The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1670, 20 March 1883, Page 2

The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

Kqu.il .uul e\act justw o to all men, Ofwliit-oi.\«n it.itc or persuasion, religious or politic il , Hero sh.ill the Picss the People's right maintain, Un.iw< d by influence .md unbnbed by i,Min.

TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1883.

Mr Bryce proceeded to Auckland on S.itiuday, anil will go thence to Wangatnti in tlie course of a week or so. The Oxford and Cambridge University boat race was rowed on the 14th, and resulted in a victory for the former by three lengths. Sergt- Major Carley left for WaiuUu on Saturday to put the cavalry through their usual six days' training drill. We understand that negotiations are pending for the purchase of Mr R. Lamb's mill property at Ngaruawahia by the VVaikato Steam Navigation Company. The Native Lands Court at Cambridge is still engaged with the Whakamam re-hearing. Dr. Buller's witness, Aperahama te Kume, was under crossexamination by Mr Sheehan yesterday. Francis Crawford was charged at the Hamilton Police Court yesterday, charged with being drunk and using offensive language in a public place in Hamilton East on Satwulay night. The offence having been proved, a fine of os (with cost>>) was imposed for tka first offence, and 20a for the second. The architect of the Waikato Cheese Factory has written to the directors to the effect that the specifications have not been adhered to by the contractor in all rcspect3. The directors met on Saturday, and resolved to ask the architect for a more explicit report. The Ngaruawahia Public Library Committee have expended the Government grant in aid, amounting to £S 1a 7d in the purchase of 63 volumes of travels, biography, and fiction. The aim of the committee has been to complete liflfcs of books written by popular authors whose former works are on the shelves. Mr Henry Lewis, of Te Awamutu, was the purchaser of Mr Kamsay's potatoes referred to in theee gohimns a short fcime ago. This crop, it is chested, will give a gross return to the grower .of £1400, Mr Lewis has made a further speeutoifott in the same line, having purchased from Hv Bevtvam, of Rnngiaohia, another lot of 49 Umw »t the price of £4 per ton, delivered Into it& truck. Mr E. C Shepherd, <*f Whatawhata, called at our office yesterday, cud showed us a beet root grown on his farm, &em soeil brought out from Germany by the tfi/t* Mr Wiel, and obtained from Mr W. A, titotam* The root, which is of the Red G»w# vmoty, weighs 13ill«. without the top, ftyt M JS « of course, too heavy for suga* jpittW&t ) )at . for feeding cows it would be a ff« » The root way be seen at Itnox's HaintJion j Auction 3Mfotffc ... . .. A very wvfltft resolution, to the effcefc that » #^fiP*«frt P« nn t e(l } a Maori should ha pkced «b fcl,;e brjdge for the gaidance of iw«MPg<»Si jKW M**™ at the meeting of fcli« BofOfig^ f^tmd last nigh t. Attention W«# 4I»JW ff. *»» fcact that the police would opt \w in a paulum to take proceedings against ft Maori Urn riding over the bridge at other than a watfcfog pace, or, at least, would not be able to ttMHW A conviction in case of such an oeemeejWty there being no notice intelligible to the» iff Jf/im them against doing so. Splendid yields of wheat are *c* j ported i# the Te Awamutu district. Mr Bertram, of R/M)giaohia, finished threshing on Friday jfot, and the return is fifty-five bushels to |tfo«flpre, a crop \mprecedented in '>yaikp,tq. |fp Rarasay, dn theadjoraing^ar^ona'wuch jL^eer area than Mr Bertram's, ■hasy6l>tain,<>d if. i yield of 46 bushels. Mr Wright, ' the i local seed, meydfifint,* . BWi', g^wed l Mr BertiWt' wbeat.'^nd'iuterid.Jlip hol4, ,»t

