The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1494, 31 January 1882, Page 2

The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

Kijti.il and exact justic e to all men, Ot wh itsoover state or persuasion, relitfiou 1 - or |)l lltlC.li. Here sli.ill the l'irss the I'enplc's rijflit m.iint.iin, IJn i wcil by inlliicnci 1 .md unbribcd b\ gain.

TUESDAY, JAN. jt % 188,!.

To prow remunerative, the extension of ctgriuulture must, proceed ;it;i rate proportionate to he growth of the demand for the products of the soil. If the development is too slow, prices increase, ami the consumer is unduly taxed, and, on. the other hand, if it be too rapid the producer has to suffer. Such a condition of things as is involved in either of these alternatives rarely occurs in long settled countries, but in new lands its effects are often strongly marked. The reason is obvious ; because the most natural desire of those who seek a home beyond the seas is to possess a freehold, a patch of theearth's surface upon which they can erect their own roof-trees. Thus the demand for land renders necessary the opening up the country, and in the hands of a progressive and enterprising race cultivation naturally follows. None will dispute the wisdom of this proceeding, but it should go hand in hand with, or at any rate be followed closely by measures for the creation of suitable markets for the absorption of the produce. In no other way can a prosperous nation be built up. New Zealand — there is no use disguising the fact— has just arrived at that stage of her existence when her producing power exceeds her consuming capacity, and thoughtful men are already busy at devising remedies. The efforts thus being made are of two kinds ; one of which seeks outlets for our products in distant lands, the other of which is directed to the creation of a home demand. There is room and to spare for the exercise of both, but it does not appear that they receive an equal amount of consideration, for while the question of foreign exportation is receiving daily attention, the other matter is allowed occasionally to fall out of sight. For instance, the efforts to secure an outside market for our wool have never relaxed, and will end, no doubt, shortly in adding America to the list of our customers, while the subject of establishing woollen manufactories of our midsj has received at best but intermittent attention. What would be thought of us if we sent all our wheat out of the colony and imported all our flour? yefc up till within a very few years ago we were quite content to follow that line of policy in regard to our wool : And even now the quantity of clothing materials of colonial manufacture used in New Zealand is ridiculously out of proportion to that which we import from England. There ought to exist no reason why we should not become our own cloth makers as well as our 'own millers in all quarters of the colony. The question of the profitableness pf the undertaking has to our mind* been settled, and," given . cei'tain necessary conditions, the industryjis bound to thrive! ' A day "or two^ago the intelligence ..was j conveyed by" wire that " the balance-sheet of the Kaiapoi woollen iaptor/' shows, a .profit for, the ,yea^(of jJßjsOl4.ji A| dividend of! s per ce)it^wad^dedlared r> for the 1 half -year';' Ittalrinjf'O.O pep] cWVin'all. ?/ £i23sryr^t6 !^aed\for^ when"'' 1 ,the" cjoii^ahys^^s^nlareeg '

plant, the total outlay on which will reach £30,000. The clothing factory is almost ready for work, and will employ 300 hands. The reports and balance-sheets were adopted unanimously." Brief .and bald as this announcement is, nothing can be more encouraging. Without protective duties, notwithstanding that large sums have been spent in buildings, &c, the fact that a young industry such as this can afford to pay its shareholders 10 per cent, on the capital invested, ought to settle effectually any doubts which may have arisen regarding the financial aspect of similar undertakings. In this part of the colony we do not at present produce anything like the quantity of the raw material raised in Canterbury, but with the prospect before us of an annual increase the question of establishing, among others, such an industry as we have referred to demand grave attention. In one or two respects our situation is superior that of our southern neighbors. At Taupiri or Huntly, every facility for the successful prosecution of the manufacture exists : — In addition to having large deposits of coal in the immediate vicinity, the locality is intersected by a navigable river, and admirable road, and above all by the main south line of railway. We throw out no idle suggestion when we say that our prominent business men should move in this matter, which is one so intimately bound up with the progress and material prosperiy of the district that we cannot affocl to be oblivious of its importance.

