THURSDAY, SEPT. 15, 1881.

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1436, 15 September 1881, Page 2

THURSDAY, SEPT. 15, 1881.

A BiLr, has been brought into the Legislative Council by the AttorneyGeneral called the West Coast Settlement Reserves Bill. Jts object is fully described in the preamble, which is as follows :—": — " Whereas by the fourth section of the Wes:. Coast Settlement (North Island) Act ISSO, the Governor-in-Council is empowei'ed to make out and set apart reserves for natives within the confiscated territory, to be inalienable by sale, lease, or other disposition, and to issue Crown Grants for the same, subject to such terms, conditions, and limitations as he thinks n't ; also to take and set apart reserves for the benefit of natives to be alienable, but which shall be disposed of under the authority of an Act of the General Assembly to be passed for the regu lation of such disposal, and, not otherwise." The bill makes provision for the purpose set forth in this preamble by the exemption of all native reserves made before the committal of this Act from coming under its operations. After giving the necessary power to make regulations it says, no reserve which has been made alienable in any way, whether or not the same has been granted to natives, shall be so alienated except with the concurrence of the Trustee hereinafter mentioned, who before giving his consent shall satisfy himself that the terms of such alienation are fair and proper, and, in respect of leases, that the proposed lease is in all respects in conformity with the provisions of this Act. The Governor may from time to time appoint such person as he shall approve to be a West Coast Settlement lieserves Trustee, who shall be resident within the confiscated territory. Such Trustee shalJ have and exorcise over all reserves which are placed under his jurisdiction full power of management and disposition, subject to the provisions of this Act, and subject to such provisions may exchange, absolutely sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of such reserves in such manner as he in his discretion shall think best, with a view to the benefit of the natives to whom such reserves belong, and the pi-o-motion of settlement. He shall be the receiver of all rents payable under any lease of any reserve, and may in his own name ask for and receive such rents when due and give receipts for the same, which shall be valid discharges. After the receipt of any rents the Trustee shall, after making therefrom any deduction authorized ,by law, pay over the residue , to ,the native owners. The Trustee may subdivide the reserves under his control i into convenient areas, and may classify such areas according' to their respective locality and 'Quality into rural or suburban and agricultural or pastoral lands respectively, and may lease any portion •of s'ucli reserves (1) for agricultural purposes, to any persoji or persons for; , any term not 'exceeding twenty-one years in possession, subject to such covenants and provisos as shall seem

fair and equitable ; and (2) for building purposes, for any period .exceeding farty-two years, by re>neV}a|»l^ te^ms, h ot t^exceea tvjpntyone' i "years' each;' -to new assessment of rent at every.suchjre.:. newal subject as^foreasid. (3.) No person, b$ himself ( bft by ans *oth«r? ' person on his behalf shall be allowed to hold of "suburban 'land more "than" 40 acres, and d£ rurfcl land hiore' than 600 acres, but any person niav occupy together suburban and-rural-lands not exceeding the maximum area thereof respectively. Every such lease ? shall be subject to such relations its', may be prescribed under I this Act, and also the following conditions :— (a) Every le&se shall be disposed of by public tender or by public auction, after due notification thereof has been given at least twice by advertisement in a , newspaper having general circulation in the district wherein, the land to bo leased is situated, as the Trustee shall think the most fitting in ,eacli case, (b) The rent to be reserved shall be the best, . improved rent obtainable at the time, (c) No fine, premium, or forfeit shall in any case be taken upon any lease, (d) No person in any ,way concerned with the administration of this Act shall in any case be personally interested, directly of indirectly, in any lease, nor shall there be mv, ported therein any provision or covenant for the private advantage of any such persons, (c) Every lease shall be prepared at the cost of the lessee, which shall be paid before any such lease shall be signed by the lessor. The expenses of the administration of this Act shall be defrayed out of moneys appropi-iated by the General Assembly for that purpose in aid of such payment. The Governor-in-Coun-cil may from time to time prescribe that a certain per centage of all sums of money received by the Trustee as rents or proceeds from reserves under his control, or brought thereunder, shall be deducted by .the Trustee from the aforesaid moneys, and paid by him into the public account, to be applied towards defraying the aforesaid expenses. Over and above thp percentage aforesaid, the Trustee shall require the owners of any reserves to appropriate a certain proportion of the rents or profits accruing therefrom respectively for support and maintenance of native schools in the neighbourhood of such reserves. The proportion to be so appropriated shall be regulated by the owners, and when fixed the amount hereof in each case may be deducted by the Trustee from any money received by him on behalf of natives making the appropriation, and shall be paid by the Trustee in such manner as the Governor may from time to time direct for the purposes for which the same was appropriated respectively. Such are the main provisions of a very important and experimental measure.

