ECHOES FROM THE CAFE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2080, 5 November 1885, Page 4

ECHOES FROM THE CAFE.

Sir Janus Vookl lias raised a veritable horrret'i nest by the statement of his intention to steal the million loan set apart for the North Island Trunk Railway, for it is as veritable a cvse of stealing as if ona of your Wnikato fanners gave your servant £10 to go to a sale and buy a cow for him, and he used the money to buy a horse for a man to whom he owed money for hoard ai»d lodging. S.r Julius owes a good deal to the Canterbury people. They brought him back to the colony and they are the people to whom alone hr em lo.ik for support. In both Auckland and Otago he is better known than trusted, so he knows that neither of those districts will have anything to do with him, and it is on Cantcihurv that he must rely. ThatProNinci.il Distuct wants the East and West Coast Railway constructed, and would have had its wish gratified, hut for the determined opposition of the Auckland and Otago members. The influence of Mr Stout protects Otago fiom punishment, but there is do one to protect Auckland, Mr Tole, our only representative in the Cabinet, being of no account, so on Auckland must vengeance fall. The revenge of Sir Julius takes the form of robbing us of the million loan expressly set apart for the construction of the North Island Trunk Railway. If this is done we shall have an addition to an old saying — "Honour among thieves," the- addition being, "but not among politicians." Of course, this present action is no worse than might have been expected of the man who would try to force the Meiggs contract on the colony, but, for the sake of their own reputations it is to be Imped that the other members of the Cabinet will refuse to sanction the proposal of their honourable (?) colleague. lam sorry for the aako of the respectable and honourhble members of the Israclish raco that Sir Julius Vogol should have seen fit to draw attention to the fact that he was a Jew in his address to his constituents at Christen urch, because it is just such tricky individuals as lit; who have brought that race into contempt, and have counteracted thn good effect of the lives and actions of such noble men as the late Sir Moses Montefiorc. No doubt he thought he was doing a very smart thing when he Jrew a simile from the scenery behind him, and said that he like the Israelites in Egypt, was required to mnke bricks without straw. It is a wonder he did not carry the simile a little further and say that he was going to spoil the Egyptian?. It is a great pity that the allusion was made, because it naturally sets people thinking about his otitjtu. Since he has begun it I have no hesitation in following and in expressing my opinion that, if Sir Julius could trace back nis aucestry to the period referred to he would rind that he was descended from oue of the sorry knaves who rebelled against Moses, who had delivered them from their Egyptian bondage, and threatened to stone him to death because he had led them aw ay from the flesh-pots of' Egypt, and I would point to hia well-known love of good living as a proof of the correctness of my theory. ♦ Before leaving Sir Julius I may, perhaps, be allowed to mention the opinion expressed of him by one of his intimates (I will not say friends, as I am lod to be licve that he his none) a keen, shrewd Scotchman. Being asked his opinion of Mr V'ogel, as he was then, he answered, " He's nae thing but a gambler and a poor gambler at that." We are beginning to alter our opinion about "justiceV justice," and to think that the article dispensed by the amateurs is preferable to that of the professional, who in this instance is the Resident Magistrate. The complaint is rife that in the decisions of that gentleman there is often too much regard paid to the law and too little to the justice of the case?, and there is a very generally expressed wish that Mr Barstow were back on the bench, or that his successor wv>re not quite so much interested in w hat Mr \V. O. Garrard (will the compositor kindly becireful not to omit the prefix Mr) calls " tcnnikle pints," and, if that were possible, that he should decide the cases brought before him at once and not reserve judgment so often. This latter is a course which he is too fond of adopting, and which he should avoid as much as he can, as it greatly increases the cost of litigation in the Resident Magistrate's Court. When judgment is reserved, as it is in a very large proportion of the defended cases, it involves a second appearance of counsel on both sides, at the expense of the unfortunate litigants. If a gentleman is fit to hold the position of Resident Magistrate