The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1930, 18 November 1884, Page 2

The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

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TUESDAY, NOV. 18, 188 %

"Echoes from the Cafe" will be found on our fourth page. Owing to a break in the orerland Australian cable, we are without any English and Foreign intelligence. At the general Wesleyan Conference at Christchurch on Friday, the proposal to erect a separata church for New Zealand was defeated by a large majority. We would remind horse owners and others that nominations for the approaching race meeting at Cambridge close on Thursday nexf, the 20th inst. Tenders called for by Mr 0. J. Storey for cutting and ploughing about 30 acres of ti-tree were opened on Saturd.iv, when Mr W. K. Norm's tender was .h> cepted, it being tire lowest. At the R.M. Court, Hamilton, on Saturday, Mr Northcroft gave judgment in the case of cruelty to a hor&e apainst Maurice Kilpy. His Worship overruled the legal objection raised by defendant's counsel and inflicted a fine of 10s with costs, £8 2s. It is announced that the complimentary concert to Mr Meachem will be piven in the Public Hall, Hamilton, on Tuesday evening next. We are requested to remind those ladies and gentleman who have promised solos or to take part in duets to bring their music to the reh.e*r#ftl which takes place to-morrow evening ia $b# Ha}),

The Cambridge team to play »t Hamilton, on Saturday next, the 22nd nst., will bo chosen from the following :—: — \le-*sis Steel, Stubbing, (2) Hitcjmian, ft wen, Cashel, Foriest, Fitzgerald, Simms, Fisher, Richardson, Pickering, Owen, and Jones. The Tamahere Farmers' Club has invited Mr S. Vaile to come up to Waikato uid deliver one or more lectures on the iiibject of railway management. We underfcand that Mr Vaile has consented, but it i not yet known when and wheie tho promised lectuies will be given. Messrs J. Hutchinson, Andrew Kay, W. S. Rutherford, and J. B. Teasii < .lo have bpen n(>ininated to represent tho tiding of Rangiaohia in the Wai pa County Council. The polling will t.\ke place on Monday, the 24th inst., at the Te Awamutu Public Hall and the old school-house, Kihikihi. Archdeacon Willis expects to visit the Te Aroha district this week. He proposes to hold service on Sunday, the 23rd, at Waiorongomai, Waihou and Te \roha at tho hours of 11, 3 and 7 respectively, if arrangements can bo made locally. The Cambridge Eoad Board has iccepfced the tender of J. Coombes a 8d a yard for tho formation at the cross roads at the Tamahore Hotel. During the wet soason this road lias always been in a. very h.vd state. The road will now be raised in tho vicinity and well formed and gravelled, an improvement much required. His Excellency the Governor has been pleaded to appoint Mr W. Duncan, of itaglan, to be a commissioner under section U of tho Financial Arrangements Ant, 1876, to determine the proportionate part >{ the Raglan county fund payable to each oad district or outlying district in tho -aid county of Raglan. Another case of an unstamped agreement came up at the Bitting of the District Court at Hamilton yesterday afternoon. The plaintiff's counsel in the i\ise Potterton v. W.C. and S. Company produced the agi cement made between the paities at the ,Kamo time expressing his willingness to pay the usual fine of £5, which was cheerfully accepted by the cleik of the coint. Our Te Awamutu correspondent writes : — Wo had a sharp frost on Wednesday night. Vessds with water were frozen I ovei in the inounng. In .some placets the n 'iound was a white as if there had been a. fall of snow. Many of the eaily crops of potatoes were completely cut down, ,Dine had only recovered fioin the effects of tho previous frost, and now they will be i complete failure. James Nolan, described as a '»room, was bi ought before the Resident Magistrate at Hamilton, yesterday, on a harga of stealing a dog, the property of Mr JLtobeit Kirlcwood, Cambridge. The iirisoner, who was arrested at Taupiri, pleaded not guilty, and on tho application of Seigeant McGovern, a. remand was granted till to-day for the production of evidence. The nomination of candidates for the Mayoralty of Hamilton takes place tonorrow at the council chambers at noon. The only candidates at present in the field are Mr Peat, tho present mayor, and Mr W. A. Giaham, who has come forward in ipsponsetoa numerously and innuentially signed petition. Mr Graham, we are sorry to learn, is at present in very indifferent 'lealth, and has been confined to his house roi sonic days. A meeting of those interested in getting up the annual Hamilton Boxingday spurts was held last evening in Mr Le^uesne's Hall. A committee of the following gentlemen was chosen: — Messrs Bindon, Sto\ens, Fonest, G. Edgocumbe, Bach, W. Yon Stunner, H. Biggs, C. LeQuesne, Jeasop, T. Wallnntt, G. Wh J te and F. Ciawfoid, witli power to _ add to their number. A meeting of this committee will be held at the Royal Hotel on Wednesday exeningnext, at 7.30 