The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE. SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1887.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2346, 23 July 1887, Page 2

The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

SATURDAY, JULY 23 , 1887.

Ktju.il and exact justice to all men, Ot wlmfsiifvcr state or persuasion, religious or

- o A proclamation in the Gazette declares the Kermndec Islands tn bo pin t of Mew Zealand. A few civil cases were disposed of nt llir 11..M. ('.nut, Cambridge, yosteriluv, but imiui of them were of public interest. Professor Hutton's report on the i,m il.a ..ii-il"|jo-its on the estate of Ale J. 11. So.ill ,at Walton, will be found in this day .' 'll;,;jb■!nunt. Gold and silver have been proved pi exist in a lai-RO reef in the To Puke district tTimranir.-ii, and a test is being made as 1., whether the reef will prove payable. Mr Haszard, Government surveyin', is at present cutting upland beyond \V.-ii..n-_;i iii ‘-’OO-aere sections for perpetual leasing. About hU.'JO acres are to be cat up.

A football match, Town v. Country. will be played at Cambridge this afternoon. The game will bo a tough one. The reentry men are reported in good trim, and contemplate being victorious. The contract for the erection of the new S. Benedict's Church, Newton, Auckland, has been let to Mr J. J. Holland, the contract price being £'.>l33. The work w.ll be commenced immediately. Mr Northcroft yesterday sent a lad named David Thomas Green to the training school, near Auckland, for live years. His father made the application, and said the lad was beyond his manage ment.

The following tenders were received yodorday by Mr W. A. Graham, for work at Richmond Hill: —Messrs Cochrane ; £l2 10s, J. Robinson and On; £8 !)s, ■f. Deogan ; £2O 17s fid, C. McKenzie, £7 10s, and J. Dellicar (accepted); £5 12s.

The usual monthly meeting of the Waikato County Council, convened for yesterday, lapsed for want of quorum, the members present being the chairman (Mr Primrose), Messrs Barnghand .Johnson, A few iterim accounts were passed for payment, but all the other business was, of c urse, postponed.

A meeting of the directors of the Cambridge Cheese and Bacon Factory was held yesterday afternoon, when the satisfactory financial position of the company was discussed at great length, and it was decided to hold a general meeting of shareholders on the slh prox., when a mrthod of meeting the difficulty will be laid before them.

Mr Thomas Brown, who was severely hurt in the late fire at Cambridge is progressing favourably, and is now out of danger. Yesterday he was able to open his eyes, the swelling having gone down very much. He is staying with Mr David Richardson, who kindly took him in. and has given him every attention. Mr Brown wishes to thank all friends who so kindly assisted in suppressing the fire. Messrs Hudson and Coom, the manager and engineer of the railways in the Auckland province, paid Cambridge a visit on Thursday. Like one of the Parliamentary candidates, Mr Hudson has a scheme for “ drastic ” retrenchment to suggest, i.e., that Cambridge shall have, instead of a train in and out every- day, one that comes in one day and nut the next, the mails to be fetched by road from Hamilton every alternate day. Mr Hudson says this plan would do away with an engine, and save £2OOO a year.

To the Editor ; Sir, your published report of Mr J. B. Whyte’s meeting at Huntly is misleading. lam the nonelector referred to in your report, I beg to state that scarcely half the electors wore in favour of the vote of thanks and confidence, as was signified by the shew of hands. I will admit that I was the only elector that voted against it. Those electi.rs who did not vote in favour of the motion, one would conclude that they weie virtually against it, if we accept the teaching, ho that is not with me is against me.—l am, yours obediently,— Thos. Cahi.kss, a b mafide elector. Huntly, July 22nd.

A cable message dated London, July 20th, states A meeting of tho Conservative party, under the presidency of Lord Salisbury, was held at the Carlton Club to-day, fur the purpose, of discussing the objections raised by the Liberal Unionists to several clauses in the Irish; Land Bill now before t’ailiamcnt. Lord Salisbury announced that in order to meet tho views and retain tho support of the Liberal Unionists, the (fovornment bad consented to amend the Bill by admitting a levision of the judicial rents, pending the introducton of the Lind Purchase Bill, though he had only decided to drop the bankruptcy clauses embodied in the measure. The majority of the meeting concurred in the proposals of the Government, there being only a few dissentients.

The complaint with regard to over-legislation is not confined to New Zealand. The Canadian “Law Jimrniil” says:—“ Let any one take up the statutes of Toronto province from year to year, and you will see how very few statutes passed in any one session arc of such a pressing importance that they could not just as well have been passed a year or two later without any injury whatever tn tho public by the delay, in the neighbouring Republic this plethora of legislation is also being felt, and in one of tho States efforts are already being made to secure biennial sessions of the State Legislature in place of annual sessions, and we think it has already become a matter of serious consideration in this province whether a resort to some such expedient is not desirable, in order tn cut down the present lavish expenditure on legislation. The Philadelphia Telegraph asserts that women clerks are disappearing from tho various Government departments in Washington. “It may not be many years,” it says, “before a woman will be a rare sight in a department. Slowly, but surely, they are being got rid of under tho civil service system. They are not seen walking arm-in-arm through the Treasury corridors, or standing at the windows at noon time with their cups of tea. It is not that they are closer to their desks. They are not there. Since Secretary Manning first took the Treasury portfolio and the now order of things was begun, nearly 20 per cent, of the women have gone, and none have come in their places. When a female cook dies nr gets married, resigns or it dismissed, a requisition goes to the civil service commission for a man to fill the vacancy. Some of them made better clerks than the men, but the fact is they are hard to deal with. Most of them depend upon the gallantry of the superior officers, and are constantly asking favours, many of them not hesitating or even seeming to think it improper to ask high officials—even as high as secretaries—ts make false statements or viol'atojthe law in their interests.” “Old Liverpool” contributes the following to the Melbourne Age;—“ln early life Lord Brassey’s father was a young man with lots of energy, a good character, and no money. He was in the employ of Mr Warded, the Chester banker. Being of a pushing turn of mind ho saw his way to enter on small contracts, so he started as a contractor, with some assistance from Mr Wardell’a bank. At last he aspired to large undertakings, and ho put in for and got a very large railway contract, hut far beyond his means. In his despair ho bethought himself of Mr Wardcll’s bank, and, waiting on tho old banker, laid before him his requirements, and asked for a large advance to enable him to buy the necessary plant. ‘But, sir. I have no security to offer you.’ ‘Yes you have, tho best, a good character; you shall have the money.’ Young Brassey got the contract, and carried it out with great profit. He became a leviathan contractor, and prodigiously rich. Years after, a rumour went abroad that Wardell’s bank was shaky. Mr Brassey, as soon as ho hoard it, went speeding to Chester, and to his old master, the old banker, whom he found in despair, his bank tottering, and said, I Mr Wardell, I have just heard the bad news, and have come to your relief at once. What sum do you require ?’ ‘ Oh, an awful sum,’ he uttered, hopelessly. What sum 7 Name it.’ It was several hundreds of thousands. ‘You shall have it.’ ‘But I have no security to offer.' ‘ Yes, yon have, the best, a good character.’ Warded was startled at hearing his own molds re-echoed after so many years. Tho two men rose and clasped hands, but spoke not. In the presence of that power which makes all great hearts kin theirs were too full to speak. The bank was saved. I heard this from a connection of my own, Sir William Jackson, once a partner of Mr Brassey’s, the firm being Brassey, Betts, Poto, and Jackson.”