The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2057, 12 September 1885, Page 2

The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

Equal and exact justice to all men, Ot whatsoever stite or persmsion, religious or Hore shill'tlic Press the People's n«ht m lintam, Unavved by influence and unbnl«*il l>j «nn

SATURDAY, SEPT. U JBSJ.

Captain Russkli/s resolution, which it now appears wus only m.iclc the substantive motion on Wednesday night, was carried last night, and the House immediately went to work to allocate the reductions. In tlie cutting down process "Waik.ito has fared so well, that it ib <iuitt> easy to be virtuous and say we are glad that a real, substanti.il effort has at length been in.ule in the direction of retienchnient. Everyone is s<ni.sil>le of the d-uiger which a too free indulgence of our borrowing propensities has brought us nigh to. but in practice we desire to see tho pruning knife applied only to thtj tiees of our neighbours. This is sflfish, but it is human natuie. For once, however, the spintof the House seems to ha\e risen superior to tlie weakness of the flesh, and members lme agreed that them- districts shall .suffer a little individually for the geneijil welfare. It remains to be seen whether Canterbury will offer tlie East and West Coast Railway as a sacrifice, or whether she will light ! for tlie retention of a substantial proportion of the vote on the estimates. The Government, keeping in mind the division list, intimates that £149,000 out of the £150,000 set down for the line, can safely be deducted, but as the amounts taken oil' in other instances are somewhat in excess of the sums named by Mr Richaidson, it is piobable that a much more respectable residue will be demanded. We shall be surpiised if such is not the case, but we shall be still more surpiised if the Canterbury, Nelson, and West bind niembeis carry then point We strongly suspect that they ay ill be compelled to svv.illow their newly developed pi maples of economy without salt. We have- heaid nothing more about the alleged stiained relationships subsisting between Mr Stout and Mr Richardson, though it is quite easy to see that Ministeis are not in accoid. Mr Richardson evidently committed the Premier to a course which is very distasteful to him, and nothing we imagine but a sense of his party obligations could have restiaincd him from at once lesigning. Apparently he has satisfied his honour with a pointblank refusal to take back the estimates, but lie lias permitted his colleague to point out where reductions might be made, which comes to very much the same thing. And now we may jissume the end has come. Tlie estimates passed, niembeis will be free to shake the dust of Wellington off their feet, and llee with thankfulness to their respective homes. The most obv ious lesult of a most unprofitable session will be this, that a numbi'r of men out of harmony vvith one another, and distrusted collectively, if not individually, by the country, have managed in spite ot the most adverse influences to retain possession of the Treasury benches.

Our usual Auckland prices curlcnt and niaiket quot itions, foi some unexplained reason, did not icach us lust evening.

The Waikato Cheese Factory will commence opeiations for tho season on the first of next month. Intending suppliers are lequested tohavo the milk at the factoiy by X.30 a.m. on that day.

One of Mr Bell's pupils, Miss Wmificd Mm lay, of tho Hamilton West School, was examined b\ Mi Young on Saturday on tho tonic sol-fa .system, and also on the notation, and obtained .vi intermediate teachui's ceititicate.

The first of what promises to he nn amuning and edifying series of letter"! from a. bucolic cot respondent who writes

ovei the siguatuto of "Eclectic," and om it-port of tho last meeting of the W.upa County Council (held over fiom last issued, will be found on the fointh page.

Little ot public importance was done in Parliament on Thuisday. A number of measures wero advanced a stage in both chambers, but the inteiot of membei s was naturally centied in Caj>t. Russell's motion t.i icduce the Public Woiks Estimates by half a million.

A concert in aid of the building fun 1 of S. Stephen 1 - Church will be given in the .schoolhoiise, Tairaheie, on Wednesday evening noxt. The best local and Oambi ldge talent h.is been secured, and the enteitaiument luoinises to bo fully up to the standaid. We expect to see a crowded house.

Mr G. A. Sala delivered a lecture on "Russia ' at the Choi.il Hill, Auckland, on Wednesday night to a huge audience The lectuie wa- largely bised in Mi Silas pei-onal cxpenonce, and was of a most intel esting chuacter. Mi and Mis Sala loft for Wellington by the Manajiouii on Thin sd-iy.