The sitting of the' district Court at Hamilton commi'ni-cdyesturdMy, before His Honour Judge? Smith. U.W only case heard was tlint of Lovettw. Marshall, claim. £'s9 18s Id., balance, of account for gravel." Mr O'Neill appeared /for plaintiff. 'The case arose but of a dispute as ho mcaeursmenh After hearing evidence, His Honour reserved judgment until tlii3 morning. To-day the caso Mason v. Oaudiii, cl.tim £40 for damages allegod to have been done to * plaintiff a nursery by defendant's cow," will "bo heard, bofor"e a j»«'y. .* \ \ ' ' ' ,' One of the delayed cable messages dated London, Man-h 10th, informs ns that «in arrest has been made in connection with the letter containing explosive rnateiials addressed to the Viceroy of Ireland, which was iccently detected in the. po3t office at Ballydehob, County Cork, Ireland. — A subsequent message on the 13th says :— lt is announced that Earl Spencer, the Viceroy of Ireland, and Loid President of the Council, has resigned the latter position. He will, howoxer, romain in the Cabinet. A new President will be appointed, whose duties will be viittially those of Minister of Agriculture. At Friday's meeting of the Auckland Board of Education au application was received from Alexandra for improvements to the teacher's dwelling. Consideration of the matter waa deterred until an estimate is received. Mr Allright, architect, reported on the drainage of the school ground at Cambridge. It was, he said, very defective, owing to the action of the Town Board, and the property was being damaged. Sewerage from the brewery near by flowed on to the property. The ground had been opened up by the Town Board. The board s solicitor, Mr Lusk, recommended that a notice should be served on the Town Board.— lt was resolved to adopt this recommendation. A great deal of improvement has taken place in Kihikihi during the last few months in the shape of new buildings and additions and alterations to old ones. The probability of an early sitting of the Native Lands Couit has no doubt impressed the business people there with the necessity of being pi ('pared for a great addition to theic business. Foremost, amongst the new buildings is Mrs Corboy's hotel, for which we near several offers have alrsady been made. Some few alterations have still to be made in connection with some portion of the older building, and the furnishing has just been commenced. When completed an advertisement in this paper will duly notify the same to the public, and we shall then be able to give a full description of the building and accommodation. The following items of European intelligence \\ ere delayed last week by the break-down of the cable between Australia and Java, The dates range from the 9th to the 14th hist:— Byrne, who was arrested at Paris, has been released. — Sir Salnr Jung, whose death was announced recently, is now believed to have been poisoned. — Mr Gladstone lesumed the leadership of his party in the House of Commons on the 10th, when he was received with much enthusiasm. — The atrocities committed on the natives by the Boers in the Transvaal arc receiving the attention of Government. — Mr J. G. Biggar, M.P., for Cavan, Ireland, has been mulcted in £300 damages, for breach of promise of marriage.— Five thousand Socialists made a demonstration in Paris on the 10th, and were dispersed by the police, who are taking measures to prevent a recurrence. Numerous arrests were made. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Louise Michel.— Her Majesty's ship Dryad, on the East Indian station, has been ordered to Tamatave to watch British interests in Madagascar in the present crisis.— M.ikoff, the Russian statesman, has committed suicide. There aro suspicions that he had been guilty of peculation in the service. He was Stato Secretary.— A further amendment to the Irish Land Act by Mr Parmdl was rejected by 250 to G2. — In consequence of information supplied by the informers, Kavanagh and MoJloy, the knhes u&cd by the Pluenix Park assassins have been found in tlio Dublin Canal, together with weapons winch are proved to have been used in several other murders. — Before leaving Ireland for America Mr Egan, the secretary of the Land League, vested the funds ot that institution m Mr Painell, Mr Biggar, and Mr Ju&tin McCarthy.— The warrant for the arrest of Sheridan will not be executed.— Mr P.irnell announces his intention of visiting America after Easter,— Mr A, W. Dilke, late member for Nowcistle-iiirTyne, and brother of Sir Charles Dilke, is dead. At the native meeting at Tauwhare, on Friday, wo learn that in addition to what appeared in our columns on Saturday, Mr Bryce, in response to a demand made by the natives ioc a return ot this block, some 3000 acres, s-ud that the land referred to had originally been set aside for return to rebel natives of the Ngatihaua tribe, provided tlioy game in and settled down peaceably, that the Janrl had been kept open for many years witboitf tfopir taking advantage of it, it was now too. Jate, it was Government land and woujd shortly be cut up and sold, and those Europeans who had been making a4vano.es to natives towards the purchase of this land would lose their money. Under these circumstances the Tamahere Koad Board will rightly look for a return either from the Government or from the natives of a sum of £60 odd paid to the native claimants to allow of certain drainage operations being carried out when the Victoria road was being formed. The above particulars were obtained from one who ought to l,e an authority, but we have since recaived Me ffljjqwhig version from a correspondent, Tho ft6POij:nss contradict each other, and unfortunately we have not had time to verify either before publication :—": — " In your article headed 'The Native Minister in Waikato in Saturday's paper you say a3 far as you know the Tanwharelands have not been allocated to natives. Just so ! It is, however, pretty generally known that by New Zealand Oazette, No. 109, of 23rd October, 1379, every aero was by warrant of His Excellency the Governor, allocated in lots of from one to 503 acres to rebel natives of the Ngatihaua (Thompson's . tribe), 413 person's in all. The question under consideration by Mr Bryce was not allocation, but whether the land should not be made inalienable. Balk .natives and Europeans object to that cowvhG, The natives because they have all, or n'eiuty &U ? really sold, the land, and the Europeans fepause the land being a great deal of it swamp inquires draining, and owners of adjoining swamp land are hindered in their draining hy #& natives holding the outlets, to which they" will 4Q nothing themselves nor permit tholv neighbours |q dq anything without black mail, gfiuie five years ago before the land was aofeuaUy gazetted to them the Cambridge Road Board had to pay them £60 for permission to open an outfall drain to dry the Vicroad." The CoJiowing is a fair specimen of the rubbish f W»oi £ains currency in the South Island respecting northern affairs. The extract is from the Oamaru tfa?h— "Mr Bryce is 'working hard in the intepeqhs of northern land speculators ; but he diagswle [another fatal. blunder. He ha? Janice to political expe4fo»cy, fee $V te£ ISS*? # bai V* of daageWg, bewtw i«W and nnscmmi- , lous, assassin's, whose F^ure $ucfr ton*, j they understand and praettee BWH»g sJsjb ! than the precept { an eye for an eye and * ! tooth for a tooth.' He has done this j without obtaining any corresponding adv*»taee, although no advantage, of whatever Wad, would have been sufficient warrantfor fcfa/? ,&?$ he has just performed, an act which has r Aligned our nationality. If we are not greatly mjsfcakeiy he and those who are associated ,w,itn -him in | the Cabinet will be driven froni.qffice^as #i|# reward of his indiscretion''^

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