AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2244, 25 November 1886, Page 2

AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

Equal and exact justue to all men, Of whatsoever state 01 persuasion, religious or |)olttnal.

TL-lURSDAY, NOV. '25,1880.

Our Auckland morning contemporary in his Tuesday's issue commences a leading article in these words :—": — " The rapid growth of towns — so characteristic of the present day — is a good or bad tiling, according to the surrounding circumstances — unnatural, and therefore unsafe, if out of proper balance with the rural population behind ; but if in right proportion then affording new and great sources of employment and wealth. Now that the good work of rural settlement is being vigorously pushed on here, is zealously promoted on all hands, both by Government and private iudividuiH, we can congratulate ourselves on the development in view for our city of Auckland." How fiithf ully the Herald reflects contemporary city ideas. Population is everything, the condition of the population is quite a secondary matter. But what is the use of a rural population if it be not prosperous 1 It is downright hypocrisy to assert that the rural concerns of this province are prosperous. They are nothing of the kind. Not because the country, or any part of it is deficient in natural advantages, but because it has beeu shamefully and shamelessly neglected by the very people who calmly assume that the city population is in " proper balance with that of the country. It is farcical to talk of " vigorously pushing" forward .settlement, when we see no efforts put forth to extend the markets for rural produce, when wo find the loose coin of the colony — and it is not muchtogether with as much as can be borrowed from the English capitalist, filtered away in the vain attempt to bolster up rotten city industries, while the products of tho soil, which ought to ba the chief as they are the natural articles of export trade, are lost sight of. What is the use of talking about rural settlement in the face of the Freezing Company Jlaseo, the union of rings to crush out the Co-opera-tive Society, and the beet sugar industry, and last, but not least, the quiet determination to overthrow the scheme for slaughtering cattle in Waikato? Where is the good of the city man talking complacently about the progress of rural settlement, if he never does a hand's turn to help it 1 Of what use can it be to him or to anybody else ? It is perfectly nauseating to hear Aucklanders talk about the settlement of the country, when we know how little they do towards making the settlement a success. Just now the eyes of the people are turned towards the Panama Canal, and they are indulging in bright visions of future prosperity. Let them take heed while it is yet day. First port of call or last port of call, Auckland will never be able to reap the full advantage of the new highway unless her rural industries are prosperous, she can do much to make them so. It is ridiculous to talk of tilling up big Panama liners, so Ion" as we see scoria lowered into the hold of every little barque that comes into port — so long as we see ships like the Tongariro asking for meat and getting a stone !

Spkakin"(l about the export of live cattle to Sydney the other clay wo remarked that, though prices were at present too low to admit of a profit, the opportunity would occur again. In a letter of the 27th ulto., Mr W. H. Graves, the cattle-sales-man of Sydney, writes to Mr Newton King, of Taranaki, as follows t— l am well up in the subject, and in a position to judge ; and I feel conviiued that next winter, whoever lives to see it, will lind cattle quite as dear as they have been this winter; and 1 would most strongly recommend that you make previous and early arrangements to commence shipping about April and May." It would bo well, therefore, for those interested to be on the alert.

Only a few small debt cases were disposed of at the lI. M. Court, Hamilton, yesteiday. According to the British Board of Trade leluvns of ]SB.">. out of 700,000,000 railway pas-^en^is m tut yew, only hix were killed 111 accidents mi tli > lines. The English cricket team now playing in Australia, l> iw abandoned the tour of New Zealand, on account of the terms for niatche-. a-Acd by the various associations Luing i oividered too high. Yet another attempt to revive crickiit at Cambridge ! Tho indofatiar-iblc secrclaiy (Mr .1. Lon^boUoin), is on the wai path" with a, subscription list, and we loam i> doing good business. Mrs Murray has resigned her position as a-.si-.tant teacher .it the Hamilton West School. In accepting her resignation, the .Education liourd ha\e moulded tlioir appreciation of her work during the past nine years,

