ECHOES FROM THE CAFE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1775, 20 November 1883, Page 3

ECHOES FROM THE CAFE.

Ont Cattle Show, >\hich took place last week, m.is M'iy successful 'jonip.uing f.ivouiably with' those of foimci ytuis, but as' theio lus been alie.uly a. full account <>f it mTiii "Wukmo Timix ;i much fuller account than I could possible gi\ c— it is useless for mo to attempt to enter into paiticulais, besides which mv leaders would giowl "Stale news," and either pass onto the next paragraph or pass the " Echoes " altogether. What amused me most m connection with the Show was the ci mvd around Musket, and the ranaiks made about him by that ciowd. It was very evident that every man in the ciowd was a gieat judge of horse-flesh, .xnd it Mas quite surprising how many of them knew that Musket's .son, Martini-Hem y, was bound to win the Melbourne Cup. It is a very fortunate v-ircuirifctance foi the local book -makers that Who majority of those knowing ones had objections to betting, or the *' books" Avould all have been " Stonebroke." The cattle show tennina ted with the usual exhibition of the excellence of our railway management. For an hour or two there had been scores of empty carriages sent into town, and when the people wanted to return to their homes there were not enousfh carriages for a tithe of them. One train took about 400 people down to Eller«lie and kept them there for three quarters of an hour before bunging them to town. A« a large pioportiou of those people were standing all the time I may, perhaps, be excused from giving a verbatim report of the language they used during that three quartern of an hour. Of course, I am only an outsider, and, therefore, not qualified to give an opinion on the subject, but it seems to me quite possible toprevent the annoyance and inconvenience which the public suffer on every occasion on which they trust to Her Majesty « Government to bring them in from a cattle show or raca meeting held at Jiillerslie, and that without making any improvement in our badly constructed line. As a rule no one wants to go out of town between 330 and 5 pirn-, so would let eyery tram leaving town- 'after 3 o'clock remain at Ellerslie until' it was filled, and then, having no trains coming out of town,, it could come in as soon as it was ready, to be delayed at Newmarket for «i 'few minutes if necessary to ensure a clear Hue, The last tram to

