The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE. THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1887.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2321, 26 May 1887, Page 2

The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1887.

Equal and exact justice to all men, Of whatsoever state or persuasion£reliKious or political.

The statue of 'Robert Burns was uuveiled at Dunedin on Tuesday, Sir Geo. Grey delivered an oration on the occasion. Commander Edwin wired at 56 p.m. yesterday -.—Expect bad weathei between North West and West and South. Glass rising. The young Cqckheads, who are charged with wounding young Roach, were brought np at the Police Court on Tuesday, and remanded for eight days. On reference to our advertising columns, it will be seen that the Cambridge Presbyterians intend holding their Sunday school anniversary concert to-morrow evening. It has been somewhat hastened in order to have the assistance of Miss Soutter, who is leaving the town at an early date A Reuters' telegram, dated Adelaide, May 24th, states that the Austral, with the mails from London, dated April 22nd, arrived last night. The following are the New Zealand passengers:—Mr and Mrs Eboz, Mr and Mrs Brown, Messrs Clarkson, Cox, Elkington, Broderick, Hawke, Knowles, Overman, Tyler, Wymar, Mrs and Miss Hughes. Bishop William Taylor has planned a device for his new Congo steamer that, he thinks, will do away with the necessity for fire arms. In case of attack he can put the Natives to flight by a hose attached to a powerful steam-pump, " Neither dogs nor men," ho declared, " can stand before such a shot of water." The little steamer is also provided with electric lights. To the Editor.—Sir. —I see by advertisement that the London Circus is to perform here on 31st instant. But what I do not see in the advertisement is the price list for admittance. Now Sir, wo were had once before on this racket by a circuis, and are not to be deluded again. Let the proproprietors advertise the charge for admission as the Lynch Family of Bellringcrs do, or else let tha people stay away.—Yours faithfully, Fill the Diiter. Mr Edward Allan, junr., of PukeJrora, had a very narrow escape of being killed on Friday last. Ho waa out with

