TUESDAY, SEPT. 6, 1881.

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1432, 6 September 1881, Page 2

TUESDAY, SEPT. 6, 1881.

Mk Lauhkn'CE Cussen, District Surveyor, has been for some time pa«t engaged in making a preliminary survey of lands proposed to be opened up in the Taupo district. The area of these lands is several hundred thousands of acres, and much is of a quality suitable for the purposes of settlement. Contemporaneously with the bad reports which are being published of the state of. agriculture in the Home Country, the throwing open of the vast territory lying between the Waikato and the Southern boundary of this provincial district is most opportune. Much as we may regret the bad times at Home, it is solacing to know that we are prepared to find homes here for the better class of English farmers who have for so many years contended unsuccessfully against xhe combination of adverse circumstances which seem to have met them in the Old Country. No more desirable class of settlers can be introduced than practical farmers with moderate capital. With the prospect of getting land at a reasonable price, we may hope to see a considerable influx of the class here referred to.

Hamilton chess piayers are invited to S. Potei's I'arsonasre on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings in this week (in addition to the ordinary open night every Friday) for practice, in view of the approaching tournament against Cambridge. The usual monthly financial meetinir of the Hunilton Borough Council was held List night, when accounts amounting to €H were passed for payment. The tender of Mr D. Henderson (€1 10) has been accepted for etlecting the lepans and additions to the schoolmaster's house, Hamilton East. Messrs Henry and Annetts tender foi No 1, and that of Mr Win. Bolton for No. 2 contract, Waikato Land. Association's drainage woiks, have been accepted, being the lowest in each case. Land in the Waikato is, we are plo.isod to be able to s.iy, ayain beginning to nso in v.ilue. The oth°r d.iy no less ,i sum than £11 per acre was offered fora small faim atTawpiri, raid lefused Pending the arrival from Home, of iho pcil ot bo] K for S. Andrew's Chuioh C'lnbidfo, Mo^sis T. and S Mori in have kindJv lent, tho vestry a bell weighing about a cwt, which has been temporarily fixed in the tower. The peal is expected to ni'iive about the beginning of the New Year The members of the Hamilton I'.tnd ,ue taking ste[>fc to pro\ ide them--.fhes A\ith more suitable headgear than Ih.it at picsent m use. The Secretary has l ironed samples of two diffoiPiit stylet, from Mr Fentou, of Auckland, one ■i pictfcy shako with plume and the othei .i Zouave cap. The members to-night will hold a meeting for the purpose of making final arrangements in regard to this matter. Owners of horses are reminded that the entries for the Cambridge .Spiing jVTeetintr close at the Post-office, Cimbndge, on Thuisday, Bfh8 f h .September. Ent.iies to bo addressed to the Secretary, rost-oihee, Oambiidgo, or to Mr William J'eicival, Auckland, on or before the above d.ite. A typographical error crept into our repoit of the social gathering at C.imbndge on Thursday last in our issue of S itmday. ISIr Mackintosh is reported as having sunar "Charity," whereas it was Mrs Mackintosh who rendered the song. Yesterday afternoon Mr Grainger, of the Public Woiks Department, arrived in Hamilton with the necessary documents for signatuio i plating to the Te Avoha drainage contracts. Mr T. Cassidy is the suoce«sful tenderer for contract, No. 3, the amount being £1112 10«, and Messrs B. & J. Coleman for contract No. t, at £03 1 l.'xs. Both parties will stiii I. work forthwith. Mr Walsh, of Kirikiriroa, is the lowest tenderer for the Hamilton Branch Line Extension, his price being £310, but the bonds have not yet been signed. Michael Rush has defeated Edwaid Loyeock in the sculling match for the championship of Australia and £200. The race eventuated on Saturday last, over the Paramatta course, and is repoi ted in our cablegrams to have been won by Rush with six lengths to spare, in 22mins. 39secs. Laycock rowed in a bo.it built by Swaddle and Winship, and Rush in a new boat which recently arrived by the Garonne fiom England, and which was built by the man who fitted up Hanlan'a in England. Three weeks befoie the race Rush met with, an accident, which incapacitated him for training for seveial days. — Stai . A new addition has been made to the category of Cambridge social msitutions — a boxing academyj has sprung into existence. Whether it is for the purpose of promoting social harmony and cementing iies of friendship already existent ainona- our young men, we cannot say. But as the " noble art" of selfdefence is said to bo a commendable science it is to be hoped that all those who h.ivp become pupils will bo benefited. And that they will confine the sphere of their scientific operations within a preserihed—very proscribed — limit. Divine Service was held in S. Andrew's Church, Cambridge, morninjr and evening on Sunday, the congregations nt both serviced being large. The Rev B. T. Dudley, incumbent of S. Sepulchre's, Auckland, preached in the morning, and the Rev William Calder in the evening, both sermons having special references t» the opening of tho new churoh. The offertories for the day amounted to £8 odd. The Rev Mr Dudley conducted divine sprvice at 8. Peter's Hamilton on Sunday Evening. There is a gentleman who resides in the vicinity of Victoria-street, Cam-

