The Waikato Times DAND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1775, 20 November 1883, Page 2

The Waikato Times DAND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

Kiju.il .mil t'».i(.t jii>tn c to ill men, Ot nh.iKoewr st iU> or perMi.isnm, religious or pohtii.il. Hirc-.1i.i1l tho Pros', tlu> Peopli'V ritrhf ni lint.lill, Un.iwcd b\ nilliioiiLC and nnbriliiv] b\ ij.iin

TUESDAY, NOV. 2<\ ISS-J.

Tjik people of Cambridg 1 are to b" congratulated on the success of tlio efforts of the worthy chairman of their town, board, Mr Wells, in securing for them the very handsome endowments referred to in our ihsue of Saturday last. It is needJess for us to dilate on the importance and value of these concessions, for this w ill already have been apparent to all who take an iuteiest in the welfare and general prosperity of the place. There is nothing which so materially helps to assist a young and struggling community such as Cambridge, and enable it to successfully support its public institution 0 , as liberal endowments, which, if properly utilised by thos' 4 in whom they are vested, cannob fail to become the source of a handsome revenue. To a young town such as Cambridge, the task of starting and succes- fully maintaining public institutions, supported only by subscriptions, is a very heavy ono ; and in all such cases the Ciovcrnment, or whoever has the laying out of townships, .should take good care that liberal endowments are set apart for the purpose indicated. Hitherto Cambridge has struggled hard to support its library and reading-room, and so far lias succeeded well ; but now that these buildings want enlarging and otherwise improving 1 , it is too much to ask that a fresh and heavier burden should be placed upon the shoulders of tlio people. As wo said before, if properly utilised, the endowments to which certificates of title have, now been n ceived, together with those for which certificates have not as yet been granted, should be su/Ii cient to maintain the institutions of the place without taxing the public to the extent experienced in the past. Some time ago, it will be remembered, the committee of the public- hall decided to improve and enlarge the building. Plans were accordingly prepared, and tenders called for the work. The lowest tender was something under «£5OO. But on going into the matter, the committee found that it was not their business to carry out the work ; the Town Districts Act was in force, and consequently the town district board was the proper body. Owing; to the impecunious meshes into which the board had succeeded in working itself, together with the fact that no title to the site had been received, nothing could then be done. The jsame was the case with regard to the public library building, the enlargement of which was estimated at over .£2OO. AVo are now assured that these much required improvements will be carried out with as little delay as possible. The question has arisen as to whether tho properties can be given as security for the loan to be raised, and the general impression is that they can, but on the other hand, an opinion has been expressed to the effect that as the sites were given in trust for partyicuiai? , pur-

I oses they cannot lie cWlfc with. If fclio latter contention is right, then thy money will have to Ixs raised in t'OiiH) other way, the, revenue of both ihe lihr.try and the. hall being su'lieionlly adequate to pay oft' the necessary loan in a comp.ratively short time.

Tmc coiulit.on of the Waipa- Raglan road at the present moment is deplorable. In justice, to th(i settlors on the other sMo of the range, no tiii.u should bo lo>r. in ett'octing some, improvement. Tlie road is •simply impassable, 'i hat portion over the mountain known :is the " (jrlue Pot" just now fully warrants tint grimly jocular appellalion, while many other portions of the, highway, notably near Waitetuna, are little, if at all better. The money voted for the road last session — £500 — would, if judiciously spent, do a large amount of good, and the. sooner it is obtained and applied the better. We earnestly hope that no unnecessary delay willl be permitted to take place in connection with this matter.

The cricket match between the Aloxrindia and Kibikihi Clubs, played on tin-, giound of the latter on .Satin day, resulted in a decisive victory for the visitors. A detailed leport is un.ivoidably held over.

The following "Specials" dated London Nobenilvr 1(5, have appeared in tin; X.Z. Herald:—-Tlie Nmde Deutsch Zeitung assoits that the attacks made by the KienchprtH-, ovcite a constant fear of hostilities.—Theie is a stiong agitation in London favouiii)!/ the decent housing 1 of the poor of the city.—The Pans Pi ess aie peisonallv .satirical in their remark-) concerning the Marquis Tseng.

A few temporary changes in the Aimed Con-.tibulary in Waikato ha\o taken place. Seigt-Majoi Dineeii, of tho Cainbndge station, h,»s gone to Kikikilii to ielu;\e Ma]oi Muniett, who lie-, d.'ngeiously ill, and Captain Capel, also of the Cambridge station, goes to Ale\,mdia to lelie\e Captain (-Jascoignc, who is going away on a few month's leave.

An adjourned meeting of the ci editors in the estate of Mi I. Lo\ett was held at the court-house, Hamilton, on tt.itmd.iy, Mr X Wilson in tliechan. Mr S, Pascoe was elected cieditois' tuistee. Mi 11. Stoele'.s ])io\y pio'iosud that the trustee find socuiity, m teinis of the act. Tins was seconded by MesMs Wells and Snutter's pro\y, but on being put to the meeting w.h negatived.

