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Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1157, 25 November 1879, Page 2

The New Gum Industry.—Those men who left Hamilton and neighbourhood lately through ,want of work, for the gum field between Hamilton and Johnson's Lake have no cause to regret the venture. Gum is high in price at the present moment realising, we are informed, 38s per cwfc at the Hamilton stores, and there have been instances amongst those who have lately left Hamilton of a man and boy averaging a pound a-day on the gum* field, as the gum is not only plentiful but requires little scraping. There has been a new find of gum within the last few days near Blackman's Bush, between Hamilton and Whatawhata, and we are likely to have established amongst us a new and profitable industry. . We are desired by Mr .Tames Hume to state that he has never' given any authority to allow himself to be appointed either president of the Frankton sports or a member of the sports committee.

Last Tuesday night the* Kiwi mill had a narrow escape from fire. > Close to the null, within about eeven or eight feet of it, was a large cooking house, in which were a number of 'bags and other lumber, besides cooking utensils. It appears that the rats had undermined the hearth so that hot coals from the fire could fall through under the floor. This must have occurred, for on Tuesday night last, or rather on Wednesday morning Mr Dalton was roused by the other inmates of the house with cries of fire and, coming out found the cook-house in a blaze. All their efforts could not save the building though thanks to the direction of the wind and liberal supply of water, they were able to keep the main building from ignitinsr. About £2O worth of property was destroyed in the cook-house in addition to the building itself. TnERE was a meeting of the Hamilton ; Council last night, protracted to a late hour by the frequent recurrence of obstructive opposition and violent personal, attacks- Present: Crs McDonald (chairman), Vialou, Peat, Dawson, Beale, Harris; and Knox. A record was placed on the minutes of an offence against one' councillor for refusing to vote after first refusing to accept the ruling of the chair that he was out of order. An application from the Waipa Council, the Ngaruawahia Town Board,and the chairman of the Pukete School Committee for the Hamilton Punt was deferred till the Council could ascertain their right to dispose of it, the opinion being that the punt should be handed over to the Waipa Council for the Whatawhata ferry, provided the Whatawhata puut was sent to< Pukete. A letter from the. contractors for the bridge, claiming that the Council pay for the extra piles used on the bridge was ordered to stand over till next meeting, in order that the Councillors might have time to digest the matter. A'proposal to remove the earth from underneath Mr Murray's building, at the Vic-toria-street cutting, and lower the house was negatived. The engineers' report, which contained'little matter of interest, was read and disposed of. It was proposed, by Cr. Knox, seconded by Cr. Dawson, "That Crs. Peat, McDonald, Harris, and the mover be appointed a committee, and be authorised to make arrangements for the ceremony of taking over the bridge from the contractors on Thursday," at noon; For the resolution—Crs. Dawson, Knox, Harris, Peat, and McDonald; against—Crs. Beale and Vialou. The motion was declared to be carried.

Notice has been issued to the effect that Ministers have under consideration the Departmental estimates for the current year, and in Viewi of the financial eon.'dition of the colony hare determined that increase of salary, shown in these estimates are hot to be allowed except upon written authority from> the Ministerial Head of the Department in eaeh case. Some special cases will be dealt with by .Ministers hereafter. Heads of Departments are further instructed to call the attention of Ministers to every opportunity as it occurs of consolidating offices and reducing expenses.

