The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1755, 4 October 1883, Page 2

The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

Equ.ii .md e\.ict jtist'n c to all men, Of wlntsoeM-r state, or persuasion, religious or Herc°liall tlic Press the People's HrM maintain, Unawrd bj influence and unbribcd tiy y.un. THURSDAY, OCT. 4, JSSJ.

The Wellington correspondent of the Herald telegraphs on Tuesday :— I nuclei htancl it is unlikely that any ioaiiangement of Mini.steri.il pen tf olios, will take nlace until after the new year.

A party of constabulary are still busily engaged iei>.urni{j the CainbmlgoOxfoid ihucl.

At the Resident Magistrate's Cmut, Hamilton, yesterday, before Mr H. W. Northcioft, R.M.,onlyafe\vunirai«)rtant civil cases wore disposed of.

We have received the October number of that useful and indispensable little publication, Grudnei's Auckland Penny Time Table.

It has been reported to the Auckland Acclimatisation Society that tiout have been Heen in the Komata Creek, near Ohincnnui, but it ih thought that the fibh aie young mullet.

The adjourned meeting of the Hamilton Borough Council was held last night, ami was of a somewhat lively character. Owing to the length of the report, we are obliged to hold it over.

A large quantity of plant, to oe used mi Mr D. Fallon's contract, OxfordLichfield section of the Rotorua railway, passed through Hamilton yebterday, en loute for the scene of operations. Tins is an indication that the work is to be pushed forward without delay.

The hours of evening service at S. Andrew's, Cambridge, and at Ohust Clmvoh, Ohaupo, have been altered for the feuminu', beginning with Sunday next, to seven o'clock and half-past three respectively.

Messrs E. B. Walker and Rich, accompanied by Mr A. B. Stubbing, sur- ; veyor, will start' immediately through the, country to Napier for the purpose of arranging the purchase of and surveying the ! various stations on the overland route to, Hawk<j'« Bay in connection with the Auck- ( land Storage and Freezing Company. ; j

A large number of valuable books have arrived at Cambridge from Wellington to supplement; tho Armed Constabulary libraries at Cambridge, Kinikihi, and Alexandra. This addition to fcta valuable col] lection already on hand should bo much appreciated by the men at present stationed in Waikato. - „ , 1

At the criminal sittings of thffl Supreme, Gwrt, .Auckland,

Robert Golding pleaded guilty to threo charges of breaking and entering and stealingdiMpery and jewellery, and wa^senteuc ;-d to three years' ponal servitude Anm« Dobbyn was acquitted on a charge of stealing seven pounds. Annie Quinn, of Hamilton, was acquitted on a charge of uttering a forged cheque. This case is reported at length in another column.

A meeting of the creditors in the estate of .Lime* Daley, Hamilton, who lately left for Ban Fiv.hchco, and was declared a bankrupt, was held at Auckland on Tuesday. Mr (ieoipre appeared for the petitioning creditors, MessiaL. D. Nathan «uul Co. The liabilities were net down at £LOOO, and the assets at £1200. Mr R. K. Davis was elected trustee.

His Honour Mr Justice Gillies, on Tuesday, complimented Mv Hatrick, a diaper of Hamilton, for having, when he gave a blank cheque to a per-,011, bigncd that pprson's name on the " butt " of the cheque torn out, so that th<» document could lie tr.ieod. His Honour said if other people in business followed this example the administration of justice would be much a^Ktod, and crime would often be brought home to persons who now escaped punishment. — Heiald.

The usual weekly meeting of the Cambridge Mutual Improvement Associatoin w<v« held at tho courthouse on Tuesday evening List, when the attendance was not so huge as could have been expected. Mr H, Stringer read an excellent essay on " Tobacco and its uses." The esa.iy, which was well compiled, and contained many interesting extracts from the writings of authonties on the smoking question, wan favourably criticised by the members, and the essayiht was warmly thanked for his production. A letter' of apology was lcccived from the .Rev. W. Hvans for his unavoidable absence.

The following specials to the Press Association, dated London, October Ist and 2nd, have been published in the N.Z Herald :— There appears to be now some prospect of France modifying its scheme for the establishment of convict .settlements on the Pacific— The Orient Company is trying to purchase several of the Pacific Company's steamers, in order to employ them on the Orient Immigration Service, which commences in December next.— The gunboats Forward and Swinger h,i\e been oidored to proceed to the Austialian station.— At a Toiy meeting at Birmingham, at which there w.is an immense attendance, lesolutions condi'inning tho Government were pas->ed.— The Daily News expresses the o])iiuon that it is haidly possible that the Free Trade party can long leiiiiim in the minority in victoria.— Pi ofes.sor Dicey, in a letter to the Tunes, contends that the action of Mr Service in preventing the Tiiih informers from landing in Austialia was in defiance of the law. —The builder-, of the Au-ttr.il, in their eyiilonoe at the inquiry, snppoit the stability of the vessel.

