The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1844, 1 May 1884, Page 2

The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

Equal and c\a< t justice to .ill men, Of whatsoever state or peisuasion, rchjjious 01 politir il. Here shall the Press the People's n^h' maintain, Un.iwed by lnfluenrc and unbnbed by gain, THURSDAY, MAY 1, ISSJ h

The second day's racing of the Cambridge Jockey Cluh\ Autumn Meeting 1 take-> place ti-d.iy. The fust l.ice will • tart at 1 o'clock. We undei stand that Mr T. A. Bell muf-ical instructor fm the public schools in Waikato, has successfully passed his e\amination. The dates of the annual meetings of the Licensing Committee* of Pukekura, Cambridge Town and Tamahere districts aie given in another column. Mr James Watters and Mr James Ramsay, have been duly elected members of the Rangiaohia Road Boaid. 1 The monthly meeting of the Piako County Council has been further adjourned. The pheasant shooting season begins to-day. Licenses to kill game may be obtained at any post office which is a money order office, and licenses to sell game at the Chief Post Office, Auckland. Mr Geo. Aldridge, of Hamilton, who is an efficient teacher of Pitman's eyfetem of phonographic shorthand, notifies in our advertising columns that he is prepared to establish classes for teaching the art. Intending pupile should make eaily application to Mr Aldridije. - A general meeting of the shareholders of the Rnkuhia Cheese Factory Company will be held at The Waikato -Times Buildings on Thursday, the 15th jnst., at 11 ft. m., to receive directors report, &c. . As will be seen by advertisement, a public meeting will be held m the GamJrMge Public Hall on Saturday evening for

