The Waikato Times

Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1086, 10 June 1879, Page 2

The Waikato Times

»_ l,. „ ■ . r. Equal'and exaot justice to all men, Of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political. Here shall the Press the People's right maintain, Unawed by influence and unbribed by gain. TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1379. The reports of the Waikato County Council meeting, of the Cambrige Volunteer Hall meeting, the leading article, and the letters of " Treacle," " Observer," and others are unavoidably held over. We must again and pointedly remind our readers, and especially advertisers, that Business Letters and Advertisements must be addressed to the Manager, Literary Matters to the Editor of this journal. By adopting this very obviously necessary rule much inconvenience and many mistakes would he avoided. The Gift Auction m aid of the funds of Trinity Church, Ngaruawahia, to which we alluded lately, will come off on the 2nd of August. VVe specially refer our readers to the advertisement elsewhere. The Rehuera Mangold Sweep.— We have- refrained from publishing the account of the competition m the mangold crop by certain gentlemen near Auckland, because the description hitherto published omitted an important item, of information, the area of land on which the crop was grown. This appears from the following, which we take from the ' Herald,' to have been ten square perches, or the 16th of an acre:—" With regard to the recent competition for the production of mangold wurtzels, we noticed yesterday that the prize roots produced by Mr S. Morrin, at Remuera, were on view at Mr Wren's establishment, m Queen-street. They attracted a large amount of attention, and with the announcement that the produce was at the rate of 140 tons to the acre, people's eyes were opened to the productiveness of New Zealand soil. In regard to the competition between three growers which has taken place — Mr S. Morrin, Mr W. J. Marks, and Mr T. C. Stevens, — the manager of the Dashper estate, the facts are as follows : — The competition was m the most friendly spirit, and there were no bets on doubles as on horse racing. In. fact the competition was known to few. The conditions were that the area upon which -the mangolds should be grown should be 12 perches. The first honours were, taken by Mr Morrin, the product of his area being 10 tons lficwt. 6lbs. Mr Stevens was next, with a product of 9 tons 3 cwt. 241b5. ; and Mr Marks was last, the product of. his section being 7 tons 18 cwt. 2 qrs. Either product is extremely creditable, and has, we suppose, seldom been equalled. In fact, there is, we are informed, a determination - to send some of these large roots for exhibition to England, where they will . hardly recognise the product of the seed ' which they have exported to New Zealand. The largest mangold wurtzel produced was grown at Mr Mark's place, at Epsom. It weighed Golbs., and the next m weight were two from Mr Morrin's place, weighing 641bs. and 63lbs. Twenty-five roots taken from MrMarks's 1 property, weighed m the aggregate Bcwt. 2qrs. ahd 2dlbs., and this was beaten by a similar number from Mr Morrin' s estate . 1 We presume that for strength of growth ' and product per acre, these crops cannot 1 be excelled m any part of the world." i Two destructive fires occured on Saturday* the one early m. the morning on at Onehunga, when the Manakau Hotel, belonging to Captain Cunningham, was destroyed. The ocoupants, among whom were the detatchment of A.C* from Cambridge, all escaped except one man named Thomas Recce, whose scull was fractured by the fall of a brick. Sub-Inspector Newall and his men worked with a will at the fire, and saved adjoining buildings. The loss is estimated at £5,000, of which 2,400 is insured. The second fire was m Customhouse-street, Auckland, when the store -of Mr H. B. Morton, at present on i a visit to England, was destroyed. Some of the natives now at Cambridge are very cheeky. On Saturday a pakeha went into Hewitt's Hotel and asked for a glass of beer, when put down on the oounter a Maori standing by snatched it up and drank it. The pakeha then called for another, which was treated m the , same way, and then for a third, which was forcibly taken possession of. This was rather more than the pakeha could , stand, and he let drive and knocked down the dusky "sponge." A. host of Maoris immediately set upon him, and he had to rush upstairs and take refuge m one. of the bed-rooms, or he would have been torn to pieces.