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Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2397, 19 November 1887, Page 2

A lettsr is at this office awaiting “.1.L.C.”

Sir John Gorst is on his waJ^Sut on a visit to New Zealand.

The road from Ngaruawahia to the Hot Springs is almost completed.

Mr F. A. Quick’s steamer, “Blanche,” has commenced running to Alexandra on the Waipa River. The returns for October give the number of new arrivals into the colony at 1.055, and the departures at 700. In our snppliment will be found a letter from Mr S. Vaile on Railway cost of transit.

Tho weather throughout the Waikato lias been very chilly for the last few days, and inclined to be fiosty at night.

Mr J. B. Whyte presented a petition from the Catholics iff Cambridge, praying that Catholic Schools bo put mi a footing of equality with public schools.

The Observer is responsible for the following“ The Mayor of Hamilton has offered a reward t.i anyone who will give such information as will leid to the conviction of the Saurian conspirators.”

Mr Seddon's “ cheek” in assuming the leadership of the Opposition durimr Uic dclmle on the Vogel alfair has given great umbrage to the party, especially to Mr B.dlancc. It is said this is the last step needed to thoroughly disorganise the party. t The New Zealand Frozen Meat and •Storage Company have an advertisement in this issue ot great importance to stock breeders. They aim since that they arc buyers of prime fat beasts, sheep and pigs at fair prices.

A Press Association telegram last nigh! Nliitiu that public npinimi in Auckland is m favour of Mr Thompson, member l ii’ Marsdcn, and the Political ibTorm Asurf-ialion telegraphed to him its thanks for Ids services in the cause of retrenchmimt.

In our suppliment to day * l Tieand Trick** is continued. There are also an amusing domestic story “Mr and Mrs H ovsit ‘‘ n dmmiap’a description of the limestone ewes by our special reporter; Hints to tobacco-growcrs and other intcroting reading matter. Amongst the tenderers for the Ohinemuri contract of the Thames Waikato Kaiiway, we notice the following from I faniilton, Mr J. (d. Louth, 1*3,020; mid Messrs (Mates and Metcalfe, The sum>.-ful tenderer is Mr Thus. .M nliville, of Auckland, Mr CannelU of Hamilton, whilst ridiiu'to Waite!mia with a led horse, mi Wedne-day, slipped through the temporary plank* of a culvert in course of construction, and. will} both horse*, slipped to the l'u! Tom about t avlve feet deep. Kortimately he iveuved no other injury than a good covering of sot; clay.

Tim Raglan “Saurian" was on nxhibilhm :.t tin; nkl Auction Mart last light, an 1 drew a large number of visiters, whu were nut to be detrm-d by the fear of anuthvr “ impudent hoax.” it is a feniah; bi'hinging tu a genera iff tile phucida', as we iiieiiliniied in our last issue, and is well wurth seeing. It will been wow during the whole nt iu-day, and alsu lu-nighl.

A meeting of the Hamilton Light Infantry is called fur this evening at seven o'clock, to take into consideration the reply iccuved to a telegram forwarded by Capt. Reid tollie Defence Department regarding the railway facilities offered that this corps may attend Col, Lyon's funeral in Auckland on Sunday next. Jt is expected that. Lie company will be conveyed to Auckland bv special train, returning same evening. Volunteers arc required to bring their ritles and side-arms with them to the hall tonight. A considerable amount of time was consumed in the House on Thursday over the employment of a young man n's platelayer at Is 01 per day, thereby depriving the adult woikman from earning lis lid per day. The I l.i'.ernment denied they intended reducing wages, ft appears that the House lias been falling away from the solemn attention it Dr dd bo giving to the ff.-i’ii-us bii-'iiicss "f the colony's affairs and is b -'itini:ju to waste the time and money of in ;- c nmtry over the most paltry

An oxciting buggy accident took place yv-lcrd iv aitcniuMi. Whilst Air I’ickering's bnggv was standing at .Mr Uarngh s place at Tamaheie, the horse tank fright and bated towards Hamilton, and did not finish its career till it reached Hiuuiltm Hast, where it came in contact

with tin’. str-ol I ;« 11 :it the c-h iht of dl-l'n-i near 111*: Police Station. Xo wry great amount of damage Was done. 11 1 b ■ inonly -'co ■ slight inju; v to tin; barnes* and the slieet lamp was broken.

With regird to the Rangiriri eleclion, which has result'd in the return of tin* old in miber by a nnj wily of two \ot- s, we arc ii)t-n niad that by a clerical error the name of Mr .MeFarJane, of Huntlv, w.-o-nmiUi'i! from the toff, who, it is under>tood. would have voted for Mr Hubbard, thus reducing the .nij-nity to one vote. As, however, the result would have been the same, no harm has been done. Out of a possible eighty votes which might have been exercised by resident ratepayers, only .VJ weie recorded by 17 persons. !>7 rate, payers were debarred from voting, being on the defaulter’s list. We congratulate Mr .lohnson on resuming his seat in the Goun-

