The Waikato Times. TUESDAY, JULY 29, 1879.

Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1107, 29 July 1879, Page 2

The Waikato Times.

TUESDAY, JULY 29, 1879.

Equal and exact justice to all men, Of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political. Hero shall the Press the People's right maintaiu, Unawed by influence and unbribed by gain.

Op the position of parties at Wei. lington little more is known than at the date of our last publication. The division it has been aoreed will take place this afternoon, and that it will not be further delayed by the Ministerial party the House has the guarantee of the hon. member for Newton, which is a sufficient surety. It is supposed that the Government have been delaying the division, expecting the daily arrival of Messrs. Bastings and Driver, so as to lessen as much as possible the majority against them, but doubtless, with a certainty of dafeat before them if the ques. tion were at once pressed, they have naturally endeavored to £a>i\ *i me in the hope that something in the chapter of events favorable to them might tnrn np. It would have been easy for the Government to have prolonged the debate beyond Tuesday, but to have done so would have injured them b6th with the House and country. Very little business will now be done for the next week or 10 days. If beaten, as it would seem they will be today, the House will adjourn till later on in the week, and the Premier will in the mean time ask for a dissolution. If this should be refused there will follow as a necessity the sending for Sir "W. Fox, to form a Ministry, and that, probably, will entail another adjournment until the middle of next week, and then in all likelhiood will follow a recasting of parties, and another assault upon the treasury benches, to bo met successfully only by a compromise. It is when the pre. sent Ministry is ousted that the real strength of what is called the Middle Party will be felt, and, from what is known of it, it is strong enough to render untenable the position of the new Ministry if constituted, as at present reported. We shall bo much surprised if a reconstruction of the Cabinet, rather than the formation of a new Ministry, is not the ultimate outcome of the present struggle.

Fme at Hamilton.—On Saturday evening about eight o'clock the cry of fire was raised and in a few moments the hotel gongs rang out a warning that might have been heard from one end of the township to the other. It was at once ascertained that the fire had occurred in the house of Mrs Ross-Watts in Yictoria-strect, some few hundred yards above the Council Chambers and a number of willing hands hastened to the spot to render what assistance they could.* Happily, however, on reaching: the promises, they found that the fire had been extinguished. It appears that the nurse, Mrs Ross-Watts was from home at the time, had placed some small articles of clothing inside the large nursery fender to air and that a large clothes-horse close by was covered with shaets and other large articles. It is supposed that a spark from the grate must have fallen on the clothes within the fender and have thus commenced the fire, for on the inmates of the opposite room opening the door they observed the nursery to be filled with flames and smoke. The fire had caught the larger linen upon the horse, and seized upon the wall over the fireplace while the ceiling was also commencing to ignite. That the house was not. burned to the ground is due to the presence of mind of the servants, who, instead of rimning wildly about screaching or hurrying away to save individual articles of furniture, gave the alarm of fire at the top of their voices and then set practically to work with buckets and water, procured from a tank close by, to get the fire under. This they had almost succeeded in doing, when the cries of other members of the familiy attracted the attention of two gentlemen passing along the road, who came and assisted in the thorough extinguishment of tho smouldering embers. The damage done, we are glad to learn, is comparatively trifling, but had a few more minutes elapsed before the fire was seen, or the two servant girls had acted otherwise than they did, the fire would have got into the roof, and no means existing in Hamilton would have extinguished it. The agents of the Insurance offices in Hamilton, did a brisk business yesterday morning.

The annnal meeting of the Waikato Turf Club will be held, on Monday evening next, at Gwynne's Hamilton Hotel, when members are particularly requested to attend. The Ploughing on New Plymouth farms by Maori fanatics continues. We noticed in our last the arrest of a number of natives taken in the act of ploughing land on the* Bell Block on Friday last. These men were brought before the Resident Magistrate on Saturday, Avhen Mr Standish said, for State reasons, he would withdraw the previous information and substitute two other informations dealing summarily with the natives. After hearing the evidence the prisoners were sentenced to two months' imprisonment in the Dunedin gaol on the first information, and were bound over to keep the peace for twelve months' each, in £6OO and two securities of £3OO each. This, considering they are not likely to obtain bail, is tantamount to imprisonment for fourteen months, and is a step likely to bring the ploughing to a speedy conclusion. In the ease of Mr f Kyngdon's land wo see that, not content with ploughing, they brought with them the seeds of weeds with which to destroy the soil.

