The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE. SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1887.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2289, 12 March 1887, Page 2

The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1887.

Ki|»al :iml exact justice to all men, 01 whatsoever state or persuasion, religious or political.

Races will be Held at Ngaruawahia on Faster Monday. The Waipa Racing Club will hold their winter meeting on the 24th May. The Auckland City Council have decided not reintroduce the C. D. Act. A boy named Stemming, 12 years of age, was drowned in the Avon, at Christchurch, yesterday. A very successful concert and dance took place at Tauwhare. last night. A report will appear in our next. Mr Samuel Vaile addressed a meeting at Cambridge last evening, a report of which we are compelled to hold over. A cablegram states that the German Army Bill was carried in the Reichstag by an overwhelming majority. The annual outing of the railway employe's will be held this year at Tamaki, instead of at some point on the line as heretofore. The excursion takes place to-day-The Doric arrived at Hobart yesterday morning. Amongst the passengers were His Excellency Sir R. G. C. Hamilton, the new Governor, and his family. Owing to extreme pressure on our space, letters to the Editor and numerous items of local and general interest are unavoidably held over. The concluding portion of our Raglan correspondent's report upon the Whaiugaroa Hot Springs will be found in our supplement. A social gathering in aid of the Catholic Church funds will be held in the Town Hall. Kihikihi, on Thursday next (S. Patrick's Day). The Te Awamutu Band will be in attendance. The Harvest Thanksgiving service will be held in S. Stephen's Church, Tamahere, to-morrow at 3 p.m. The church has been most tastefully decorated for the occasion. The choir will be assisted by the choir of S. Peter's, Hamilton. The Whaingaroa Road Board notify their intention of petitioning the Government to enlarge the Whaingaroa joad district by takingin and adding thereto fthe southern portion of the Te Akau road (district. A cricket match, Cambridge vOhaupo, will be played at Ohaupo co-day. The Cambridge team will consist of the following :—Messrs Longbottom, Wilson, Greatoatoh, Gaudin, Park, Porter, Parry, Richardson, Bull, Garland and Forrest. A private telegram received by a Melbourne firm from London, states that the wool market is strong, and that as many as 32,000 bales have- been sent to Yorkshire. This happening during the intervals of the sales shows a healthy demand. Retrenchment is the order of the day at Wellington. From a telegram received last night we learn the duties of examiner of private bills have been added to those of the Clerk of Parliaments, thereby effecting a saving of £150 a year. The Underwriters' Association have resolved, in consequence of the late fire at Wellington and the failure of the water suppy, to considerably increase the rate of premiums on wooden buildings in business blocks in the city. Justice Johnstone will probably delivei judgment in the Appeal Court on Hall's case. The Chief Justice left Wellington for the Wosc Coast yesterday morning, and this leads to the conclusion that a unanimous decision has been come to on the matter. An important item in the Ruapehu's cargo is 80 cases cheese, which have been sent from Auckland to Rio de Janeiro. At that place a good demand exists for cheese, and should the present shipment prove remunerative, no doubt the Waikato factories will take advantage of that market. On Thursday next, (S. Patrick's Day), Saturday return tickets will_ be issued from any station to any station, available for return on the ISth. A special train will leave Frankton for Te Awamutu at 10.35 a.m., connecting with the trains from Te Aroha and Cambridge, returning from Te Awamutu at G. 15 p.m.

