The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2092, 3 December 1885, Page 2

The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

I,(jn il and rx k t ju>tii.e to ill men, Ot whmoorr ititr or piTsnision, religion- o pnlitic al Here <lirfll the I'ri'ss the IVunlc I1 '' riclit ni.iinl.un, Uimxm cl Ks infliirnre .md imlirilird by nmn.

THURSDAY, DEC. 4, 1885.

The programme of the Whatavli.it i Races on Kew Year's D.iy will b.5 found 111 another column. ' ;

Hamilton cricketers will, we ]»(»i»\ tin n out legularly fur practice «m Tiio-d iys Tl»ur-.d ty-. .tnd S.itui day*, as the What.iwluU m.itcli will b.'played on Sydney S'pi.iiv, Hamilton, <>ii N.ittud.iv next, the I'Jtli inst., .Hid the letuin m.itsii v itli Cambridge p'isMbly on the ne\t Saturday, the li'th in^t.

The Cambridge Sports Committee lia\i' now collected ncnily fc'M f«r t}»o ho\\nti-l).*y gatht ""(-'• '^ NL>l> ntti.ictiu 1 progi.wnini: b is been diawn up, which will br Hiibmittcd .it .1 iiipi tin,: of tho fiinnnttee to he held --!>oit!y. Itw nitend-d to (?iv« £27 10« for tli<- In},' Imiiclicip alone, the jtriyi-4 for tlir otli'-r rventi being proportion itrly hiitjc.

The ordinary monthly meeting of the C.unbridffe Town li->ud is called for Tuesday noxt, when hever.il in-ittors of local interc-t v ill be disposed of. The HportH cKiiuintti'o'i lequeit for pfrtiu^inti to charge tor ndniwsiou to the (Jo\einincnt paddock will l>« coinnduiud, mid as there is .• ditfitrcnco of opinion on the matter, the |iro(i'i'dui^. aro likely to be of mnuo intuext.

The Cambridge Choral Society held its second meeting in the Public Hall on Tiie-day evening, when there was an attendance of over thiity inemberH Several gle«"«, &.i\, were gone through in a highly H.itisfactorv umnncr, Mr T. Ifartly con ductinx. The Hociety prouiisci to be one of the mont snccuisfiil ever foimed in Waiknto, inclndiii(,'i t>» it does an nrr.iy of nil the leading \ocal talent in the district.

There is some talk of resusciating tho CAinl)iidj?uC.vvalry Corps'. A few of tlio more prominent members of the troop iire said to be iii<i\inj? m the in itter, but we doubt \ery mucli whethei their efforts will Jx< attend, d with tho success which we would wish for. A large number of the old menibei rt hu\ c liJt the di->ti ict, othei < aro Hcattrred .ibout th« country, and generally npi Jiking tho .olunteer spuit has uluiost dud out.

A meeting of the provisional dire/tor« of the U.imbiidge .J.nn Factory cdlcd for Tuesday e\enintf last, fell through for tho want of .1 quorum. It is a veiy gieat pity tlwt a pioposal attended with «uch piomi->o pud aecoided -siieh geneiiil Hiippoit should not bn taken up inoie heartily by those to w hose charge it h,is been relegated. If tin pie out very favouiable opportunity tsh.ou.lii wl bo taken

advantage of, Cnnbudg.' nn\ I<>io it- jnu . factory after all that has been said and ' done. I ! ' j

The fortnightly meetine of ths Hauniltiu Wcslev.iii Band of Hope v,i> held in tliu ii-ml pl-i'-o <>.> Tin-< 1 >y evonin','. Mi («<•> 1 I'Mich 01.111 pud tiiech.ui, .mil tli-io v\a-> .1 h'°"d ithjid.ii.' -\ Ki'id ing-, mti-ic il M-Vctioiis, i\.o.. v.eto entubut'l by tlio juuinli ncinliri-., an 1 .in mtoie-timf add'es- l)j lli.' If \. J. Dellou concluded t!\f in etm;,'.

At the annual meeting of the Tniiity \\'i sley.m Simla) Silinil Cum nnttee, hold in the suit »>li DoiiJ, H iiiiiltnsi, la-t evening, tlioie w.-. .i full attend nice. Hi. I!'\..). Dcllnw pie-.ded. The hn.in- < i.il K|iiut for the year -bowed .i ilol.it b.damo of tUTnlld. Vote, of th..nks ui-ri 1 )>'ssed to the outgoing othcors, and tin- follow ing othceis wens elected fm Hi ■ ensuing year-.—Superintendent, Mi <!<-•<> Ficncli ; scc'L'tiiy and librauan. Mi I>.? XSdmon ; treasurer, Mr T. Rothwell. The omcoi - and toichei- constitute tlif now uunuuttec. After smnu mutino bunnies, the meeting closed with the Benediction.

