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Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2360, 25 August 1887, Page 2

There was a heavy fall of snow at Greymouth on Tuesday. A nugget weighing 6170zs has been found in the Midas mine, Maryborough, Victoria. The death is announced of Mr Miles, the Minister for Public Works and Mines, Queensland, after a short illness. The members of the Auckland police force presented a handsome tea and coffee set to Mrs Bulford on Tuesday evening. ■ Information reached Hamilton yesterday evening that Mrs Richards house at Whatawhata, had been destroyed by fire, with ail her effects. There was no one in the house at the time. The Waikato Cheese and Bacon Factory Company have come totems with the Freezing Company for taking over the factory, This will be a relief to many of the shareholders. Mr J. B- Teasdale is out for Waipa. His address appears in this issue. Ho will ;imld meetings at tho various centres at times and places to be hereafter notified. A London cablegram states that the P. and 0. Steamship Company is arranging excursion trips to Australia on special terms. The return saloon fare has been fixed at 100 guineas. The Timaru Evening Mail of August 17th, states that the railway department has despatched officers from Wellington to inquire into tho complaints against the management of the Waikato railway. Encouraging news has been received from the Thames goldfield, which has given a much bettor tone to the stock and shareinarket. At the Auckland stock exchange on Tuesday, business in Cambria shares were done at 4s to 4s 3d. A very fine piece of gum arrived in Auckland on Tuesday, which had been dug out of the Swanson gumfield. It was 331bs in weight. Most of tho men are doing well on the Held who are of sober and industrious habits. Mr Graham’s address on sugar beet culture, delivered by him at Obaupo on Tuesday, was considered of so much public importance that the meeting requested Mr Graham to have it printed and issued in pamphlet form. The Hamilton Domain Board met last night to consider tenders for improvements at the Lake Reserve, about 30 acres. Only two tenders were received: —J. Coombes, 7s per acre for harrowing and sowing, and R. Waite os (id per acre. The latter was accepted. A Dunedin telegram states that it was reported to the Acclimatisation Society that the American white fish had not been altogether a failure, as one at least had been caught in the ponds. The society resolved to issue licenses for netting brown trout in the Otago Harbour and Lake Waihora. As Dr. Waddington’s groom went to meet him with his horse and buggy at the Cambridge station yesterday afternoon, the horse was startled, and started away at a trot without the groom, and would very likely have reached tho doctor’s house in safety if it had not been for several people trying to stop him. This caused the horse to break into a gallop, and eventually the buggy was wrecked against a fence. At the meeting of the Education Board on Friday, lllth inst, a letter was received from Kihikihi asking for certain information as to the age at which children should attend school, and also go up for examination. —Resolved that the information be forwarded. —On the motion of Mr Upton it was decided that the Inspectors should be asked to report upon the length of time a child should remain in a school prior to passing the first standard. A general meeting of the congregation and parishioners of S. Andrew’s Church is called for this evening, to make final arrangements for the fete at Christmas, the preliminaries of which were settled at the beginning of the year. At the urgent request of the officers and other friends of the Church, Mr George Shirley has kindly undertaken thsgenerai managership, and has prepared a programme, to be submitted to the meeting this evening. A London cablegram, dated August 22nd, states that the Rev. Alphonsiis O’Neill sails in September for Sydney, where he will inaugurate the Order of the Passionists. Passionista are certain priests of the Roman Catholic Church, who mutually agree to preach “ Jesus Christ, and Him Crucified.” The founder of this congregation was Paul Francis, surnamed “ Paul of the Cross.” Mr Shirley, who was the prime mover in the getting up of the very successful character concert lately given at Cambridge, has kindly consented to take the management of a somewhat similar entertainment, to be given on September 23rd, in aid of tho Jubilee building fund of tho Cambridge library. We congratulate the committee on having secured tho services of so energetic and able a gentleman, who will doubtless add another laurel to his crown. The settlers at the northern village settlements appear to ho getting on well, judging from tho paucity of complaints from them. In this case “ no nows is good news.” Some of the village settlefs were at tho Crown Lands Office and Survey J, Department yesterday in relation to getting »■ the fruit trees olfered to sucli settlers. Il._£ appears they were rather late in getting their ground prepared, and therefore did not come within the terms specified by the regulations. All further operations in the way of village settlements have been suspended, ponding the assembling of the new Parliament, and its decision on the scheme. -Herald. A Press Association telegram from Greymouth on Tuesday says Navvies and other hard-working men continue to come here looking for work on the railway line, but are unable to obtain any. Most of them have spent all they had coming bore, About 2000 men are reported to be damped in the neighbourhood of the Twelve Mile bush, who cannot get work. 'They keep coming and going constantly. Home got a few days’ work, and are then knocked off, others being taken on in their placo.The men say they wore induced to come hero through seeing advertisements in the papers stating that pick and shovel men were wanted Oh ffie Midland Railway. Tlie Timaru Herald, speaking of the rumours that Sir Julius Vogel is to bo provided with a sung appointment such as permanent Chief of the Insurance Department, or Controller and Auditor-General, concludes itsarlicje ‘I Ho promised that he would remove the depression and revive the prosperity ‘within a few months,’ apd when asked how many he called‘a few,’ he replied, * two or three,’ .Forty months have passed away since his pDturn, and the politics and finances of New Zealand have been getting into a worse and worse state

all tho time. He has not saved the country, bar from it. He has piled on taxes and let everything go to rack and ruin. Yet, forsooth, the people whom he has so grossly deceived, are to make him comfortable for life. It is too much, too much.” At a banquet at St. Patrick’s Club, Melbourne, on Wednesday last, Archbishop Carr, in a speech on the education question, said The child who had no religion intertwined with his secular instruction would not and could not he a good citizen. If they wished to destroy socialism, and have recognition for the rights of property and the rights of the individual in this community, they must take care that the children of the community were firmly and solidly imbued with the principles of religion. Otherwise they might expect in the colony what had been the curse of older communities—the sad spectacle of the rising generation ignoring God, and having no respect for the laws of society or thejState.”

It is satisfactory to find that the carp placed in the To Koutu lake at Cambridge some years ago are multiplying, and —although they are difficult fish to catch and not over palatable when caught—bettor these than nothing. Last week one was found at the edge of the lake that would have weighed about 21bs, if part of it had not been eaten. It was probably killed by a bittern. The caretaker reports having seen several that were very much larger than the one found. We trust that the American Cat Fish, deposited in the lake last summer by Mr Alfred Hughes, may he equally prosperous; the inhabitants of the town will then have not only a good supply of wholesome food, but will also be able to enjoy a day’s angling nowand then. We are .told that cat fish obtain a weight of GQlba. If so they would indeed be worth catching, and would give fine sport before being landed.

Mr Van Hagen, of Tonga, who is known to many in Auckland, and who at present is here on his way to England, informs us that ho was present at the executions of the men who attempted to murder the Rev. Mr Baker. He determined to erect some kind of a monument to mark where they were shot, on the island of Malinoa, at the entrance of the harbour. He had made a large cross, which would stand about twelve feet out of the ground when fixed. He had it painted red, and on it placed the inscription (in Latin,) “ Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.” On the steamer Southern Cross leaving Tonga for Fiji about the first week in July, Mr Van Hagen put the cross on board, and on reaching the island, the anchor was cast, and a party landed and fixed the monument. The captain of the Southern Cross, on returning to Tonga, was threatened by Mr Leefe, the British Consul, that he would he fined lOOOduls, for calling at a place other than a port of entry. He, however, claimed that Malinoa was in the harbour of Tonga, and that when he stopped the pilot was in charge of the vessel. — Herald.