The Waikato Times. AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1897, 2 September 1884, Page 2

The Waikato Times. AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

Equal md e\.n t justirc to a'l men, OMshatsoe\cr state or persuasion, religious 01 politic. il Here sh.ill the Press tlio People's ngh<- maintain, Unawed by induence and unbribed by gain

TUESDA V, SEPT. 2, 1881

The political situation grows more perplexing day by day. After a career brief as that of the, StoutVogel Cabinet, tho Ministry of expediency formed by M.ijorAhkin son was .strangled by the Auckland Greyites. Of tho part played by Sir George in the strange drama now being enacted in "Wellington, the least said the better. Mr Stout seems to have acted in anger, Sir George Grey out of pure love of mischief. When we recall the patriotic utterances that graced Mr Stout'.s appeal to tho House not to condemn him unheard, his indecent haste to kick his opponents off the benches may astonish even if it do not shock us ; but people have ceased to be astonished at anything Sir George Grey says or do. Let it pass. The Atkinson Ministry was pot made of the stuff that would

-.tai.d washing, and it is likely thai v any case its days would have been i!\v and fu 1 of sorrow. Mut the Member for Egmont a.d his col .eagues were bettor than the ru«ri hey supplanted, and the countn *vould not have suffered had the\ men allowed time to frainp a policy Mr George Grey and the Fate lilocroed otherwise. The f.ill of the Ministry, despicable as were th< iicins employed to work its overhrow, seemed at last to open the ivay for a btrong coalition. Bolh 4 % ieat parties h.id tried to act indo)ondently, and both had failed ; •leaily nothing but unioo of rhe two could give the conn ry a stable Government To this end we have seen thai 'Meetings were held, and partie Iconsulted. But the program mo is by no means exhausted. Mr Stout is once more going to try his hand it Cabinet making. Our special correspondent details the steps that have been tak^n clearly and briefly The new Ministry has no greater claim to consideration than either of its immediate predecessors, but by all accounts it is to receive more generous treatment. Let us wait and see.

TitE proposal to start a cheese, butter and bacon factory in the Cambridge district has, after almost arriving at maturity, been abandoned for want oi sufficient support. The number ot one pound shares required to be taken up was 2500, and of this number only about 1500 were disposed of. The provisional directory, to whom great credit is due for the energetic manner in which thoy endeavoured t > pull the matter through, notwithstanding the efforts which they brought to bear, did not meet with the response which they expected from the settlers mainly interested, and who, had the factory been started, would have benefited very largely. The farmers have themselves to blame. M.my were doubtless determined to w tit to f-ce how things would progress whon the factory started. And it is to these that the failure is mainly due. Others would not disclose the extent of their support until the question of the site was settled, and some of tho more knowing ones hold back in the belief that when all their neighbours wont in for supplying the factory with milk they could make their milk into butter and thus run a good trade with tho storekeeper. We can "but express our sincere regret at tho result. Tho cheese factory system wherever it has been tried hero has proved an undoubted source of prosperity to the milk supplying shareholders, and thereby to" tho community generally ; and still their neighbours eontiriuo to cry out about not being able to make their fauns pay. It is a usual thing for people to benefit by e\'porionoo, but in this case tho benefit has boon entirely thrown aAvay upon those uliom ono would expect to profit by it. Wo have every reason to believe that, though the late attempt has not been attended with success, the time is not far distant when the matter will again be taken up, and prosecuted with renewed vigour until success is finally achieved.

The proposed cheese, butter and bacon factory for Cambridge lias fallen tlnuucfli. Out of 2,ooosl>,ucs lequirodto be taken up, only about 1,-100 weie disposed of.

•'Echoes from the Cafe, and the concliMou of the article " Reminiscences of New Zealand," will be found on the fourth page.

Plans of road work on the Hnkanui-T.iupiii mad are to be seen at Mr Lo\ ell's, T.iupiri, as well as at Mt Sarnies' office, ILumlton.

