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Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2379, 8 October 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)

Tin: ]'i» t’v litsle village of Cambridge, X 12. * Amen*- It, has a rii-- c mjiiur <>{ lUr.h.jj.-a! aMiiiv. It* f'u.iniii 1* tic* lUv Mr Ih-ilth*. i*.- as-i-tant ftrtina;i is the lU-v. Mr /weifel. and it?, chaplain i* the Ib-v. Mr and lh*v run ** wid de machine" when the ura*don an-* s ju>t as tliMiun th«-v were one of til'* boys. prohibitory tarili if .*lO >- b-v : «d on all w.r d.-.” . v.-ioiny f. w of them are —Nij 1m Udly TcltK r ;*J , b. Tn»: amount annn.iHy -i--nt by the Kuri o-unltO't up tie ir ..1 n.ic. and Hi*.l' I*l> I.Th* ;.3tj>«unt by As* vric.i i- ab-*nt Addd..: llor-Pre tic* c*s ?■•:* w.tr <I• f>ts ami j 1 armament* it will 1*- *•♦*•!! lb»r K»r.«i«* p:*y- 'U<! Anierr** f.'lS.dim.Oici \-*r aiiirnn. Ib-av | 'l«lv r;ni Knr*'|*e \<* h-ld h* r -wii ayaiii'i lm trail' Atlantic rival wh*n die handicap-hei'i-H at the .'tinyinep r om-m.-rcual !*u|itr*iu:*«*v with the 'tnp*-nd'‘U- charge - f per amienj. A-if tl.i, w n«.I Kur-p' ketch year incP-aMn;: h- r burd* n, whil-t An erica :< each y\ ar p*d*:<dn,: hm-. The Kri;v Min K> —lt 1auth .-ritnlnely >tate'l that if SW-Pt'*. syndicate a*jr*«* t*« cert dn teh' recently framed. the <» »veynncnl intend jrranlin£ them a rive year** Km-c <d the ruby min*** at a yearly rental « f f*»nr lakh* of mpu*. Tins pr»*j*.s:il t<* dbp* *e * f the mby mines to gentlemen hitheito nnonnectMi v. ill* T'nrmali at a ! *-.\. r r< Ijl than o tiM obtained in the open market, without ofTt»iin? the to j*uh!:c c nijutiti- n. and while all rivals have h.vn rigidly excluded from li'itin" the extir s mncli d!>sati'fncth*n in C“iMieici:tl circle*. While at the mhy irine* Mr (.'resthv/.id* 1 had with the imi ortant Shan chief- ..f Monanl and They submitted, and undertook !■» pay hr thnr t**iTiton**< ai: annua! reM.i:m- a-?<*ssed h)* Mr f*ro.-.ihwMite. Many Sij.-m chief.' are still holding aloof, l*KoKr:><i»K lUu.win*. when asked wh it Ij* l thought nf this pari of tie 1 «r!obe, implied “Well, I think this, The*e e.donies aW just the xrost. prnsperrus in the world. I h-me-tly heliere there is more real hippiness and hj misery in these colonies than anywhere dse in the world. 1 like Ameri -i, f r I'm an horn : bat I r* U you. sir, I am coining back here after I hj ive to the States, and I , m«r«ii:i:r to settle in Sydney. That's the h**-t theatrical town in this part of the w--r:d." AuKANcKMhNT.s hare been completed and the capital Milis-riled f (, r n nets* London afternoon hj ilfje nny paper, which will shortly. The capital 5* un h*r* sto'dtohive bo n fmiii'ie l by Mv.-rd well-known wealthy nie:nh**r' of Radi liraT* :, e policy of *!'■’ piper i!l be V* ry a ivan'**--l < I!ad'-o: i m Lib- ralj in, undthevlit r v*ill bo T. I*. OCmn *:, member of lit li t The nr tv pip'r i'intend-d to provide with a poliih-il mou*h pj e. tic* Mi;i*s S nf Iti-Tldpoll* ill Radicals who are now pr.olh ally without representation in Varli un« nt er in newspapers. Ok the thirteen n< wlv-c*reated haron»d* the only oi’.i- «!i'i i> «i>l< !v known is Sir A. Bortiiwicn, M i l ,. tlu- proprietor and director of t!;e Monday R* t. lit* is himself a clever speiki-r and writer, and has an immu.-'e kji .wlrd/e <.f fnrtiyn politics, hut it is I *s v. in-who Ins mvlo his position in th: world for him. She is a J.h*cc of tin*-taV'is.an Lord < Tircudon, a step- lav; jlib t of Sir (ho;j- <’‘tii*u;dl a i::-!aw of Sir William llarcourt, and a >i.'l* r of Sir T, V. Lister, the Lankr - Secretary at the Korciyn Olli *c. She is one < f the* hu.'U 't and ni".?t «< iin 11 in Loniimi snfi'-ty. ;i:ni il l. ;i linn -c in l‘i.- aihily nf jircat .--plnnionr. win re >!ie parlies to wiiieii ail l!'c meat uius of the hour are yla-l to L'o. A lew y< ars < :r AL'ernon Berlin'.r< ‘ln.:. ■ 1 li:s paji- r from oi to I'i, ami tiic ilf-et was to .’oiil.ie iiis foitnnr. It i' tire stupid* 't piper, politi eihy, in London, hut it 3n< the iiicmopoly of a certain <da>> <i ‘‘attenuated person ilisb-.- ‘ n latiny to the ari'So:racy, and wiien the Miohocracy fum.d tint it eoulil tiij. for a peiiiiy, 1 regret to say that akont lOO.OOU nf them (lisear'leil the superbly manag .Slainlard for Sir Algernon Borthwi'.k’i

