NEW ZEALAND.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2196, 5 August 1886, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

[M TELEGRAPH.—PRKS3 ASSOCIATION. WELLINGTON, Tuesday. The baiqe Kentish Lass left for CamIn ulge Gulf this evening, taking 80 passengers bound for Kiinbcrley. Mr Alexander Smith, managing director of the United Importers' Company, -was * passenger by her, taking with him a large consignment of gnneral merchandise for Wyndham as a speculative venture.

CHRISTDHUKCH, Tuesday. Mr C. W. Turner has received a cable* Ki-am from King's Sound showing that the b.5. Triumph arrived there on Jnly 24, after a fine passage of 18 days. She sailed again for Newcastle and Lyttleltoa on Friday, July 30. A case of alleged ill-treatment by A pupil teacher ia reported from Nprth Canterbury. A girl ten years old, daughter of Mr T. Bird, of Rangiom Swamp;,was brought to the township, suffering from two large and deep-seated abscesses on the leg, caused, the father alleges, from a blow given by a pupil teacher at the school she had been attend*

DUNEDIN, Tuesday. The National Bank of New Zealand has declared a divident at the rate of 5 per cent, per annum for the half.year.

Wednesday. In the Divorce Court, the Judge decided that the petitioner's attendance was not required iv Mills v. Milk and Ferrier, and granted a decree niti, with costs against the co-respondent.

The fatality of impulsive hypercriti* cism, backed by dulness of perception and unadorned by intimacy with the refinements of the English language, sayi the New York Sun, is illustrated by thil remark of the Washington Critic: — "Oar esteemed contemporary the Sun closes ft warm, Gulf Strt am style of editorial on the sinking of the Oregon with the words— 'Peace to her ashes! 1 Anachronisms of this kind, have a tendency to excite suspicion in the minds of the members of a temperance society." Inasmuch as the \voi\l " anachronism " used here means #t an error of computing time," we presume that our contemporary really hoped to indicate some error of some sort in the phrase quoted in the Sun. If it it at a loss to know where to find the ashca of a steamer sunk by collision, we can give the neces-ary mfoimation. The ashes which should satisfy the scruplei of every intelligent critic were in tho furnace-mom. Among th< crjwd piesrnt at the panor. „i c battle of Gettysburg the Other e'-einmr was a ! ,>y about ]5 years of ape. lit liad Letm .nound him for about fifteen minuks when he began to weep. The fact Mas noticed, and directly ft gentleman haid— '• Ah ! poor lad! This painting- revues some episode of grief in his life. My boy, w liy do you Aveep ?" "' Ca—Ca— cause, sir ! " was the broken reply as I) is tears fell faster. "Does the sight of thus battle move j on ?" "Y — yes ! " Did your lather lay down his life down on tbh field?" "No." "Lo-e a brother Kiiote '! ' '• i\'o." " But you lost a lelation oi some t O it?" " "Not -not that I know of," " Theu it must be the bloody scenet which ovei conic you poor child." "No — no, &ir. 1 come in heie on the money which dad gave me to buy molasses with, and ithaj) just struck me that the whole Uuion Army can't stop him from givin'me .1 bitTi uwful whaliu' wht-n I git home. I reckon that teller o\ er tliuie on a stretcher is me — after dad <,')ts Unoiigh brmgin' up his leserves !" — Defcioifc Fine Press. Nath\xicl Hawthokxe's Youthful Asri ration's — " The secret of the young >nan's> obauicter," as he himself autobiomuphii'aliy observes in " The Ambitioui (iiie&t,'' " u is a high and abstracted ambition. He emild have borne to live an midi-tintguished life, but not to be forgotten in the grave. Obscurely as he journeyed now, a glory was to beam on all bis pathway —though not, perhaps, while he wa3 treading it. But posterity should confess that a gifted one had passed from the cradle to the tomb with nono to recognise him." Allowing for artistic emphasis, this expressed Haw»thorne's early aspirations. He did not covet a quick and cheap success — staret and shouts and greasy night-caps tossed in the air ; but lie wished to be so spiritually great that after he was gone the world should awake to a comprehension of his greatness. Me wanted to win the prize in the night, as it were, and be off before anybody was up to congratulate him. He did not wish his struggles, his anxieties, tbe sweat of his brow to be visible. Let it be said only that a spirit once visited the earth, and worked wonders there, and vanished before any were aware of him. — Century Magazine. Cheddar Cheese. —According to Professor Sheldon, the Cheddar system of cheese making is more in accordance with scientific principle than any other system practised in these countries. In America and Canada, Russia and Australia, it is the system generally adopted. Its two distinctive features are the regulation of temperature 1 and the systematic development of acidity in the curd. Acidity, in fact, is the keystone of the arch ; and while it is intentionally and intelligently employed in the Cheddar system to a de« gree which is not found in any other, it ia really an important agent in many other systems. Into the making of Stilton cheese it enters ; because the curd is left fora day unpressed, to drain, during which it sours more or less ; in the Cheshire system, where the curd is vatted and put into an oven for a night, also unpressed ; and also in the Derbyshire system, where the newly formed cheese is salted only on the outside, and not salted at all until the following morning. One essential distinction mnst, however, be noted, namely, that in the latter systems the degree of aciduous development is accidental and irregular, while in the Cit'ddtir method it is regulated and ■•o trr<>ll<> I to a nicety. This acidity is fiio-^t. beneficial when developed iv the ctrd attnr the w hey has been removed, the curd being kept waim and properly aerated at the same time. In such weilhaudled cheese the incipient vstage of ripening is set np as the acidity is produced,Tand the subsequent processes, of pressing and drying are easily per* fora-ed ; but where the proper degree of I nudity has not beev\ obtained at the pre- ; ciae stage necessary, ail the remaining ! operations go wroug, the produce being dry, hard, crumbly, and deficient ia quality and flavour. The ripeuiug of the milk ia mossc important, and particularly in cjM weather. Gentle warmth, is nefessary for ripening ; hence in the variable autumn time the milk sometimes goes wrong. Tho giaml principle to the Cheddar system of cheese- makin»— which by the way, probably the best system the world knows— consists in the i ipening- which the curd gets after separating it from the whey, and before salting and pressing it. This result is attained by a careful system of warmth and teration, which is assiduously observed in accord-nice* with the principles above de« fined — The Magnet. Messrs W J. Hurter and Co will offer for sale, at Ohaupo on the 10:h, a thoire lot of dairj COWS, tko property oi Mr Bernard Colem*a.