AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2168, 1 June 1886, Page 2

AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

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TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 1886.

Ax invalid gentleman from Victoria, who is suffering from spinal paralysis, came over to Kew Zealand for tho express putpose of trying the curative powers of the baths at llotorua. He buoyed himself up with the hope th.it tliey would relieve him, and he expected to be able to gain admittance to the Sanatorium, where the charges would be within his means. He was accompanied by his wife. Their disappointment was intense when after the trials and fatigue of a long pilgrimage, he was refused admittance by Dr (Undersoil the grounds that his case was an incurable orie, and he could only accept patients whom they were sitre of sending away again so far restored as to redound to the credit of the institution. This seems a \ery extraordinary proceeding, and if -such a line of policy is followed it will go fir toward* establishing an unenviable notoriety over tho Rotorua {Sanatorium, and will act as a warning to invalids fiotn abroad against \isiting that in-rtitution. The gentleman referred t« and his wife returned to Auckland without being able to obtain comfort from the baths. The great expenditure of public money which has taken place and is still proceeding in order to lender Kotorua and the Sanatorium attractive to tourists and consolatory to imalids- will bo but ill spent, if sufferers from other countries who have been induced to go there are to be turned away again with the doors closed against them, merely to suit the capitce or whim of an official. Another complaint was made to us that a married couple are not permitted to take a set of bath tickets between them, but mut<t ha\o separate sets, even though they may only use a few of the tickets. This is absurd led tapeism, and should be remedied.

It will be &een that the scope of the Vavliamontaiy Committee to enquiic into the subject of Hail way Reform is much wider than Wtis at first supposed. Mr Vajlo is to be examined for one thing, so that the merits of his tybtoni are to bo ventilated. Nevertheless, it is no time for the f i iends of reform to go to sleep. A great deal requires to be done, and dono earnestly and energetically. We hope, therefore, that the appeal of the League for moral and pecuniary support will be heartily responded to by all who are in any way affected.

Oun Rotorua correspondent drew attention last week to the unusual mortality taking place amongst the natives at W.iiroa, Lake Vnrnwera. The death is announced of Apero, a prominent chief, who was mentioned by our "special" in his Rambles through the Lake Country in his account of a tangi he witnessed at Wairoa, and several others, we hear, .are at the point of death. The Government should make some enquu v into the causes of chis melancholy state of affairs.

The Rev- George Step'nenson, Messrs. 10. "Krissel, C. Sntton, and (rpoisje Moon haw bc^n appointed coininiv>iuner> for the Raglan School District.

Cambridge has been for the past fortnight deprived of the .services of itvigilant ranger, and delinquent qu.ulnipui.io have had an undiatmbed holiday. Murphy, however, has been lying in his hut very ill, and being an old man without anyone to attend to his immediate want", wo think he is a fit subject for tho Auckland Jlospitul, where he should be forwarded.

Prospecting operations at Maungataut.iri have been abandoned fortho winter. Mi' McLean, the prospector employed by the Hamilton syndicate, returned on S \tur day having made a careful examination of the whole of the north-eastern side of the mountain, but failed to find .mv •nour«gDg indications.

At Friday's meeting of the Auclchnd Uit.ud "f Hrluciiti'm an application II iiniltun I! Htfiiim the committee was in i<l< .i-kmir tli.it the present master of tli • pnin.uy hcliool be.ippmnted t-i t . nulnct tin* Diatrict High School, and -L.itni',' tljat ftt lea^t 12 scholurs unnld itt. ill Ihi- school ftt the commoneeniMit <>f t'n* rpmter. It was agreed that a tine iiiii-ith. tru-U should be given to the lji<>i>i-il -- ,

We understand that a new railwiy time tililc will come into force about tlit- 1 iid cit t!n> month. Cambridge will again tfet tun tiauis a-day, with a late train to II limit hi on Satin day. Various other altoi ition^ will be m.ulc, but tlii^ i^ the chief The M.ma{,'er of the Auckland lCtih\.i\>, Mi IfudMin, has just letumed fi.mi Wel'nutMii, wlnthur he went for the pui ,id- i* c -.tilting 1 with the General M i.i '^ci \,[>im thii m itter.

