The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1579, 17 August 1882, Page 2

The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1882. +

The Hon. lvo Blip's cricketing team leave England on their Australian torn- on 4th September.

An exhibition of various products of Irish industry was formally opened at Dublin on the 15th inst., and was largely attended.

Latest advices go to prove that the English harvest this year will be the best within the present decade. The weather now is favourable.

Mr John Smith, draper, Auckland, the well-known owner ot the racehorses Tim WhitUer and Maid of Honor, died on Tuesday morning of bronchitis and weakness of the heart.

We are requested to correct an error which occurred in a local in last issue. The date of the Comus Club's next entertainment is Tuesday, the 22nd inst., not Monday, as stated. Those desirous of becoming honorary members should make eai'ly application to the honorary secretary.

Late cable news from Ireland. states that a constable has been murdered at Parsontown, Ireland.—Numerous labourers' meetings have been held throughout the country in favour of a conference at Manchester. Two hundred English branches of the Land League have been established.

The man Rose, convicted at Cambridge the other day for a breach of the Licensing Act, was forwarded to Mount Eden Uaol yesterday. He was accompauicd by n well-known old offender, "Tommy the Clock,". who was recently convicted by the Te Awamutu justices.

At the Police Court. Hamilton, on Tuesday, before Mr Northcroft, R.M., James Donne, charged with drunkenness and disorderly conduct was fined 5s and costs, in default 48 hours imprisonment. The police arrested a 'man named OBrien yesterday, also, for being drunk and creating a disturbance.

The newly formed Auckland Phonographic Society was inaugurated on Tuesday in the rooms of the Young Men's Christian •'Association, under the presidency of Mr J. C. Firth. Mr Jacob Pitman, who was present, delivered an address, and presented five guineas to be competed for by the students in shorthand.

The estimate of the,'cost of the plant for lighting Lyttelton by the electric light is £15,000, and of maintenance per year £437 10s. The coat of/lighting it at present ia £300 a-yeair • for gas and kerosene. The Borough iCouncil had a conference on, Tuesday with' 3 the liiarbour Board on ithe subject, ,6ut no,arrangement was c,ome to, the cpuncil seeming' rather shy of taking up the matter seriously.

A cable message dated London, the 4th Just., states that Cetewayo, the King of the Zulu tribes, and who recently arrived fioni the Cape, visited Osborne on that day, and was granted an audience by the Queen.' It is rumoured that he has been re-instated to his former position, from which he was deposed by the British authorities at the close of the last Zulu war. The report, however, requires confirmation.

In reference to the remark of Bishop Cowie at. the dedication of the bells of St. Andrew's, Cambridge, on Sunday last, that he was very pleased to hear that the bells were already almost entirely paid for, we have been informed that Mr D. Hewitt handed a cheque to Mr Wells, the treasurer, on the Friday previous, for £180, the balance over his own subscription of £100 having been collected by him for the fund.

In this issue we publish the first of a series of papers from the pen of Mr Horace Walpole, manager of the Te Awamutu Cheese and Bacon Factory, on Ouenon's system ; the escutcheon, or the milk' mirror on dairy cows. The articles will embrace Guenon's life, the test before the Bordeaux Academy, the American Commission, his rewards, &c. Guenon's system has attained great popularity in America, England and France, and this exposition of it will, no doubt, be of much interest to our readers. We commend the articles to their attention.

We observe with much pleasure that Mr Kennedy Hill, late of Hamilton, has commenced business in Auckland as a land and commission agent, in Scherfl's buildings, Fort-street. As he will make the disposal of Waikato lands the main feature of his business, and as he is well fitted from his long connection with the district to act in the capacity of agent for the sale of properties here, we make no doubt that he will secure a large measure of support. We heartily wish Mr Hill every success.

We note with much satisfaction, in our advertising columns, that the Auckland Stud Company purpose sending up to the Waikato, for the present season, their imported thoroughbred stallion Sterling worth. We can only in this issue remark that this horse is by Sterling, sire of the great horse Isonomy, his dam by Newminster, sire of Hermit, and was selected specially for the purpose of getting upstanding horses. He is a dark chestnut, without white, stands over 16 hands, is 7 years old, with plenty of bone and substance, has a remarkably docile temper, and his terms will place him within the reach of every breeder.

