The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1573, 3 August 1882, Page 2

The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1882. ♦ •

The dates on which the committees of the licensing di&tricts of Pukekura and Cambridge will sit, are advertised in another column, The concert in aid of the Hautapu School will be held in the schoolhouse to-morrow evening. We have it on excellent authority that instructions have been issued to hold a Native Lands Court at Cambridge, commencing on the 28th September, prox. A cable from Sydney announces the death of Mr Henry Kendall, the well-known poet and author, from phthisis, aged 40. A large number of fat cattle were forwarded by ycstei day's train from Waikato to the Auckland market. They were shipped partly at Te Awamutu, and paitly at Hamilton, Messrs Goodfellow bending a draft from the former, and Mr ,T. Runciman one from the latter place. Mr W. J. Hunter, auctioneer, who recently purchased Mr Herdegan's farm at Ohaupo, is carrying out extensive improvements on the property. A commodious eight-roomed resilience is in course of erection, and a large orchard and plantations have been laid out. The house commands a beautiful pro&pect, and when completed will be an ornament to the locality. At a meeting held on Monday evening it was resolved that the newly formed Farmers' Club should meet at the Tamahere Hotel on the Friday in each month before the full moon. Mr Barugh has been elected president, and Mr Wheeler hou. secretary. The object of the club is to provide a means for discussing matters connected with agriculture in an informal way by means of free discu&sion. Owing to the fauly drainage at the lower part of Brewery-street, by which the yard and cellar of the Criterion Hotel have been flooded, at a special meeting of the Cambridge Town Board held on Monday evening last, Crs. Kirkwood, Hewitt and Nixon were appointed a committee to deal with the matter. At a meeting of the Council of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society, held on Tuesday, it was resolved to distribute the California quail— lo brace in the Waikato (at Mr Maclean's), 10 brace at Mr F. D. Fentou's place at Raglan, 10 brace at Captain Fcrgussoii's, of Woiuku, 10 brace at Mr Proude's, of Razorback, 10 brace at Captain Jackson's, the remainder to be kept on hand. Measles having broken out in several houses in Hamilton West, it would be well if the children belonging to the affected families' were kept away from school for the pi'esent. A meeting of the school committee will be held today to consider what steps they will take in the circumstances. ' We understand that Mr Charles Mullious, who was arrested and brought before the District Court at Hamilton on Tuesday, for alleged disobedience to an order of the Creditors' Trustee in the .estate of Harry Mnllions, and who was subsequently discharged, intends bringing an action for damages on account of j false imprisonment against the .trustee (Captain Lindsay). The case, asifc came before- the Court, appears in another; column. Sometime ago, when fires were of frequent occurrence in Cambridge a night watchman was appointed by the business

