The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1863, 14 June 1884, Page 2

The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

Equal and exact justice to .i'l men, 01 wli ltsouwi <;t itc or pcrsu ibion, religious or politic il Ilcresh ill the Press tllf People's nsh* m.unt.iin, Un.iwetl hv inniicncc and iinl)iil)c-(l by if.un.

SATURDAY, JUNE V h 18S' f

11 Echoes from the Cafe " will be found on the fouith jugc of tluS iwie.

Much interesting matter, including lottois to tho Kditnr and other local ilen^, is unavoidably held o\ci, cm ing to the pie-.suie of Faili.uiientaiy intelligence.

Commander Edwin telegraphed at 1 p.m. yesteiday :— Expect bad weather between noith .uid -west .mt! south-we^t (tl.i^-, faitlioi fallliuL liMiip after ten hoins, with weather coldei. liuUcations inoic lam.

Mr Fallon will shortly have his railway formation contwict between (Kford :uid Lichhekl cemplcted. One of the camp-, is n<w cW up to Lichhold. The election of the puncip.il budges on the line will, liowcaci, lcqune homo little time vet.

The road between Fleming's coinci and Oba.np<>, which dm nig last winter was tho leading qu.igmiiG of the distnct, i» now in excellent; condition, and pi omi&es to lemain 10 tlnonghinit the enduing \Wlltol.

We were gratified to receive a toloai.im yesterday horn Mr J. 13- Wlij-to, intimating that he bad <*o far recovered fiom hif> lecent se\ we indisposition that il is his intention to le.ue for Wellington at the end of ne\t week, if Parliament ib not in the meantime dissolved.

The Cambridge Town Board will rebuilt 1 to make some extensive improvements in the way »f fuotp.ith fmm.ition .vt the turning of the l.'iihwiy opposite the Piesbyteuan Clnuch. Alioady the cio^sin^ theie is in u \eiy bad ht.ite foi footpasscngci ■>.

This month should see the Cambndifc railway coinplotcl and ready foi tiafhc. The hues have been laid sis f.ir as Mi Tayltn's i evidence on Victim ia Ilo.id, and the ballasting has been done up to the ccmetoiy, The station builrlinti's aie now all hut furnished. The opening of the uulw;\y will doubtless be the occasion of a public demonstration on the part of the Cambridge public.

A Press Association message, dated London, tlic 10th mst., say^ :— Some of thebebt poition of the FloucU't. meat is lealiMiig 'Id to okl. Tlneo thousand carcases have been condemned, [t hais been ascertained that the cause ot the damage is attributable to leakage in the chamber.

The success which has attended I\Wis W. J. Hunteis and Co'h, lioi.se sale at Kihikihi ha-s induced tlicia to make .mother tn.il, and if Micce^ful it is the intention of the Hi in to hold fivqueut s.ileb at tluit \ilaec. The \\a\t hale, takes place on Pmlay »o\t at Ajideiwn's Hotel.

At the Resident Magistrate's C'ntut, Cambridge, yr-tcrday, theie was vi'iy little bibinc^ t > dispose of. The case of M.ijor (ji-cen against the two native women Oiicpn Tain .md Jiangiiuia was adjouined foi oijyht days, fdi the convenience of the accused, who w eve admitted to bail m Mncties of £25 uauh.

The examination for district scbolaihlnps will be held in August. Candida tvs must foLWiud tlieu names to the Biuid of Education, befoio the Ist July. The annual examination of pupil teacheis will 1)0 held in the Public Hall, Hamilton, for tho Waikato, on Tuesday tho Ist July, commencing at !>.L r > a.m. Tho attention of those mtciosted is directed to an adveitisemenfc in anothei column.

