The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1865, 19 June 1884, Page 2

The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

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THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 188*.

Tui>m\''b mooting of the shareholders of tho Fanners' Co-operative Association demon btra ted two things very clearly. Tho first i.s that the Ashoeintion, has taken a very high place in thciegaidof the fanning community of this district ; tho second is that there is a general feeling of hostility to the removal of tho oontro of operations from W.iik.ilo. That iho Association should have noil its way into tho hoarh of Iho people is nothing inaivollou-.. The past has taught us, by many bitter lessons, the ue< e-sify for co-operation, and we may rest assured that nothing bu* gross mismanagement will suffice to alienate the sympathy of the settlers from the association which has reci-ntly been iloated. IS! or is there much uvison to appre'iend that any unpleasant contingency of the character indicated will arise. But none the less, it is the duty of the diiectors to provide against accidents. The term " mismanagement" does not imply " bad manngement " solely ; it embraces other kinds of management as well. To see the association directed from Auckland, /or instance, would not be palatable to the shareholders of this district. Let it not be inferred from this that any reflection on the Auckland directors is intended. We are quite prepared to concede tint Messrs Heather and Waj mouth are we'l-intentioned towards the farmers of W.nkato ; but it will be just as well to limit the Auckland ingredient in the composition of the board to its present quantity. Concerning the other matter, the proposed removal of the offices to Auckland, and tho closing of the Wailcato branch, wo think a mistake has been committed. It is quite evident that stores of some kind there must be in Waikato— the railway would eat up all the profits if tho farmer liad to get everything from Auckland as he wanted it— and the shareholders do not talco kindly to the directors' idea" of agencies. In this connection it is only right to say that some of tho directors are opposed to the change, and we have little doubt that, with the strongly expressed wish of the shareholders beforo the board, it will see fit to alter its decision before it is too late. The moderate tone adopted by the meeting was a pleasant feature of the proceedings. The evident desire of the directors to afford all the information in their power had, in fact, to a certain extent disarmed the hostility of many who went to the meeting with warlike intentions, and Messrs Graham and Gillett's frank acquiescence in the rejection of the amending resolution, and the abrogation of the scheme for placing the two thousand shares on the Auckland market, sent everybody away in good humour. We may take it for granted that the association will now settle down to work, backed by the cordial support of the whole body of shareholders.

His Excellency the Governor, acting on the advice of the Government, has granted a dissolution. The House will probably adjourn on Tuesday, and the general election will be proceeded with forthwith. . . Lovers of music will foe glad tpJ learn that Mr Ralph Hood has been inducedto give two performances in Hamilton instead of one as previously r anmranced. ' , Command^ Edwin's .jiredictioiMf have boen-ampjy verified- Awing tno<p£sV fey d^T Itoivy fell almtetoonijmV

ally yesterday, accompanied by a northeast wind. Tha baro.netor is \d vW, (2!)-9) though the commander predicts a rise.

A third suicide by shooting has occurred at Auckland. On Tuesday ovenin" n younsc nun named Henurd Jones, n member (if tho Naval Artillery, because a I vounff girl would not consent to marry him, placed the muzzle of his carbine to his Mdo and inflicted such injuries that he died within four hours. Further par- ! ticulars are furnished by our Auckland | correspondent. '

Messrs William Davis and John Stendman were duly nominated on Tuesday as candidates for tho scat at the Hamilton Binough Council vacant by the retire- ( ment of Mr Yon Stunner. The poll will j be taken on Tuesday next. j

We learn that the Choral So- , cicty's concert, which was to have taken I place on the Ist July, has, in coiihoquencc of Mi 1 801 l receiving inductions from the I B iard of Education to attend at the Anck- j l.vnd school, for a week, been postponed. Due notice will bo given when the next | practice will be held.

The chairman of the North New , Zealand Farmcis' Co-operative Association j has received a letter from an influential | business firm in Queensland, intimating that thero is a market in th.it colony for j compressed hay and chaff, and all kinds of i produce, and expressing a desire to act as i astent-> there.

