The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1520, 1 April 1882, Page 2

The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

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SATURDAY, APRIL 1 % 1882.

Ouit Southern contemporaries h.ive brought to light another failing of the present Government. It appears that during a visit to Otago Major Atkinson was imprudent enough to extend his trip to Wakatipu, without first publishing, for the special edification of the Opposition world, the precise object of his journey. It was concluded that no business could possibly be found for a Colonial Treasurer among the grand solitudes of the lakes, aiad, ergo, a love, of pleasure was at the bottom of it. The idea of a minister of the Grown presuming to enjoy himi self was too appalling to contemplate, and our friei\ds lost no time in denouncing the offence in the severest terms. After spoiling all the pleasure which the Major might possibly have derived from his innocent little pleasure jaunt into forbidden territory, these terrible censors of the political morals of New Zealand proceeded to rebuke j the other ministers, for having committed peccadilloes of a natui-e similar to their colleague's. These reproaches were, it is true, conveyed more in sorrow than in anger, but if they were meant to be in earnest, as the children say, they were as silly as the statements upon which they were based were untrue. The fact of the matter is that the ministers have undergone more fatigue, subjected themselves to a larger amount of worry, and have experienced more misery during the past few months than many men at their time of life would care to incur. The intellectual and pedantic giants who fill the leading columns of our big Christchurch contemporary would utterly break down under a tenth of the strain. If it be real pleasure to men at Messrs Hall and Eollestox's time of life to scramble up the "West Coast of the South Island, to traverso the northern part of this island on horseback, to climb up Te Aroha, and to wade through the Eotorua bush, doing the maximum amount of travelling in the minimum of time, then we confess that our ideas of what does, and what does not constitute pleasure have become hopelessly mixed up, and for the future we shall, 'when we have any spore time, specially select to fill up our leisure whatever the world is pleased to call hard work. This subject has been forcibly brought to mind just now, by a journey, which we suppose will be called a 2^leasure trip, completed by Major Atkinson and Mr Bryou yesterday. In company with Mr Eollestox they left Auckland on Thursday morning at 8.30 o'clock by train, arriving* in Hamilton at a little after two, having completed 8-t miles. From Hamilton they jiorformed a coach journey of 15 miles to Cambridge, and the same evening- they went to Matamata in a spring waggon, arriving at Mr Firth's homestead, a distance of 25 miles at nine o'clock p.m. Yesterday morning these two idle, pleasure loving members of a lotus eating ministry, started on their return journey at five o'clock, and, having caught the train at Hamilton, were in Auckland again before dark last evening, having traversed two hundred and fifty miles in something under thirty -three hours. Nor was the journey accomplished in Pullman cars drawn by special engine, which was was wont to be the fashion in which some people that we wot of travelled in days not long gone by. Waikato people, at any rate, have a pretty fair acquaintance with the comforts and conveniences to be found on the Kai-para-Puniu line, and when to these are added the charms of a drive through the dust to Cambridge, and the jolting inseparable from a night journey thence to Matamata, perhaps somebody will kindly inform us where the pleasure conies in. "A wilfu' man maun hae his way," and their enemies will insist that the ministers have faults. Let it be so, we will not just now argue about it further than to" protest against alove of pleasure and neglect of public duty being classed* in the category of crimes.

1 ! His Excellency the Governor, has teen pleased to appoint JPene^ Nrakiwito be an assessor of the Native Lands. Court. ' ; - y

A meeting of the members of the Hamilton Cavalry will be held this evening at 7.30 o'clock, at dwynrie's hotel, for the consideration of important business. A full attendance is requested. j \ j \

A native named Robert Tukere was brought to Cambridge yesterday from Tamahere, suffering from a fractuied colliir-bone. He was attended by Dr Ciisliney, w ho set the bone.

A thoroughbred horse belonging to Mr Peek/oi Cambridge, had its foreleg broken by another horse at Tapapa a short time ago, and the animal had to be shot.

A new time-table will come into operation on the Auckland lailways today, but the alterations, so far as they affect Waikato residents ai-e unimportant.