Professor and Mrs Baldwin gave a pei foi maiice before a large and appro ciative audience at Cambridge on Wednesday evming S.-vei il clevei tucks vveie pei foi mid and subsequently exposed. Tho daiivovanco of Mis ilaldum was pej haps the most bucce-sful featuie of tho evening's entei tainment.

A meeting of the provisional committee of the jaoposod jam faetoiy at Canibndge was held on Thursday afternoon at the Ciitenon Hotel. Seveial mattci s weie talked over and arranged, the memberbeing piotty confident of success. A l.ugo number of -hues have been taken up, and the committee evpect to b» able to submit a satisfactory lejioit at the public meeting on Thur-day next.

A* Thursday's meeting of the Vii(khnd Crown Lmds lWid, Y. M. lUntt .q-plied foi a lease of Lit 7.">, Fansh of Taujmi. -The Ronid had no powei to lease this land, and decided that it was not dcsiiabli* to soil - .1. Jackson applied for a lei-e of Crown lands adjoining hi- home st. ad -election at Raglan -Rcfened to Assistant Smveyoi Geneial.

Members of the old Hamilton Cavaby Tioop will bo inteiested to leani that their late popular lieutenant, Mi C. |{. John-oii, has been elected Seigt. Mij"« of the Auckland Cavaliy. Mi Johnson's experience, gained by his long connection w ith the colonial forces, and his enthusiasm in the piofession of anus should go f.u tovvaid- laising the status of the Metropolitan Cavaln.

The committee of the Hamilton East School have made lejHOsrntatioiis to the Bond of Education, a-king that the teacheis' annual examination, to be held in Deceuibi'i, may be conducted in Waikato, which would save a huge amount of nitonvenience and expense to the teacheis, which would be inclined should they have to attend in Auckland. It is expected that fully twenty teacheis will go up foi exanu nation.

It appears that the Government has put a sum of £">OOO on the estimates foi the jMirpo-e of assisting in the discover} of new goldheld- Now that Mis Baldwin, the olanvoyaiito, ha- publicly intimated (claiivoyantly, however), tint theio i- a rich reef of gold about seven miles fiom C.imbndge, it would !>■• well if tho Cunbiulge public everted themselves to secure a good shate of the Government grant.

The following is the Order Paper foi the meeting of the C unbridge Patb.imentaiy l r inon on Monday evening •— 1. pnvate business; 2 petitions : 3 no 1 ices of motion; 4. motioiit, ; (a) Mi Richaidson to ask leave to intioduce the Demi-ed Pro poityAct;(b) Mi Russell to a-k leave to introduce the Legislative Council Hefoim Hill ;•} ()rdei-of the Diy ;(a) tho Custom" Duties Consolidation Act Amendment Act, 1885, second leading (Mr Dcvvsbmy.)

The weather has changed, but whether hotn bad to worse, oi fiom good to better is a mattei of ojnmon. The equinoctial gales of the |>.»st week have been succeeded by severe ftost. \ osteiday morning most of the piomisiiig ycungctops of potatoes weie i utblessly cut down, and as we go to press the an is keen enough to please the most ardent lover of cold. (!ouimandot Edwin wned yesteiday that theio was every indication of a, >harp fw>st, and that tho glass was rising.

We understand it is the intention of Mi J. S Huckl.ind to erect i i-itthM.ird on the town endow mont bi'twecn the Conit house and Duke stieet, (' uiibi idge. It vv ill be remembered that Mr Huckland vv i- the only balder foi tho-e two acies when p-itup at "Mr Cowj>ei * s>li>, and tliey were accordingly knocked down to bun at the upset pi ice, vi/.., £") an aeie. The town bo.ud has hitheito been getting a levenue of about M 0 .i \ oi fiom Mr Buckland foi the use of the town s ilc jaids adjoining the board office.