Some time ago the School Committee of Whatawhata thought fit to bring the compulsory clauses of the Education Act into operation, the reason being that certain of the parents in the neighbourhood, dissatisfied with the teacher, had withdrawn their children from r the school. But the action of the Committee has been inoperative, the parents, in reply to the circular sent round by the chairman, stating that they were providing their children with instruction at home. Were this the case nothing more could be said, but there are good grounds for believing that no such instruction, or, at the best, very inadequate instruction is given. The local authorities are therefore in a dilemma. If a national system of education be regarded as a necessity — and this is a debatable pomt — it is surely right and needful that • its advantages should be extended to all alike, and no whim or caprice of the parents should be allowed tO mar 1 the progress and endanger the ultimate welfare of those whom Proyidence has committed to their . f charge. This is a question which, so. long as the system continues in operation, the State is bound to take an interest in. A Government, in theory at least, recognises no distinction of persons, and the well-being of the humblest citizen, equally with the greatest, is its charge. The position of the Committee is this : On the one hand they recognise that it is their duty in the interests of the School and the children themselves to induce a full attendance, while on the other ,they fail to see why they should be' made to undertake the disagreeable task of compelling an attendance ' by legal, means. They have, , accordingly made application to the Government for the services of 'the police in this matter, -and no doubt their request will be acceded to. It is only by an appeal to the Court that the validity 'of the parents'' treasons for refusing to give their children the ■ benefit of the' efficient System provided for them can be tested. The farm occupied by the latetMr Jukes, at Taupiri, lus been sold, by Mr K. Hill, the purchaser being' Mr Gelling, and the price ajjout £3iper acre, t v ' The Bishop of Auckland preached .at i the' evening , service at' S. Peter's, Hamilton, last night, frohi the colledt of 1 , the week*. The sermon, was Jrhost inw afcructive, and was, listened to by a fairlyi. i .congregation for a week day*, service! ji> '- Tike tendbfi^lMdriramesC^jfiibes;' '(£BB''6B'6d) has been 1 1 6af btoyorkß a'i'the M&Mra Croleniari'iS^glace, Kirikiriroa,. :': ' ' ''->•* The usual weekly meeting of the Hamilton Debating Club will be held in

-w> — " '▼/ v "%< ™/—/ — the Couit-houxe this evening, - when di>-o iMion will take place on the subjects of !i nited innmrchy, and the present Jmkkm-i^&4<r "****#**& *4«.'go attend d&DCe of k m£m|>erjj. j , I t \ *Sir GeDYgi"Gfey and Mr AffdreVs will, jt is Htatfdt,.bi.- <i?H''d to content the two Chri«rcliuroh B'''ita at the forth1 co.mnjf f elly Jion-r- f . ?, -, ; • j j-,, ' y Mr Thomas ' again' been .elected renieseuiature ot> the Cambridge district in the Diocesan Synod. I The' laoftes' "narty for the approaching bazaar meeta at 2 o'clock this aft«rnoon, in the- old churchy— Cambridge. Tlie meetings will, in future ( be held once a week. Mr C. Veith, late of Hamilton, has, we learn, e^tibuihei an ugeuoy jn L^vuka for the sale of Now Zealand produce. At the sale of the racing privileges for the Cambridge Spring Meeting, the gateis.were'aold/to M ri Adams for £28, not 120, as stated in our last issue. The usual Weekly 'practice of the Cnmbridge Choral Union was held in the Town Board Rooms on Mojiday evening last, when there Was a pretty fair attendance of members present. The building, pf a mansion for the entertainment, of .distinguished , foreign visitors Has* npen ' com'mericpd K on !th'e premises of the Yamasbita Mimeum, Toiuo, Japan. r ilbiKduia be ii iiairtiifioent stmiotuf>, thgr.ejtpeqset being 1 estimated' at £24,000.",..,. . „,, The Hamilton cricketers are going' to make an early stare this year. The fine pitch on Sydney Square has lieen rolled and put in gooa order for playing, and the members 'are evidently beni on having a successful 'season, numbers haying