The annual meeting of the membeih of the Hamilton Cncket Club will be held .it the Royal Hotel, on Saturday next at 7.30 p. id.

The Cambridge footballers were unable to carry (tut their engagement uith the Aioha men on Situiday last. A meeting was. held .it Cambridge last night, when the matter (if ananging for a team to go over to the A rah a on Satuiday ne\fc was talked over.

We have been given to understand. on good iiullioiity, that the Cambridge laihvay will not be open for traffic befoie the end of September. The contiactois aicnot expected to have the line or the station l>uiirlu)g& finished befoie that time.

The petition of Messrs Dennis Mmphy and othuis against the election of Mr X K. Coopoi to the Pi.iko County Council -xv 111 bo heaid by Mr Keniick, R.M. at the Couit-hoube, Te Avoha. on Tuesday, the Oth nist.

The acting chairman of the Waipa Cuunty Council notifies that the Cani-bude-Kotoiangi Road ib unfit for traffic. Since the notice m as written the bridge h:is collapsed, so that the road is not only unsafe, but impassable. Another budge between Kotoiangi and Te Aw.imutu ib also, we aie informed, quite unfit for traffic.

The banks of Lake Te Koutu at Cambridge are all cady becoming a, resort for the townspeople of a Sunday afternoon. On Sunday List Lugo number*) of people inspected the unpiovements at present being cairied out, and all seem to agiee, judging ft oin tlie ivoik alieady done, that bcfoie long the Lake leserve pi onuses to bo a boiuoe of much attraction.

The annual social gathering in connection with the anniversaiy of S. Andrew's Chinch, Cambridge, will be held this evening. The tea will be on the tables at a quai ter-past six, and the musical part of the piogr.unnie will begin at half-past seven. The meeting will be addressed by Archdeacon Dudley, the incumbent, and other friends.

The following telegrams to the Press Association, dated London, August 30th, have been published :— The support extended to the new Oriental Bdnk Company i-* considered sufficient to justify operations to be canied on. The response fiom tho Australian shareholders is disappointing. — Australian wheat caigoes off the coast are selling at 355, ex gianary at 37s Cd. — A movement is on foot to entertain the Ans- ] tialian cricketers at a banquet before their departure.

Of late considerable damage has been done by larrikins to the the iail fence between the Karapiro and Waikato bridges afc Cambridge, and also the fence along the road leading down to the river on the east side. The matters was brought under the notice of the Cambridge Town Board yesterday, when it was agreed to repair the fence, and offer a reward of £2 for information leading to the conviction of any peraon or persons so guilty.

The usual monthly meeting of the Hamilton Domain Board, took place last nitfht at the council chambers. Applications were received from Mr L. Cussen to lease a portion of the domain land lately occupied by Mr R. Bradley, and from Mr Harker to lease lots 1, 2 3 and 4, Hamilton West. The first was adjourned for' a' month, pending the report of a coninuttee as to whether the land was fit for a recreation ground or not. The second was, entertained, and it was resolved, to offer tb,em. fop

ease at 7a l>d per acre. The clerk was in.fcnictftd to carry out the condition* strictly, tnd sue for all overdue rents in futuie. It at»h resolved to grant £0 towards tho tree limiting of SvclnoyiSquare, the committee to find tho bsilanue.f?

The Rev. lUlph Brown, the renowned physiognomist and phrrnologi-t, will deliver h'\>> popular lecture in the Cam bridge Public Hall on Friday evening. Che novelty of the mibject and the lopularitv of the lecturer promises to bring ■uguther an unusually large ludittnoe. * Th<i proceeds will be in aid of the new Wesley an Jiituch, Cambridge. The Key. J. J. liowu will loctiue on the t-ame subject at Te Awamutu on the sth in*>t., and Lhe Ri'V. R.ilph Biown will delivi-i Ina lecture in the Public Hall, Hamilton, on the Bth mst. The lecturer tre well spoken of in tho public press, and judging by the charts which we have &een, we venture to think that a profitnble and pleasant evening is in stoic for our readers ,n the different centies.

