Bombay.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1840, 22 April 1884, Page 2

Bombay.

At the Public Hall, Bombay, on Saturday evening, a mo,t succassful meeting wa« held. Notwithstanding the short notice, thanks to the exertions of Messrs S. H. Stratfoid J. P., J. Rutherford and others, no less than 51 settlors assembled to listen to addie-^os from Messrs T. G. Sandes, and P. M. Grant, who is the authorised agent of the association in the district between M'Ji cer and Auckland. The Rev. P. Smallfield was called to the chair, and conducted the business of the meeting in an eminently .satisfactory manner. Mr Sandea nist addressed the meeting, and gave a short history of the various attempts that had been made in Waikato from time to time to initiate co-operation in one form or another, showing how and why they had failed, until the present movement had been brought to a successful issue at the Public Hall, Hamilton, on the 10th of March last, when the most thoroughly repiesentative meeting ever held in Waikato agreed that the necessity for such an association existed, and that exist it should. The .speaker entered very fully into tha various ways in which the association would benefit the farmers and producers, bhowing how it would enable them in the first place to procure all their requisites, such as seeds, manures, implements, sacks, &c, &c, at the very lowest rates and of the very b^st quality ; and also would find out the various markets throughout the world, in which their produce could be disposed of to the greatest advantage, and this without losing the oftentimes enormous profits that existed between the prime cost of an article and that at which it «as finally sold to the consumer. Such fair profits as did accrue would then, after payment of a dividend at the rate of 8 per cent, on the paid-up capital, bs distributed as a bonus to the customers in proportion to theamountof their dealings with the assoication. He explained that what \vj> desired was to obtain a very Luge number of -shareholders holding a few shaies, in preference to a small number holding many shaies each. Customers were wanted in unlimited numbers. The capital, judging by what had aliendy been done, was \ cry easily obtainable. He wound up by saving that if the farmers wished to be leheved from many of their burdens, they must remember the mottos, " Unity is strength," '"United we stand, divided we fall," which are tho guiding principles of the movement, and he was .sure that the gieat remedy for the present depression was co-operation. The speaker was loudly applauded at the end of his address and Mr Giant then enteied more minutely into the details of the woiking of the association, ••pading the prospectus and quoting from the ai t:cles of association. He gave some very inteiestmg information l'egarding the amount of prohts made on various articles, mil showed how these pr ifits all came out >f the p >ekets of the pioducers. He also 1 1 eld out as an extra inducement to assist tic present movement the certainty of getug their manures, seeds, &c, per"eetly pure and free fioni all adulteration, at a far less price than was now paid for an infeiior article. Vl r Grant then said that they were prewired to answer questions and receive applications for shares. A great number of in 'stions were asked and answered, and oh e only fault found with the proposals laid down was that each share was to have me \ote. It was unanimously considered hat no one man should have at the very i) >st moie than 10 votes, and five was , lought to bo quite sufficient. At the close i f the nddi esses applications were received it 212 shaies from no less than 31 share>lders. There were four for twenty, one >r ten, twenty-four for five, and two for •le each. There were many absent who it is .nown will take shares, and the number vill be raised to at least 250, which speaks >r itself, and is certainly a credit to the •ettlera of this comparatively small district, learfy \otes of thanks were passed to vlessrs Sandes and Grant for their visit, tnd to the chaiimui for presiding, and the meeting sepaivted.

Meeting are to be held at Pnkekoho tonight, at P.ipakura on Wednesday, Tuakau on Thursday, and, if sufficient inducement offeri, at Pokeno on "Friday next. Mr 'Jrant will also hold meetings at Otahuhu, Paimure, Ilowiek, Mangare, and at Onehunsfa. He will also proceed to the districts math of Auckland, very many of the settlers there having expressed a desire to hear about the movement, they being desirous ot taking part in it.— (Own Correspondent.)

Whalers— Crying babies. Some interesting figures are given in a recent number of Truth, showing the earnings of a number of our well-known wiiters. Disraeli, it is stated, made by his pen £30,000 ; Byron, £23,000 Lord Macaulay received £20,000 on account of three-fourths net profits for his history, Thiers and Lamartinc received nearly £20,00 ) each for their respective histories. Thackeiay is said never to have received £5000 for any of his novels. Sir Walter Scott was paid £110,000 for eleven novels of three volumes each and nine volumes of "Tales of My Landlord." For one novel he received £10,000, and between November, 1525, and June, 1827, he received £26,000 for literary -work. Lord Lytton is said to have made £80,000 by his novels ; Dickens, it has been computed, ought to have been making £10,000 a year for the three years prior to the publication of " Nicholas Nickleby ;" and Trollope in twenty years made £70,000. The number of men discharged from the British army for bad conduct in each year since 1868 was as follows :—ln: — In 1869, 2470 ; in IS7O, 1616 ; in 1871, 1032; in 1872, 1694 ;in 1873, 2065 ;in 1874, 1648 j in 1875, 1667 ;in 1876, 1682 ;in 1877, 2003 ;in 1878, 1811 ; in 1879, 2091 ; in 1880, 1826 ; in 1881 ; 1518 : and in 1882, 1294.

General Gordon's Goodness. —His life at Gravesend was a life of selfsuppression and self-denial ; to himself it was one of liappiness and pure peace ; he lived wholly for others. His house was school and hospital and almshouse in turn— more like the abode of a missionary than of a colonel of engineers. The troubles of all interested him alike. The poor, the sink, the unfortunate, were ever welcome, and never did suppliant Knock vainly at his door. He always took a great delight in children, but in boya employed on the river or the sea . . . One day a friend asked him why there were so many pins stuck into/the map of the_world,'OVer his mantelpiece;, he was toldj that they nnrked and followed the course of the boys, on their voyages, that they; were moved from point to point as bis ; youngsters advanced, and that he prayed for them. as,, they went day; ,by, ,df,j, r The light in which he was held by these lads .was sbpwn>by inscriptions in ,cb»|k;oa|;he fences. A favourite,, legepd was "God bless the Kernef !"— The Story of Chineie