The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE. SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1887.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2343, 16 July 1887, Page 2

The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

SATURDAY , JULY 16, 1887.

ami exact justice to all men, Of whatsoever state or persuasion, religious or political.

The English mail via San Francisco cl uses at tlio Hamilton Post-office today (Saturday), thu Kith hist., at 3.15 I'-’i'i The first reading of the Crimes Hill in the House of Lords is fixed for Tuesday. A meeting of the Hamilton East Politic Boil Urn;* Committee will be held this livening at the committee rooms, Hamilton, to consider an important letter.

Mr Thos- Campbell, of Razorback, is a candidate Waipa. His address appears in our special column. A number of letters to the Editor, in type,-are held over for want_ of room. Tl.o attention of correspondents is directed to the notice over the leader column. The man Daniel Kenny, charged with arson, is at present in the lock-up at Hamilton. It'is understood that he has retained Mr W. M. Hay for the defence. It is announced that Sir J. Pope Hennessy has been re-instated Governor of the ' Mauritius.' Mr Clifford Lloyd, Colonial Secretary of that colony, will be appointed elsewhere. A committee meeting of the Hamilton Public Libraiy was held last night. The motion re lending library books and papers to the hospital was rescinded. Several other matters' in connection with the library were discussed, . Thirty-fourironclads and cruisers, 75 gunboats and torpedo crafts, six training brigs, and 13 torpedo ships, will take part in the grand naval review. They will form into two lines opposite the Isle of Wight and Portsmouth. Lieut. Colonel Shepherd inspected the Hamilton Light Infantry Volunteers in the Public Hall on Thursday evening. There was a full muster. After tho arms and accoutrements had been inspected the men were put through a short drill. The Star of the 12tti inst. says : —“Hamilton West School Committee have decided that the schoolmaster has the power to expel children who do not attend school regularly. If they have done so, the Hamilton West School Committee ‘is a hass.’” Mr W. H. Hales, District Engineer, arrived at Hamilton on Thursday, and during the afternoon inspected be Quosne’s building, with a view to determine its suitability for the purposes of public buildings. He will report to the Government in due course. Serious rioting-took place on the 12th at Belfast on the occasion of the Orange demonstration in connection with the celebration of. the anniversary of the battle of the,Boyne. A large force of police was called but and charged the mob. Order was then,restored. At the Hamilton Police Court on Thursday, before Mr John Knox, J.P., William McLeisli, a settler residing at Whatawhata, was charged with stealing ten pigs, the property of natives in that district. On the application of the police the accused was remanded for eight days, bail being allowed. The New Zealand Farmers’ League, Dunedin, have put forward tho following platform Advances by tho State to fanners, at the lowest possible interest, working farms not exceeding 500 acres; the establishment of a State bank of issue ; a land and income tax in place of a property tax; local government; and reduction of railway rates on produce. The verdict in the Hawkesbury (New South Wales) inquest attributes the railway accident to great want of supervision of the railway officials in not following the written rules, and to the engine not being sufficiently powerful, the brakepower being insufficient, and the air couplings incomplete, ■ The jury recommended the appointment of a Commission to generally inquire into the management of the railways. The apple trade between Portland, Me., and England has grown to large proportions. In 1880-81 the apple exports were 30,908 barrels, or one thirty-fourth of the total exports of the country. In 1884-5 tho apple exports were 71,400 barrels, and it is expected that this year the exports will amount to 100,000 barrels, or about oneninth of the. apple exports of this country, almost all of it being of Maine, fruit.— American Exporter. Dr. McGlynn’s speech at New York on the Papacy and tho Catholic Church has created a great sensation, and excited intense indignation among his coreligionists, and astonishment in others. He declared that the Papacy was a mere moneymaking machine, and said he was prepared with proofs in support of the assertion. He eulogised the Catholic religion, in which he was still a firm believer, but expressed himself utterly unconcerned about the Pope’s action in excommunicating him. On a recent evening a settler residing in tho Waimea district observed a rat making too free with some chestnuts, which he had stored in one of his buildings, and seeing tho thief walk off more than once with a single chestnut, he determined to stay and watch proceedings. He was the more disposed to be patient when he saw that the rat deposited the chestnuts under tho flooring in such a position that the hoard could be easily reached. Keeping at such a distance that he could only just •see the rat running to and fro in the moonlight, our informant waited for half an hour, by which time the whole of the chestnuts had been removed one by one. Ho then proceeded to recover the treasure, and out of curiosity he weighed the chestnuts, and found' he had ten pounds weight. But for tho proof, it would scarcely be believed that a single rat could more such a weight at a distance of some few yards in so short a time, and possibly suspicion might have fallen on some larger fancier of chestnuts, but the circumstance shows what may be accomplished by sticking to a job. The rat is described as keeping up a constant run the whole time.—Exchange.