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Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2345, 21 July 1887, Page 2

A social meeting is advertised tu be held at 8. Andrews schoolroom Cambridge this evening, during Hie first part of which a lecture on chemistry will bo given. The Rev. R. G- Boler, of Te Awamutu, will leave ou lii.s usual quarterly visit tu Gtorohanga, Te Kuiti, and Waiteti on Wednesday next. The Hamilton Football Club has received a challenge from the Kuiti l''uoUiall Club, to play a friendly match at Hamilton on Saturday, August Oth. The challenge, wo understand, will bo accepted. A cable message dated the 17th says The S. icialist Central Committee have been arrested in Berlin. It is reported that a Socialist plot to murder the Emperor William during his journey to Gastein, has been frusterated. Residents of tie Borough of Hamilton and the neighbourhood who desire to assist in the work of planting the I’ark reserve are directed to a notice by the secretary of the domain board which will be found in our business columns. An excursion train came into collision with a petroleum train at St. Thomas’, Canada on Saturday last. The oil exploded, and 1-f persons were burnt to death, while 100 more were fearfully injured. The scene was of a most horrible description. At the R.M. Court Hamilton, yesterday, before Mr Northcroft, some small civil cases wore disposed of. The charge of pig-stealing against Win. Mclieish] was further adjourned until this morning, owing to the absonae of accused’s counsel, Mr Hay, who was attending the court at Te Awamutu. A native named Houkura was chargodjhoforo Mr Northcroft, at Hamilton, yesterday, with cruelly ill-treating a hc.rse by riding it when it was suffering from a sore wither. The ease was a very flagrant one and the prisoner was fined £o and costs, in default one month’s imprisonment. The road between Cambridge aid Waotu is still in the same disgraceful state that has characterised it for some months past, and will soon be utterly impassable. ■Since we last endeavoured to direct the attention to the Government, County Council, or whoever the responsible authorities may be, to it several very bad places have been added. At Kergusson’s Gully, about seven miles from Cambridge, the road has been washed away, leaving a hole 2ft. wide and 4ft, deep, over which vehicles have to pass. Will someone kindly sacrifice himself at this spot, s that appears to be the only way of stirring up the authorities, all other means having failed ? Commenting upon the condition of New Zealand, a recent visitor to this colony, writint to a New Smith Wales paper, in the course of his remarks, says : I confidently predict that in a very few years New Zealand securities will compete on level terms with those of New South Wales and Victoria—provided only that the colony enjoys the blessing of good government, winch, for the most part, means economical government. It is the silliest of nonsense to talk of Now Zealand as of a country trembling on the brink of insolvency. It is carrying a heavy burden of debt and other difficulty, but it is carrying it strongly and bravely, and its magnificent future is absolutely assured. The new pumping gear at the hospital had its first proper trial yesterday, when the two-100-gallons tanks were filled two men in exactly two hours’ pumping. The number of revolutions made was 04 per minute, lifting (ly gallons, per minute, or 100 gallons in a quarter of an hour. With a large fly wheel one man would bo enabled to do the work without trouble. If any farmer happens to have an old wheel on hand about 3ft, 4m. or 3ft. bin. in diameter, weighing over 1 cwt., and would make a present of it to the Hospital Board, lie would bo conferring a favour on the patients generally, as the fends will not admit of any heavy expenditure at present. The water from the well is of excellent quality. An accident of a peculiar nature occurred at Cambridge West on Sunday last, by which a young man had his horse killed under him, and had a narrow escape himself, Mr Bell, a baker, who resides at the top of the hill at the entrance to I’iikcriimi, commonly known as “ Bell’s hill'' had been for a drive with tijs wife, and was returning home about? p.m. when he met three young men galloping along. They evidently did not see the buggy Mr Bell was driving, as one of them rode straight at it. The shaft caught the horse in the breast, penetrating for a considerable distance and breaking off, and of course instantly killing the animal. The young men were going to churohjwheu they met with the accident, at the foot of Mr Tucker s hill. At a banquet given to Mr Taylor, member for Sydenham, Mr Holmes, member for Christchurch South, said:—“ The eliai'actej-ivlie that was never forgotten and fur-ivoii, was that a man should promise .me thing and do another. Ho would not d.-al with pcrsoiialaties. but it was for the electors to weigh the merits of would-be representatives and judge whether they were men that could bo depended upon or n-e. l ( .'licr.r■) Tim Barliaincnt of New Zealand would compare very favourably with that ofaiiv other country, Mir Maurice IVHorke, an 'irishman, stood head .and, shoulders above the Speaker of the House! of Commons or the legislative Assembly I