The Auckland sharebroker named Pickett, committed suicide on Thursday about midnight, by shooting himself. The (jccuucnce took place at Ins lodging in Wcllcsloy street. It is supposed to be the lCiult of financial tumbles, acceleiated by dunk. Deceased's landlady shortly before the shot was Ined heaid deceased, who was in his bed-room, call out that some men weie after him. Some further particulars will bo found in our Auckland telegl'dUlS.

Some important changes in the conduct of the North New _ Zealand Panneis' Co-opeiatise Association have taken place within the past few days. Mr Joseph Ganchas been appointed manager pi o tern, Mr Garrett has received the appointment of secretary, and the lettered office is to be removed to Auckland forthwith. The new departiue is not \iewed with favour by the Waikato shareholders, and it is more than probable that Tuesday's meeting will iefus.e to confirm the resolution to alter the system of voting.

The ordinary meeting of the Tamahere Road Boaid, took place at Camp's Hotel yesterday. Present ;— Capt. Runcimau, (chairman), Messrs Wheeler, Bam?h, Rhodes, and J. McNicol. It was resolved to make application under the Roads and Bridges Construction Act for a sum of £3,000 or £4,000 for the purpose of forming the main road from Crawfords gully to Tauwhare a«d from Cambiidge by the Victoria road to Tauwhaie. It was decided to call for tenders for keeping the new cuttings at Crawfords gully ia order for the next six months. The remainder of the business was of a routine chaiacter.

At the Police Court, Hamilton, on Thursday, before Mr H. W. Noifchcroft, R.M., Henry Weeks was charged under the English' Masters and Servants Act with absenting himself from his employment without lawful excuse. _ Defendant was employed at Knox and Rider's Excelsior Flour Mills, and> since Monday morning had been on the " spree,"' to the serious loss of his employers.! Mr Knox, who attended at the court, said he had no wish to press the cbargej liut^desired tl^e defendant should be cautioned, , His Worship severely cautioned Weeks, arid pointed out to him that he had reudered himsslf liable to a heavy penalty. As, however, Mr Knox did not desire to press the charge, the bench would let defendant off with 'the loss of one days' wages.

A special meeting of thi Cambridge, Domain Bonrd- will be held this afternoon for the purpose of receiving Mr J. P. Campbells resignation and disposing of other inatteis.of businebH.

Mr Ralph Hood, the eminent pianist of Auckland, will appear in the Hatnllton'PublicHall on June 23rd, with a company of ladies ami gentleme i of high musical attainments who have probably been heaid by few, if any of the Waikato residents, and among whom we notice the names of Mis Kilgour, the leading soprano of the Thames, and Miss Stephenson, who enjoys au eq\ially bigh reputation in Auckland musical chcles. Mr R. W. Sceats, formerly a member of the Simonseti Company, is a most excellent baritone linger. j\li Jidmiston is the popular basso cautantu whose name figmes so consj)icuously in connection with tno vocal concerts of Auckland, and the centre of attraction is Mr Hood, who h undoubtedly an ailiste of a very high order, and who never fails to gi atify an audience.

The amateur negro minstrel eutettainmeut, to be given at the Oddfellows' Hall, Hamilton Eabt, oil Tuesday evening ne\t, piomiseb to be particularly good. All the best amateur vocal talent is engaged, and a gentleman who lias already made his maik as a comedian will make his fit st appearance at "the corner," and will sing an old song with new words. The solo^ and choruses have been carefully ieh earned, and the instrumental department has been entrusted to competent handb. There is to bp a plentiful supply of humourous jokes and sayings, a stump speech, and some quartottos by the members of a well-known local institution. The tickets ha\ c gone off remarkably well, and it now rests almost solely with Commander Kdwin to say whether the performance shall be successful or not.