p.m. The cutting on the Narrows road is at present in a very dangerous state, requit ing formation badly. Mr Graham hi ought the matter under tho notice of the Cambndge Road Board on Saturday, when the subject was discussed. The work was opposed on the score of its cost and the empty condition of the boaid's treasury. The work, it was estimated, would cost £'50. As the Government grant is likely to come to hand shortly, the job will then most likely be undertaken. The naw hall at Huntly was opened with a public ball on Friday evening. Tho hall, which has been erected by a public spirited resident, Mr Isaac Jones, is a \eiy substantial structure, built throughout of kauri timber, with a corrugated iron uiof. It is 90 feet long by 20 feet wide, and is fitted with stage, ante-rooms, and all necessaiy appliance.*. It is aci edit to Mr Jones and to the township. The ball, which was attended by upwards of one hundied people, many coming from Rangimi, Tiiupiri and elsewhere, was a decided success, and will long be remembered in Huntly. The usual meeting of the Hamilton Legislative Association will bo held at the Public Hall this evening. Amongst the business on the older paper is a motion in favour of tho commercial federation of the Empue, as well as several bills of nnpoitance. The standing orders committee met on Saturday night under tho piesidcncvof the X'reiriier, who will-present the committee's repoit to the association toI night. The new Ministry have set to work m the most eueigetio manner, and theii exertions are calculated to result in much good to the general body of niembeis. In the House of Representatives on Saturday, Mr Wi Peie, in contrasting the action •! of the hereditary chiefs who weie wont in bygone days to pile the land with those of tho European avbifceps of the piesent day, made some remarks (hays the N.%. Times) which exhibited an unusually keen if quaint philosophy. " In those day.s," said thy lion, gentleman, " the natives were able to bring Mich pressuie to bear that those chiefs would r{io with shame. But the Emopeans have no shame, They are like stone images— the blush of shame will never be seen on their faces. Their lovo is all outside, and their hearts are heaits of stone." " Melbourne society." remarks The World, "has been Klirred to fierce wrath by the conduct of the wife of one of tho officers recently detailed from the home ' Army to command in the colonial forces. Their wives seem from the first to have given themselves airs at once ludicrous and unladylike ; but if there be any truth in the uncontradicted statements appeal ing in the local papers, the wife of an artillery lieutenant lias been guilty of an outrage i that ought to make her a lonely woman during the lest of her stay in Australia, The story is told that having been named a member of a ladies' committee in connection with a public ball, she sent her maid to represent liar afc one of its meetings ; and that when some Jadies called on her and were admitted to her drawing-mom, the .servant informed them that her mistress must have gone out, when tho feet ot tho said mistress were visible, piojecting from below a sofa under which she had hidden herself, 1 Melbourne Punch has impmved the occasion piotorjajjy and otheiwise." The member for Waipa visited C<unbiidge yesterday, when he was interviewed 0!) matters concerning the district by some of fcha public men of the town. We i egret to notice, however, that the honourable gentleman has had the misfortune to bring with him from Wellington ft touch, of the gout of the Ministerial type— a very virulent form and evidently contagious. It is hard to account for the contagion in Mr Lake's case, he being a decided anti-Stout-Vogehst. While {{; is quite likely it may have been engendered through sympathy with the Ministerial sufferer*, it Cjßftajnty does not indicate a faithful fulfilment of Mr Lake's pledge to his supporters, that he would persistently resist the ruinous innovation* of Sir Julius Vogel. Whether the rheumatic gout may be termed a " ruinous innovation^' wo are nofc in a position to decide, but with all conscience W8 Jeave the matter to the electors of Wafpa and their representative to decide. The honorarium of the members of Parliament may now safely bo icckoned at £200, and a twinge of rheumatic gout thrown in. A glaring piece of railway muddling was brought under our notice yesterday. A settler in the Tamahere djsfcrjst having seveial tons of chaff to aend to Auckland, applied for a " high-sided " truck to be left at the Hautapu statibn. Instead of ft high-sided truck, a ballast waggon was left, «.«4 Upon this some four tons of chaff were loa^et}, When the truck got to the Mangaonua sfca&on it was found the load had shifted, «f)d It bad to be re-loaded _at the cost of ss, of the cojtjsijfnor. To this charge of course no objection iyas taken ; but the load' shifted again at Ruakur*, at Hamilton,' and at Ngaruawabia, ap4for flich re-ad-justment, the unfortuuats wtalfi)? hfid to pay ss. Moreover, when fcbe $haff

