The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE. Equal and exact justice to all men, Of whatsoever state or persuasion, religious or political. THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1887.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2309, 28 April 1887, Page 2

The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE. Equal and exact justice to all men, Of whatsoever state or persuasion, religious or political. THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1887.

_ The steamer Waitaki has been abandoned to the underwriters. A concert and ball in connection with the Paterangi Cricket Club will be held in the school on May (sth. An attempt has been made to dynamite Popotf, the commandant ot boha, but it resulted in failure. Messrs Robert Fisher and Andrew Wallace have been duly elected members of the Pukekura Road Board. The annual meeting of the rate payers of the Kirikiriroa Road Board will be held on the 6th May. Messrs Anderson's Waititi contract, it is estimated'will provide work for at least 200 men for the next two years. With a continuance of the present five weather for a fortnight, Messrs Cortes and Metcalfe will have the rails laid through to Te Kuiti by that time. Hugh Kelly, a contractor., had his camp destroyed by fire at Motumaohu, near Morrinsville, yesterday. The cause of the fire is unknown. Kelly's loss is about £00. At a poll of the ratepayers of the Piako County, taken on the 20th, the result was in favour of raising a special loan of £1500 under the provisions of the Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1880. Captain Raid, of the Hamilton Volunteers, left on Tuesday for Auckland, to have an interview with Col. Lyon. Officer-in-Command, on matters of importance in conn9ction with the corps. Dr. Bond, who has severed his connection with the Auckland Hospital, was presented by the members of the resident staff of the hospital with a very handsome clock on Monday last. The fourth .anniversary of the opening of the B&ptist Tabernacle, Gambridge, will be celebrated by special services oa Next Sabbatli day, when Paster Griffith will preach morning and evening. A cablegram, dated London, April 26th, says:—ln the House of Commons, Sir J'. E. Gorst, Under-Secretary for India, announced that the Ghilzai rebellion was not spreading, and that the Ameer s troops had proved victorious over the rebels. During last winter the Sunday School held at Tamahere was discontinued for three months. It is proposed this winter to hold tloe Sunday School at 10.30 in the morning during the next three months, commencing next Sunday, instead of closing it altogether. lady Loch's proposal that a Jubilee fund be formed for the_ relief of women in distress in the colonies is generally approved of. Sir William Robinson, Governor of South Australia, has opened a fund for the purpose, and Sir Anthony Musgrove, Governor of Queensland, has promised his co-operation. A telegram has been sent to the hon. Mr Ballance by the Hamilton Borough Council, pointing out that there exists a difference of opinion as to the best site for the proposed public buildings, and asking that the engineer at present in Hamilton may be instructed to inspect other available and suitable sites, and to report thereon. The cost per head of average attendance for the State Schools of the Australian colonies, Tasmania, and New j Zealand (says the Sydney Evening News) is as follows: N.S. Wales £6 4s, Victoria £5 9s old, Queensland £6, South Australia £5 ss3Jd, New Zealand £5 2s Tasmania £8 5s 4|d while the cost per child in the Beard Schools in England is £4 14s 2jd. We notice by recent gazettes that Sergeant McGrath, of Hamilton, has been appointed Inspector of Weights and Measures for the Counties of Waikato, Waipa, Piako and Raglan, and for the Boroughs of Hamilton and Cambridge; and that Constable Berriman, _ of Te Kuiti, has been appointed an inspector under the Adulteration Preservation Act for the Counties of West Tiiupo and Kawhia. How to live at the Hot Lakes on a £1 per week ? is the heading of an advertisement, which appears in another column from Mr William S"ddon of Rutorua. Mr Seddon has converted the Carlton Club into the Coinet Temperance Hotel, which has a magnificent view of the Rotorua lake. We recommend those who are about visiting the Lake district not to miss reading Mr Seddon's advertisement. Prior to drill on Tuesday evening, the committee of the Hamilton Light Infantry ruet to consider the code of rules which had been drawn up, and which, with one or two amendments, were ultimately adopted. Lieut. Coombes was elected a member of the committee, and Private Hooper appointed secretary. The rules will be forwarded on to Wellington in the course of a few days for the approval of the Defence Minister. At the close of the meeting, in the absence of Capt. Reid, the corps was put through squad drill by Lieut. Ooombes. The following appeared in an Opotiki paper last February FOUND —A SACK and KIT, at the foot of a Plum Tree in Mr Campbell's garden. Owner can have the same on applying at the POLICE STATION. We venture to say that Mr Campbell may appropriate the sack and kit to his own use. We would venture a trifle on the owner not turning up. Mr N. I. Hunt, the popular manager of the Gorton estate,, was married on Tuesday morning last, to Miss Lilian .Souter, eldest daughter of Captain Souter, of Cambridge. The wedding took place at Andrew's Church, after which the happy couple took the 0.15 a.m. train to Auckland. They have the hearty good wishes of a large number of friends and acquaintances, many of whom would have been at the station to wish them bon voyage had they known of the event. The diary of the English Clergyman has just been published, describing a visit he paid to Paris in 1795. He was between five and six days on the road, and ihe journey cost him £(> lis '.Id. On the .other hand the hotel charges were moderate in the extreme as compared with those of jthe present day. They amounted to about f,« a dny. 4 dinnor nf four or five coursns

