She Waikato Times. AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2088, 24 November 1885, Page 2

She Waikato Times. AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

R(]U<tl and exact justice to all men, Of whatsoever state ot persuasion, religious or politu al. Hero shall the I'ress the People's ritflit munt nn, Unawed Wy influence and unbribcd by sain.

TUESDAY, NOV. 2' h 1885

Tub figures which we print in another column in the report of Friday night's meeting of the United Hospital and Charitable Aid Boards may well cause alarm in the minds of the ratepayers of W.uk.ito. Had Mr Lake's resoluMon to \r\y a rate of one fifteenth of a penny per pound on the capital value been confirmed, Waikato, by which term we mean the counties of Waikato, Waipaand Raglan, and the Borough of Hamilton, would have been called on to contribute at the rate of about JEICOO a year to a fund, the total amount of which would be some <£HOOO. Fortunately the resolution was abrogated at the meeting of the Auckland District Board on the following morning, at the instance of Mr Graham. But we are, nevertheless, still in the wood. So Jong as the Act remains in force so long must the Auckland Hospital be maintained partly out of rates, and Waikato must contribute its shaie on a valuation basis. A combination of the country members, including those from the North Auckland District might exercise a check on the charitable aid expenditure, but it is extremely doubtful whether the united boards have the power to levy rates at all, and they cai. not in their united capacity, control the hospital revenue. It is of coins'absurd and unjust to impose such .1 monstrous burden upon Waikatn ..« is proposed, but there seems to be no help for it. The board is elected to administer the Act, not to amend it, and the town members, even supposing for the sake of argument that they were disposed to help us, are powerless to do so. The Act itself is radically wrong in principle, and is, moreover, so ambiguous as to be practioilly unworkable. Referring to the matter the other day, w© said the towns ought to main-

tain their own poor. Wo claimed thon that though numbers of waits ami strays drifted into tho centres, of population, the stray wealth of the country followed suit, and that therct'oie the towns should maintain their poor. We do not insist sist upon an acceptance of tlu-> view literally. We arc quite willing to admit that the country disti icts .should contribute . # i fair propoition, but it is pteposteroua to say that sixteen hundiod pounds is a fair psoportion for Waikato to pay out of a total of eight thou- •, md pounds. If wo are compelled to raise this .sura then it is not i'nprobablo that effoits will be made to retain a goodly share of it in tho distiict, and in thib way tho growth of a pauper class u ill bo actively promoted. Tho whole tendency of the Act is to evtinguish private charity on the one hand, and to foster paupei ism on on the other. Jf the amount required now be at the rate of £8000 a year it will not long remain at th.it. That the Act is ,i mistake even those most enamoured of its features will soon be brought to confess. So far as the country districts are concerned, it has aheady ceased to charm. It is another specimen of the immaculate loc il government measures promised us by the present Go\ eminent when they took ortiee, and we sincerely hope it will not long be allowed to disliguie the Statute Book.

A meeting was held in the Whatawli.tt.i Hotel nn Niti.id.iy, wlien it \\.»- dt'tennniiMl to li<>ld ,i t.ice iix-etin^ on New Yu.n - D.iy.

Mr Geo. Hingston, of Wairoa, Bay of I-l.ituli died on S.ituid.iy fimn tlie offocts of two l)ee-".tings, inflicted the miiic mDiniii^.

The ship Jessie Readman arrived at Auckland on ttatuid.iy morning from London, 10"> day, out. She bungs a cmgo valued at £18,700 and 37 j)aa->en^ers.

Commander Edwin wired at 3 50 p.m. je-.tmJ.iy :— K\prct l>.ul weather aft<-i 12 houii from now In'twecn ra»t .uirt noitli and ii'iith-wuit, and mnoh r.un, .uid jrlas--furthui fall.

Considerable dissatisfaction exists in u%u(i to the L.i Monte furnace. It is objected tin; cost i)f smelting n "inch too hitfh, iin'i tint it conscfuicntly doos not pay to put moderately nch quirt/ through.

We are authorised to state that Mr\V. A. Ur.ihun, M.iyoi of Hamilton, will bo d. c.indklvto for the W.upa M3.it nt the next election. No Announcement to this effect was made .it (he l.iit meeting of the Hamilton Borough Council.