he should be able to give his decision on the cases brought before him, as soon as they are finished, in nine cases out of ten, and it should bo the exception for him to reserve judgment, not the rule, as it seems to be now. • * But it is in the Police Court that the public consider that the Resident Magis trate fails most signally, as it is a frequent occurrence for him to dismiss most clear cases on what seem \ciy tiivial technical objections. There was an instance of this last Wednesday, when three exprctsmen were brought up on a charge of gambling in a public place, to nit the railway station. The ©tfence was most clearly proved by the evidence, but the counsel lor the defence contended that the case must fail, because it had not been proved that the railway station was a public place. The Magistrate upheld the objection and dism.ssed the case. Could anything be more absurd ? Any person of ordinary intelligence would naturally consider that it would not be necessary to prove that a railway station is a public place, that the fact is self-evident. I suppose that if the fact had been proved, some other absurd objection would have been raised, such as that the gazette containing the appointment of the Resident Magintiate had not been put in evidence, or that >t hail not Leen proved that the Auek land railway station was within the colony of New Zealand, or there was no proof that the Governor had been appointed by Her Majesty. There really appears to he no limit to the absurdity of the grounds on w Inch cases m.iy be dismissed in the Police Court. V There in a good deal of anxiety to learn whether the La Monte gold-saving process will prove a success. It had been for years that the quicksilver process has failed to save all the gold contained in the quart/ treated by it. Indeed many experti have conKdcntally asserted that more gold was lost thau saved, and that there was much truth in the assertion has been proved by the difference in the results obtained by the assays made at the banks and the yields when tho quart/, from which that assayed was taken, was treated at the batteries. The great objection to the La Monte process is its cost, which is very considerable, and, unless there is a certain amount of gold and silver obtained, it will not pay. There is no use in treating quartz at an expense of £3 per ton, if the amount of precious metals obtained from the ton of quartz is not worth more than £2, because that would mean a loss of £1 per tou, besides the cost of getting out the stuff and transporting it to the furnace. I believe that it depends mainly on the proportion of •ilver in the stone whether the La Monto process will prove successful or not — that if there ia a large proportion of that metal this process will show food results. However, if we contain our souls in patience a little longer we shall ■cc what the practical tests will show, as a considerable quantity of quartz will bo treated very shortly. If the yield is oue- half what tome of the enthusiasts assure us it will bo Auckland will go ahead "by leaps and bounds" and will soon become a second Melbourne. Talking abont M«lbonrne, I notice » sQg of Mn»k<t. it

firat favourite for the Victorian Derby and the Melbourne Cup. It would l>e a threat triumph for Auckland if he should win the double event, but there is nothing in tliis world more miceitain than horseracing, nothing in which more frequently it is the unexpected that happens. If either Noidenftldt or Thunderbolt should win either of these big races it will he some compensation for the loss the Stud Company sustained by the death of Musket, as the inevitable result would be that they would get a much butter pi ice for otlu 1 1 of his progeny \v liieb are still at Sylua Park. Howcwi, \vj shall know all about it in a few days. In the meantime tvo must just hope that no out siiler like Assyrian willeiny awiy the hononrs from our Ati'-khnd bred horses. * By the bye, I noticed in The W.ii kato Titii'-s a p.n.igi.iph to the effect that the awircl of the arbitratois in the compensation claim brought by Mr Seduon against the Hamilton Borough Council had been scilrd up and the amount of costs endorsed on the envelope, said amount to be paid by the party who wishes to ascertain the award. I believe that this is the course usually adopted in arbitration cases, except when ordered by a court. I know that it was done in the only arbitration case in which I had the misfortune to be concerned, and I do not think- it is an unfair plan, as it ensures the arbitrators the payment for their tervices without incurring the risk of being compelled to report to legal process to obtain that which they have earned. Sr. MiTNGO.