The NZ. Shipping Company's steamer Ruapehu left Auckland on Thursday, for England direct. She takes 93G3 frozen sheep and G079 frozen lambs, of which 2177 sheep and 5209 lambs are from Auckland, valued at over £4500. The value of the kauri gum shipped at Auckland is £12,000, and the total value of the Auckland portion of her cargo is £22,300. We learn by telegraph that the Maori Parliament at the Bay of Islands has resulted in resolution to maintain the Treaty of Waitangi; also that Ihaka Hakueno be requested during next session to move that the Representation Act, 1867, be repealed, and move in place thereof "That a Maori Protection Bill be introduced." The committee of the Tauwhare Annual Sports have advertised their programme for Easter Monday. Last year they were well attended, and this year should be no exception to the rule as most liberal prizes are offered. A band is announced to be in atteudonce, and refreshments will be provided at the Tauwhare Hotel. The Native Land Court at Cambridge still drags along at a very slow pace. Every one connected with it seems to be thoroughly tired of it, and will be glad when it is over. A great many of the natives must have committed perjury. Indeed there was talk a day or two ago of taking proceedings against and well-known chief, but nothing was done. A huge iron reservoir is heing built at a remote spot in the outer harbor of Amsterdam for the storage of petroleum. It will be nearly 33 feet in diameter and of the same depth, and is calculated to hold nearly 1,740.000 gallons. The petroleum will be brought direct from Russia in vessels specially constructed. A great crisis has come about in the Russian sugar trade, and a special commission has been sitting on the subject. The Government has given such an impulse to overproduction by bounties and emoluments that a large number of sugar manufacturers cannot now place all their stocks on the foreign market and are threatened with complete disaster and ruin. A correspondent writes: — The members of the Hamilton Tennis Club have been labouring under a misapprehension regarding the match to be played on the 17th inst Cambridge sent them a challenge, but have not agreed, and I expect will not, to play the match at Hamilton, the last match having been played there. It is also premature to announce that the North Shore Club intend visiting Cambridge, nothing definite having been settled. v /'When in Auckland this week the Mayor of Hamilton waited on the Minister of Lands, and laid before him the case of the Wailcato Hospital Board. Mr Graham pointed out the peculiar hardships under which we suffered in having no funds wherewith to erect a hospital building, &c. Mr Ballauce admitted the force of Mr Graham's arguments, and strongly advised him to proceed to Wei lington to see the Premier, to whose department the matter belonged. It is probable that this advice will be followed.

The Journal des Fabricants de Sucre, November 23, states that the absence of that pressure to sell beet sugar which had been looked forward to with more or less anxiety has given more confidence to the trade, and business to a much larger extent would have been done but for the high rates demand. White No. 3 was worth 32.50 frs. at Paris, against 47.37 Vin 1885, and 41.25 in 188!!, and the visible simply in K'irope and America, Cuba included, was 711,704 tons, against 803,479 in 188(1, being 151,717 tons less.

Only 24 years have elapsed since the first publication of a political journal in Japan, and now it has its Daily Times (Jiji Shimbun), its Daily Nows(Nichi Shimbun), and its Government Gazette (Choya Shimbun). The Japanese Times has correspondents in London, Paris, and Berlin, and each of the daily papers has organised a good reporting staff, and has adopted the American system of interviewing public characters. Tokio supports two monthly magazines, besides half a dozen illustrated papers. Two of the leading reviews are printed in the Roman character.

Mr John Grigs: has practically finished the ingathering of an abundant harvest at Longbeach, the only grain standing out of a total of 4000 acres being about 40 acres of barley. Reaping commonced about the beginning of this month, and to keep pace with the rapidity with which die crops ripened this reason, no less than thirty-seven reapers and binders were put into work. Besides the other necessary operations in connection with so large a harvest, 10,000 bushels of the wheat have already been sold and delivered. Messrs Gould and Cameron, Methven, have a record very little behind Mr Grigg, harvested their grain crop of about 2500 acres in twenty working days.—Lyttelton Times.