The adjourned meeting of those dtsirous of establishing a br.muh of tin* Church Kncuty in connection with S Peter'ri Church, wis held <>t Miss Newell s nehoulionin on Tuo-d.iy evening. Theie \u, a pood attendance, and twenty-two pei sons joined the branch either as uicinbois or associate*. The i evolutions of the cominitteu appointed at the* hi«t meeting roeoinmending that the nieinoiial to the mission tako the form of making the chinch free an 1 open, that thanksgiving offering bo invited for oxhtiKUK-l.ing tho church debt were then adopt-d, and it was le-nUed to leqnest tlie proper furoehial authorities to convene ;i general mooting of pari-htonor* for Tue-dav, the nth, to take theso matters into con-idi i iti.ui.

The other day we published a xtttcniont from our Alo\ nidi i cure-, pondent to tho effect that a new religion hid been stilt' d among the king native-, and th.it Ho.mi Wet-ie te Kuki, of Kawhia, was piomulgatiug the now ductnno in \\ aikato. Tho now si'ct .no c died the Wai Wera Wei as, indicating a close amni'y to hot water. The carcases of the converted ai»« to be sciubbed in hot water until fieed fi<>m .ill moi.d a- well a-, bodily 'nit mi-h'w and ailments. As there aio no hot witer spiiugs about Wh itivv hatihoe, the pioplnt. Mi Huki, hearing of the \ii tues of No. 2 bath, has decided upon -ettnu up at Te Aiohn. This is usitaiuly an honour which the To Aroha pnblio will be proud "f, ai.d no doubt pu-patation-. will b.' duly »ade for the hiutabl; leceptionof the ap<*tl-sof cltanlllll S-.

The following special messages to the Pre-s Association, d.itcd London, Noveinbui ">Otli .tn<l Dcccuil er l-.t, h.i\<> been published. The fio/t-n meat by the Shaw, Savitl, and Albion Company's steamei Ai.iwa, hasanived in splendid condition. —Yictoihn4 per cents aie quoted it 107, the highest puce yet known.—The M ikjuh of Ab'Mg.nenny has been invested with the Order of tho Gaiter, .md Sn Julian Paunce fi»rt has been created a Knight (Jiand Cios-j of St. Michael and St. (ieoii»i\ - Ilanlan luid issued a challenge to low anj man in the world, the mituh to come ott in America nc\t summer.—Sir John (Jonie lias beui .ippointed Chief .Fustite of Trinidad.-—The Orient C>-inpanj'- -tcunei John l'.lder had a inuaculnu-> e-ci[)e fmin running on to the rocks at Ush tut, a &m ill island on the Fieudi oast, duiing a heavy fog on Sunday last. The John Elder w.is hoMewaul bmnd.

The usual monthly meeting of the Waitoa Koad ]s.>nd was hell lastSitmday. There was pie-ent: Messrs Chejimell, (!onld, Parr, and Tuinb-ill. It was reported that the Kites on Cioun and Native lands for last year have not b.-on received yet. Since 1 ist board meeting the ch.tiim.m and two of the munhiis with the enginet r in-ptoted tho ground on block 11, To Yiolu, \.illi the view of deciding on th- bo-t it"id.> of drain igi' for the M.iimg.ikawa-WaioioiigoiH ii loid in that neighbouihood. They were of opinioii that if Johnson's cieolc extension diain were tamed up from Tayloi's mid to the Mann!?akawa-Waiorongoiii.il mad the same rti^e .is it is below T.i\loi's io.id it would diain the settlers' l.md, and be an outfall for the road. The « mliactors for No. 2 contiact ou the said Mad hasc done a lot of good woik on their contract. The contractors for contracts Nos. ,S, 4 and ■"» h ive done \eiy little. Accounts amounting to £'2H!) l~)i weie ]>is-ed foi paynient, Tho next meeting of the biaid will be held mi the lilth Dju'inber.—(Coiiespondeiit )

An instance of a lucky speculation (wntes a London uoiitspuii(lcut) is avoided by the euoi moils pmtit. uluchthe shareholdeis of the Civil Son ice Stoics have lecpuHy been making. Some fifteen yeais ag'i a few gentleiren connected with the Civil Set vice, and employed in the Po-t-otlice, nude a joint putcha*e in the sliajHj of a box of tea, which they divided among themselves. They aftoiw.ud* staited the Stores Company by means of £1 shaies, if which only 10s was called ui>, and even then the -liiiet wore so -lowly taken up by the members of the Seivice that" the l-sue had to be extended to their fi lends. Some tlnue years ago the profits of tin stoics amounted to about f'tOO.OfX) The is-ue of shares was then stopjx d, and the money divided in what are called " A " -haien among the exnting >-]i ircholdeis. This le-ulted in each Imldoi of unu share hiv ing eight shaies of €10 each allotted to him, and for the last tluee yea is each foitu(i ito nivo-tor of the oiigmil 10- has been jiiceiv ing annually a div ideiid of £'(, whit h means mtere-t at the late of IKX) pei cent, on his oiigiual iu\estment.

