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Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1134, 30 September 1879, Page 2

A tckbtixo of the Hamilton Cricket Club will bo held this evening at the iioyal Hotel. " • Tins No 29, Tyrone Constitution Loyal Orange Lodge will oe opened to-morrow evening m the Wosleyan Church, Te Awainutu. ' Easxon and Wilson's Georgia Minstrels appear at Ngaruawahia to-night, and on to-morrow and Thursday nights at Le Quespe's Hall, Hamilton. Mr Boon, butcher, of Hamilton, as our advertising columns show, is not to be .outdone by the " Peoples Friend." A full attendance of the Band of the Hamilton Light infantry Volunteers is called for to-morrow evening. Mn. Tnos. Bells Cambridge singing class meets to -nigh*:, not on Thursday night as erroneously stated m our last issue. , The Land Tax. — We would inform those m Waikato, whose" pleasing duty it will be to pay the amount of their Land Tax to the Postmaster at Hamilton, that the amount must be paid either m notes, coin, orbypost-offioeorder, as instructions have been given to collectors of the lax that cheques will not be taken m payment. In a ' Gazette' just published m Wellington, the Ngaruawahia racecourse has been brought under the Public Domains Act, 1860, and full powers have been delegated to M essrs Lewis Bassiere Harris, Richard Kobert Hunt, Ellington Reid Lang, Robert Lamb, and Kenneth Morrison. Speaking of th| coming Want of Confidence Motion, the Wellington Correspondent of the /Star' says:— "My own opinion is that some men are being counted on both sides, and that the Ministry have a clear majority of three at least without Mr Lundon. The Opposition, however, hope to disqualify Mr Lundon, Grey for Christchurch, and Te Wheoro — the first on the ground of corrupting the roll and the last for bribery. The objections to Sir George Grey's election are not stated, and Mr Richardson's friesds are mysteriously reticent. They allege, however, that the reason why Sir George Grey hesitates to resign the Thames seat is that he fears being ousted for Christchurch, and wants to maxe sure of the Thames. Another of the lately created magistrates (says JEgles) has distinguished himself. ("Created" is a good word, signifying to make out of nothing.) He was lawfully m debt a few pounds to a manufacturer, but habitually postponed payment. At length a summons was taken out against him, returnable at the local court of petty sessions. With the summons m one hand he at once sought out his impatient creditor, and the following occurred: — His Worship: "Look here, you'd tetter withdraw this !" Creditor : " I won't do anything of the kind. I've waited too long already." His Worship : " Then, if you go on with it, I'll have to sit on the bench, and dismiss the case." Creditor: "That would be very bad taste." His Worship : " Taste, be ! A man must protect himself!" Cambridge is to have a lively time of it during October, if we may judge by the announcements m another column. The Georgia Minstrels,' " Phunny Phellows" that they are, will amusement early m the month, the Farmers' Club Cattle Show/towards the latter part, is expected to he m no way inferior to the preceding Shows, as the Committee are actively working with this object, and last, but not least, is the Presbyterian Church Bazaar and Gift Auction to he held on 22nd and 23rd of the month. We learn that many ladies have been very energetic during the past' twelve months m the preparation of articles of beauty and utility, and, as there will bo other attractions of a novel and pleasing character, we have no doubt the affair will be a great success. We should be failing m our duty to the district and the public if we allowed the meeting of Saturday night at Hamilton to pass by without comment. That there is a certain amount of slackness m the labor market m Waikato as elsewhere just at the present moment we do not deny, bat we say emphatically, that anything 1 like the state of things which would warrant the calling a meeting of the unemployed, or the passing of such a resolution as the first one carried at Saturday night's meeting, ■ doe 3 not exist. We have made iuquiries into the facts of the case, and find that the etatementp, made by correspondesnts m another column, that the greater number of those signing themselves unemployed, who requested the Mayor to call this meeting, were really at work up to the time of doing so, is true ; and we are informed, on good authority, that all but two might have been seen at work yesterday upon a contract, now being carriod out at Eaat Hamilton. Another thing we may state m passing, that a meeting called on requisition J;o the Mayor, should have been held at the Borough Council Chambers and not at a publichouse. The advertisements elsewhere show that work is not scarce m the neighbourhood of Hamilton. We know of the case, of one contractor, who within the last few clays applying for labor was refused, unless 9s per day was givm ; and so one piece of work to the value of £1000 is held over until reasonable wages, from 6s to 7s per day, is procurable. The PAKtraANGi Hounds met at the Peach Grove, Hamilton, on Saturday. There was a large attendance of horsemen, with a fair sprinkling of ladies, together with some buggies and also some on foot. It was past three o'clock before the hourds wei"e laid on the track of the drag ; they immediately took up its scent, | and followed at a great pace over several fences for about a mile and a-half , when ) the drag was come up with on the top of a paling fence, sufficient start not having been given him. The hounds were called off, and half an hour's start given to the drag, before again taking the scent Finally, the hounds were again got away iii full cry, and followed by the field. The course taken was round the paddocks of Mr J. B. Whyte, over more than thirty fences (furze, thorn, double ditch, and wattle), 'and two water jumps. There were some very good mounts m the field. Mr W. Hunt's plucky little horse made some very pretty jumps ; also a horse of Mr Coleman's, ridden by his cousin. These were amang the foremost, together with Messrs T. Seddon, B. Ewen, Cussen, Ashwill, and others. There were several spills, but no one was hurt. Many of the fences were very stiff, and required .ill the pluck of both horse and rider to take them. The drag ended at Captain Dawson's hotel, after a splendid run of about seven miles. A collection was made for the huntsman and drag, and this concluded tho best hunt yet enjoyed m the Waikato. Hamilton redeemed its character as a patron of.the sport, by the very respectable field -it 'turned out on Saturday. The last hunfc f of the season will take place to-morrdwr at Ohaupo, when a prize of £5 Avill be given tpjthe first horse m at the death, ridden b'y^a|fcubscriber to the hunt, j? *V> % 'V^ iff