We are happy to see that the Waikato, and Hamilton in paiticulat, make a very fair show in the scholarship ex.uni nation- this jcai, in -|>ite of the enoiinous nuinbei that went up fm too -cholai-hip-givon While theie aie no scholarships coi>iin<?in tins direction this ye.v. wo have sevoi.il ceititicite- At Hamilton West, "W imfied and Lucy Munay, Fi.'d. Gandm, .md Edwin Davev; at Hamilton Eist, William Gelling, John Davis, Ch.ulotte Davis, and Ises-ie S uule-, the lattei fiom the Hipfh School ; fiom Cambridge, Amelia Nixon.

At next Tuesday's meeting of the Hamilton Legislative Association, the Tiea-uiei (Mi Smith) will bung down a financial statement foi the colon}, and move certain lesolutions affecting the levenue. Amongst the othei business is the adjourned debate on Mi Templet s motion, and the -ecoud leadings of one oi two mipoitant bills. Tt is hoped tint theiewill be a large attendance, as the financial debate is expected to be conducted with spuit on both -ides. The Oppo-ition aie full of fight, and evidently mean to motsuio swoidswith the Government at eveij available opportunity.

The Cambridge Dramatic Society have fixed then j)crfoiinanco foi next Monday week, when the pojiulai pieces, " Our Bitteiest Foe " and " Box ;uid Cox," will bo submitted to the public. The newscenery, which is now being supplied to the hall by the well known Auckland atti-t, Mi Bi iggs, w ill be exhibited on tho occasion, and wo ventuie to juetlict th.it tho eflecf will exceed the highest anticipations. Judging from the reheai-als, tho peifonnance throughout will be well up to the iu.uk; indeed, the fact of Miss P.u-ons having taken the nutter in hand is a sufficient assinauce of success The proceeds will bo in aid of the Public Hall funds.

A few days ago reference was made in these columns to tho iiisiifheicnr:y of the accommodation provided foi passengeis by the late tiauis to and fiom the Waikato. Wo ate pleased to be in a position to state that it is the intention of the dopaitment to make a change in the duecticin indicated as soon as better carnages, now in couise of coustiuction at the woik shops, are available. Tho change vv ill bo eflected in the couise ot a week oi two. It is only fair u> Mi Hudson, who at all t;imcs evinces a desire to servo the inteiestsof tlio-o using the lino, to add that tho impiovemont in the accommodation has been in contemplation for some time just.

It was mentioned the other day that jjassengeis booking at Canibndge for Monnißvillo wore allowed to proceed as far as Hamilton and wait for the Piako train there without extia chatge. Subsequent inquiiK's show that om infoiinant was somewhat out in his facts. Howevr convenient such an airani,cment might be for those using those lines, the dewaitmetit has not yet developed a sufficiently goneious si>int to poi nut of its adoption. As a matter of fact, tho stationmastei at Cambridge doos not keep a .supply of tlnough tickets, foi the leason that nearly all jussengeis foi Moinnsville book for Hamilton, wheie they re-book to the former place by the leturn tiam. Incases whet o passengeis book to Ruakura and thenentottaina tlesiie to ptticccd to Hamilton, they ate piovided with excess tickets by the guaul. The statioumaster at Moniusvillo issues tickets for C.unbiidge, but when passengeis come on to Hamilton tin y aio dealt with by the guaid in a -initial way .

The following appears m yesterday's Hci.ild:— A man named Thomas Pollock was anestid \esteiday afternoon . (on wanant), " foi that he, on tho ."ith tiist., at Waikato, then being a bailee of '2'2~> sheep and about LS head of cattle, did feloniously convcit the same to his own use, and thoipby did feloniously stetl the 1 same, th* pioperty of Mr William Foley, ■ of Mount Roskill." It appeals that tho accused, who is an elderly lesjiectablelookinginan, represented to the juosecutor that lie had some grazing laud at To Aw.imutu, and an airangement was come to : between the paitics foi the. gluing of the i stock. Subsequently tho piosecutoi le , ceived information which led him to go up

ti> tho Waikato, when he found that his stock liad disappeaied, and also tlie .uciwi'd. The stock, it is stated, hid been disposed of by auction at the Ohaupo SalcvanK Pio-ectitoi communicated with the police, and the upshot vvos that Pollock was attested yesteiday at the Masonic Hotel. He will be hi ought lieforp the bench this morning. Tlie stock wero valued at £">OO.

