The Waikato TImes AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE. THURSDAY, DEC. 20, 1887.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2414, 29 December 1887, Page 2

The Waikato Tlmes AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

THURSDAY , DEC. 20, 1887.

Equal and exact justice to all men. 01 whatsoever state 01 persuasion, relijriotn or political.

Dumxf'r the debate on the second reading of the Government Railways Dil., the member for Waikato addressed the House on the general question of our railway system. The brief telegraphic report of his speech which appeared in the press at the time created the impression on the minds of many of his constituents that Mr Whyte had caused amusement by saying jocularly that his valuable services had been nearly lost to the country in consequence of his hostility to Mr Vailc’s scheme. That this view was an erroneous one will be found on perusing Mr Whyte’s speech, which we reprint iu extenso in to-day’s issue from Hansard. The feeling throughout the Waikato on the management of the railways is so great, that it seem to us very proper to place before our readers a complete report of the opinion on so important a matter expressed in Parliament by the representative of one of the electorates.

Two or three French war vessels tiro expected in Auckland. Between £4O and £SO v/as taken at tin; Catholic Bazaar on .Monday. The mediation of England between Italy ana Abyssina lias failed. Russia is pressing Turkey to compel Prince Ferdinand to abdicate. Mr H- Walpole, the promoter and former manager of the Te Awamntn Cheese Factory died recently in Australia. Mr Justin McCarthy states that Lord Carnarvon has accepted Mr Parnell’s Home Hide scheme. There is likely to be a deadlock between tlie British Post-master General and the steamship companies over the carriage of parcels. Lieut -Colonel Shepherd arrived last night, and inspects the Hamilton Light Infantry this morning at 11 o’clock on •Sydney Square. The solution of the biblical engima published in last Saturday's supplement will he found in I. Samuel, chap. XIX., v. 13 to 10. Mr Bell’s bakers’ cart was upset near the old redoubt, Hamilton Hast, on Tuesday morning, and the shafts were broken. The Taupiri Extended Coal Company are the successful tenderers for the supply of coal for the Railway Department, at os per ton. Milk suppliers to the Hamilton Factory are greatly dissatisfied with the action of the manager in rejecting their supplies of milk without any apparent valid reasons. We have received the first copy of a now journal, the Tauranga Mail, started by Mr Henry, formerly of the Bay of Plenty Times. We wish our contemporary .success. The Roman Catholic Bishop of Ballarat lias had a private audience with the Pope, and presented an address from Victorian Catholics with 1000 sovereigns, quartz specimens and other gifts. The youth Doyle, apprehended by the police for stealing a horse belonging to Mr Anderson of Kihikihi, was brought before Mr John Knox and Captain Steele, J.P.’s, yesterday, and committed for trial. We remind cricketers that the match between Hamilton and Tuakau will begin at 0 a.m. on Saturday on Sydney Square. Seats will be provided for ladies, and we expect to see a good muster of the public on the ground. At the bicycle competition in Christchurch on Monday and Tuesday, Mr •L R. Handyside, of Hamilton, came third in the first heat of the one mile race and the five mile race, a dead heat with X. F. Hall for the Ladies’ Bracelet, and fourth in the 10 mile champion race. The capabilities of the soil around Hamilton for small fruit-growing is well illustrated liy the magnificent strawberries grown by Mr Castleton, at Fr.ankton. His Marguerites are about the finest we have ever seen, some of them measuring nearly four inches in girth. A sitting of the Native Land Court is gazetted for 18tli January to be hold at Cambridge for the purpose of dealing with the applications for a rehearing of the decision by the Taupo Court in the matter of ownership over the Taupo-nui-a-tia block, The Russian universities are in a state of ferment, and several arrests have been made. The colleges throughout the country, except the University of Kieff, have been closed. The students have appealed to the Emperor against the vexations rules imposed. We are informed that Mr George Dickenson, of Cambridge, was the writer of the letter to Mr J. B. Whyte with reference to keeping the Cambridge Post Office open for halt an hour after the arrival of the late mails. It is, therefore, evident that Mr Vhyte mistook Mr Dickenson's signature for Mr O. W. Russell’s, and sent the latter gentleman an acknowledgment of its receipt. A cricket match, Cambridge v. Tuakau, will be played at Cambridge tomorrow. Play will commence at 11 am. L’bo home team will bo selected from the Allowing:—Messrs Ansenne, Case, Crookes, Garland, Forrest, Hunter, Hunt, Long■lottom, McVeigh, Rutherfurd, A 15. Stub■iing, and Wilson. Several of the Tuakau ream have been staying in Cambridge during the fete. Their team will probably he is follows Messrs Ewing (captain), A. nd F. Brown, Elliot, Turbot, Collins, Smeod, Poland, Evans and Hill. Mr Logis, the officer in charge of the Hamilton post and telegraph office, has lately bad some alterations made in the internal arrangements of his olfioe, which ifiord greater convenience and accommodation. The telegraph batteries are now olaced in a room built in a place excavated for the purpose between the foundation oiles of tlie building. The telephones are fitted up in a cabinet loading from the mail mom, and the telegraph instruments are now arranged in a more comfortable position. A new journal has just appeared in Naples, with the very unamiable title of U Demolitore. It is the organ of the “Anarchist Communists” of Italy. It has been started to preach the gospel of universal smash. “ Our aim,” says the Editor, “is demolition; or, to express it more precisely, wo intend to show humanity that it can only arrive at the fell unfolding of its powers, at a true regeneration, and a happy life in this world by the total destruction of the existing social order."