Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1465, 22 November 1881, Page 2

Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

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TUESDAY, NOV. 22,1881.

In order to bring up arrears of news, -we issue to-day a snpplement, iv which will be found reports of addresses delivered oil Saturday by Messrs Johns and McMinn and Major Jackson. Oar usual leading matter is unavoidably held over. The charges under the Beer Duty Act against Messrs Camming, Camp, and W. Corboy will be heard at the K.M. Court, Hamilton, to-morrow;. The presentation to the Rev. William Calder will be made on Gwynne's lawn, at the rear of the Hamilton Hotel, at 4.30 o'clock to-day. The hon. John Hall addressed his constituents at Leeaton on Saturday night, and got a vote of goufidence,

Mr Robert Ralph has been elected a member of the Waikato County Council for the oiitljing district of Raugiriri. He polled 37 votes, against Mr F. J. Johnstone's 25.

Mr John Sheehan addressed the electors of the Thames on Saturday, and received a vote of confidence by an overwhelming majority.

The rain which fell on Saturday aud Sunday has had a marked efteot on on the grass and crops throughout the district already, though a week or a fortnight of showery weather is much needed.

A ball was given in the schoolroom at Waitetmw, on Friday night last, by the bachelors of that neighborhood. There were about 40 oouples present, and the night passed off remarkably well.

Mr J. B. Whyte will address the electors of Wailuto in the Oddfellows' Hall, Hamilton, on Saturday next, at 7.30 p.m., and in the Public Hall, Cambridge, on Monday, at the same hour.

The members of the Hamilton troop, Waikato Cavalry, met for their usual half-yearly drill yesterday. Thirtytwo members mustered under the command of Lieut. Johnson and Sub-Lieut. Hunt. In the morning the troop was exercised in troop movements, and in the afternoon went down to the rifle range and went through jumping practice.

William Mylrea was brought up at the Police Court Hamilton on Saturday , on a charge of stealing a pair of opera glasses, the property of one J. L. Longbottom, of Auckland. On the application of Sertft McGovern the accused •wiB remanded to Aucklaud, and was taken tb.ther by train yesterday.

Owing to the rain which fell on SaturUy, the match which was to havo been plijedon Sydney Squat c, Hamilton East, between the Cambridge and Hunilton Cr 0 vet Clubs, did not come off. Pi ora the »arne cause the firing contest intended to come off <it the Cavalry butts Hamilton was postponed till Saturday next.

Thft nomination of candidates for the office or Mayor of Hamilton for the ensuing year took place at the Council Chambers, yesterd-vy, Mr J. M. Gelling officiating as returning 1 officer. Two crndidatea were proposed, Mr John Knox (the present Mayor) nominated by Messrs Richard G.vynne and Grove Vowles", and Mr F. Gaudin, nominated by Messrs Robert Peat and Robert Harris. The poll will be taken on the 30th inst.

At the Resident Magistrate's Court, Raglan, on Friday last, before Messrs W. Powell and W. Duncan, J.P., the case of Sutton v. Hamilton, for £14 2% the amount of a judgment summons, was heard ; Mr Gresham for plaintiff and Mr Macgregor Hay for defendant. Defendant was ordered to pay the amount in instalments of £2 per month and the costs of the Court (£6 11s), or in default two months in gaol.

On Sunday evening S. Peter's Church, Hamilton, was crowded to excess on the occasion of the last ministration of the Rev. William Calder, who takes his departure from amongst us to-morrow. A full choir was present, and the chants and hymns were rendered with more than übual heartiness. The sermon, which was an impressive one, related principally to the application of Christ's admonitions to our daily life, and the rev. gentleman, who was much affected, concluded with the 11th verse, 13th chapter, 2nd Corinthians.

A cricket match will be played on Sydney Square, Hamilton, on Saturday next, between eleven married and eleven single members of the Hamilton Cricket Club. The married team will be chosen from the following: — Messrs Forrest, Browning, Gleeson, W. Hunt, G-. Edgecumbe, Beauchamp, Meachem, N. R. Cox, M. J. Breunan, J. B. Smith, A. O. Field, and Sandes. The single team will be selected from Messers Wood, Pilling, Stafford, N. Hunt, Tonks, Percy, Palmer, Steele, Barugh, Pickering, Cochrane and Langdale.

An extensive sale of town allotments and country sections was held at Raglan by Mr Win. Powell on Saturday last. The town allotments sold from £3 10s to £13 J(K and the country sections ranged from £10 to £28 10s, or from about 4s 6d to 8s per acre. Notwithstanding the unfavorable nature of the weather, there was a pretty good attendance, and with the exception of Mr T. Gresham, who bought eight town allotments and a farm section, and Mr Hay, who bought two town allotments, all the buyers were local men.

Press Association telegrams report that the Penguin got off the reef at the French Pass on Saturday morning. She is altogether uninjured. Captain Malcolm's account of the accident is as follows -.—Left Nelson ou the 17th for Wellington, via Pioton. On approaching the French Pass, the night being very dark, rendered it very difficult to pick up the beacon, and when he did he found he was to the northward of it, and the only chance was to take the middle channel, which he attempted to do, but missed it by about ten feet. He did not deem it advisable to reverse the engines, because by doing so the v'egsel would have gone broadside on to the reef.