We are glad to notice that the Taotaoioa Highway IJo.nd is about to leplace the piesent dangeums stiuctuie on the WJiiteliall road, known as Xo. 2 bridge. At the meeting of the boa id on Satin day last, it Wiin decided t > bonow tin* money foi the wink under the Road-> ,nul Blidges Construction Act.

The Cambridge Road Board has njsohed to con--tiuct a w.itei tiougli ne.ti tho site of the piesent old one in ]Leslie's gully, the lattei being too low in the giound to be of any mateiial mm \ ice. Theie ,ue othei places m tlie distiict equally m need of a watei tiough, but Me daie say these w ill be attended to m time.

The late heavy rains have made Kueifs hill on the Camhiidgu-Hamilton road somewhat unpleasant for tiattic, theie being now social ugly watei channels imining down the centio of the load. Weaie triad to notice that the; Camlnidgo Hoad Boaid h.is lesohed on lounding the ciown of tlie hill .md groA elling it. The necessity impioNcments to tho load ne.n the Nairow -. .ue also about to be c in ied out.

The committee of the Trinity I'iesbyteii.in Church, C.unlnidge, :ne now exeitmg them>el\es to piocuie a .suitable oigau for their church. A subscription list, which has already been largely patronised, is in com si* of cii dilation, and w e h.ne little doubt the nocessaiy amount will be lecehed.

Mr F. Hicks has returned from Napier, ha\ing accompanied Mi A. V>. Stubbing tin nigh the conntiv to point nut the stations in connection with the Auckland Stoi age and J^iee/any Company. Mi Hicks w ill--hoitly make hi-, lepoit to the company. Ko difficulties ciept up dming his tiip to impede the canying out of the scheme; on the contiarye\erythingturned out as anticipated.

Our Te Awamutu correspondent wiitos:—lt is with feelings of the deepest legiet that L announce the death of Mis Rutheifoid, mother of Captain Rutherfnid. She died en Fiklay, aftei a few day.s illnev>, at the lesiclence of lier --on-iii-l.iw, Mr Westney. Her lemanis were taken to Auckland by Monday'.s tiaiu, to be intened l),y the side of hei husband.

Judgment was given for plaintiffs in the following cases at the- Cambiidge K.M. Couit on Fiiday: —(Jijo. Jones v. Edwaid Nunn, claim i' 2 l'.ls ; costs, i'l 2s ; F. A. Whitaker \. Thos. Took, claim -t'4 ; costs, tl 7s (id ; A. Isaacs \. .lohn Dell, claim tl i:is !ld ; costs -L' 3 2s (id ; AVm. Reid \. One] mto, claim tS '.)■> 3d; co->ts, £3 Is. Seveial cases weie adjourned, and a, few settled out of couit.

A passenger by the train from Xgaruawahia one day last week infoinisiis that the ioof of tho carriage occupied byliimself andotheis leaked most abominably. The passengeis moil 1 obliged tosoiov. themselves into the most uncouifoi table attitude in older to avoid getting w et. Ti a \ oiling on tlie Waikato Railway is not at any time e\ces•>i\ely enjoyable, but the le ist the nianagemen", can do is to insure that the c.v - shall lie laiuproof.

Disastrous floods have been expciienced in the South Island: On Saturday tlie lailway between Palnierston and Dunedin was washed away in several place--, and none of the trains reached the lattei place. A paity of men endea\ouied topiocuedin a buggy, and getting oft the load in the dark, one of the men was diovned. The othei -> were saved with difh'culty, and the horses weie lost. Se\eial lnidge-. weie washed aw.iy, and gioat dam.ige done in othei lespects.

The contractor for fencing Sydney Squaie hhi«n i« connuenced work. If it bo not too late wo would suggest th.it the fence be placed at least four oi fi\e feet outside the smvey line, so as to admit of a lne fence being planted on the line nest year. There need be no obstacle to this pi in, as piovision is made in the Public Works Act for such a contingency. On the advantage of basing a live fence it is not nece>saiy to dwell.

A very important industry, we undei.stand, is about to be started at Hamilton East. The Waikato Timber Company aie about to erect a saw mill to supply totaia and othei timbei for all parts. The timber in the log will come by watei fiom "YVtiotu and eKewheie. Hamilton Hast will be a most convenient position, being so near railway and liver.

Cold water has been thrown on the .sharemarket in Aioha stock in the .shape of cold water amalgam. When it became known that the amalgam had been treated in cold instead of hot water, a panic set in in stocks in the Auckland and Thames* markets. Doubtless a wrong impiession got about with refeience to the treatment, but i\e ventuie to hay no person at the Aioha thought foi one moment that hot water had been used. Ko doubt a few days of such steady leturns as we have had foi' tho past ten days will again give the investing public confidence, and .set the ball lolling again. —News,

We have previously drawn the attention of the Cambridge Road Board to the danger which the present state of what is known as Fantham'& coiner affords to traffic on the road in that vicinity. We have board of several instances in which collisions weie nnimwly avoided at this poraer, .and in one case it may be said to havo Jwj t'l)e can>se to a groat extent of a fataj account,, ThnilSfH the board < has as yet expressed ijo indention qf alfcerhig |l{e angle, still wo are gla<J to nnfciflQ tftafc ifc haw made arrangements to hftvethethovn fonce, Mrhioh is at present vary high, cut as low an possible, no that people riding or driving round the corner can by seeing any other person approaching avoid an accident. This improvement was to have been carried out before to-morrow.