the purpose of hearing addresses on cooperation, in connection with the North Now Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Association, which is at present being started in the interests of the farmers of this and other country districts. No doubt a large number of persons will be present, as the association is creating a great deal of interest thioughout the various centres of population, and any information respecting the management -and details of the same will be leceived with avidity. Mr Allan McDonald, M.H R. for the E ist Coast, left in the San Francisco steamer for Europe, without lesigmng his seat in the House. He has taken this coinse, it is said, in order to spite his constituents, but the Hou-iO will probably declaie the seat vacant*"nevoithelcss. The old Wesleyan Church in Chapel-stieet, Cambridge, which was hougtit by Mr McCiea, is now being used as a dancing academy by young men, and it is needless to say, it is highly .ulapted for the pm pose, though it certainly looks like descend ing from the sublime to the ridiculous. Tins building will come in very useful for minor pTu poses, as the accommodation is good and fairly extensive, and the tat iff veiy leasonahle. The usual monthly meeting of the Waitoa Road Board was held last Saturday, there being present, Messrs Chepmcll, Gould, Fair and Buck. The engineers, Messrs Sandes and Napper, were also in attendance. Most of the big contiacts aie finished, but there aie still a lot of small jobs to be attended to, mostly by stnfacemen. A Luge amount of routine business was transacted, but nothing of very gi eat mi poitance Accounts amounting' to £783 odd were pissed for payment. The following special messages to the Pies-, Association, dated London, April 2Sth and 2<)th, have been published :— Lord Dei by states puvately that he is anxious to legislate m favour of federation, but cannot do anything in the matter until some of the c ilonies sanction the result of the recent C mfeience at Sydney.— Sir F. D. Bell will shortly proceed to l\uis to inteiwew M. Faure, the French Under-Secietary for the Colonies, on the Rocidiviste question. — Sir Homy Parkes in a letter to the Nineteenth Century, explains his plan for the federation of the colonie , and the appointment of a London Austiaban Council.— The Empi ess. of Geunany is improving in health, The Rotorua Railway will soon be finished .is fai as Lieb field. Mr Fallon, the contiactoi for the lucond section of the foimation, between Oxfoid and Lichhekl, hopes to get tlnough with the job in about two months, and the iiist section (fiom Moirmsville to Oxford) will piobably be completed m the same tune. The rails &c. ha\c all aui\od fiom England and aie stoied, some at Ngaiuawahia and the iest at Auckland, so that the peimanent way will soon be laid down. The duectoi's anticipate that there will not be much tumble about the conplction of the line light on to Rotoiua. The Ohiiieiuutu correspondent of the Herald, telegraphing on Monday says : — Since the ignominious letieat of Messis. Bryce and Rolleston m connection with their futile visit heie, re the lailway, ex-Judge Fenton, at the piessnig invitation of the chief of the Ngatiwh.ikaue, aiiivedheie about a week ago, and has had several meetings with them, with the lesult th.it the chiefs have unanimously agieed to set apait 20,000 or 25,000 acu"« out of the Thermal Spi ings block for sale to the Ciown, as endowment for the Waik.ito iailvva\. It is expected that the Ngatituaia and the Ng.itnang.iweoreahi natives will also be .igiceablo to sell a poition of then land foi similar pin poses This will gi\o a fresh impetus to thoiailw.iy schema, which will eventually tend to advance the Lake distuct. The returns of telegraph and postal ie\enue foi the March quarter have been published. Theietuins for the four chief towns are as follows :— Telegnnis : Auckland, (52,4(59. value, £1,101 15s (id ; Chiistchuich, 42,48!), £3,127 8s (id ; Dunedin, 45,")37, £3,5-)4: Wellington, (57,(575, £3,081 3s Government tclogiams : Auckland, !>,3S"), £!)3"5 Is 4d ; Chi istchurch, 131)5, £3')o 7s <)d ; Dnnedin, 7,3 ( )2, £73") Is , Wellington, 1(5,021, £1,(535 !)s. Postal revenue : Auckland, £(J,Ki2 i)s Id; Chiistchuich, £(5,012 ISs !Jd; Uuncdin, £(5,010 ( Js 2d; Wellington, £4,188 13s 4d. Money oi dels issued: Auckland, 7.1)22, £2(5,322 17s J)d ; Chiistchuich, 5,210, £1(5,283 1 K 2d ; Diuipdin, 7,410, £20,824 lls 3d ; Wellington, (>,l l )i), £1(5,312 Is yd. Money oiders paid : Auckland, 7,348, £24,33(5 12s 7d ; Clnistchmch, 1,2") 1, £12,(587 15s ."id ; Dnnedin, 10,77.), 05, ( )2(i 12s 3d ; Wellington, 1,58 1, £l"i, }5S 17s. Post-oifire Savings Bank: Auckland, deposits, £51,710 lls, vvithdiavvals, £52,7!)!) 7s Id; Christclnirch, £(i."),')l) ( ) lls (id, £(iB,3(i"i 13s lid ; Dunedin, £54.'.) ( .)') 0> Bd, £(>0,5(57 14s; Wellington, £18,131) Is 2d, £47,528 3s 2d. It must be borne in mind that the proprietary say ings bank does a laige business in Auckland, and the letunis of this are, of course, not given. The Timaru Herald (of which Mr E Wakcheld, M.H.K., is Editor) consideis that Mr Wlntakei's Kihikihi speech must havo been an unpleasant sui prise to the Miuisleis. '"Mi Whitaker," continues oui contemporary, "is the eldest son of the late Piemiei, and has been a steady, and a veiy capable, suppoitei of the Government ever since he enteied Parliament at the time of the change of Ministiy in 1S7!). Ho is a man of vciy decided ability, with much of his fathoi's natmal aptitude for politics, and he is veiy popular m the Xoit'n, especially m the countiy d^tnet of Auckland. lie has hithcito shown himself rather a stiong ]uity man, and the Ministers piobably looked on him as one of the safest supporters they had. It must have come upon them like a splash of cold watei, theicfore, when they read the repoit of Mi Whitaker's addiesb to his constituents and found not only that he doeb not consider himself bound to them by any paity ties, but also that on one or two veiy impoitant questions he is already quite piepaied to go into Opposition.*' " Any man with ordinary capacity for woik in him (vvntes "The Vagabond " in the Aisjus)c.in enjoy life in Melbourne with far less exertion than if in London, New Yoik, or San Francisco. What can these cities give us that we have not heie ? E vei y taste can be suited. We hay c q x>d libranes, newspapers, clubs, thentie-*, concerts, chinches, and chapels galore, the Salvation Aimy, and the Blue Ribbon Society. Robci tsoji and Mullen supply us with the latent magazines and the woiks ot Zola oi Max- O'Rell. The tinimvirate or Smythe import the newest English plays, the greatest English actresses, the best English acton. Sample instructs us in lioise-tannng. Periodically a duke or an ■arl visits us, and we woiship him. We have seen the greatest war correspondent of the age. We can listen to Rita and Radcliffe, and shall shoitly hear George Augustus Sala, the mince of living journalists, and best public speaker since the days of Charles Dickens. If ' all diinksaie sixpence,' so much the better — the impecunious imbibe less. As one getting into the vale of years, who has gone to and fio on the face of the earth, and knows the cities and the men thereof, I say emphatically Melbourne is good enough for me !" In a course of a speech delivered at the Harvest Home at Matamata, Mr J. C. Futh is repoited to have said :— You know some of the many difficulties I have had to contend against. The native ditiicultv, and the transit difficulty. Thanks to your help and God's blessing, these have disappeaied, and the wild wilderness of fern has been replaced by the wide spreading fields of wheat and clover around us, and the rocky river Thames has been rendeied navigable for steameis. I claim very little ci edit for myself, for He has so endowed me that a difhculty to me is little more than a plate of porridge to a hungry man, or than a shovelful of coal under a steam boiler. (Cheeis.) As I have already f-aid, some of you have been with me from the beginning of this very aiduous struggle, and without your courageous and intelligent assistance -with that of Mr Williams, Mi Cawkwell, and otheisnotpresent, all my etioits would have been in vain. I greatly icgret that the wi etched prices now current for all kinds of agricultural produce compel me to announce that I intend to discharge the greater part of my workmen, and i educe my outlay and operations on this estate to a minimum. Though we havo had a fair crop of wheat, of excellent quality for the season, and most excellent crops of clover hay, it does not pay to produce either at present prices, c rasidermg that all the time we are impoveiishing the land, and getting little or nothing for it. It is better to cease cropping, and let the land retain its fertility, than to exhaust the fertilising elements, and get nothing to replace them. We have heard almost the last whirr of the machinery. It is a very painful thing for me to dispense, for some time at least, with as fine a body of men as ever woiked for any master. But it mus£ be done nevertheless. When times mend, so as £o warrant resunr.ing operations, nothing will giva me greater pleasure than for pyerypne pf you to enser my service