leave Ellorslie should go no further than Newmarket, but should discharge its passengers there and return to KUerslio for more. The train immediately preceding it should return from town to Newmarket and bring in tho.se passengers and return to Newmarket again and those two trains would Voly speedily bring in all the people. In acoi dance with tlie present arrangements train after tram comes and goes with almost no pn»ssengoib in thorn and when the people leally want to return to their homos theie ai c not enough. Tlie lailway authorities had not an opportunity of showing whether they could not make hn'piovoments by their airangoments for bunging people in from the Races on Saturday, as .lupiter Pluvins took nutteis into his own hands on that day, and there was such a downpoui of lain that com para - lively few people wont out to Klleslio, and of those who w out a laigc piopoition pief cried to go out in cab«, oninihussos and other co\oicd conveyances, so that they might be mhc of shelter f: nm the l.un. Tho i.icos weie \eiy good, and, had the weather only been as fine as it was any other day in last week, theie would have boon a splendid day's sport A very dcsiiable change was made with logaid to the totoh•jators. They weie for the hist time, woiked by and under the contiol of the ■Racing Club. Nothing can bo f.iiici than the piinciple of the totahsatois, winch simply icgistois the numbui of m\ estois on each lioise in a i.ice, and the total amount inwstod, less a ceitain ])eicentage, is divided among those who put thoii money oiilliewinniiighor.se. The only objection to tho machine h;is been that those who wcio woikiug it might work a swindle at the same time, and now that the club has taken it into it-, own hands theie is not much reason to fe.ir that. Tlie stew.uds ,u e men of lepute, and they will takc_ caio to employ no one to woik the totalizator unless they aie quite sine of his honesty. Thoie was an unusually l.ugo number of mcmhi'is and wsitois at tlie meeting of the Auckland Institute on Monday cu-iiing. as it w«»s .uinouncod tli.it Mi Vailc would lead a p.ipci desciiptivo of his si stein of lailway management. It goes without s.ijmg that the system now m \ogue is |Ust about as bid ,i< it can hi 1 , and we know )v\ s.id e\ji'MH'Jico that it dot-, not \)A\. Wln'tliei .Mi V'.mlo's system would pij is, of couiso, open to doubt, but I foi 0110 would \ei v inucli like to see it iecei\o ,i fair tii.il. If it wcio tiled foi tluee months on the Auckland and AVaikato line, it could not Jinohe «i liiinous loss, and if itdid show a loss it could be discontinued. The new .Mimsti'i foi Public Woiks has an oppoitnnity foi distinguishing himself by making the i>\poiimont, as, if it succeeded, his would be the honoui and gloiy, wiiile, if it f.uh % d, he could cast the orliuin on Mi V.ulc. Whetlioi he makes the .ittempt oi not, it is to be hoped that he will devote his attention to the simplifying of the l.ulway legul.itions, as, .it inesont, thi'V aii? so mimeioits and so coiiipheatcd that no one can understand them, and many of them aic so abstud that I tin' soonei tlicy an- abolished the bettei foi tlie dej).utment and the public. If Mr Mitchelson Hill levise and .simplify tlie l.nlw.iy legul.itions, nnd .mtlioiise l.ulw.iv ticket- to be sold by stamp doaleis, he will con foi such benefits on the public <is will cause them to thank Maim Atkinson for giMiig him the Public Woiks portfolio. It is a wondei that somo enteiinising AmeiiiMU h.i- not foi mod a coinpuiv to l,i\ ,i 'ubinainu 1 eli'ctiic table fiom San Ki.mciscoto^Scw Zealand. Tin' dislaiue fiom S.p. Ki.mcisco to Ilonolul.i is link's, «md the l.ugo amount of business can ledon between tln>-.e two places would ensiuo an uiPiiediatu n'tiuns of coiisid-uable magnitude, l^ioiu Honolulu to New Zealand i-. upH.uds of 0000 mill's, mid aluudy theie au 1 a 1 uge uunibei of niessagis sent fiom Austiaha and Now Zealand to Amouca, which would at once be dneited to the now loiito, and, with giiMtei f.uihtie-, the .iniount of business would i.i])idly mciiMse. The now cable would bo an immense advantage to the AiistiaLisian colonies, as it would not only facilitate business with Aint'iic.i, but it would also pio\ide .in alteiiMtno loulo to l)o used wlicn, as has f i equeuth happened of Lite, theie has been a bi oak-down on tho Ai sli.ihan land-lino, oi of the cable b-itwoen \usti.di.i and n.uiioewanjio. Of com. so, tho new cable would be a big imdei taking, but the Aineiicans .no fond of big thing-. Mi. Mi MiO,

Tjik man mlio was lately " struck with a new thought," lias lcsohul to o\cilook the act, it being the Hist time, .md their is littlu danger of <i icpetition ot the olluiKe. Rvr-. \M)lln,i.- If you -\wsli to dcstioj them ta ]) icket of Hi! IMI \i.k Yrimiv Kn 1 1 k in par-kits, ()il, ')<!, and Is, to bL obtained ot all stoickecpus, or lumi 1 JJ Jlili b> enclosing i« e\fra st.mip. Onl, Siiillixc. — Fiancis J. Sliortts' Popnl.it Ait Union — len ln>.t-rl,i<!v. Oil Paintirnjs bv (olol)i it( (1 nltsts ")flO(l lit.) ot' it Is 1 lie pn/c arc in ijri'llu ml. and costK Lountiy substribfis ".ending stamps or otlxivise will b.i\c tickets bj 1 1 tin n post. Imm lose st inipcrl jMi\ilopc for u'ph — I'kvnlls J Siionii, 110, Quern '.tror-t, \nrkl.uid — f A u\ I ] Lifi: i\ thk ßush— Til i;y akj> Now.— It is Kcncr.ill) supposrd tli.it in tlio busli we h.ivo to put up with main discomtoits and pmations in the shape of food Foinieil) it \\a;> so, but nou, tli inks to 1. H II ill, who has lumsulf dwelt in the busli, if food dots consist chiefly of tinned meats his Coioviai Saui' j;i\cs to them a must rtelci table flavour, inaLintr them .is well of the pi nnest food most er.iojable, and mste id as h ird bisruits and indigestible damper his Imi'kom'ij Coiomal H\mn(i Pow di r makes the \v\y best bie.id, sronos, r.ikes, and pastty far siipcnor and more wholcsiomo than -^east or lo.ucn. Sold bj all stoiekcepcrs who can obr nn it from any mci chant in Auckland