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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 930, 8 June 1878, Page 2

' The Uambridoe Farmers' Cluu will hold their next monthly meeting on Monday the 10th inst. The AxuualMeetinq of the Hamilton football Club will be held this evening at Gwynne's Hotel. L.O.L. — The usual monthly meeting of the William Johnston Lodge will be held at the Longe Room, Cambridge, on Friday evening next. Me D. G-ardner, of Hamilton, has disposed of his boot manufacturing business to Mr Wheelan, who solicits a share of public support • . Mr. Owen McG-ee's racehorse Falcon, lately disqualified, has since broken his fore leg near the shoulder, and has been shot. A Correspondent of the 'New Zealander' says that a teaspoonful of common salt put into a kerosene lamp will prevent it exploding. Messrs Sandes & Co., Chemists of Hamilton, have, it will be seen, been appointed Agents m Waikato for the Standard Insurance Company. The Thames ' Star ' states that the steamer Biroriro has been taken fifteen miles above Omahu, which is rendered possible by the operations of Mr Firth m clearing the liver. Ohaupo Township Sals. — Now that the Hue is opened to Ohaupo the sale of Mr Burkes township at the Ohaupo station has been again brought forward. It is advertised, by the Messrs J. D. & K. Hill, to bo sold by auction on Tuesday thelßthinsi. TnE TuHIKARAMEA HIGHWAY BoARD will receive tenders until Friday next for the formation of a road, bridge, culvert, and building on the Hamilton-Tuhikara-mea road. Plans and specifications may be seen at the residence of Mr Lang, Ngahinepotiri, and at the office of Mr T. G. Sandes, Hamilton. The following is from the ' New Zealander' of May 2 :— •• The RegistrarGeneral has, we believe, bean instructed to compile something m the shape of a Doomsday Book for this oolony. It will not shew the name 3 of the individual owners of property, but will give the number of proprietors and the extent of their holdings. Thus it will shew what extent of land is owned by persons possessing a less area than one acre, the number who own one to five acres, from five to ten acres, and so on. Such a work can scarcely fail to prove of immense value, especially when the question of making land bear its due proportion of 1 taxation comes to be dealt with by Parliament." The Settlers op the Piako, it will be seen, are determined to follow the Hamilton example, and furnish a Contingent to the- WMkato Cavalry Volunteer force. That they may be as successful we most heartily wish. The Hamilton Contingent started with but a small muster roll, but its ranks Inve been since swelled almost to a troop, while for precision m drill it will compare favorably with either of the older troops ; andso.it will doubtless be m the case of the Piako settlers. Though the district is a somewhat scattered one, it should be able to furnish a fair muster of well-equipped horsemen, and pessibly Amongst them some few not wholly unacquainted with drill, wliile every year the number of residont settlers is steadily increasing. The movement, we believe, has the hearty concurrence of the officer commanding the Waikato Cavalry Volunteers, and the settlors are certainly to be commended for their readiness to come forward and take their share m keeping up the defence force of the district. A meeting of tho.*e desirous of establishing such a, corps will bo hold at tho Nottingham Castle Hotel onthj afternoon of Saturday tho loth inst.

I ENGLAND FROM A RUSSIAN POINT OP View. — A St. Petersburg ' special ' writes as follows : — " Regarding England from a Russian point of viow, they siy: 'Russia is seventy-six times larger than England, and presumably many times more powerful. The Russian Empire is one solid mass or territory ; tho English Empire, on the contrary, consists of fragments scattered all over the world. The colonies weaken instead of strengthen tho old country ; India can afford no assistance, and thus we have to deal with "vEuglarid m Europe alone." Placing tne map of the Isles side by side ■with that of Russia— an absurd comparison, though done m all the map shops — here they laugh with contempt at tho " islet of shopkeepers," and there being m Russia that scorn of commerce which is peculiar to all military empires, the people demand, with happy obliviousuess of Alma and Inkerman, " What can a handful of clerks and shopmen do against our army of warriors ?" j bupposiug a war to break out, "how could England attack us ? We know very well what her navy could do from our experience with Hobart Pasha! . As for her army, it would take her six weeks to send a force of 40,1)00 men to Turkey, and what could they do against 400,0t)0 ? You boast that your Empire is one on which the sun never sots, and that you have limited resources, but when these expressions to the test they are nought but Avords, words, words. In the event of war, your colonies could not help you, and they would weaken you by requiring your protection. Very probably the Americans would invade and annex Canada; everybody knows they desire it. In India, tho people, tired of your oppression, would m all likelihood rise m arms against you. Even Ireland might seize the opportunity to strike for freedom and Home Rule. With your «* tney you would probably invite Austria against us, but, if she accepted your bribes, we could shatter her by a revolt among her Slavonic subjects. Trance will certainly not assist you, because you left her m the lurch m 1870 ; nor yet Italy, because you cannot tempt her with territory ; nor yet Turkey, who hates you for your duplicity, and prefers an alliance with the Czar. Without allies you cannot iight, and knowing this you resort to braggadocio, which, however astute your Premier may be, he canaot impose upon us. All this may seem very absurd to Englishmen, but it passes current for sound opinion here, and it is entirely to the low estimation m which we are held m Russia that I ascribe the audacity of the Russian Government. English power, from a Russian point of 4 view, is a power of the past. Battalions, not ironclads, hold the sceptre of supremacy, and, unless we recognsse this (Russian) truth very speedily, we may be discomfited m the end like Turkey has been."