The English cricket team arrived in Auckland yesterday by the Rotorua, anil landed at the Railway Wharf between 1 1 find 12 o'clock. They were met by MesM'3 W. W. Robinson and T. G. Sasidcio oa behalf of Auckland and Wiiiktito, and were escorted to the Royal 'Mail Hotel, where they had lunch. They left Auckland by the 4.15 train, and dined at Mercer, where Mr L. R. James had provided a really first-class spread, which was much enjoyed by all. The train arrived in Hamilton about 10 o'clock, and the team were driven to the town in vehicles provided by Messrs Edwards and Milne. A start will be made for the cricket ground, on the Cambridge racecourse, at eight o'clock this morning, in Carter's coach. The annual meeting of the parishioners of b. Andrew's, Cambridge, will be adjourned from this evening until Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. The Roman Catholics of Cambridge intend holding their annual concert and picuic on the 17th March next. Notwithstanding the damage done by the late wet weather, we hear that a crop of oats on Mr John Runciman's farm, at Broadmeadows, is expected to turn out between 60 and 70 bushels to the acre. The children attending S. Peter's Sunday-school (Hamilton East and West) will be entertained at tea in the Volunteer Hall to-morrow evening, and will afterwards be treated to a magic lantern entertainment in the same place, to which also the general public will be admitted. Charles Hitchman, a witness in the Oxford murder case, has turned up at Tauranga, where the necessary summons for his attendance at the magisterial enquiry at Cambridge has been served on him. The Oamaru " Mail " relates that a case of a very novel nature was to come before the Resident Magistrate's Court when a fanner was to be charged with cruelty to animals, the grounds of complaint being that, by over-stocking his land with sheep, he caused them to die of starvation. The contractors to the Cambridge Town Board have commenced operations in Chapel-street. The street will be formed from Duke-street to Carnaghan's corner, aud will, when finished, *" be a considerable improvement on the old state of affairs. It will be remembered that during the late heavy rain, damage was done to the bridge on the Swamp road between Moanavale and Howie's, by which the traffic on the road was considerably impeded. Mr Grice has taken steps to have the bridge repaired, and will have it ready for traffic again in a few days. The privileges for the All-England cricket match to-day were sold by Messrs H. E. Cotton and Co., at their auction rooms, Cambridge, on Saturday last. There was a very large attendance of bidders and the bidding was spirited. The following are the prices realised :—: — Grand stand bar and dining room, with refreshment booth, £16, Mr Milne purchaser ; Good Templars' booth, £3, purchased by Mr Y. Granville ; cards, £10 ; and horse paddock, £1 2s 6d. The gates realised £52 10s, being sold privately after the auction to Mr T. C. Hammond. We would draw the attention of the Cambridge Town Board to a matter which is a great source of annoyance to the business people of Cambridge. Cattle dealers and others in charge of mobs of cattle and sheep, as well as horses coming from the west side of the river, are wont to take them up Duke-street and Vic-' toria-street to the sale yards, thus raising suffocating clouds of dust which do considerable' damage to exposed ' goods. This great nuisance might be obviated by the board erecting a notice at the top of the hill, directing that all mobs of cattle be taken by Fort-street into the town. ' , < The , sparrows have done a Considerable amount of mischief in .the ripening grain, crops, this season, ;We w,ere shown a crop pf oats "yesterday, portions of which have been .utterly destroyed by these pests. In spiteof theiapt that the sparrows are increasing at an alarming oate, no > measures , seem to,; be taken with a yiew to their, extermination.,, In sojne ;districts dpwn South clubs haye beeji formed, and, the, reward, of 5s per-.IOQ paid fop spa^ow'a heads Has had a most encouraging result, .thousands of ,thepbirds, being „destroyed weeklyr. - Are theiarmersjof to adopt a similar course, or-wbat is "the reason no, remedjal measures, are adopted? , The Taranaki '"Herald!' recommends 'a'politieal^union^6n>?4hd part] of' the North Islan.dij.to 1 secur^the, 'opening; of"thoMoka^^d & th&u|n7rairway^c^m : muni^tion^b^^eklandjtq^tb^^PFe > doubt^the'AucJkbiattjmemb^^jmttjinsiil^

