SATURDAY, SEPT. 17, 1881.

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1437, 17 September 1881, Page 2

SATURDAY, SEPT. 17, 1881.

An impression, it seems, prevails in Auckland that the farmers of Waikato, instead of according encouragement to the proposal for the establishment of a beet sugar manufactory, are luke-warm in the cause \ but nothing can well'be more incorrect. The farmers, so far as we have had the means of judging, and we have communicated with a large number on the subject, are anxious to see the industry started,' and eager to give it the fullest measure of support. What ijnfiy' possibly give color to the impression which appears to prevail outside the district is the circumstance of their being unwilling (simply because' unable) to subscribe thfe necessary amount of capital. So far as grovying the roots is concerned we do not hesitate to say that wero a promise given now that, a,, li) ill would be erected during the. early part'df the New Year the required area of beet would be ; planted without any ado. , Out of, the sixteen, sellers, t jwho attached their names • jto the f undertaking to grow quantities amounting in ( the aggregate to over 300 acres, tour did not specify any jfi»rea, aud it is probable that they would grow a considerable quantity. It

must be remembered tnat in making such a promise, none of those who signed were assured that there was <a|froP>ifirara^Kill beftg eStttb-* Itshra^thiB"*yeaiv~-a&d^as£,Mess£s Jt ,i Vialou & Uraiiam remarked in : their report the farmers did not care to bin^l ,<• . themselves? 4 J to v ,put i in too much at 'firstf. } It aeenis' 'strange that an enterpf ise'whichpromises to - be so successful in, this, fli^trict^s not taken up in an t)rior^tic spirit by tha« capitalist class in. Auckland.^ We believe that of the £30,000 said to be required for starting a mill, ,£15,000 would be raised by people in Germany and iamongsfc 'the connections of the promoters here, so tihat .shares amounting to the sum of £15,000 only would require '<Vo Be placed in the market. It is futile to expect the farmers to show overmuch interest (though in reality they do) while the moneyed class discover .such lamentable apathy.

In view of the meeting of cricketers called for to-night, to be held at the Royal Hotel, Hamilton, -we would call attention ' to the t( fact J that 1 a " Provincial Cricket Association " has been formed in Auckland, and a strong committee selected for the purpose of carrying out the project. Clubs subscribing to the Association are to pay £2 2s per annum to the funds, and each subscribing member will pay 5s per annum. An Association of this kind has long been required in this part of the colony, and if the objects for which it lias been formed are properly carried out there can be no possible doubt that cricket will receive a much required impetus. In the case of interprovincial, intercolonial, or international matches more particulai'ly the Association will mend matters, as each subscribing Club being allowed to send a delegate to the committee meetings, good players who might otherwise be overlooked through not being known will stand a chance of being selected to represent the district. We would l'ecommend our cricketers to either form a Waikato Association as a branch of the " Provincial Association," or else let all the Clubs in the Waikato become subscribers, by "which means our district would be strongly represented on the committee, and full justice would be done to our players in any election for a representative team.