merrof'th'e town, each contributing towards his» lcmuuetation, to keep watch over their premises, lest anything serious in the way of fire should occur. It would s cm, however, as if long imu% nity had engendered a false sense of security, as several are now withdrawing thcii weekly contiiljution. Considering the watchman is the only safeguard the town possesses against fire) those who are withdrawing their support may discover in time the false nature of their economy. In the Legislative Council on Tuesday, the Prisons Bill was read a third time, and the Small Birds Nuisance Bill, the Width of Streets Bill and the Gas Companies and Consumers Liability Bill wei c read a first time, lv the House on the s.xme day, Mr Fulton brought up the report of the Waste Lands Committee on the Deferred Payment Settlers llelief Bill which made no recommendation. Sir G. Grey moved that the bill be committed on the 17th inst. Messrs. Rollesfcon and Kelly thought the bill should be again referred to the Waste Lands Committee. The motion was lost. After some further discussion, in the course of which the Treasurer and Mr Montgomery exchanged compliments, a motion by Mr Seddon to instruct the Waste Lands Committee to report on this and other bills, dealing with land, within a week was agreed to. The North Island Loan Bill, the New Zealand Loan Bill, and the Payment of Expenses of the Members of the General Assembly Bill, were introduced by message from the Governor, and read a first time, after an expression of opinion from several members of the Opposition. Mr Macandrew objected to the Loan Bills being divided. The Supreme Court Bill was read a second time. Several othev measures were advanced a stage. The Auckland University College Bill and the Railways Construction and Land Act Amendment Bill were read a second time. The House then went into committee on the Licensing Act Amendment Bill. An extraordinary cure for blindness is reported in the Sheffield Telegraph. A gardener who had been troubled with cataract, and who was nearly stone blind, "dreamed adream"in May last that he had quite recovered his eyesight through applying petroleum to the eyelids. Of course he woke up in darkness, but the dream made such an impression on him that he determined to try the supposed remedy. Contrary to the advice of a doctor and his own sons, the old man applied the petroleum, and instead of his eyes being injured, they gradually gained light, and at the end of fourteen days his right eye was quite clear, and the vision was perfect. The cataract was on the left eye, and he is now able to see a little with that also. The cure is pronounced by the faculty to be the most extraodinavy on record. A business man has begun a series of articles in the New York Evening Post in exposition of the follies of Protection. He uses hard figures and by them shows how Great Britain, Prance, and Germany have increased their exports of manufactures by free trade. Our country presented an illustration of the opposite side. Our commerce lias vastly increased since 1860, but the increase of export has been in unprotected products, while the inciease of imports lias been in protected manufactures. In 1860, our exports of non-protected articles were 7 per cent, while in ISSO they were only 5 per cent of our entire exports. From 1860 to 1870 our imports of protected articles increased from 163,600,000 to 282,900,000 dollars, or 72 per cent. Since ISSO we have lost our carrying trade so that whereas in 1860 75 per cent of our foreign trade was carried in American bottoms, in 1880 our proportion had been reduced to 20 per cent. This is the result of the policy of protection, which increases the cost of production in the country. — Boston Herald. The "San Francisco News Letter 1 ' of June 24th has the following : — Of all the nonsense so constantly sent over the wires, with regard to European affairs, the iusolent spread-eagleism of the Herald's correspondent concerning the United states ship Galena, stationed off Alexandria, in the most absurd. It appears that the American Mission, and a few foreigners of other nationalities, were received on this vessel just as other refugees from the rioters found protection on the English and French ships. Among those who got on board the Galena was one "Mr Cattori, a rich Egyptian banker, " who, continues the Herald man, "requested me to forwaid his heartfelt thanks to the American Government in the name of all unprotected persons who have found American protection, and who desire to express their lasting gratitude for the courtesy, help and protection afforded by the American ship Galena, and pray that God will watch over the great nation which alone affords protection without distinction of race and creed." For unadulterated impudence, this oversteps anything we have yet read. It is a notorious fact that the United States Government is disgracefully negligent of the interests of its own citizens abroad. To say that it "alone affords protection, without distinction of race or creed," is therefore an offensive display »f buncombe which the Herald ought to be ashamed of putting in print. The writer of these paragraphs has been in most parts of the world, and has frequently been vexed to see Americans applying for protection or redress not to their own foreign representatives, but to the British Consuls— and they always get it, too. The American flag, -we are sorry to say, has no value abroad when protection is needed, for the reason that our Government never cares to vindicate its honor by avenging an insult paid to it. The Stars and Stripes look very pretty in a Fourth of July or Seventeenth of March procession, but they don't amount to much when protection is required. The emblem inspires no fear of just retaliation, and consequently meets with little respect beyond our own borders."

One of the best general storekeepiug businesses on the West Coast is for sale. Particulars in our advertising columns. The balance of Mr Moses' stock is being' disposed of at cost price^ The date of the furniture sale will be advertised. Mr Auclus Ra.ynes gives notice of his intention to apply for a transfer of tlio license of the National Hotel, Cambridge, from himscll to Mr H. Gillett. The Waitoa Highway Board notify that they intend, at a meeting to be held at Buck's Hotel, Morrinsville, on August 19th, to strike a rate of Is in the £. The new pure cash system now being nitiated by G. and C. will cortainly prove a benefit to the public. It has i 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 ffr<»at gainer. G. and C. sell their drapery, milliner)', and clotbinf* at such prices for cash as gives the buyer the advantages of a shareholder in a co-operative society, without the risk,q£being called upon to bear a portion of the loss should the jear's business , prove unsatisfactory. 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 thefirstyear Country buyers on remitting cash with order will be supplied with goods at co-operatve prices ; just the same as though they made aperspnalselection. ( Furnishing goods,, such as" carpets { floor cloths', /bedsteads', betfdmg'.'andi general house furnituroj the 'largest pouioa ofcwhichris turned out at bur olfactory, wiUbeuinarJfced at the lowest remunetative prices,- andja; discount pi ,flve percent, will be allowed to those \yho pay.at the time of purchase." G. and C/hivlbsr tki hsed the,enti*a value of theiifstock' 'during- their^Ute cash sa'leVtTieprosent stpclqis nbw'and chbaw.k bought.— An:inWctio¥ T f inyited,^GAitticK < ;AND Cranwbll, ( City IlalJ |Fitf nUhingArcadft <3uee« street, Atickland." r->r -> """>l^%.^ ihiK^'i &' :