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Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2352, 6 August 1887, Page 2

£3f”Owing to a change in the Editorial Department of this journal, we have to request that all letters and communications for insertion be addressed to the Editor.' Bubear and Gaudaur have abandoned their intended visit to Australia. The House of Commons has rejected the Channel Tunnel Bill. The Timaru‘Mail’ says it’s nonsense about Tom Hall dying of asthma. The Irish Land Bill has finally passed through committee in tho House of Commons. A concert and dance is announced to take place in the Paterangi schoolroom on Friday, Sept. 2nd. Several minor civil cases were heard at the K.M. Court, Cambridge, yesterday. Russia has proposed that Prince Smeritinksy should bo appointed sole regent of Bulgaria. The usual monthly meeting of the Kirikiriroa Road Board has been adjourned until to-day at 3 p.ra. There will be a Church parade of the Hamilton Light Infantry Volunteers to-morrow. Capt. J- R. Roberts, flax merchant, Auckland, an old identity, died very suddenly at his store on Thursday afternoon. The body of a German, named John Anderson, has been found drowned in the Auckland Harbour, Before the Lynch family of bellringers were permitted tn give a performance in Marton they had to pay a license fee of a guinea. The Seamen’s Union have so far arranged matters that they will have three boats running in opposition to the Northern Company within three weeks. The Pakuranga hounds will meet this day at Mr Carter’s stables, Cambridge, at 1 o’clock. Drag hunt to take place at 3. Messrs R. F. Sandes and A. Swarbriok have been duly elected synodsuieu to represent tho Hamilton district at tho forthcoming sitting. We are glad to learn that the Australian Mutual Provident .Society are still to the fore with their bonuses. This is very encouraging news to Waikato members.

Mr J. B- Whyte addressed the settlers at Waotu on Thursday evening. Ho was most enthusiastically received, and obtained a unanimous vote of confidence at the close of the meeting. News has been received from Afghanistan that, owing to the success of the rebel tribes, the Ameer’s troops have been compelled to retire from Kelat-i-Ghilzai, on the Kabul-Kaudahar road. A woman down in Howick boasts that sho has worn one bonnet thirty-five years. This is the sort of nows that husbands delight in showing their wives. The second greatest mine is Australia is the Garden Gully United, Sandhurst, tho Long Tunnel, Walhalla, being first. The Garden Gully United has declared over £900,000 in dividends in about 10 years.

That portion of the swamp road between Cambridge and Te Awainntu, which has been gravelled, is in good order. It is to be hoped the Waipa Council will see its way to continue this very desirable work. A child three and a-half years of age was drowned at Waiwcra on Wednesday. The mother of the child on her way to Clinton was crossing a stream with the child on her back, when the boy slipped off and and was carried away and drowned. The Kail way Commission ars, Melbourne, have decided to dismiss Mr (ledge, the Prahran stationmaster, the guard Lang, and the driver Keats, for their conduct in connection with the Windsor railway accident. The lawn tennis courts, Hamilton, are now being thoroughly overhauled and put into condition for the coining season, under the supervision of the energetic secretary (Mr T. Wallnutt). Other improvements are in course of contemplation. We have received the second number of the Australian Bee Journal. It is issued in pamphlet form, and contains a mass of useful information. It is exceedingly well got up and reflects credit upon the publisher. Mr I. Hopkins is the able editor. The subscription is Gs per annum. In reference to the late fire at the .Royal Hotel, Hamilton East, on Tuesday, a man named Phillips, a painter by trade, lias boon arrested on suspicion of arson, and was brought before the court on Thursday, and remanded for eight days. This man has lately been acting as billiardmaker at the above hotel. The funeral of the late Mr W. S. Pulford took place on Thursday afternoon. The service at,the house was held by the Rev. W. Calder, but as he was suffering from a severe cold, the burial service was taken at tile Anglican Cemetery by Archdeacon Uudley. A number of Masonic friends of deceased and others followed the remains to the grave. A cablegram, dated London August 3, states that Sir C. B. Mitchell’s report on the Tongan disorder has been published. He states that he requested the King to grantanamnesty to thepeopleimprisoned for non-compliance with the religious law, to which the King assented, promising freedom of worship to all his subjects. The Rev. S. Baker’s deposition from the Premiership was at one time threatened,

As there has been considerable dispute ns tn whether the ush from tho late Tarawera eruption would prove beneficial or otherwise to the growth of pasture, we may state that several persons who have lately been over the district assert that tho country will be improved by it. In many places grass and Indian corn have grown stronger and more luxuriantly than before the ground was covered with the ash. Mr J. S. Duke has been dismissed from the Registrar’s office, Auckland, in consequence, it is said, of the rolls being unfairly made up, and that they were manipulated in the interest of particular candidates. Mr Duke had been engaged as principal assistant in the work of making up the rolls. Mr Collins says that .Mr Duke placed his own name on at least one roll, where he has no qualification ; that he busied himself furnishing rolls nr parts of rolls to particular candidates, and otherwise acted improperly. A committee of the Protection League had a conference with Sir Julius Vogel at Dunedin yesterday, on the sub ject of the tariff. There was a substantial agreement between the League and the Treasurer with reference to the proposed duties on goods which can bo manufactured in the colony. They disagred however upon t u e propriety of imposing duties upon rice, tapiaco, calicoes, Ac., but it was evident from the remarks of the Treasurer that ho is determined that the customs shall be made the means of a large increase to the revenue.

To the Editor.—Sir,—Rather a good thing happened in the court-house, Te Awainntu, tho other day. During the trial of a Maori for theft one of the witnesses, who, by-the-bye, professes staunch teetotalism, said in his evidence, when asked by the constable what the Marri was doing there, “He was having something hot; something I had been partaking of myself.' 1 “What,” said tho magistrate, “do yon moan by ‘something hot?’ Was it whiskey?” “Oh, no, by no means. I don’t touch whiskey.” Still the court was convulsed, as the good old gentleman is notorious for his anti-whiskey feelings. When the Premier was young, and not in receipt of £ll a day when travelling, lie wrote ; —“ Political economy says : Industry ought to bo as unshackled as the wind; restriction cripples it, protection misdirects it; the two together diminish its productiveness, and the number of mouths it has fed. Political economy lias been neglected, and wantonly thrown aside, and in these latter days its throwing aside is openly justified for tho benefit of the labourer. There is no maxim that admits of more abundant proof than that ‘ a country’s wealth cannot be increased by taxing its inhabitants.’” At a meeting of the Hamilton West School Committee, held on Thursday night. Present ; Messrs Peat, Scott, Hatrich and Parr. The action of the secretary in sending a telegram to the Board of Education on the day of their last meeting was confirmed. This telegram had reference to the necessity for a change In the teaching staff of the school. The reply of the board was to the elfect, that the only teacher available possessing the necessary qualification was Miss Elizabeth B. Murray, class D. This matter was deferred for consideration until a fuller meeting of the committee could be present. The Board also wrote asking the committee to furnish information in reference to Mr Pascoe’s grievance over the action of the head master in expelling his children for irregular attendance at the school. The Secretary was instructed to reply, stating that the committee had learned that the children referred to were habitually late, which the master considered likely to disorganise the school ; that the children had been repeatedly cautioned to come at the proper time, hut to no purpose. The committee, therefore considered clause 87 of the Education Act had been infringed, and endorser) the action of the teacher in temp- rarily expelling the, children. The secretary was also directed to respectfully request that the hoard would indicate for general information the course necessary tn pursue under similar circumstances.