The usual monthly meeting of the, Hamilton Cemetery Trustees wa& held Ust night at the borough council chambers. Mes-rs Wait and Cockhead were appointed «.o\tniih for the Hamilton East Cemetery, fenders for the road work at Cemetery Gully, Galloway-street, were opened. They were as follow :— H. Kelly, £25 7s 6d (inforn.al) ; Jos. Smith, £26 ss, extra sodding, lid per yard ; James Coonubes, £29 Bs, sodding, M ; T. Cassidy, £32 ss, sodding, 2h ; Ryan, £43, sodding, Is. The engineer's estimate was £38. The tender of Jos». Smith was accepted, being the next lowest fco Kellys, which was informal. It was resolved to harrow the ploughed ground, And to lay it down in grasn forthwith. The plan of the cemetery, as subdivided into plots, was submitted by Mr Sandes and approved of by the tru&tees, and it was resolved to peg them out at once. Work on the road will be started at once.

The probabilities of a football match eventuating between Auckland and Waikati) are now very good. Mr Henderson wiote up last week asking if Waikato couJd play, and a gentleman interested in the game promised to got the Waikato team together. The team will be composed somewhat as follows : — Ring, Pilling, Irwin, Canadian (2), Grey, Julian, Mar-sh-ill, Sullivan, Hardy, Yon Stunner, Odium, B.»llantyne, Verity, Stewart, Tiude, Allwright, and another to be selected. Some alterations will no doubt tike plnco in the composition of the team, but most of tho.se named .ue pn»tty sure to play. The match will be played on Sydney Square, Hamilton, on S.itmday the 13th 01 20th inst., and the visitors will be enter taincd at dinner in the evening, and will tiavel to Cambridge the next day, as usual, to see the country. A telegram wab received yesterday stating that a meeting is to be held this evening to make ariangements for the match, and to settle the date of play.

A correspondent who (quite unknown to himself) possesses a hne vein of humour, begs our acceptance of the follow nig trifle : — Member for Wai pa bent for, asks for 24 hours to complete the Cabinet. Outline of his policy; Property Tax to be repealed, lepl.iced by a progressive Land Tat, ako a progressue Income Ta\, Honda and Blidges Construction Act to be repealed, Licensing Act to be amended, Bar License to be a fixture of £,'2O in cities and boioughs, and £10 outside of such ; ic venue to be geneial Government, licensee to be lsaiied by R.M. and two J.P. ; piogiesbive reduction on all Civil Servants, 5 per cent, reduction on all salaries above £75 ; 10 pei cent, induction on all saLiiies above £150, and 10 per cent, reduction for every additional £100 ; honorarium to be i educed to £1.'50 ; California mail loute to be discontinued ; i ail ways to be pushed on with vigour when rails and rolling stock can be manufactured in this country ; tax on sheep to bo aboluslied and inspectors dusclntged; economy to be strictly enforced in cveiy department ; Armed Constabulary to be icducud to 200 men, with a i eduction of pay ; officers to be placed on half pay or transfeired to railway department where practicable ; volunteers to receive increased giant and ppot'i ot'i »si v e instruction in such blanches of the seiuce as the progieas of the tnneb demands, Mich as torpedo corps, naval aitilleiy and electricity ; piotectwm to native industry by placing 50 per cent, on American pioduee, such as buggies, waggons, drills, fruit (canned and law), pieserved fish, clothes pegs, wash-boards, paints, kerosene, churns, buckets, and all other wood ware <»nd American manufactmed ai tides. These are to counterbalance duty exacted fioni New Zealand pioduceis on wool and preserved lreats. The 24 hows' grace asked for gi anted, when it is expected he will name a strong combination Cabinet.