A paper on the Turnip Fly, from the A//) icultimd GtizctU (London) will be found on the fourth page of this issue. The subject is one particularly interesting to the fanners of this community, and it will be welcome news to them to know that a cheap and effective remedy has been discoveied. It is rumoured that Mr F. R. Claude, of Papatoitoi, will be asked to contest the North Fianklin scat at the forthcoming general election. Detective Doolan arrived in Hamilton yesterday to sift the mystery surlounding the late disgraceful piece of lamkinism in Hamilton East. Up to last night no important discovery had been made. The committee of the Wanganui Jockey Club mot on Thursday morning and endorsed the disqualification of Mata and his rider, Ray. A Band of Hope has now been opened in connection with the Presbyterian Church, Cambridge, and so far has been veiy successful We learn by telegraph that the grant of land to Mr P. Corboy has been sanctioned in the Lower House, but there is still a chance that justice will be done to it in the Legislative Council. A special meeting of the membeis of the Cambridge Jockey Club was held at the Criterion Hotel on \Vednesday afternoon, the chair being occupied by Mr R. H. D. Fergusson. The business transacted was of a private nature. It has often been suggested that the Hamilton Band should give a scries of quadrille parties during the remaining part ot the winter evenings, and we are pleased to observe that it is the intention of the members of the institution to hold the first of a aeries on Tuesday, October •ith. The proceeds will be entirely devoted to the band fund, and as the band is badly in need of funds we hope to see their first effort largely patromsed. A grand vocal and instrumental concert will be gheuon Thursday, the 29th inst,, in the Oddfellows' Hail, Hamilton, in aid of the harmonium fund of the Presbyterian Church. A large number of the local amateurs have consented to take part, and, to judge by the rehearsals, the concert will be a thorough success. Great improvements are being effected on the newly purchased suburban allotments at Ngaruawahia. Contracts huve been let for clearing and ploughing, and two of the purchasers, Capt. Lindsay and Mr Henderson, are about to erect residences, the timber being already on the ground. The sale of the lands will give an impetus to settlement iv this long negleoted locality. The Hamilton Borough Council have taken steps to prevent the encroachments of the river at the point opposite the Waikato Brewery, about seven chains of the foreshore having been pknted with willows by the Borough workmen.. The trees will bo fencediin'to secure. them against cattle. The race for, the St. Leger was run for afc Doncaster, on Wednesday last, and resulted in another victory for the American horaejroquojs, ,with Oeqlogist second and 1 Lltcy Glitters 'third.- It was anticipated that the ' race would, lay between Peregrine, the winner of the Two Thousand and Mr Lorilard's h&vae, but - the former was scratched on the 20bh of , last "nidnth. Fred ■ Archer rode Iroquois. , > As' Mr Carter, of Cambridge, Was driving iv a two-horse buggy 1 from Piako to Cambridge on Sunday last, he met with a somewhat severe accident. The seat of' the buggy u'pbri WKieh he > wa3 sitting capsized backwards throwing Mr,, Carter , ooutt t behind. The horses gallopped on tor about a couple' of' miles, When ithey, were recaptured and* driven back to the owner. Mr Carter got tH^ee •ribs ! broken through 'hjsr •unfortunate ■.-accident, .Jbut is at, present .recovering, j ; ..-A. correspondent,, writes :rVi sh9 Ohaupp, Saw, Mills w^ere closed last weak incpasgc(|Uenc£ of the death 1 of Mr Thomas Coulfchard', senior. He was a Christian Kgea^nientin^eitfae senpe ~P§sher*fium, and ta,*ipjTQfoMnd jßchplflp-; o? t ,v#fyl|jigh attjlinpento. geity^an, was the late propriptor^of /the olas9 and Chemical tyorks; Ml <Wr '*s*&. ~Pet6r's, Nowcastle-on-Tvae.