Archdeacon Willis asks ug to notify that lie bonus t > vWt the out-dis-tricts of Morrinsville, Richmond and Ma,taniata fur divine service <>n Sunday week, Jnno2')th. Thelioms of service will be, respectively, half-past ten, half-past three .md balf-pa->t .seven. The Holy Communion will be celebrated, and the annual meeting will be held at Morrinsvillo after service.

The following extract from a letter fiom a miner who has been associated with the Te Aroha goldfield since its opening shows that great confidence in the future success and prosperity of the field is held by practical men : " There are better times coining. Things here seem brightening; up. The Hill is looking b3tter than ever. Ther« will be a great field here yet."

Now that a tobacco manufactory lias been established in Auckland and holds out favomable inducements to Waikato fdrtueii to grow the nic iti.m weed, it is somewhat surprising that no <>np heems to turn the oppoitunity to account. We have cvciy reason to believe that the growing of the tobacco leaf would give a veiy profitable return to the grower, there being a good maiket at hand, and the climate being exceptionally favourable. We have seen •some excellent produce in this line in the Kaiden of Mr John Scott, of Pateiangi.

Previous to his departure from C.uubiidge, Mr J. P. Campbell was made the recipient of ii handsome Rold watch and chain, of the value of sixty guineas, sub sciibad fur by the older lesidents of the distnct. The presentation was made at a complimentary dinuei at Hewitt's hotel on Tuesday e\cning. The chair was occupied by Mr W. Moon, and the %ice by Mr X B. Walker. A icport of the proceeding-; is unaxoidably held over. Mr Campbell loft for Auckland ycteiday.

The European Mail of May the 2nd say*:— Mr R. Laishley, jnnr., of Auckland, who is now ti welling on the continent- of Europe wiMi the object of studying the continental s>htcnw of cdwcivtimi, had the distinguished honour of Iranjr presented to the Piesident of the lionch ]t,M)u\)lic on April 2\ at the Palais de i l'Klyseo. (iencrdl Petti 6 made the presentation. The interview was a very ple.as.jmt one, and the conversation showed that PicMclcnt (ri'(svy takes a deep interest in educational problem^.

The following special messages to the P» oss Association, dated London, June 16th «andl7tli, have been published :— The freedom of the County of Ayr has been presented to Sir Thomas Mcllwraitli (e\ -Premier of Queensland), and Sir John Mcll wraith. Sir Thomas has expressed his belief that Lend Dei by will bhortly be compelled to annex New Guinea. — bignor Husini, a well-known Italian basso, has been killed in L( ndon by a stieet accident. — Recent fieshets have badly injured the Panama canal woik.

The Piako County Council are negotiating with the warden of our goldfield with a \ iow of obtaining a title to the tramway. This is a matter of viUl impoitanceto our golrlh'eld ; ami the w.uden, fully leali-ing this and tlu lesponsilnlity vesting upon him in tlie mattei, has <U audited an agreement, which now lies at the warden 1 - office for in -.potion by all piacticil men with a \iew of obtaining then se\eial opinions and Miggcstions. lie toiuis upon winch the tramway would be handed over to the county council aie a mattei of the gia\est impoitance to eveiy lesident m the di-tuct.— To Aioha Newt-.

We (Herald) are glad to hear f.womablc news from Ohinemutu respecting the pi ogie-s of the negotiations for obtainin*' the land nccossaiy for the construction of°the railw ay. We itmlei sUnd that negotiations have been witually completed for the whole c,f the land neces-aiy for the railway. The Government ha\e lately acted with commendable energy, and have instructed their agents to conclude pin chases with all tho tiibes on fair terms. They i lu\ o succeeded, we understand, in so far advancing matters that, even should Mr Montgomery becom° Piomier with a Cabinet of gentlemen whose one idea v* that Auckland lias, been eating the vitals of Canterbury, they will iK't be able to intejpose so as to >top the constincti m of tbi.s line. If everything goes well the directors will be able to commence operations when the fine weather sets in.

