The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1771, 10 November 1883, Page 2

The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE

Equal anil ex;ict ju«ti«*e to all men, Ol wh it<-ciu««*'r bl.tte or^nsrsuHsioii. relijjtous or politic, i). Here sh ill tin 4 Prt-ssthi* t'eopif I *. ri»r'>' maintain, Una \\ r<l hv influence ami unbribrd by gain.

SAW Ii DAY, NOV. JO, 18S3.

Tin? little difficulty into which the horougli of Hamilton has been plunged does not seem to have discomposed (hi j members of the works committee very much. At the special mooting on Thursday a quorum of the. council was not obtained until twen y minutes past eight, at which time the chairman of the works committee (Or. Peat) and Or. Gaudin made their appearance. Or. Tippen, a gentleman who has always taken a .somewhat prominent part in the proceedings of the committee, was conspicuous by his absence. Cr. Bradley was absent unavoidably. Or. Cochrane had intimated his intention to be present, but from some cause or other did not turn up. Some of tho councillors never were remarkable for taking an intelligent interest in the affairs of the town, and we should not perhaps wonder at th^ indifference displayed in the present instance. 'Iheir talents lie in the direction of spending money, and the paltry consideration of keeping their expenditure within their income is hardly worthy of their attention. Many people find it useful, as well as agreeable, to direct public expenditure ; but it is neither pleas xnt nor profitable, in a certain sense, to h.ivo to pinch and save. It is well for the borough that there are in the council some who are not afraid to run the risk of becoming unpopular in pursuance of a policy of honest economy. Our remarks of Thursday, so we are told, have de «ply wounded the sensibilities of one or two members of the works committee. If such is the case we are sorry for it, but we cannot withdraw a single expression used. If we experience any sensation of regret at all, it is because we have let the blameAvorthy proceedings of the works committee pass without comment for so long a time. Some people entertain strange notions in regard to the relative positions of public bodies and the press, and the right of the latter to criticise the former. These individuals would prefer to conduct, the business of the council with closed doors. They must be taught a different creed, or they must be compelled to retire into the shades of domestic life. tSuch intellectual clams as these are out of their element at the table of a council, and should devote their brilliant talents to the conduct of small tea parties, where, if it so please them, the. newspaper may not come between the wind and their nobility.

Ks<;f,.\M> is a very bad corner, if we m.iy tiush the Republique Fr.ineaisc. This particularly friendly member ot the brothel ly press of France recently read the British Empire n very severe lecture, which onght, if Mr(»bulstone appreciates the kind intentions of his neighbours, to have drawn a humble letter of thanks fiom the Piime Minister. " It appears to us," thus writes the Kepublique " that the Australian Colonies may some day desire to emancipate themselves ; that the South African colonists may become rapidly disaffected ; th.it the inhabitants ot India may claim their autonomy in a tone that alone might constitute a grave danger if Russia lessened the distance that separates her from Cabul (she is getting nearer every day) ; and that Egypt, conquered in 12 minutes, may turn rebellious and ungrateful and show a disposition to doubt the disinterested intentions of Loid Dufferin. "What would England do if insurrections were to break out simultaneously in two or three different paits of the world ! Such an eventuality m.iy not be probable, but it is not impossible. And what would England do if some gieat European Power, taking advantage of these revolts, were to declare war against her !" We presume that, if all these dreadful eventualities came to pass, England would at once accept the position, and c.ive in with the hest grace possible. The "greatest empire the world has ever seen would no more dream of attempting to " boss " France under the circumstances, than she would think ot despatching .in army to fight the inhabitants of the great comet, should that ethereal rambler take it into its head to invade this orb of ours. The one contingency is just about as likely to arise as the other, and onr Gallic friends might with advantage drop the prophetic business, and look a little more closely into their own affairs.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales celebrated his forty-second birthday yesterday, having been lx»rn on the ttth November, 1841. The e\ent is generally celebrated throughout the British Empire. In Waikato the banks, business place*, and Government offices were all closed. Sports were held at Cambridge and a cricket match was played at Hamilton ; but a large number of the residents of thih distiiut, as is usual, spent the holiday at Auckland, visiting the agricultural show, etc.

Owing to the telegraph office being closed yesterday, we are unable to present our readers with the usual budget of late telegraphic news.

Sports will be held at Alexandra on Boxing Day.

A concert in aid of the building fund of the Tamahere church will be given at the Hautapu schoolhouse on the 11th December.

The protest against the action of of the Auckland Education Board in dismissing Mr Bell, music-teacher for Waikato, has beeu unanimously feigned by the Cambridge School Committee.

The bells of S. Andrew's Church, Cambridge, ranjj out a peal at sk o'clock yesterday morning, in honour of the Prince of Wales' Birthday.