nf Victoria. Sir Robert Stout and Sir .1 ulins Vn-yel (ho had been informed by a who had listened to the. debates in the Mouse of Commons) had not their equals, except Mr Gladstone, in the House of Commons. A wiser politician than Sir Julius Vogel was not to bo found anywhere. (Loud Cheers.”) How is this for high? Says the Oamaru Mail ;—The cry is retrenchment; but how ? Fanners have been calling nut for Government tn advance moneys at reasonable rates to struggling fanners. It has been argued that Govern, mint is able to borrow on reasonable terms, ami might re-loan on a small advance. Well, the experiment, has been tried, The thin edge of the wedge has been inserted in the case of special settlements. During the past year £2,4St have in this way been advanced on the security of improvements, [f the scheme works it may possibly bo extended. Is this one of the causes why the special settlements are so hotly denounced by interested companies ? It seems to ns that this subject is well worthy of consideration by those who have thus far been benefited by the new departure, and by those who have doubtless inaugurated the system—the fanners in their meetings and at their dubs. One thing is certain—that if all borrowing is stopped, neither Government, nor private people, nor companies will be able tn make advances, no matter how much it may bo thought desirable by those who have need of capital to work their land.

From the Napier Daily Telegraph of July 14th, we clip the following:—The friends of Mr J. W. H. Wood assembled at the Clarendon Hotel yesterday evening for the purpose of presenting him with a token of their esteem, and of expressing their regret at his departure. Mr Wood has been appointed tn the Nelson agency of the Government Insurance, and is under orders to hold himself in readiness to leave on the 14th. His friends to the number of 35 accordingly met last night, Mr F. Logan in the chair, who read letters of apology from twenty other gentlemen whoso prior engagements prevented their attendance. Mr Logan, in presenting Mr Wood with a handsome gold chain and locket, referred to the loss that the cricket field, the football ground and the tennis lawn would sustain by Mr Wood’s removal; and he was certain Mr Wood's keen love of athletic sports would surround him with a host of friends, ho hoped, as true as those he was having behind. Mr Wood’s health was then drunk with the usual honours, and that gentleman having made a suitable reply the party broke up. The locket lias a diamond on its face, and on its back the inscription, “To J, W. H. Wood, from his Napier friends, July 12, 1887.”

The following correspondence having reference tn the relations between the Auckland and Waikato Hospital Boards was laid on the table at the last meeting of the Auckland Board on Monday :—The Secretary and Treasurer Auckland Hospital and Charitable Aid Boards.—l enclose for information the award of the Controller and Auditor-General in the matter of the apportionment of the assets and liabilities of the late Auckland North and Auckland United Charitable Aid Board, between the Charitable Aid Boards lately composing the United Board. The award fairly puts the Auckland District Charitable Aid Board in the position of liquidator of the joint property, authorising your Board to receive and collect all funds in hand and due to the lata United Board, and requiring it to discharge all the liabilities specified in the general balance-sheet to 31st March, 1887 (herewith returned). Mr Fitzgerald further requests yon to make known the particulars of the award to the new District Boards. —Wm. St. Clair Tihdall. A. 1., Auckland, lath July 18811. —tn the matter of an apportionment made under the provisions of the 30th section of the Hospital and Charitable Institution Act, 188h, Amendment Act, 1880, and of the appointment of His Excellency the Governor under the authority of the same, of the assets and liabilities of the late United Charitable Aid District Board of Auckland, at the dissolution of the same on the 31st day of March, 1887, amongst the several Hospital and Charitable Aid Boards of the North of Auckland district, the Auckland district, and the Waikato district, which wore included in the said united district before (he dissolution of the same as provided by the said Act. I hereby award as follows:—The Hospital and Charitable Aid Board of Auckland shall take and own the money amounting to £11)3 15s 7d, which was standing to the credit of the said United Board on the said 31st day of March, and shall bo entitled to receive all contributions duo from the several local bodies and unpaid on the said 31st day of March, ainounting in the whole to the sum of £504 15s 3d, or thereabouts, together with all subsidies payable by the Government to the said United Board upon such contributions; and the said Hospital end Charitable Aid Board of Auckland shall bo liable tor and shall pay all the liabilities of the said late United Board, which were outstanding and unpaid on the said 31st day of March, amnunting in the whole to the sum of £2Sofi 12s 7d, or thereabouts. ThoHospital and Charitable Aid Board or the North of Auckland shall pay to the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board of Auckland the sum of £202 Os !)d; and the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board of Waikato shall pay to the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board of Auckland the sura of £307 7s 4d, in satisfaction of their respective shares of the assets and liabilities of the said late United Board at its dissolution. Given under my hand at Auckland, this 15th day of July, 1887.— James Edward Fitzgerald, Controller and Auditor-General.