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Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1131, 23 September 1879, Page 2

We are glad to hear that Mr Hammond is about to re-commence business again m Hamilton, m Whyte's buildings: Mr Hammond's enterprise started an excellent business, and had he not over-traded m entering into another business m Cambridge, ho would have been holding a well established business to-day. We learn that m the course of a fortnight, the' old shop will h& re-opened by Mr Hammond, and we siuwrely trust that his old friends will rally round him. TuNDEaS for fencing the Te Rahu school reserve must be sent m to the seEoolhduse on or before the 30th inst. Me Joinr Emcksox has been, appointed to collect the Dog Tax by the Town of Ngaruawahia Board of whom collars can now be obtained. Tub Cambridge Waikato Reed Band will, during the coming summer, give an open air performance on alternative Thursday evenings, near the Farmers Club-house. Mb Henry Chitty, late of Mr Le Quesne's store, has takou the premises next to Mr Wiseman's ia Grwjy-slireet, East Hamilton and will ope» a drapery establishment for cash bargains only, buying cheap fcr cash, prices, and seliiftg cheap for cash. ; The public tea m connection with the Wesleyan Sunday School, Hamilton, will be held m the Church this evening at 6.30 p.m. Tea disposed off, the company and the public will adjourn to the Courthouse where addresses will be delivered by tho Revs. H. Bull, \V. H. Jones, and Evans and by Messrs Caley, Preach, and other friends. Special pieces will be rendered by the children, and choir, j Tns Pakuranga Hounds meet on Saturday, for a drag, at the Peach Grove, Hamilton East, and on Monday afc fcho Rangiaohia blockhouse ; also, on. the follhwing Wednesday, for the last; time m Waikato, at Ohaupo, whea a ' j prize of £5 will be given for the first Member of the Hunt Club m at the death. Lx our obituary column will be found the notice of the death of Mrs Mackintosh, of Cambridge, mother-in-law of the late Major Clare, and grandmother of the wife of Lt.-Col. Roberts. The deceased lady had reaclwd the ripe -old age of ninety-six. The f uueral leaves the late Major Clare's house, on Thursday post,

I Tub bath -house below the cottage, at the Hamilton Hotel, which has been so generally used by Mr Gr Wynne's friends, is now temporarily closed, the blocks on which it stands having decayed, mifl there being 1 some danger of its 'tumbling into the river. The water from the spring above, supplying the shower-bath, has been diverted, aud the bath-house itself will undergo, this week, a thorough renovation. At the District Court, Wellington, or. Friday last, a Mrs Hedge obtained a warrant for £fio against the corporation for medical expenses, entailed l>y her receiving an accident by falling oft" the 4 ootpath through the neglect of defendants. The Hamilton Borough Council, if they do not seouro one or two dangerous places, and notably that rf a deep drain running up to the footpath at right angles near the Council Chambers, may sooner or later find themselves m a similar predicament. We are glad to learn that Miss Cant, the niece of Mr Morris, of Cambridge, who was so severely bitten by a dog about a week ago is progressing favorably under Dr Waddington's skilful care. The dog belonged to Mr Morris, and was a large powerful animal of a kind known as a pig dog, and had twice before bitten children. On this occasion it seized Miss Cant by the arm, tearing away the flesh and muscles, and inflicting a frightful wound. The wet weather did not come on Saturday night without scientific warning. On Saturday the Postmaster at Hamilton received and posted for public notice a telegram from Commander Edwin, m charge of the Meteorologic Observatory at Wellington, warning the public to look out for heavy weather from the north, north-east, to west. Yesterday a second telegram arrived, warning us to look out for heavy weather, that the. glass would rise m 12 hours, and the storm come from the south. Dipthekia. — Late Christchurch telegrams state that diptheria of a malignant type is prevalent at Christchurch. A London physician gives the following receipt, which may be of interest at the present time. All he took with him was powdered sulphur and a quill ; and with these he cured every case without excepttion: — He put a spoonful of flour of brimstone into a wineglassf ul of water, and stirred it with his finger instead of a spoon, as the sulphur does