We have had left at this office a sample of a local manufacture which deserves en '.ouragemenfc. For some time pa'-fc Mr Edward Pearson, of Hamilton, has been engaged, on a small scale, in the production of soap, and judging by the samp'e before us he has made considerable progress in the art. While it ia fully the equal of the ordinary imported mottled article, it possesses the merit of cheapness, as it can be placed in the market at £1 per ton less than the foreign production. Having regard to these facts we think householders in Waikato should accord their support to what may by their assistance develope into an important local industry.

Quack journalism, by which we mean a person hired for the occasion, and who, in pursuance of his hiring, concocts communications bearing upon a particular subject, purporting to oe written by different persons, and dated from different parts, would seem not to be exclusively confined to this portion of the colony. A Hawke's Bay contemporary writes :— "A feature of the Waipawa Mail has been for some time past the publication of contradictions. This is, perhaps, the result of one man taking upon himself the attribute of übiquity. A person in Napier writing as though from half-a-dozen places at once, is apt to mistake public opinion in those place?, and hence the contiadictions. It is a very shallow electioneering dodge, but it sometimes deceives the unwary."

It appears that a Re-distribution of Seats Bill is wanted in England quite as much as in this colony. A London contemporary says : — A striking return has been published relative to towns unrepresented in Parliament. It appears that there are 187 municipal districts without direct representation in the Legislature, and 19 of these have populations exceeding 30,000. Bearing in mind the rapid growth of municipal England, and the inexpediency of any marked increase to the muster rolls of M.P.'s, the only true remedy for this anomaly must rather be in a re-adjustment of electoral districts than an addition to a House of Commons, already qnite large enough. Several unsuccessful attempts have of- late years been made to estublish a cricket club in the B»utepu district,

and perseverance has at length met its reward. A meeting of those interested in the formation of a lawn tennis and cricket club, convened by advertisement in thia paper, was held at Camp's Hotel on Saturday evening last. After discuss-^ ing the matter it was resolved that a club be formed, to be called "The Hautapu Lawn Tennis and Cricket Club." The following officers were then appointed :— President, Mr S. S. Graham; Captain, Mr 0. E. Pearson ; secretary and treasurer, Mr H. Paton ; committee, Messrs J. Paton, /q \V. Pearson, M. Pickering, J. J. Smith ; and the president, captain and secretary, (c.v ojicio). The subscription was fixed at oa, with an entrance fee of 2s 6d, and the practice days were appointed to be on Wednesdays, at 4 p.m., for cricket, and Saturdays, at the same hour, for lawn tennis. Mr T. Paton was elected patron of the club, and it was resolved to request Messrs J. B. Whyte snd F. A. Whitaker to accept the like office.

Mr A. A. Fantham arrived in Waikato yesterday from Christchurch, where he has been to attend the annual Agricultural Show. He took with him three pure-bred Shorthorn bulls, two of which he has brought back. Sir Hercules, who took second prize in the 3 -year- old class, was disposed of by private sale in Christchurch. Of the other two, Sir Every, 10 months old, was highly commended in his class.

Captain Runciman, "B. Troop," writes : — To the editor : Sir,— Corporal Camp's remarks at the late cavalry meeting, Cambridge, were not in accordance with the facts of the case, and were corrected at the time, as the Cavalry have received pay for all but last November's training. Lieutenant-Colonel Lyon met the troop on Thursday last, and explained the footing on which they at present stand with the Government. He also threw considerable light on the matter of arrears due to the troop, and I hope matters are now in a fair way of being adjusted.

Mr Knorpp, 0.E., Superintending Engineer North Island Public Works., arrived in Waikato a few days since, and has been, and still is engaged in making a tour for the purpose of inspecting and reporting on all works being carried on by the Department ; as also on such undertakings as have been carried out by the various highway boards and county councils with grants given by the Government. Accompanied by Mr A. J. Hunter, 0 B. Resident Engineer, he hai aheady visited the Cambridge, Piako, and Te Aroha districts, and they will proceed to other parts of the Waikato to see the various works which have been completed or are proposed to be carried out in these places. Mr Knorpp will then be in a position to report as to the manner in which grants made by Government have been expended by the local bodies, and we feel confident that the works will speak well for their management.

As stated in our last issue, Messrs E. B. Walker, Gnce, aud Parker, with a body of about 2S men, mounted, and waggons containing ploughs, &c, proceeded from Rotorangi on Friday morning to occupy the Pukekura and Puahoe blocks. Their destination was the round bush, near to which a large party of natives (about 100) had congregated for the purposes of obstruction. It was found necessary to break down some of the fences erected by the natives, and those Maoris who attempted to prevent this being done came in for some pretty rough handling, and many found a temporary resting place at the bottom of a dry ditch, well lined with furze. Eventually, the opposition caved in, and the victors proceeded to establish a camp, which will be occupied by a number of men engaged in ploughing the lands adjoining. Two other camps have also been pitched on different parts of the land, and the work of cultivation will thus proceed at three different points. We understand that some arrangement has been come to between the owners and the natives, whereby the latter are to be allowed to lemaiu on the land until their crops are ripe, Avhen they are to depart for fresh fields. The obstructionists are composed, for the most part, of natives who never had any interest in the land, and their action is altogether discountenanced by the chiefs.

