MR BARUGH'S VISIT TO PATETERE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1942, 16 December 1884, Page 2

MR BARUGH'S VISIT TO PATETERE.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,— As some misapprehension may avis* from the statements which appeared in * paragraph of The Waikato Times, of Saturday, I beg leave to say that I have no commission from any gentlemen in England to look out a place of settlement for them. The greater part of my farming acquaintance in England are persons in good circumstances, who have no desire to emigrate to any part of the world whatever. They are more inclined to be content with » moderate amount of pecuniary prosperity at home than to risk the uncertainties of emigration. Well-to-do English farmers rarely emigrate, and it is persons with capital who are especially wanted to relieve the land plethora of the great land companies of New Zealand. There is not the most distant probability of such relief coming from English farmers. It is mora likely to c.mie through immigrants from Australia, or from the sons of Englishmen who have made money in other pursuits than farming. Adverse times have ruined many English farmers, but they have also checkmated grasping landlords, and infused civility into insolent stewards ; therefore farmers are much moro masters of the situation at Ihome than they were a few years ago. This fact will tend to check farming emigration from England, consequently land sellers cannot hope for rei lief from th.it sourc. M«uiy individuals and most nf the great laud companies of New Zealand are troubled with a complaint which we call e.uth on the stomach, and however violently a patient may be suffering from the diseabe, the instant more earth is offered he ,sw<illows it, and becomes more highly constipated. I am afraid it is a disease on which all remedies will fail. My visit to P.itetero was entirely ono of curiosity. I think the land around Lichfield, by turnip cultivation, and the use of a small amount of phosphates in available form, may bo made profitable farming land. I am, &c. Jos. J. Barugh. Wartle, December loth, 1884.

A Question for Musicians. — la the music of the Chanticleer composed of crow bars ? An Eton: Episode. — A humorous lad I will call Vivian, who had reached the rather unfloggable age of seventeen, and was upon the point of entering the army, was switched at Eton, as he thought unjustly, the very wuek L«fcrc his departure from the school. In those days a perquisite — and a very large perquisite— of the head master's was i £10 note given to him by every fifth form boy on leaving. The etiquette was to call at the lodge, and drop the note into a, jar, or anything handy, after his dear pupil had gone away. It was something like the visit of a delicate minded patient. But Vivian only pretended to drop his note into the jars and reserved it for more agreeable purposes. He pictured to himself with great satisfaction the head master's fruitless hunt after that bit of tissue paper after he had got over the emotion of wishing him farewell. " I can't flog him for flogging me unjustly," was his reflection, "but dash it, I can fine him ! ' — Cornhill Magazine. Stacje Thunder. — When George Frederick Cook, the tragedian, was a youth he resorted to all sorts of stratagems to get a sight of " the players." One night at Berwick he slipped through the stage floor before the keeper was posted or any of the employes were about, and groping his way behind the scenes, sought for a place where he might remain concealed until the curtain rose, when he hoped to be able to ensconce himself in some obscure spot unobserved, and get a glimpse of the performance. In a remote corner he found a barrel. Nothing could be better for his purpose. Dropping himself into it, he found at the bottom two 241b. cannon balls, about which he did not trouble himself. Little did he imagine that he had taken refuge within the machine by which the Theatre Royal, Berwick, produced its stage thunder. But so it was. Just as the last bars of the overture were being played, the property man tied a piece of carpet over the top of the barrel without perceiving in the dark its living occupant, raised it in his arms, no doubt wondering at its great weight, and carried 'it to the Bide scenes. The play was Macbeth, which opens with thunder and lightning. As the curtain bell sounded, away he sent the machiuer rolling. Horribly frightened and pounded by the cannon balls, Cook roared out lustily, and, fighting to release himself, sent the barrel on to the stage, burst off the carpet head, and rolled out in front of the audience, scatI tering the three witches right and left. A Pact Worth Knowing. Are you suffering with Consumption, Coughs, Severe Colds settled on the Breast, Pneumonia, or any disease of the Throat and Lungs ? If 80, go to your Druggist and get a bottle of Boschee's German Syrup. The people are going wild over its success, aud Druggists all over our country are writing us of its wonderful cures among their customers. It has by far the largest eale of any remedy, simply because it is of so much value iv all affections of this kind. Chronic cases quickly yield to it. Druggists recommend it and physicians prescribe it. If you wish to try its superior virtue, get a Sample Bottle for 6d. Large size bottle 3s. 6d. Three doses will relieve any case. Try it. Mr C. F. Napper, C.E., Engineer Hamilton Road Board, invites tenders for road works near Mr Gribbk's. Mr A. Nicol, contractor for the Monavals bridge, invite* tenders for carting timber. A list of lands at Wbangamarino, open for selection at the Lands Office on Monday next, appears in another column. ' Tenders are invited for painting the Waikato County Chambers, Hamilton East. We direct attention to the advertisement of Stepbenson's great cheap sale ofmen's clothing at the Commercial Hotel Hamilton this week, Messrs W. J. Hunter and; Co will hold a large and important sale of cattle at, Obaqpo to-dAy. A meeting of the creditors in the estate, of T. G. Sandes and C. F. Rapper will ,be bqld at the Waikato Times Buildings, on Thursday next, at 11.30 a.m., for important business. ' ' Mr T. S. Buckiand will sell'at Cambridge, on Saturday, -a; largo* numbec of j. horses^ pf ; all descriptions, buggies, waggons* .harness, 6c., Sec, as per list. A On. Tuesday ne'xf/ he will sell at'Ohkut>6"3oo keWdf mti<*d^stdres, d*sry cows, prire-bVuyfaJM cattle, fat/and stob ihtep^ te, Btc.