TE AWAMUTU.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1981, 19 March 1885, Page 4

TE AWAMUTU.

Peopi c in Now Zealand havo been acoustoned to heir our excessive railway chatgos compound with those on the Anierican lino-., which wero said to bo eutiroly in f*vour"6f I tho farmer and limmfacturei . tiuch however does not appear to bj the ea-ic. The Hv*n. J. A. Anderson, of Kansas,, on the Ith of last December, in a speech* delivered in the Home of Itepu*sontalivos, made some sUitling assertion-, in loferenco to thtf "ex&H'timw of the railru id coiniiiuk'^. So much mteio-«t did his npjuch o-ccito, tint it was printed in p uu^hlet foi in and distributed. It goc ttn show that the luokl&itf farmer is made the v ictim»ef^ ojttortion- » nnd mwrn>i»ii>gein«m*' m every couiitry. Complaints continually u icli uv from "Knglaud, and though we htu-littl* or nothing <>t disjMttsfnetion iv tho Unitflld State.-* ifoKwte therd <no\ arthol<^.. It has been frequently asserted th.it competition there is so keen that the tantF rates are- very low, bat Mr Anderson says tli' o us no such tiling as competition, the uholi 1 of the lines he says arc "pooled.'' Ho adefs. " And you find that tho people who control these jinos, thaj. f J.iy, Dillon, Huntin^ton, the Boston parties, and a few more men whom yon coxild count on the (.timers of your two hands, are in such coml>iu.iti(»is thiit thoy actually do collect from tho whole aro<i <>f n*lf a continent precisely what rates they pleaae^and thut tho farmers in that area wli.) raise and ship their products, or who buy manufactured articles,. <uu torcedtopay the. rate which, under their pool and by its abrogation of competition, those men are enabled to extort Evan tho steamship lines have been forced to join in the pools, or the railroad companies would build steamer* to carry tho corn over the sea. Tho extortion complained of is tin* charge of 2} cents a bushel on wheat pi v hundred miles. Tho companies that imp jso this rate aro styled in the pamphlet "Tho Benevolent Order Of American Tilings." If the fanners in America consul t 'ii> cents per hundred miles an extortion, I wonder what they would call our charges here of threepence por hundred miles. Mr Anderson asks that the legislature should interfere and compel the coin panics to reduce the freight bo that the farmer will be enabled to errow wheat at a pi oiit ; he argues that if the Government -top in and regulate the charges of a hackin in, they havo as much right to regulate tin' charges on tho railroads. In the state <>f Kansas alone, tho reduction of even 3 cents per bushel on tho freight to New York, would make a difference of J5 1, 140,000. As an instance of tho extortion of the3o companies, he says, the rato from Abilone to Kansas city, 150 miles, is 1") cents, wlulo fiom tho latter placo to New York, a distance of 1,300 (? 1500) union tho charge is 33 cents too miich. Tho li ios on which the charges complained of .v.> mado belong to private companies, and it the Ameiican farmers havo a right to complain and ask congress to enforce a reduction, how much nioro have tho farmers •nid public of Now Zealand to whom the lvi's belong, a right to complain of the opI>n -s-iivo charges imposed by tho Government. Mr Hudson ia doing his best to mitigate nomo of tho evil by organising cheap e-ceursions at greatly reduced rates, but he can only recommend that certain iilior.itioiH be made. No man 1 am sure 1 hows better than he the absurdity of tho vn,tio'is cliiiMe-i, and contradictory instiuctioiis issued, but having no discretionary power, ho cannot alter tho rates, he can only make suggestions or recommendations'. The disadvantage 1 ! of having cattle trucks with* the door iv the centre was pointed out long ago, but the department seems in no hurry to havo the necessary alterations nude, the majority of the trucks having still .that fault. >Tho cattle yardx at the stition are totally inadequate to the re(l'liiL'inouts of tho district; an alteration \».ts promised by a former Government, but apparently the promise has been forgotten, and forgotton it will be unless the farmers .i/am agitato for the J reqnired alterations*. "Mr Anderson in concluding his speech »• lys, ■" tbo control of tho railways by the mtion is coscntial to tho safety of the re1> ibhc." Although the New Zealand Go- \ eminent havo the control of the railway h, tho nation baa very