At the social gathering held in the Cambridge Public Hall on Monday evening last, His Lordship, Dr. Cowie. in the course of his remarks, complimented the rising generation present on their very good and orderly conduct during the evening. He had been present at many such gatherings in various parts of the district, but had never, in this re spcct, witnessed their equal. He hoped some day to see these boys contending for scholarships, and thus aiming at a higher stand in life. He had been invited by the University Senate to distribute the prizes to successful competitors this year, and hoped some day to see Cambridge youths carrying off first honors, and to have the pleasure of presenting them with the rewards of their exertions and talent.

In the Legislative Council on Tuesday, the Premier promised to give an opportunity for discussing the report of the Volunteer Commission. Several bills were advanced a stage. In the House on the same day, in reply to questions, it was stated that the Government did not intend to introduce a non-com-pulsory Vaccimation Act; measures dealing with local government and local finance would be brought down this week. The Justice of the Peace Bill was recommitted, for the purpose of enabling Sir J. Hall to introduce a clause empowering J. P. 's to hear cases of an unusual nature with closed doors. The committee divided on the new clause proposed by Sir J. Hall:—Ayes, 24 ; noes, 24. The Chairman gave his casting vote in favour of the ayes. Mr J. E. Brown proposed that the duly authorised representatives of the Press be excepted from the prohibition. Mr Macandrew said that that was the most objectionable part of the whole thing. It was the publication of these reports that created the evil. The committee divided :—Ayes, 50; noes, 24. On the question that the clauses as amended do pass, the committee divided :—Ayes, 47; noes, 29. The clause as amended passed, and the bill Avas reported. On the motion of Mr Johnston, the Railways Construction and Land Act Amendment Bill was reported, and read a third time, and passed. On the motion for the committal of the North Island Main Trunk Railway Bill, Mr Montgomery asked if any arrangements had been made with the natives re the survey of this line, and had the native owners agreed to give the land adjacent to the Hue, which would, to some extent, recoup the cost ot the line ; also, when the survey was likely to commence, and if the loan was got, when the work would commence? Mr Johnston said that this year the Government only proposed asking for a sum to defray the expense of the survey. The Government was of opinion that, if a large sum was set apart for the railway, the native owners would in all probability make some concession in the shape of gifts of land. Mr Turnbull reviewed the loan proposals of the Government at considerable length, which he condemned insisting that the colony should not at present add further to its loan and indebtedness. Mr J. W. Thhomson also skoke against the borrowing policy. Mr Macandrew gave notice that in committee he would move the insertion of a new clause affirming the principle that no money should be borrowed until the lines were approved by Parliament, and that a certain quantity of land had been set aside by the natives through whose laud the line w ould pass. Major Atkinson, in reply, defended the system of main trunk lines in contradistinction of branch lines to small centres. He argued that the latter would find no sympathy in the House. In reply to an objection raised, he argued that the fact of the imports being largely in excess of the exports was evidence of the material progress and prosperity, inasmuch as that it proved there was a steady flow of wealth coming into the colony. The motion for going into committee was then put:—Ayes, 47 ; noes, 24. On the question for leaving the chair Mr Hutchinson spoke in opposition to the loan- He charged the Bank of New Zealand with being a perfect incubus to the progress of the colony, alleging that it was constantly plotting and scheming in connection with the officers of the colony. This projected loan was another mistake of that kind. Messrs Shrimski, Joyce, Seddon and Turnbull spoke against the loan. The bill was then committee on {a majority of 44'"to 25. Major Atkinson said he'would move an addition, "Thattheaum'of one million shall not be raised until the line has been surveyed and 'approved of by Parliament. 'If Mk Barron moved; »"<That the sum be/£%ceci: to "£240,000.* The House divided :4-A'yes, 47 } aoes, 13. \-

.Messrs. ,S.' Cpohranev and ,* Son,, au'c-' tioncers, will sell at their land mkrL Fdrtystreet,'' Auckland, oa Wednesday,' 3oth inst., b^ oWerJofi,' thejnortjragee, lot. 3 suDdivision ,of allotment 41, Hamilton East. ' ' ' f } .