No successor has yet been appointed to Major Mair m the office of native agent for Auckland and Waikato, but the duties of the office will for the present be performed by Mr S. C Vickers.

The Thames correspondent of our Auckland morning contemporary states that a subsidy of £600 has been granted to the Piako County Council, for roads and tracks in the goldfields ditricts.

Mr John King Davis 8.A., assistant minister of All Saints, Auckland, will officiate at S. Andrew's, Cambridge, to-morrow morning and evening, and at Hautapu in the afternoon.

To-morrow being the last Sunday of the Rev. Messrs Bull and Griffin in Waikato, they will each deliver their farewell sermons in their respective churches—Mr Bull at Cambridge, and Mr Griffin At Hamilton.

A shorthorn cow, the property of Mr C. O'Neill, of Cambridge, gave birth to three calves on Wednesday last. All four are doing well.

The committee who undertook the work of raising subscriptions towards assisting Mr Yon Stunner in his recent loss by lire, closed their lists last night. The amount subscribed in Waikato was £77 15s Gd. That amount was handed to Mr Yon Stunner, who expressed his gratification in feeling terms for the handsome expression of sympathy. The Auckland list has not yet come to hand, but will be forwarded next week.

On Sunday next the offertory at S. Peter's, Hamilton, will be on behalf of the funds of the Home Mission, we cannot better describe the objects of this fund and the claim it has upon all churchmen, than by quoting the follow - ing extracts from the Church Uuzcit" .- — " The work of the Home Minion h to help our people in the poorer aiulmoi** thinly populated districts of the diocese, in maintaining clergymen and erecting churches and schoolhonses, by supplementing local subscriptions with annual grants towards stipends and donations to building fuuds>. The standing committee, to whom the administration of the Home Mission Fund is entrusted by the Synod, would urge upon the members of the church throughout the diocese the necessity for increasing their contributions to the fund."

A subscriber to the Manawatu paper writes—The juice of the common lemon applied to the warts on a hor&e two or three times a day will remove them. I have had horses with warts and found this receipt effectual in removing them, and now send it to you for the benefit of others who may desire to remove warts from their horses.

The new Whatawhata-Hamilton road had a pretty good test, as to its carrying capacity, on Thursday, one of Mr Coates steam threshing machines having come this way home after visiting various settlers' places in the Tuhikaramea and Whatawhata districts. Mr Warren, who was in charge of the plant, speaks highly of the road, but points out that the roadway as at present is only wide enough for one loaded vehicle, and recommends that if funds are not available for widening the road through the swamp for the whole distance, passing places should be formed at intervals ; otherwise with increased traffic by this route either an accident or considerable delay will occur, should two laden vehicles meet.

The usual decorum of Cambridge town life was somewhat rudely disturbed on Wednesday evening last by a series of p\igilistic exhibitions, gratuitously contributed for the public entertainment by two men, named respectively John North, and Godfrey Collins. Collins, who was standing at the corner of Duke-street, was confronted by North and accused of stealing some papers from the lattcr's office. Words of a very uncomplimentary nature were exchanged, and these led to Collins getting temporarily prostrated at the feet of his antagonist, who in his turn underwent a like operation. The unfortunate man North was subjected to a severe thrashing when on the ground. Both parties being separated by a few of the bystanders, they set to work afresh, but were again induced to desist by the timely interference of the police. North, we hear, has laid an information against Collins, but the police have laid informations against both. The grievances of all parties will consequently be redressed by a more legal process at the next sitting of the R.M. Court at Cambridge.

The Canterbury Frozen Meat Company are communicating with the various shipping companies trading to New Zealand, in order to obtain a sufficient number of ships fitted with freezing apparatus by next season. It is estimated that five to eight cargo ships will be required ; and an endeavour is being made to get, at least, one steamer also.