The Societe d'Encouragements. at Paris, offers a prize of 1,000 to 3,000 frs. for a transmission of power over large distances. Also a prize of 5,000 frs. for a 25 to 100 horse-power motor using not over G kilogs. steam per horse an hour at continuous work, and which has been tried for at least six months, the simplest and cheapest machine to take the prize ; also a 3,000 frs. price for an apparatus indicating at a distance of temperature of a heated room ; it must be simple in construction, of moderate cost, and the degrees of heat to be simply read off from a scale without requiring any special manipulation. Where there's a will there's a way. The Rev. Mr Paterson last night told a story in his sermon illustrating the foregoing adage. A dying man sent for a lawyer to make his will. There was neither paper nor pencil, pen or ink in the house. The lawyer asked for a piece of chalk, and with it wrote the will on the hearthstone which was duly signed, witnessed, and eventually proved. Mr Paterson's congregation did not pay much attention to i the rest of the sermon, for they were puzzling out how the dying man signed the will. Was he dragged out of bed and laid flat on the floor nose downwards, or was the hearthstone lifted and dumped on the bed? The general conclusion was that the story was a little too thin.—Napier Telegraph. The Greymouth Star makes the following remarks in reference to the state of the labour market in that district: —" It is high time a warning note was sent to other parts of the colony regarding the present state of the labour market hero. Attracted, doubtless, by the commencement of the Midland railway, a large number of workmen have arrived in our midst, and, as a consequence,- there is a great dearth of employment. We do not think it is any exaggeration to say that there are at least one hundred unemployed ablebodied men in the town of Greymouth, while at Brunner the number is equally large. Notwithstanding this, men still keep corning in small but constant streams. Unless this is stayed, a great deal of hardship must ensue in the coining winter, for the work will rather diminish than increase."

Australia has a ladV editor in the person of Agnes McDonald, of the Sunny Corner Free Press; but the experiment in journalism does not appear to be quite successful. At the Bathurst District Court recently the fair editress was sued for £200 damages for libellous statements published concerning Sarab Ann Holmon. The judge, in giving a verdict for £100 and costs, said that the libel was a mere string of ungrammatical abuse, and he was glad to hear defendant say she had not written it, for if she had it was a libel on the name of woman. As editress she had shown negligence in permitting the paragraphs and articles to appear. It was shown in the evidence that a quarrel had arisen between Agnes and Mary Ann out of some amateur theatricals, in which plaintiff and defendant were rivals. Feminine jealousy will prove the deathbed to the employment of ladies as editors.

The committee of the Cambridge District School intend putting into force the compnlsary clauses by which all children between the ages of 7 and 13 will be compelled to attend school, or their parents or guardians will have to show good cause why they should not. This has been freely discussed by the townspeople lately, and it is no doubt owing to it that the attendance has suddenly increased from 209.5 last week to 221.G this week—of course not including Monday, on which the Garden Fete was held. The number on the roll is 281, and if the average keeps up to anything like its present state, there must certainly be an addition of one—and we think there ought to be two—assistant teachers. The Cambridge master has only four assistants, and yet there are schools in the province where the attendance is about half that of Cambridge, and five assistants are allowed. Why should this be?

Hop statistics compiled in Munich in November show that the world's production of hops in ISBO has been 1,823,700 cwts. of 50 kilogs., toward which Germany contributed a good average crop of 023,900 cwts. German consumption being 364,000 cwts., there will remain 259,000 cwts. to be exported. The Austrian crop was 97,G00, that of Belgium 114,000, and France 42,000, while in England 025,000 cwts. were secured. The European crop being about a good average, all would be satisfactory but for the partial failure in the United States, where consumption amounts to 250,000 cwts. at the lowest, and production in 188G has not exceeded 230,000. While the world produced, as has been stated 1,823,700 cwts., its consumption for the year is estimated at 1,055,000, leaving an excess of production of 108,700 cwts., or about 10 per cent. Instead ef exporting to P]ngland, as the United States usually do, they will be importers this campaign.

