The Waikato Times. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1878.

Waikato Times, Volume XII, Issue 1013, 19 December 1878, Page 2

The Waikato Times.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1878.

Equal and exact justice to aU men, Of whatever state or persuasion, religious or Dolitical. # * * * * Here shall the Press the People's right maintain, Uhawed by influence and unbiibed by gain.

Tue driving the first pile of the traffic bridge over 1 the Waikato at Hamilton is not a matter of concern tp the borough only, but to the whole district, for a work of this kind ?s really one of general interest and utility affecting the remotest parts of the district ' by affording a free communication thiougbout. When the Narrows Bridge is completed, and it is said that it will be open for traffic early m February, thero will be m the space between Ngaruawahia and Cambri Ige no less than four bridges across the river, so that m no case will settlers or travellers passing from one extreme point to another be necessarily forced as heretofore to make a considerable detour to get from place to place. And this is the more ueeessary as the country fills up and business of all kinds increases rapidly. The gatherings at Ohaupo have already come to resemble a regular fair rather than the ordinary cattle -ales of a country district, and stock and settlers will doubtless fi.id their way co this common centre m greater numbers as facilities afforde I by such works as that commenced to-day become available To the immediate district more directly affected, the benefi s resulting from a bridge are almost incalculable. A town literally cat m half by such •a river as the Waikato must necessarily be divided to a very gteat extent m its feelings md even iv its interests, and we can neither be surprised at nor blame tho exisiance of the partizan fesling of East and We3t, which has characterised the history of Hamilton m the past. The bridge, where it is wisley placed, will remove this feeling altogether, and so largely is this felt to be the case, that the chief rea-on for forming the two townships into one borough, was to make possible the construction of the bridge, the first act towards which has been taken to-day. A meeting of the burgesses, it will be seen, is convened for Friday evening, to consider ( lift desirability of raising a loan of £7,000, for the purpose of constructing the bridge, upon the security of a special rate aud the rents and tolls of the bridge. This was done some mouths ago, and the tesiilt of the poll takon, showed an almost unanimous acquiescence m the proposal by the burgesses. Through some informality, the proceedings have again to be gone through, to enable the borough to float; the necessary debentures. If anything, however, the necessity for the brid.je is even more ft.lt now than then, and both the meeting, and the polling which must uecessarily follow, will be gone through uure as a matter of form than otherwise. The special rate will, m all probability, never ne.pd to he stt uclt, but it is nocessary for raising the £5,000 by debentures to haye it as a co-la f eMl security,

