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Waikato Times, Volume XI, Issue 894, 16 March 1878, Page 2

Cambridge Farmers' Club. — The ; usual monthly meeting of the club will be held this afternoon. Tenders for additions to the Council Chambers will be received by Mr T. H. White, architect, up to noon of Tuesday next. Hautapu Harmonium Fund. —We understand that a sum of £19 10s has been collected towards purchasing a harmonium for the use of the congregation at the Hautapu Sunday School services. Messrs J. D. and K. Hill will hold their usual fortnightly auction sale of general produce, furniture, &c, this afternoon at 2 o'clock; also town allotments m Cambridge, m the estate of G. Mann. Cambridge CC. v. Hautapu. — A cricket match takes place to dya between the Cambridge CC. and a team of Hautapu Stragglers. The play will commence at 12 o'clock sharp. The Revd. J. Smith will preach m the Wesleyan Chapel, Te Awamutu on Sunday evening next, at 6 p.m. A special collection mil be made m aid of a fund to pay off thq debt on the Chapel. Tenders for clearing a little more than a mile of road, so as to be fit 'for the plough, leading irom the Cambridge Piako Road towards Fen Court, will be received by the Cambridge District Highway Board up to 4 p.m. of Tuesday next Grass Seeds and -*i___.u__es. — We would draw attention to the trade list of Messrs W. J. Hurt & Co., which appears m our advertising columns. Mr John Knox, of Hamilton, and Mr Jas. Ryburn, of Paterangi, are the Waikato agents for the firm. A notice appears m English and Maori, m our advertising columns warning owners ,of horses, cattle, gheep, and pigs of the consequence of these animals straying into the Swamp Company's estate, where much damage has been done by such trespasses. St. Patrick's Day thia year falls upon a Sunday, but Monday will be observed as the usual holiday m honour of the shamrock. The banks m Waikato will be closed on that day ; the Piako races' will be held at Morrinsville, and doubtless other amusements will be kept up id honor of the national festival ann saint. Furniture Sale. — Mr John Knox will hold a sale of household furniture at the Wharf Store this afternoon at 2 o'clock. It is the first sale of the kind that has been held for some time m Hamilton, and there will doubtless.be a good attendance. The sale is unreserved, as the owner is leaving the district. Particulars will be seen m advertisement elsewhere. Soiree and Entertainment at Te Awamutu. — We would call attention to an advertisement whioh appears m another column of to-days issue, announcing a soiree and musical entertainment m the Public Hall, Te Awamutu, on Wednesday next, m aid of the funds of the Wesleyan Chapel. We understand that an efficient choir, which has on several occasions discoursed sweet music at public entertainments, will be m attendance and enliven the proceedings of the evening. At the Sale op Waste Lands, held m Auckland on Thursday we report the following m reference to Waikato lots ■— Taupiri — .Lot 23, 20a, upset price £50, Dorm. Wangamarino, Waikato. — Lot 149, 146a, upset price £146, Dufaur ; lot 165, 49a, upset price £49, Coxhead. Tuhikaramea. — Lot 46, 38a 3r, upset price 38 15s, Lennox — lot 200, 48a lr, 35p, upset price £45 10s, Vickers. Kirikiriroa. —Lot 277, 50a, upset price, £100, Arthur; lot 278, 50a, upset price £100, Aitken; lot 279, 30a, upset price, £60, Aitken, £64, Te Rapa, Waikato. — Lot 202, u 2ola, upset priqes, £402, Wallis, £405 ; lot 203, 118, a upset price, £237 10s; Wallis, £251; lot 326, 36a, upset price, 72, Aitken. Puniu, Waikato. — Lot 340, 93a, upset price, __ 186, Bertram, £408. Hautapu. — Lot 45, 40a, upset price, £120, Fergusson, £207. Karamu, Waikato. — Lot 134, 32a, upset price, £32, Lennox. At the R.M. Court, Hamilton, yesterday, C. W. Pollard, William Pettigrew, John Mathewson, John Shera, and William Hume — all of Ohaupo and carpenters working on the new hotel, building for Mr R. Burke — were charged with being unlawfully upon the said premises, on the night of the 12th instant, without lawful excuse, and with lighting fixes therein.— Mr O'Neill appeared for the defendants.