bridge, who prides himcelf on being amongst the foremost cornet player* of the day. Most people lire fond of a good cornet solo, but when a soloist, such hh the above gentleman, goes :in for making nipht jhidejtSjtM byjdayiuir " Tommy, Make' Room for Your' Uncle,'' or some other equally affeofcinjr melody, at an unseemly hour of the njght,. jmd giving tune to his sentiments of a Sunday morning by blowing off »" Johnny Comes Marching Homo" when. people [ Ure" coming homo from Church, we think it. is highly improper, and wish that this generous minic-ian could *o arrange tha,t nobody but himself would hear his aclp. ,- On Friday evening next a treat will be afforded to all those who put "in an appearance at the Cambridge Public. Hall on the occasion of the Rev. Mr Dewsbury's (Auckland) lecture on " Sir Walter Scott, poet and novelist," MrDewsbury, as some of our readers are aware, is a lecturer of exceptional talent, and his discourses have become remarkable for their prodigality of illustration, convincing effect, and that simplicity of delivery characteristic of all good speakers. Together with the lecture the programme will consist of songs, readings, and musical selections, and a very enjoyable evening may consequently be looked forward to. The singing and music will be contributed by lady and gentleman amateurs, who are already known to our Cambridge readers, and the proceeds will be in aid of the Wesleyan Circuit Fund. It is therefore to be hoped a bumper house will greet the lecturer on his first appearance amongst us. Yesterday another of the old identities of Hamilton was carried to her last resting place. Mrs White, wife of Mr William White, of Hamilton East, who was lately a member of the Borough Council, e\pued at the residence of her son-in-law, Mr Frederick Wild, on Sunday morning at 1 o'clock a.m., after a lingering illness. All her children were with her at the last ; her son, who is a sergeant in the A.C , having arrived from Wai mate a few day's since. Mrs White was highly respected by all who knew her, and her death is much deplored by her numerous friends and relations. Her funeral was attended by a large number of settlers and townsfolk. The usual monthly meeting of the Hamilton Highway District was held on Saturday. There were present Messrs S. Steele (Chairman), Ridler, and George Edgecumbe. After the minutes and correspondence had been resid a discussion ensued oti the subject of tha Whafcawhatd road, and it was resolved that tho Secretary write to the Chairman of the Newcastle Highway Board asking him if his Board would be prepared to share the expense of repairs necessary to be made on that, portion of the Whatawhata, road lying between the two districts. The following- accounts were passed for payment -. — Wtidato Tntm £1 18s. W. C. Breakell -£6 65., same (Whatawhata ro.i account) £o 11s sd. This was all the business of importance. We would draw the attention of hoisebreeders to an advertisement concerning the pure bred sires the property of Maclean and Co. which appears in another column. The importance makinsr a careful selection in the breeding of hoi sea cannot be over estimated, and where purebred pedigrea animals are to hand it is much cheaper to secure their services, oven if the cost is more, than those, of inferior breeding. Further than this settlors oug-ht to accord a heaity suppoit to those who, by the importation of valuable and rostly sires into the country, do so much towards the stamp of our horses and cattle. It will be of inteioht to breeders to know that the Fen Court .stud is htill under the able management of Mr Dinbdale, a gentleman whose long" experience amongst hordes, is of the nature of a guarantee to those who patronibe tho sires owned by Maclean and Co. The large amount of business now being done at Taupiri in connection with the coal mines and the Waikato I and Association — business, too, which is l.ipidly increasing — demands that the place should lecoive more consideration at tho