The Hamilton Creamery resumed work yesterday, with the aid of one of Mr l-aae Coates engine in place of the factory's, which is not powerful enough to work the separator. The result of yesterday's operations, we are sorry to say, was not very satisfactory ; there must have been a lot of impure milk amongst the quantity received that morning. It is absolutely necessary that milk suppliers should exercise the greatest care in delivering none but the. sweetest of milk, as one bad lot will destroy the whole day’s work, and put the company to great loss. There is, no doubt much trouble iu keeping milk cool during the summer months, but to those who have no dairy refrigerators, wo niter the suggestion that they put half a teaspoonful of saltpetre to ton gallons of milk, whice will prevent deterioration. The factory was at work last night rectifying some little irregularities in the machinery, such as the size of the pullies, which interfere with the right speed required. We understand the Pnkekohe creamery is receiving from 1(100 to 1700 gallons per day, and is working with greatest satisfaction. The system is a correct one, the trouble being with small -details that can, however, be easily overcome. Mr. Pyke’s Roman Catholic Schools Bill sets forth that the Homan Catholics of New Zealand have established and are maintaining primary schools throughout the Colony for the purpose of giving education to the Roman Catholic youth ; that the conscientious convictions of Roman Catholics in regard to education should he respected, and that their schools should be recognised by the State in so far as they give secular education; also that they contribute equally to the taxation by which State schools are supported, and the attendance at the State schools in large centres ot population is considerably dimhished by the number of children attending Roman Catholic schools, whereby the cost to the State of primary education is lessened, and that, therefore, it is just and right that such Roman Catholic schools should receive a capitation allowance for children attending thereat. It is accordingly provided that every Roman. Catholic school which is conducted in accordance with the provisions of the Kdupatiou Act and its regulations in respect of the qualifications of teachers, course of instruction, attendance at school and inspection by an Inspector of the Board of Education, shall be deemed to bo a public school within the moaning of the Act, and that every such school shall be entitled to receive a capitation allowance equal to two-thirds of the allowance granted to public schools established under the said Act; provided that no such school shall he entitled to a share in such funds unless the average number of pupils attending the same be fifty or more. With, reference to the Main Trunk Railway, we take the following notes from Mr KochioiTs report, and from other sources, descriptive of the country it traverses Towards Patna, with the exception of the -Murimotu Plain, the country is com pose I of a succession of razor-backed ridges, and is a largo tract of country abandoned by the Government some years ago, preferring to sacrifice the first payments after reading the reports of their olHcers. Dr. llochstetter calls the Murimotn Plain “a pumice-stone plateau, of the character of a sandy desert.” When the line leaves the .Murimotu Plain it cuts through about 25 miles of good birch country alternated with pumice plains, at an elevation of 2,(100 feet abreast of the Wanganui river the 1)0 miles run through, what .Mr Rochfort describes as “a continuous gorge.” The Waimarino Plains, lately purchased by the Stunt-Vogel Government, which the line crosses, are clecribed by Dr. Hochstatter as “a putnicektone plateau, 3,188 feet above sea TheTnlma country traversed by the line is, according to Dr Hochstettor, of terrace formation in 11 extensive table lands covered with pumice-stone, and everything indicates to the observer that he is drawing nearer and nearer to a powerful volcanic hearth, from which those luigli masses of pumicestone and trachyte-tuff originate.” The western slope of the Tulma mountain “ is a plateau literary covered with pumice-stone.” After leaving Tulma the line runs up the Ongarnhe river, which “runs through an extensive table-land of pumice-stone called Tetcraka,” a yellowish desolate stretch, on which nothing but moss and stunted manuka will grow. After leaving the Ongarnhe the line cuts through a range extending from Rangitoto to Olinra, which is described by Dr. Hochstettor as “ dark ravines and gloomy wood-clad mountains.” Mr Williams speaks of a stretch of 80 miles outlie iMarton line as “a purely pumice country, so sterile that sheep will not thrive on it, and doubtful whether it is capable of being put to any profitable use.” The line then comes out on the Upper Mok.au, at the point of the proposed deviation for the Stratford route. The latter lino is llirnngh fertile country, well watered, with rich valleys, and is contiguous to nearly -150,000 acres of Crown lands.

The American Wool Reporter of August 18th strongly opposes the protective tariff which is imposed on im ported wool. 11 states that the high import tax on raw wool has not served to help the growers or to induce them to keep up to other countries in production, and it has certainly been the death of many of the manufacturers of the, [Tilted States. In nearly every other agricultural product that cannot claim the least benefit from a protective tariff, the States compete with other countries in the markets of the world, but the wool-growers claim that their business is unprofitable and want the tax increased. The .Reporter adds : 11 We must remember there are a hundred people of the country interested in getting their clothing cheap where there is one wanting worsted goods to cost more, and they will want the law construed to give thorn cheap clothing. It is the opinion of many who have given this whole subject a practical study that the only help for the wool and woollen business must conic by putting our manufactures upon equal terms with those of other countries in getting raw materials,” It would be of great advantage to the wool-growers of New Zealand if the dntyweioto boremoved. and it is satisfactory to see the Americans themselves awakening to the true meaning and real consequences of a •protective tariff.