The second anniversary service in connection with the Cambridge Baptist Tabernacle, will be held in the Tabamacle tomorrow. The Rev. A. Fail-brother will conduct the services, morning and evening.

The cnairman of the Piako County Coiuvral, at Cambridge, Mr J. P. Campbell, has received the following telegram from Mr Adams, manager of the Te Aroha tramway and new battery :—" I have to congratulate you on the well-deserved success of your efforts to develop the Te Aroha Goldfields. Stuff in tho battery shaping beyond expectation.—H. H. Adams.

The third day's racing of the V.R.C. Spring Meeting came 1 off on Thursday. Maiden Plate was won by Napier, the Flying Stakes by Brown-and: Bbse, the Spring' Handicap by Israelite, the Royal Park Stakes by Le Grand, the Oaks Stakes by Quality, and "the Veteran^, Stakesjby Magnet., 1, . ':

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about to carry out somo extensive earthi works at Mullfons' Gully on the HamiltouTaupiri main road. Thii ban long .boon required, as this gully has for some time prevented the carting of heavy loads over the otherwise good road. Tender* are to be in by Friday next. Wo abm notice that tho holes in the Tamahere bridge, which were getting very badj have been repaired. , Alid not a moment too soon.

The* good example of the Hamilton Domain Board in entering on the work of fish breeding in likely to bo followed by many other public bodies next year. The Alexandra Town Board havp applied for i and will obtain a small number of fish from Hamilton, and a fow will also bo given to Mr T. Hodgson, of Harapepe. The Harapope stream is well adapted for trout, being similar in character to the Oketu and Waitetuna, and according to Mr Hodgson, not unlike the trout streams in the county of Cumberland.

The committee of the Hamilton Domain Bo.ird appointed to arrange for fencing ftydney Square have accepted the tender of Mr F. Forrest at £00. The fonoo will ho constructed of puriri posts, «iv to the chain, ti vo No. (i and two barbed wires, or aeven in a.ll. On tlie v e-st side there will bu an ornamental jrato, with 12ft. of panel fencing on either hide. Half the co.st come-> out of the Domain Board funds, and the remainder has been guaranteed by Mr H. Steele, who has undertaken to collect Hiibscriptifiiw from the public. We trust the square will be planted with ornamental trees in the autumn.

The Rev. J. S. Hill held an evangelical service at the Public Hall, Hamilton, on Thursday night. There was a large attendance, and the rev. gentleman's address was listened to with marked ntten' tion. The choir sang a number of Moody and Sankey's hymns during the evening. Last night the Rev. Mr Hill exhibited a number of dissolving views of places of interest in Palestine, Egypt and elsewhere, together with some scenes from the Pilgrims Progress. The entertainment was intended for Sunday-school children, but a large number of adults were present, the hall buing comfortably filled. Mr Hill gave a descriptive lectuie, and altogether a very pleasant evening was pa^ed by the young folk. The children sang homo of Man key's hymn 1 * at interval-*, the words being thrown on the screen.

The foltowing " Specials " to the Pie-irt Association, dated L »idrm Nov. 8, ha\o appeared in the N.Z. Herald; — Colonel Fieneh, tlie commander of the (^iioensLmd land foico, nnilud for Au-itr.ili.i per the ste.iniur Parninutt.i to-day. — At a farewell b-mmiot to Mr ISinion i'Ynsor at Lan^liani'.s Hotel, n lartfe number of colonists were pre.iwnt, including AL Murray Smith and Sir Saul Samuel. — The licv. I{. Barry, who w.is recently appointed to the Metropolitan See of Sydney, in dcclinincr many offers .>f clerical assistance until In* hns made himsulf acquainted ,with tho wants of his diocese. — Loid Havri-. i> making arrangements for a cricket tuam to viwit Canada next Hoasoil.— lt i.s rumoured that the English man-of-war Dryad has been withdrawn from Tamatave at the request of France.

Sir Barbie Frere, in the last number of the " National Review," Iris an able article entitled " Have we a Colonial Policy?" in which l.c incidentally letwo t» the Annexation question. Alluding to .Sir Francis Bell* <li»»| atch he remarks : *' It was a paper rental kablo for tho novelty to the generality of tl c English public, of tho information it; gave and the views it iepresented, and yet more for the spirit of earnest humanity, patriotism, and loyalty to which it ga\e expression-. It strongly impressed on thoe who read it the comietion th.it there w: s far more to be said for the Colonial view than hud at first appoared, and th.it the action taken was at least as much in the interests of the Papuans as it had at first appeared to be directed to their injury." Sir J3aitle Freie considers th.it tl ere ought to bo means of anticipating sveh questions — of taking counsel on then. — when they aiise, and of arriving .it .some sort of decision regarding them without leaving the solution to chance. Confederation m.iy be oifcctu.il, but is somewhat remote and tardy ; and though it would be advantageous to h.ive Colonial representatives in the Impeiial Parliament, tint constitutional change cannot be mado «t once. Bir Bartle Freie, however, thinKs that if the Secietary of >St.it« for the Colonies were to constitute the Agents-geneial into a Colonial Council of information and advico, — if he abstained from acting on information which they deemed <>f doubtful authority, and from deciding any quotum of general interest until he had heard their a leu >*, ho -w ould take a wise and politic com se. j

