The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1953, 13 January 1885, Page 2

The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE

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TUESDAY, JAN. JJ, 188 0.

Iv another part of this i->suo we print ,m article taken from the 'nduey Town and Country Journal und*r tho heading, " Hard Times in the Sugar Trade." We do this for two leasons. In the first place the aiticle h«8 been forwarded by a -.übsrriber with a request for its publication, and in the second place we think it only right that two sides of the question should bo put forth. At tho same time wo are aware that statements such as those contained in the extract referred to are apt to mislead unless the reader is in possession of the whole of the facts. With this view we showed the extract to a gentleman, well-known in Waikato, who is thoroughly acquainted with the social and commercial status of Austria, from long connection with that country, and he Ins sent •js tho following commentary :—: — " After reading the statement of facts you sent me, I am tempted to add that ' Queen Anne is dead,' for it i-> such a very old tale. The British sugarmen are in a bad way ' Why, when was it otherwise? They have, ruined themselves trying to run the cane against tho beet. One after another the VVhttechapel sugar refiners have had to shut their doors. They throw tho blame on the French su<»ir bounties, and no doabt tin-so arc in part to blame, but not to the extent claimed. 'I ho fact is the cane industry received a fatal blow in the abolition of slavery, and the manufacture of beet-root sugar has been so much improved of late years that it can be now produced at half the former cost. With regard to the Vienna tiade, I have considerable personal acquaintance with that city of good fellowship and bad morals. About the, 1 ist business I had in Europe related to tho sending of some thousand* of tons of sugar from Vienna to London. Commercial failures in Vienna are as common as Government oflicials in New Zealand. In IS7o everybody failed. Eve. y business man knows the utter unsoundness of Austrian trade, not only in sugar, but in everything else. What would the people of this country think if (Government "paper" for lOd was only worth Gel, as it is in Austria?"' The sugar industry, like all other trades, depends for ifs success on the surrounding circumstances. The people of Austria are so poor, and so heavily taxed, that a man there only uses one thirteenth part of the sugir u man here does. Austria is landlocked between Russia and Germany, neither of whom will take her sugar, and in sending sugar to England they are handicapped about £'.\ per ton as compared w ith Franco. In the face of this the manufacture has been pushed to an extent that neither the Home nor foreign trade warrants, and the result is, of course, an overstocked market. The people in the Waikato are outside all these troubles, for they have a home market for all the sugar they can grow. They have no need to fear the cane, and if, with their soil and climate, cheap coal and light taxation they c.innot beat the Continentals with £9 per ton handicap, then it is time for them to " clear out," and get the Kaiser to annex Kew Zealand.

We are requested to remind horse owneiN tli.iD lioi&e-. t li^iblo for tho M.ikloii I'lato i.ice at the fiutlimniing Te Awiunutu im-etnic,' ai c tlxiso tli.it havone\ei won an ,idveiti>bd i.icu exceeding 10<o\s.

The Cambridge and Taotaoroa Road Uo.irds liaic each received £1000 under the Roads and Undoes Construction Act. The money will ho linmedi.itely di-iburied on necessary works in the iev [icctivu distllct--.

A new photographic firm has bwti xtifted in Ciimbudge to supply a want winch lor wiino tune p.ist has been e\peiienci il. Two giintluijiun fioin Auekl.md havo tak<Mi Mr XeulV Ktudi", and h.no already entered upon a tin iv nig lm»ine^s with the local public.

A grand amateur concert will be Kivdi in tho Public ll. ill, Cambridge, on l-'rid ty evening ne\t in aid <>f tin? funds of the Cambridge Cncket Club. Ammij* the jici formers will be hevci.il from Auckland, and other places, and a, veiy .successful cnteiUjnnient is anticipated.

A match for £10 a-side has been Arranged betwpon Mr Forrest's Phthisic and Mr M.utelli's Mi. take, to be pulled off on tho C<uu bridge com so early noxt mimtl). Until hordes will bo entered for the Te Aw.umitu uicctrisr. Tho match peilinpt would cicato more interest weio it iuu off bufoie that meeting takea place.

The 'Hinemoa Mystery has c.uiiul cuiHuierablo inmnuijitfnt, and the dow unnunt have come in for a yood deal of eliaff .it tlje bands of many of our conti'inpoi.inc^. The steamer ii xtill m Auckland watei-., and it w not at all piobablo that >\w tvjjl go to Samo.l.

A walking match for £10 a-side took place in too Public Hall, Cambridge, on Saturday evening, botwuon J, McCann and T. Halcrow. After walking about s ( >ven miles the judge (Mr Hitchman) gave it in favour of McC.uni, Halcrow b.iving bi oken novpf^} tnne>». There was a small attendance of lha public.

Between ten and eleven o'clock on Saturday night some young; gcutlcmun K<>fc up a scratch event, which they pulled off through the piincipal streets of Cambnrfgo. Starting fn»in the louei end of Dul.o stn et th<-y r;issed throvgh the town in the Junction of », AudP'W s Cliurch in .v flying gallop, re K ..rdlc». „t „».' -Ja.iprer to xy.iyf.Ud-*. c tlllsfc tt ' 10 I"' 11015 W »IJ Ijb miceeiisful jn m.ikuig an example of the Clllpilti.

The following uncial messages to tin. i'ns^ Association, dated London, .1 anu,uy 10th, have been jmblihlied :— 1 A"}, r ing coiiiputition, Pi nice Bismarck lias refused to diselowj or indicate tliu future colonial ljohcy of Germany.— Jwl liioy lias suggested to Lord Deiby the adv»w./))ility of i«feuinj,' all inipoit.int quentloni. r63|>«c(;in^ annexation to a council selected from the various Agents-General for the coloniox.

