SATURDAY, AUG. 21, 1886.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2203, 21 August 1886, Page 2

SATURDAY, AUG. 21, 1886.

The suppliers of the Waikato Cheese Factory are evidently determined that that promising industry shall not die. It is idle to think of carrying on the company on the old basis, for several obvious reasons, and we are glad to see that the suppliers are taking up Mr S»varbrick's scheme so warmly. That the factory will pay, and pay handsomely, under the new conditions proposed there can be no reasonable doubt. It will start fair, unhampered with a heavy burden of debt, and not liable to have the whole of its profits swallowed up in interest and discount. In order to this happy state of affairs, it is of course necessary that the original shareholders shall lose fifteen shillings for every pound invested in the company, but as, if the company were wound up compulsorily, they would in all probability be in a worse position, they are, in consenting to the proposed arrangement, really only choosing the lesser of two evils. They are the victims of bad — or perhaps we ought to say unfortunate management, but there is no use crying over spilt milk.

The Gazette of Thursday contains a notification proclaiming Cambridge a borough. The residents are to be congratulated on the success of their efforts, and we venture to predict that the change will prove most beneficial. With the larger powers conferred by the Municipal Corporations Act, the town will now be able to do a omit deal which it has hitherto boon prevented from doing. The need for a water supply has long been felt, and we may expect that this and oth^r matters will now be earnestly taken in hand.

Mr H. Goodfel'ow. Te Awamutu, h is been i^a -.cUed .1 .)u>tico of the Poace. The San Francisco mail is due in Auckland to-day.

The Rev. R. G. Boler of Te Awamutu xv ill \i.\y Ins usual quarterly Msit to tho Jiagl.m district begininß on Thursday next.

Te Whiti has sent an empty eggshell to a Wanganui chief. The signification of the present, is supposed by some to bo akin to that of the historic potato.

The Colonial and Indian visitors to th^EiiJbib^tUw^Ppear to be having a Broo<l tune of 'it. - Thej.; h.»v« been totod by all the notables iv <4rest Britnin, and now a large party al?o "doing" Ireland. George .Harcbiirt, a well-known 'commission fyjent ftt the Thames recently iev.wjtpd, Irvine Jhi* books in a very un""Sutitrfactnry condi|tion. At the instatico of one of the milling companies, Harcourt, Who had gona trt Sydney, has been arrested lit that place, and the famous Detective Doohin will proceed there by the Alameda, to brinff the wanderer back.

A painful accident happened at Cambridge yestord.iy tto , the youngest daughter of Mr T. Walls. She fell, while playing, on a glass dish, and cut her forehead very severely. A mesaage wits ,ient to her father just at the noon adjourn inent of the court. Mr Wells has toned home, got a buggy, and. drove for Dr. Wuddington, * who strapped the wound, and the patient is now doing well.

Mr Dargaville s constituents in City West are much exorcised oa the subject of his action during the lute session. One section is getting up a requisition asking him to re.sign, while another is preparing an address expressive of their continued esteem and confidence. Meantime ths honourable gentleman has got his hands full with the unnmployed, whom ho hao engdged to meet at the City Hull to-night, tor the purpose of convincing them that he has all along acted in their interests.

A service of song entitled " The Path of Lite," was Riven in Trinity Wesley.m Church, Hamilton, on Tuesday evening. The attendance was not large. The narrative was read by the Key. J. Dellow, and was illustrative of the various stages in the Christian life. The musical portion of the programme, under the conduct of Mi' Meaunoni, formed the larger part of the service, and in this the Misses Salmon, Campbell, Cox and K# Salmon acquitted themselves admirably in the solo and diifets, and the chorus singing passed otf smoothly and well.

The football match, New South Wales v. Waiknto, will be played on Sydney Square, Hamilton, on Wednesday afternoon next. Particulars will be found in another part of this issue. Mr Hudson, with commendable promptitude, has acceded to the request of the football committee to run special trains to Te Awamutu, Te Aroha, and Huntly on the evening of that day, so as to enable visitors from those districts to mmj the match and return home the same day. A requisition to the Mayor is being got up in Hamilton, asking him to proclaim a half holiday on Wednesday, and this will doubtless be done.

The immigration and emigration returns for July are as follow : — Arrivals : — From United Kingdom, 330 ; New South Wales, 28<>; Victoria, 130; South Australia, 2 ; Tasmania, 41 ; other places, 111 ; total, 900. Departures : To Unitod Kingdom, 2o5) ; New South Wales, ZM ; Victoria, 476 ; Western Australia, 2ol) ; Tasmania, 38-; other places, 105); total, 1(584. The arrivals were as follows : — Auckland, 501 ; Wellington, 127 ; Napier, 1 ; Lyttelton, 3; lhinedin, 5)8; Invercargill, 165); total, 5)00. The departures were : Russell, 2; Auckland, 4U> : Wellington, 4(50; Napier, (5 ; (rreymouth, 3 ; Lyttelton, 208 ; Dunedin 2 ', Invercargill, W2 ; total, 1084.