Tub ball given by the retiring Mayor if Hamilton, I R. Vialou, Esq., m the argo room of the Commercial Hotel, on rucsbiy night, was tho most brilliant itf air of the kind we remember Hoeing m Hamilton. There wa<i a large and fashionable, .attendance, capital music, Mr Mackiiifep^sßtnd'f wo """Others of tho Cambridge "reed band being present, and lancing was kiepfc-up with great spirit till laylight, a sure'indication of general sujoyment. At half-past nine o'clock, the ball was opened with a quadrille, by the Mayor and Mrs J. B. Whyte, their vis-a-vis being the Mayor elect, J. B. Whyte, Esq., and Mrs Vialou. Mr Vialou bhen devoted his attention, as host, to the saro antt comfort ef his guests. Supper was laid out m the two rooms nearest to the bill-room, and M r Pearce exceUed himself m the excellence of this most necessary and important adjunct to the night's amusement. The wines, principaUy colonial, a very great improvement on the heady sherry and port of tho past, were of first-class quality. It was not till after three o'clock, that the room began to thin, and, as wephave said, dancing was fairly kept up "till daylight, by the more ardent devotees of that very remarkable amusement. 7On so close an oyening* as that of Tuesday night was, we should certainly say there was sense m the practice of Oriental nations, m employing others to do the dancing, for them. Tenders for ploughing one hundred acres of iand, will be received by Mr L. B. E-ven, Hamilton road, until the 28th inst.. Messrs Hiwtbb & -Nolan will hold their next sale of cattle, at Ohaupo, on Tuesday, the 24th inst., instead of Thursday, as the latter is Boxing Day. Waitoa Highway District Election. —Messrs J. Cochrane, J. P. Campbell and J. Walker having resigned the office of trustees m the 'above Board, an election to fill their places becomes necessary, and a meeting of the ratepayers has been called for that purpose, at the Nottingham Castle Hotel, Piako, on Saturday, the 4th of January next, at 1 p.m. Something foe the "Sweet By-and-bye. — Speaking of Mr Sheehan' s reference to the want of "Spartan mothers" m New Zealand, the ' New Zealand Times ' makes as thank Heaven that we arc born of the present generation, when it says :— " Meantime, it is decidedly unfortunate that ' Spartan mothers ' cannot be obtained. We must manage to put up with the: poor limp things that have been imported here until this generation has passed away, but by that time there will have been ' raised ' to replace • them a breed of women each' one of whom will bo able and anxious at all times to 'whop her own weight m tigers.' " "Waikato Lands.— Under this head, m the report of the proceedings of. the Waste Lauds Board pii. Thursday, we find the following, which, we presume, refers to certain trans - Waipa lands from Pirongia downwards : — " The Minister oi Lands wrote, asking the Board to administer certain lands m Waikato,. under, the provisions of the Waikato ' Crown Lan.de Act, passed last session. These were lands which had been purchased by the Government from Europeans for native purposes; but, as they were not now required, it was resolved to offer them foi sale. The Chairman said he had r obtaine<3 a classification of the land inf. question About half was first-class land} , but the surveyor reported that it wouldlie neces* !' sary to make deviations m the road line! to make them available.. It was agreed to adopt the recommehdatiqnYdf the chiei surveyor." The New Zealand Land Company ani the Glasgow Bank.— -At the time of tlu Bank failure, we stated as our opinioi that an unfair attempt "was being madi by the Sydney leading journal to implicate New Zealand speculations througl the Land Company with the Glasgow Bank failure. It now turns out that wi were correct. The foßowing telegran froni Wellington says :- — " Bearing oi some fallacious rumors circulated m thi colonies as to the position of the Australian and New Zealand Land Compans when the failure of the -Glasgow- • Ban! was announced, private advices received by to-day's Suez mail confirm those whicr, stated that the Company is - not involved -with the Glasgow Bank ;-, that merely » proportion of the Company's shares har] been pledged to the Bank, and, therefore m no way affecting tho position of tin Company. The same advices state thai the -directors of the Company wired: tc their agents m New. Zealand to withdraw any properties possible : that- had beer advertised for sale under .previous instructions." .A Fatal Bailway Accident occurred on. Saturday night last at the Awamqkc Junction Railway Station, Oamaru. A widow named Maloney, on .coming into Oamarn by the train which arrived al 7 .50 f in. company with her neice ten years old, stepped on the platform of the carriage. Mrs Maloney hesitated before entering the door, -when the train started, jerked, and threw her down between the railway platform and the carriage. The guard ahd station-master caught hold ol her, but the guard had to release his hold te prevent the neice coming herself down betweeu the wheels. The station-master fold Mrs ; Maloney till' the steps of the next carriage compelled him to let go. Slae then struggled to get up, and the steps struck her head, spun hei round, and the wheels of one carriage and the brake van went over her legs, below the knees. Oue leg was cut off, apd- the other fearfully mangled. She was picked up, placed m the carriage, brought on to Oamaru, and, conveyed tc to the hospital, but expired at 10 o'clock, At the late Auckland Show, the Judges spoke of the absence, of good entires m this part of New Zealand. We are glad to see a valuable addition made to their. number. Yesterday's 'Herald' says:— " Auckland province has rapidly advanced of late years m respect of stock, and it is not improbable that a few years more will see us ahead of the rest of New Zealand m respect of horses. Messrs Maclean and Co., of Waikato, have ulrcady on the way a -number of hue Clydesdales, and the grand horse " Musket" has just been purchased by them, and has been shipped m tho s.s. Kent, which sailed on the sth November for Melbourne. Musket was bred by Lord Glasgow m 1867 ; got by Toxophilite, his dam hy West Australian, out of Brown Bess, by Camel. Ran as a two-year-old m 1860, but was not placed. In 1870, Newmarket First Spring Meeting 1 , he ran second to ldus, m tho plate of 100 soys., one mile, being beaten by a short head, and he won the Handicap Plate of 200 soys., two miles, beating Granuaile by four length, and Miss Polly. At York Spring Meeting, he won the Plying Dutchman's li audio ip of 280 soys., oue mile and a-quarter, beating Viscount by half -a-lcugth, and Waterloo. At Ascot, he won the Ascot Stakes of 000 so vs., two milos and a-half, beating Silver Band by a lenj/th, and Curio. At Worcester Autumn Meeting he won the Q,uooii's Plate of 100 guineas, two miles, beating Hutch Skater by six lengths, aud Soruettc ; and the Kcvoru Cup of 300 soys,, two miles, beating Cardinal York by a bead, and Our Mary Ann. At "Warwick, ho won the Groat Midland Counties' Handicap of 871 soys., two miles, beating Stanley by three-quarters of a length, and Bonny Swell. In 1871, at Ascot, he ran second to Rosicrucian m the Alaxandra Plate of 1250 soys., three milos, being beaten by three-quarters of fi, length. At Warwick, he won the