The old bridge over the Waipa at Alexandia is now, we think, in a fair way to that condition when structures, wooden as well as nnnt.il, cease to beat the weight of then own existence, and, HkeMvß.ukis, so out with the tide, having withstood tlio stiam of many lough trials while it lasted. Tt is needless to relate the his-toiy of t lit-, old structure, but wo fenr we shall be undei the painful necessity of recording its Midden denude if tho Public Wmk* Depal tment do not pension it off from further ser\ ico as soon as possible. Tt has become a, veiit.ible wieck, stunned and displaced in almost eveiy joint, eie iking out its troubles like a lbcumatic patient to all who pass that way as if bese-ching their intercession on its belnlf. Day by day ll seenia to look forwaid with greater earnestness to the time when Cominandoi' Edwin shall pi edict a heavy flood wind) shall cut short its misoi.iblo careo) 1 , and waft it along on the bosom of the Wai pa to cany destiuction to its moie health v and costly neighbouis at Te Rule and WhaUwhata.

Those who went to the Hukanni Hall on Thursday night, .md the number j was not small, must liavc come away fully s.itisiicd with the f.ue prowded for them. Thiough the kind office of Mis UcynokU aud bonio other ladies of the dibtiict, visttois (in anival woie piovidod with tea and other lofioshmonti, .uul at the close of the conceit Mr Tayloi's cottage adjoining the h.ill was utilised as a suppci mom, to which .ill and sundry weie welcome. The conceit itself was a most enjoyable one. The progiannuc was sufficiently v.vied to suit .ill tastes not too long to weaiy, and from hrst to last it went off with spirit. Owing to the length of oui Paihamontaiy telegiams, and the piessuie of other nuttoi, iie au> not able to notice the entpitaimncnt in detail, but these consideration-, must not pie\ent oui saying a woid in piai-,e of the elfoits of the peifoimcis as a whole. Ladies and gentlemen, all nclily deceived the applauae whicli the audience, w ithont stint, accorded them To Mis Reynolds, who not only oiganised the cnteitainment, but actually, as vocalist and accompanist, peifouned the lion's, sluie of the woik, the lesult must be eminently gratifying. The following was the piogmmme : — Pait ].— Oveiture. ])i,uio and violin, Mis Reynolds and Mr Oicenwood; reading, fiom "Mark Twain,"' Mr J. McNicol ; dialogue, Messis Chiihtian and Kobeit-, 13r05. ; song "Twickenham Fcny/' Mis-,s McKcn/Ae (vncoied) ; song, "TheMulshipmite," Mr Wallimtt) glee "England," Tonic Sol-fa Clnss 1 ; -ong. "The (rirl with the Hewing Machine," Mi Foriest(pncoied); duet, "F.u Away," Mis McXicol and Mz-5 Kevnolds ; song, Mis Mulling ; song, "Wlieiethe()ldHoisel)ied,'"Mi Oimeiod; glee, "The Chafeis," Orpheus (iloc Club. Pait 2— Ulee, "Hush Tliee My B.iby," Tome Sol fa Class; leading, "Tholjluo J.iy, 'Mi Tem])lei ; song, " The Lowlands," Mr < iicenficld •, duet, "Flow On, Thou Sinning Rner," Miss McKen/ie and Mrs Kejnolds; hong, " JCilcon Allanah," Mr Tiewheellar; song, "Tit Foi Tafc," Mi.s.s McKen/ie (encored) ; glee, "Married and Single," Orpheus ( ilee Club ; duet, " Veiy Sus[)icious,"Mi^ McKenzie and Mr Steele ; sailois' song, "The Anchoi's Weighed;" quaitette, "The Topois 1 Song," Oipheus (ilee Club (eucoied) ; Maori haka. The jnoceeds, which go to the hall building fund, amounted to about £1"). At the close of the conceit the hall was clcaied foi dancing, the music being supplied by the ladies piescntand MrUieenwood. Dancing was kept up till past one, when, after singing " Auld Lang Syne " and the National Authem, the company separated.