It would seem as if the flowery day.s of Native Lands Cmufcn aio now, like Mi B.uki-,, going out with the tide. What, between the increased wisdom of the clos-e observing aboriginal, his gi eatei power»w er» of di«iceimnent in leg.ud to matteis which immediately concern hi.s soci.il and nior.il nelfaie, his de.she to do for hunselt what has liitheito bjon done for him ; what, with new legislation in the administiation of native lands, and in the conduct of the comt->, the spio.uhng.ind inculcation of the honefical doctrines of temperance, hocial economy, and Chustiamty, which, for a long time ignored by the native mind, aie now being warmly embraced; and last, but not least, the elevating belief tli.it with the ad\antagus of education, secuhu and lehgions, which they ha%e inherited fiom their European neighbour, the Maoiis aie fast getting on a hnel with that gieat people, Nathe Lands Comts have ceased to be looked upon by the business public as the gie.iL .source of income and prosperity which they undoubtedly have been in the past. It has been of Cambiidge that it owes its cvi.stenco and pio>penty solely to land comts, but we cannot allow this statement to go t'oith altogethei unqualified. Cambridge has always been the thriving centioof one of the liist agricultural distiicts in the pi ovince, and dining the long nitei vals betw con eacli couit and its sueCssoi, the. pi ogress of the town has been almost equally as waikc-d as when a couit w .is sitting. With the vast area of e\celIcnt .igucultui aland pastoral land, which lias been i eolauned in the outlying district, and that which is at present in course of ledemption, Cambridge will alway.s be a ] nospei oils settlement, and those who ha\e o-.tabli»hed thenisv.'hes in business theice.m haully fail to reap their full lewaul. As was e\i>ected, the land court, which opened at Canibiulge ve-teulay, was adjourned without the piohpeet of anything appioaching a jiiolongud .sitting being held at an oaily date. The couit will io-f»pen on the l'.lth Decomber, and again adjourn to some futuie date.

" The Stranger" inDunedin Public Oliinion .-ay& :—": — " Wo have all heaid of the hislnnan who, upon landing in New York, accustcd the first mini he met us follows: ' Cm ye tell me, ay ye plaice, ay there s a ({over'mint 111 tins counthry '!" and 1 eceived as <v reply the laconic niton og.ition ' WliyV to winch lio rejoined^ 'J3ekays, ay theie is, I'm agin it. Well, Sir (ieoige (hey wan placed in a similar position duvwiff the List week of the session. When the Speaker was about to call for a division on n ceiUin nieivmvo, Hir (ioorgo nwc and e\clahned, ' What is the question, .sir ? Becinse T would like to move an Amendment

on it, ' Tne following additional bonuses on colonial industiics aic ofiererl by tho Government •— £500 for the production by machinery permanently established in New Zealand of the first 10,000 gallons of linseed oil of good marketable quality from linseed giown in the colony ; tr>oot r >00 for the fiist 25 tons butter, or .10 tons of cheese (pioduced in one I facto) v), which shall be exported from New Zealand, and sold at such pi ice in the foieign maiket as shall show ai tides of fair quality ; £300 for the fiisfc 50 tons of starch manufactured in the colony, which shall be .shipped to the English market, and for which a satisfactory ceitificatt 1 sh.ill be given that the staicli is of good qiulity ; £")00 for the production of the first 50 tons of i>nnting paper made by machinery permanently established and working in the 1 colony, the bonus to be paid on the fiist b( ma 'fide bale of paper. The conditions are that intimation of intention to claim the bonus must be made before 31st. December, ISS3, and the claim must be made before 30th June, 1884.

The " Opinione," an Italian paper, gi\es a lamentable description of the miserable condition of the smaller landowners m Sardinia, and of the giiovous effects of the burdensome taxes levied on lich and poor alike, and falling with crushing weight _ on the many small piopeities, which yield barely sufficient for the commonest needs of the tenants. In the town and district of Algheio alone there have been, during the past year, no fewer than 453 evictions for unpaid taxes. Executions were first levied on movables, but the value being insufficient to cover the amount of arrea.ru, the lands were taken and sold by auction. Cases of eviction are common throughout the island, notwithstanding the increased commercial activity created by the railways .md the working of the mines. Some distiicts, however, have suffered instead of gaining. Alghero especially, like Ravenna on the mainland, has been cut off by the introduction of railways, which have carliedthe stream of progress in other directions, and left her isolated.

