The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2052, 1 September 1885, Page 2

The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

Equal and exact justice to .ill men, <_)t \\h itsoevcr state or persuasion, religious or polmnl. Here >h ill the I'ress the People-, riifht maintain, "L7mv%cd by mduence -»od unbnbcJ b> gun

TUESDAY, HEI'T. J, 188 J.

"VViircv Mr Basil Hodges, the Kentish , f.umeis delegate, Wiis in Waikato, lie took occ.isiou to e\pie->s liis apprcliciision that the frozen meat trade would, once the, proper metlinds of supplying it to the English people, weie discovered, play sad li.ivoc -w ii 1 1 > the home producer. The English grazier, he said, could find comfoit tot th<- time being in the fact that the prejudice against fro/eu mutton, on the part of the, consumer, and the Opposition on the part of the ret.iil Itutchers would not be easily overcome. Mr Hodges w.is shrewd enough to foresee that these obstacles must in time be got rid of. In a lecture which he recently deliveied before the Canterbury (Kent) Fanners Chili, he refened t\t length to this subject, nnd in the course of his remarks said : --" In answer to enquiries on the frozen meat trade, the New Zcalnmlers told me that they can s"ll the mutton at 2d per lb. They like 'l\il better, but they can do with 2d. 1 asked ' Will you be able to continue this output ', Is it not a surplus which must cease when the accumulation of animals has been cleared away.' The reply I received was • (liven that pi ice, we .shall be able not only to continue but to inn ease our e\poits ; because the average price we have obtained from this new method ot sending frozen sheep has given us on the siveiajje nearly double wh.it we weio able to obtain before at the boiling down establishments.' Therefore there has been a considerable advantage aiising from it, and they hope to extend the trade, and to open England to the sale of their commodity to such an extent as to secure themselves a better price. There is no place in the woild in which the animals thnve better. With regard to breeds they have all the breeds with which we are familiar. They have imported the very best animals that could be bought in England, They | manage them with c;«re, and T can j claim that they are able to maintain them in a full measure of excellence, and that they will undoubtedly be gieat competitors in the supply of me.it to the meat consuming population of this country. "Whether they will ever be able to send it heie, and ovwreome the dilliculties which aiise fiom the free/.mg process so as to displace English meat from the maiket, , 1 cannot say. At any rate their competition must be a | factor to be accounted for, and to be thought of when we are con- , sidering our position at Home." i It is satisfactory to know that not- j withstanding this, Mr Hodges has ' returned home more strongly im- j bued than ever with the principles of Free Trade. He relates that while in Victoria efforts were made to convert him to the doctrines of Protection, but he turned the tables on his would be mentors, by reminding them that if Englishmen were converted the door would be closed against the staple products of the Oolonies, wool, wheat and moat.

Protection, ho remarked, meant taxing one man for tlic supposed benefit of another, and that in tho long-run they would find the system injurious to both. Mr Hodges speaks very highly of the capabilities of the Australasian colonies .is fields for settlement, and compares theni with the United States and Canada, much to the disadv u)t i«,'o of the latter. A man of Mr Hodges' stamp, who treats the subject of colonisation in a calm, dispassionate manner, w ithout gush, is likely to do more good to the colony than a whole brigado of special pleading emigration agents.

Ture reserves for secondary education m the Auckland Pi-ovinci.il District yield at present the miserably inadequate .sum of £.")JG 16s lid ;i yo.ir. I>\ tli'! Gisboni" High Si hool Bill, wliuh h.is p.issed .ill its stigc*, in the House of Represent atives, reserves at and near Gishorne yielding £,'2l') '_!-. 6d, or nearly onehalf of this sum are appropi lated to th(s (lisborne High School. Out of those resenes the Auckland Girls' High School is entitled to an endowment of land worth £-">OOO. The two Waikato District High Schools depend for an appreciable aiuouut of theii working expenses on these rents ; and the Auckland Grammar School and Thames and Whangarei High Schools have also .claimed a portion. The Moaid of Kducation li.is \cry properly ])iotested against one coiner of the, Pio\incial District appropriating such a Luge proportion of the a\ailable income, and as its protest has failed in the House, has leuewed it before the Council. Tlu-> protect hf s been backed up by Hamilton, and we trust that the exertions of our lnenilieis will prt'wnt this injustice, which, independent of it~> fairness, would t lose ou i local District High Schools. The iniquity of localising education il endowments in each pinshha-. long ago been pointed oit.

