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Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2295, 26 March 1887, Page 2

Frozen meat has advanced in the London market id per lb. The betting on the University boat race is 11 to 8 on Cambridge. An extraordinarily rich goldfield has been discovered in British Columbia. It is on the cards that abattoirs are to be erected in Waikato shortly, but not at Hamilton. The London wool market is firm. At the sales on the 23rd, the catalogue comprised 9800 bales. It is stated that an attempt was made on the 24th to upset the train which conveyed the Czar to Gatschina. The cricket match, Cambridge v. Ohaupo, will be played on the ground of the former club to-day, commencing at 11 a.m. A cable message has been received stating that the steamship Triumph arrived at Rio on the Ist March, and had left again for London. The opening practice of the Hamilton Football Club will take place onSydney Square this afternoon at 3 o'clock. All players are requested to attend. We are pleased to learn that Mr Palmer's son, of Whatawhata, who was kicked by a horse the other day, is rapidly recovering from the accident. Mr D. Fallon, the successful tenderer for the Ngatira contract of the Rotorua railway, will be a passenger to Waikato to-day. He is arranging to put on a number of men forthwith. A cablegram dated London, March 23rd, states that another priest, Father Ryan, has been arrested in Ireland for refusing to appear as a witness in a case against a defaulting tenant. It is pleasant to record that the women of the Neatihaua tribe have forwarded a letter to Mrs T. B. Lewis, per Mr J. S. Master, condoling with her upon the death of her brother, the late Mr Simpson. The Gazette notifies that, in accordance with a request from the Prince of Wales, for subscriptions to the Imperial Institute, the postmasters throughout the colony are empowered to receive contributions. The Tuscaror'a Times observes that "The new rule to follow now in buying stocks is to buy 'em when they are low and sell when they are high, and watch your broker with a gunshot." It is rumoured that Mr F. C Germann will be a candidate for the representation of Waipa in the House of Representatives at the next general election provided Mr Lake retires. Mr Westby, the registrar of dogs for Cambridge, yesterday afternoon laid informations against a number of defaulters who have not obtained dog collars, and the summonses will be served to-day. Messrs A. Buckland and Co. held their Cambridge cattle sale on Thursday. 3000 sheep and a number of cattle were yarded. A few of the latter fetched fair prices, but none of the sheep were sold. In another part of this issue Mr Thos. B. Lewis returns thanks to those who so kindly assisted him in the search for his missing partner, the late Mr James Simpson, and who at and after the finding of the body lent their services. A very handsome and useful tennis racquet was yesterday afternoon presented by Mr W. F. Cook, the donor, to the champion lady player of the Cambridge Club. It was ornamented by a silver plate, upon which was the following inscription: " C.L.T.C., 1886 and 7. Secretary's prize, won by 33. M. Chambers." We learn that

the gentlemen are now going to have a tournament, as a match cannot be arranged with Hamilton. A thirty-four hours sitting of the House of Commons was brought to a close at 1.20 p.m. on Tuesday. The Parnellites and the Radicals stone-walled the Estimates, but finding that they were playing a losing game they ultimately gave in. An accident happened to the up train from Te Awamutu at Frankton yesterday. The engine got off the line at the points, taking one truck with it. No delay was experienced, however, as the Cambridge engine took on the train to Huntly. Mr James Service, in addressing a meeting of the Highland Society of London, advised that the colonies should bo treated in such a way as to retain their affection, when they would become buttresses of the Empire. The Auckland Art Gallery and Public Library will be opened with considerable ceremony to-day. Sir George Grey will deliver an oration on the occasion, and a choir under the leadership of Herr Schmitt will pive a number of vocal selections. The remains of the late Mr Thos. Usher, of Papakura, who was frightfully injured on the Waikato line last Tuesday evening, from the effects of which lie died, were interred in the Presbyterian cemetery, Auckland, on Thursday afternoon. As the deceased was a prominent Mason, there was a good representation of all the city and suburban lodges. The Maniototo (Otago) County Council have sent a circular to all the other county councils in the colony, condemning in pretty severe terms the circular from the Bruce Council on the subject of Hospital and Charitable Aid. The Maniototo Council regards the latter as an impertinence, and thinks the new Act should enjoy a fair trial. A prisoner named Douglas John Parsonage, formerly in the Telegraphic Department at Wellington, killed himself in Napier gaol on Thursday by knocking his head against the wall of his cell. He won a £160 dividend recently at a race meeting, and since then he has gone on periodical " bursts," which ended in delirim tremens. He was lodged in gaol on a charge of lunacy. We learn with regret that Mr A G. Hughes, chemist, of Cambridge, is about to leave that town for Auckland, having sold his business to Mr S. Ward, of Dunedin, who takes possession on Thursday next. It is the intention of a number of Mr Hughes's friends to present him with a testimonial previous to his leaving Cambridge. A meeting of the committee of the Cambridge Public Library was held on Thursday afternoon, when it was decided to spend £20 on new books, and £5 in replacing books that had been lost or were worn out. It was resolved to obtain the Fortnightly Review and Nineteenth Century in place of the Electic Review, and the secretary was authorised to have some necessary repairs carried out. We have received a letter commenting rather severely upon the Aroha News, but we cannot see that its publication would do any good. We shall be happy at all times to open our columns for the purpose of ventilating Te Araluv matters, but we do not think the letter in question can claim to come within that category. The writer and those who think with him have their remedy if they are dissatisfied with the present state of things. The Inspector-General of Police of Sydney has reported to the Immigration Department several cases of the abuse of the recently stopped food relief system. On Friday and Saturday five of the list of drunkards, upon being searched at the lockup, were found in possession of not only sums of money, but in each instance of two Government food tickets, which had been issued to them on the ground of their being " unemployed and without food."