only cost 2*, including a bottle of excellent wiiie, and a room on the principal floor of one of the best hotels in Paris could be secured for a pound a week.

The lion- Mr Reynolds, the advo cate for retrenchment in the present Ministry, has recommended a general reduction of 15 per cent, from all salaries in the Civil Service, but it was not acceptable to his colleagues. A step in this direction of retrenchment, however, has been made by reducing that of the Hansard staff from £300 a year to £250. Somehow or other these reductions always begin at the wrong end. Why did not the honourable gentleman prove his sincerity by proposing a sweeping reduction in the honorarium that falls to the lot of the Legislative councillors ?

The second anniversary of the death of Jules Valid* was celebrated in the cemetery of Pere Lachaiso on the ldth February by the Parisian revolutionists with an outburst of anarchical oratory. Louise Michel was present, of course, and wound up her harangue in these amiable words:—" After the massacre of all the oppressors, the employers of labour, the speculators, the monopolists, and the plunderers of the pe-.'ple, the whole of humanity will indulge in one and the self-same kiss, and we shall sing the hymn of universal peace." Such beautiful sentiments are truly affecting.

At the Hamilton Police Court on Tuesday, before His Worship the Mayor and Capt. MoPherson, Alexander McLeod was charged with having on the 20th inst. assaulted xVlary Vincent, by knocking her down with a hammer. Mr O'Neill appeared for the prosecution. Defendant asked that the case might be adjournGd till next court day, in consequence of his solicitor not being able to be present. There was also a cross-action, in which Augustus Vincent was-charged with cutting and wounding with a chisel Alexander McLeod. The Bench remanded the cases till 4th May.

Some genius, who has not forwarded his name, has favoured us (Post) with the following expression of opinion:— " I vote for the initiation of the following as being the simplest and grandest way of celebrating the Jubilee of the simplest and grandest of sovereigns :—The establishment of an institution for the gradual elimination of all still lingering conditions opposed to the inherent co-operative or regulative tendency of the higher elements of the human mind, in order to pave the way for a national and universal mind education, which will remove mankind further away from the harsh lines upon which, and up to the recent past, the animated world necessarily rose."

On Tuesday afternoon the remains of the late Charles Revell Johnson were interred with military honours in the Devonport cemetery, the deceased at the time of his death having been a member of the New Zealand Artillery. The coffin, covered with the Union Jack, was placed on a gun carriage, and escorted to the cemetery by a detachment of the Artillery from Fort Cautley and a number of the A.C. force, under the cominaed of SergeantMajor Silver. Captain Morrison, the officer commanding the Artillery, the surgeon of the force, and two officers of the North Shore Cavalry Troop were also present. At Holy Trinity Church a short and impressive service was conducted by the Rev. Mr Bates, and as the coffin, at its conclusion was being borne down the aisle the " Dead March "in " Saul " was played. On reaching the cemetery the detachment formed two'lines and presented arms as the remains of their former comrade were carried through them to their final resting place on the slope of the hill. At the conclusion of the burial service, a firing party of thirteeu discharged three volleys over the open grave. The deceased having been an active Freemason, a large number of brethren attended the funeral. The followin". Lodges were represented : —Lodge Beta, 450, IC, Hamilton (of which the deceased was a member,) Brother Grevjlle Smith, W.M. ; Lodge Ara, 348, 1.C., Brother Alfred Kidd. W.M.; Lodge United Service, 421, 1.C., Brother Allen W.M. ; LndgoAlbion, Devon port, 2003. E.C., Brother Knox. W.M., and P.M.'s Brothers Vosper, M, Niccol and others; Lodge Harmony, Brother Dr. L. Erson, W.M. The New Zealand ensign was flying half-mast high at Fort Cutley out , of respect to the deceased, who was a general favourite with the men, and whose death has cast quite a gloom over the garrison. In Devonport, there were numerous signs of mourning, and a large number of the inhabitants followed the remains to the grave. Great sympathy is felt for the widow and family of the deceased. —Heraid.