The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1798, 15 January 1884, Page 2

The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

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TUESDAY, JAN. 13, 1884. ■» Already the question of how to dispose of tho produce of our dairy factories at payable prices is \ re -sing itself upon the attention oi the promoters of these industries. Some experimental shipments by the Te Awamutu Factory have been made to the other colonies, but the returns have not been satisfactory to tho vendors, principally because of the enoi mius commissions deducted by the agencies through which the cheese had to pass. Cannot co-operation do much to reduce these charges, in the first

place? and, much more to the purpose, cauit not be made a mean 3 of briuging producer and consumer together, and open up markets where tho best prices can be obtained at the least agency charges? If co-operation rmans what it ought to. and mo o than likely it does mean that, all associations under this title will bo likely to assist kindred institutions. We would therefore suggest to the promoters of tho present movement in the direction of a co-operative association for Waikalo, the d< sirability of a'liliating with one or more of those large and successful institutions in England, with a view of making them the medium for purchasing their requirements, and for providing an outlet for their produce. It would be an addition to their business worth a lot of care and consideration to themselves, and would provide a grand staff of experienced buyei's and salesmen for the colonial branch, and plac* our products directly before the consumer, with no intervening interests to consider or fat commissions to pay. The more the question of cooperation comes to be considered, the moi'e it must commend itself to our farmers, and, we will add, to our business people also. We are led to include the trader because we hear that the scheme is not only received with coolness by this class, but in many cases by direct opposit'on and prophesies of failure. It is only natural to expect that the middleman, entirely dependent upon the farmer for support, should do so, because the establishment of such associations reduces very mateiially his field of operations. In dealing with the question in our issue of December (sth we looked at it more from the farmer's point of view, and the benefits likely to be gained by their supporting the movement ; at the same time we fully recognised this great fact, which must appear to all having the interest of the district at heart, that before anything approaching general prosperity can c\ist in all phases of life we must first look to improve the condition of the tillers of the soil. Let the farmer obtain a fair return for labour and capital invested, the land which he works will then acquire ,i fixed value, he will require less extended credit, he will be m a position to employ more labour, and will be enabled to enjoy what may be termed some of tho luxuries of life, which bear a much larger per centage, of piofit than the bare necessaries. This is the side of tlv question for the business people to ponder over before condemning- the project It will not bo long before they realise the position that upon the farmers success depends their ov\ n advancement. We would therefore urge united action and assistance to the movement of cooperation now on foot. To make it a success it must be thoroughly and very generally supported, and, we would add, carefully mused at its .stait. The history of the nios 1 ' successful associations show that they commenced on a vary limited scale, and were built up to their present gigantic proportions by the knowledge gained by experience, and by gradual development as the benefits came to be more generally recognised.

The reports of affairs in the " King" Country furnished by our Te Awamutu and Alexandra correspondents are singularly conflicting. The, former attaches no importance whatever to the action of the natives in pulling down the trig, station on Kakapuke, while the latter, whose news is of a more recent date, thinks the course adopted l>y the Government in pushing on the surveys must sooner or later end in the murder of a surveyor. Our correspondent is usually well informed, but we are bound to &ay frankly thafc we doubt the soundness of hi conclusions in this particular. Our relations with the Maori people have changed altogether since the day when poor Todd fell on Pirongia ; if the natives have a grievance now they are not by any means likely to have recourse to violence, else Mr Hursthouse would have been sacrificed when he fell into the hands of the mad fanatic, Mahuki. Whatever steps the objecting hapus may see fit to take, we may be sure for one tiling that the lives of the surveyors will bo held sacred. But we do not even think that the opposition just now apparent means very much ; a few discontented people are certain to make a forma] protest against the survey of the country, but it is not the Government so much as their own kith and kin that they will have to oppose. Mr Cussen, who was in Hamilton yesterday, ridicules the idea of any serious opposition to the prosecution of the triangulation, and we are hound to say that we thoroughly agree with him.

A cricket match was played at Cambridge on Saturday between the Colonial-, and the World, lesultiug in a victory for the foi mer.

On Saturday night Mrs General Stoddaid's Seminaly, on the Epsom Road, near Auckland, was destroyed by fire, and on Sunday night the slaughter-hoube belonging to Hellaby Bros., butchers, at Point Chevalier, was burned down. Incendiaiihin is suspected in the latter case.

The annual meeting of householders in the various school districts in Waikato, for the purpose of election of committees, will be held on the 2Sth inst. The tunes and places of meetings will be found in an advertisement in another part of this issue.

We call the attention of the parishioners of S. Peter's to an advertisement which appears in another column, inviting their attendance at the annual meeting, to bo held in the Public Hall tomorrow evening. It is to be hoped that there will be a full attendance of church uiembeis, including ladies, as there are bevcral matters of importance to be brought forward.