The London Times recently published &ome interesting news about New Zealand— interesting, we mean, to the coloniatb who had not previously heard the intelligence. "Native affairs," we learn, " are in a promising condition, all difficulties* between the Government and the native chiefs having terminated. The natives, however, ai c not .satisfied with the laud Act, and Nihnui, a prominent chief, has given e^ idence before a Parliamentary Committee in regard to the working of that measuie." "Tawaiko, the Maori r l£wg,",it, is further stated, "is about to proceed toJjjngland, in order to have an audieftce, ftm. Queen Victoria. " Tawaiko, bbv» the TJflß.ru Herald, of course, is our old friend gaftyhiao. but who the dickens is Nihnui? What is this Parliamentary gommittee|£'in6redver, before whom Mr Nihnui hwb'been'i giving evidence? This ' news was published in London on the 13th ! June, and &< itwut'porfcpdto have been re- ' ceiyed ,by ,t»Jeg?fcph via Ban JYajicisco, it i mustrhavo, lefy New Zealand about tHree , weeks eauier. ;But Parliament did not , jneetfeirthe Urn June, on the day after ! 'th*' pk^r*ph M *i)peared in the, Times. 'i Tile a)4riQuncem6nt as to Nihnui'» action I the least, a little pre- - 'A-j& JCTeKti^dwtl has been written II '^BPf concerning ensaage^a' WMyWWffi&ml applied to preserved •or I M^K^^^A' other Kinds' of 1 green* K^^M^Mpore tha'li" probable that I WIMMMMiGP found useful in' 1 Australia : ooynWea, «ometacQo.u^'

of successful experiments with it in Canada mid elsewhere May fo found interesting to colonial readers. This process is simple, enough. It is only necessary to provide an air-tight receptacle, and this can best be obtained by digging pits, or holes, which are lined with stone, brick*, or wooden planks, the walls being raised home height above the surface of the ground. The green stuff, whether hay or maize stalks, is chopped into small pieces of about an inch, and thrown into a shoot, by which they are conveyed into the " silo "or pit. When in the 1 lit the stuff is carefully f>prpad out, and trampled or pressed down. When the lilo is quite full it is covered over with planks, on top of which are heavy weights. In these pits the food remains till required for use, then a portion of the plant cover i« removed, and the silo is cut into as into an ordinary haystack, care being taken to remove the ensilage as carefully as posiible, and replacing the cover immediately the work is done. After careful examination it has been found that a couple of tons of maize ensilage are equal to one ton of good hay, and a* maize given a crop of 25 tons to the acie, while hay barely gives three, it will b& readily understood that maize ensilage is a cheaper and more profitable product than grass. Animals, moreover, are particularly fond of this new kind of food.— Me Ivor's Annual.

Skeat's larger Etymological Dictionary, says a correspondent of a contemprary, can hardly be recommended as light reading, yet it is not altogether a bad book for a spare half hour. The severity of Skeat in suppressing speculative etymologies is very crushing. I recollect once proposing to the late Judge Chapman a derivation for " Punch and Judy," which I believed to be entirely original, and my own invention. I suggested that the thrilling tragi-comedy bearing that name must be a .survival from the miracle plays or mysteries of the middle ages, that Punch himself-j-with his " riotous rootitoot," dear to the ears of schoolboys— must originally have stood for Pontius Pilate, whilst " Judy " was a reminiscence of " Judas " or possible of " Judaei." the Jews. The Judge, no mean authority in such matters, thought the shot was not a bad one— had not met with the suggestion before. Turning to Skeat, however, I am snuffed out at once. Skeat has met with the suggestion (where or how, goodness knows— T thought it was my own), and dismisses it curtly in ono line— \\ ith a deiisive noto of exclamation at the end : " Judy no moie stands for Judaei or Judas than Punch for Pontius !" " Punch," it seems, is from the Italian punchinello (figure in a puppet-show), which is a diminutive of pulicno, a young chicken. " Judy " is the usual abbreviation for Judith, once common as a female name. After thin blow I turn with trembling to " petrel," a woid with a pnotical etymology which Ifeaied Skeat might have seen fit' to shatter. But. " petiel," is safe. The woid petiel he savi, "is formed as a diminutive f Petre, or Peter, and the allusion is to the action of the bird, which stains to walk on the sea, like St. Petei."' Kight you aie, Ske.it my boy! and now, whilst amongst the p's let us see whether you are equally sound on the subject of "pansy," — .mother word which may offer temptations to a informing philologist. But •' pansy "is left undisturbed. He gives it, " Fiench, penspp, a thought ; thus it is the flowor of thought or remembrance ; of for-get-me." If this etymology had polished, what would have become of the dainty allusiveness of iioor Ophelia's lino — " Theie is pansies, that's foi thoughts" ?