The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1633, 21 December 1882, Page 2

The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

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THURSDAY, DEC. 21, 1882.

♦■ Somi: time ago we directed attention in these columns to a series of rules and regulations for preventing the spread of contagious diseases, which appeared in the Suzcttv on the 25th September last. We uigeel the importance of a thorough knowledge of the subject even by residents in districts so free from the predisposing influences of disease as ours, and suggested that it was the duty of the Government to reprint the regulations in pamphlet form, and distribute them over the colony. This course has been followed, but, unfortunately, only to a limited extent. So far as •we can learn, the pamphlets have been sent to the postmasters in different parts of the colony ; but if it be not intended to extend their circulation further than this we fail to see the utility of reprinting the information at all. It can never reach its intended destination by such means. The post-offices may serve as depots for distributing the pamphlets, but to attempt to make them fountains of knowledge in any other way is, in so far as regards the matter under notice, simply so much lot.mil> Wfr

Tin: main road between Hamilton and Ngaruawahia is just now in a most deplorable condition, and quite unsafe for night travelling. Indeed, it requires the utmost caution to navigate it with safety even in daylight. The lessee of the racecourse reserve has fenced in the land, thereby closing up the old track, which, though dreadfully out of repair, was yet sufficiently good for ordinary traffic, and the present road (if it can be dignified with such a name) is carried round near the railway. It is of a serpentine character, running between a series of the most dangerous-looking gravel pits, and it would seem that nothing short of a miracle has prevented the occurrence of serious accidents. Why this part of a main road, which is an important means of communication, is thus left, to* take care of itself it is hard to understand, the more especially when it is considered that its construction would not involve any large expenditure. The v<w4 runs over dry, fern landi and a few pounds would suffice to put it in fairly serviceable order. We trust the road board will lose no time in addressing themselves to this matter, and so avoid the disagreeable consequences which are certain to spring from a much longer delay.

We have received "from the Hamilton agents, Messrs Dey and French/the New Zealand Insurance Company's office almanac for 1883J- >c ' ' Telephonic communication » has beeuestablished J «efcwee»^roO|il^dii,|tl|e head station on the Waikato Und Association's' estate, aud < Newfajfce,sr#e^ut; stationtou the Piako.road* , i „., . -vn ,r { f In^tftte' ; > t counties l 'Of -? Mayots and; Donegal,' Iwflifcia; '§reat> dUtr«M/prflya%

by"the InoaiffiritSlßJWiW^ninton, to say that ttny\cont>ibutid,us of ftywor*}, &c, ,for the! dpwati^i of the oKui'clt will b,e,' tf ratufuUy|geeoive)Ji fJWe'WrilMhat, atifbfio revest of the directors'^ tl^o Te rajvamt}ttr Cheese kill Bheon factory, j the| mol|afer, Mr -AVtllpole, hal\watlH!'fa'w^|l#4Wiyi«itioii, but we have-not hcaril A wnTre determination has been come to regarding the other ni'ittcis in disputo.

1 Owners of, gardens in Hamilton/ complain biltcrlvtof the raA jfigesi, ctmxf mitted by larrikin! aml,xhopdhunus, *ann it is to bo hopud that the police, who are fully alive; to the evil, will ere long make an example of some of the depredators.

Our Cambridge correspondent, writing last night, says : — "A ro\v occuriv.d this morning otitside tho' Masonic Hotel between a number of turbulent natives and Europeans. The row is said to have been brought about by natives ciilliug for drink and jefusing to pay. When the money was demanded it appears they struck the barman. Hence the

row. , , • 111-fortune seems to hang over the heads of tho magnificient Orient line of steamers. It was only the other ■ day that they lost their splendid new steamer Austral, whilst riding at anchor in Sydney harbour, and now we learn by telegram that the da'nago done by fire to the Cotopaxi, whilst lying in London docks, amounts to £20,000.

It is probable that some steps will shortly be taken in connection with the establishment of a high school in Waikato. The chairman of the Hamilton West School Committee has received a communication from Mr O'Sullivan desiring to be furnished with the number of pupils to be counted on in case a high school weie established in Hamilton.