Mr Hislop's amendment was lost on Satuidaj moiuing by 43 to 3!t. Tito fo\ir Maori memb'ji.s voted with the majoiity. ; ! i I

The first meeting of creditors in the insolvent estite <-f Fiedeiick (I.iiulin, hotelkiH'iici, of Hamilton, was heard at the. office of the l)epnty Assignee, The Waikato Tunes I'.uildings, yestiTd.ty. Pro/.ent: M)-s"is Dicke^on and Jsnmett, I*. Lo'Jucxne and H. Nathan (by his proxy, Mr J*. Le • iuesno), L. O'Neill and W. M. Hay. On thu motion of Mi Dickeson, seconded by Mr O Neill, it was resolved that the license of the Waikato Hotel be handed over to tho landlord of tho pniperty »>n payment by him of the sum of tlO t(» the J)eputy Ofhcnd Assignee. Mr Le'^uesno agreed to tho above terms, and signed an agieenmnt to that effect. It was resolved to call upon the bankrupt to tile a utateinent of ins tindmg ncrounth. Tho liabibtii'H, mh hliowii i in the haukiupt's statemont, are: Secured, 1 t'lO'it 2s lid ; unnecuied, €23"i "is C>d ; aiid the assets (estimated), t!>7 2-», which includes a «irplu» from securiti™ of fe"iO 17s I Id. Tho hook debts are estimated to be wiuth «10.

The Ministerial crisis in connection with the Hamilton Legislative Asso cntion, is o\er. The Edgecumbe Cabinet lesigned on Saturday, and following tho usual coune, tendeied no advice to the (ioveinor. Accordingly, yesteiday Mr Hume communicated with the le uler of the Opposition, Mr Smith, who at; once undci took to form a Minixtiy. Tlip billowing names have been submitted foi the apinoval of his Excellency :- Pienner and TieaHiirer, Mi S. E. (lieville Smith : Colonial Secretary, Ministei foi Woiks and Kducation, Mr .F, Verekei Bind>)n; Minister for Lands and Native Aff.ius, Mr (too. Kicikli. It is expected that the remaining seats in the Cabinet will be filled up to day. The ne\t meeting of the Asso ciation will take place, on Tuesday evening, the Hth inst.

The nomination of candidates tor tlio tin cr \.ic.uit se.its in the I Hamilton Borough Council takes place to- | morion at noon. One nomination, that of Mr .f, Stendiuan, has alic.idy been re cened, and we understand th.it the follow ing burgcs)-s will also be biouglit fmwaid to contest the vacant seats.—M«'nsi-. (!. Kdgecuuibe, T. (.». Sandes, .F. Kno\ and J'\ J. Yon Sturmei. The inteiest tak>*n for some time |>ast in boiough elections has been %eiy slight, and we aie [(leaded to see Home signs <>f vitality hliowii amongst the elector*. Then; are many questions at present requiring the keenest cousideiation in the interests >>f the borough, and it behoves ratepayeis to consider well who are best calculate] to cany out many much needed reforms.

The value of sugar-beet as food for dairy cattle has b"cn again demonstrated in a \eiy foicible way. tsiune time ago it was stated m these columns tb.it Mi Lewis O'Neill, solicitor, Claudelands, h.id remarked :i gieat improveiiiciit in the qudity «f the milk yielded by his cows when fed on stigu beet, and samples of butter made fiom this milk and sent to Auckland weio most favourably commented on there. Within the last week the supply of roots h i-. Kiven out, and the cowi ar» now chiefly dependent upon green oit-". The falling otf in the qual'ty of the milk, in cr>nse(iuenc)', is remark.ilile. Dany fanners would do well to liear this fact in I mind and plant an acre or two uf beets this ! season.