The estimates for the nine months contain she following items: —Education Department, £183,199; public libraries, £5,000; subsidies to counties, road boards &c, £275,620; twenty per cent. Land revenue payable to counties, £7,400 Total, £349,620. Salaries of Resident Medical Superintendent Auckland Asylum increased |from £250 to £4OO clerks and storekeeper ditto, reduced to £l2O. There is a total increase On salaries of attendants and servants of £200; on rations, £SO, but a decrease of £6OO on necessaries, incidental and miscellaneous, and for furniture. £2,000 is set down for Melbourne Exhibtion; 1,500 for Re-print of Statutes t purchase of Slaughter-house Reserve, Onehucga, £2,431; grant in aid of Building fund, Orphan Home (Thames), £525; Expense of visit of Governor to Waikato in June, £47 19s; Land Tax Office—Auckland Deputy Commissioner, £500; Chief Clerk £275 ; two clerks at £150; salary of District Judge (Thames), £700; Salary of junior clerk, Auckland R.M., Court increased from £9O to £120; ditto R.M. Fapakura, increased to £300; other small increaies in Auckland outdistriots; money order clerk, Auckland Post-office, reduced £25 ; total reductions on twelve clerks, £175, while cadets are raised from £2lO to £515; salaries of eight letter-carriers increased from £BOO to £lOlO. Other slight increases made at telegraph and Post-office in Waikato, and sumsjput down for postmasters and telegraphists at. Otahuku, Pokeno and Pukikohe. Conveyance of inland mails, Auckland, increased from £4,500 to £5,250. Salaries in Auckland Telegrap Station are increased as follows: Fifteen telegraphists from £1,555 to £2,685. There are slight increases for counter clerks, distributing and despatch clerks, and messengers, £ioo. Put down for cadet, Unehunga, £140; for telegraphist, Ohanpo, £120;, Kihikihi, £100; Port Albert, ,Te Kopuru, Pahi, Paparoa, Aratapu, and Dargaville An item of £1,660 is put down for the relieving staff in telegraph department. Collector of Customs, Auckland, increased £SO; land surveyor, £2O. There are other small increases and some reductions. Expenses of training-school Kohimaramara, reduced from £4,322 to £2,722. Vote in aid of sailors' homes

. reduced from £2,000 to £SOO. For'*uckI land Girls' High School, £1,260 is. sat down. Salary Chief Judge Native Land Court increased to £I,OOO ; ten thousand is put down for construction of trucks and minor work on gold fields, on equivalent subscriptions being granted, tioads in native districts, North Island, increased from £20,000 to £25,000. £Boo'is set down for Mr Luokie's total vote for the department is increased £13,750 to £20,000.

PnoFEssoß Fbazer, who will, to our advertising columns, shortly commence his tour through the Waikatf j f is very highly spoken of by the press Tin England and the colonies. Asa lecturer ho is clear, calm; logioal and withal frill of humor, never tedious, holding the attention of his audience from first to la,st, and really giving a great amount of/tangible practical information. As a /practical phrenologist of 14 years standing; he has few equals and no superiore. /Each of his lectures concludes with &' few publio examinations of persons selected.by the audience from among the'jaselves. and he never fails to read tiie character as accurately-as if he had known the persons so selected frem their r-hildhood. Jtisto to be expected that ho will be welcomed with numerous audiences. The following Lincoln rams from the flock of Mr J. Wy'Kirkham, will arrive in Auckland about the first week in February to the order of/Mr Joseph Newman, for sale to flockowners. The following are their pedigrees :—No .I', sire Branstdn, dam Biscathorpe.;'marked two under bits far ear; No 2, sire M.P., by the 100-guinea ram, dam Biscathorpe, marked hole under bit near ear; No 3, ditto, ditto, ditto, ditto; No 4, ditto, ditto, ditto, ditto; No 5, sire Partney, dam Bischatorpe, marked hole uear ear; No 6, ditto, ditto, ditto; No 7, sireDudding, dam Biscathorpe, marked two tip bits far ear; No 8, sire Branst'on, dam Biscathorpe, marked two under bits far ear. v

SiiAughteb-hottsb BilTi.—The Slaughtr* house Act, 1877, Amendment, as reported from the Select Committee, contains several new clauses. Clause 2is erased. Establishing the licensing of slaughterhouses is placed exclusively within, the jurisdiction of the. Coueil. County Councils may establish abbatoirs half a mile from Borough Connoils; with the consent of the County or local governing body it may establish one or more abbatoirs outside the borough, but the provisions are not to apply to abbatoirs and slaughter-houses already established and licensed. The Public Works Statement.—ln Beply to Mr Macandrew, Major Atkinson said the Government did not propose to bring down the Public Works Statement and Financial Bills for some days, but the policy of the Government was fully Defore the House in the Financial Statement, and details of libilities on public works to the end of June next, which was reduced to a minute of Is 4d. Be had learnt only that day that in addition to engagements into which the late Government had they had contemplated expending a further million and half during the next year, and engineers had informed him that a further sum of £750,000 would be required to complete public works to be carried out. In future, works would be entirely dependant on the position of the loan in London.. He contended that the Government financial proposals were now fully before the House, and could be discussed by the Opposition.