On Saturday morning, as the train from Invercargill to Dunedin was passing across the Taierei Plains, an aerolite dcaeended w ithin about one hundred yards of it. There was a flash and an explosion, the latter sounding as if fifty thousand rifles had all gone off at once. The passengers congratulated themselves that the visitor from space fell clear of the train.

The police have not as yet been able to bring to light the author of the recent incendiary fire, -at x Cambridge, though they have suspicions as to the guilty party. It is surprising to know, and people are. not backward iv expressing their feelings on the matter, that though a night-watchman is paid for the specific purpose of looking after fires, nothing is heard of these occurrences until morning, when one person is just as wise as another as to their origin.

The Otahuhu cricketers leave Auckland for a tour through the Waikato ou Saturday next, and will meet the Hamilton Club on Sydney Square on Boxing Day, and the Cambridge and Alexandra Clubs most likely on the followiui' Wednesday and Thursday on their respective grounds. The Hamilton representatives will most likely consist of Messrs Wood, Browing, Forrest, Stafford, Byng, J. B. Smith, N. Hunt, Pilling, Douglas, Seddon, Buttle, and two others not yet selected.

It will be seen from the report of a meeting of the Piako County Council held at Cambridge on Tuesday last, that steps are about to be taken for the extension of the telegraph from Te Aroha to Wairongomai. Mr J. C. Firth, in his usual spirit of enterprise, has offered to give the Government the necessary guarantee of £100 a-year in the event of their acceding to the request of the council. Permission was also granted Mr Firth to erect a telephone between Stanley, on the Mutamata Ksfcite, and his new battery at Waiorongomai.

The petition >o the Cambridge Water Supply, in which the ratepayers, or at least all who sign ifc, pledge themselves to support the town commhssioneis in raising a loan of £3000 for the purpose named, was taken round the business part of the town by Mr E. Hewitt on Monday evening last. The canvass was a very successful one, and we believe, without any exception whatever, the scheme was approved of. Mr Hewitt, during his canvass, obtained no less than fifty-one signatures.

The Taupiri annual sports will be held on Saturday, commencing at 11 a.m. The programme includes foot racing, jumping, canoe racing, two events for horses, and a number of other sports, and last, but by no means least in point of attractiveness, a Maori war-dance. A band will be iv attendance, and with fine weather a good day's sport will be enjoyed. It is anticipated that there will be a large number of entries, nnd no doubt the attendance of the public will be correspondingly good. Mr George Hemus, of Auckland, has been addressing large , assemblies at special services at Cambridge for the past few days. The meeting at the Public Hall on Sunday night was well attended, when Mr Hemus delivered a most impressive discourse. The same' gentleman addressed a meeting of natives in the Oddfellows' Hall on Tuesday evening last on the temperance question. The discourse, which seemed of all interest to the assembly, was addressed through an interpreter.

The first of a series of quadrlle assemblies under the auspices of the Hamilton band came off on Tuesday evening last in the Oddfellows' Hall, the music "being supplied bv some of the leading members of the band, The attendance was not numerous, but the music was excellent. Dancing commenced aboub 9, and was kept up with spirit till two. At the close those present expressed themselves highly pleased with the music, for which great credit is due to Mr Holloway, the bandmaster.

The examination of Waikato candidates for the district scholarships was commenced in the Hamilton West School on Tuesday, before Mr Y. K. Rice, secretary of the Board of Education, and was continued yesterday, and will be continued to-day. The following are the candidates :— R. Gwynne, A, "Scott (Hamilton West), E. and R. Maclaurin (Hautapu), A. Ellis, C. Rhodes, F. Hosking, E. Nixon (Cambridge North), Cartie, Carter (Alexandra), Tristram, E. Tristram, J. Devin (Te Awamutu).

