The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1622, 25 November 1882, Page 2

The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

Equal and exact justice to all men, Ot wh.Usoc\cr state or persuasion, religious or political. Hcie shall the Press the People's rierht maintain, Unawcd by influence and unbribed by gain.

SATURDAY, NOV. 20, ISB2.

We are compelled to hold over Echoes from tnc Cafe, with leading and a lai'ge amount of local matter.

The Cambridge troop, Waikato Cavalry, will parade on Monday morning at 10 a.m. for their usual half-yearly training.

At the R.M. Court, Alexandra, yesterday, before Mr North croft, K.M., there was no business but trifling small debt cases.

An interesting article on arboriculture, from the Olago WUims, appears on our fourth page.

The resignation by Mr H. W. Nortucroft, R.M., of Waikato, of the post of Sub-Inspector, of the Armed Constabulary, has been gazetted.

It will be seen by the report of last meeting of the Hamilton Borough Council, that the drainage scheme i£ to" be brought before the ratepayers for their consideration at an eaily date.'

Messrs Clark and Crane sold the stook and furniture of Mr' Victor Grauville at .Cambridge on 1 Wednesday last. 'The' sale was ,weil attended, and,the prices realised were very satisfactory, f/ >* A serious accident happened yesterday to a son/ of Mr M. UelaneyVVof, Olioupo. . i The boy,-wlio-isf about fe'c'yen; years'of age, wos'irnt^ o.yerfbjya, (w&ff with''the result tliat

l)i's">leg"was^bi6yeti^7 "> There was, a! Vefy:-iar^e^atteM-:s| «ince. »))out 300;' nfc -tlie^aftle^dfiMß'i^' *Al^ >ffag^tocfe^t»J^^JlC®s , Wetltie^dft^fand? nll'iftlwildts Sibinitfetti

The publishers announce tha^he : pamphlet descriptive of Guenon's 1 E3cu,tcheou, illustrated.with full and" com,plete is now ready -fpr Jssue. The book is calculatetl to/be of great assistance to daiiy farmers in the selection of stock, and should command a ready sale. 1 ■ ; , '. j 1 t 1

Yesterday Messrs W. J. Hunter and Co. sold the live and dead stock on the Tamahere Estate, the property of the Messrs Graham, to close partnership accounts. Theresas a good attendance of buyers, and the stock sold brought fair values.

At Thursday night's meeting of the Hamilton Borough Council, the attention of the Mayor was called to the bad ventilation of the Council Chamber, and a wish was expressed that the town clerk should devise some means for remedying this defect.

Mr Thomas Finch, Alexandra, wiites, under date Thursday :—Sir,—ln to-day's issue appears an account of an accident, which occurred to an Alexandra coach. I beg to inform the public, through you, that it did not occurr with my conveyance, as the seats are properly secured, and I have a competent driver. By inserting the above you will greatly oblige.

We were in error in stating in our last issue that it was the intention of the Cambridge Jockey Club to give the gate money in stakes at their proposed local meeting on the Ist January. The meeting will be of such a nature as not to clash with the Auckland meeting, inasmuch as the stakes will not be large enough to attract tiic best blood from Auckland.

The decision of the Land Court having been given in the Waotu block at Cambridge yesterday, all the natives interested in the block, both defeated and successful, had a very extensive drink on the result. Immediately after the Court adjourned the native? gathered in front of the Public Hall, where a number ot hogsheads of beer were collected, together with several cases of English (?) beer, and a few cases of brandy. Large household buckets w ere used for the distribution of the licjuor, and for fully an hour after the drink had been divided, a number of women and men, particularly t!>e former, could havo been seen draining the contents ot bottles at intervals along the loadway. The remainder of the day was devoted to woiking otl the effects of an over-indulgence, which process generally took the form of extern pore and violent, though harmless loquacious contests.

France, the home of revolutions, is threatened with yet another reactionary movement. The other day the news was cabled that the .Socialists meditated an uprising, against which the Government deemed it nucossary to take most sti onuous measurer, and now we hear th.it the Republic is menaced on the other (Link by the supporters of "Legitimacy." It is said a considerable section of the army sympathise with the royalists and are likely to give them active support.

