The Waikato Times.

Waikato Times, Volume XIV, Issue 1221, 27 April 1880, Page 2

The Waikato Times.

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TUESDAY, APRIL 27 X 1880.

A leading article, being a continuation, of our remarks on pleuro-pneu-monia is unavoidably held over.

The occasion of Archbishop Steins' visit to Ohanpo will be Sunday, 23rd of May, not the 16th as stated in our issue of Saturday. Episcopal duties will detain His Grace at the Cathedral Churvh on the 16th, which will be Pentecost Sunday.

The Native Minister may probably arrive in the district to-morrow or Thursday for a flying visit.

The night for the weekly practice of the Hamilton Choral Society in future will be Monday ; and the practice nights pf the Hiinilton Light Infantry Volunteer Band Tuesdays and Thursdays.

The members of the Cambridge Farmers' a Club are about to get up a petition, to be forwarded to the Government through the Cattle Board, praying that the amount of campensation allowed to owners of infected cattle, destroyed by order of, the Board, be raised to two-thirds of the value of the be»sts.

Some little impetus has been given lately to boating on the Waikato at Hamilton, owing to a wager against time being taken, up by two gentlemen of EadU, H ami ton that they could not pull , up to the Narrows Bridge within a ocr- j tain time. The bet was won easily. On Saturday a race will come off between twcf. two-oared boats, over the same course, for £o a side. With so fine a river at Hamilton, strong though the currant may be, and the large lake so near the town it is surprising that boating enters so little into our ordinary sports.

When the Minister for Public "\VorkB was in Waikato, the member for Waikato (Mr J. B. Whyte) was not forgetful of his constituents. He obtained the promise of several small grants for roads and, bridges in the Kangiriri, Tamahere, Waitoa, and Cambridge districts. The lai'gest grant promised was that of £2000 for the formation of the road between Paeroa and Omaha, the landing at the head of the Thames navigation. At the present time it is not possible to drive a wheeled vehicle from Waikato to the Thames. The road is good from Hamilton to Omaha, and again from Hikutaia to Paeroa, but, for want of this connecting link between Paeroa and Omaha, impracticable. Mr Brodie, on behalf of the Thames, has suitably acknowledged Mr Whyte's exertions, and the thanks of the public generally are indeed due to him. Between Waikato and Thames the most friendly relations exist, and before long, when such physical obstructions as at present exist are removed, business relations of a nature satisfactory to both will nndoubtedly spring up. It may be some time before we have direct railway communication between Grahamstown and Hamilton, and till then the construction of a good through road for' wheeled traffic is indispensable to the people of both districts.

Otir What&whft* Correspondent iffatls thefollowiny p4rticulars v ,oi«. fire which occurred there on Sunday last : — Mr B. C. Shepherd, left his. home abdut 12 noon, to dine in Whatawhata, leaving a boy about I' 4 years in charge, with orders to get his dinner, then to come down to Church, the boy, Samuel Hoyn, reached the town about 2 p.m., and at 3 p.m , while m church, news was brought to Shepherd that his house was on fire. He left in company with some neighbors and galloped, home, but found upon ar ival that it was too late, the comfortable home that he Had left a few hours befors was a heap of ashes, also a slab house situated a few yai£s?off at the back, used as a daiiy ; and the fire not contented with this, had 1 destroyed a pigsty, quite two chains away, burning eight pigs, which it contained. The grass for chains around was on fire. The house was quite new, being only built a few months since. It contained four rooms and a verandah ; the rooms were well-finished and furnished The house and contents were insured in the New Zealand Office for £150, which will cover about half the loss.

The concert and social gathering in aid of the funds for the restoration of St. John's Church came off in the Te Awamutu Hall on Friday night, and was well attended. Rev. Mr Phillips presided. The programme of the evening commenced with an overture selection from Beethoven (instrumental), and was interspersed with solos and duets, glees, &c. " God Save the Queen " brought to a close a most agreeable and pleasing entertainment.