We learn from a contemporary that at a meeting of Mi Rees" creditoiheld in (Jisboiuno, it was un unmou-ly apt cod that in oi del toassi-t Mi Rees, steps should bo .it once taken to annul the bankruptcy and give Mi Rees two yens m which to pay his liabilities— neaily all of winch have arisen from responsibilities taken by Mr Rees upon himself in con neotion with natives and native lands. At a hui»o public meeting held in (iisborue on Fnday night last, it was unanimously lesohed that a petition -hould be piesented to the Hotiso of Assembly, piaying that thf Government be empowered to lender all assistance to Mi Ree- in his co opemtive plan of colonisation, and that the Ciovvn lands in that district might be thrown open for settlement upon the tetitis of co-opi'i ation set out by Mr Rees. It was also can ied without dissent that Mr Rees should a,s soon as possible proceed to England to induce English ctpit.il to be sent to Now Zealand upon hi- plans m order to make the waste lands available foi settlement, hist, of oiu own unemployed, and then of skilled labour from the otbei conn tries.

Now that the Cambridge Town Board has secured the Government paddock opposite the National Hotel as a public square or recieatum reset v<*, the leist they can do is to set about beautifying it, and making it what it certainly is not at piesent, an attractive pleasure giound. Though it is, in point of fact, a mat ket leserve, and will, we tnist, some <ny, bo utilised foi that purpose, still many yeais must el ipsi> before it will be lequiied foi such. In the meantime it will b" " the .sqnaie" of the distnct, the -cene of all athletic contests, the populai le-oit of pleasine inakeis, and should theiefoie he put in condition to be used as such. Indeed, with a comparatively small expenditure it could be made an ornament to the town. The site cettainly could not be improved upon both in respect of convenience and situation. Nest season the board might plant a row of ornamental tiees lound it ; it might be ploughed up and levelled ; and a fewseats might also be pioudod foi the convenience of spectitois and others. This is a matter which deseive- the earnest con sidctation of the bond. It would cost little, and in point of fact the improvement 1- veiy much requited.

The editor of the Marlborough Pris- recently demoiistiated the soundness of hi- claim to the chai.actei of a modt'st man in the follow nnr teims - "In oui opening leadei we expiossod a conviction <if oui ability to run a papci, and we have no doubt, now, that such conviction was wt'llfounded. We do not boast -it ih not in oui n iture to do -o— but in the mteiests of oui readeis we cannot In lp announcing tliat foi the fntme we shall lie ,v long vva\ ahead of any othet papei published in the distnct, foi new -local and genci.il; for unbiassed views on jiolitic.il and othei sublet- in -hoit, that the Mai lboioiigh Pies- will be tho best edited, best ju inted, mo-t lehalile, instinctive .Mid amusing papei in New Zealand, if not in the vvoild. We lepeat that boisting h not in oui hue, but out piofound leveience for genuino woitb coni]iels u- to add that we have seemed tho best editonal and repotting ability available, and we mean to make this valuable publication " liooin." Under tho new management all rnois will be avoided— as we intend to apinoach as neai to jjeifection us jxissible in eveiy way, piovided always that wo do not become too pel feet for this woik-a-day wot Id."

One of Her Majesty's guardians of the peace was a few daj s ago the hero of an adventuio which is le.illy too good to bi' allowed to pass uni ecoided. The Hobeitin question, wlio icsides not in my thousand miles fiom this distnct, was entrusted by Ins sujienors with the arduous task of on v eying to the inottopolitan pii-on .in aged prisouei, convicted of dninkeuncss and disordeily conduct, ic-istmg the police, and other chaiges too numeiousto paiticulaiise. At a cei tain station tho train stops twenty minutes foi luncheon : the Majcstj ot tho law walked his charge ovei to the public house and depositing him m the kitchen pioceedid to tempt lih own anpetite in the dining-iooin. Fioin Mime cause t>r other, it may have been owing to Uobeit's defective poworsof mastication, <n it might lie asciibjd to the -upei n>r quality of the viand-, time wa- up before the Majesty had had time to leniove theciiiinbfiom bis beaid, anlashiill whistle i oust d linn to a son-e of the mutability of oat thi y I'lv-. Hmnding fiom his seat, he gi isped his cap, managed to leach the platform jiistas the tram was moving out, and, with an amount of agility i udv exhibited by men in the soic and yellow leaf, -ecu; ed a footing on tho la-t carnage \ sn.ileof satisfaction ovet-spiead Ins lubicimd visage, but only for a moment, foi tinning to his fellow passcngei-, and piefacing hiiem.uk with tin adjuiation to the saints he s,,id " I've forgot me piisonei." Holding on by one hand, he leant out ovei the jil.it form and loudly called on tin- duvet to " tthtop m tho Qui en's name." The di tv ci had no option and brought the tram to a standstill about a quaitei of a mile fioin the station, wheieupon the policeman at once got down and stilted back to find his man. To his intense joy he met the left ltiggaire half way, and both leached the ti hii m.istite of physical collapse. Thence all was plain .s.iilim.'.