The Pukekohe Cheese Factory was opened with considerable eclat on Saturday. Over a hundred guests, including the Parliamentary representatives of Franklin North and bouth, and the prinpipal settlers of jthe Pukekphp, Mauku and "Waiuku districts, attended the banquet. The manager of the Pukekohe factory 1$ Mr Horace W&lpole, lata of T<, AwftraMw.

"Echoes from the Cafe" are crowded out of this issue.

The match between the steeplechase horses Sportsman and Quilp has been arranged to cnne off on the Cambridge course on the 2(sth inst. The distance will bo twice round the course, and the money not less than £20.

The Hamilton Borough Council ought t'> tike immediate steps to remove the rubbish heaps in Victoria-street; otherwise an accident is b mnd to happen.

The Dunedin murder case occupied the Supreme Court, Dunedin, the whole of yesterday, and when the telegraph office closed, the jury had not agreed to a verdict.

From telegrams in this issue, it seems that nothing can avert a war between China and France, and the former is making active pieparations for the contest.

The New Zealand million loan has been floated in the London market with conspicuous success. It was subscribed five times over, and was disposed of at an average of £100 Bs. The broker's ring has apparently utterly broken down. The first meeting of the Commissioners of the Town District of Kihikihi was held in the Town Hall on Saturday last. Tho only business to be done was the election of a chairman, and Mr J. Farrell was appointed to that office.

Mr W- Montgomery, M.H.R. for Akaroa, Mr Barron, M.H.R. for Caversha.ni (Otago), and party were passengers to Waikato yesterday, en route for the Lakes. The late Leader of the Opposition was very anxious to know the whereabouts of the Hamilton bridge which was freed from toll a couple of sessions ago, but with what object we cannot conjecture.

We understand that the Cambridge Town Board haye communicated with the chairman of the Waikato Timber Company, offering to assist the company in every way in securing a suitable site for their mill on the bank of the Waikato river at Cambridge. There \v ill be a meeting of the directors at Auckland to-day, when the matter of fixing the site will be finally settled.

The Kihikihi Town Board notify that they have made an application to the Government, in terms of the Roads and Biidges Construction Act, for a loan of 6200, for the purpose of consti acting Lyon and Whitmore-stieets. Plans, &c, of the proposed works may be inspected at the residence of the chairman, Mr James Fan ell, for the next four weeks. A poll of the latepayer-., to determine whether the board shall oi shall not borrow the sum named, will be taken at the Town Hall on Saturday, the 9th of February.

Te Aroha must be a very healthy place, according to the News. Our contemporary writes : —Tho doctors here say they have all they can do to make a living. One medico has had five cas>es in three month-.. Though this state of things is doubtless the re verve of agieeable to the doctor, it must be a cau->e (if considerable gratification to the lesidents in this dibtiict. Te Aioha is quite as healthy as the fabled Cahfotnian village, where " the had to kill a man to btait their giaveyaid."

A correspondent at Whatawhata wntes : — Tho childien'b feast came off onFiiday, splendidly. There were neaily 120 perbons, young and old, assembled. The children i had spoits, and eveiyone canied two or three prizes, as theie were no blanks. There was a good spread of the .sweet thing-, of this world, which were very well patronised. In the evening there was a splendid d.vnco, which was kept up till daylight dawned. A vote of thanks to the piomoter-s of the treat brought a most pleasant day to a close.

Lying apparently neglected, in a coiner of the Te Awamutu cemetery, to rot, aie a numbjr of wooden tablets, onginally elected — in most instances by couuadcs— in affectionate lemembrance of those who " fighting fell." A seunon how much more eloquent than woi ds do these slabs of v ood afford ? How much of anxious care and labour lovingly rendeied by some sorrowing friend to tho end tha" his dead connade should be lemembered for at least a little while — as long, in fact, as u ood should last ? How many of those who he beneath, and who have claims on oui gi atitude far beyond our power to repay, aie lomcmbeied now ? How much better would it bo than pic-nicing and holding high level on the .scene of the battlefield, where those brave men fell, to build some simple but enduring monument to their memory, placing on lecoid for future ages the gi atitude that doubtless exists in the heaits of those whose fortune it was to come after, and leap the advantages gained by those bravo men '

The office-bearers of the Cambridge Wesleyan Chinch held their usual quaiterly meeting at Cambridge on Friday last. The treasurei presented his balancesheet, which showed the income of the quarter to be £04 14s lOd, while the expenditure was £83 5s SW. Messrs D. Caley and R. Reynolds were appointed Circuit Stewards for the ensuing year. The creditable manner in which the Sunday school at Pukerimu had been conducted by Mr Jno. Fisher was alluded to, and a warm vote of thanks was acemded that gentleman for his effort^. Votes of thanks were also accorded to the organist and choir of tho Cambridge Church for the attention they had bestowed on their respective duties, A tea was provided in the evening by Mesdames Walker, Nixon, Dewsbuiy and Reynolds, to which a large number of ladies and gentlemen sat down. A congregational meeting was also held, at which matters in connection with the chinch weie discussed. The Rev. H. K. Dew^bury presided.