For some reason or other, our lppuii of li.fo otball ui.itcl), Cambudge\. Kihi'viln, |'li\cd on the ground of the l.itlui, mi > ifii (J.iv, hti» no coino to hand. The KMiM ic-.alted m .1 draw. A serious .tucidiMit mured the day's pleasure. Mr Y. -luliau, <me of the Kihikihi players, i illided with his own captain, Mr D. SiUliwm. Tho Utter was. htunned and lay unconscious for a qnarter-of-an-hour, while the funnel's leg was> broken between the knee .md dtikle.

Amongst the shipment of butter sent Home by the Frozen Meat Comp-iny in the ship Coptic on the Bth December l,\-,t, was a bu\, containing a hundredweight, sent by ' ilr D. Gammill, Clnudelands, Hamilton. Thw arrived in splendid condition, .md fctohed the highest price, a fact owing not only to the skill in making, but to the bupcuoiity of the toothed of packing adopted by Mr GoiuuuU. The butter realised just a shilling a pound in the Enjjlibh iii.li kit, but when the shipping and othei charfju-. wore deducted, the net price received by Mr Gemmill was about 7^d. It will never p.iy to evpurt under such conditions as these.

A meeting of the Executive Committee of the Railway Reform League was held at the I'nrnugh Cmmeil Chambers, 3 [.Ltni lton, on Saturday afternoon. A considciabln amount of business was done, ulnuHy of a limtine chnracter. The action taken l>v tin- Minuter for Public Work-* in appointing a committee to enquire into the sub)cct uf l.i^L \v ira petition was discussed, find it\Ui un.uiiuiously agieed that nothi ii»lf ihort of .1 Royal Commission, before which Mr V.ulo .should be asked to give evidence, would be satisfactory. Subsequent to tie meeting, a telegram was sent to Mr J. 15. Wl'vte, who has been appointed to the Pulunumtary Committee, asking 1 the object of said committee, and strongly lepiesenting the views of the League. Yesterday a reply was received from the member for Waikato, intimating that the committee was meant to enquire into Mr Vailu's ochume only, but it was probablo it would tfo fiutlii'r. In any case, however, Jlr Vaile will be called in evidencp.

The following telegraphic messages relating to the Home Rule question, wi'ic jmlili-liiul (in Saturday: — It is genualh believed the second reading of the Holm 1 Iviilc liill i-> now seemed. Mr Glad-s-toiio piopo>e-> tii admit Irish members to dismissions relative to Imperial questions, l'arliainent will probably bo prorogued as usu.il at tlio cml of May, and an amended lu^li Jiill will be intioduoed in the autumn Mission, wliicli will be held in October. The Rev. -Nli .Spm^oon, referring to Mr Gladstone's Ti^li «»cnt'iuc, protests that the tle&eitionof tho Ij'btcnuen will render the scheme dangoiouß, and that s»uch pioponals aio the designs of a madman. A meeting of tliu Jjibui'al party >va-s held yesterday, when Mr (ilailstone announced, auacon-cct-'ion in Ins I ri-h proposals, the retention of Iriih lueinbeit) for Imperial questions. Mr Chambcilain and other Radicals were abaaiit, .is ;i protest against the exclusion of the Moderates fiom the meetings. The Radical-, au deserting Mr Chamberlain, who. it i-> expected will himself hiipport the second i< ading of the liibh Laud Purchase Jiill, winch is already assured.

Mr Charles Limmer, who is managing Mr Like's property at Fernside, Oh.iupo, li is sent to this office a small pat of butter, beinar a portion of the produce of a cow fed on swede turnips. The butter is of pood ni.irkot.iblG quality, without any unpleasant odour or taste, the result of special treatment to which Mr Limmer Mibjeetei l the milk. The cow used was fed on swedes for four days before her milk w,is used, and a week's milk was taken for the* purpose* of the experiment, the animal being meanwhile kept on the same diet. After each milkinpr the milk was put into a boiler nm a slow fiie, and heated nearly up to boilinjr pi "int. It was then taken off and ponied into ordinary pans previously wanned and allowed to cool. The cream was taken off and tieated in the usual way. If it be possible to follow this course profitably buttci orjrht to be nearly as plentiful and as clioap m wintei as m hummer. The butter may be seen and tasted by those interested on application to the manager of this journal.