"Equity's " letter and correspon dents' reports are unavoidably held over.
Mr G-. E. Alderton delivered an interesting lecture at Cambridge on Saturday en " Fruit Culture," a report of which will appear in our Supplement.
Mr W. A. Graham leaves to-day for Wellington on a trip for the benefit of his health. We wish him bon voyage, and a return in recuperated .strength.
A farmer at Manaia found a live lamb the other tiny having two tads and four cars, but otherwise perfect. One of the so-called tails was growing out of its ear. The limb is since (lead.
It is expected that the Premier will visit Auckland in a month or two. One of the chief objects of his visit will be to deliver an address on the PropertyTax and its value as an equitable means of tilling the Government coffers.
Certain protectionists in Newton have been agitating to procure the resigna tion of their sitting member. Mr Withy is a man of superior principles, and guided by a very high sense of duty. He is a representative that any constituency would be proud of, and need never be at a loss for a seat should ho retire from Newton.
Mr R. T. Booth, who is now en tour in Australia, quite out Yankeed the Yankees in the course of an address at a suburb of Sydney the other day. He said that if any twopenny-halfpenny country went to war, the Australians, English, and Americans are in a position to give them a cuff and put them to bed. The Englishspeaking nations, notably England, America, and Australia, number nearly 100,000,000 souls. He regretted that men thought so much of building forts and firing guns ; but let the Russian bear put his paw upon the fair land of Australia, then the British lion, the American eagle, and the Australian kangaroo would rise up as one man and drive him ignoinitiionsly to his lair. The utterance of these words caused cheering that lasted fully five minutes. Tho picture of a lion, and an eagle and a kangaroo rising up ''as one man " is the finest example of muddled metaphor we have me'; with for a long time.—Exchange.
Our Sydney correspondent writes : —Business continues as dull as ditchwater, and is likely to remain so until capital once more begins to enter upon productive enterprise. The foundation of the .present state of affairs was laid in the extravagance of tho previous Government. Their lavish expenditure of borrowed money on public works enticed from the walks of ordinary industry numbers of small capitalists and hardworking men, who found that the wages and profits to be made out of Government contracts were far more attractive than those which they had derived from mere commonplace but more useful pursuits. The expenditure of borrowed money has been considerably checked, but those among whom it was distributed are in no hurry to go back to their former avocations. Many of the labourers are to be found on the relief works, and the contractors have become mining speculators, land jobbers, company promoters, or what not, or are off over the border to Victoria. Our frionds down south are rejoicing in a glut of prosperity of the same kind as that which made things "hum" here two or three years ago. I hope they won't have to pay for it as dearly.
In our obituary columns to-day will ba found the notice of the death of Mr .Tolm Martyn junior, which'took place on Saturday night at his residence, Broadmeadows, at the comparatively early age of 50 years. Mr Martyn may be said to have boon one of the early pioneers of the Waikato. Together with his brother, Mr W. L. Martyn, lie came to this district over twenty years ago, and purchased a block nf native land, two thousand acres in extent, at Tamaliere. For many years Messrs Martyn carried on farming operations on .i somewhat extensive scale, bringing the whole, of the property into an advanced state of cultivation. This estate, since known by the name of Pencarrow, may be set down as one of the finest properties in the Waikato. Messrs Martyn were in every sense of the term practical farmers, as can be seen by the thorough way m which Pen*
carrow has been subdivided and unproved uy them. The late Mr .lohn Martyn, who was a man of quiet and unassuming manners, was held in great esteem by a wide circle of friends in theso districts, for his .sterling good qualities and sound judgment upon all matters connected with agricultural pursuits. His death at the prime of his life is deeply regretted, although his failing health for some years past, has prepared his family and friends for the sad end. The funeral will lake place from his late residence to-day, at 2 p.m.
Although the effect may not be very generally apparent, there can be no doubt that the recent rise in the price of all our staple products has greatly benefitted this colony. Depression still continues, but it is not so deep, and there is a much more hopeful feeling growing up. The' advance in wool and in the price of frozen meat has been most welcome to the sheep farmors, and will relieve them to a considerable extent of burdens which wore becoming ahncst too heavy to bear. Tim prospects of the agriculturists have also been vastly improved by the rise in the value of grain, and by the expansion of dairying. Altogether the pastoral and agricultural outlook is far brighter than it has been for some time past; and if prices of produce are maintained, or a further advance takes place in values, as is not improbable, confidence will speedily be restored, and fresh enterprise encouraged. There are also, we think, hopeful signs apparent of a revival in mining matters, in an increased gold production, and a development of new mineral resources. This colony, too, is likely, ere long, to attract an overflow of the English capital which has recently been pouring so freely into Melbourne, to the great advantage of that city. Taken altogether there is good reason to believe that the lowest point of depression has not only been reached but passed by this colony.—Wellington Post.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2523, 11 September 1888, Page 2
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