The following special messages to the I'ii'si Ah >ou ition dated L tndon, August 27th, L'Sth, and JiOtb, have beei. published : - The leading T)ines die uigmg candidates for liish constituencies to clismnv Mr Parnell as then le-idor. —A lee >uciliation has been olfected between Me-srs. J'amell md l)a\itt, their dilforence of opinion on ceitain matters in connection with the control of the Luid Leigue ha\in^ been adjusted.—Sir Alevandei Stuart, I'reincr of New South Wales, in a letter to the L'all Mall Uaiutte, opposes Kail (Jiey's l'Ydeial Council rtch-in j. —In an elouti nieeiing addiess th>; .Muquis of Haltlitgtoii denounced fui tiadea'id compuNoiy dnision of the laud.

Our Alexandra correspondent uiites :-The s.ile of the fuiiiituiti stock, etc., helil.it the Shami >ck Hotel mi Wednesday la-t by Mi .1. S Bucklaiid, was nuinei))u-ly attended and fan pni.es obtained f.»r th • \aiiou-lots Mi Asiuuss, the pii>piiet' >i of tli) 1 hotel will now conduct the business, while the late land loid Mr if. James has taken tiie hotel known us Devms at'le. Aw.imutu. Mi •Fames was a popular host heie, and will doubtless be fully nppreti ituil at Te Awaiiiutii by all who value cmhty, cleanliness, and attention, without obtiusivene-s ; these qualities all who firquiMit or line occasion to Htay at his house miy rely upon receiving at his hands.

As will be seen by advertisement a change has been made in the piupru-tor-.sliip of the Waikato Hotel, Hamilton. The now landlord, Mr Beaumont, i-> by no means strange to tlie bu-iu«>-.«., huv ing for many ye.irs tilled tin 1 othce of chief stt*\\aid on some of the largest p.issengei steamers sailing' out of Lmdou, as well as ii.i\ mif been in the employment of Spiels and Pond, whose in* ttopohtui bi.ttic}io-J weie iindei his chuge. Tins will l))« i guarantee of fr.,,u\ man '^Linent, .md en->are the ci>inf)>rt of visitors taking up tlit'ir quuters at die W.ukato Hotel.

In our Kihikihi correspondent's report of the I'ieslvyteu in Church, the contractor's name appealed as Mr 1). Ogle; it should have been Mi Doyle.

The meeting of the Hamilton Isi.inch of thu (J(i>pi-l Teinperanc ■ Mission and Blue Ribbon Ami) will b- held in the l'ublic Hall to night.

Some of Te Whiti's followers are going round the W.uk.ito to j»i\ o "h.vk.v" porforiti inco-*. Thry will appear to night a.' To Aw tintit.ii.

Twenty-four trucks of cattle went down to Auckland fiotn Waikato by ye. stet day's ttaiti f«r Mr Bticklani's .sale to moriow.

Messrs Henry Asher and David Richardson ,ire the only candidates nominated fur the vacant neat in the Cambridge Town Board. The polling t.vkes place on Tuesday nevt, the Bth inst.