One of the effects of the outbreak of pleuro-pneumonia in this district, confined though it has been to a few farms, is the lowered price of Waikato fat stock in the Auckland market. Two of our regular purveyors of fat beasts for Auckland consumption (Pukerimu settlers), realised not more than two-thirds the price for their beef than they would have done had the animals «ome from an uninfected district, and in each of the two cases referred to the cattle when fat fetched a trifle under what they cost when bought in as steers.

We draw the attention of gentlemen interested in racing matters to an important decision given in the Supreme Oourt, Victoria last week, in the case of Cole v. the Stewards of the Wyndham Raoing Club, by which the Judges held that the decision of the stewards respecting racing disputes were not final. When the horse Lilydale won the hurdle race at the last January "Wyndham races, a dispute arose, and the stewards decided against Cole, and ordered that the race be run over again. Cole refused to abide by the judge's decision, and the Court upheld his action. Travellers unacquainted with the district and residei)ts of Waikato who are not familiar with all portions of it, are often put to inconvenience in travelling from one part to another by the want of guide or finger posts where there are forked cr cross roads. This is specially the case beUveen Te Awamutu and Cambridge and in the "Wnipa districts A traveller feels puzzled when just after heading direct for Pirongia he finds it suddenly on his left or right and presently behind him and naturally is uncertain, if a second track or road is struck, which to take. In olden day* the surveyors in laying off tho rand* ohiir°rerl a pound for [ cvory angle and in Waiknto at any rate I with the excuse of hill and swamp before them they evidently did not negleot theiy opportunities, This helps to confuse the

traveller and we would suggest that the commoiu practice pursued elsewhere of placing finger posts on the road files be undertaken by the Highway Boards That it has not hitherto been done is probably because those wh >m we suggest should do the work aro those who least see the necessity for it, but we can assure them that they would be conferring a benefit on the general public by takir q the matter in hand, and as the oustom became general would eaoh in tuna receive from Gther districts the convenience which they afforded to others in their own.

The Thames "Star" says:— * We understand that it it chiefly owing to the exertions of our third member, Mr J. B Whyte, that the County Council hsive received the Vote of £2000 for expenditure on the JPneroa-T e Arojia road. On receiving the promise o| the- grant- from Mr Oliver*/sfe"^Vhyte at once <ieleg?aphed the pleasing intelligence to Mr Brodie, and that gentleman sent the following reply:—" J. B. Whyte, Esq., Auckland.— Your Thames constituents thank you heartily for yonr successful effort on their behalf. The work will be the means of uniting more strongly the Waikato and Thames districts. — A Beodib."

We learn from Oamaru that there was a large ' attendance of buyers from various patty of the colony at the sale of Messrs Fleming and Hedley, the wellknown horse and" cattle -breeders.* on the 13th, Hth«nd loth insfc. On the first day Tuesday, the prices realised were not up to the value of the stock, and this must be taken as an evidence of a feeble money market. The bidding waa languid, and the highest price realised for a draught mare was 102^ guineas. Young Vanquisher was sold to the Hon. R. Campbell for 390 guineas. I hia horse cost Messrs Fleming and B edley £750 two years ago. Glen Lyon, another entire, was sold for £165, a cheap price, as he was first as a three-year-old at the Odmaru show last year. The draught mares averaged about 50 guineas. On Wednesday the prices obtained were far in advance of those of the previous day. A two year old filly was sold to Mr Meialove for 180 guineas, and another for 137J gnineas. Several mares realised 100 guineas, and a number over 80 gnineas. Altogether the sale was more satisfactory than that of the preceding day. The best of the stock was purchased by stockowners in the « amaru district. The Shorthorn and Ayrshire cattle were disposed of on Thursday, but the prices obtained were not very good. The best animals were sold to local breeders. The highest price paid for a cow was 42 guineas.

