TUESDAY, JULY 6, 1886.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2183, 6 July 1886, Page 2

TUESDAY , JULY 6, 1886.

The following ctudidates at the late pupil tej-'lioi'" elimination recoivt probationary .ii>pu;,itmo.it.s, subject to their ' pacing a morlicivl examination :— 'Miks N. Sandes and Mm H. Lj^ne--ne to Hamilton We^t School, and Aliss M. Hunter to Ngaruaw.ihia School. Miss S. Murray ih to be removed from Hamilton West to TV Awamutu School.

Changes are taking place in the personel of the Hamilton Borough Council. Messrs T. G. Sandes and A. Bach have resigned their seats, the latter having left the town, and Messrs F. J. Yon Stunner and W. F. Bell are cmdid.ite> for the respective vacancies. The advertisements in connection with the election will be found in another column.

A Whatawhata resident reports, that on Sunday morning thoy expeiienced in that district heayy gu^ts of wind frem the ISouth, bitterly cold. After e-sch gust there was heard a rumbling sound like distant thunder, but the morning being perfectly clear the noise was attributed, naturally, to another volcanic eruption. As the wind came from the direction of Ruapehu, which has lately been reported to be showing sign^ of activity, they looked to that mountain to account for the phenomenon. Many other people in the neighbouihood remarked the occurrence.

Four trucks, containing one hunched anil forty-five sacks of stone from the Champion lode, Tui creek, were sent from Te Aroha to Auckland on Saturday for shipment to England, being the first instalment of a parcel of one hundred tons which is to be sent to Swansea. South Wales, for treatment. Mr Conies, who went to town in chaige of the consignment, informed our reporter that thirty toWsmelted at the Thames had yielded a return of £12 10s per ton, and if the furnace had continued operations the present shipment v.ould have been tieated there. The New /Zealand Shipping Company have offered favourable terms for the freight of tne stone, as it will be utilised as ballad, the rato chained, we believe, being twelve shilling's and sixpence per ton. If the present experiment turns out successfully there is no doubt that .shipments of low grade quartz will be frequent.

Saturday's Te Aroha News states : — Yesterday .-ifteinoon Mr G. S. Stail'oid and f)O\eral stockmen arrived at, Te Aroha with a mob of .some 500 head of cattle from the Wh.ikatane Company's station. The wholo journey has occupied ten d.i/s ; the start yo- tor< lay hoing from Kai anpahake. We aro glad t^ know that in Spite of the do.icondition of the roads in some parts, and tlu) voiy inclement weather encountered during a portion of the journey, only soino twenty h<>ad Qf O t knocked up, and had to be left behind on the way. The mob ha\ c been turned out on the Wairakuu

farm, and will ha deponed of fti opportunity offers. Mr Stafford informs us that the volcanic deposit is about three inche» in depth nearly all over tho company's property. The N mob just driven over constitute about 4'thir£^festyie tot^nwtnbetftjbf cattle on the Wkk4ta"ne|tatis!l'at|Kie tijbe of the e«#gftion» )./ '\ > ' { \,, We ti&gret to learti thai an, aco}dont of jmhera^orioutf ''.nature tpo^ pjwie at Oh.uipo'Sn Sunday nighty by wb.iclf Mitt. Hope and Mr T. Kit k came to grief. Returning fiom a funeral at Alexandra they pulled up at Ohaupo to light the lamps, and on starting off again one of the hoises swerved and threw the buggy down over tho nasty emlnnkmenb just below Mr* \V. J. Hurst's store. This has long been recognised as a dangerous spot, and the present accident may h.uethe effect of making the county council remedy the defect. The buggy fell on Mr Hope, who is laid up in. bod-sutfering from a severe contusion of itto right thigh, tendering his leg powerless for the time being. Mr Kirk escaped with a slight injury to tho knee and ankle. The lunxwr,- bolted with., the -;bugev, and ones wheel disappeared in the* darkness, but the nmaways were very ptuokily stopped by Mr Tieriivvald, junior, and 1 brought back. The travellers came home in Mr Delaneys 'bVigffy,- kindly lent for the 'pwpose: . Tne extraordinary case of poisoning at Pnnlic<« sepms, judging from a paragraph in the Pall Mall Gazette, to) tiavo- had *• ciirious sequel. Our contemporary wvyH: — "The seventeen offers of ,iivuru^« which Mrs Ad^l^vide BaHlett is ,Vaid t<> have received dxiring.the last week, including v »ne fn>m- a clergyman, merely illustfhwr the ' suppot-t and argument of Buckle that human actions are ag much \-mbject to uniform laws .as the'eohrse of the •Star*). Such offers of marriage, iahvayvj including one from a clergyman, are tne invariable fortunes of ladies who ate accused- of, poisoning their husbands or {oveni. Th^ number of seventeen has probably *been increased tenfold by this time, if v we are to judge by the recorded experience of Madeleine Smith, the heroine of the great Scotch poisoning case in 1858. That y6ung lady accepted one of her numerous suitors (the clergyman, we believe), and lires' to this day a prosperous gentletvmnan in th& immediate neighbourhood of Bedfoid-square. Let us hope that Mra Bartlett may be recompensed by a happy union for her past miseries. She has the matrimonial advantages of some thousands >f pounds, and a most bewitchiug'pair of .>yes. She is also an attentive and experienced nurse, whose experience* of the dangers of using chloroform are sufficiently p unful to deter her from practicing with that drug upon a second husband."

The evils of the present system of administering charitable aid were illustrated at last .night's meeting of the Hamilton Borough Council. A short time ago an unfortunate man named Campbell, who had tramped up from Auckland, sleeping out ,se.veral nights, threw himself on the mercy 'of the police. Sergt. MeG-rath is not empowered to give charitable aid in any .shape, but as the applicant was only too evidently sick and ill, and unfit to be out in the wintry \veather, he was accommodated with i lodging in the cells for the night. The following morning the sergeant reported the iriatteV to the mayor, who in view of the gravity of the case advanced the sum required to pay Campbells fare to Auckland. The difficulty now was, the Mayor said, to get a refund of the. 12a expended. Though they paid 'large sums of money to the Charitable Aid Board there existed no means of getting any of it back He would like an expression of opinion from the council for his guidance in the future. The case under notice was' a very extreme one. The man, if not got rid of, might have died on their hands. Cr. Knox said there was. one way out of the difficulty. • Such men as Campbell would simply have to be arrested as vagrants and committed to prison, by which means the whole expense would have ito be borne by the Government. The j Mayor said the incident showed how absurd it was to administer charitable aid (from Auckland alone. It was quite clear that some of the money ought to be in the hands of authorities in Waikato. Application -for the money had been made to the board, but it was extremely doubtful whether it would be got. Similar advances had never .been repaid. ■ It was resolved to apply to the board again for a refund. The opinion of the council seemed to be that the course suggested by Cr. Knox is the right one, and the mayor will probably adopt a policy of non-interference in the future.