An excursion train from Auckland n exppctod to reach Hamilton at about 12.:SQ p.m. to d.iy, mtuming .«t about G3O p.m. Should the woathci bo finn, di)u>)t!i-*- i Idr^c number of towi)><pi'i>i>]o will Uk<" (idvant.jp's of this opportunity to get <l mouthful of countiy .111.

An extraordinary vacancy having occmied m the N(j\\ca>tlc Ro.td J'oaid, thw>us;h Mi C. Day's *oat becoming \.icant, nomiii.itnm-> <>f candid. ite-* w ill bo received up to iS.itimliiy, Otli December, and an election, if necessary, will bj held on the 12th December.

We understand that Mr Joseph HnuiMm'-. patent hre alarm, to winch we diow attention some few weeks ajjo, i> about to be t ikon up by one of the leading tniiH in Auckland. The patent winch is a very valuable one will piobably be bought oiitii^ht.

There will be a meeting of the I'ia.lvd County Council at C.imbndge toaiormw morning: The meeting is «iii e\tiaoidinaiy one for the election of chuini.uj, but an ordin.try nicettng 1 will follow wlii-n Mime bimnosi of linpoiUnce will bo dmpoicd of.

An alarm of fire was raised in C uu'>i idgo after seven o'clock )a->t night. The .il.iiiii was the outcome of a foul cli.mißV att.icb.ed t<> a building opprnito Mr Keid's catching fire. A number of p.jople g.itheied aiound but all cause of .iLum w.w soon removed.

Waikato cheese is rapidly gaining k'louml. The Rukuhia factory received an mdci a few dny-> :igo from Queensland foi thiee tons, but .ill the stock had been hold out . i '-hoit time before. Between three and four tons had been puichascd for Sydney, foi which the company pot lid pei pound delivei<<l in Auckland. This we bolie\c is the bt st pi ice which lias yet been obtained for Wnikato cheese

Tue Rev. J. S. Boyd preached at the Hamilton Preslijtiw un Church o» Sund.iy evening <>n the subject of " Apov tulio Succession." There was a good congre^.itiou. The iiumi contention of the toi. «entlemun w.w th.it thmo had been a H.uv in tho "Hucw^mou," and tii.it theiofoiu it wai not po»il)le now to tell who were tlie tiuo >*uccei-)Oi-> <if the early apo-itle-s.

Mr G Edgecumbe, hon. secretary of the Hamilton Spoits Committee, is in receipt of the following .— " J)o.u Sir,— l ,iin instiucted by the committee of the Cambiidgp Athletic Sports to thank you for ho kindly letting them know of your decision to :vltor your d.iy for holding sports to2Stli inst. Titiitnig both meetings will pio\e successful,— l am, yours f.titlifully, H. \V. Wksidt, Societ.ny."

A meeting of all who are interested hi chinch work, and de-ne to pi'ipetuatu tho memory of the lite Church Mission in Hamilton, is convened by :id vortisement tor this e\eningat 8 o'clock in Mhs Nuucll'm '.(.lioolkioiii. Among the plans to be submitted to tho meeting are tho formation of a Church Society and the Mi^go-ition niiidc l>y the Incumbont in his mormon on Sund^iy to erect a Memo rial Window in S. Peter'i Church. It i> more than probable that the school loom will not be large enough, and that an t\d journment will ha\e to be m.ide to a more commodious building.

The attention of the Te Aroha mining public is at present concenti.ited on tho Tni reef and its pre.it prospect*.. On .Sunday last one of tho nsfmeis who aro to work the furnace «it Karang.ihake visited the leef in company with Mi K. K. D.ivi*, Mr J. .Robinson, and a few other local gentlemen. Thcieef was pronouueed . similar in apjieaiance to that which is tinning out so magnificently in New Smith Wales. Some ti ial assays of the reef h.i\e been made, and have Riven a return of , from 50 to 100 ounces of bullion to the ton. ' Tin* ti.ick to the reef is buing made by fiovprninent, and will bo finished by Ghiistmas, when the furnace is expected to [ be ready.