An advertisement in the Oamaru paper calls for tenders for carting 150 tons grain from the Hakateramea Station to Oamaru, a distance of 60 miles, alongside 50 of which a railway runs. "The advertisement in question," says the Mail, " is a somewhat startling and severe commentary upon our national railway system, especially when we take into accoitnt the fact that the railways were constructed for the purpose of opening up the country and aiding in developing its resources, and that in a large measure the grain traffic of Canterbury and Otago is depended upon to give the colony a satisfactory return for the millions expended upon public works."

There is surprise and astonishment that Mrs Langtry should acquit herself so well on the stage without a life-long, previous training. Is not many a " lady in society" from her youth up, so far as acting is concerned, in constant training and rehearsal ? If acting involves pretending to be what one is not, pretending to be glad, sad, gloomy, morose, disappointed, overjoyed, exuberant, interested, intense, enthusiastic, sympathetic or any other phase in the range of human nature, ought not " society" to furnish many excellent actresses ? Why, half our girls in " good society'! are,-born actresses, as were their mothers before them'—Graphic.

The Wellington correspondent of the Eerald telegraphs:—l do not know on what authority certain journals asseit that "it is known that the Cabinet is all behind with the sesssional work," 'but I do know that the statement is incorrect. ,At least twenty y Bills are either in the .printer's hands,or ready to be."set up ;" • and,"so'farfrom"Being behind-hand, the -session *work understood ,to-be in a 5 * lyiiwy- forward^state, of -preparation. V.'.^, WgQ- ainounti- of 'the. routine' wOTk%IwST-

been thoroughly Completed, and there is already ample work to engage; the- attention of Parliament and employ all its energies for at least a month. The measures which still remain open for the consideration of the Cabinet are simply those -more debateable ones-which I have referred to in previous telegrams. Practically, the most troublesome questions the Cabiuet lias to decide, are the details ot policy regarding local government and general finance, public .works, and parliamentary procedure. t

We have often had occasion to comment on the ignorance displayed by Home papers on colonial affairs, and the following froni the British Trade Journal is another case in point :—The proprietors of the Melbourne Argus have commenced the issue of a penny journal, entitled the Evening Mail. Tins is thejlnt daily evening paper published in the colonies.

There is a farm in lowa which is being worked under distinguished auspices. The farmer is Captain the Hon. Reynolds Moreton, a brother of the Earl of Dude, and brother-in-law to Sir Henry Havelock-Allan. Capt. Moreton is a post captain in the Navy, but has been on the retired list for some ten years. He has knocked about the world a good deal, and finds no place like his home in lowa. Be has good company, amongst his farm laborers being Lord Hobart and the brother of Lord St Vincent. A good living is to be got out of the farm, and, what is only of secondary importance, there is plenty of shooting and hunting. It was his household that suggested to Dii Maurier the sketch which appeared in Punch a few weeks ago, showing two ladies engaged in culinary occupation and two noble lords dressed as farm laborers fresh from the field.

" iEgles " in the " Australian " tells the following good story :—A gentleman from a neighboring colony has been pushing his way into English society. He was introduced at the Marlborough Club by the Duke of Manchester upon an evening when the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Edinburgh, and two other Princes of the Blood were present. The Heir Apparent received him with his usual grace and bonhomie, and said, "I believe you are very loyal in the colonies." " Loyal!" said Mr , " why, we all shut up shop in Sydney on your mother's birthday." Ami the only auditor who repressed a smile was the courteous gentleman adi dressed.

With reference to the N.Z.L. and M. Company, a contemporary says :—: — "It is a remarkable example of an organisation for concentrating and economising power and avoiding waste. In ISSO the company sent to London no les« than 71,251 bales of wool, besides other produce. It is a trading corporation with a capital of £3,000,000, organised to ar:t as "selling brokers only." There are two secrets of success in this business, and they are these : " The company make a name and trade by doing for producers exactly what producers would do for themselves if they were obliged to act as their own salesmen, and, operating on a large scale, the company can do the aggregate work of their clients much better, and for much less than they could do it for themselves individually."