not readily amalgamate with water. When the sulphur was well mixed, he gave it as a gargle, and m ten minutes the patient was out of danger. Brimstone kills every, species of fungi m man, beast, or plant m a few minutes. Instead of spitting out tho gargle, he recommended.the swallowing of it. In extreme cases, m which he had been called just m the nick of time, when the fungus was tco nearly closed to allow the gargle, be blew the sulphur, through a quill into the throat, and after the fungus had shrunk to allow of it, then tho gargle. He never lost a patient from diptlieria. The survey at Waikare Lake has been again interrupted. A correspondent, writing from Ngaruawahia, says : — " I have just heard that Mr F. Edgecumbe and his party have again, been ordered off from the survey on the eastern side of the Waikare Lake, Tho first time he had orders not to proceed with the worn:, and that they would have a meeting and decide what they would do. Tho result is that they are determined not to allow the survey to be carried on, as the Maori King owns the whole of the North Island, and would not allow anything to be done with his lands. They intended it should it should be another Waimate Plains affair, and , threatened Mr Edgecumbe if ho came again he would be made a prisoner. I believe parties are out for that purpose now. No violence is threatened at present. The chief spokesman m the affair is known to have bonght a gun here on his way down." We lately drew attention to the one requirement needed, to make the lands of Whatawhata and other Waipa districts second to none m Waikato, good and serviceable roads. As a proof of this, we may montion that, at Mr Alfred Buckland's Retnuera Sale, some pens of fat sheep, from the farm of Mr E. C. Shepherd, of Whatawhata, realised three shillings per haad more than any other fat sheep at the sale. The iandwill grow crops and feed cattle. All that is needed, is good roads to a market. The Whatawhata and Tuhikaramea districts, assisted by Government subsidies, have done much lately m this respect, but the thorough, opening of the district is too great an undertaking to be expected from local boards. The main line through from Hamilton to Raglan the one way, and from Ngaruawahia another, is really a colonial concern, and should be provided for by tho Assembly, And the Waipa settlers have a fair claim to ask this, for their district is one lying outside the country affected by the direct advsintages of railway construction. Yet, equally with more favoured districts through which a railway runs, they have to pay their share of public works expenditure. If. is only fair, then, if they pay for railways which do not benefit them, that the colony should provide them with, at least, main roads. The Triennial Paiiliaments Bill. — Mr J. S. Macfarlane writes as follows, to the ' Herald ' :— " Sir,— lf you will kindly allow me space m your columns, from week to week, to point out the inaccuracies of great importance m the addresses of Sir George Grey at public meetings, you will oblige me much, and enable me to shew to the people how grossly they have been misled by his statements. I will begin with those assertions made by Sir George Grey, m the Theatre Royal, only a few weeks ago. When Sir George said that he brought forward, m the House of Representatives, m 1876, the Triennial Parliaments Bill on two occasions, each time the bill was rejected, and he (Sir Geore Grey) was i absolutely insulted, he was scoffed at, and the whole thing was scorned, &c. ; and, again, that J)r Wallis brought m a Triennial Parliaments Bill m the session of 1878, and again it was scornfully rejected. Now, I submit to every disinterested or unprejudiced observer that the following facts will clearly prove that neither m 1876 nor 1878 Sir George Grey desired to have the bills passed, but that he then planned one of his usual schemes with those bills, so as to bring obloquy on tljfi Assembly, and f urnish himself with the means whereby he could unjustly put the blame on innQcout members. In 1876, Sir George Grey introd^cec}. tlje bill, said very little m its favour, and, at thp pj. me of the final division which was to decide the fate gf the bill, he exhibited perfect indifference as Jfcq the result, and tho under? mentioned ten supporters of Sir George did not vote at all : — Messrssallance, Bastings, Hislop, J. C. Brown, J. E.BpQwn, Bijuny, ]3 ; urns, Cottern, Joyce, Larnach, Mac? andi-ew, Montgomery, Stout, Tonks, Reader Wood, Only 