At Friday's meeting of the Board of Education, Auckland, the secretary and treasurer, Mi Y. E. Rice, submitted the following estimate of income and expendituie for the year 1884. The estimate is made in compliance with section 30 of the Education Act : — Income : Balance in hand (playground account), £1500 ; capitation grant, £32,000 ; grant in aid of inspection, £500 : grant for training teachers, £2000 ; capitation giant for scholarships, £990 ; revenue from reserves, £1000 ; district high schools, £4(50 ; local contributions, £250 ; giants for school buildings, £30,000 : total, £88,700. Expendituie : Building fund debit balance, £483 14s 7d ; office staff, £1250 ; inspection of schools, £2250 ; members' travelling expenses, £20 ; departmental expenses, £750 ; teachers' salaries, £4 ),2oO ; grants to committees, £3000 ; rents, £150 ; training of teachers, £2300 ; seholai ships, £090; district high schools, £4(>o ; examinations, £40 ; school libraries, £50 ; bank interest, £100 ; school buildings, £30,000 jplaygumnds, £1500: total,£SB,so3 14s 7d.

The following "Special" telegrams to the Press Association dated London the 11th and 13th January have been published in the N. Z, Herald : — Great inducements are being offered to Frenchmen to emigrate to New Caledonia. — The evidence proving that the Czar was recently wounded in the shoulder by Nihilists is increasing. — The Royal Geographical Society, it is believed, is hesitating as to thepiopriety, of acting in conjunction with the Geographical Society of Sydney in regard to the exploration of New Guinea, as it fears that the colonial Government is anxious to unduly 1 influence the formation and objects of Mr. Powell's proposed expedition in other directions than those in which co-operation is desired. — The last New South Wales loan is now at l£ premium.— Without any cause being assigned, Mr. Thomas Archer, Agent-General for Queensland, has received an intimation that he is granted three months' leave of absence, and that Mr. W. Hummant is appointed Acting AgentGeneral.— The Rev. Charles Strong ishving now at Heleiisbrox, and will probably try to obtain a Glasgow pulpit.

From Saturday's New Zealand Herald we learn that the New Zealand Tobacco-growing Company is pushing on the woik of cultivation as rapidly as possible. The manager and his assistants have already inspected the plantations of 2G farmers, who have contracted to grow tobacco leaf for the company. Ihe area under cultivation by these 2G settlers is 310 acres, and in every case the tobacco plants are looking well. They are remarkably well grown for the time they have been planted out, and &o far as can be judged at present there is reason to hope for an abundant crop. Next week the manager intends to pay a visit to the various parties growing tobacco in the Taranaki, Wanganui, and Hawke's Bay districts, where a considerable area has been planted out. After that ho intends to visit the Northern giowers up to the Victoria Valley, where up to the present time the finest tobacco has been produced of any yet grown in New Zealand. It is to be hoped that the promising prospects at present existing will continue until a large and profitable trade is established in this part of the colony.

The following business interesting to readers in this district was transacted at Friday's meeting of the Auckland Board of Education ;~Election of Members. —Voting papers from B°hop} cotyTOittew

nominating a gentleman to 'fill the vacancy on tha Board of Education cauaed by the resignation of Mr Laishly were opened. The following was the remit:— James G. Caix, 83 ; R. K. Davis, 19 ; F. G. Clayton, 8. 113 out of 170 committees voted. Several votes were informal — Mr Carr is thus elected by a large majority. — Kihikihi.— Grant made for fencing. — ')hmewai. — Application for school building. Agreed that when rosidants provide a site building will be erected.— Churchill. — Resolved to communicate with Ohinewai Committee, with a view to forming half-time schools. — Mr Moss protested strongly against any further delay in dealing with this school. The absense of provision for the children of the district was a dNgrac? to the Board, and ought not to b-j suffere 1 any longer. If a night school wore added to the day-school, there wo aid be a very good attendance, from what he had hoard. — The Chairman agreed as to tli 5 necj^ity of providing the means of education in the district. No provision was made for night schools by the Government, and there were other difficulties, but he would see that no time was lost in making the best arrangements possible. — Te Aroha Goldfield.—Application for £2 12a for repairs, &c, to school. Committee to be informed that these accounts are usually paid by committee, out of grant. — Waitoa. — Application for full time school, — Adjoining committees to be consulted.— Singing Master. — The committee recommended the appointment of Mr Bell .is teacher of singing in Waikato, conditionally on his passing the necessary examination. — Recommen station approved.