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Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2341, 12 July 1887, Page 2

Mr Whyte invites the electors of Waikato to meet him at Morrinsville, on Thursday] evening next at 7.30. oclock. A Whatawhata correspondent imtesl am informed by many of the

settlers along the Waipa Valley that they are of opinion that Mr W. A. Graham is making a right move in reference to the beet industry, and if they get any encourage they would go in largely for it. Mr G. W. Russell will address the electors of Waikatn at Cambridge tomorrow evening at 8 o’clock ; Thursday, Cambridge West School, at 7.30 p.m. ; Friday, Tauwhare School, 7.30 p.m. We beg to draw the attention of our readers to tho fact that Mr Reid’s limelight entertainment of Now Zealand views takes place in the Public Hall, Hamilton, this evening, in aid of the funds of tho Presbyterian Church. Mr Reid will be assisted by a number of lady and gentlemen vocalists, and a very pleasant evening is anticipated. The Rev- Father Mahoney, 0 S-P-, now stationed at Tanranga, has been appointed by Bishop Luck Vicar-General of the Roman Catholic diocese of Auckland, in succession to the late Monsignor Fynes. Father Mahoney is one of the oldest priests in the diocese, having come here in Bishop Pompallier’s time. Owing to Mr Reid’s limelight entertainment being held this evening, the meeting of the Waikato and Waipa Radical Reform Association has been postponed till to-morrow evening, A considerable amount of interest is being taken in the movement, and we understand speeches of a very forcible character will be given upon the various planks contained in the rather advanced platform. A meeting of those interested in the Pakuranga hounds coming to'Waikato this season was held at Delaney’s Hotel, Ohaupo, on Thursday last. A representative managing committee was formed, and stepi are to be taken at once to get the hounds np early this month if suitable terms can be made with tho Pakuranga Hunt Club. It is to be hoped that should the ho mds come up they will meet with the support they deserve, as for many years they have afforded good sport to Waikato people. Those persons (says “ Truth”) who think that the Plan of Campaign is “wicked,” and “immoral.” and an “invention of Satan,” because it aimed at a reduction from 20 to 25 per cent, on the “screw” of certain Irish landlords, will be interested in the proceedings of the Land Commission in Galway and Kilkenny, where rents arc now being knocked off legally (and, therefore, I presume morally, without the assistance of his Satanic Majesty, unless Lord Londonderry “plays the part for this occasion only”), -.t the rate of 40, 50, and 00 per cent. Strange to suy, “United Ireland” scarcely sees the difference, but exclaims ; What a ghastly parody on English rule in Ireland that the judicial tribunals should be engaged on one side of the ditch knocking off 50 per cent,, while the soldiery and armed police at the other side ot the fence are busy exterminating the Landsowne tontantry for seeking a remission of 20 per cent. ! Under the heading of “ Gallery Sketches,” a lady contributor in the Christchurch “Press” gives the following portrait of Mr Scobie Mackenzie On the concluding night of the “ no-confidence debate I could only see the top of Mr Mackenzie’s head, and so could not give a description of his appearance. As people are always interested in a rising man, I will describe him now. There is not much doubt, I think, that he is a rising man. Unless a fair promise is doomed to remain unfulfilled, the member fur Mount Ida will be a prominent one in the future political history of New Zealand. Mr Mackenzie is below medium height, very slight, wiry, and boyish-looking. Though he must he much older, ho does not appear to be more than twenty-five. Hishair.is black, parted in the middle, and slightly curled over the forehead. His face is sallow, and its expression studious. His head is small and well-shaped ; his forehead square, somewhat rugged, and prominent over the miter corners of tho eyes. He wears no beard, and only a very light moustache. When speaking to another member Im talks rapidly, his eyes speak too, and his forehead wrinkles in quickly vanishing lines. He bestows much care upon his speeches, and his speeches are always worth the care. There is nothing whatever of tho dandy about Mr Mackenzie, either in dross or in manner. One would never suppose, only for the quick, keen, concentrated look in the eyes, that the lithe figure in loose grey clothes was the bitter and brilliant Mr Scobis Mackenzie, whose vnice, with its sad, regretful strain, thrilled through every listener in the House on tho night of the no-confidenoedebate. Mr Mackenzie, I believe, possesses one of the finest libraries in the colony.