Mb Pens Ngauine writes to us, asking that, as so few Maoris understand English sufficiently to translate and read it into Maori, we should, during the Session, publish the Parliamentary Reports in Maori, as well as English, ho as to give all the natives an opportunity of knowing what is being done by the Parliament. The matter is, of course, quite beyoud our power, but we willingly give insertion to the request, as showing the necessity that exists for something of the kind being done. His letter is as follows: —Ki te Etita to Waikato Taima,—Tena koe, he Pauui taku ka tuku kia koe ara kia korua ko te Rangatira o te nupepa Waikato Taima, kite pai korua ara koutou katoa, kite t» i nga korero oto Paremata ka tu nei kite Reo Maori ko nga korero anake o te Panimata ki a pai hold te Kawananga no te moa kia rite tahi te mohio, ka tenei ko nga Pakeha anake e mohia ana Whakarongorongo kau ana te Maori Heoi ra.—Naw Hoa Na Mb Pens Ngauine.

Mb A. G-. Hughes has, it will be seen by advertisement elsewhere, started in business at Cambridge, as a dentist and druggist, and invites inspection of his largo and varied stock, which comprises all sorts of toilet requisites, fancy goods, stationery, tobacco, Japanese waro, &c. Mr Hughes also keeps on hand a full stock of horse and cattle medicines ; and is agent for Lavers' garden seeds, and Kitchen's blood restorer.

Rewi. on the Political Situation. — The following message was read by Mr Hamlin, from Rewi, in the House ofRepresentatives on Friday night:—" Kihikihi, July 25. —Mr Hamlin: Acquaint the House with these words:. Greetings! I have seen it in the papers that Sir W. Fox and .another membor are upsetting the Government. lam very vexed at that kind of work. "We, together with the Government, planted a tree to bear forth good fruit. The new Governor saw the tree and approved of it. He also ordered it to grow. Now Sir TV. Fox and other members are uproetiing that tree that is to produce good fruit. I thought you (the House) would have waited till the tree b&re fruit, and then discover the nature of that fruit, good or bad before acting. If the fruit' turned out badly, it would then be right to uproot the.tree; but as it is Sir W. Fox and his friends have commenced destroying the tree before it has born fruit. If the Government falls, so will I and the the tree we have planted—that is, the work we have undertaken for the good of the two races of the Island. If you think fit, read this telegram to the House.— Rewi Maniapoto.

The 'Duncdha Star' writing on the Governor's speech says:—"There is no possibility any longer of mistaking the real tenor of the Government policy. The wolf has droppesd his sheep's clothing, either under the idea that he can raven at his will amongst the unresisting fold, or detection being imminent that he may fight more freely in the last struggle of despair. The policy is little else than the revolutionising of the policy and institutions of the colony down to the American level. Democracy, in its most objectionable form, is to be rampant. The rights of property are to cease to have any weight in general or municipal representation. Grinding taxation is to be imposed, and imposed in its most objectionable form, whilst under the pretext of "proceeding vigorously with the construction of public works, which already have been or may hereafter be authorised by Parliament" a further loan of £5,000,000 is to be raised. Triennial Parliaments, Manhood Suffrage, and an Income Tax—these are the chief blessings which the Ministry desire to pour *out from the rich cornucopia of their bounty, on an expectant and credulous people. Delightful and startling privileges! A general election every three years, plethoric electoral rolls, and the Income Tax collectors prying into every person's private affairs and causing an amount of exasperation throughout the country which is likely to more than equal the oppression of such an impost."

Oub Auckland Correspondent writes:— "Amongst other contributions to the Sydney Exhibition, I have just been examining that of Mr Greenshield's, Orne Silk Brace-maker, Shortland-street: " His exhibits are chiefly made to order, as presents from gentlemen in Auckland to friends outside the Colony, the donors kindly allowing him to show them at the Sydney Exhibition, before being sent to their destination. There are ten pairs of braces, which are worked as follows : To the Rev J. T. Warlow Davies, M.A., Sydney, from George Holdship, Aucklan, N.Z., 1879; to Professor Alex. B. Bruce, D.D., Glasgow, from his brother, David, Auckland, N.Z., 1879; to the Hon. Saul Samuel, C.M.G., M.L.C., Sydney, from Edward Isaacs, Auckland, N.Z., 1879; to Alderman McArthur, M.P., from Auckland, N.Z., 1879; to Lieut.-Col., Lord Ralph D. Kerr, H.M. 10th Hussars, from Kenneth Kerr, Auckland, N.Z., 1879; to His Excellency, Sir Hercules Robinson, G.C.M.G., Governor of New Zealand, 1879 ; to Lord Walter Talbot Kerr, R.N., from Kenneth Kerr, Auckland, N.Z., 1879 ; to His Excellency Lord Augustus Loftus, G C.8., Governor of New South Wales, 1879; to the Right Hon. the Earl of Lewes, Souvenir D.," Auckland, N.Z., 1879; to the Most Noble the Marquis of Abergavenny, a present from N.Z. There is also a lady's belt, with the motto Omnia Vincent Amor, and a cricketing belt, Omnia- Vincent Lahor. All the above are mounted with Auckland silver, artistically manipulated by Mr Tutenberg, the well known silversmith of this city." If the Land Tax in New Zealand has resulted in no great increase to the revenue—though the Premier in his speech, quoted elsewhere, still estimates the income at £IOO,OOO at an extra labour of £23,ooo—the returns furnished from it supply us with some useful information. The people of New Zealand have had it so persistently dinned into their ears that the lands of the colony are falling into a few hands, that some might have come to believe it in time but for such statistics as those tersely furnished by the Premier himself. Out of 87,105 properties owned in New Zealand 67,00 of them are under £SOO net value.