already, practising. A meeting of cricketers is convened by advertisement for Saturday evening, , Arrangements are being made for giving a cpneert on a grand scale, aud at an early date in aid of the Hamilton Presbyterian Church funds. Various causes have had the effect of delaying the preparations, but those who have kindly come forward to assist have commenced rehearsing in earnest. In Committee of Supply on Tuesday night, Mr Andrews, member for Christchurch, after beinjr unsuccessful in, his efforts at reducing the votes for the Lpgislative Departmeut.left the Chamber, remarking that as he had been unable to effect any retrenchment, he would leave them to do as they chose. Direcdy after he left, the Committee struck oat the vote for Bellamy's. A meeting of the Hamilton Tawhiao Reception Committee was held at G-wynnes's Hotel, on Tuesday evening, His Worship the Mayor presiding. A number of accounts were examined as also subscription li>.ts, &c, and the result was found to be satisfactory. There still remain one or two little masters of dotail to attend to "before the labors of the Committee finally cease. A six-roomed wooden house and shop in the Main South-road, Timaru, was totally destroyed by fire on Tuesday evening:. It was owned and occupied by Mrs Hope, who states her insurances to be £200 m the Standard and £300 in the Northern Assurance, and estimates her lo«s at £500. The firo is supposed to have been caused by a candle setting fire to the curtains in the bedroom upstairs. The Fiji "Argus" state 3 that Mr Jones, of the Bank of New Zealand, met with a severe accident on the 2/sth August. The accident was caused by a hawser parting and swinging across the deck, when coming in contact with that gentleman, it knocked him down,, inflicting injuries which rendered him insensible for some time afterwards Mr Jones was afterwards removed to the Bank of New Ze iland, where ho remains in a very precarious state. It was found that big head was badly cut aud bruised, and it is feared that the spine is also injured, as the lower limbs are paralysed. The ordinary monthly meeting of the Hamilton West School Committee was held yesterday afternoon. After the minuter had been confirmed, the Secretary reported that the account of £4 5s 6d for necessayy repairs to the school had been paid by tiie Board. It was decided to give one week's holiday at Michaelmas. The official return of the examination for Standards was received and r^ad, and the Secretary was requested to write to the Headmaster, asking him to. furnish areport aa to bin opinion of the efficiency of the assistant teaching htaff, , the late Standard examination in the lower classes being anything but (satisfactory. This was all the business. , • An. entertainment of a comparatively new kind in this district is r advertised elsewhere v in- our columns to be given in furtherance of the funds for the building ot S. ' Andrew's Church, Cambridge. Mr James Buckland, whose fame has' ireached as far as; Waikato, is, going to give the public an opportunity 1 to listen to a literary treat. The programme of readings to be given, which will be varied with songs and imtsjcal selections, and which appears in another column, speaks^or itself. The evening selected is that'of next Wednesday, the day before the Cambridge, races. The entertainment was expected to have come off some months' since, but Mr Buckland could not make it convenient to come before. While at Hampton recently the Prince of Wales suddenly foutad himself hailed as the King of Egypt. Some gipsies got round the royal carriage, but while her Royal Highness declined to inquire too curiously into the future, the Prince of Wales propitiated the darkskinned children of Pnaroah by purchasing from one of the fraternity a couple of cubs. For this act of generosity he was promptly hailed by the Queen Gipsy as " King- of Egypt." Prophecy had prob- J ably little to do with the cry, and in Mr Gladstone's time ol nonintervention it will posses no meaning, but with Lord Beaconsfield in power the apostrophe of the gipsy woman might have had some significance. A correspondent writes from Cambridge: "It seems as if the Waikato correspondent of the