No wonder the American sheep farmer (says the Echo) opposes all suggestions of reductions in the wool tariff, if, as Mr J. L. Bowes, of Liverpool, states, he gets more than half as much again as he would receive for his wool if there were no duty on imported wool. Mr Bowes has been comparing a number of different sorts of wool and the prices of the same or similar qualities in England and in New York, and he finds that the average price of American wool in grease is 09 per cent, higher in New York than that of a corresponding quality is in England. American manufacturers, however, lose far more than the sheep farmers gain, for five out of six qualities of American scoured wool cost them from 80 to 182 per cent, more than scoured wool of equal quality and costs the English manufacturer. For instance, before the recent raise in prices, Autumn-shearing Texas wool was worth 5.50 cents a pound in New York when cleansed, whereas cleansed wool of corresponding quality—cost in England 23.4 cents a pound. One reason of the great difference is that foreign wool imported to America is sent in the grease in order to preserve it, and the duty of ten cents a pound has to be paid on grease and dirt. The result is said to be that for every pound of usable scoured wool the duty amounts to from 20 to 25 cents.

" Puff," in the Press, writes :— "Canadian Pacific Railway Company projecting a 29 days' service from Liverpool to Brisbane and New Zealand! Won't that cut out our direct service? No, I don't see how it can ! Even if they get to Brisbane in 29 days, which is doubtful, it will be close on 39 days before they get to New Zealand, so there'll be no saving of time worth speaking of, to compensate the disadvantages of three changes and the long railway journey through a cold country ! That'strue, but for people who are not particular to a few days, it will be a very pleasant alternative route! Oh, yes, and if the present traffic were merely to be divided between the two, it would be a poor look out for both ! But it's only reasonable to expect that the Pacific Company's service will bring its own traffic, and probably increase the traffic by our direct lines too ! Yes, it's wonderful how the traffic grows with the means of accommodating it! There used to be only the P. and 0., besides sailing ships ! Now there are the I*. and 0., the Orient, the Messageries, the German line, the San Francisco, the New Zealand Shipping Company, the Shaw-Savill. and several other steam lines ! Yet they all seem to be pretty full, and more are wanted ! Wait till the Panama Canal is opened ! Then you'll see things jump, in the snipping line ! It will be like moving Australasia to where America was fifty years ago."

It his Dunedin speech, Sir Robert Stout lectured the people of the cobny upon the subject of economy, and said that the country "must try to do without any borrowing at all in 1887." For this bold, uncompromising, non-borrowing speech, the Premier has received a large amount of credit, as a man who knows when to put his foot down firmly. There are people who make a distinction between black and white lies. Whether the Premier is one of them, we are not prepared to say, but his morality seems to be of a kind that allows occasionally of a very rigid economy of truth. Unfortunately for Sir Robert, Mr Bryce is a man who has little respect for those who sail under false colors, or who pretend to virtues that they have not. Consequently, in his Waverley speech, the member for Waitotara did not shrink from letting the country know how the Premier

had tried to humbug them. When Sir Robert told his Dunodin audience that the country " must try to do without any borrowing at all in 1887." he knew well— even while tho plaudits of his admirors were ringing in his ears—that there was no occasion to borrow, as his Government had made amplo provisions last session, in the matter of loans, to carry them over two years. A clever man is Sir Robert. He is about as smart, and as moral politically, as his colleague, Sir Julius. The one first borrows enough for two years, and then heroically proclaims that ho will try to do without borrowing in the second year. The other grabs aud spends all the accumulated sinking fund, and then at the end of the year boasts that he has effected a greater saving in expenditure than his predecessor did. To understand these gentleman aright, it will be necessary in future to study their speeches a3 business men have becomo accustomed to study testimonials—by reading between the lines, and noting particularly what is left unsaid. If ever these high functionaries have to go into the witness box, they must feel a pecular sensation creeping over them when they promise to tell " the whole truth."— Wanganui Chronicle. The following is a copy of the petition re the abattoirs forwarded to the Hamilton Borough Council last night, but not received. It is signed by eighty ratepayers •—To His Worship the Mayor and Councillors of the Borough of Hamilton. Gentlemen : I having come to our knowledge that your council is about to lend to a syndicate the sum of £1000 out of the £GOOO loan lately raised, we the undersigned ratepayers earnestly pray that before disposing of so large a sum your council will cause a poll to be taken of the burgesses, as we have every reason to believe that the majority of the ratepayers are dissatisfied with the arrangement. We are &c.