The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1696, 19 May 1883, Page 2

The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

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SATURDAY, MAY I9, 1883.

Wiien, a year or two ago, an attempt was made to establish a farmers' cooperative company in Waikato, the promoters attached considerable weight to iheir proposal to build suitable granaries in different parts of the district. The agricultural public, to \vho*n appeals for support were made, freely admitted that these storehouses would prove a great benefit in the event of the farmers going largely into graingrowing. They argued that the expense would not then be warrantable, because, in the first place, the area of wheat land was very limited, and, in the second, the produce met with a ready sale as soon as it was threshed. The experience of this year has proved this reasoning to be fallacious. A largo quantity of wiieat has been grown in the district this past season, larger perhaps than was anticipated at the time to which reference has been made above. Moreover, a very good market exists for it. And yet some of the farmers are likely to bo subjected to considerable loss, simply from the want of suitable storage room. The price offered for the grain by the loe.il buyers is greatly in 'advance of the figure obtainable in Auckland, and it must be considered that the railway charged would further eat into the latter. Consequently, Waikato producers are not Hkoly to go from home to sell if they can possibly help it. Tut this storage question is a serious di'liculty to face. The case stands thus : The local millers are prepared to purchase nil the grain in the district, but it is out of the question that they can take delivery of it all at once. They simply haven't got the storage accommodation necessary. "We belive the W.S.N. Company have rented every building in Ngaruawahia available for the purpose, and as many of these are by means suitable, it follows that the company are undertaking a risk which it is ! nothing but fair they should expect the farmers to share. But there is a limit to this oven, and there are settlers just now who cannot find a purchaser in the district who will take immediate delivery. By and bye, as the present stock is worked up into flour, room will be available, but by that time the rats and mice will have colonised the grain and reduced its bulk. The grower, in such a case as this, has to ask himself the question : Shall I send my wheat to A uckland, and accept a lower price for it, or shall I keep it here, and by so doing lose by the ravages of vermin as much as the difference between the price offering here and that to be got in town 1 Now the erection of granaries would remove the necessity for asking such a question as this. It would do more : It. would enable the growers to make terms with the buyers. Farmers are not generally burthened with too much cash, it is true, and occasions arise when they are compelled to sell even at a sacrifice. But the establishment of gratia- ies would meet the difficulty suggested in this reflection also. No banking institution would hesitate to inakp liberal advances on grain properly stored and secured against the attacks of vermin. The subject is one which the farmers would do well to again consider. This coming season the amount of land under wheat will probably far exceed that of any previous year, and with ordinary luck the yield should be proportionately greater. Agriculture is as yet only a tentative science in Waikato, but it is certain that with each year's experience grain growing will approach more and more to something like finality. It follows that the question of storage will become one of the first importance, and it cannot be grappled too early.

The banks in Waikato will be closed on Thursday next (Her Majesty's , Birthday).

Mr David Richardson has been duly elected without opposition to fill the vacancy in the Cambridge Town Board.

The secretary of the Te Awamutu Race Committee invites tenders up to, the 1 21st inst. for the gates, booths, &c, in connection with the forthcoming races on the Queen's Birthday.

The police request us to state that they found a Paisley shawl on the Piako road, near Hiiiton's Gully, on Wednesday morning last. The owner can have it on applying at the Hamilton police station.

Professor Sample, the celebrated American horse-trainer, who has been astonishing the Auckland public during the last week or two, is announced to deliver a free lecture at Cambridge on Wednesday next, and in the Oddfellows' Hall, Hamilton, on the following. Friday. The professor Invites all those who are interested in the liumaue treatment of dumb animals to atteud.

Mr J. M. Dargaville, M-H.R.. addressed his constituents at Auckland West on Thursday night, ayd received a unanimous vote of thanks and confidence. The address was chiefly devoted to the subject of, the North Island Trunk Railway, Mr Dargaville accuses the Government of lukewarmness 1 . ,in the* matter.

An individual named James Murphy, a well-known ' character in Hamilton, was brought before Mr Northoroftj yestejxljfty, pn^ charge of yagran.oy $ "* " • - -1 , «, t . ."i -'si; \*i 4i'aii\h-iilitli.

and drunkenness. ( Prisoner pleaded hard* to be let off, and tlffe .Resident Magistrate ' said he would discharge him on his own recognisances, p,n; condition ..-that ,he cleare^out^t-the^towni - /MWnl?y made a soleiriwforoinise to'leave%Ke place foft'hwitb. ■::; U U b - \.

ThelancyJfairHn connection with S. AndV^,^Dainbndge K i^a\l^'tiseti;to'be held nextThiiraclny and' Friday. Contributions are invited to be sent in early.

The brethren taking part in the foundation of ;thp Alpha iLodfte; Cajnbridge, are requested to n\pet ajjjfc Kirkwtffad's hotel o« Mondays cv v enin^nejtt at 8 p.m., to elect assistant officers.

A cable message received yesterday from Hobait informs us that the two youths Ogdcn,and Sutherland, who were committed for, trial for the - atrocious murders in Epping Forrest district, have been found guilty and sentenced to death.

In referring to the train arrangements for the Queen's Birthday we were led into nn error. It was stated that "the ordinary trains " would be suspended on that day. This is incorrect. The only trains cancelled on the 24th is that leaving Auckland at 6.40 a.m., and that learving Hamilton at 2.5 p.m. The ordinary pnssfcuger trains, north and south, will run as usual.

The Christchurch Normal School Committee have granted the use of the class rooms for religious teaching from halfpast eleven to twelve, and half- past threp to four. One member stated that at Rangiora religious instruction was given for the last half-hour in tho morning by teachers who volunteered, the children not being dismissed till tho religious instruction waa finished.