The debate on Capt. Russell's motion was continued up to an eaily bom on ThursJaj- nimning, when the adjourn incut moved by Mr Scobie McKen/ie wacarned by 4."> to '22. In tho coiitse of the debate Major Atkinson admitted that the Ea-t and West Coast Railway was a paitof thetiunk lino of the colony, but as they had not sufhoient fiinds to construct it an Act entitled the Railways Const! uotion and Land Act wa- jia-sed to meet this case, but the line had not piosjieied. He consideied that tho Meig2-> hchemt*, if adopted, would have le-nltcd in the bankinptcy of the colony. He hoped thedoveniniont would take tho estimates into their sviious consideration and i educe them within loasonablo limits. Mi S. M.icken/ic resinned the debate on Thuisday evening at 7.;W o'clock. He regaided the motion as one of no confidiMici 1 , and thought the Government should icsikii if it were can ltd. He, hovvovu, would oj)l>o-e the motion. He admitted that he bad m ide a mistake in assisting to keep in powei a Muustiy which did not possess the confidence <>f the Mouse, and he thought they should have letutd when tho Meiggs pio pos.il was negatived. He accused the Cautcibuiy membeit. of logrolling, and condemned the, Ea-t and West Coast Railway scheme, though he believed the time would come when the line would have to be constructed. — Mr Wakefield Mippoited the motion, and took occasion to state tli.it he was not opposed to the East and West Coast Railway, but only to the scheme l>y which it wa.s pioposed to ronstiuct it. He did not considei that it was light to tax the districts concerned to build tho line. He held that tho i.ulvvay could bo made under the act of last session.— Mr Peacock supported the motion and combated the as-eition of the Tiea-urcr that it would result in throwing a large number of men out of employment. Referring to the North Tsl.mil Tmnk line he said he was always under the impression that the Government vveic t<> have seemed Luge ttacts of native ten itory in ordei to recoup the cost of the woik, but so f.ai as ho know this had not been done. Tho construction of that line, however, should not be contingent nn other lines being constructed, lie contended th.at the vote for tho East and Wchfc Coast Iv* ulvviy should not be on the Estimates at all, as that line was now under cnutiact by a syndicate in London.— Caj>r. Suttei suppoitod the motion, and Mi Menteath opp ned it. Mr Goie and M ijor Stew.ud dopiecated the sentiments of mem ben who would stop woiks m other pait-of the colony because Canteibuty co'ild not got hoi i.ulvvay. Si vei.il othei niembeis spoke, and tho debate was finther adjonined on the motion of Mi Uaiion.

Ay Omaha doctor kisses his wife 7."> times every day Doctoisaie veiy tond of giving diaagitcablo doses, we know. Bv stretching a stung across the ceil ing of a room Hies will use it to light upon instead of walls, which can thus be kept all the summer free from fly specs. This is a good thing for bald headed people. A m vn lSLi'^ly appreciates that he is no longer a gay young bachelor until his wile te'ls him that it is no use his talking about having a new spiing suit until baby has got his new twenty- live dollar perambulator. The next sitting of the District Court will be belt] at Hamilton on fu ;sday. J.imt's Goodwin .md 11.I 1 . Ctudin, bankrupts, will bo publii ly examined.