It is a question whether beauty, like goodness, must not necessarily be genuine in order to be admirable. The climax of this theory is iciichud, .' s described by the L mdon World, when the old l«uly of t>.">, the patioucas of miny ch.U'lutanx, is held up to admiration bocsui^e — at a little distance — .she would p.iss for 30. Pi o idly her " maker.s-up " point out lnw this effect is produced ; her hair is false, her skin is enamelled — beside •> being "tightened" to prevent wrinkles — hei eyelashes aie stained, he) 1 figine i.s "made.' 1 She. is false all ovei. Now, is this admirable '> Would not a little honest old age and ugliness be more agieeable? 15e thin as it may, it is not very impoitant. Wlicn a lady Ikih reached the mature a<v of 8.") her appearance tioublesno one wry much except her gr.ind-ehildreu. But when it comes to the lady whom you love, or might love if you were quite- ceitain that .she was genuine, the ca.se in different. It is bad to know that your Angela must sleep in corset*, or she never, never could attain to the fashionable waist ; it is sad to think of the inevitable results on her poor little feet of those Louis (juinsse heels, which make her pretty boots look ho bewitching. Figure to yourself what it must feel like to t;»ke your beauty-sleep with a pair of pincer.s on your nose. The pjfetty oldfashioned expression has taken a new and dieadful meaning. Any who desires to possess the "Mis Langtry nose ' has but to sleep in torment for a. week or two, and the great result is obtained. If the figure of the would-be beauty is not as lovely as she wishes " the anatomical cornet-maker"' will supply her with a nocturnal squeezing apparatus which will "fine her down" by degrees If her stature is too low for beauty, she may remedy by this wearing what i.s mildly called fin "appliance"; in the days of the Inquisition it would piob.ibly have been classed as an instrument of torture. The appliance .squeezes and stretches all the lower parts of the body, and its use is said not to interfere with the comfort of one's beauty sleep. Oncu enamelled, always enamelled. The professed beauty can only afford to be yellow, " grey and uiicurled," in secret. She finds her.seif precipitated on the downward path. It is just as well, having once begun to attend to the matter, to perfect her beauty. Why not 'make uhe of the marvels of modern inventiveness — model her ears, her nose, and her finger-tips. It is difficult to say why we should not carry her theory out to the full.

Mexico has celebrated its 73rd anniversary of national independence with great enthusiasm. It is, writes the Americanjcorrespondent of the Witness, now a very prosperous and progressive Country. The vicious circle has been, so narrowed by railload construction that Revolutions are impossible. 1 Mexico has entered upon a new era of development, aud is inaugurating an extensive 1 ; colonisation scheme, intending to draw its immigrants from the Latin nations, ho as to'form a homogeneous population. Italy,' Spain, and Portugal are therefore looked to as a source of supply, This is a wise policy. Americans, Germans, and Jinglish are unsympathetic, and do not readily assimilate with the Mexicans, whose base is the Aztec race. The pure Irish would do well in Mexico, Their religion i*the same, and despite their mercurial disposition they would readily adapt themselves to the life of indolent ease which everywhere prevails in that country. Central America is also awakening, and immigration i« being encouiaged. The transcontinental railroad across Guatemala, to be constructed by American capital in a few yoars years from now, will open ' a fine country to commerce, and bring that region within a few days' steaming of New York, There is also a probability of the, Nicaragua canal being completed. This would revolutionise the industries of California by giving it practically a North Atlantic seaboara, shortening the direct sea voyage to*" Knglaud and the Eastern States, thereby stimulating production of every kind. A despatch has just been received from President Cardenas, Nicaragua, stating that the. Congress of that Republic has passed a bill guaranteeing 20 million dollars construction, bonds of Canal Company. The work will now go 'on^When the Nicaragua*,' 'canal is built it win increase thej v«hje,3 flf^ farm land in California 10 per wn|i;^t|able/ now connects Brazil with the TJmteJl^tafsS','.' h.Knd ' thei 'President- .qbn^i»tul«M?^|i.eJ . JJmpett^Hpon . , |fa corople^9hi^toMhJit|dtiy. ,

one I note is only temporary, hriwevevi A malignant type of malarial fever, by some believed to be " yellow jack," has broken at Guaymas and other towns of Sonora, and a strict quarantine has been established at Sau IVaneiHco, Wo have railroad communication, however. When cold weather aeta in the epidemic will probably disappear. It has been very fatal so far, and many Americans hive succumbed.