Messrs W. J. Hunter and Co. held n very successful sale nf horsos, &c., at (he Commercial Hotel yards, Hamiltoii, jeteidav. There was a \ery l.neo altend tn r nf buyers, and most of the lots submittr 1 found buyers. The following will represent Hamilton against Paterangi on Saturday next, play to commence at 10 o'clock in Mr Gei matin's paddock : -Messrs Mai ton, Beile, Bindon, Byng, McQninn, Muti.iy, Pi.itt, K.uifoid, Sandes, Stesens, Yon Stm m<?i. Emergencies: Dockery, Joe Radfoid, Sage. The following tenders were received by Mr Richardson, architect, on Tnesd iy, for crrectmpr a house at Liehh'eld for Mt Fieeman. Carpenter's laliour: — W. Hogan, (accepted) £3,"); Ji. Caiter and Co., £37: C Ko,in-jty, £44; J. 1). Arnaboldi, £1(5; P. Murphy, £4<> fis ; (4. Smerdon, £4!); K. lyerr, £4!) l»s W. MoFareane, £54 15*. Pointer's Liibour: H. Davies, (accepted) £1918s.

A week or two ago a Melbourne District Court menial went up to the reporter's box and said to one of the scribes, " Mis Honour desires me to state that he is very much dUs itisfied with the report which appeared in your paper this morning." "Tell his Honour," said the reporter in a voice loud enough to be heard generally " that I am very much dissatisfied with the judgment he gave yesterday." His Honour snot ted.

We would draw attention to the very liberal programme issued by the Matamata Racing Club for the club's annual race meeting on the 28th December next, advertised in another column. The money offered will no doubt bring together a number of good horses to contest the races, and should the weather prove favourable for an outing the excursion tram is sure to convey a large concourse of people to Matamata.

The Waipa Racing Club have issued the programme for their summer meeting, which takes place on Saturday, 2flth January next. The principal e\ent is the Te Awamutu Cup (handicap) of .OOsovs, beside* which there are the Handicap Hurdles of 35sovs, the Maiden Plate, the Kihikihi Plate, and the Novel Race of 30 sovb each, finishing up with a Maori Race of ssovs. Nominations for all handicaps are to be sent in to the secretary on the 10th January.

In turning over a mass of old letter*, and telegrams received during the last thirty yeirs by the gicat publishing house of Ricordi, in Milan, a member of the firm recently came across the following: —" Venice, March 7th, 18")3, — Dear Ricordi—' La Traviata last night fiasco. Whose fault was it ? Mine or the singers ? I don't know ; time will tell.—Uiuseppe Verdi." In fact, the opera was received with derisive laughter. It fared little better in Paris, where the public and the pi-ess were equally hostile to it. Time, however, reversed the verdict.

The Honorable S. E Shrimski states that the rates in the town of Oamaru amount to 3& !)d in the £, and that if the borrowing goes on we may yet see them amount to 10-j in the £. The Honourable R. Campbell affirms that the people at Otimaiu have begun to talk of repudiating their liabilities and that the idea is " very popular in the town "; and he openly expreyed the opinion that for that reason, the Harb >ur Board would bo unable to raise a new loan if it were authorised. He adds that he think-, so badly of Oamaru securities th it he has ad vi&ed friends of his who hrld them to sell out at once.

The Native Lands Court at Cambridge closed yesterday. There ha\e only been a few succession cases put through. One laughable case occurred. A Maori, addressing: Mr Jas. Mackay, said, " Can they appoint a successor to a man when he is ali\e ?" Mr Mackay promptly answered, No ! Well, said the Maori, they have appointed my successor, and I am not dead ! Upon the case being looked into, it was found that the successor to the live man had been appointed in consequence of another Maoi iof the same name having died, and things getting mixed. The mistake was, of course, rectihed.

