The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1871, 3 July 1884, Page 2

The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

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THURSDAY, JULYS, 188 J,.

Mr W. L. C. William-, has evidently take 11 it into Ins head thi\t the country requires liis services, that lie has been " called," and that it has devolved npon him to guard the rights of the Cambridge townspeople a^ain&t the mjuitice \s hioh the domain board seeks to perpetrate upon them. Bent on entering some public office, whether representative or otherwise, and keeping in view the old precept about beginning at the foot of the ladder and wor ing upwards, he has made a very model ate and unpretentious beginning l>y discovering an injustice to the local public in the lecently effected drainage scheme at the Like, and has determined that those concerned shall never hear the end of that much paraded subject. The public have doubtless read Mr William's remonstrances on the drainage question, and, on the other haud, pei used the reply which the board has given to the same. It is worthy of notice at the outset that this champion of local abuses holds his peace until the damage has been done. Had he two years ago, when the idea was first thought of, offered his remonstrance there would have been some reason in his action. Mr Williams asserts, evidently without the slightest warrant, that the new drain into , the Lake sen es to carry off the foul refuse or the foreign water, as he himself terms it, which bsfore the present scheme was carucd out, went in the other direction. This could never have been the case, as the level of S Andiew's corner is five feet below Reids corner. We agree with Mr Williams that it would be much better that the water should be drained somewhere else than into the Lake, and, indeed, the domain board is of the same opinion ; but will Mr. William* deny that the domain board has done the best under the circumstances. As Mr Williams objects to the present scheme, possibly his fertility of resource will enable him to <\t\ lie a better and at the same time a practicable one. When we say practicable, we mean one which would coma within the present means of the town. Doubtless, with an expenditure of about £2000 something better might be devised, but we think Mr Williams as a ratepayer would be the first to object to be taxed for any such expenditure. So long as the local bodies see that nothing of an objectionable character finds its way through the drain, the town has very little to apprehend, and this we have no doubt will be .attended to. The domain bo.mi is blamed for allowing itself to be duped by the town board in the matter, but these mutual amenities are necessary. If Mr Williams wishes to make his mark in public as the denouncer of public abuses, he will have to secure a better basis'of action ; for, certainly the present ebullition will not assist him to achieve his end. We do not mean to attribute his present pursuit to selfish motives ; it can only be put down as unnecessary meddlesomeness.

Commander Edwin wires, at 12.25 yesterday :—lndication glass further rise and very cold again or frost to-night.

Ondit that Mr W. Duncan, J. P., Chairman of the Raglan County, is to be asked to become a candidate for the Waipa •eat at the forthcoming election.

The annual meeting of the members of the Tamahere Farmers' Club for audit of accounts Mid election of committee and office-bearers for the ensuing year will be held at the Tamahere Hotel, to-morrow evening at 7.30 o'clock.

An influential meeting of Mr Whitaker's »upporters was held yesterday, at which it was determined to request that gentleman to again contest the Waipa seat. We have not heard the result, but understand that that gentleman is certain to accede to the request.

In another part of this issue; Mr Edward Lake publishes a list of the places at which he purpose 3 addrei -ing the electors of Waipa. He upon* the ball ai Raglan on Monday evening next.

We have been asked to say that there will be no service *or choir practice at S. Andrew's Church, Cambridge, on Friday next. The Rev Joseph Bates will conduct the »ervices on Sunday. ' j <

The Rev. X .Neinllo, the Pfes)>yterian minister nY charge >6f ,fche" Wwkato/. West" aiBtricj£rieave«'^thwfweftfe '*F %i South.

Hellensville, will conduct tho services at Ohaupo, Paterangi, To Awamutuand Kihikihi dining tho pieso.it month.

Miss Carry Nelson, tha popular Australian actros-t, purposes paying a visit to Walkato at an early date with a dramatic company, but tho date has not yet been lived. Tho Press speaks in tho highest term* of Miss Nelson's histrionic abilttior, and we ha\ono doubt that ret»id'nts in the distiict, who have few opp>r-tunitie-j for witnessing stage re;>ro lontatmns will avail thenibelves of the chance of gratifying their debire without going to Auckland.