little say in their management, or more properly speaking mismanagement. A OWUOrS FHEAK OF NATl'ltE. An extraordinary freak of nature can b •>. •<• ju in Mr Sloane's shop, To Awamutu. I li irdJV 'viiow whether to bpoak of it in the singular or plnral/but for tho convenienca I will usu»tliB:«ingiilar. , Tt ia a kitten with <■ ght Icgs.N'oQe Jb«^a, arid two tail«v There i-. only one body from tho head fmlf way to tho tail, it dividers tljprp^ and there are two distinct ijJnrF quirtflr*, "WitFr iwo«to'of lund lc^s, and twe^ t tails. Ijt was fully lmtured but do»aNwnen bo'rii." It was }'iven to Mr Sloano who had it preserved in '■pint-*. The head is larger than usual in V>ung kittens, and the sets of fore legs aro not quite perfect, tbat in to»ay the manner iv which they are attached to tho body it not quite natural, but the bind quartern .ire peifectly formed. Those wlio arc unions can bee it at any time by calling on Mr Sloano.— (Own Correspondent.).' A LADY JOKIXO ABOUT? HJiB XOSE SAID— "I had nothing, to do in shaping it. It was a birthday present. Why it a he a seated on a fence like a penny piece? Because the head ia on vue nicle and the tail on the other. How can you pet a now set of teeth inserted gratis ?— Go into somebody's garden where a big dog is kept and kick linn. A .St\( i: Si'LTAX. — yoino amusing itoiiLs :no told of tbo stietepy restoied to by the underpaid actors to get a good ii'cil now and them. The theatre of a cutaiii Flinch pwnincial town was once in the \ciy depths of imnecuniosity, its company unpaid, and ni»h upon starvation—nil save the manager himself, wboso veciitilo manner and ready wit enabled linn to obtain credit and faio well. One night, however, a clever utility man muinged to get a capital supper out of him, and to eat it on the sta^'o himself. The piece being represented wis Voltai's Baja/ct. There is ii sjh cell in it wherp the grand Vi/,icr c\pussts m highflown language his utmost Attachment to Bajazet, and offeis in siciifice lot tune and lite to his person Cittt was the astonishment and amusement, of tho audience, on hearing from tiio Ii pa of tiio he jewelled and flittering Mil Un p< i donated by the utility man — tin following tag, addressed to the (.mini Vi/ur, played by tho manager : — " Am you inileed so devoted to me ?" K\ nli ntly tnken alack the Vi/tcr responded. " Biamillali on my head be it ii I bliow it not 1 {Solto vocu) What the dem edo you mean by this trash ? Get on with the part " Tlic ftiritan, not taking the Iciiafi notice of the wbiaprr, contimicil — " W'd), thon, most faithful sen ant ami friej)d, I'il test you • Send forih to tbo n(n (> artst cookshop for six sou 1 )' woith of fucd potatoes, for Allah is good, arid knows that I have had no (Unix r to <?ay, and, by the Prophet, I am Imngiy " The audience roared, and would not all'siv the piece to pioceer] until the sticky uianager had procured houi a cloie adjoirffng restaurant a I tclierclie dinner, u Inch they forced the willing and the famished Sultan to eat under their eyca. The Bad and Worthless Bf never %»nl>ihd or counterfeited. Tin's is < special y true of a family muiiicinp, am' it is positive proof that the remedy iMitfilftl is of tlio highest value. As soon i\'i it hail bfuu tested and proved by the whole woii«{ tlmt H^p BiKeis was tlie puiest. biit ,nul the most \aluible* fimily mudieine on eiith, many imitations spiuup up nnd b<-g.n to steal the notices iv which the pr ss and tlie people of tincountry liud exinesseil the ineiits of H ]J , .nid in every way trying ro induce Biiiruiny iuvali.Ks to use their stuff inijtuad, e>ip' rtiug to make moiu-y on ttie credit and good name of H. B. Many others started mm trams put up iv similar style to H 8., with variously do vised names in which the woid " Hop" or " Hops" weie used in a way to induce people to believe they weie the Mine a§- <op jiittcrf. All •u li pretendcof r^me'lie^ or cures, no m tter what their style or name is- and tfppcbilly tbonawir.h' the' Word " Rop*'^ or " Hops" in their namn or in any way conncctcl with thoYn or their name, are j imitations or counterfeits.' Beware of them, louch none of them. Use no- ' thing bill! genuine American Hop Bitters, ! ith a cluster of greon Hops on ' tho white label, and Dr Sonle's name ] blovfn in the glass. Trnst nothing else. ' Druggists and Chemists arc warned ' agamafc denling in imitations or counter- 1 foiti. '