A singular criminal has just been dealt with at Bremen and Strasburg. This was a man by name Theophile Mary, a hairdresser born at Barr, whose vicious. tendency took the form of inflicting slight stabs with a dagger on young" women. At Strasburg he attacked no fewer than 18, nearly all of w,hom he | struck 00 the breast., He made his first appearance two years ago, when fpr,amonth he spread terror among the inhabitants, all efforts to capture him failing. He then vanished from Alsace, and some time afterwards turned, up Bremen, where he again distinguished himself by his dastardly attacks. Here, however, He was soon atrested,, sentenced to seven years' imprisonment, aud handed over to the Sjb'rasburg authorities to be dealt with there.' The 18' young woman whom th'cJ'prisoneV'ha'd^Oundfti, none of them, fortunately, severely), appeared as witnesses agaiftsi; him; J An experir declared him' in ' possession <of>his aen»es, ascribing his acts to a owrbjd vanity and the Court sentenced him to one year's imprisonment, to be added to the seven years given him at Breman. The niajj 'i* 31 years of age* 1 * i<>,M >&cl r, ,,-,; ,. /]! 1/ / General Edkar;?Ney^frince';doJl» ! , 'Paris 'a A e^mtfys' ago,( aged sievfintyrnmei He ,' wtWsbfc 'fourth sori^of ' mmA rWW' ;$& e 2s?HJs*

division in 1873. >j.HeU»ad previously; been made a senator in 1859, He married the Countess de la.Blloyere in 1869, and succeed^pto^he tttp]et prigkceSfe la^ Moskowa hyaBa7j on ffaje de^tu ojf hio' elder brothel Tl.le lMJprcsB|MEugonio called to seo^MnWhenshci,p<vsdMJthri&)igh Paris recentS m< >$? /*?' wtJ „,

A special meeting of the Kirukiriroa Road Board was hold at the Waikato Hotel, Hamilton, yesterday, for the purpose of opening tenders aud passing t accoUntsA The following JtendeVs were opeWd'for road works ,onjhe ni'ain road^ between Woodlands and Taupiri :--J. C. Booth, £256 7s (accepted) ; E. Wilson, £•257 16s ;B. Brown, 1*257 17s (id ; T. Cassidy, £269 17s lid ; P. Rice and Co., ,£295;0a £Wm. Jones, £299, 19s ; James Copmbes (gravelling only) £80. The last tender was informal. On the certificate of the engineer being produced, an account of £85, o'wjnu; to' Messrs Smith'arid" Henry for works on Hukanui-Piakoroad, was passed for payment. This was 'all the business.