At the recent me sting of the Cambridge School Committee a conversation aiose as to whether or no Mr .Stewart, who WtV- recently appointed headmaster of I the High School, would accept the position. , It appeals that the adveitised .salary was £300. The 01 dinary salary, as allowed by the board, is £230, but it was intended that the fees fiom the High School .should make up the deficiency. It now seems that there sue no scholars in the High School, and consequently no fees ; thoiefoie, the salary, instead of being £5500, as advertised, is only £230. Mr Stewarts present position is better than this fiom a pecuniary standpoint, and it is theiefoie very unlikely that ho will accept his new appointment. We undei stand that in case this happens it is veiy like that Mr Collier, the temporary i master in charge of the school, will be retained in the position.

A Berlin paper comments as follows o i the impending visit of Tawhiao to Europe:— "A \ i->it of the Maori king Tawbia" is announced. The Maori", as is known, are that interesting people in New Zealand who, until recently, counted cannibal feasts among their favourite amusements. English missionaries and soldieis have worked at their civilisation with the effect that the Maoris now only enjoy a juicy joint of bctno sapiens on very high festivals ; and soon the tune will come when this dish will have completely disappeared from their bill of fare. We are ashamed to confess that up to the present we have not even heard of King Tawhiao ; bvit as his fiiands and patrons, the English, think him worthy of making the grand tour, he must indeed bo a monarch prominent by his great virtues. The preparations for his depaiture have already commenced ; a large packet of soap, half-a-dozen of shirts— the u&e of which must, it is true, be explained to the renowned prince— several pairs of unmentionables, &c. have arrived at the capital of King Tawhiao; the necessary email change to meet the expenses will also be forthcoming, and thus in a few months we shall have the pleasure of welcoming His Tattooed Majesty in the Old World."

The poetry of earth, we are told, is never dead. Nor is the romance, however we may at times be disposed to think so. Look, for instance, at the experience of that Queensland telegraphic-lino repairer is one of the last places we should think of lookin* in for romance, and yet that is an adventurous story which he tells. Ho was at work in the Wer Burdelcm district, where the late floods had played havoc airon-* the posts and wires. The mangrovefrin^ed watercourse swarmed with aligators, and°un swunmiug a flooded branch of the river to a sandy island, the solitary repairer found an alligator in position an waiting for him in the most sociable way with.his ]aw» hospitably open. . #c succeeded m evading the attentions of his friend, and took up hu quarters in a deserted Btation, but Jiy tno waterside. He managed to make the dorr secure with slato, but reports that he could not siefcp much,, as " the alligators were roaring all around him," In the words of our correspondent :— " Fancy the scene r Tbe smoky, hut, filled with ■ mosquitoes, lit with'the fitful gleam of the fhk and - the solitary iman^ lUtening ; > to; fch,e :hWP7 reptiles roarin* outside.", JW>pto

Writing on tjiia subject of Egyptian affairs, the Ifrodou correspondent of the Aijftw says :--Mi»y I be. allowed to correct one very considerable and' widespread j error?" It is that our government of Egypt j generally lifts been*a.failure. The military tr.vna.ictions have avpwedly been a series of blunders— those that wove 'successful being too late. The administration of the interior has been a fiasco, but the admimstreVtion of the important depaitments of War, Finance, and Public Woiks, under Sir Eselyn Wood, Mr Fitzgerald, and Mr Scott Moncrioff, have beeu completely successful. There has been no friction with the natives, most important reforms have been introduced and are being worked by the natives, and the people are satisfied. lutheimpoitanlm,iK*rof irigation much has vet to be done, bnt 'already such fctepa have been taken as to make it a practical certainty that the cultivators will have a better supply of water this year than they have had for many and many a year, while there will be move honesty in its distribution than the oldest of the lellaheen can call to memory. In these departments that indefinable something called "tact has done wonders. Unfortunately for *>ypt, and for England, in the one Ministry where it was most needed it was most wanting. For the moment the financial question surpasses all others in interest, and we are awaiting anxiously the solution hugge-»ted by England. Egypt needs about eight millions of money— four millions for the Alexandrian indemnity, one million for public works (which will be a productive outlay), and the lest for other departments and " outstanding deficits. The amount looks a lai ge addition to the existing debt of 100 millions, but the country's liabilities are by no means in excess of its resources if judiciously managed. In 1881 there was a clear surplus of a million, and there seems no reason why at least as much should not be lealiscd again, once the troubles of the Soudan are over and normal times are reached. I am certain^ that a British adminibtration can do for Egypt a good deal mor-j than ever was effected by the Anglo-French control.-