The following special messages to ' tho I'rerH Association dated London, Xinembor 21 ~t, li.ive been j>nbli~.hed .—lt. — It h generally believed in diplomatic circles, that the combined European Poweri will now intervene to prevent a continuance of ho^tilitiu-t in the Kilk.in Peninsula. —The New Zealand Shipping Com[>any's <-.s. Kaikoin a left Plymouth this afternoon for Auckland and Wellington, calling at Teneriffe and the Cape en route— Mi H. C. Baker, M.L.C., of South An->tiali.i, believer that the Fioncli and Italian Oovernmenfcs will consent to a reduction in the charges made for the carriage of coloni.il mails via Jirindisi,

Te Aroha is looking pretty lively just at present. Woik neeins plentiful in ),ho di-trict, business improving .md, ijpnenilly speaking, prosperity h rmvmp. xMining affairs aro veiy promising ]mt now, .11. fl though the Kaianfjahake stono lias not ch'iwu up so well under furnaco treatment a? was expected, the Aroha people incline to look upon tlio Tui cieek ns Honuethiiij,' ijjcoinpirably suiienor to Kiir.in£ahakc, and more likely to realise the anticipations of the public. The stream of tourists, invalids, holiday seekers and \isitors generally Kcotni t» havo< «co rnoro in, and thn season the hotel accommodation of tlio town threfiteiis to be taxed to the utmost. The domain board aie making gieat improvements on the hot hprinps resei vc, and another year or so will see it one of tho most attractive fashionable rovn-ta in Now Zealand.

The following are the names of tho team picked by ' C> oivjpp ('nch.i>t Club to try conclasi'ma with tho Hamilton

clini'ii <>n Mondty next (S. Andrews' I).\y) .it CJ.unbudjjo:— Alexis A. B. Stubbing, .1. Fitzgerald, N. Hunt, Patk, Lon^bnttoin, Co'ipdr, Gi.iham, Foaison, Forrest, Jlilcli in.ni, Rponjj. Kiuerpencios : Cox, l'liw, and Roberts, Umpire, Mr L. M. Cl.ire. Tb 1 f«»lli)\\ingnie the naineinf th« H.imil tun tesuu :— Alessr.-< B.ntdu, Bin(ii>n, I)y- «. >ye, Connolly, E'lu'uctimbe, Foiro-t, Mjlnto«h, Prinirosp, Stevons Wnod and V >mig. Mi'inbois of tbo Hamilton Cncki't Club team vie urgently loquesti'd to .ittcnd for practice on Svdiu'y Sqti.iru c\oiy .iftt>inoon tliwvcck, in particular on tins, Tliius(hy .'tnd S.ttnrday .Uternoi>ijN. We undeistand tliat WLatawhata will tiy conclusion-, with H.innlton on the lattei'-. giound slioitly.

At Friday's meeting of the Board cf Kdiic.ition tho In-pector, Ml K. J. <> Snlln.ui, u<|Mitod as follow^:—" Vuek 1 mil, November I<>, I.SS">.— I hivo the lnMiniii to loimit to the bo.nd tint it is possible to woik tlio undermentioned schools .is half-time school-*, in tho in.vtinei mdicttpd. I think I should f.u) in my >lnt\ if I did not cdl the attention of tho Iviiid to cim tun schools, which I con-idur to be schools which ,110 not lequired, i.e.: PijuKnra Valley Ko 2, Quoen\ Rpdoubt, .Mid Ai. -ilium (old .school)." Tho list included tho following :— lUpl.in 23, and W.utctmi.i 21, Ru.tpulvc IS, and To Mit.* I*l, Churchill 21, and Ohinpw.u 22 (acioss rni'i), Km!Jrin>» 18, nnd Pukete 2")(.icmss n\or), Wlntwvhata 22, and Ngahuiopnun !) (every third wepk), Te Rnhu 2C», and \l.ni«.iptlvo 12. It w,i>i affjeod to consult the committees on the bubjoct before action \\ as taken.

The Rotorua correspondent of the Her.ild tele?iaphed on Saturday .— The weather here has been very showery and unsettled, and the ceremony of openn q the Blue Bath ha-, been postponed until Mr SalaV H'turn from the torr.|ces. Last night the native- got up « dance in a lar-je wh.ircpuna. It was h.vlf \},u -dance and h.ilf h.ika, with the objectionable features of the latter altogether omitted. Instead of questionable mhi^s, the natives gave a long w nling chant about then land tumbles and the stc idy disjppeaianco of then lace tlnoutfh the steidy |)re'>sure of the white m.m upon their natixo territoiy. - At* the clo^e of the pioceednif?-., Mi Salaaddres>cd a few %\okN to the native-, which weic interpreted to them, expre-MtiE: his ])le-\suie at seems Mich a fine body of men in their pictnie-.que co-tume-. Ft was quite cvi dent fioin the political cast of the son<r> introduced th.it the natives had an eye to bu-ines-., and wanted to liiipifs- the fjreat lotmuli-t that they had n pnevaJicc as a race, and th.it they were likely to be pieced out of e\i-tcnce by contact with the pvkeha. Today Mr Sill vnited --e\eral pnnts of mteie-t, and was greatly inter-e-tnd with the ivnelty of the -,cene.