Herald has under-* taken >to get nip, ;on own, account, a Fancy Dress Ball for Cambridge, orf the ' night preceding the races. In fact, if he proceeds at ,tl^e rate fye, ,has, starred at, we' J sliall have a full report 'of Ui'e proceedings in the next issue, whether ' it occurs or npt* , A fe,w individuals whose minds were somewhat elated at the wind ' up of a dance the other evening thought that a Fancy Dress Ball would be a good tking, and that the night before the races a gooditime., but'pf nothing more has been heard or said of it with the exception of the individual who exercises his talent under the head of the' 'Waikato District Njews./ " ! ' <! A meeVing'bf the trustees of the' the chair), for'thS'fnirpose of considering the tenders received for the erection 'of 1 theiieW church%ullclin'g.\ ! 'THe f follc4in» { tfenAers '''ytkrtu "Wfee'ived :— Stewati} ' 'and ' 'Pooley; fe493f ; B.'"' Savers^ '£s3s'^ ;C. 'Ikve'rs; £586; Smith attd"Wool6r 1 , u «a4s : •Wrigley' diidW, &30 ;ASI; A Sl TAJdnes, ■fern* 1 J/'MdrtW'^l^'W: OPe'arsoru £&3. ' ' ' Infcim'ation' wWMhWedifofti tbfe" architect that, 4 the two lowest tenderers' 'ha& retired, andUhat Mr Layers the n*3xt was willing to reduce the amounfc of hia tender by £11, The trustees considered,

— %*? —^ ~sp- *i however, that even when reduced the lowest tender was too high, and resolved to call for fresh tenders, making certain -Alterations iii^*hs. specifications aq^as to y - deduce the c^it^^ if e|pecte3 j>fi|t the 1 frewh tender«*wiHbb in in' abont A -fort* The many Waikato friends of the late *iriPqtni<Jk-Ij9&Jie, v *\' 8 J ttt e?e,Bted ( Co leaWfrbin the Mlowiatr letter- that 'b>' was „Yirt,uaJlx Jihe^fuunder of the^now. flourinhini? colony of Queensland :— '• To the^Ejhtor pi E%a\n\nt^ and Tunes '(War--<viA, Ifarlitig Down-). Sib,*- Will yon' pleace insert the following information Fp£af3FnsF*Mi\ "Patrick Leslie, wfib die'd^ifT Sydney, on the 'l2th August, after a few days 1 illnei'x of pleurisy. Mr. Leslie hae many >«l 4 friends about- \V,arwiok. He it was wKo^bele'oted the «ite where Warwick is built, and he waa the firnfc white man who • mtpjiipied/ conptrjp 'oh.' tjie I Downs. This WHfeMn 1*837, am! he* hid travelled overland with. Peter Murphy. He dis-. covered! the Downs, and took up Canning Downs, Toolburra, Goomburra, and Gliftoiij "for 'hiinneli and <friendf>. Hia wool wns the fi-st. thdt ever left Moreton Bay. His wife (my sister) wan the first white woman who came an the Downs over Cunningham's Gap. This was in 1839 or 1840.— Yours truly, John M'ARTUxnti 1 Cumwillinghi, '17th Aug.. 1881. „ , At the pjose of the Rev. Mr \ Dewsbury's lecture at Cambridge, oh' l Friday night, the Rev. H. Bull stepped ' forward, and read' the following address to Mr, John Houghton t— " To M,r John Houghton, junr., Cambridge. .Dear Sir, —We beg to aak 'your acceptance of the present accompanying this as a raetnenfco of our , high appreciation of 'your* services as organist of the^ Cambridge Wesleyan Church. We do not make jthis presentation with the supposition that it represents an equivalent for the able service' you have so cheerfully 'tendered at the organ during the last three years, but rather as an expression of our deep sense of your valuable aid in connection with the musical part of divine service in the church. Signed, on behalf of the congregation : Henry Bull, Minister ; Henry Buttle, Richard Reynolds, Circuit Stewards." Mr Houghton thanked the congregation for their generous consideration of his services, an,d the company afterwards dispersed, , apparently highly pWsed with the excellent literary treat afforded them. The usual monthly meeting of the Tamahere Road Board was held at the Waikato County Council Chambers, Hamilton, yesterday, when there were present : — Captain Runciman (chairman), Messrs Rhodes, Ormerod, and, Barugh. