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Waikato Times, Volume XI, Issue 901, 2 April 1878, Page 2

• Mb John Knox informs us that he is selling Devoe's best kerosine at one guinea the case of eight gallons. A Lodge, m connection with the Independent Order of Free Templars, will be opened m the Victoria Hall, Hamilton. Mr Mason, late lessee of the Billiard Room at the Royal Hotel, has started business hi Humilton, as fishmonger, and especially m the sale of oysters and other shell fish. Tenders for repairs to the punt, stages, etc., of the Hamilton ferry will be received by the Hamilton Town Clerk up to 4 p. m. to-morrow. Hotel Business. — The most lucrative business of the period is hotel keeping. The Coal Alines Hotel, at Huntley is to let, and further particulars may be obtained on application to Mr L. B. Harris. Bridge at the Narrows. — The tenders for the erection of a bridge over the Waikato, at the Narrows, between Hamilton and Cambridge, will be reoeived by the Chairman of the Narrows Bridge Committee, Hamilton, up to 4 pan. of Saturday next. Pcixekura Highway District Meeting—The public meeting of the ratepayers of the Pukekura highway district, called m our Saturdays issue for the 13th inst., has beeu postponed until the 20th inst., m consequence of the former being the date of the monthly meeting of the Cambridge Farmers' dub. Six Good Axemen are advertised for, to cut firewood m Mr Joy's bush at laupiri. Bushmen are requested to apply to Mr Jas. Martin, storekeeper, Hamilton. Mr Joy has a fine bush of white taua, and there is a g</od demand fojr anch wood, especially by brickburners and others, m Hamilton. A Suac qv £75 kicking about the j I streets of Hamiltou is not an every day occurrence, yet such was literally the case yesterday. A maori lost such a sum m bank' notes, m Victoria Street, numbers known (really so m this case, for we saw the list of them), an*-" 1 a reward of £1 for their rstum is advertised to-day. Oiuuro Carrying Trade. —Mr H. Heerdegan, of Ohaupo. announces to the settlers and storekeepers of Te Awamutu and Alexandra that he is prepared to deliver goods to and from Ohaupo station to any parts surrounding Ohaupo at moderate charges, and will take all possible care of goods entrusted to his pharge. •^aisjato Agricultural and Pastoral Asso'ciAjwox^The annual meeting of the supporters of /t^e $bove association will fee %ss. on Tuesday J£«£t, the 9th inst., immediately after 1 the *catss #j,)e, at Ohaupo. The object of the n^eeinng £s ,fco settle the programme of business for jfctyp J ensuing year. There wfll He #• meeting ,ojf the committee of the Association &i noon of the same day. Davidson's Star Hotel, Auckland.— Mr Davidson's Ngaruawahia and Wdifeaty .4rf#n4s generally will be glad to learn iWfc W 3 gaveer as an Auckland boniface has beeijT very successful, more especially of late siu.ee tfe'e and alterations have boenmade io '^p'Jbctel, which is now doing one of the ieaisi»s businesses m Auckland, and is specially patronised by Waikato settlers. "Wounding. — A man named Fifege^a?4 was arrested on Sunday for inflicting a stpipiis wound on a Maori. It appears tik%& jP#fff ei ' a^j wno Ivas working for Mr %. V/ gifyqmtrick, of Ngaruawahia, lived m a Ww4sj> $/£?>- the native just accross the river ivoai $$ township, and on Sunday morning, us iSiA Maori was stooping to come out of $ip jfcWWqy, struck him over the liead witfe >wp ' $}i&yn instrument, supposed from tfap appj $Isp,yp jrf the cut to be a grass lwok",9rpss^poJ<:. The wound is a very nasty om 3 Q»s lsssvsf » a European would fip flM>4 7 '3JLfc native did not take any *te»s £o pyps.ecu'tf ', out the police having lieat'd of £he occurrence, at onoo ai'rested Fitzgerald, 'i^k"? latter, it appears, has for some time imut the character of not being quite nk%i }}} the head. From what w j learn there Wt% tyim no dispute p 3 cans? of auger beiw®e»sfc $#9, J