again if you no please. I am not one of those, as you know, who think tture is i».nv degradation in labour. On the contrary, I think a manly and capable workman is one of the noble works of God. I mean to keep in remembrance your names, so that when you have left my employment I may not forget you MrW. Bowron, the Government inspector of cheese factories left Hamilton, for Auckland by yesterday's train. In connection with Mr Bowron 's visit, an extract from the London City Press may be intei ustin^, as indicating the position which Now Zealand dairy produce is likely to hold in the London Maikets. Our contemporary say& : — From the colony of New Zealand we have '" gieat expectations" — not m the matter of mutton alone, of which the produce in our own country has so lamentably fallen short of late years. Direct steam communication with that important colony, coupled with cold air storage, ib likely to have a very important effect upon our food bupplies, and to render us less dependent than we have oeen upon America and other countries. * * * No le&s than eighty tons of cheese are now on the way to this country. The importation of butter fiom the colony lias also commenced. It is stated that all the conditions are favourable to the development of dairy produce. The mildness of the climate, and the fertility of the hoil, conduce to render New Zealand, for all practical dairy purposes, preferable either to England or America. Mr W. Bowron, who is well known in the southern counties of England from hi-- long connection with the dairying and cheese-making business, has lately visited the colony, and from the warm interest he has taken in the capabilities of the colony in this direction, has been appointed Government inspector of dairy produce factones. Several factories have already been established, and many others aie m process of formation. The great requirements, however, in the colony are : practical farmers with a thorough knowledge of dairying and cheese-making, competent manageis of cheese factories, and excellence! milkers. Mr Bowron has suggested that there are many practical dairy farmers in England, who would be willing to emigate to New Zealand, if land-owueis in that colony would offer the inducement ot letting farms with dairy .stock, and thus pi o vide a considerable portion of the capital required. Cci tain land-owners have responded to the suggestion, and Messrs Bowron Brothers are now negotiating with fauns on the terms which include — Nominated passage ; the letting of farms of fiomoO to .">OO acres, at rents to be agreed upon according to locality of land, about 20s, peracie; calving cows to be let with the farms and to be included in the rental, according to tho cairymg capacity of each farm ; and a riv roomed cottage will be pro\ ided on each holding, and an outbuilding or stable, and so on.