Wheat growers, who are down m the month pist now, may extiacta oiumb of co'iifmt fioni the following, which appealed in the Pall Mall (i.i/otte of Sep temlier lOtli : -" Why the pnco of win 1 it should remain so low as it is does not appeal plain fiom the facts of the c.i-c The new supplies fioni the producing countiies ,uc, on paper, barely equal to tlie pioliable consumption of the woild ; aid before the sciiion now begun has got to its close, the chances nro tint stocks will h.ue been trenched upon m all dn options. The actual stocks of wheat and Hour in eight chief ports of the United Kingdom .no re tinned at 2,~)l)0,000 qrs. compared with 2,310,000 qrs a year a?) ; but on the other hind the quantity on passage is 1,700,000 qrs, compared with 1,'W0.000. On the whole, tlieiefore, the amount of import wheat in sight docs not keep the pucedeinvs>.ed. Home maikets take the le id, and until the forced sales of inipo\erished fanners cease the recovery inty be delayed. '

Though the prospects ot the Cam bridge Cheese K.ictmv at the beginning of tbc^wmupiciiiitof ,i \ery encouraging nituie, we are glad to notice that there is c\i'iy possibility of it coming up to, if not eclipsing the othtM W.uk.ito factories, in the matter of nnlk supply before the end of the present season. Since the factory opened about a fortnight ago, the supply ha»gradually increased from about 200 to over JOO gallon", ,uid the manager, Mi Geo. Watt, is s.mgmne that before the end of the cm - 1 out month the daily supply will have m creased to fully 000 gallons. Perhaps before the season closes, Mr Watt will be accommodated with a supply of fully 1000 callous. As was remaiked at the meeting of shareholder some hhorttime ago, it takes some time to m ik<> d lirie*, and the Cambiidge supplieis have not had much tune to get their dailies into propoi working order with a good stock of fiist-class milch cows. Those who supplied milk last yrai aie beginning to feel the benefit of the factoiyasa pacing line, nnd others who were merely holding bick to see how things weie going to turn out have been encouraged to follow the example of their more enterprising neighbour*?. Threepence halfpenny hoems to be paying \ery well, and the supplieis .soem to be satisfied with what they get. If the pre-ent doinmd for good cheese continues, shai eholders need not despair of getting a di\ idend some d.iy.

The following story is told by a c>ue--pondent of the T.xpanui Cornier: — Ti.v\ oiling thiough to Inwrcargill last week Mr (Jeo r ge Augustus S.il.i, the well known journalist .uicl locturer, was in com creation with a leading Dunedm meichant, and the subject was politics. A now chum entep'd the train .it Clinton, and aftei listening to the, conveisation some tune he put in his spoke, forgetting the adage that '' fools rush in where angels fear to tie.ul." Su Julius of course recened a, sc\eie castigsitutn at tho hand-, of tho new thum, and amongst other choice epithets applied to the Colonial Tieasurer was that of "scoundrel." Colonial politics were .soon exhausted as a subject of comersation, and natuistlly enough the coming Butwh elections were mentioned. Mr S.iU casually mentioned the name of (ilad^tone, when the new chum applied the teim of '• scoundrel "' to the "giiml old man." He had bettei has c held lih tongue, for the wr.ith of the Bntish lion (U.A.S.) was at once aroused. "What, Mr!" exclai.ned S.dn. "Apply the name of '-coundiel ' to (M.idstonu? Why, .ilthough I am a Liberal, if you coupled that expiesMon with the name of | Disiaeli, I would make you withdiaw it! Do you know no bettei, mi 1 , than malign public men of unimpeachable ehaiaetei in a lailway c.irmpre ? You de^orve to be thrown out of the window." At this moment the tiain drew up at the Waipahi station, and the new chum escaped the tlne.iti ned peisonal chastisement .vt the hands of the redoubt ible (J A.S.