The advertisement calling for tenders for the erection of a new.bridge over the PaiririiCreeko.on^the (Cambridge' Taupo roa'djthas afford much^atiqfactjqn to ttfobuaiue.9B pepp^ of, {he c^iiVr jdge ais

tip-country district*. Of lato tho old structure hon boon in attch a dangerous condition that, ivither than ii*k evening it, curiors have had to make a detour of .several miles through the Paoroa station, the road through which was kindly opened to thorn by the urbane manager. We hinceiely hopo tho. Public Works Departniont will allow of no dolay in the cailying out of the work. It is also to be ho])ed that the .sovoial cutting.-, on the sune road whicli sue at present .so badly out ot rupair will be attended to at an eaily dale.

A case of more than usual interest is, hays the To Aioha Now.s, set down for healing on Tuesday next. Mr Campbell, solicitor, iiud Mi Cuff, .solicitor, met to air.uigi' souie legal business for their clients. During the conversation which ensued, the complainant, Mr Campbell, alleges that Mr Cuff, the defendant, used language calculated to cause a bleach of the peace, to wit, " Campbell, you am a scoundiel." Should the affair come before his Worship, it will be for the defnudant to jnove hi-, case, w hich will be a \eiv difficult undeitaking to accomplish. We triust, for all pai ties concerned, the case will be amicably .settled without going into couit.

As cheese making promises to expand into huge piopoitions in W.iikato, the following extract fiom the London Weekly Timers of Septenibei 28th, bearing on the subject of cleanliness in dairies, will be of interest alike to fanners and factory companies :—'" Mr. Davenpoit, the inspector to the Nantwich Rural Sanitary authority, read a detailed lepoit on Saturday afternoon to members of the Boaul on the deteriorating eftects of the insanitary condition around the Cheshire dairies on the county pioduce. He stated tli.it one of the greatest evils about farmhouses was the unhealthy smells, disagreeable and injurious toman and boast, and especially deteiior.iting to d.iiiy products. Milk absorbed foul air, and tendered it impossible to make hue cheese. The exception m Cheshhe was to find any daily sufficient f.u lemoved h'uin piggeries. In company with Dr Carter Bull, tho county analyst, he had been investigating the condition of a. f.'im house when 1 fine cheese was made, excopx in July and August, which were the hottest months in each yeai, when it was damaged, and they discoveied the existence of a ciack in the daily walls, ■which admitted foul .til fiom a piggery adjacent, which did the whole mischief."

Nothing could well exceed the p'lnuioit-, v,aj in which matteis in connection with the Cambiidgo Kes.dent Magi---tiato's Oouit aio conducted. The accomodation aftoidi'd by that .sanctum to tho-e whoso biisine^ bung-, thorn within its walls is of a u.ituio that induces piofauity in tliose who have the misfoituno to expoiience it. Tlnoughotit the veiy so\oiowintei lust closed, theio has nc\ei been a liio, by which the n.ituial cold of the establishment mighth,i\r boon nmolioiatod by a lit tie aitifici.il licat, and the consequence Ins boon that not only suitoi*, but oHiceis of the couit, haw fiei|uoutlv com-: pLiiiuvt of sc\ciccold>, hiMdachcs, nuui.ilgia and othci highly ontui taming complaints of an uquallv felicitou.s character. A visitor entei ing tho building on a court day could not but be stiuck with the nii.eiablo :i]ipearaucu of the suir.mndings —tho iciclohko oxpiession of tliecloik, tho stem immobility of the pieiiding iustlci*, the nnlrlaxiuglook of tin* constable, the wen dish \Na<rosof tin 1 lawyei-., and the imp.vtioiit j diopsic.il feeling which sccuis to pei vade I the siiitois and tlieii w itnesses. A /ne in | a cold, (haughty loom is like a little music to an assemblage, with the dilleience tliat the foimei wauiis the body, Mhile the l.ittui | waiui. tlie soul. Times out of number lias the w.int ofi.i fire in the C.unbiidgc Magistiiite's Couit been complained of, but without ,i\.ul. Pi obably the latest de\elopment of the impecunious spiiit of the jil.ice is the depiivation of tlie members of tlie Pi ess of the pens aiifl ink, with which they h.i\u lntliei to been ac(|iiainted. A special mandate has been issued, iind, in con.se(juence, tho Pi ess table now piovnt*. .in a]>pe.nauce quite in keeping w ith the existing bleakness of the place. This is dep.utment.il letieuciimeut with a M'ngeance.