The Dunedin "Echo" says :—The New Zealand Times had the indecency to comment on the election petition of Wang<.uuii before the decision was given, and on the clay before the trial it said, " Wo hope Mr Watt will win." This shows that what the Ministry wants is obedient tools. Mr Watt has no political ability. He will no doubt vote as Mr Bryce tells him, so that it will be seen the member for the Wanganui county district has two votes. We predict that Mr Watt will never be heard of in New Zealand poli-' tics.

The " Southland Times" is responsible for the following:—A letter from Jamacia, received in London, mentions that in Jackson Town much curiosity has been caused by the birth at one time of seven infants—all boys. The mother, Mrs Hulbert, is a large and strong woman, and her husband small and thin. The children weighed between 41b and 51b. Great sympathy has been expressed by the religious community to which they belonged, and a subscription of 500dol was made for them.

During the trial of Guiteau, the murderer of President Garfield, the prisoner was giving his experience as a lecturer. He said:—"On one occasion he tried to lecture against Bob Ingersoll, who was to deliver a lecture against hell, while he (Guiteau) proposed to lecture on the existence of a hell. He found, however, that the people were very ready to pay 50 cents, to hear that there was no hell, but they wouldn't pay a cent, to hear that there was a hell." Witness was asked to identify a book handed him, and said—"Oh, yes; that's my revised work called ' Truth,' a companion book to the Bible. I have not seen it since it was taken from me when I was arrested." He then desired to read a passage, and read a page or two descriptive of the trials of the Apostle Paul in endeavouring to introduce Christianity. " That was just my case," said Guiteau, striking liit. fist upon the desk. '" I strove to enlighten the world as Paul did. I had no money and no friends, and had just about as rough a time as PauJ had."

While the attention of England is engrossed by domestic troubles and European complications, Russia is quietly and pertinaciously making good her advances in Central Asia, up to the very borders of Afghanistan. We learn from the Novoe Yiomja that the Russian engineer Lessar, who, with an escort of 20 Cossacks and a few workmen, recently fell in with 3000 Merv Tekkes on a marauding expedition to Persia, was engaged in levelling the country between AsKabad and Herat, and actually accomplished the work as far as Sarraks, within a few Arersts of the Afghan frontier. A significant reference to this undertaking was recently made (before the Paris speech) by General Skobeloff, when speaking at a dinner given in celebration of the anniversary of the taking of Geok Tepe. He said that the late Emperor thoroughly comprehended the immense importance of the Akbal Tekke oasis as a place of arms at the gates of Khorassan and Afghanistan. "Never," he added, " has the influence of the Kussian Ambassador at Teheran been bo completely supreme as at the present moment. Not only did he succeed in lightening our task, but what is still more important, he has secured the solidity of its results. The prestige of the Russian flag is acknowled far east of the confines of the country which we have actually subdued, and this fact can be especially confirmed by our engineers, who have, just returned from Sarraks." Still the General has the effrontery in the face of this to pretend' contempt for England's fears on the subject of the Russian advance in Turkestan.

The past summer wetried experiments in .pruning vines and will here note .the results. Some Ives vines were pinched off close up to the last bunch, some one joint from the last bunch, some .two joints distant, 'andsome three joints, and all were then left to themselves. . Those "nipped closetothe^punch made' a' ! small growtK^beyonjl,* But'failed to ripen 4 the fruit, itiShrivelJing.jrp, ancl^.withering" on thW vine:; The-farther^ihe? I'vine1 'vine was ipitfched'frqni tHe'grapeqptn'e -larger"'and, 'tfperlwfa' W|r wag'the Irujt?-* The; Con-

n J7n cords bore clobo pinching much better than many other varieties, and the Rogers' Hybrids stood it the worst. The pinching was only done once, but it was enough to satisfy us that grapes, to do their best, need plenty of green wood beyond the-frmfc, and that close summer pinching is highly injurious to both fruit and -vine. —Farmer arid Fruit Grower.