ig The workroßhe session ifli^ring t Q rapidly bi ought to a clone, and ia all probability out members will be home s before the lapse ot a w*ek. j OurTtyHfa.nleati|ry correspondent &* tolegrapM,l.t!&«A UtiiMg ftfowUllP* m Petitions Committee had reported un0 £ favourably on the petition for freeing the • Hamilton traffic bridge, and that nothing n yr&k likely* to.be* done in regard , to iti this r ?e 'seUidn. '""'m ».■.•,-» i fc .° >l Iflrggara'ts the'entiertainmeiit at ' 1)3 which .Mr^Jjines^ Buckland .has,, kindly Jconse^{josjjqj^a|(lvo£ f next Wednesday, I at Cambridge, "we" are Yeq'uested to ,\r -say j t.lntt«owiug" to the matiy > other -eater- >• lc * ments which are taking <p)ficc at the same 11, time, it has been decided to lower the le prices of tickets. The alteration will be found in the advertisement columns. A ' " full programme of the readings was i 0 published on Thursday. r The steamer Delta, being laid up >c for repairs, her place on the Ngaruawahiaq Cambridge trade has been temporarily „ taken by the Waikato. The latteri steamer has been thoroughly, overhauled, J repaired, and altered, and we believe it is 5S the intention of the W. S. ,N. Company to run her regularly between the Mauukau and the Waikato, thus obviating the expense and delay attendant on trailrs shipment. ' / ie On Thursday morning' last the d following telegram was read by the chaira man of the Cambridge Town Board from » the local members re the Cambridge Railway;- " w The money for the Cambridge a line was voted last night. Division was te called for but not pressed. Your railway t is now an accomplished fact. J. B. n Whyte, F. A. Whitaker." The telegram was posted up at Hewitt's corner and ' c was read with manifest satisfaction by iV all. > The Native Lands Court, Cainn bridge, ia gradually effecting the settlej inent of the sub-divisions in the Whaiti- ' Kurunui Block and up to the present s \ cry little obstruction has been given to it prevent the business being: proceeded >t with. In the Tapapa (Whiti-Kurunm) jj block it is expected that some tribal cone tests will be witnessed before tho subdivisions in this part are settled. Tho >r disputes are expected to accrue out of the l- defining of tho native reserve*, various j tribes claiming the ownership of some , particular spot where hot springs are said to exist. °. The sheep-worrying nuisance reU mams without perceptible abatement, ie Several HoHcowners m the neighbour- „ hood of Hamilton, have lost many " very valuable animals lately, and ° despite their endeavours to discover '• the owners of the dogs, they have not 'S yet been successful. Mr Henry Steele n poisoned one of the carcasss a few days i ago with strychnine, and bagged a dog, a cdt and a hawk, all the victims being Lf - found within a few yards of the carcase. *~ The usual weekly meeting of the '" Hamilton Debating Club was held at the d Court House on Thursday evening, Mr :e R. F. bandes presiding in the absence of the President. There was only a moderate ' attendance of both members and visitors, but notwithstanding 1 this a very animated debate took placo on the motion of the a Secretary (Mr T. G. Sandes,) " That a , c limited monarchy is the best form of go!t vernmeut". Tho motion was carried by n the ca&ting vote of the Chairman. Next d week the subject for debate will be the IV present fashions. s The Sandhurst correspondent of the Melbourne Aye says: — Through his agent in Sandhurst Mr Lnnsoll. who is o absent in Anierina or England, Ins forie warded to Mr Howard, secretary of the Bendigo Hospital, his usml birthday present of £1000. Mr L-msell has also ," sent another £1000 chequo for Mi 3 r Austin's Hospital for Incurables. Rumor states that bomo large donations may \ s-hortly be expected from our other S.md-hm.-'t millionaire, MrJ. B. Watson. .: In the House of Representatives j; Mr J. B. Fisher has given notice to move, .£ " That the constitution of tho Legislative Council should be amended and settled upon the following 1 basis : (1) The CounH cil to consist of fifty members, holding 3 " office during five years and no longer ; 2 13 the number now short of fifty and all f utmo vacancies to be filled by election 6 conduct id by Hare'n system ; (o) tho n present members of the Council to be c deemed and taken to bo elected for the c next succeeding five years : (i) every nominee member resigning his> office within L . six months from the passing of the Bill s hereinafter referred to shall receive tho y sum of £600 for compensation ; that a y Bill to give effect to the foregoing proig position be prepared by Government and introduced into Pailiament during its next ■, session." a Our Te Aroha correspondent t, writes ycsteiday : — There is no particular '. news that I know of, except that the 0 Morning Star tributers are turning out c some very good quartz. They cut a fine 1 large reet last Monday, and they tell me r it looks better every shift, nice clean Y quartz without any mullock, and showing c gold, They are going to have a cuishing c shortly, and won't say much till after that The battery company are assisting . them by letting them have the battery free of charge, they themselves working it, so they will have every opportunity of ,' giving their stiiff a fair trial. The road 2 works have not been started yet, but I '_ hope it won't be long before they are, for " never was a township more in need of somej thing of the sort. A settler of YVaitoa 1 called the other evening aud asked me to f mention that lie had grown cabbages » from 1 4ft3 to 2011)3 weight on his section without mitmov, but wished me to state that it had cost nine pounds per acre to ' bring the ground to this state. , t A native chief of. high standing— , : i in his own estimation — and indisputable ] L rank, on being expelled from the haunts r of Bacohus in Cambridge, on Tuesday night last, bethought himself of having a i bed for the night in a more propitious re- ( \ treat than tho canopy of Heaven afforded, } or the native terrace at the corner ot { j Duke-afcreet, and betook himself to the ' house of Mr S. Bright, where the in- l j mates had long since retired to bed. The aroused occupant jsvjip j-had surveyed the * nightly intruder from tne safe side of the " t door through the keyhole, politely de- l olined ,tp accede ,to the modest request of his visitor, when 'the latter ' genial individual became so outrageous as to nece's- ( Bite the flespateh of a messenger for the 1 local ' police ' offiber, who 1 will' lay s the charge against the chief at ths forth- ( coming sitting of the Resident Magistrate's Court. 1 ' ' ' Mr John Dillon of the Railway Hotel, i Mercer, recommends traveller!, to gno him a trial, as by stepping across the)- will have tho best attention. ) ! , < P Mr K. Hill will sell at his 'Mart thi^ a da}', at 2 p.m., potatoes, carrots, baron and p hams, ladiea' saddle and'bridlb, sewing machine, &C. r^ ' Messrs' Maclean' and CoJadvertifse tha^ "a they intend charging for the keep of horifes (dcscrjptipn v fl| R feivhicll ( h^c been straying on their properties fbr a lengthened ° period. If not clarified? flie horses will be sold in sl a month. : 'Mr 1 'R. > Ci HamecfconV thejßablio Trus- ! .toe, inatifiesithaf ?iHftoco'UtttB> Rvying toand'claims 'Q ! against tljc cstato.qf the Mp .Major, Drummpnd w 'IViy,mu.st be paid and rcnaercd to"him'6r to Mr 'thonias 'Alacflfa'rlinc. ' ' Cfiims rftft? s^nt W\ff €nc p, >ij'ith OBtobor proximo fwillTbe liable; to! be s^,\i ];. >plMac^.',; i , tJ „ t i7> ,(j,,ai., ..(iiun.'i.j. -hi; i in -f Mr Hi. J. Uucnar frffarsifor.aale oi?(feft?e, f |« [ upon exceptionally favourable terms, hji!..yalu« ,|}i able freehold jarnj< qf acres, situated inthe ■*■' PdkeJrimu dwtrict. "This 'is a rare opportunity for a new comer in search of a home In a good i, c locality.