advanced system! of railways, is -almost; throughout^ accessible ;;- but • the' Norths Island still consists of four disconnected provincial districts with no bond of union between them." A quadrille assembly will, take place this evening in the.Hamiltou Public and Volunteer Hall, under the auspices of the members of the Hamilton Band. Every preparation" has, J^een" made fora good evening's enjoyment, and no .doubt it will be largely patronised. The pro-, ceeds will go towards the band fund. Dancing will commence at half -past' 8, sharp. Mr J. S. Milne, of the Commercial Hotel, Hamilton, having secured the refreshment privileges at the cricket match to-day, will provide a luncheon and ample refreshments for the general public. Mr Milne's reputation as a caterer will be a sufficient guarantee of the quality of the fare to be provided. Mr S. T. Seddon, Knighton, near Hamilton, writes to the editor as follows ; — "Sir,— Some weeks ago a paragraph appeared in your paper, stating that a Mrs Leslie had been struck down by a tram car in Sydney,- and had died in the hospital, from injuries received : and that for certain reasons some pe.rsons feared that the kdy in question was Mrs Patrick Leslie, late of Wartle. Knowing that Mrs Leslie was too much of an invalid to be walking about Sydney streets, I did not for a moment believe it, and am now able to deny the assumption, being in receipt of a letter from Mrs Leslie per s.s, Hero, written on the 17th of January." I am happy to say writes the correspondent of our Thames contemporary that this (Te Aroha) goldfield is attracting the attention of capitalists, and wh'lst I write &everal well known mine managers and experts aie here reporting their opinions, and satisfying themselves as to the vale of the country generally. There can be no doubt that the Upper Thames, as it is called, is the most rising district in New Zealand, and when we get our railway and telegraph office we will consider ourselves no longer outsiders. A meeting of the Grand Lodge, Orange Institution, was held on Friday evening in the Newton-hall, Auckland. There were about 120 gentlemen present, representing lodge 3 throughout the North Island. The Grand Master, the Rev T. VV. Dunn, presided. We (Ucrahl) understand that previous to the business of the lodge commencing the Grand Master suspended the warrants of all the Waikato lodges, thus depriving their representatives of any voice in the proceedings. The cause for this somewhat arbitrary proceeding was, it is stated, because an adverse vote on some question of administration was apprehended. The- Waikato lodges were : — Cambridge, represented by Mr Mackintosh and others ; Hamilton, represented by Mr Knox and Mr Gwynne ; Ngaruawahia, represented by Mr Crawford. The usual monthly meeting of the Hamilton Highway Board was held on Saturday, when there were present : — Messrs Steele, Ridler, and GK Edgecum be. A letter was read from Mr Exelby, asking for assistance to make a road to his farm, Te Rapa. The letter was received. A letter was received from the Pukekura Highway Board, askiug when payment of the half share of the bridge over Mystery creek would be made. The money was ordered to be paid. The secretary was instructed to write to the Newcastle Highway Board, requesting them to signify their approval of Jones' contract, Wbatawhata * road. It was resolved that the chairman and a member of the board should accompany the engineer to inspect Shepherd and Iwersen's contract on the new Whata-whata-Hamilton road. The board resolved to procure pipes for replacing the culvert near Stokes's, washed away by the late flood. The following tenders were opeued for earthwork on road near Stokes's : — W. Jones, £10 19s (accepted); J. Deegan, £32; J. C. Booth, £33. Accounts amounting to £56 5s Id were passed for payment. The second case, Wayte v. Hammond, for obtaining money under false pretences, was resumed on Saturday at the Hamilton Police Court, before Mr Northcroft, R.M., and after Mr O'Neill had briefly addressed the bench for the defence, the information was dismissed. Mr O'Neill then made application that the prosecutor should enter into heavy recognisances to prosecute in the first case in the Supreme Court, in accordance with his application made under section 3 of the Vexatious Indictments Act. The prosecutor declined, and asked leave of the bench to withdraw his application, which was granted. Mr O'Neill made a further application that all documents, letters, &c, put in evidence in the two cases, should remain in custody of the Court for the purposes of ulterior proceedings for malicious prosecution or perjury. This application was granted. The third case of larceny was then proceeded with. A large amount of evidence was taken, similar in its import to that given in the other cases, and at four o'clock the Court adjourned till yesterday at 2 p.m., when the case was resumed and lasted till 7 o clock. At this hour, the Magistrate stated that the evidence being so voluminous, he would reserve his decision till to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock. The auestion of marriage with a deceased wife's sister was brought under the notice of the Presbyterian Synod in Dunedin by the following overture : — "Whereas marriage with a deceased wife's sister has been legalised by Act of Parliament, and whereas it was agreed at last meeting of the Synod to postpone consideration of the subject until the Queen's assent was given, and whereas her assent was given to the Act in , 1881 ; it is humbly overtured by the undersigned to the Synod of Otago and- Southland to take the subject into' consideration with a view of passing some deliverance for the guidance of ministers' and members of the Church." After considerable discussion the Rev. ' Professor Salmond moved ;— " The Synod receives the overture, and in view of the difficulty in which' ministers, are placed by being requested to officiate at marriages > .which have been "declared legal by the State,- but which are disapproved by our standards, decline to 'issue any instructions, and leaves it to the discretion' and conscience of individual ministers to determine how they' shall act when requested to officiate at a marriage with a , daceasedX^e'sidter."^ A -later telegram states that $ie question has. been^ef erred 'to the Presbyteries for an expression 'of opinion.- ,, u "Tl'.rr./5T' >T l ,u'T 1 The " European Mail"- has the foldowing r .;-^Th.e ( -New^Zeialand,, colonisja^ likgi^thje ' Njew vZe^Un^^merchan^^t* jHQmeJ'must ]be' isxiirein^ly '^ell^ s^tjafie^ .iwithjtli? '.present'^maiP; se^ice^i'a Sanj -Francwco.v B\\rwg~~jtitt'' l f current', Vygaf,' ;«ome n,e%jand;f^t fbeeii. .put bn'tne'lin^e b^tweenvNew't^ork^a'nd''

