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AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

•Kqu il .md px.ict justii c to all men, Of wliitMM'\ur state or persuasion, religious or pulitir.il. Here shall the Pi ess the People'-* riclit maintain, Unnwrd bv influcnrc and unbribed by fjain.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 188 S.

delayed , the Government haveJßcidfid to of the tiinmn which" to make the annual payments'., In other words, the first of tho debentures will not become payable Until next year. Afire broke out in the stores of Messrs Robertson and Maxwell, corner of Upper Queen Street and Karangahape road, Auckland at about 1 am yesterday; and resulted in the total destruction of the building ami injury to several adjoining houses. The losp, which is mostly covered by insurance, is estimated at £2000 The Rev. H. R. Dewsbury will deliver his lecture on " Tom Hood " at To Awamutu on Monday, and at Cambridge on Tuesday evening. Mr T. P. Campbells lecture on Byron and Burns, in connection with the Cambridge Mutual Improvement Society, which was to have been delivered on Tuesday, has been put off. In the House yesterday Mr Bathgate moved a motion affirming the desirableness of removing the seat of Government to the South Island, and establishing a legislative capital there. After a short debate the motion, which merely served to waste time, was lost. Messrs Sheehan, Swanson, Tole and other North Island members voted for the motion. At the anniversary services at S. Andrew's, Cambridge, on Friday evening the 3lst inst., and the following Sunday, the preacher will be the Rev. G. H. Somerset \Y T alpole, incumbent of S. Mary's Parnell, Auckland, and late of the diocese of Truro. There will be a social gathering on Thursday, September 13th, in the Public Hall, as announced by advertisement. We are in receipt of the second number of that excellent publication, The New Zealand and Australian Bee Journal, published in Auckland, and edited By Mr Hopkins, of the Matamata Apiary. We cannot too strongly coin mend it to the notice of bee-keepers. The contents of the present number are of a very interesting character. They emlracc editorial , articles, letters, reports, queries and replies, and carefully selected clippings from foreign journals. Dr Cowie, Bishop of Auckland, a^ deputy chancellor of the New Zealand University, conferred the degree of B.A. upon Messrs W. Tomlinson, C. Clayton, and J. H. Wilson, at the Choral Halt Auckland, on Thursday evening, There was a larue assemblage of ladies and gentlemen and inteiesting addresses were delivered by the Bishop, the ilev. D. Bruce, Mr Bourne, head-master of the Grammar School,and the Professors of the Auckland Univeisity College. Mr Wilson, one of the graduates, is the master of the Cambridge High School. In the House of Representatives on Thursday, the Joint Direct Steam Service Committee reported, recommending that no contiact be entered into before next session. The report was laid on the table for the consideration of Government. On the motion for going into committee of supply, Mr Mnith moved, " That in the opiuion of this House it is necessary to impose a land tav* on all the lands of the colony." After some discussion, dining which Sir George Grey and Mr Steward spoke strongly in favour of a laud tay, the amendment was lost on a division by 42 to 28. The , House then went into committee of supply. A meeting of the Hamilton Rowing Club was held on Thursday, the 16th inst., at the Hamilton Hotel, at 8 p.m. There were about twelve present, and the following members were elected on the committee, namely : Messrs Bindon, Burnand, Geo. Edgccumbc, Holloway, Johnson, Mourner and Warner. It was decided to purchase boats fiom the Auckland Rowing Club, provided they will allow the offer to remain open one month. The boats to be bought are :— One four-o.»red gunwale gig, £15 ; one pair-oared boat, £o ; one bculbng boat. £5. The rules of the Canterbury Rowing Club were adopted provisionally, and the secretary was instructed to wiitc and procure copies of rules of the Aucklmd Rowing Club, and also the Association rules. Tne first meeting of the members of the Cambiidge Skating Rink took place in the Public Hall on Wednesday evening last. A fair number of gentlemen ami ladies graced the floor, though to some this term can hardly be applied. There were certainly many gtoteaque attitudes, unsuccessful attempts, and Pickwickian feats w itnessed dm ing the practice, but these features arc indispensable to a new organisation of this kind, and will disappear in time. The nV>r was unclean and greasy, and not a little unpleasantness resulted fiom this cause. Doubtless by next meeting the committee will have effected arrangements t) hive the floor in proper order, and it may not be improbable that the funds will be of a sufficiently encouraging nature to permit at times of a little music. On the whole, the riuk promises 1o materially lighten the monotony of our winter evenings, and we have little doubt it wi'l soon be extensively patronised by the young people of the district. Bad habits, like ill weeds, not only grow, but spread. The student of human nature cannot help noting how some of the worst failings of the Fatherland are copied here. The behaviour of the students of the English Universities upon public occasions has long been notoriously bad, and the good and the wise of the land have repeatedly been obliged to run tho gauntlet through the cries, cat-calls, hootings and what-not of the larrikin "undergrads." Such conduct is tolerated in the students because their fathers from time immemorial were wont to play similar pranks, and the history of the colleges is interwoven with traditions of all sorts of devil-me-care escapades. There is nothing very noble, nothing very amusing in it, but there is something John Bullish about it, and it passes muster. So honourable, indeed, is the nractice considered, that it has been transplanted to New Zealand, and the students of Dunedin University gave a public exhibition of their peculiar talents in this direction on Thursday evening, the occasion being the presentation of diplomas to certain graduates. One of the gentlemen who addressed the assemblage was, were are told, repeatedly interrupted by the students, who employed the means so successfully used by thoir English confreres. With such excellent examples before them, it is not to be wondered at that the larrikins of Dunedin, who have not the advantages of their more polished brethren, should steadily refuse to believe that their conduct is discreditable.

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Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1735, 18 August 1883, Page 2

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AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE. Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1735, 18 August 1883, Page 2

AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE. Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1735, 18 August 1883, Page 2

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