An agitation is arising among the wheat growers of Victoria against the use of the four-bushel bag for holding grain. It is contended that it is too heavy, and that more work could be done, and done more easily, by adopting the American plan of small bags, weighing 1001b, rather than by the prevailing fashion under which a bag full of grain seldom weighs no less than 2601b. The movement is backed up by the Victorian agricultural press, the Fanners' Gazette urging that the matter should be taken up by the various agricultural societies, the grain merchants, and the Railway Commissioners.

The Nelson races took place on Thursday. The weather was fine. An accident happened to Allen Herd, the rider of Freebooter in the Handicap Hurdles, by falling on his head, through his horse stumbling, and liis recovery is doubtful. Orient won the race. Zulu won the District Hurdles, with Jilt second, and Dangerous third. The Selling Handicap was won by Bottler. Mr Mason's Spade Guinea won the Richmond Park Stakes, Rmnour second, and Smooth third. The Ladies' Purse was a gift to Teddy Yuille, and the Consolation Handicap fell to Mr Harvey's Fay.

We are sorry to hear of an accident which occurred to Mr Samuel Calder, of Whatawhata, yesterday, which for over two hours rendered him insensible. It appears that Mr Calder was engaged in felling a tree, which in falling struck another tree which lay across some branches, and in springing up caught him on his left shoulder, sending him into the air a height of 10 feet. In falling Mr Calder fell on his head, causing concussion of the brain. Br. March was imediataly sent for, and did all he could for the unfortunate gontleinan, who, we are pleased to say, is progressing favourably.

A German journal publishes a curious portrait of Prince Bismarck. " Bismarck," says the writer, "was an enigma when a child, and he is an enigma still. He never knows one day what he will do the next day, and for years past he has simply taken advantage of present circumstances in directing the affairs of Europe. The great source of his strength is the facility with which he changes his opinions, abandons his friends, coddles his enemies, and profits by the malice of one. the hatred of another, and the pride of a third, while he makes fools of them all. His conscience knows no scruple, and he expresses an equal passionate fondness for the Bible and the latest French bad novel."

On December 30, the usual weekly sermons was issued by Mr Spurgeon's publishers. A note appended thereto from the reverend gentleman runs as follows : — " This sermon commences the thirty-third volume of our sermons. It is a fit moment for grateful praise for their long continuance and for asking readers who have proprofited by them to spread them far and wide. What the Lord has blessed to some He will bless to many more. The preacher is recovering from serious illness, and sends his loving salutations to all his readers, wishing thetn a "Happy New Year." He hopes to be in his pulpit again as soon as he has recovered strength. Oh, that he might gain spiritual as well as physical vigor ! Will not his readers pray for this ? If sought, why should it not be received ? The present sermon leads the preacher to beg importunately for the daily prayers of his friends."

The Chinese are noted gourmets, and the young Emperor of China, the Pekin correspondent of the Debats tells us, lias as keen a relish for the pleasures of the table as any epicure in his dominion. Gastronomic taste varies with the latitude and lougitude more perhaps than any other: and the Emperor's notion of a good dinner is certainly not one that Bnllat-Savarin would have accepted. The Emperor insists on having " bear's paws, antelope's tails, ducks' tongues, torpedo eels' eggs, camel's hump, monkeys' lips, carps' tails, and marrowbones," served at his table every day in the year ; and, though the cordons bleus of the imperial kitchen tempt his appetite with an endless variety of supplementary dishes, it is on these that lie practically dines. They are esteemed the very choicest delicacies by all Celestial lovers of cheer, and have been from time immemorial.

A private letter from Woodville, received in Napier, contains the following:

—"I have been ap the ranges to see the new goldfield on the Raparapawai creek. I saw the prospector Nelson, and he told tne that he and his brother have been up the ranges eleven weeks. They have two claims, one on the Raparapawai, and one on the Oruahuataki creek. I have the authority of an experienced miner that there is no reason why the reports should not be correct, the stone giving every indication. There are several parties up this creek; one, McMahon's, is said to have struck very rich stone iudced. I went np the Raparapawai Creek for four or five miles, in which are very rough boulders and gorges in places. The claim is a small hole in the bank of the creek; the vein consists

of three to four feet of rotten black stone, with numerous small veins of white quartz; through the centre there is one foot of blue quartz and green stuff mixed, very rich in iron pyrites, with veins of gold in very fine round grains. About three quarters of a ton of stuff had been got out, which was to be sent to Auckland. I have no doubt the place is worth trying."

