few weeks, when the shops m White's new brick buildings, Victoria street, Hamilton West, are ready for o -cupation. Cambridge North Township High-, way Distbioc Fans. — Through a mistake m the printing of the advertisement of the chairman of the above Board m reference to the appointment of a ranger and collector of tees ie was made to appear m our issue of Saturday last that the fees would be due on the 15th proo-Amo, that is, m December. They are due on the 15:h of the present month, as will be seen by the alteration made m the advertisement m to-day's issue. A good story ia told ef the late Te Moananui, an influential Maori chief, who died recently at the Thames. At a sitting of the Native Lands Court at Coronnndel' Te Moananui had got considerably t>o much, and m that condition came into the Court-room, and m some way had disturbed the proceedings, so that the Judge sharply reproved him. The chief leant against the wall, and, looking steadily at the Judge, said — " Why should you, a Government officer, find fault with me for drinking the Queen's liquor ? You are maintained by its oonsumptioo, aad while yoa reprove me, yon speak through the mouth o the bottle." Some naonthß since a petition was <ia;n-'d by a nnmber of settlers m Wuikuto, addressed to the House of Assembly, asking that further consideration shjuld be given to the case >£ D • Ci ey late on the medical staff of the Militia and Voluntoer3, with a view to a war. ling : im a more adequate compensation on the sudden closing of the lios* wit-.al at N^aruawahia, f>r hie loss of office after spending so maay years m active sorvi c. The petition was presented by the sitting member for Waipa and was referred by them to the Petition Committee. '•'liey have lately s^nt m th ir report, and docline to recommend the case Cor the further consideration of the -tßiembly. In an advertisement m another column Dr Carey takes tbe opportunity of thaa»iu^ those who signed the petition. Mr Spill has just married a second wife. On the day after the wedding, Mr Spill remarked, ' I intend, Mrs Spill, to enlarge my dairy. ' You mean oar dairy, my dear, 1 replied Mrs Spill. ' No,' quocb Mr Spill, l I intend to enlarga my dairy.' " Say ' our dairy,' say ' our ' ," screamed she, seizing tne poker. 'My dairy ! my dairy !'' yelled the husbadd. ' Our dairy ! pur dairy !' screamed the wife, emphasising each word with a blow on the back of her cringing spouse. Mr {Jpill retreated under the tab'e. He remained under over for several minutes, waiting for a 1 ill m the storm. At last his wife saw htm thrmtinf his heal out at the end of tue table. ' What are you looking for,' exclaimed the lady. ' I am looking for ' our ' iat, my dear,' said he. A war corresp-mdent of the Pans • ii\gai'O ' tells a remarkable story. He declares that some time ago the Russian Government tirdered a large quantity of s iellß I'rotn an English ammunition manafi.otui'tr, and paid a specially high prioa, ! o l the condition that they should be t idly made -so as not to burst ; that, the o der completed, the Russians made the sheila s. presanb to the manufacturer, with t ie stipulation that ha should sell them lo the Turks : that he did so sell them, aid that these identical shells are now being used by the Turks against the Russians, siid, of course, are quite harmless

Cultivation of rice m New Zealand. — An enterprising oountry storekeeper, Mr William Smith, of Oteki, Wellington, has just prepared snys the ' N"ew |Zealand Time?.' a pie^e of ground for a rii-e plantation, "knd expects to be able to supply lliia valuable article of djin>'stio onsuinpion of a go >d quility and at a clmaper rate 'than it can be imported. If he is Bucces ful others will no doubt f How his oxaiapli*, mid a new iudusfr> of consider* able irnn rt-ince may spring up. Mr Smit i has succcc-.1-d well im tho growth of i;cu nul-j, of which hi! has now a luxuriant 'srop growing on liia and Thk Rusiiau Prince whoso death was reported m late oalo^rams as having occurred during a roconuaisance with the Czarewitch's army was, we b lieve, Bays the Grahamston * Siar, 1 a nephew of the Czar's. Sergius Maximilian, Prince Leuchtenb-'re, wa* a mm of Charles Augustus Nap/e^n, Duku of Louchtenberg, and «ra<i(Uo!i of HTug^m de Beauharuais, Viceroy of K;ypt daring the reign of Napoleon I. Be uharn&is vu afterwards Duke of Leuchtenberg and Prince < f Eichstadt, and his son married the Grand Ouch, m Maria Nikolajewna, daughter of the Lite and sifter to tne preset. t Euiperor of all tho Kusaiaa. Sir Reaaa Ticmborse. -Tho following K-t'er has been addressed by Mr Oiilford Onslow to Mr Edward Foster, of Lie^ls, an ardoat believer m the " unfortunate nobleman now languishing m Dai tmoor" : -"Dear FoUer,— l hasten ti> convey to you the news that my own agent. Mr William Lock, of Melbourne, haa wired to me to-d»y (Saturday) by submarine telesrapb, ' Arthur Orton is fuuu-1 alive. 1 Previous letters prove tl.is correct. The telegram coat Lock £5. I hava also fonnd a su-vivor of the Bella, with documents to prove all. My reward of .C2,0()0 foiu d Orton, and my reward of C5 i fouad thn su -vivor. Tiohborne will be a fre> m »u m le^s than six months. Hurrah f [ don't know whit to Bay about publishing it, but it is trua enough. What will the wi spaces, rogues, and ruffians siy now?— Yoiln, U. Onslow." The Mr William Lj'.k refenei to by Mr Onslow is twl\ to bi the solicitor who defended both Orton aad Tichborne for horse-stealing, and was sujcessful m obtaining their acquittal. • The rrabov for tiir milk m het oocoanut — The Welliogtoa corre»pondont of the H-wke's Bay He-aid says: — Many people wonder how it happens that men wi h views on many Subjects as opposite as those of Sir G-eor^e Grey and ' Mr M icaudrew should be Lund m the one Government. Many, too, have woude el why Sir Goorge Grwy vaa not able to fo,-in a better Ministry. One a'iSA-er will ex ilain bot t nifucultiea. Sir (George Grey and. Mr M » 'amlre* wish for separation. lie and his party meau to use every effort to obtain this object. A North Island Q- ;veruintfrjt to meet m Auckland the capital, and a South Is and Pirlianunt iv Dunelin, with a General Government meeting cv r f three or five ye.rs m Wellington to arrange po tag.