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed, and the outward correspondence was approved,* The following accounts were passed for pavment :— Waikato , limes, £6 4s 6d ; G. Dickenson. Os b'd ; Secretary, £5 ; Cochrane, £ 1 12s 6d. It was resolved that the Secretary write to the Cambridge Highway Board regarding a piece of the Tramway road near Pearson's, which is out of repair, suggesting that it be taken charge of by the Tamahero Board. It was also resolved to ask the Cambridge Board to repair the road from the boundary of the districts to the cemetery. It was arranged that the Trustees should go round the district on a tour of inspection on Satuiday next, the 17th instant, meeting at the Eureka gate at 10 a.m. On the motion of Mr Rhodes, it was resolved that in future the meetings of the Board should commence at 3 p.m. instead of 2 p.m. as heretofore. It was resolved, on the suggestion of the Chairman, to send a letter of ' condolence to Mi s Patrick Leslie. This was all the business. ! A correspondent writes from Cambridge under the heading "A Feather for John" as follows: — "Sir, — Eviction not only exists in Ireland ; an instance of it occurred not five miles iiom Cambridge about a fortnight ago. A very old man and woman bccitp)nn.g a cottage owned by their son-in-law', who promised to support them as long as they lived, have just been evicted for the small offence of allowing some friends to visit them one Suiiday afternoon ; and had it not been for a friend whose heart was moved with compassion, and who provided them with a cottage, they might have died from exposure. But being sheltered ■ from wind and rain is not all that is required to auptain life, and the next question was, what source should they apply to for food, firewood, &c. ? Fortunately, John waB visiting Cambridge at, the time on some matrimonial affairs, and when told of this case of poverty and destitution, visited them and showed his liberal principles by giving tfieiri £2. ' This was a „ real act of charity, and , should be acknowledged by the public, and it i«j to be hoped that by the time these funds are exhausted, tfrat J,ohn will re- visit Cambridge. A day or two after the old man was asked what he thought t of the Chinese question, when he remarked that the man who first introduced the bill ought to be handed over to the natives of the Solomon Islands on a Christmas day."' >M Five hundred and fifty-five thousand hours of each successive days are spent (says the Daily Telegraph) by the inhabitants of Europe in striking lucifer matches upon the box and , otherwise. There is a Milesian smack about thw surprising 1 statement, which, however, is altogether deceptive; for the calculation it sets forth has been published by our Parisian contemporary the Figaro, and is based upon the following rcurjqus statistics. Eurbpe, Continental and insular, consumes two milliards of matches daily. Assuming th<ti each several act of ignition occupies the brief period of one second, and we have reason to believe that it is rarely performed in a shorter time— it will be obvious po every ready reckoner that the above mentioned amazing number of hours must be. diurnally devotfe'd to the production of artificial light by friction, in our quarter, of the j Globe alone. There is food for much | quaint speculation in the seemingly anomalous fact that Europeans dispose of nearly 64 ysafs per diem in scraping tiny sticks, tipped with some inflammable composition, tipon sympathetic substances of various descriptions., ."Fiat lux " should surely be the device of an. age so profusely addicted to " striking a light." It is also interesting 1 $o learn iMt '4oo,ooo 'ciibic yards of timber, and 420,0001b weight of pb.osph.oniB are in annual request fpr ,jnanufacfcUEe >of ithe 730,000,000 or" matches used' ug by Europe in the r coursQ of every year. Some of the English coal mines have bepri run out" under the ocean. So Tass is, thiq resource, tha,^ in Northumberland the iiet available quantity of 1 coal is . estimated by geologists tt1403,G00,q()0 tons ;i 'and'o'n'the Durbani co^t under tlje pea, 4npladfng a breastb^oF tfytpe and; one-half mfUs, with an area of seventy- one square ( miles, 734^00,0,00 tons—t^si^ej 1 , it is calcula-teq/'Having an aggregate thickness of thirty J feeV'aiBtribut£a in' six 'seams.' As to the,ooal, under ( Wjafc^r^it has be'en estimated' \has the b^yo^ked undei; tls!fie, l a ( of ijp^ee'and oqe1 half mile's bv means of laud collerie«, afad thata farther tfreadtlrof seven miles may - be~ WoX-teea by tanking shafts for ventilating in the sea'itself: To what aotual dls<ta«obfWitt'th9 1 1JHbr«» t| «oali'willo I ba'^*fty. 'able - 7 innst 'ttetosßsarity!' depend ''upon ' a variety of consideration*; :^ ;■ > > \ The following advertisement hag been issued by Messrs Grant and Foster