— Plaintiff deposed to defendants having been warned by him to leave the premises on which they had been working for the contractors, but this warning^ was given on the 13th, and the information was laid for the offence committed on the 12th. The contractors (Messrs J. and J. H. Edwardes) had, according to the testimony of the plaintiff, given up the contract. The Court ruled that insufficient notice to leave the premises had been given, and dismissed the case with costs — £8 Bs. Httmtltqn Cambridge Road. — There is a considerable amount of trafic now on the Hamilton and Cambridge Road, and both the Kirikiriroa Board and Cambridge Board might find useful work ready- to their hands m improving that portion of the road where the one Highway District ends aDd the other commences. The cuttings on either side the Tamahere bridge are sadly m need of improvement. The road at these places is so narrow that one vehicle cannot safely pass the other, and the gradients I are far too steep. The latter fault causes I increased danger, for m the wet weather the rush of water cuts a deep and dangerous channel on the Kjrikiriroa side, and eats away the actual road upon the other. Something has lately been done to the cutting on the Cambridge side, but nothing really practical. Altogether this pa,rt of the road is "a credit to neither district, and to make matters worse, and show how utterly neglected it is, we may state that there has been for some time past on the flat between the two cuttings a hole some two or three feet deep, and just large enough to nicely break a horses leg. Some land Christian has stuck a log of wood endways m this hole as a warning to horsemen, but the log itself is a danger to all, especially to vehicles, after dark. We reccommend these matters to the consideration of either board. A correspondent of the ' Otago Daily Times, signing "An Irish Girl who can both Read and Write," is indignant about one feature of the census paper, wliich, no doubt most of our readers have observed : — " Sir, please permit me, through your columns, to draw attention to a somewhat significant circumstance which appears m the census papers for the year IS7B. In tho instructions which they contain for the manner m which the forms should be filled up. various fictitious names are given, with age, occupation, degree of education, &c, attached. Five of these imaginary persons are members of the Church of England, two are Baptists, and one is a Presbyterian, all of whom, with the exception of a child under the age of one year, can read and AvritQ. But when an example is required of a person who

can do neither, the representative chosen to illustrate the ignoramus is 'Bridget Comielly, 23, domestic servant, Irish, Roman Catholic, cannot read or write.' Poor benighted Bridget ! Surely it was bad enough to have relegated her to the social sphere of physical servitude without depriving her also of the privilege of being able to read. What a lamentable contrast the uncultivated ' Bridget Connelly ' presents to the intellectual Baptist governess and her son, and to the highlycultured Presbyterian farm servant, John Henderson; and how general must have become the mental darkness of the unfortunate people belonging to the race and creed of ' Bridget ' when the compiler of a census paper can find no nationality or religion so appropriate to represent ignorance as Irish and Catholicism. How singular it is that it should not have occured to the mind of that person that 'Matha Thomson' or 'Louisa S winton' would have made just as good a model to sit for the picture of tho household dunce as 'Bridget Connelly.' Chance had nothing whatever to do m influencing the choice of a subject. The religion, nationality, and the accompanying ignorance, were evidently chosen with the deliberate intention of offering a studied insult to a part of the community, and of pandering to the vulgar prejudice of a class. I should have thought that with our boasted intellectual advancement the time had gone by for making the terms ' Irish and ' Catholic ' synonymous with ignorance, especially when this offensive and vulgar traditional prejudice has, by the frequency of its repetition, lost its point, and become monotonous. I therefore regret, and am ashamed to see, that still it exists with some persons, and that no opportunity is too petty to revive it."