finally got to Auckland, having meanwhile, been transferscd to a " high-aided" truck it was ho much damaged that it could only be Hold as second clans, while many of the bags ivll of which were well sewn when put on the truck at Hautapu, were found to be tied at the neck with flax. This soems to use to be a case calling for very strict enquiry. A cricket match was played on Sydney Square on Saturday between the Hamilton West and East Schools. The teams were captained respectively by Masters F. Gaudm and T. Davis. Hamilton East having won the toss, decided to go in first, and were all disposed of for 36. Hamilton West then went in for their n'ist innings, facing the bowling of Davis and 0. Le Quesne, which was very good, especially the former, the West being all disposed of for a total of 29. Hamilton East went in for their second innings, but were unable to make any stand against tno bowling of the West, being all disposed of for * total of 18 runs. Hamilton West, in their second innings, made a good stand against their opponents, scoring 36 runs for the loss of three wickets, thus winning by seven wickets and eight runs. A Te Awamutu correspondent, who has evidently " caught it bad," writes :— As tributaries, by the water they contribute, increase the volume of the main stream, I, enunciating that proposition, venture to send from this quiet village to your bustling centre, a very brief account, or, to keep up the metaphor, a trickle of information anent the grand ball, which was hold here on the 12th mat. The ladies combined together and gave an invitation to their "sisters, their cousins, and their aunts," as well as other relations who in their arrogant «olf-esteem would, if possible, claim descent from a higher source than I that gianted to humanity by ita grand | ancestor Adam. It was a success. The i galaxy of adorned beauty which glided I with graceful deportment through the j ma/;y whirl of seducing waltz, or the more i stately steps of coquettish quadrille, was a \ision to dispel bachoiorism and make i solitary man feel his insignificance in his unmated isolation. The " belle of the ball " was an Alexandra damsel of graceful form and bewitching beauty, and I, inspired by her charms, feebly attempt to honour them in rhyme. I saw her in the crowded hall, With youth and be.iuty beaming The ideal of my highest thoughts ; The vision of my dreaming. She moved among the graceful throng, A star for adoration, Like satelitcs the others seemed, A circling constellation. My poetic flight is too high. The divine " vim " forsakes me. So I get off the stilts and fall back to my practical idea — leaving to the reader's imagination the charms I would portray, but can't— and simply state, to one of Alexandra's fair daughters belongs the honour, honour of being the " belle " of Te Awamutn's grand ball. Ye envious fair ! while sharpening your nails to avenge my assertion, temper your .uiger with mercy !