Referring to the Oriental Bank, the Australasian Insurance and Banking Record observes :-r" A do v zen years ago its service was the envy and desire of all banking subalterns. It was to the other banks ah the Horse Guards to a legunent of the line. To-day, while around its closed door*, there are " none bo poor as do it reverence," there is no haish woid &pokon lof its local adminibtiation. Depositors i who are put to sore stiaits by the withI holding of their means, and note-holders who have involuntarily become its creditors may be irritable and augiy at the uni expected position ; but the mercantile community who have transacted extensive and km^continuod business with it, areumfoini mtheoxpiessionnf their sincere regret at I the painful citation of their hithei to satisfactory lelations with the Oriental J3ank. And indeed, so far as its Australian business is concerned, the bank appeal s to have faiily earned the good leputation it has enjoyed. It has never been pushing or fi(T(r,-evM\e ; it has nevev foiced rate- ; vt Uas never victimised large customers in tunes of j pie-suie 01 panic; and it has ever consistently earned out its engagements, no matter how (frc.it then magnitude, or how unpiopitiou- the tinny. Indued, it is no secietth.it it has in past years made some l,u<n>, losses in the colonies by a mistaken sense of leniency to customers that almost borders on the chivalries, though some of our harder-headed rinancieis would probably describe it more teisely as by want ol fii nmess." The Recoi d fin thor states, thau, in the existing state <>f matters-, the publication in the Gazette of the quarterly averages of assets and liabilities of each bank is, except in their statistical aspect, wor.se than useless, and that " either the Government should provide 'the machinery by which the sworn assets could be made available for the specific liabilities, or they should repeal the act, and cease to require the publication of a return which, under such circumstances as the present, proves fallacious and misleading. , It further 1 suggests that the note circulation ought to 1 be"made a first charge on the assets of » defaulting bank.

This, says the European Mail, is what a too fiee exercise of the franchise ha-, done for Amciica, for Canada, for Victuna, and foi vmy many other place* in the Kuipiio, and why not for England. Alvoady among the -,e\eral trade:, of the country thi-> question is a dominant one, and with another 2,000,000 of the wasre elates looking upon what i> now legarded as a furloi n hope, may not the question of protection— in the face of a declining trade and foi cum competition— be foiced inconveniently to the front? We sometimes tealise the truth of the axiom that we hue to go alnoa.l for new-, and the axiom would bo equally applicable with u'^pt'Ci t<> experience. It i« not always wise to read by present lights, and if the newly enfranchised should not at some futuie day come up to the expectations f mined of them, why, then the enlightened minds of that time will have all their wink to do to keep them in check. That this i> .the expet lence of many statesmen exeicusing thenfunctions under the executive rule of Great Butain u. certain, and that an expeuonoe which has moxe than once proved to progress m oui colonies should be repeated in thiscountiy goes to show, perhaps nioie than anything eke, how valuable colonial representation in the House of Commons would be. We fancy that if the Premier of Victoria, or of New Zealand, had had an opportunity of speaking upon this measure, they would ha\ c put another complexion upon it altogether, and have warned the Go\ eminent of the fallacy of trusting the destinies of thecountiy to the keeping of the unwashed. As, however, the Government has thought it wi*e to " whitewash them, it is to be hoped they will prove o-ratefel, and exercise their newly-acquired privileges in a liberal and progiessive sense. _