We are glad to see the Christmas musical treat so kindly provided by the choir of St. Peter's, Hamilton, and their friends for the past few years will be repeated next Christmas. Our readers will see elsewhere that intending assistants are requested to meet the choirmaster on next Thursday, the only available evening dining the week, when the music will be put in rehearsal and arrangements will be made for the most suitable nights for practice. The entertainment will consist of selections from Handel's Messiah and Mendelsohn's Athalie, and in the second part of carols, of which latter we learn there are many dug out of the disused mines of antiquity We can confidently anticipate a genuine good musical evening from our recollections of the last entertainments of the sort.

The following circular, dated Sydney, August 7, 1880, has been forwarded by Mr W. Flemming, ohainnan of the South Pacific; Petroleum Company, to the shareholders :—": — " Your directors have much pleasure in informing yon tjiat »t a depth of 1140 feet a band of payable oils and, from 50 barrels (200 gallons) per day, has been struck and when another six or ten feet is bored the yield may be larger. Further operations have been suspended until the arrival of the necessary appliances for pumping and tanks for storage of the oil, which have been ordered from San Francisco. A supply of -11-inch drive pipe is also being procured, tins latter being required to easo the bore. The tanks ordered are the ones usually used in America, and have a total capacity of 1000 barrels (40,000 gallons) which tho directois deom sufficient to demonstrate the permanency of tho supply. Pumping should commence early in November.

The Agnews, man and wife, who have been pestering the life out of the members of Parliament during the past two sessions of Parliament, have nt length got into trouble. Some t ; r ,c ago they were forbidden to enter the gi.mnds of the Parliament buildings, and t-ince then they have taken up their station at the gate. A few days ago Agncw u.sed threats towards tho Premier, and as it was reported ho had purchased a revolver it was thought advisable to place him under arrest. He was broughti up ;tt the R.M. Court, Wellington on Thursday, and ordered to find .sureties to keep the peace for three months. He refused to find the bail and accordingly went, !to gaol. The Agnews' grievance is in connection with some homestead land which they allege they were unlawfully dispnsiesM;d of. The facts of the case wore fully repotted in these columns some time ago.

The floods in the South Island are the mo*>l disastrous that has been experienced for many years. The Taieri Plain, south of Diuiediu i.s reported to be covered with water for many miles. Further information show> that the Me-wrs Hay's homestead at Pigeon Bay, near Lyttleton Avas actually swept into the sea by the landslip. The damage is estimated at about £8000. The Eyre River in North Canterbury has overflowed, and done considerable clamaffp. At Dunedin on Thursday the sea rollinp into the harbour was so heavy the sailing of the Waihora and the Arawata was delayed. At Oamaru the sea was tremendous, and some damage was done to the breakwater, -a work which, since its commencement, ten or twelve years ago has successfully resisted the force of the waves. Much damage has been done to the railway lines in various parts of the island, and communication in many places ia stopped.

Mr T. C Williams, a great philoMaori, who every now and then writes column after column of advertisement in the N.Z. Times, in order to prove how wickedly the natives are being treated, has in a late issue of that paper eclipsed all his previous efforts. His letter concludes with the following paragraph :— " In the interests of the high majesty of the Supreme Courts of the Empire aforesaid and following, in the interests of the hundreds of thousands now dwellers in New Zealand, and the unborn millions hereafter to dwell in New Zealand, I demand that Te Whiti and his fellows should be forthwith released, and Her Majesty's representative with his Ministers and their Attorney-General and Crown Prosecutor take their place ; or that the trial of Te Whiti and his fellows bo proceeded with, judgment to be deferred till such time a« there hhall have been a fair, full, and thorough investigation into the truth of what I charge against the Government as aforesaid, and which I am prepared to prove. If this be done, then a great stain may be removed fiom the character of the Go 'eminent and colonists of New Zealand ; if otherwise, then perish truth and honour from this young and fair land. Let the dwellers in New Zealand cease their faicical praying and singing, and let the loving mothers of New Zealand devote themselves to nursing, cherishing, and fondling up a nation of ' Blacklegs.' "

Of our woollens at Home, the Westmoreland Gazette" of a recent date bays of the Colonial Exhibition :— One of the most interesting exhibits from the point of view of aKendalian at the above Exhibition i.s that made by the Kaiapoi Woollrn Manufacturing Company, Christchurch, New Zealand. It consists of tweeds, costume cloths, flannels arid shirting-, blankets, iailway rugs and mauds, shawls, tartan cloth, can iage clothe, kerspy sheetings, saddle series, &P. The tweeds are, as a rule, such as arc known in the trade a.> Scotch goods, though there aie amongst them .some of the heavily milled whipcords, as made m the West of England for huntincr purposes, extremely duiable and almost impervious to water. As nothing but pure wool is used, there is a con-sequent bright-

noas of fibre in the manufactured article. Neither shoddy nor noils nre used in Newr - ZeaUnd, while it is very difficult to get any English good* without a mixture of one or the other. The flannels are notable for •their superfine quality, which is most eaiiijy/seun in the white goods. Railway r,ug.s,*iid mauds are of the .same wake a* those how popular in the English market, Jntroducßd to Kendal mills by Mr Lcithhead, by whose wtforts they retained their popularity during the time he remained hen;. The designs are lighter in colour and more handsome than similar go ids in use in the England, the- brighter atmosphere of New Zealand permitting the use of lighter shades.