We recommand the following to the notice of sclmol teachers and comimtteei in the W.iik ito. We call conceive nothing that would giv children a, more pricttc.il and intelligent inteicst in tteepl.inting, and tiee planting is one of the cr\in;,' questions of tli' 1 d.iy in view of the wi.ole-ule destniLtion of our fnrcstn by tiiv ami the axe.— Aibmn Day.—The following letti r, containing a novel request, was received fiom Mr Nield, tejchei of the Okaihau school, Biyof Isluids at tho last meeting of the B ard of Kdncation :—Dear Sii, —Tho Ch.iinn in of n.y comtinttee has Riven me his permission to ask the Board of Kdncatmn to allow in J toob-erve the 2nd day of September next as an "Arbour Day " in the settlement, l c., kcliool. The day will bo devoted to: (1) X ich -cholai planting a tree or shrub on the outer inirgin of the pi lygioimd. (2) To cutting .md timiming w dks lei-ling to the school dooi and office-.. (4) Planting slmibs and H.weis on either side of the walks. In fict, help to mike tho playgiound bright and cheerful. lam led to make tins application thimisch rciding in a C\u.idiaii p.i pel-most of our settleis .ire Canadians - - m account of the •• Aibour day ' in that colony. The various School Boards in Canada set apait in each year, i.e., upon application being made for that purpose, an " Aiboiir day," when c ich pupil attending tho public schools plants ,i tier within or around the plixgioimd .md its appioaohes, thus miking the school ground bright and cheeiful. I, therefor 1, ic-'P'c fully a-k the lioard of Education to grant me permission toobseivo the 2nd of September (not as a holiday) as an Aibour day in tln> Ok oh m district school. T sh ill carefully siiptM intend tins pi tilting of e» cry tiee, direct and instruct each child m the art of planting, and further take advantage of the occasion to lead the way to th-> study of elemental y tisMie<, roots, leivcs, and llow.'is of the plants and tiees tran-pl mtod. Th 1 Boaid unminiou-ly granted tho re (|ite>t. __

The cheese factory erected by the WaiUato Lind A-sociation at Tauwhare, in now nearly completed, and it is expected that it will be ready f>r opening by the tir-t week m October The co.npiny's object in electing tlin factory was to advance t lie settlement of the district, as well as to a-xi-t m .i mateiial way thos<« who have j)iii chased poitions of the estate. In the ureimi-tanees it is but n ittint) that a difference should be mad- m the price to be given foi milk ; those whoh ne bought Imd from the company will get 4d jier gallon, while outsiders will get 3\d. The c imp my tvk ■ all tlie i t-k, so th it tho suppliers get their money clt ar, without the prospect of having to face a balance-sheet at the end of the year. Intending Mip pliers ate request "d to c ninnunicate with the manager of tho fictory bjforj the Ist October. Tho example of the Waikato Lind Associatiation miirht be jiroh'tably followed by other latge land holders whose pi opeity is open to selection by sinal' fai-int-i .

"Observer" writes from Tamahere : I see from your issue of I.'ut Tuesday a snd and fatal accident at Tamahere. We who knew the child wish to express our sympathy foi tins beieivd parents. Your leportread thu-* There is no blame imputed to auv one . If Mich <v ca«o ucrc to happen neir Auckland would the public allow the mad boaids to let -moh dangerous embankments to go uiifenced ? About one mile from wheie the acud-nt h ippcned theie is a pi ue known as Cravvfoid'* Rully. For that e\pen-i\e woik the Government paid o\<«r t;TOO. It is the div ision of the two districts; tlvieaii? about three chains of embankment tweiitj-hve feet high which crosses the ueek too narrow foi two cart* to p i*s, ami yet the Cambridge and Tamahere Roid Boards refuse to put up ono row of posts md Miig'.o rails, which would be quite sufficient protection.

The annual meeting of the Hamilton Jitwn Tennis Club was hold in the Commercial Hotel, last night. There was a fair attend:)nee, and Mr Barton occupied tie chair, m the absence of the President, Mr ,1. B. Whyte, M.H.R. The secretary (Mr Wallmitt) read the b.ilanco-sheet, which was adopted. The following officebearers were elected for the ensuing year : — President, Mr .T. B. Whyte; coinimttee, Messrs Yon Stunner, Barton nnd >f. S. Edgeeuinbe ; secietnry and trea-<-uret, Mi T. Wallnutt. Four new membcis wen- elected. The number of momb'Th on the roll is now thirty three, as against sixteen in INS I. Rules Nos. !l and 11 will bo strictly enforced.