* M the breaking' up of the Diihedin Boy's High School on Thursday, tho Rector (Dr. McDonald), in his report, wrote :—": — " The highest learning must be a plant of slow growth in a new country, and both self-denial. and foresight are necessary to lend parents to give their boys, before entering on a special preparation for 'the duties of life the inestimable benefits of a few years of pure c\xU ture of mind. ' In the present circumstances, therefore, I record with peculiar satisfaction the noble gift of Mr , Goo. Gray Russell to this school. Mr Russell has vested in the Board of Governors the sum of £1000, the interest of which is to form scholarships to enable distinguished pupils, who would otherwise be compelled to enter on an active life, to proceed to the (University and take the degree in Arts. It is an act not merely of munificence, but of wise and far seeing patriotism, not the less worthy of admiration that its full benefits to the country will not become apparent till after many days." The Scotch Nonconformists— who form five-sixths of the Liberal majority in Scotland— have fired the first gun tor the guucial election. Principal Rainy, who carries with him nearly the whole General Assembly of the Free Church, recently at Ayr, said of Mr Dick Peddie's motion for Scotcli Disestablishment, " This motion is not the last step of our movement, but only the next step. , And the great use of it will be that the way in which it is dealt with will throw the most valuable light oiiithe whole situation. It will show us our work, it will show us what more we have to do. The practical question i 3 this— How to be ready for the next general election." The present Parliament, Doctor Rainy hoped, would still do useful and important work, but he trusted his triends would now fix their eyes " definitely and resolutely on its close. Thore was no Scotch questions that had half the Bame claim for an early and speedy settlement, and in view of mutual understanding and commons action."' Mr Gladstone, it will be remembered, described this question at the last election' as one which had been recognised as " pre-emi-nently for the Scotch people to consider. " " A great anti-bang crusade "in Canada is announced by the American o>ers. " Bang "we (l^ll Mail Bitdt/vt) ieve, is the horrid and expressive American word for the frizzly front that ladies wear. It appears that the Roman Catholic clergy of Canada have been lately alarmed at the progressive frivolity and extraordinary dress of their flock, and, having communicated with Home, have commenced energetic reprcssivo measures. " Wearers of dainty costumes it seomec], are. to be declared sinners," and " extravagance in dresw and tresses is to be ruthlessly put down.," Already Bishop Lafloehe, at Three Rivers, has launched his thunderbolt at the heads of his fair sinners, and Bishop Fubro, at Montreal, is about to do tho same, the former, however, going so far as to [ denounoo all light music. The example has spread to othor congregations. A well-known elder of tho church at Montreal has expressed himself in the following words of wisdom :—": — " There is such extravagance in dress nowadays that we cannot tell the difference between mistress and maid." The prospects of the orusade at ; present are said to 'be excellent. The " bangs " are disappearing, and the '' pullbacks " are being loosened. After the success of the experiment made on the corpus vil> of Canada, who knows how soon the crusade may extend to our shores ? The Wellington Post states .— " A few days ago we mentioned th.it it was intended to introduce an important change in the passenger- tioket system on the New Zealand railways, by -abolishing " return" tickets. When a supplementary Gazette was issued last week containing a revised scale of charges, it was supposed that this included the proposed change, and some people were much puzzled to discover any difference. This is not surprising, seeing that the intended' alteration will not come into force for some little time, probably not for two months, certainly not, before next year. The reason of this delay is the" magnitude of tho work involved in pi'jnfcing an entirely newsupply^of tickets, to the number of some hundreds of thousands. This will necessarily occupy a lengthened period, and It is impossible to say just now how long it will take to get the new ticket ready. We may state, however that the present intention is to reduce the first-class single fai-es, from the present rate of 3d mile- to 'ityl,' and the second-class from 2d to l.jd. It will thus be evident that , while single journeys will cost ono-third leas than at present, double journeys will come to just the same as now. A further reduction will be made in the Saturday and Sunday fares, On those days single tickets will be issued either way at 1 A<l per'mile first-class, land Id socond-cln->B." The following five railway .lines across the North American Continent are now (according p3,>, tliia DettUeJte Industrie Zeitiiitg), eith'ev completed or- in course of, construction ;'— l," The oldest Hue,' JNchv : York to San Francisco, 5390 kilometres"; .Omaha to Son Francisco, 8072 kilomoties ; called the Union Central Pacific R/uUvay. A branch, the Oregon Pacific Railway, ending at Yaquina, is 1248 kilometres long. 2. To the North is the Northern' Pacific Railway, which begins at Duluth, on Lake Superior, and ends at the mouth of the Columbia or Oregon River near I£aloma, with branch at the end to TaGOUtf. on Puget Sound. The stretch Duluth to&oloma, is 3075 kilometres long, of which, in the east, the p^ece, Duluth to Glendive, 400 kilqmetres< is completed ; also a considerable; I?iiece in the 'iweat., This , line,, which traverses foftite a»4 well wooded regiops,' will be finished in ",» $*W years/ 3- ?he Canadian Pacific , Railway w,iH' traverse only English territory, andtehd'iin t\\e west, 1 about 44deg latitude. The»portion Quebec to 'Nipissing'lias been first con- 1 structed, about 700 kilometres. The whole line will be over 500 kilometres long audwill E r P b iL b ty * ake :? ] l??^ t l me to c6mplete. Ac i. <Tb.e, r Atlantic. Pacific Railway, of ' wnicli' ' the , welr-known Topekja a^djSattta'tfe Hne forms i£por4 ti9nMrS93Q J kUoitfetres long, < from^NW Yorjc fto Ssift Francisco. 1 '^Laftlyu (5), the Spuifer,Fa«iftC{f|^l^*F^,;^K9i?te Savanna, to $eprj;ia, apprpximateJyu>B?; ,tween' &tfh^^a<^BSifo ?«ss&© of latitudes, "by Arizbna.to S i an;-Franci<»co, at last uniting. ' with < the , Pacifid Kne:' f Itfllengthf^Urbl^iSO^llometM

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