, The election for Mayor of the Borough of Hamilton takes place to-morrow. The only candidates in the field are Crq. Beale and Dawson.

Captain Dawson, in ianother column, announces himself to the burgesses as a candidate for the vacant office of Mayor, and is, we gather, likely to reeeive a large amount of support. It needs one, indeed, who has been accustomed to enforce discipline to keep order in the Council as at present constituted, and Captain Dawson unites a genial manner with the power of asserting his own or the dignity of the office'which he may represent, while at the same time his thorough conscientiousness and open straightforward conduct as a Councillor has earned him the respect of all parties.

Thk privileges of the Waikato Turf Club Spring Meeting were sold on Saturday, and realised as follows: —Gates, Hammond and Moore, £4B; publican's booth, Raynes, £26; cards, Hammond and Moore, £i os; temperance booth, Saunders, £i. The Paeroa correspondent of the Thames Advertiser, writing on Wednesday last, says:—"l stated in my last letter that Tutukino's people were about to drive from off the Koinata run all cattle the property of Europeans. They have not only driven off all cattle belonging to those who have no interest in that block, but-they have also driven off all cattle belonging to\M* Austin, who has a considerable area of leasehold property on the Komata side of Tutukino's aukati, the , said aukati being a dividing fence situate in the middle of that gentleman's farm. Mr Austin is not disposed to submit tamely to the natives* in this matter, but will insist upon exercising his right to run cattle on the land in question whenever he may consider it desirable to do so; and, considering the obstinate nature of the savage with whom he has to deal, serious complications are likely to ensue. .... The Komata people

threaten to stop—by blocking up the road, and levying black mail on travellers —all further communication between this place and Grahamstown; and there is every probabilty of our being hemmed in on the Waikato. side also."

i Pubmc Wobks Betubns.—The I following is an abstract showing the I whole of the colonial public works, | nnder the Public Works Department, at present contracted for within each provincial district, asked for by Mr Macandrew and now laid on the table of the House. This is the return on which the financial debate will hinge, and, as Mr Macandrew asserts, entirely disproving Major Atkinson's deductions. Liabilities on 30th September. 1879, £605,500 9s Id; contracts entered into during Ist to 15th October, 1879, £130415s 4d.- Petty contracts, classed in liability under authoriy, ia the detailed statements of liabilities, having been entered into under authority from Ministers, by the District Engineer, £6207 18s 5d' 5 contracts with the architect's branch of the Public Works Department, £87,074? 5s 9d ; total, £699,087 5s 9d. To the last item, the following footnote is attached:—"ln this detailed statement of the liabilities, this was dealt with only nnder the column,,' total liabiiities/ but was not analysed (through want of information from the department) nnder the heads of English and coloniul contracts and miscellaneous liabilities," then the abstract continues : ~ Less" balances of contracts completed on the 16th October, 1879, £9233 7s 2d ; payment and additions to contracts, £23,292 3s Id; agreements with natives, £32,525 10s 3d; which amount, deducted from the first stated, leaves a balance of £666,561 15s 6d: This return is signed B. Oliver. A Remedy for Neuralgia.—. The Paris correspondent of the * Bosten Courier,' referring to his recovery, from a dangeraus \\\nw,

says :—' J{ mention this illness that I may (fell you how easily I was cured. J£ was bent double. I could not breathe. My physician ordered me to take a flat iron and heat it'as hot ; a s I could bear, put a doable fold of flannel on the painful part' ab/d move the iron too and fro on t/ae flannel. 1 was cured as by enchantment. My doctor told me that some time since a professor in one of our college*, after suffering some da*ys with rieuivilgia in the head, which he himsett had tried to cure, sent 1 for the former, who pesoribed a hot flat iron. The next dmo the doctor j saw the professor, the latter exI claimed, * I had no sooner appliec j the heated iron to my head than all pain vanished."