The vocal and instrumental Concert in aid of the funds of the new Wesley an church (Hamilton) held at the Oddfellows Hall, East Hamilton, on Friday night last, was not ho successful financially aa the excellence of the object warranted. Nor can it from a musical point of view be considered to have reached the usual standard of such entertainments in Hamilton. A want of caro was noticable in many of the solos, and the choruses were lacking in force, though this was owing not co much to any deficiciency in the individual vocalists as to the numerical weakness of the choir. The audience was not in a critical mood, and had evidently assembled with the full intention of be'ng pleased with everything. Many of the items on the programme were indeed worthy of all the applause accorded them, and without wishing to be invidious we may place in this category the song " Why do summer roses fade" by Mrs Searancke, the duet " Ring on Sweet Angelus" by Mesdames Watts and Searancke, which was probably the best thing on the programme,; the duet " Day Wakes its sorrows," Mrs and Miss Murray, the song " A joyous Life," Mrs Ellis, and the fine tenor song " Farewell Leonora" by Mr Trewheellar. The instrumental duets on the pianoforte and harmonium by Mrs Watts and Miss Newell, and by the last-named lady and Mr T. A. Bell, were finished pieces of instrumentation. It is but fair to Sir Meacham to state that he was suffering from a bad cold, which marred the effect of his unusually fine voice. Mr Smith recited " Mark Antony's Oration over the dead body of Caesar," and the Rev. Mr Griffin read Tennyson's " May Queen." Mr T. A. Bell conducted the musical portion of the programme, and deserves considerable credit for the pleasant manner in which, in spite of great disadvantages, the concert passed off. We are desired by the Church Committee to thank those ladies and gentlemen who contributed to the programme for their kind assistance.

Mr E. Moflit, Karakariki, writes to the editor as follows :— Will you kindly allow me to ask the candidates for Waipa aud Waikato, now coming before us for our suffrages, the following questions through your valuable columns. Firstly : If elected, will they undertake to solemnly pledge themselves to use all their influence at the coming sessions of the House to get an act passed to obtain a grant of land, say from fifty acres or upwards, for the children of old colonists ? The term " old colonist " to mean a residence in the colony of at least 20 years. Secondly : The said land to be really good, and the persons who are entitled to the said land to be allowed "to choose whether they will pick the land about where they now reside, or elsewhere. Thirdly : The land to have a standard value. For instance : Should any party wish to take town allotments in place ot agricultural fifties they should be allowed smaller quantities iv proportion to the value of the fifties. Fourthly : Should the children be minors, the parents of the said children to be allowed to make use of their land until such time as the children are of age P Fifthly: Should the parents of the children die, the Government to form a board to kWQ the mi toftd, the money

accumulated from the land to go towards paying the taxes of the said land, and any balance to be used in favour of the children ? Sixthly : Should the children die, the said land to go to the next heir at law ? In no case should the land fall bacV to the Government. Seventhly : Should the said land be occupied and reasonably improved for the term of three years, the Government to hand a Crown grant over in favour of the children? My reason, Mr Editor, for asking the above questions through your paper is to give each candidate a chance to think over and answer the above questions.

In 1830 not a single locomotive engine had been built in America. The first t\\ o were brought from England that year. The number of locomotive engines in use January Ist, 1879, was 16,445, valued afc 164,450,000 dollars ; the number of cars, including palace and freight cars, was about 300,000, which, at a lowestimate, would cost 60,000,000 dollars. Abaut one-tenth of those now running must have been rebuilt probably five times since 1830, ab a cost of 382,225,000 dollars, making a total of ], 146,675,000 dollars, or about twice as much as England has invested in shipa. Besidea this, we have built locomotive engines for export to all parts of the world. Of all those used in the English colonies, from 95 per cent, to 99 per cent, were built in the Fnited States. Since 1870 we have exported 25,000,000 dollars in locomotive engines, and double that amount in cars. — Scientific American.

An important announcement appears in our advertising columns, notifying that the townships of Oxford and St Kijda will be offered for sale by Mi J. S. Ruckland, in the Cambridge Public Hall, on Wednesday, Dec. 14th. Mr J. S. Buckland will hold a horse sale at Cambiidge, on Saturday next, at one o'clock, MrF. O'Neill, of Pukerimu, has made several important additions to his business. Mr 11. T. Millar, Paterangi, makes an important announcement in our advertising columns. Messrs W. J. Hunter and Co will hold their next horse sale in Cambridge, on Saturday, Dec 3rd Messrs Frederic Gaudin and John Knox have been duly nominated as candidates for the office of Mayar for the Borough of Hamilton.