22 voted fpr the bill, and 32 against j[t. Everyone of the above-named members .could have voted foj? the bill, and carried it triumphantly, had Si* George Grey only asked them, to do so.. la JIB6B Dr Wallis introduced a bill, when, aftep a short debate, it was lost m li«e manner— .only 18 yotecjL for the bill, m the final division", *nd 2|- against. Eyidenty there was no desiie to pass tho bill. On reference to •' Hansard,' I fi n <l that the last time tne bill was before the House, Mr George Grey did not say a word for it, aud Dr WaJlte spoke of it m such a manner as to bring ifc Into ridicule. On the division the following Government supporters actually voted, against

tho bill :/— Bastings, Carrington, liinlop, Hobbs, Macjindrew, Shrimski, Wood, and Taiaroa, while 30 members paired for and against the bill as of no importance, and as if it was a neglected. or abandoned bill — which it most certainly was m every sense of the word — abandoned to its fate. Sir George Grey said at the meeting that lie was afraid to ina'<e the bill of Dr Wallis-s a Ministerial measure, as it* might imperil the Ministry, which statement, to my mind, is on a par with many of. his other utterances, of which I leave readers to judge of their value." The Hamilton Boiunron Council will offer for sale, for lease, by public auction, on tho 11th oi October, forty-four, lots, being portions of the to«vn belt on either side tho river. There has been a great demand for small pieces of laud m the" suburbs of Hamilton, the scarcity having been caused partly by the peculiar manner m which the land had been originally out up, m. single acre lots, for Militia settlement. It was difficult to get half-a-dozen of these together. A person might succeed m buying up, say two, or even three, but then his intention became evident, and contiguous acres were only purchased at extraordinary prices. More than one hundred pounds per acre has, m such cases, been given for Militia sections. The throwing, however, of forty-four allotments, varying from three to twelve acres each m extent, upon the market, will enable every person desirous or obtaining land, either for building purposes or as paddocks, to do so — tho tenure being almost as good rs freehold, namely, a twenty-one years lease, all buildings to be valued and paid for at the expiration of that term, but the lessee to have the option of renewing the lease for a second terms of 21 years, at the then officially estimated value. This really is equivalent to 42 years possession. On the other hand, the lessee will be required to pay half a year's rent m advance, and to fence the lot m with a substantial fence within two years. Some of the land is already m good grass, and generally of good quality. A large portion of the town belt on either side has been reserved as a public recreation ground, and as the rents and monies derived from the town belt cannot be used like rates .and ordinary • revenue for borough purposes, *out must be expended by the Domain Board upon the belt, that body will be m a position to grass down and plant the recreation reserves. Roads of a chain and a half m width have been laid out through the belt, and these it is proposed to form, throw into grass, and, with both sides planted with trees, leave them as green lanes for the recreation and enjoyment of the towaspeople. The whole of the slope facing the lake has also been reserved from lease as a recreation ground. Of course, under these circumstances, it will not only be desirable, but necessary, that a stop should be put to the depasturing of cattle and horses within the Borough. When the Council attempted to interfere some time since they had to draw back, because they went a step further than the Act allowed them, and endeavoured to collect depasturing fees. They can, however, prevent the roaming of cattle and horses at large, either by night or day, within the Borough, and it is time they did so. It will be utterly impossible to plant the new roads or the recreation reserves, if the expense of fencing has to be resorted to, but if cattle were not allowed to roam on the streets there wouid be no occasion for fencing. Nor when they are giving every person such facilities for acquiring land for a paddock, will there be any injustice m shutting the cattle off the streets. As it is, a great deal of money has been spent upon footpaths within the Borough, and no v little damage is being done to them, day after day, by the trampling of horses and cattle.