The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE. Equal and exact justice to all men, Of whatsoever state or persuasion, religious or political. THURSDAY, OCT. 18, 1888.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2539, 18 October 1888, Page 2

The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE. Equal and exact justice to all men, Of whatsoever state or persuasion, religious or political. THURSDAY, OCT. 18, 1888.

Fau removed as we colonials are. from the heart of the world's political and diplomatic action, we cannot form that full conception of meaning in regard to those; groat movements and forces which are impelling the great nations, that personal observation and contact would afford us. The mighty influences which are at work iu tlio

centre of civilisation do certainly exerta perceptible influence upon us, ; liut the pulsations that reach these mnote extremities of tlie Imperial , system are like the expended ocean '■ wave, whose velocity and energy have become diminished with tlie : broad distance over which it has i travelled. We arc not stirred ' to the same degree; as our compatriots at Home, nor do wu perceive sutiieient causes for disturbing tho even tenour of our democratic simplicity and retirement. Thus colonial people, as a rule, either give little heed to the position their Motherland occupies iu the world's economy, or form a very imperfect estimate of the power and destiny of the race which hns poured forth from her soil. It is true that there is a divergence of views in respect to the strength and influence of "Perfidious Albion " by the side of other Powers or combination of Powers. It is declared by some, though we are free to confess that we find by experience they are a small number, the decadence of Great Britain iias long set in, and the ultimate disruption of her magnificent Empire is but a question of time. Colonials who have not lived and moved amongst people under other flags where the noblest specimens of Britain's Islanders have left their impress, cannot conceive the truth and depth of the proud Uoast of the Englishman's "glorious charter," Only those who have beheld the respect, fear and reverence paid to tho grand old flag as it waves in the air can know it, think of it and thank God for it. Blunders and errors have been made by Great Britain ; faults and imperfections slim possesses such as the highest type of any human agency will make and possess where only the Divine can be faultless and perfect. A little calm reflection and examination should satisfy the minds of those inclined to be pessimistic as regards their own country. There are no signs that British influence is declining in the councils of the great Powers or in shaping the policies of minor nations. On the contrary England's potentiality is as strong as ever it was : indeed, in the opinions of those well able to judg-;, it never was as strong as now. In spite of alarms, scares and threats her insular impregnability has not been assailed. Her foot has been planted in Egypt, and none, not even the most formidable of her adversaries, has been bold enough to attempt to dislodge her, uxee.pt by futile diplomacy. The growth of her empire cannot be arrested ; every year sees its limits expanding and fresh accessions made to, and dominions absorbed by the overpowering sovereignty of the QueeiiEinpress. In Asia, Africa and the Pacific, Anglo-Saxon energy, fortitude and triumphs are irresistibly winning new acquisitions for tho British Crown. Jn material wealth she exceeds all other nations of ancient or modern times. Hci , commerce penetrates every inhabitable place on the earth's surface, and her rnorcanti e marine is outnumbering all rivals, and is equal to three-fourths of the whole world's. Her language is tho favourite medium of communication, and is fast becoming of universal use. The spirit and capacity of colonisation is a marked peculiarity of her people ; under whatever conditions or climate, from torrid to antarctic, the endurance and industry of the British exhibit their superiority and adaptability. 'I he sense of duty in all Englishmen, the chivalry of Britain's soldiers and the valour of her seamen, the astuteness of her statesmen, remain as conspicious as of old, and continue to defend and guard with undiminished jealousy the national honour and glory. The pride of race in the people themselves exercises an unconseious force in the assertion of their strong will over other nationalities. We have the testimony of observant and frank foreigners to the might and majesty of the British power. Watching this quiet and encroaching growth of the Empire; casting our eyes back and comparing the present with the past, we can form an idea of the possibilities of the future and confess that Great Britain is far yet from having reached ths zenith of her greatness. In all the quarters of the globe she is being urged as though by an unseen and mysterious agency to attain a destiny we, perhaps, cannot yet realize or dream of. We can detect signs of this design in the progressive movements now engaging public attention in England and the colonies, and also America. The agitation for Imperial Federation, which will in process of time be consummated, is but another means to strengthen the Empire and increase its universality. The efforts pursued to augment the facilities for colonisation, the question of State-aid to comprehensive schemes of that nature, are like inspirations in the minds of rulers and leaders of thought to serve the spread of the Anglo-Saxon people and enlarge their political power throughout the world. Other nations have attempted, and are still endeavouring, to establish colonies, but they are destined to failure from their inception and can never supersede or check AngloSaxon enterprise and conquest. Tho disputes between the Bopublic of tho United States and the Dominion of Canada, at the first blush, may shake one's belief in these views, but that very difference between the kindred neighbours, ephemeral as it is, will serve to cement tho natural ties |of amity between the British and Americans, and help on the desire for the creation of that mighty union of Anglo-Saxon nations which will secure perpetual peace and industrial prosperity to the ■world.