Judging Weight of Cattle. We recently published from the Canterbury ' Press,' some rules for tht guidance of graziers in calculating the weight of their cattle while alive. The followin«experiment also recently appeared, which we give for the benefit of our readers; tho system pursued being that of multiplying the length by the girth, the same as the rules we recently published: On April 23, a three-year-old West Highland steer was weighed alive, with the follow - img result, viz., 8 cwt. 14 lbs. Its measurement was, girth oft lOin, length 4ft 6in. It was then slaughtered, and on April 24 its weight of carcase was, in Smithfield stones, 63 stone 3 lbs. From these results we deduce the following:— The square of the girth, multiplied by the length, and multiplied by ,25=63 i Smithfield stones. Again, multiply the square of the girth expressed in feet, by five times the length, and divide the product by 21 ; the quotient is the weight in imperial stones of 14 lbs. Result by tWa above rule, Smithfield stones, 61£ lbs. And again, we find as nearly as possible that the proportion of dead to live weight, is as Bis to 15. The steer may he described as " fat,'' and one that gave satisfaction, to the butcher.

Mn W. B. Lanobbidhe has been most successful in the establishment of what was long wanted iu Auckland, or, we should rather Bay, in the colony, an " Associated News and Advertising' Bureau." The public inside the colony can make use of this agoncy in forwarding advertisements to English, American, or otlior newspeapers in any part of the world; while advertisers outside Now Zealand, can depend on this agency for the insertion of their advertisements in New Zealand journals. To render the business more complete, Mr Langbridge has added to the Bureau a free newspapor reading room, which will be a great boon to the Auckland public generally, and especially so to those who use the Bureau as an advertising agenoy, for they can thore see that their advertisement receive the space, position, and insertions to whioh they arc entitled.- As an agent advertiser and publisher, Mr Langbridge, it might have been expected, would have been just the man, as from his long experience with the New Zealand pressj both as editor and proprietor, he is in a position to form a correct estimate of the general advertising value of New Zealand journals, and of the special value of each to particular classes of advertisers. In this experience, allied to his own business habits, is doubtless to be found the result of the success of thet Associated News and Advertising Bureau.

The New Plymouth Settlers and the Maoki Ploujiging.—A. public meeting was .held on Saturday, at the OddfelloWs' Hall, New Plymouth, when* resolutions' were carried to the effect that the behaviour of the present fanatical adhorents of To Whiti in this settlement is keeping the European inhabitants in a state of extreme anxiety, and that business (both agricultural and mercantile) was paralysed; that a large number of the disaffected natives are under the sway of a fanaticism, which may at any time assume a more dangerous form, and that the members of the General Assembly for the whole colony should endeavour to realise the gravity of the situation, and unite in their efforts to provide an effectual remedy for the present disastrous state of affairs; that the present attitude of the disaffected natives is mainly due to their having been allowed, since last war, to occupy a large district untraversed by roads, and many years within that district to set at nought the authority of the Government by protecting malefactors and forbidding the construction of public works; that the time has now arrived that this state of things was brought to an end; that the meeting desires most strongly to urge upon the.Government and the General Assembly the necessity of at once commencing the construction of roads in the district between Waiugongoro and the Hangatahni Rivers, and the costly force of Constabulary, now studded over the district, be made use of as a protecting party and aid in the works; that Government be requested to capture Hiroki and Te "Whiti, and bring them to justice.

Alluding to the case of Col. Fraser, of the Thames, the ' Herald', of yesterday, nays.: "With reference to the petition presented to the House of Representatives on Thursday, it appears that" it has been brought to the knowledge of Sir William Fov that Col. Fraser had already placed his resignation in the hands of the Government, pending an enquiry into the allegations made against him.