Very encouraging replies have been lecoived by thu bon. secretary of tho Sug.ir Beet Committee to tho requests for assistance sent to various parts of fche district. Tliero seems to be a very general inclination to piiHh forward the new industry, and a disposition to invcht m the Htock. Mi (Jelling, who hasinado a personal canvass in and around Hamilton, has also been

,ni(! hu.iibnuk wont to Auckland ye^erd.iy on bi'iine^^ cimneoted with tlie cnteipu^o.

A joint meeting of the Hamilton I i-»t and West School Committees, ua-. enlivened f<n last evening 1 to considei matteis in connection with tin) High School, but the Hioiiibera wlio attended cime to the concluMonth.it it would ho better to call .1 geneial mooting of the parents of tho High School pupils and tin-, will be done .it an eaily date

On Thursday evening next, 15th ni'.t , a conceit will bo given in the Tam.ilioie. Sclioolhnu^c, in aid of the building f inul i>f S. Stephen's Chinch, Tatn.ihe.re A lHinibtu of leading amateurs from Cambndge and Hamilton have piomitcd their a>M^tanu\ and by special lecpie-it a paity of carol stnjjfr^ fiom Hamilton will cuiitu bute a selection of the eaiok which gave m> much hitisf,»ction in Hamilton on Chii>>tinas Uay.

We are in receipt of the Mercantile Shipping Rotfi-toi and Oomnietcial He view, of the 14th November, published by H. (Jriessehoh and Co., tlupping and commission merchant-, Weavers' Hall Wool K\chango, London, whose iniMnc* adwutisement appeals in another column. The Register contains a largo amount of in for mation very valuable to the business and general public.

Mr John W. Wallace, of the firm of Wallace and Holh.un, Otahuhu, uas a passenger by the train from Auckland yesterday afternoon on a visit to Waikato, for the purpose of inspecting Rome of the reapers and bmdeis in the Waikato, prepiratory to the coming harvest. Air J. \V. Pucker, who represents the large American him of Johnston and Co., manufacturers of the celebrated wrought-iron string binder, known as the " Hnr\ ester," was also a pas&enger by the same tram. This gentleman has leci'iitlv usited Russia and many parts of Kurope in the interests of the gieat New York establishment which he represents.

At the Supreme Court, Auckland, on Sa tin d.iy last, Is.iac Rout fo, forcing a consent to the mnrriage of a minor, w.\s hound owr to nppi\tr for sentence at tho next criminal session of the court. His Honour said ho had carefully con Mdered the case, and found it difficult to determine what punishment to inflict. Uobert Young, forgery, was ncquittedMichael Kelly, larceny, was sentenced to nine month-.' imprisonment with hard l.ibonr. Abiam Kiding-^, indecent assault, \\.ii acquitted, on the ground that the pio«,ecutor ofFeied no iesi->tenoe. Robert Hold, wounding, was sentenced to nine months' nnpiisonment with haid labour.

To the Editor : Sir,— l hope that our member will try ti> induce the Government to complete the telegraph connection hctuei'n Mdi i iniville and Hamilton. It is absmd, tedious and often iuaccur.ite to have to send a telegraph message to Hamilton all rond by Te Aroh.i, liiahiiiUitown and Auckland. Al-o, the completion of the railway, Morrinsulle to Te Aioha, should be seen to. Can you tell me why in the new San Francisco mail conti.ict the absurdity is pprpetiated of having out mail to go out about two days before the in lil arrives, losing us a month in leplyuig to letteis ? I would tin ik had it b<'cn liwt the reverse it would li<ue been moie intelligent, and would have boen cert.unly moie for p\ibhc use and benefit. — I am, itc, \V. Aitth. Mlkkv\.

Through some course or other winch experienced ini-n hate not yet heen able to account foi, tlio peach tioe continues to disappp.u not only fioin om fields, wheie they h:i\e hitheito grown wild, but :il-o fiom our gaidons and oichaidi. Some \eais ago thnving j)t\icb gloves, each tree laden with lumjiou-. fruit, woie met with in almost e\ery nook and corner in the district, nothing thiived better, and su-> a fimt nothing was more common. But for several yean pa-.t, some unaccountable blight has seized this f<u Dined fruit, and with the exception of an occasional member growing under circumstances of an exceptional character, scaicely a peach tree ia to be found that h not shii\elled up in the barrenness of this wit liciing agency. It is with the bettei tla>s of trees that havoc has been made, the other or inferior class, still struggling with the demon of destruction. A huge munbei of apple trees in many of the best gardens have been afflicted in the miiio way, though Mdo by hide w ith tiec> beanng unprecedently laige buidens.

There should be no dearth of emplojment in tho Auckland Province for M>ino tune to coniu, though we h.ivo no doubt, let times bo wh.it they may, and employment as plentiful .is \ ice, theio would still continue to e\i>t Mr (ian.iid and his faithful followers to grace the street corners of the metropolis. In Waikato we can nafcly say that for many ye.us past, though times may have boon dull, theie has been no want of remunerative occupation for all who wished to earn a living. We are once moie entering upon the eve of a- few big railway contracts which should monopolise all available labour at good wages. The Waikato-Thames railway will boon be pushed on to Te Aroh.i. It is p\pected that tenders will be called for in a few days for the laying of the fiist section of the pi-i-manent way between Moinnsville and Lichfield, and no doubt bt'foie veiy long we shall hear of tho continuation of the founation between Patetere and Koroma. Nc\t month tenders will be invited for tho first section of the trunk line tlnough the King country, a wotk of gicat v.istncs, and one which should employ hundreds of hands. The harve<t season is coming on, when farm hands should have no difficulty in getting suited.