* ber 18th, thus performing the'diafcunce' of 3100 miles in 8 days' 8 hours 20jrnih. taking into account 5 hours for difference of time. Her mails arrived at the General Post-office St. Martin's-le-Grand, at 11.13. a.m. on the same day, and were ,sentout at 12.15. p.nV. By""i;his' ippid/ despatch , the American' merchants in London were enabled to answer their letters qn the same day by the mail for Australia that left London via Brindisi. This is the fourth time that the Elbe, has delivered her mails in London in time to connect with the outward Australian mail on the Friday, via Brindisi. The correspondent of the London Tablet writes from Rome, under date 12th November, as follows : — "On Thursday, the 1 Oth, his Holiness received in private audience Dr. Patrick Moran, Bishop of Duuedin, New Zealand, and Monsignor Kirby, Bishop of Lita. ' Dr. Moran presented to the Holy Father the sum of £100, -being Peter's Pence from the bishop, clergy, and faithful of Dunedin. Leo XIII. conversed for a considerable time with Bishop Moran, asking details concerning the progress of religion in New Zealand. Bishop Moran also presented to the Pope an address from the bishops of New Zealand, manifesting their sorrow for the scandalous occurrences of the 13th of July, and offering to the Holy Father their condolence and sympathy."

J. Sperrey, Esq., Property-Tax Commissioner, notifies in another column the dates and places appointed for payment of the above tax. Tenders are invited up to February Ist, for fencing in front of Trinity Wesleyan Church, Hamilton. Mr J. S. Buckland announces that the next Ohaupo live stock sale will take place on the 14th February. The public vaccinator (Mr R. P. Sandes) will attend at the Pharmacy, Hamilton, every Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. for vaccination and inspection. The mining warden (Mr H. Kenrick) notifies that applications will be received by him up till the 20th March, for the right to occupy for gold mining purposes a foifcitcd lease known as the "Tui Claim," Te Aroha. After the cricket match to-day Messis. H. E. Cotton and Co. will sell the refreshment and luncheon booth by public auction. Tenders will be received by the Hamilton Highway Board up to Saturday noon, 12th February, for drainage works, &c, on the new Hamilton- Whatawhata road. The Waitoa Highway Board invite tenders up to Thursday 10th February, for forming and ballasting mam road from Waitoa towards Te Aroha.