In a recent number of the " War Cry "—the Salvation Army's organ—it is reported, concerning one meeting, that " on Saturday night a man fell prostrate at the Mercy-seat, and kicked and roared in an agony of soul." Then it is observed : "One came running to Jesus, and, what amazed the people most, was to see a woman, who got so filled with the power that she shouted and jumped. The singing was still kept going ; then a rush was made to the Mercy-seat. Down went another and another, until they were lying about in all parts of the Temple like dead men and women. . . We could not get the people to go home, so we let them go on till next morning— and then the women were at it, preparing for the May morning breakfast, which was held in the Temple. Thirty more souls wept their way to Calvary ! Hallelujah!

Another new industry, the manufacture of iron, is very likely to be started in the vicinity of Auckland. At the last meeting of the Crown Lands Board, Mr Chambers made application for a lease of the foreshore, near the Manakau, 4 miles from the Noith Head, as shown on plan, also 2 miles on the South Head. Hedescribed the position and'depth of the deposits of iron sand, and said the greatest deptli of the deposits was on the pilot reserve tor which he now applied.—The Chairman pointed out that this was a harbour reserve, but as there was no harbour board it was competent for the Government to deal with it.—After considering the terms offered by the New Plymouth Board, it was agreed, on the motion of Mr Tonks, that the lease be granted, the rent to be £50 per annum ; that the leasee have a right to remove 500 tons free of royalty, and Is per ton royalty to be charged for all in excess of that ; and that sand only be removed from the icserve for the purpose of the manufacture of iron within the provincial district of Auckland. It was also provided that free right of way through the reserve be allowed to the public, and that the manufacture must be in full working order iv eighteen months.

Our Auckland morning contemporary, in Thursday's issue, gives some interesting facts relating to the conduct of " sweeps" or " consultations" as they are now called. It is well-known that organisers of sweeps will not take registered letters, and the consequence is that complaints have been lodged by several intending investors that their money has not reached its destination. The postal authorities, in order to clear their officers of suspicion, have taken to registering all letters containing money with the result that some £3000 has found it way to the Treasury through the Dead Letter Office. The rightful owners will, however, get the money on forwarding full details. So that' at the worst all the would-be investors will have lost is the chance of " dropping on" a big sum ot money. The Jlemld concludes with a reflection on the terrible amount of gambling carried on in sweeps, but in this we cannot fully sympathise with our contemporary. The transactions in mining stock which are diurnally chronicled m ith such exactness in the press furnish us with a picture quite as horrifying, the only difference arising out of the circumstance that gambling in shares is in accord with the law.

At Thursday's v meeting of the Auckland Crown Lands Board the followbusiness, interesting to readers in this district, was transacted :—The agent for Messrs Grant and Foster asked that the balance of the lands of the Te Aroha special settlement and the Crown Grants should be given, on payment of the mon&y, prior to the term in ISS3. —The Chairman said the object was to procure Crown grants before the conditions of improvement and residence were complied with. In the case of Mr Vesey Stewart a similar application was lefused, but as this was asking a concession, the application might be S3nt to the Minister of-Crown Lands,—After some (jliscussion, it was agreed that the board could make no concession or recommendation until the conditions were carried out. A letter.was received from the secretary, asking five acres in Kihikihi for a school "reserve. The land applied for was a portion of a municipal reserve,-and it was agreed to.forward the'application to the •Minister of Lands.^-An-application from the same office for an exchange of .sites at Te Puke was granted, also an application for lot 46; "Waipipi, for- a" school site.—Mr Johnson, of Te ./Awamutu, wrote along letter in! regard to £ dispute as to a homestead'selection.-^-It; was refer'red to the Crown Lands 1 /ranger.V-^bet-.chairman* of'the Pukekura?Jßbardj" (AVai-j rlvafp)'asked|'to have tlie^«iW'q£-*an'old re:flbi'iKt^iphrt%firaf^em|lfe^yjj;Bite., rTli6 i 'application wa3 3g'rani£d^V??'#,i|Vi' „ ,^'t .'>"{ JFluj!,. 59^ ■Board'?,^ifyltl)(||^^