Primrose Day has clearly become a Bntish Institution. All clas<u\s .seam to vie with each other as to which should make the greate-t display of the flower that typifies sympathy with tho Tory Party and h.itrod of the tiiand Old Humbug. Poers and Peercs^c, Merchants and Tradesmen, liveried Coachman, lively Omnibus Drivers, Cabmen and Butcher's Boys tnnde the streets so yellow with primroses thai; it wri hard to We whera the flower was not. Young men and maidens, old men and childien, all wine their bunch—not so much that they admired the Primrose League, which has sprung fully armed from Lord Kandolph Churchill's brain, or that they loved B<?ac )i« Yd; but that they hate the compound of brag and bloodshed, cant and cowardice, lying and trickery, which ha§ the impudence to call itself Her Majeity'a Government.—Vanity Fair.

It appears from the gathered statistics of the world tliat women have a gu\iter tenacity of life than men. Nature woi ships the female in all its varieties. Among insects the male polishes at a relatively early period. In plants the seminate blos.soms die earliest, and aro produced in the weaker limbs. Female quadrupeds have more endurance than males. In the human race, despite the intellectual .\nd physical s-tiength of the man, the woman endures longest, and will bear pain to which tho stiong man tmccuinb*. Zymotic diseases .ire m >re fatal to males and more male children die than female. Deverga anseits that the proportion dying suddenly i-. about 100 women to 7SO men ; 1,080 men in the United States in 1870 committed Miicido to 285 women. Intetnpeiance, appople\y, gout, hydiocephalous, affection* of the heait or livei, .scrofula, paralysis, are far more fatal to males than females. Pulmonary consumption, on the other hand, is more deadly to the latter. Females in cities are moie pi one to consumption than in the country. All old countues not dibtmbed by emigiation have a majority of females in the population. In ioy.d families the statistics show nioie daughters than sons. The Hebiew woman is exceptionally -long lived ; the coloured m.m exceptionally shoit-lived. Thcmauied state is Javourable to prolongation of life among women. Dr. Hough remarks that there are fiom 2 to (5 per cent, moie malei bosn than females, yet thure aie more than (} pei cent, evces-. of females in the living population.

The following special messages to the Ptess Association, dated London June 30th and' July the Ist, have been published : — E.ul Dei by is willing to immediately place a piotectoiatoover New Guinea, and has piomised to consult the Cabinet 1 expecting the inclusion <>f the other islands'. The Agents-General will seek an eail^ interview with Kail Dei by on the matter. — Five Austialian Government having agreed to shave the expense attaching to the extension of Biitish nile in the Pacific, Mr Service has telegiaphed to the AgentGeneial m London, .statiug that the requite 1 amount, £l~i,OW, it. guaranteed by the colonies. — Vessels leaving Marseilles hive been lef used clean bills of health, in consequence of the outbieak c>f cholera. Quite a panic proyaiK — Information from Cairo .states that important tiibes aie joining the ranks of th« Mahdi. — The homexrai'd mails, via Biindisi, from Melbourne on May 20 weie delivered to-day.— The death is announced of Lady Gome, wife of Sir John Goirie, formerly Chief Justice of Fiji.— Mr Aithur Mills, in a letter to the Times, appeals for clergymen to proceed to Norfolk Island. — The Melbourne Harbour •") per cent, qnai ter of a million loan is announced. — The Maiquis of Normanby has been intei viewed by a journalist, and m ivply to a question h>> said that when federation was once settled all difficulty in connection with annexation would vanish.-— The dock companies aie ledueing their charges for htonng fio^en meat. A fieezing company is being formed at Snnthtield, and it will be capable of storing 3000 tons of meat. They etpect to commence operations next month, and low rates are to bo charged. — Mr For&ter presided at the annual meeting of the Royal Colonial Institute, and the Marquis of Noimanby seconded the adaption of the report. _^ _