A Nativ >. Land Court for succession c.isi's will be opened at Mercer on thd 7th proximo.

The Cambridge Cheese Factory will begin operations on Monday, October 22nd.

We learn from the Herald that Mr S. K. G. Smith, formerly editor of this journal, is now on tho permanent staff of the Melbourne Herald, a well established evening paper.

In our Te Awamutu corresponletter in last issue on breeding horses for the Indian market, "farmers are turning their attention to feeding that class of horses" should have road, "bleeding that class of horses."

Mr R D Stewart, headmaster of Oneh'.in »a School, was brutally assaulted on Monday night, by a ssainun from the s.s. Takapiimi, when returning by 'bus from the Opera House, accompanied by two ladies. The man w;s thud £3 and Costs.

The Cambridge Borough Council are to be coinuu'ndod for the attention they aregningto the clearance of the furze nuisance in the borough ; thus savins: the Hpproachi's and appearance to their charmiriar township from disfigurement. The Hamilton Borough Council could well take a lesson from their neighbours.

Oa Tuesday afternoon Mr D- D Hyde's trap and horse was standing in the Hamilton West station yard, when the train came putting into the station, frightening the animal, and causing it to bolt. It ran round the yard and upset the cart, making a complete wreck of it. Mr Hyde estimates his loss at £50 (?).

It is reported (says a contempoiary) that a special settlement for New Zealand escaped prisoners is to be formed either in Australia and San Francisco. Jonathan Roberts is to be president and Rudolph Radka secretary. It is proposed to employ discharged gaolers and ex-detec-tives as farm bauds on the settlement.

We have received a copy of a pamphlet circulated by Mr R. Macallister, Government Auditor, who was dispensed with lately. Ho was formerly auditor for the Provincial Government of Wellington, and claims that he was a Statutory Officer appointed for life by warrant from the Governor and only removable by act of the Legislature. ' He argues that the Government have dealt illegally in Ins case, and accepted under protest the sum of £978, as compensation for loss of office.

A New York paper of July 20fch, referring to this Colony, says, "The determination of the New Zealand Government to issue a new loan, to cover the construction of the Northern Trunk Railway, has been unfavourably commented on in some of the London journals, the great indebtedness of the Colony being spoken of as altogether out of proportion to its resources. This is certainly untrue. Although New Zealand has been quite a. heavy borrower when the extent of her population is considered, and some of the funds collected n-.ay have been injudiciously expended, she is undeniably good for the whole of her indebtedness, while her valuable resources should entitle her to a good position among tho world's nations as far as her credit is concerned.

The cobbler should stick to his last is an axiom old enough and the truth of which was again verified in the following extraordinary manner. Everyone in the Auckland province knows "old Mac," the Jehu of Hamilton. Weil, yesterday he was induced to quitliis box seat and start to cross the Waikato river in a bout. From some unexplained cause the bo.it suddenly tilled with water and sank. " Mac" cannot swim a stroke ami but for thu fortunate circumstance of having a packet of Pearson's carbolic sand soap in his picket, which he had purchased but half-an-hour previously, we should have heard the last of "old Mac." By a dexterous application of this sand soap he was easily enabled to wash himself ashore. Intending voyagers by sea would therefore do well to lay in a stock of this article.

The Otago Daily Times hears that the Union Steam Ship Company have made arrangements to increase their already large fleet by the additicn of two steamers, to be ready by the next grain season. One is intended to replace the Tekapo in the Calcutta trade, and the otherthePtikaki in the Melbourne-Fiji trade, and so release these boats for work nearer home. It is intended that the Pukaki shall run during tho grain season solely between Bluff and Melbourne and Bluff and Sydney alternataly, taking produce over, and bringing back coals from Newcastle. The Tekapo is also meant to be employed in the intercolonial produce trade generally, and will make occasional visits to the Bluff. It is anticipated that the extra tonnage that will thus be available will prevent any recurrence of the block that has been experienced during the present year.