Says "Puff," in the Wellington Press : —" Stern discipline in the Volunteer Force ! Half the officers put the other half under arrest for mutiny ! The remainder formed into a Court Martial to try the lot ! I hear there's been an awful scene in the Defence Office ! Ballance and Whitniore wading in each other's gore ! Whitmore wanted to have all the officers in the Auckland corps shot by drum head platoons ! Jiallance would'nt consent to severe measures ! The most he'd do was six dozen apiece and branding with a big, big D ! Did Whitmore stand that ? No, lie ordered Ballance to the Guard Room for insubordination ! But Ballance told him he'd sack him and make Gudgeon a Field-marshal, so he thought better of it ! Then they there at it hamnier and tongs in the Middle Island too ! Tosswill's resigned, and the Lyttelton Times says Lean's the only officer who knows his duty ! Oh dear, oh dear, whatever shall we do ? The Russians may como any minute, and New Zealand's totally unprepared for war !"

Mr E. Y. Wolseley, brother of Lord Wolseley, a squatter in the Riverine district, who is the inventor of the sheepshearing machine, has determined to float a company to work the invention. The following letter written by him will (says the Hay Standard) explain the matter: — "As the sheep-shearing venture will be too big an affair for me to manage singlehanded, I propose floating a company to work it—loo,ooo shares of £100 (?) each, I reserve 50,000, and issue 50,000. Possibly you can be of service in working the. matter. I may tell you that the machine and method of working it are very simple, and an ordinary man or ' black jin ' can work it. It requires no skilled labour, though of course a practical shearer could work it better than an inexperienced hand, as he would know how to hold the sheep, and how to commence to shear it. But after any man is taught this he could do as good work as the skilful man, and of course a hundred times better work than that done by the shearer. I think the cost of the shears will be about 27s each, and they will probably last for years.

It is only in New Zealand (remarks the Hawera Star) that graziers and live stock owners continue to be exercised at the low prices and small profits attached to the stock breeding business. American papers are full of the subject. The InterRepublic, of El Paso, Texas, takes this view of the case, and insists on the need of careful personal management. "Absentee landlordism," we are told, "in many cases separated from the herds by half a Continent and the Atlantic Ocean, will prove as futile in the cattle business as in any other business." The day of haphazard fortunes in the eattle business has passed, and " the purchase of unlimited acrss and the stocking of them by uncounted herds, left to the management of some drygoods clerk, or the younger scion of some wealthy family who must be provided for, must no longer be expected to produce aught but its legitimate result— financial ruin." The Montana Live Stock Journal takes a similar view of the case, declaring that that the day of great herds is rapidly drawing to a close, but considers the settled ownership of smaller areas will give steadyif moderate profits, greatersafety from loss in hard winters, and the improvement of the breed of cattle fully compensating advantages.

The following is a list of the liabilities and assets in the bankrupt estate of Mr Joseph Cochrane .Liabilities :— Secured creditors, £1802 lis lid ; estimated value of property, £1750 ; T. and S. Morrin and Co., £506 15s 6d ; New Zealand Mortgage Company, £509 6s 7d ; trustees ot S. Mathew's Stone Church Building Fund, £268 19s ; Thomas Morrin, £517 10s ; unsecured creditors, £564 12s 4d. Auckland : Cousins and Atkin, £10 8s 6d ; Stone Bros., £17 3s lOd ; J. Craig, £12 17s 6d ; Sturges, £56 19s; Jackson and Russell, £32 16s ; T. T. Masefield, £6 7s ; A. Bsary, £24 lGs 9d; Oldham and Son, £14 0s (id; Property Tax Commissioner, £3 3s 9d. Hamilton : W. J. Hunter and Co., £20 13s; A. M. Maunder, £11 3s 6d ; Dey and French, £34 0s 9d; The Waikato Times, £19 Gs; J. B. Whyte, £13 7s ; T. Slade, £20 IGs lid ; A. Campbell, £20 5s ; J. A. Bradley, t-1 8s; Qualtrougli and White, £3 9s 8d ; Borough rates, £1 ; ID. Elliott, £3 9s 9d ; Kirikiriroa rates, £3 12s lid; J. Missen, £2 (>s 3d; N.N.Z. Co-operative Association, £S 12s (id ; W. Steele, £25 ; Sandes and Co., £4 8s 5d ; J. Steadinan, £2 10s; H. Davis, £2 10s ; J. Knox, £3 13s 9d ; W. M. Hay, £10 ; Bank of New Zealand (secured) £40 ; C. Hall, £25 ; J. Calderwood, £3 ; -T. A. Cochrane, £70 ; W. Fradgely, £20 15s 8d ; Evans, of Newmarket, £6 15s Id, and small sums., Assets : Stock-in-trade, £200; book debts, £40 ; furniture, £70 ; farm stock, £138. Deficiency : £116 12s 4d.