hands of tho Railway Department than it has hitherto got. The need for a itdtionmastpr and a telegraphist is bocorning more pressing daily. Mr J. B. Whyte, the member for the district, is, we havo reason to believe, doing his utmost, to secure what is requiied, and with such excellent arguments as ho possesses ought to be successful. A special meeting of the Waipa County Council has been summoned for the 13th iriht. to consider a motion underclauses GO and SO of the Counties Act. the object of which is to trive an additional representative to the Newcastle Ridinsr. This matter has, up to the piesent time, been neglected, and as there is a certaiu amouut of justice on the side of the present motion it is to be hoped that Councillors will attend on the day named and {jive the matter their impartial consideration. Of course it will be for the present representative to show that the Newcastle Ruling is entitled to an additional representative. At the meeting of the Auckland Board of Education on Friday last, the following business of interest to our re.uleia was dealt with : — Kthikihi : The committee reported having held three meetings since the teacher had reported as to damage to the school furniture, &c, through a party being held in it, but though they had held three meetings since the chairman had never submitted the report as instructed by the Board. Tina was a case in which the chairman, Mr Gordon, being antagonistic to the other six members of the committee, did not attend the meetings. It was agreed to allow the matter to stand over for the present until the Board received intimation from the committee that they had appointed a person to receive communications. — Mr Peacock moved that the chairman of the committee, Mr Gordon, be requested to explain why he had not taken action, as desired by the Board, and that the committee be informed of what the Board had done. — Paterangi : The committee asked the Board for payment of rent for the old building occupied as a school. — The amount, £6, was granted. At t a meeting of the Hamilton Domain Board last night, after a considerable amount of routine business had been dealt with, a letter was read from Messrs Gwynne, Devitt, and Coombes, lots 37, 39, and 40 respectively, drawing attention to the necessity for providing a means of draining their lands, as they wished to crop the same this season. The chairman and several of the members were of opinion that the onus of keeping the main drain clear lay with Mr Seddon, and it was ultimately agreed that the chairman should take legal advice on the subject, with a 'view to compelling the j party or, parties liable to execute the work necessary. „ A ( correspondent writes;— "As i any information concerning the different varieties of woods in use in the tolony niust be of interest to very many of your readers, I may be excused for troubling, you with the following :— Some six or seven years ago Messrs Morrin, when, opening up their Piako estate, sent upamongst other material a^ lot of Van Diemen's Land posts and railb for tfseT the timber (atringy-bark) being then/'lodked on as the very best obtainable in the country, Mark the result. The other clay Mr Jenkins, who has purchased a <

shift a T^pce complied of xoese patte, ami .v very large majority of them were found to be completely rotten, and hardly any fit for uae a^ain, except in a bank w her©" only «v2ft. _ flin. ■■ remai«sy~abovtf\ ground.^ TliiaHn^i little jover six yearri, and the postli cosVquite"a<f much, if ndt more than pimri_co.uld have been put in . for. I may mention th it the poats in , question were ins high, dry; land,' and npt ''subjected, i to much' Woistiirei This teaches another lesson m hich is worth learning and shows" tfie folly of going abroad for 'timber when we possess at home some of the very best in the world. I am certain that had punri been used in lieu of V.D.L.' stuff that the pO3ts would simply have been getting well seasoned in the same time, i.e., six years."