Mr J. McNicol, and in crossing a creek his horse got its legs fast in some timber, and rollod over on to the top of him. Mr McNicol tried to pull him from under, but could not; he was, however, successful in moving the horse, and thus released Mr Allan just in time to save his life. Some of the Cambridge people treat this as a joke, but. had they been in Mr Allan's place they would think differently of it. Mr Allan was confined to his bed until yesterday, and still looks very ill. All well-behaved young lady actresses in society, and they are now a goodly company, have had th.:ir heads turned by the luck of one of their number, a Miss " Edith Chester," of the Prince of Wales' Theatre, who is to marry a Mr Holywell Ciirew, a gentleman with .t'S,OOO a year, handsome, woll mannered, young, anil a thorough sportsman. "There are no Hies on that," as Americans say. She is in private life a Miss Jellybrand, of a wellknown Tndanian legal family, and she has recently gono on the stage owing to a disappointment in love. If she was a duchess's daughter and a godchild of the Queon, she could not have clone better for herself in lifo. She. is .sweetly pretty, and is covered with the family diamonds. "Lounger," in the Wanganni Herald, writes:—The "freight ring" is going to have a bad time of it, I see. Tysor Bros, are the men for the New Zanla'nd stock-raisers and farmers, who only want cheap freights to England to pull them handsomely through their troubles ; Ud per lb. for frozen meat and 2h per cent, net primage means business, and good business at that, to our sheep-owners. The big companies will have to follow suit, and then there will be a grand trade done in frozen meat between New Zealand and England. By the way, why should we not send meat to other places than London ? Would it not pay to send a cargo to Liverpool, Glasgow, or Dublin occasionally ? In the course of a review of 'The Year Book of New Zealand," the Spectator remarks :—" First in grain, third in wool, and first in frozen meat, is not a bad record among the Australian Colonies. But in spite of its climate and its energy, we cannot recognise the claim of New Zealand to the title of the ' England of the South' while it puts a 15 per cent, ad valorem duty on every manufactured article which is not itself regarded as an implement of manufacture. It is clearly a protective tariff, as ironmongery, clothes, glass and other things, which it is at all likely may be produced in New Zealand, are charged 15 per cent, while artificial teeth, theodolites, and lawn-mowers, to take three articles selected ab haphazard not likely to bo produced in a new country, arc admitted free." It appears (says the New Zealand Times) that the life of the unfortunate captain of the ill-fated s.s. Boojuin was insured for £-100, in aocordance with a fixed rule of the Union Steamship Company, under which every officer in the Company's permanent employ is compelled, on joining the service, to insure his life for a sum proportionate to his salary. A special arrangement is made with the Government Insurance Department by which the Union Company becomes responsible for the regular payment of the premiums, deducting the amount from the salaries its they fall duo. The plan seems an excellent oue, which might advantageously be more widely adepted. If so, we should hear of I fewer of these cases of destitution by which i tho community is so often shocked. The following rather good story U told by "Lounger" in the Wanganui Herald:—The Earl of Aberdeen is an r.ffable and unaffected specimen of the British aristocracy. At the Rutland Hotel, where he was staying, feeling chilly ami seeing a bright fire and snowygarmented chef in the kitchen on Thursday he strolled in, and wit-h his back to the fire a hi Briton, struck up a little cluit with the "doctor," who did not know who his visitor was. The ransco was in full swing, and a penetrating odour of something particularly savory titilated the visitor's olfactory organs. "By Jove !" he exclaimed, "that smells nice; what is it, cook?" " Rost pheasants." "Who are they for?" "Oh ! some swell bloke upstairs." "By George! then I must dine with him," said the Earl, as he botook himself to his apartments, laughing at the episode. We don't often get an earl here, but when we do our premier landlord knows how to fix him up. The Timaru Herald of a recent date says :—The Canadian thistle, which has made its appearance in this district and several other parts of New Zealand, is also spreading rapidly in Victoria. The Bungaroe Shire Council have recently taken the matter up, and have obtained a report from the Government Agricultur.il Chemist on the thistle. This gentleman recommended the application of half a t>n of chloride of lime to the acre as a remedy. A manufacturer offers to supply the chloride at £8 or £9 a ton, so that it is apparently a rather expensive thing getting rid of the Canadian thistle. A motion was passed by the Council urging tho Government to supply the chloride of lime at £-1 a ton to fanners. A short time ago we drew attention to the necessity for farmers in tliis district destroying the weed wherever it made its appearance. It is much worse than the Scotch thistle, and judging from the stops that have had to be taken in Victoria a rather expensive process has to be followed to secure its eradication. An account comes from New York of a strange adventure which happened recently on board of the schooner Lucy T. Harvey, which was sailing from Port Prince to Philadelphia. The schooner was manned by a crow of negroes. She had left Port Prince some days, when the captain and the crew were all surprised to see the deck invaded by hundreds of centipedes, insects whose bite is as dangerous as that of scorpions. They succeeded, however, in killing them all with boiling water. Some days Inter the steward ran from the hold with cries of terror, saying that it swarmed with centipedes and scorpions. Some of the crew, provided with lanterns, descended into the hold, and the insects, frightened by the light, came on deck by thousands. The sailors, again frightened, sought refuge on the masts, and the captain could not _ make them descend. For two days the centipedes swarmed on the deck, and not one of the sailors would take the risk of quitting his refuge. A Newfoundland dog who was chained in front, having been bitten, died in a few seconds. The captain and the mate, who remained at their posts, tried to destroy the insects by placing here and there pans of burning sulphur, but they only killed a hundred, and there were still thousands. At last a tempest, which under other circumstances, would have thought a great nuisance, arose, and the sea swept tho deck, and soon the insects which had not been carried off by the waves died of cold. The schooner had a cargo composed of wood for building, and cedar, of which much was worm-eaten, and in the interior of which the centipedes had probably made their nests. At the Collingwood Police Court, Melbourne, a few days ago, Frank Williams, supposed to be an experienced Sydney burglar, was charged with burglary and stealing. Mrs Emma Thoroughgood, a widow lady, most aptly named, between 40 and 50 years old, while in bed about 4 o'clock on Tuesday morning, at her residence, 25, Bond-street, thought she heard a noise in her bedroom and called out, but, as all was silent she attributed the noise to the wind, and tried to sleep again. Once more she heard a faint sound, and then she saw the figure of a man at her dressing-table. She got up and went toward him, when he ran through a sitting-room into the dining-room, and then got out of the window of the latter. To cut off his retreat, she ran round by a passage, and caught the man outside the window. She caught hold of his and held on screaming "thieves" and " murder." Ah she thus held on he dragged her along a distance of six yards injuring her back, but sho still clung to him. A' neighbour named D'Arcy hearing the noise looked over the dividing fence, and called to her to " hang on and ho would be .round;" but before he got round Mrs Thoroughgood's son had been aroused, and grappled with the burglar, who had jewellery, lace, &c, valued at £9 in his pocket*. He had also packed up a stock of groceries ready for removal. The burglar had first obtained entrance into a detached kitchen, where he found a screwdriver, and with it forced up the lower sash of the din-ing-room window. A screw nail had been inserted through b<.th sashes, but tho pressure hud burst tins screw through the woodwork of the upper sash. The prisoner, who had all the witnesses ordered out of Court, at first tried to prove an alibi, but he abandoned this defence, and was committed for trial.