Arckbisliop Vauglian, of Sydney, addressed the tollowing letter to the Rev. Father Ryan, of St Mary's Cathedral, on receipt of the news of the attempt on the life of her Majesty :—": —" My Dear Father Ryan,—l am sure that the heart of the Catholic body must have been violently shocked on hearing of the recent cruel attempt that has been made on the life of her Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria. The spirit of the Catholic Church is a spirit of devotedness and loyalty ; and when anything occurs to shock that spirit, true Catholics are up in arms at once. How intensified, then, must not our feeliugs be when the object of that foul attempt was a lady whose life is as a shining light amidst the sovereigns of England, and who is revered as a Queen, felt for as a widow, and loved and admired as a mother throughout the Empire?—Be good enough to arrange for a solemn Te Scum to be sung in thanksgiving to Almighty God for her Gracious Majesty's preservation from the hands of an assassin. Let it be sung in St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral immediately after my lecture on Sunday nighfc, so that I myself may have the gratification of joining in it."

The "Pall Mall Gazette," in explaining why the United states is a successsful competitor with England in iron and steel goods, says:—"The secret of American success consists in their being particulai-ly accommodating to their customeis, in studying and anticipating their wants, in being always ready to make up small orders, and above aIJ, in hems; prompt in executing them. American . manufacturers show a remarkable versatility in adapting ther productions to the special requirements of the countries with which they deal, while Englishmen are much too conservative in retaining old forms and shapes, and endeavouring to convince their customers that these ai'e the best, instead of humouring them with new devices. There are fashions even in such matter-of-fact things as agricultural implements and steam engines. Another feature of American goods of this class is their superior lightness, as contrasted with the sometimes unnecessary solidity of English goods. Where this lightness is attained without prejudice to the strength of the article, it is manifestly of immense advantage not only as regards economy in material and cost of sea ti'ansport, but also, and principally, in cost of laud transport in countiies such as Mexico, whera the freight of some goods to the interior is often equal to, or even greater than their prime cost,"

A competent harness and saddle-maker will open at Ngaruawahia in the premises of Mr Sopor, on Monday next. The Waikato Fellmongery Co. advertise for a thoroughly competent manager. A meeting of the ratepayers of the Cambridge Highway District will be held at Camp's, hotel on , Wednesday, Apul iq, for the purpose of electing 1 two Trustees, vice Messrs Fantham and Selby resigned. The storekeepers in Hamilton West have agiecd to close their respective places of business at 7 p m. (excepting Saturdays), commencing on Tuesday, April nth. Persons indebted to Mr Robert Wallace tor service of the horse Argyle, are requested to pay the amount of their accounts to Mr H. I'ltzgcrald, piomptly. Mr Kennedy Hill notifies that he lias received instructions to sell, at an early date, the whole ot the household furniture of Mr M. J. Brcnnan, Hamilton West. Mr J. S. Bnckland will hold his next sale of live stock at Ohaupo on Tuesday, April 11, immediately after which he will sell a number of field gates, &c. The new pure cash system now being initiated by G. and C. will certainly pnnc a benefit to the public. It has been a great success in Sydney and Melbourne, and when strictly carried out the customer who buys at an establishment where the goods are marked low to ensure a rapid sale must be a ci pat gainer. G. and C. sell their drapery, millinery, and clothing at such pi ices ior cash as gives the buyer the advantages of a shareholder in a co-operative society, without the risk of being called upon to bear a portion of the loss should the ' 3 ear's business prove unsatisfactoiy. Garlick and Cranwell will aim to retain the confidence which the public have hitherto shown them, and are determined to give the pure cash system a fair trial, whether they gain or lose the first year Country bujcrs on remitting cash withordei will be supplied with goods at co-operatve prices ; just the same as though they made a personal selection. Furnishing goods, such as carpets, floor cloths, bedsteads, bedding and general house furniture, the largest portion of which if turned out at our own factory, willbe marked at the lowest remunerative prices, and a discount of five per cent, will be allowed to those who pay .it the time of purchase. G. and C. having realised the entire value of their stock during their late cash sale, the present stock is Ntw and cheaply bought.— An inspection invited. — Garlic k and Cranwhl, City Hall Furnishing Arcade Queen street, Auckland.