*, m*rriage, international, and othe* general laws. Of course the ne.v Gove nmout was t>o wise to pat this orwud m the Ministerial projjiumma, because the House, as at present coiqtituted, would not listen t - it ; but if Sir Jeor c could obtaiu a dissolution, the separation cry WJuld be rtiseJ. Of course, men like Aleesr* Trave s, Gisborne, Ballance, Bryce, Curtis, Sharp, and other.-, could n t j»m 3U/jh a Ministry. A Choral Society for Hamilton has been some timi calked aboot, and action ie soon to be taken at lasb m the matter. A meetng of those interested In the formatiou of suoa an association is oalle 1 for Thursday eveuiug nexb, at 8 o'clock, ac Gwyeue'j Hotel. Tha chief difficulty has been the procuring a suitable room for weekly practice. Tno long room at t.ie .tf.»rra.k« has usually been available fjr public purposes, but we understand thit ovviag to representations mada by Mr La Quesne, of Hamilton E*st, that the free use of it iujures the letting of his Hall, th* Government have issued instructions that it shall only be allowed for entertainments held for oharitable purpose. The p-ople of Hamilton West are thus debarred fiom the use of the ouly available room m the township. We scarcely think, however, that the use of the Harriet room applied for, for BUQU a purpose as the practise of a choral society, would be refused by the authorities, whose object should raoher be to foster a civilising and educational movement of this kind than to hinder it The above shows the urgent necessity that exists for making speedy arrange* raents for building a Public Hall for the use of the inhabitants of the wess township. P*ltu9, whose acbion was the subjec fc of Bavere oomment by Mr Justice Gillies* i.i the sitiiag of the B.nkruptcy Court m Auckland, on Wednesday last, is not the only illegal praotitfoner who might be made an example of, if a Solicitors Protection Association would take the matter up. We have .'maseur solicitors, it ia said, even m Waikato, who draw deeds and prepare documents, which should alone be issued from a solicitors office. The penalty is a heavy one when the offence is proved. .\ny one may draw out his own conveyancp, if he chose to brave the adage, that " the man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client"— the law 'allows him to do that, but, neither for love nor money nuy he draw out a conveyance for another party. So too m tho case of legal documents for the courts, as was done by Feltus, m the ca9e of Cottis's bankruptcy, an outsider may not act the part of solicitor to a second party. The conveyance ordi- i nanoe, 1812 U clear upon this point. In clause 54 it says, " And be it enacted, if any man, not being a solocitor of the Supreme Court, should act as attorney or solicitor, or if any man not being a barristor, or solicitor of the Supreme Cuurt shall act as conveyancer, he shall forfeit and pay for every such offence tha aura of £50, to ba recovered by action m tho Supreme Court, by any one who shall sue for the a»me " That persons should ba foolish enough for the sake of an ap« p-irent s-iviag of expense to entrust the drawing of legal documents to any but a profession*! and responsible man is m. comprehensible. In alludiag to the man. ner m which Cofctis was iujured by placing his affairs m the lunda of Feltus, Judge Uillies is reported to have said : — "I will be mo3fc happy to give to the profession every assistance m my power to pub down such practices. Bat I hope the caso of this man will be a warning to the public, and show them how they may be befooled by persons outside the profession endeavoring to do professional work. Tno debtor has certainly lose 12 months of hit. time, and now when he applies to be discharged, through these irregularities lie cannot get the order because tha Court has no power to make it. At the same time T cannot say there is anything up m the faoa of the present proceedings, wuich would oompell ma to 3all FdUus to show cause why he should not be ftdjucUe:! guilty of contempt >f _ Court.- There i3 no affidavit which would put the power of tha Court m motion with that object m vie v. If m affidavit bo made upon which the Court can act, and it can be shown that -?eUus is oonaeoted with practises of thia kind, I should at oo.ee grant a rule calling on him to show cause why he should Dot bo made to purge bis contempt.

' ATncus/ m the Melbourne Leaden aays :— Last year n divorced couple wnre re-m irried: A ll the bitt rr. criminations, the public ■ xnoaure, the heavy law"pxpenses, were 10-golt n ; and the t o who had o iginallp become one by the alche.uy of matrimony, and were analysed by the Divorce Court into a condition of singe ble^sedn .ss, flow togetuer agwn when they were told they migh; live separately. In talking of this case to a clergy nan, he told mo of a still more remarkable one. tie once married a couple wlm had been before uuited, and who were nevor divorced. They were first married m England, after a short acquaintance, ffUen very young. They quar.elled, aa joung people will, and tbe husband ran away and made for the diggings. In a few years, she, m perfect igrurance of his movements, followed and set np a relreahment tent on the great ruah to Dunolly. He, as a strn»er. beorae her lodger. They like.l each other, like ripened into love, and they agreed to uiarry, Waen giving th full details of their namos, placo of birth, &c.,tomy f-uend the o'ergyman, they found ont f»e the fi st time their former relation ; but having bought their wedding clothes and paid their fees, they determir.ed to proceed with the ceremony. Of their further history I ttm ignorant, but they ought to be the mostolosely united oouple m Australia.