I 1 a mketixo of the Hamilton Borough , Council was held yesterday. Present : ! Ors. Pother, (chairman), Po.it, McDonald, ' Vialou, Hnmo, Harris, Knox, aud Bealo. , v letter was read'from Mr E. K. Tyler, Mr' 1 Peareo's solicitor, makiujr certain offers . for the abatement of tho nuisance m j ( 'ollingwood-street, Avhich ■ were satisfactory to tho Board. Letters AV?re read from Messrs Colcman, Butchers, and Mr A. Potter, Butcher, claiming return of slaughterhouse fees Avrorigly exacted under supposed power of the Council. These were' ordered to be returned forthwith. Letters were read from the Colonial Treasury stating that ono sum of £951, and another of £109, half-year 1 s subsidy ou rates, had been" paid to the Borough account. A letter was read from the punt lessee stating that from the depression of trade and bad weather he \yas unable to meet his engagements with the Board arid asking for easier terms. Crs. Potter and Knox both stated that they did not believe the puut Avas worth more than | £40 a month, owing to the destruction of the roads m formation of the approaches to the bridge. It Avas resolved that the "Works Committee see Mr Land and report any proposed arrangement to a special meeting of tho Council. There is often truth m the old saying, " We must go from home to hear iicavs." A Avriter m Saturday's ' fetar,' under the signature of " Shop to Let," says :— " It is said, and I believe on good authority, that a, few of the people who consider themselves tho big men of tho settlement, having the reputation of being large land holders, have banded together m a determination to crush all those business people Avho voted for Mr J. P. Campbell, m the late election for Waikato. As this means all the business people m Cambridge, with one or two exceptions, they have resolved, it is said, to send for everything to Hamilton or Auckland which cannot be obtained from a supporter of Whyte. The idea is so utterly preposterous, that had it- not been I was informed on the testimony of a person Avhose veracity I cannot doubt, I should have believed it was a foolish canard. As it is, it is hard to say whether such a 'statement exhibits greater impudence, ignorance or stupidity. The absurdity of the whole affair culminates m the fact that after deducting from twenty-seven who voted against Campbell, those who came from Hamilton and elsewhere, the remaining few Cambridge people do little or no business m the settlement, importing, as they do, all their goods direct from Auckland, and only buying some trifling articles here, m case they should rim out. The people here do not know whether to be more amused or annoyed at the extraordinary audacity of such an attemped proceduro ; but I think the feeling of amusement largely predominates. Mb DabgavtliiE writes as follows, to the 'Herald ' : — " Sir,— ln your leader of this day, you dwell upon the advantages likely to follow from Auckland haAdng sent to Parliament an united body of representatives pledged to vote as one man for justice to the North. Now that tho excitement of the general election has abated, and people may reasonably be expected to takq, a more moderate and . dispassionate view of the whole situation, allovr me to point out that Auckland has not sent to Pai'liament men pledged to obtain justice for tho North. On the contrary, it has, unfortunately, happened that every contested election m this provincial district was made by clever electioneering tactics to turn on one issue — namely, for or against the popular idol of the hour, Sir George Grey. The consequence was, that the candidates Avho most obsequiously toadied to that gentleman, and pledged themselves most servilely to do his bidding, were held to be the fittest representatives for Auckland, and were, with two or three exception?, elected accordingly. The exceptions — Messrs I\ A. Whitaker, Whyte, and Swanson — are the only Auckland members who are now m a position to remonstrate with the present, or indeed, any other Government, should they find that tho interests of their constituents are being sacrificed to party considerations. As to Messrs Whitaker and Whyte, no oue seems to know how they Avill vote on any question affecting the fate of the Ministry, but the Waipa and Waikato electors may rest assured that m preparing their public works proposals, the Ministry will ,duly consider those tAvo districts, and will anxiously confer with their members aB to 1 how their requirements may be best pro- 1 ( vided +'or. We have already been informed by your Wellington correspondent that Ministers are framing their public works proposals so as to make them acceptable to the Nelson members, four, of whom haA r e been returned as Independent Liberals, and it is thought that these four votes will be secured to the Government if Nelson is duly considered m regard to a certain railway. We may learn from that item of early news what Auckland might have gained had she returned eighteen Independent Liberals, pledged to vote against any Ministry that tvould not recognise her just claims. Now, however, fifteen out of her eighteen votes must be devoted to keeping m power the GreyMacandrew party, whose policy seems to be— ample political liberty, with a great and glorious (remote) future for the North ; public works,' progress, and present prosperity for the South. Auckland might easily have returned eighteen such men, but she has chosen rather to pin her faith m one man, m whom the love of power bo predominates that no considerations of honor, justice, truth or gratitude, Avill ever Aveigh againstthatraling passion. Auckland alone refuses to learn wisdom m the light of past experience.— J. M. Dabgaaille.