Midland Counties' Handicap of 720 soys., two miles, boating- Black Gown by half-a-lengfch, and Westley. In 1872, at Ascot; he won the Alexandra Plate of 1 19*5 soys, three miles, beating Albert Victor by two lonths, and Don Car[os." The ' Herald ' has been shewn a specimen of rod clover and lucerne grown upon the farm of Mr Thomas Scott, East Tamaki. The red clover is the second growth this season, and is about 20 inches high. It appears to have had very rapid growth, and Mr Scott attributes its vigour to having sown a quantity of lime upon tho surface m the spring, -when slugs were very numerous, and likely to. prove very destructive to the crop. The lucerne is the third cutting this season, and some of the stalks aro almost throe feet m height. 'J he Samoan Islands.— A short time ago a statement was definitely made that Germany had asumed the sovorignty of Samoa, arid general regret was expressed m New Zealand that our own Government had lost the opportunity. It would appear, however, from the following telegram, m the San Francisco papers, published m yesterday's ' Herald,' that the German Government have declined to acquire Samoa as a colony; so that if England considers it expedient and the Samoans are agreeablo, it may still be added as a jewel— though a small one — to the British Imperial Crown. The telegram is as follows ; — " Berlin, November 11— The * Official Gazette' contradicts the report which appeared m the Paris « Estaffette' last week that the German Government had decided to occupy the -whole of the Saraoan archipelago. The ' Gazette ' de clares that Germany does not contemplate acquiring or founding colonies beyond the Atlantic. The dispute m regard to tho Samoan Islands will naturally bo settled by treaty, which will secure to German and other Sates interested the privileges granted to the most favoured nation." Ma Tbekwheellab, Confcctioneer of Hamilton, is again to the fore at Christmas time, with a large stock of choice confectionery of all kinds, determined that, whether as regards quality, variety or price, there shall be no occasion for people to go outside the district to supply themselves. Not only are the luscious mince pies, for: which the shop ii justly celebrated; and cakes and pastry of all denomination provided m abundance, but a very large assortment of fancy confectiuery, jewel packets, jewel cosaques/ &c, has been laid, m for decking Christmas trees and for presents. Mr Treewheellar has bought wholesale, andean sell cheaply, his advertisement says cheaper than at retail Auckland prioes. Thb telegram forwarded us by our Auckland Agent, on Monday, that Mr Lodderhad been appointed Manager of the "Waikato Steam Navigation Company, is incorrect. No such appointment has been made. The word "Waikato" was probably: substituted for " Kaipwra," inadvertantly, either by bur corresponding agent or by the telegraphist. Cavalby Ball, Cambridqb;— The Cambridge Volunteer Cavalry vrill give a ball, at the Volunteer and Public Hall, Cambridge, on Thursday evening next, to which honorary members and the Te Awamutn and Hamilton Corps, with their lady friends, are specially invited, m the advertisement, which appears elsewhere. ? Me: Bright will sell the privileges of the Cambridge Bace Course, and also those of the ground oil which the Athletic Sports of Thursday next : will be held, ; oh Saturday, at iioo'n. Hamilton Wbst School Tbeat.— lt is intended to give the children attending the .above school, a day's amusement on the ;31st hist. Mr A. Co* has kindly pkced his grounds, at the Lake, at their disposal. The picnic will be a general one? Ladies are invited to assist, as caterers, and gentlemen to subscribe! An advertisement will apper m our next.