The Ohaupo xowNSiinp. — The salo of I Mr Burkes township allotments, adveri tised for Saturday next, has been postponed for a time m consequence of the delay m opening the railway. The Revd J. Smim will not be allowed to leave Waikato without a farewell address and presentation being made htm. This will take place at a tea meeting and entertainment, to be held on Thursday weok next at Cambridge. We understand that the Wesleyau.Cb.apel at Cambridge is beiug enlarged to double its former size. Tl2 Kooti a Prophet. — The rebel Te Kooti has assumed a new character, that of miracle-worker and healer of maladies. For many months past the Maoris from Poverty Bay and Wairoa (tfawke's Bay) districts afflicted witli disease have made pilgrimages to Te Kooti's residence m the King" country, and, strange to say, have come back cured. It is very little use to j toll a native that the sorcerer is practising on the credulity and superstition of the people, when he can point to undoubted cases of cure, and so the fame of Te Kooti is rapidly spreading all over the whole Island, and the influence ho is thereby obtaining is not likely to be loss than when he led all the bloodthirsty scoundrels of his race to the massacre of English women and children. • Hamilton Borough Council.— At the meeting of the Hamilton Borouerh Council last night several accounts were passed. A resolution was proposed by the Mayor and carried unanimously, with the exception of Cr. Beale, " That this committee regrets that the resolution m reference to the reports of the Waikato Times raised at the last meeting, and which was intended only for the information of the Proprietor and Editor, should have been forwarded to and published by a journal out of the district. Cr. Beale, who defended his action m sending the copy of the motion to the ' Star,' moved, as an amendment " That this Council take no further action m the matter," but as no one seconded the amendment it fell to the ground. Cr. Potter moved, " That tenders be invited for plans, specifications, working drawings, and such general information as will enable contractors to tender for the proposed trafic bridge over the.Waikato river at Hamilton." Cr. Cox seconded. After some discussion the motion was carried. The report of the proceedings, which were lengthy, is necessarily held over until our next. The Dog Nuisance. — The sheep and poultry worrying nuisance having broken out again m the neighbourhood of Hamilton, the question naturally arises — Cannot something be done m the matter of preventing persons living m the town keeping a number of dogs at large, to the annoyance of every horseman who passes through the streets, and to the danger of every farmer and cattle-holder within two or three miles of it ? In the long winter nights, coming on, the attacks on sheep and poultry (which we have reported as having occurred on the farm of Mr C. Johnson, last week) will be fir more frequent. Good-sLzed calves, even, are not safe from these savage brutes. On ■ two separate occasions, last winter, to our own knowledge, calves — m fenced paddocks — were worried by dogs, just before daybreak, and only saved from being killed by the interference of those whom the noise awoke from their beds. On those .occasions the dogs belonged to butchers m the town. The depredations committed lately on farmers' flocks have been, for the most part, perpetrated by sporting dogs. It has been suggested, and the plan might be tried with advantage, — to place a heavier tax on dogs. The farmer's sheep dog, if really a trained dog, should not be taxed at all, but those who keep sporting dogs can well afford to pay a heavy tax upon them, and these, without any hardship, might be taxed at the rate of 20s per annum, all other dogs, " mongrels and curs of low degree," being charged at the rate of 10s per annum, and the tax, m all oases, being strictly enforced by the local bodies. If this was done, useless dogs would not be kept, as they now are, to be a nui-ance to their owners and the public generally. As an Instance of the value of the press to individuals ;in making matters widely known, and bringing even members of the same family together who have lost sight of one another, we may mention a remarkable instance which has lately occurred. Just two months ago our Alexandra correspondent alluded to a boy named Francis Brown, once m the Auckland Training School, but who, sent to Raglan to work, left that district, and is now, or was then, living amongst the King natives. It was stated that the lad was anxious to get baok to civilised life if he could. Now, this appearing m the ' Waikato Times,' was copied from paper to paper, until it got inserted m one of the Greymouth papers. There it was seen by the boy's mother, a widow, and last week we received a letter from Mr Charles Wilson, of the Great Western Hotel, Greymouth, stating that the widow had lost sight of hep son for two years, was very anxious to get him home to Greymouth, but had not got the means of sending for him. " So," says the letter, "if you would be kind enough to let Mrs Browu know what the fare would be from where the boy is to Greymouth, she will m the mean time endeavour to get what money she can. Perhaps some kind Christians would assist her a little, for she has very few friends here m a position to do so, &»d is herself m poor circumstances. The boy will be H years old this month." Our Alexandra correspondent stated at the time that he would be oiily too glad to assist the lad's friends m getting him returned to civilised life, and will perhaps organize a subscription fund m Alexandra ]to assist the widow m her object. We shall ourselves be happy to receive any subscriptions, which shall be devoted to payment of his passage money to Greymouth. The cost of getting the boy to Auckland would not be more than a pound. What the faro is between that city and Greymouth by water we cannot say, but his friends at Greymouth, who will receive a copy of this days Times, may easily ascertain. Tre ' Melbourne Argus ' on Sir G. Gkey £>tp Maniicod Suffrage. — The .' $eJbQurne Apgus,' m a recent issue, says.:-T.'."J'heTreniier of New Zealand is now stumping tike Koi^rn f eland, and talking bombast to fme jpe9ple*- r< "as fipMy i I as if he had graduated among the Ghirr i tists of Glasgow or Clerkenweil upwards of . thirty years ago. At New Plymouth, on February 8, he indulged m an oration which might have been delivered, with vevy few alterations, to a meeting 6f the '^employed m Tompkins' Square, New York, or$ f afl^semblage of the Kearney faction, at fee fqo'fc %f ■ Nob's Hill, San Francisco. A public meeting t^eyet , to hear the truth ; it must be flatted 'or ' cajoled, and, accordingly, Sir George Grey solemnly assured his hearera that the one thing 1 needful 'to scatter plenty o'er a smiling land ' was to bestow upon every jnan, who is twenty-one yeai"s of age, one v'otfe— t-url one vote only. This will transfoim "c\i'aVacsu& -; this will make all men virtuous, diligontV'pi'u^jitj chaste, temperate, and just ; this will i'ugteiiGia^ fckc individual, purify the community, siil'd transfigure the state! By this means there would cease to rise up m the bosom tif a country a criminal population. These '(i)t; jusf. the sort of sonorous platitudes wiiffii .ijLseti ,lo bo talked m the clubs of Fans' &. '$9 a#& ••^, and again hi '70; but tltoy are cei-fcainj'j- $}$$ foj-ne oat by the facts of the case m this floluuy, manhood suffrage has now been established for twenty years, and where it has #aine to this— that freedom uf speech has

been violently suppressed m the papil al, and m one or two other centres of population, and where ono of the organs of the Liberal party, namely— the ' Bendigo Independent,' writes thus, respecting tHe 1 criminal population ' which we are rearing up m the bosom of the country: — 1 Larrikinisin is a fact, and a fearful fact, which makes us sometimes stand aghast when we contemplate the future of this country, and ask m whose hands its destinies will be placed. The enormities of that crime have been depicted m lively terms by the newspapers ot the colony, which are unanimous m condemning it.'"