The lecture to be delivered at the Public Hall, Hamilton, on Monday evening by Mr H. G. Seth Smith, District Judge, promises to be an intellectual treat of no mean order. Mr Seth Smith has achieved a hitjh reputation at a lecturer, and we learn that he treats the subject upon which he will address a Hamilton audience, viz., the "History of Writing," in a singularly interesting and inatiuctive manner, It is in response to an invitation from the incumbent of S. 1 Peter's Church that Mr Seth Smith has kindly consented to deliver his l'ctnre, the proceeds of which will be applied in reduction of the debt ou the church.

The annual election of the officers of Lodge Beta, Waikato, No. 450, 1.C., took place at the lodge-room, Masonic Hall, Hamilton East, on Thursday evening last. The following is a list of the n *'wly -elected officers : — W.M., Bio. W. Murray ; S.W., Bro. S. McLernon ; J.W., liro. George Edt»ecunibe ; Secretary and Treasurer, Bro. 8. E. G. Smith ; S.D., Bro. W. Carson ; J. 1)., Bro. Isaac Coates; 1.G., Bro. Dey ; Tyler, Bro. P.iscoe. S. John's Day (24th June), falling on a Sunday, a meeting of the lodge will be held to determine on whit day the installation ceremony shall take place.

The frozen meat imports do not seem to have bi ought about a revolution in the English trade yet. A correspondent of the Bristol Tunr* ami Muror thus jocularly alludes to the subject : — There must be something radically wrong about the meat trade. It chops about so, ami yet there is no curtailment, or, shall I say, ostailment in prices. One day wo are told there is to be a mutton famine, while the next we are informed that "prime consignments" of frozen carcases of sheep and bullocks have arrived from New South Wales and New Zealand in first-rate condition : that the quality is superior to American meat, and that there is no end to the supply, as the stock of sheep in Australia amounts to to the large total of eighty millions. Nevertheless, the bu teller's bill comes in regularly, and, as they say on the Stock Exchange, "prices are maintained."

A writer in an English paper remarks : — Mr John Morley's election for Newcastle-on-Tyne adds another to the list of journalists in the House of Commons. They are now as thick there as blackberries, and their numbers will probably be increased at the next election, as Sir Algernon Borthwick, of the Monting /W, is likely to oust Mr Firth at Chelsea. Mr Thorn-is Gibson Bowles, of Vanity Fair, stands a good chance of getting in for Salford — a boroug'i which ought never to have been lost to the Conservatives, while Mr Levy Law son, of the Telegraph, is determined at nil hazards to write M.P. after his name. I wonder whether George Augustus Sala has selected his seat yet — although he is a strong Liberal, he would be a great addition to the grammatically speaking portion of the Legislature.

A very unique instance of extravagance ou the part of guardi.ms of the public purse has occurred at a Workhouse not fifty milei from Bristol. They wero a*ketl to'incrense the salary of one of their officers, nnd they nuhcotitingly doubled it ! The o.iso, however, is not so bad as it looks. A lad who had been brought up iv tho Workhouse from infancy, was promoted to a position in the muster's office as a reward for his good conduct, Being thus elevated, the guardians considered that hfl mu*t be classed amongst the officers and if that Was so he ought to have a salary. The salary agreed upon was threepence per week ! This tho Lid accepted graciously, and laid it by for a " rainy day." So he went on increasing in wealth and worth, and the master felt bound at length to bring his good qualities to the notice 01 the board. The guardians were delighted at having improved one of their pauper inmates into a respectable lid, and one of the board, remarking that worth should be rewarded, graciously proposed thtt the boy's salary should be doubled. A seconder was immediately found, aid amidst general approval on the part of the members the magnanimous vote was carried without a dissentient ! The question now seiiously arises, with the boy getting 6d. a week, '• What will he do with it?"

The Hamilton Road Board notify their intention to take certain land for a road. A meeting of the creditor? of A. G. Potter, Hamilton, will be hold ;it the 31st mst., to receive trustee's report and grant discharge. Mr T. G. Sandes, surveyor, notifies that he will be in the Te Awamutu and surrounding districts with a survey party for the next three or four weeks. Any survey orders , can. be left' at Mr Lewis' hotel. In consequence of Thursday next being the anniversary of the Queen's Bii thday, Mr J. S. Buckland will not hold a sale at the Waitoa and Waihou Yards on that day. Notifications by the Waikato County Council, in reference to taking polls of ratepayers under "The Roads and Bridges Construction Act," in the districts of Rangiriri and Kirikiriroa, for works on the main roads, appear elsewhere. The special attention of Waikato people is directed to the advertisement of the New Zealand Tweed Company which appears in another column. The manager of the company is Mr Joseph Moses, formerly in business in Hamilton, The, advertisement will repay perusal. Messrs S. Cochrane and Son, auctioneers, will Bell at the Land Mart, Auckland, on Monday, the 28th insb., at noon, by order of the in the estate of R. R. Ralph, Taupiri, the improved farm at Huntly lately in the occupation of Mr Ralph. The farm, as is well known, is very advantageously situated.

An Undkrtakbr's Reason. — Tarn Neil was wright and precentor in Edinburgh, and a very droll character in his way. Being questioned one day by a lady, at whose house he was employed, as to the reason why, .people of his profession were so exorbitant in theip charges for coffins, he looked very mysterious, and agreed to give her the necessary information in return,' foij a |giasa of whisky. The ■ stipulation'being "carried out, Tarn "said, f c Wee], Hia'am,,,it's just because they are peer brought book to |jq mended,"-