America cares (says the World) for its dead uho have done it honom. It wai but the other day that the ashes of the author of "Home, >Sweot Home," wr>io biought "home " from then long exile in Tunis ; and now the Legislature oi the .state of Ohio has made piovision for bi inging back from the Constantinople graveyard to the village wheie his " folks " lie bmied, the lcniaius of the bngbt and biilluuit Mctfahan. When the "weeping representatives of half-a-do/en nationalities" turned away from the gra\e to v Inch had been consigned the body of one w hom to know was to love, the spot full into neglect, until Lady Strangford, McUaluui'b fast friend, put a btone over it, with a simple but touchingly appiopriato inscription. McGahan and yiieiidan weie natives of the same village in Perry County, Ohio. As an adult, Mc(inlian was a man of exceptional culture and accomplishments ; but what is not generally known is that, until the age of eighteen, he wab a farm lad, working for the behoof of liis widowed mother and walking tour miles every Saturday to the town, wheio a Catholic priest was hif> gratuitous tutor

The Diritto publishes from the Arab text in the Abou Maddara an account of an interview of the editor of the Arab paper with Mahdi. Tn the comse of the interview Mohammed said .— " What pro\es that T ne\er pietonded to be the Mahdi is that I sun surrounded by the illubtiioub pheikhas of ThUni aud by thousands of paitisans, who instead of fighting by my side, would have abandoned me if I had put forwaid the claim attiibuted to me by my enemies. Goidon has been sent with 500,000 thalers to buy over my allies as he succeeded in buying some Arab chiefs. But I swear in the name of Allah, that if Gordon falls into my hands I will kill him, and distiibute his money among the pooier Mussulmans who fight with me." "But,"' asked the interviewer, "what will you do in the event of the English arming Indians and Abys&inians against you?" "1 have no fear of the Indians," was the reply. " Those who are Mussulmans are with us ; thobe who are idolatois aie anxious to liberate themselves from English tryanny. As to the Abynsinians not one of them would survive." "And what about the English 1" " The sun will melt them. As to myself, if I do not succeed I will perish on the battle field."

Mr \V. H. Jones, M R.C.V.S E , Auckland, has a business notice in ancthcr column. ; The Auckland Plumpton Park Company offer 10s each for live hares delivcied at the Papatoifoi Station. , „ . A. select quadrille party will be held in the Oddfellows Hall, Hamilton, on Tuesday, 24th instant. . 1 The Tuhikaramea Road Board invite tend r< for the purchase of the Public Pound ior remov al Tbe timber is heavy sawn puriri. ! Mr Aldridgc will conduct the usual services at LeQuesne's Hall, to-morrow. Subject for evenirg lecture, " Was Adam the first created man ?" The Rev. O. Dean will preach at Trinity Wesloyan Chuich, Hamilton, to-morrow morning and evening. The subject of the discourses will be found in tbe advertisement. Messrs W. J. Hunter and Co. will sell at the Ohaupo yards, on Tuesday, 60 young cattle from i Churchill, &c. OnFiiday nest they will sell at Kihikihi, horses, saddlery, 5.C, Scc v • I Attention is drawn to the advertisement of the Rutland Hotel, corner of Queen Wakeneld and ' Rutland Streets, Auckland. . The house is one of the most comfortable in the city and affords every accommodation to yisitors from; tbe C °&[essrs Clark and Gane will sell at McCrae's Hall, Calhbrij3ge,itq-day ajt noon, on account of whom it may concern," 1 cartridge cases, shot, <vad»; aried^pjites, tea, soda, sug^erdssne, cocoa, &c;, &c,, m6r4*or W»iM»mk|rM m'fresh W ilr r jotin Kfi'ox^ fnsWiSctklii' tho Registrar pf the Supreme Court, will^elf.on .Thursday July * 3rd, at noon, at tjite HamUton\Auctjon Mart, freehold allotment Nq, 20, WhaUwhata, wij* the^ buildings erected thereon, <Jw»©i\fi»*** tljpiW'#*^VrUI» Siotel, /"'''. ' ]'*"