DrRiNO a recent storm at Lancaster, Perm., liszli tiling struck a horse and tore off three of the animal's shoes, but did not injure the equine in the least. From cork chipping, once thrown away, thousands of janls of linoleum are now made at Deln c ihon-r, Germany, where the industry is becoming quite important. TuorniiT Thfy Had Exoroii. — An eight year old Albany boy tho other day, after a few moments spent in deep study, turned to his mother and asked : " Ma, don't you think we hail better scud God word that we don't want any more children ?" At a High School at Spires, Germany, it was discovered early in August that nine pupils had conspired to murder an undermaster whom they disliked. Everything was arranged, and two daggers and a loaded revolver were in readiness for the execution, w hen one younjj conspirator repented and confessed. All the pupils concerned were expelled. (Jliw Railwa\ Sr,KKrhKS. —The Litest thing in railway sleepers is to make them of glass ; and the same proverbially brittle material even promises to be serMccable for Ihe rails of tramways. These aro but single instances of the use of glass ; for it can beadvautaceously employed for these purposes, it is difficult to see where its extended use will stop. Glass apparently suited for thuse and similar pm poses lias been made, and made cheaply by Mr Ficdeiick Siemens ; who thus adds anotnei to the lung 1 i-fc of scientific triumphs won by the inventive genius of his family. The new invention does not involve any change in the materials used in glass making, but consists in tempeiing the product by an inexpensive and yet most perfect n.ethod, in the employment of which the highnr qualities of glass are found to yield the best icult*. There are two methods already employed to harden or toughen glass ; one by annealing, suffeis fiom the disadvantage of costliness ; the other, do la Bastic's process of heating to a hitrh temperature in oil, is pronounced to be wrong in principle, since the glass produced by it is in a state of great stnin throughout. Siemens's process of making haul cast glass is innocent of both thc&e faults. It costs bet ivcen 5s and Gs to cast lewt of it ; and it ia remarkably homogenous and free from strain. At the same time its strength is such as to wairant the inventor's making railway sleepers, mils for tramways, grindstones and floorplat^s of it, and exhibiting the same before the Society of Arts. The casting takes place just as in the case of iron: but special properties are required in the material of which the moulds are made. The use of glass for purposes of construction presents the great advantage that it does not decay or rust, and that insects cannot eat it or burrow in it. Hitherto its all sufficient drawback has lain in its fragility. If this difficulty has been in any great measure overcome by Mr Sirinent'd process — or, moie strictly processes, for there are two other distinct processes suited to difFerent classes of articles — then there must be a considerable future before glass. The Crystal Palace may cease to be a unique construction ; and the pro/erb about people who live in gli«s houses may lose its point. — C. and M. Gazette. MAKci'h Cr.\RKK, in "His Natural Life," makes Sarah Pnrfoy, who was the wife of the con\ict Rev, but was engaged to tho wife of Captain Viekeis as a governess, the author of the mutiny which took place on board the Ma'abar. The Christtau Coloni&t remaiks :— " How true this is to life appears in the following iuculcut related in the bk* toll of the late Captain Thomas Allen, an old colonist, who died on September 14th at Alberton, Tasmania. He took the last batch of convicts from Port Adelaide to Hobait. Among them was a resident of Adelaide, who had held an impoitaut position, but, having embezzled a large sum of money, was transported for life. His wife was also on board, with the ostensible put pose of taking out her husband as an assigned sci vant on their arrival. Her constant \is>t3 to the prisoners excited the captain's suspicion*, and under the inspiration of that mistrust he politely asked her for permission to inspect a large chest which she kept in her cabin. She indignantly refused, but the ciptain ordered the carpenter to forte opm the e-ibin door which ahe had locked in defiance. On break ill •; open the chest the cipt.iiu's suspicion* were more than verified, for instead of its contents being lady's wearing apparel, arms, ammunition, chaits, sevtanta, anl other essentials necessary for the capture and navigation of the vessel were revealed. 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