A remarkable instance of the value of the Rotorua Lake, medicinally considered, has just come to our knowledge, which pioves most incontestably the curative properties of the hot springs near that locality. Some six weeks ago Mr W. Boyd, of the Wellington Trust and Loan Investment Company, was lying at what he considered to be death's door. He was then, and had been for some time, suffering most severely from paralysis. As a last resource heacceeded to the wishes of some of his friends -to visit the hot springs near Lake Rotorua, and, accompanied by his wife, ha took passage by steamer for Tauranga. So convinced ■was he that he would never return alive that he refused to take a return ticket, although Mrs Boyd had one, r 7in4 in melancholy tones bade good-bye to the various friends who went to see him off. On arrival at Tauranga, he had to be carried a3hore, so helpless was he ; but before leaving the steamer he made some small presents to the steward, among them being a pair of boots, which he said he should never want again, a< he felt he -was approaching his end. The journey to Tikitire was made by coach by Mr and Mrs Boyd, the lady having to act as nurse to her husband, who was thoroughly despondent and apparently resigned to his fate. Tikitire is nine miles from the springs, and the invalid was carried this distance, and ho and wife took up their lodgements in a deserted Maori whare, where the lady made herself and her husband as comfortable as she could under the circumstances. And then the invalid commenced to take vapour baths daily and regularly. The result -was that in. three -weeks he was thoroughly cured, and folt as strong and hearty as he had ever done in hia life. He returned to Wellington a few days ago, and his friends were hardly able to recognise in the hale and hearty man before them the paralysed invalid who had left Wellington six weeks before. — New Zealand Times.

A Painful accident happened at Matatnata last -week. One of the men engaged in thrashing put his naud too near the beaters of the machine, the result being that it was drawn in and crushed terribly. The sufferer was sent down to Cambridge, but medical aid was not obtained and he subsequently proceeded to the Auckland Hospital.

At a committee meeting of the "Wesleyan Bazaar, held last evening, the total receipts at the Bazaar were shown to be £121 9s 3d ; expenses, £34 4s 3d. Leaving a net balance of £87 ss. Although the old adage — "murder will out" — has proved curiously correct in many instances, we doubt, among them all, that it is possible to find a more curious instance than the following case of stolen goods finding their lawful owner, for the authenticity of which we can vouch, and whi h happened in Nelson. Fourteen years ago a lady was presented by another lady with a brooch of curious workmanship, which had been made in India; but to her great annoyance, it was stolen from her a few hours after she had received it. Suspicions were entertained against a servant in the house, but, as there was no positive proof, the brooch was given up for lost, and forgotten from that day to this. The donor of the brooch has been lately staying at a friend's in the country. The gentleman of the house, who is fond of doing little mechanical jobs in his leisure time, received the other day a package containing some brooches and other trifles to be mended. Among the brooches the visitor recognised at once one which had been in her posession years ago, and about which there could be no mistake because of its Indian workmanship, as it had been made in India and after her own design. She went and showed it to the lady to whom she had given it, who immediately recognised it as the brooch she had received. She s ;ated how it had been stolen by the servant, who left her place shortly afterwards and married and settled down not far from where she had been at service. It seems she had sent it to be mended, not dreaming that any one would recognise it after such a lapse of time.

Mr JoHV KnOX is elected creditors' trustee in bankruptcy in the estate of Da\id Elliott, builder, ot Hamilton. Nohlb and H VRKis will sell, at 2 o'clock, this afternoon, a spring trap, marc, and harness. Mr W. F. Belt, has purchased the bakery business and plant of Mr Pascoe, Hamilton East. Mr Henry Lewis, proprietor of the Central Waikato Hotel, Te Awamutu, notifies that he has made additions and alterations to his house, conduci\e to increased comtort of his patrons. The Town Clerk notifies that .1 Burgess List Revision Court will be held at 7 a.m. on Friday next. A Mhinivo of the Waikato Agricultural and Pastoral Association is convened to be held at Ohaupo to-day, to consider the advisability of the appointment of a separate Cattle Board for the district of AVaipa and other matters of interest.

A Yorkshireman on being asked to return thanks for a very small meal, gave utterance as follows :—: — '♦ We th;mk the Lord for what \vv\o pfetten, Th' more we'd had the more we'd often; Three bare bones and an empt) dish. IfOrd send iis m^rc ne..\ttimc noo ■\vg'Ach»d this."