'in England in reference to their Te Aroha settlement :— " New Zealand. To Farmers and Farm Labourers desiring ro emik (rrHte^epeouili adyttftfaures aro-naw*offered. , bMo6Bo*f»3-r|«^ana Foster, fwho iWoietteoenrlfreqilWed4ya number of farmers from the rountie* of Linco'n and Noi folk to visit and report u^on New Zealand as yi field ,of emigration* for •farnHWt and labojifw, hftfd tnadaa Miorfciufifh ' investigation of the country, and, having 1 made a special arrrangeinenfc "witti the "Colonial' Government for the purchase of a fine blctek.nfiland welt suited for pastoral and agricultural purposes, are now prepared to ~mnke special - arrangement*" withfarmera'and'jabourerH ,ttf secure to each family such a section of land as they may select, and, as may be suited ,to their respective requirements, on their arrival in rhe colony*, c on. favourable terms. 1. Farm labourers' families, comprising a 'manj his wife, and' two children, or a party of three adult person*, can have half their passage money advanced, to bo rep»id in the' colony eighteen' month" from date of arrival. A cottage and 3 acres of laud will be provided for them at a very, low rent, i with the > option of obtaining the whole freehold at' the end of two years, at. a minimum aharge,. 2. Capitalists possessing an amount of about £200 can, by special arrangement, after having. made their selection, and paid a deposit ou a section of from 20 to 60 aores,,Jiave a, house erected for them at a reasonable rent) which they will have the option of purchasing at the expiration of tw« years, at the co><t price of the same. For further information is to rents and special advantages offered, and foj particulars as to passages, &c, apply to Messrs. Miles, Bros,, and Co., 79, Grace-church-street, London, 8.C., agents for Messrs. Grant and Foster. N.B. — Persons leaving in July or Ausrust should arrive in New Zealand during tho beginning of their summer." H.M.S. Wolverene arrived at Cooktown on Friday evening-, September 2, and ' reports' visitiusr Kalo, New Guinea, the scene ' of the recent iuasaacre of native ,rtii»sior aries, on August 29. One hundred <md fifty men from the Wolverene landed at a spot about 15 miles distant from Kalo, marched during the night, and took up a position inland of the village. At daylight the Wolverene mchored abreast of Kalo, and landed another portion of her crew. A demand was then made for the surrender of the murderers, but it was refuseJ. A fight ensued, in which five natives were killed and a number of others wounded. Possession was taken of the village, but only the principal residence of the chief was destroyed. One body was identified by the teacher's widow as that of a noted chief, the instigator of the massacre. The Rev. J. Chalmers accompanied the Wolverene expedition. Three of the crow were wounded, one of them badly. The pure-bred Clydesdale horse Rautin Robin is advertised to travel this season. Messrs Maclean and Co.'s imported Cljdcsdale horses Young 1 Farmer [alias Loch Fergus), Star and Garter, Blair Athol, and Darnley arc announced to trn\el the Waikato this season. The full pedigree of each is advertised. The proprietor of the Governor Gordon Restaurant, Auckland, advertises meals at 6d, and request"; a trial. A vocal and instrumental concert and dramatic performance will be ghen in the Public Hall, Cambridge, upon the race night (22nd inst.), in aid of tho funds of the Cambridge Public Library. Mr James Charles O'Gara, coachbuilder (for the past eight ye^rs with Mr I. R. Vialou), has commenced business on his own account in Hood-street, Hamilton, and notifies that all work entrusted to his care will receive his prompt attention. A meeting of cricketers will be held at the Royal Hotel, Hamilton, on Saturday, at 7.30 p.m. Mr John Knox will offer for public competition on Saturday next at his mart, at half-pist 2 o'clock, a quantity of household furniture and sundries.