iiewsle-.s sheet. A TKA VKI.I.KK ill IVlsil relates tint while on a visit to a Judge a man was brought in who stoutly denied the offence with which he was chanted. The Judge fixed his eyes on the prisoner. «ho had stretched f-t hj one of his lingt rs, and exclaimed : “Von are guilty!" “By tievcucr.ihle head I vow I an; not guilty !" protested the accused, raising two lingei;. This process was continued until he at last stretched five lingers on each hand, when the magistrate remarked : “ Good, let him go. he is innocent." The traveller h-lined afterwards that hy raising his linger the prisoner meant the ■Judge to uin'crstind that he offered one tonan ( ihor.t Ills) for his release, and had been compelled to raise the amount hy successive bids to ten toiiaus (£.')) in order to satisfy the demands of IVi-ian j.istic-. “ Wool, in the grease” introduces in lie-M irk Line Express the subject i f shearing hy machinery. After showing how th-- pr.ietico of washing the wool on the sheep's bark has gone out of fashion in Keg!uni, and the tendency to aboli-h it altogether in favour of shearing in the aiCi*-. o:ir <:*»uU mporaty proetcied t* a*tin* pri‘^r f -> i>f lh«-chiiije in H*i« country, and added: “la the Unite 1 Slat'*'and in 'he L t I’l.ta dhtiicts th • in*TcJ>e of *.voul xiv.u kvt* d ill the gre-**: •»f hi*s* yt .ir- }i x* \ v* ry in ti ked. I: :h»-* f rati: try »he or «p m ISrJ n-i- j S 't!ira-d a* of whieh •VJ *71.-‘siUh> »'t-ro washed wtml, and ■-h'S.-V- 1 -”*, 1 vvo<<l. The principle of nTy i'V w<r»l J:m-t tber<*> fore Ih* riirht: and uv think that the practice will e amin nd its If to onr fleckiin*ters. If nmlilvxrn i let step* l.f taken to sell direct to snaimfaetuier*. Me itj.vhi’e, >heirinjr hy tliie.il m-an> i-« w<*r*hy ol ni ♦:*• * vt* nurd tiial than it na> \et had in this ‘ - iintry, for the ids-a i* not a riov* 1.-io. Tin.-principle is one whitrh only n*>ds p-rfe>*ti*i!i in detgsih t’» whieh the Au-Jraiitn invention vv«»nl d sevsnto ha win re “hj *n nn/i.aA '» * ceueti. Wjjk.v <n;\u %v.\s FiksT UsKii.—The e.xaetdite when was first nude rind used is lost :n the u.i-t of f;iUc. MoAKVd-, is said to luve h..eu known to the Chine.-*- 3(hT> years a"c, and there is not inueh dunbt that tlic !!MUnfaetnr** of the atticl- w;e v* tried on in (‘hina *J»MJ yeat- U for* i hiist- A strong clahn for priority I as htn u made for India. Pnd*:*M v the Hindoos learned the art from the Chines.*, and from India tlie know ledge wii-canit i further west, j Three hundred ami twenty-live years | In fore Christ, Ale.vauiler tent Xcarchus i with a large fleet down the Indus to I explore the adjacent countries. When that officer returneil from his expedition 1 lie brought to Greece an account of honey i (siigiii which the Asiatics made from j cane, wituout any assistance from bees. 1 This was the earliest idea the western nations had of sugar, the -Jews, Egyptians, Biylonians and Greeks knowg nothing of its A= late as a.ii. I-'O sugar was pr— crjlu-d by Gal-na. th- , r-iiious physician, as a medicine. Before. | the discovery of American sugar it was a j c stly luxury, used on rare occasions, j The process of refining sugar was probably i an invention of the Arabs. A Venetian In-reliant learned the =e:rct from the j Saracens of Sicily, and sold the art tor 1 UJO.OOO crowns.