" Puff" in the Press says :—Dalley has refused the pout of Chief Justice of New South Wales ! Darley, not Dalley ! They're both < >.C, and both M.L.C., but very ditfeient men ! Darley is at the head of the bar at Sydney, an exceedingly able and polished man ! He would bo an ornament to the Bench in any country ! Why wouldn't he take the C.J.s ship? Because he's making a large fortune as a barrister, and he'll m xke a lot more now Sa'.onnns has become Chief Justice ! Who's Salouians ? Sounds like one of the chosen people ! Well, yes ! He's a queer looking little Jew, but a first-rate lawyer and a man of unimpeachable character ! It was a toss up between him and Dai ley, any way ! They make good Judges! Sir George Jessel for example ! Oh well, if you come at that, look at old Solomon ! His judgments are famous !

A correspondent writes: --A few nights ago a most daring breach of the law was committed at Whatawhata. Mr Corboy had five horses in one of his paddocks, securely fenced with posts and wire. On the night of the Bth inst. the barbed wire was cut through and the fence otherwise broken down, and one of the horses taken away. It appeals this horse had b'en raffled by Mr Arthur Wright at Whatawhata on the night of the 11th October last, and in a few days after he (Wright) gave over possession of the horse to Mr Corboy as the owner, in whose possession it remained until the above transaction took place. By some means the horse got into Wrights possession a second time, who had it shut up in Mr Dawson s stable for some d i.ys, and sold on the 17th inst., a purchaser being found in the person of Mr Dawson. Surely theie ought to be a case for the polic3 here, and steps taken to put a stop to this system of midnight maurauding.

In his opening remarks at the temperance meeting at Cambridge on Monday night, Ax-chdeacon Willis said there were many ways in which the cause of temperance could be helped by those who, from whatever cause, did not see their way to become total abstainers. He was present that evening as a non-abstainer, to show sympathy with the work abstainers wete endeavouring to accomplish. He missed a good many from the meeting that night and also on previous occasions, whose presence he would have valued for the sike of their sympathy, and he was sure there were others in the meeting who felt as he did. He thought the help of all was cUled for in this work, and that some selfsacrifice should be shown by all. If some people could do no more, they could at least spate an hour occasionally to attend a meeting of this kind. He thought however, most people could do more than this, and amongst other ways of helping, he instanced rules voluntarily adapted by persons he knew such as thesr. (1). To discourage the practice of toist-driuking ; (2). To drink no intoxicating liquois at hotels; (3). To dunk no intoxicating liquor except at regular me il hour-. There was also one other way in which all could help, namely, by resohing never to laugh at drunkenness in any shape. Speaking of the work of the New Zealand Alliance, he said its object was not to do away with the hotels, but to remove the stiong drink out of them.

The preliminary magisterial investigation into the charge of wilful murder preferred against John Caffrey and Heniy Albeit Perm was concluded on Tuesday afternoon at the Auckland Police Court, and the prisoners weie fully committed to take their tiial at the next criminal sittings of the Supreme Court on the charge of murder. A large number of witnesses weie examined, but the evidence generally had little direct bearing on the chaige. In answer to the usual inquiry after the evidence had been read to the piisoners, as to whether either desired to say anything, Catt'icy merely replied that he had nothing t-) say : Perm, however, made a short statement. He said he did not go to MrTayloi'a house to do harm to anybody, neither did he do harm to anybody, and he had nothing to do with the shooting. Tha prisoneis during the day presetved the demeanour which has hitherto characterised them, except that while the evidence was being read over Caff rey displayed more than usual interest, and Perm also listened with great attention. Both prisoners were greatly improved in appearance, having been pio vided with clean linen and clothing, and Perm had quite a smart appearance, wearing a bright red necktie. As usual, theie was a considerable ctowd in and around the Court, but it was not nearly so large as on previous occasions, and evidently the morbid curiosity which actuated people to rush in crowds to obtain a glimpse of these wretched men has to a considerable extent died out. —Herald.

Mr Vereker-Bindon is prepired to take in pupils as per advertisement. Those Who Toil and Simx.—Bicyclc-ridei-rf.