The Wellington correspondent of the Hu.dd telegiaphed on Tui.-d i\ :—: — The Native Mini-tei has iccuivcd fioin Wahanui, tlimugh Mr Wilkinson, the (ioieuimiiit iigont, the famous taiahi which should have been the oirbleniatic .iiithoiity foi the atikati louud the King Coiintiy. lam told that its autlmiity has boeniuvokid for leb'lhoiis pmceeduiSs of native tubes m all j»ait- of the North Island. It n.is been in tlie po-sehsum nf the Ngatimaniapoto for upwards of 100 \ears except when it was eiitiu-ted to the kcej)in^ of other tubes, to sustain their courage oi preserve their exolustveiHMs 1. It was lent to the Tuhii i tube in the tioublemiiiiv time of ISIj7-K. It followed the tide of war into tho Mokau countiy. It is a little curious that Wahanui and not King Tavvhiao ."lioiild bo the de.livt'ier of tinensign of war into the hands of the <lovcinincnt. The taiaha is a long shaft of haul wood, broad at one end, tipemig upwards, surmounted by a eai \od head above a collar of kaka featheis and a ftinge of dog'" hair. Its histoiy i- in couise of piepaiation, and will be in the bands of (iovernment ,tt an e.uly lioin. As it comes in the charactei of a tumidly greeting fioin the greatest and ino-t popular of Maon chiefs, I do not like to say that tlieio is .tiiythmg in the natuie of a suirendei in the act. I was pei nutted to examine it with some minuteness. It ineisiires upwaids r;f six fecf, and i-< lioivier than any xiuiilar Maon symbol (if authotity 1 have seen : but however this act of Wali.unn in ty be interpreted, I was told that the cltect of it is to remove the Maoii auk.iti hum the King Country, and to m.uiguiatc an eia of friendly lelatioiis between the natives «.f Now Zealand and their lOmnpcm fellowsubjects of <^ueen Victoua. It >s the intention of tho Native Minister to have tlm memorial of the atiuggles between Kmopeans and natives jilaced in thulibiaiyof tho ((Ciit'r.il Ass«iub!y, or in tho House of Ueprcsontitives, if a conveniout place can be found foi it, where, it in.>y equally comlnemoiate tho ostablirthiug of peimanent peit" and fiiendly relatimiH between Maori and pikeha.

Mr John Bright wrote as follows and MrCyius Field, of New York on tho question of Free Trado:—My dear Mr l''ield,—[ never write for leviown oi anj other perioJicals. ft is so long since I have wutten that my hand his lost its cunning, if it ever had it. Ido not think anything an Kngll.shm.iH could «ay would have any ellect upon an Amciican Protectionist. The man who poss«sses a monopoly by which ho thinks he gains is nut open to argument. It was so in this couutiy 40 \u.ih ago, and it is so now with yon. It is ••trauge that a people who put down .slavery at an immonsj saciilico are not able to Hiippiess monoply, which is but a milder form of the samo evil. Under slavciy the unn was noi/.ed and his labor stolen from him, and the profit of it enjoyed by his master and owner. Under Protection the nmn is apprtmtly free, but ho is denied the right to exchange the pmduce of his labour except with his countrymen, who offer him much le.si for it than the foreigner would give. Some portion of his labour Is thin conttacnted. In our Protection daj s our ueaveis anrl artUins could not exeh mge with Vmeiican flour. They exchanged with the Fwighsh farniei, who g.wo them wjinetimes only half thu quantity tho Atnerican would have given them. Now your farmer is foi bidden to trade with the Knglibhnipn, and must give to an American double tho quantity of gram and flour, for many

aiticle< h'J i* constantly reqnirinpr, than ho would ifuu it" yom laws di'l not forbid his U.ulo with EiiKl.md. A countiy miy hn\o domestic institutioiiH, it-* gmernmi'nt may he republican, ,md linked >m awnlo-uffr*^ 1 , and yet tlwiv may bo no fn>< il.mi to men f«r th.it wliitli h the source nf lift ui<l imm tort. If a niiinV lib'iin i^ n«t free, if it> n. hangi is m>t fret 1 , the in.in i-i not ficr. AiM «li>'tlici tin 1 law that on.irts the rv tnctmn bv the otT*|iun^ »f a ri'puhlicin ■11 .tiitocr.itii (jiiMTinnont .mil jiout-r, it \* ■ imlly »'\il sind to bo cniiiJtMimed :m<l «itti-t>od ))v .ill who ]i>\n fnvdiini ftiid umWotmd what it in. N.\tinn> learn slowly, hut thi'V d«i leirn;and thi'n'ftiro I d<» not doul it that tin 1 tiifK «ill come uhen trule will bt- as fii-o t^'Vii* «md-<, ant 1 fiee loin of indu-trv «wK<l<> nmoh t>» put down n.itui.d c'.iroiiic jtiuei'Sv, as M-<n yi>- it ar'j.i ■- .nid the peul and "uffi'ilhj; <>f w.u. Hut I .mi uiiting you alino>t an sirticte ni^tcid of a short not", as if I would to.u-1) y.iu, which would he an imp'Thm-nct*. If vo»i conld teach your farmei.s and ask the solid South to help them and you, you inn?ht soon soon succeed. l?elie\e me ,du.i\s stiiceiely jour fiiend, John Hun. hi.