Tlie sudden appearance of four Solvation Army officers in Cambridge on Tuesday afternoon last, caused quite a commotion among the people. It was afterwards proved that they belonged to the Hamilton Corps .vho were evidently on a tour of inspection, and after a visit of about three hours, during which time they had a look round all the streets and the Domain, the unexpected visitors drove away. A number of persons who seemed greatly interested in the work, were anxiiin« to know when the Army will open in Cambridge, a great many of them being under the impression that they were going to "open tire" there and then. Many people in Cambridge have tho idea that a good opening could bo effected in that place, and also that the Army is badly wanted in Cambridge, whore they would bs the means of converting those who never think of attending any place of worship.

A visitor to the Dunedin Goal says :—ln the kitchen, busy preparing bread and cheese for the hard labour gang on its return, was a living specimen of a curious legal anomaly. Nominally he is only for three mouths for vagrancy: actually he is nearly all his time acting as gaol cook. You see he is too good a cook to lose, and as he has an affliction of his foot which prevents him getting sway from the city when free, after a few days spent prowling about the streets the police grab him, haul him up before justices and get him sentenced to another three months for vagrancy. He doesn't mind it himself, he rather likes it. He has nowhere else to go to, and regards the goal as his home. It is an economical plan, too, and savee a gaol cook's wages. Solemn justices who aro not in the swim read him awful lectures on the error of hia ways. They rather bore him, but he puts up with it to get back to his snug quarters in the gaol kitchen.

We were much pleased on Sunday evening at the Wesleyau Church, with the spontaneous and warm tribute of respect paid by the Rev. E. Best, to a younger brother minister, though of a different denomination. Referring to the meeting of the Cambridge Sunday Schools to be held next Sunday afternoon at the above church, and that they would be addressed by the Rev Frank Evans, from the Thames, Mr Bast said ho was glad for Mr Evans ta be amongst us, if he said all he thought of Mr Evans and of the good he did, he should not ba able to say enough. Now, an euloiriutn like this, unsought for, and unexpected, is worth having, coming as it did from ■a stranger, and from a totally different pulpit to which Mr P. Evans or his father, the

Rev. W. Evans belong, and from all we ourselves have heard of the faithful and untiring work of Mr Evans, we can fully endorse what the Rev. E. Bast said. An instance like this is also pleasing, because it shows a friendly and truly Christian spirit. We trust the Rev. I'rauk Evans will derive benefit from the two month's holiday and rest, which he has been obliged to tako to recruit his health. A lady correspondent sends the following:—As riddles and puzzles seem to be much in rogue now, the following will perhaps set some one's wits to work to elucidate. A lady who had a boarding school of 21 young ladies, suspecting somo mischief on hand, ordered that for one week— 7 days—they should walk in threes, thus : 1 2 'A -I f> l> 7 h •) 10 11 12 13 li in 1(> 17 18 1!) 20 21

Tlie same two girls never to walk in the same row or side by side more than once, changing every time for aevan days. How did she place them. I can't, do it myself, but 1 know three people who did do it. A clergyman, who was a great chess player and a good mathematician ; a sailor, also well up in itis mathematics, both of whom found it out by ru!o; and a lady who found it out by accident. I can do it UP to five times, and twice I got to the sixth day, but ceasing to try for n time, I could not get beyond five times when I tried again, so I gave ap ;c despair and called myself A

If the farmers had only known a little earlier, they would have gone largely for wheat this season. The prospects in fact are quite exciting, and many even at this late period aro thinking of sowing. Where the land is favourable, a crop of wheat at present prices would pay better than any other. The subject is agitating the farmers along this coast. —Wanganui Herald, September 10.

The Church News says:— Nine hundred amd ninety-nine years ago the Church of England, then under the headship of the Pope of Rome, leased a lot of land to the British Government for a long term, that was considered in that day equivalent to an estate in fee. But the lease has just expired, and the land has gone back to the Church of England, which has preserved throughout its corporate integrity. Nino hundred and ninety-nine years is not for ever, and the expiration of this lease and the reversion of the property to the lessor is a significant sign of the stability of the Anglo-Saxon Government, as well as of its churches. Dynasties have changed, revolutions have swept the little island from stem to stem, but the Slate and the Church have remained, and their contracts are held good after the lapse of a inillemurn. Probably no other country can show a like proof of business stability.

The Tapanui Courier states that Mr Thomas Jenkins, of North Glenkenish, has returned from a visit to Victoria, and he confirms the impression brought away by others that the " boom" is confined to Melbourne and suburbs, Mr Jenkins travelled through the Western district, where he formerly resided, also Ballarat, Castlemaine, and other centres, and generally speaking he does not consider tho farmers so well off as they are in New Zealand. Crops of every kind are poorer in quality, and the yield per acre is not anything like so large as it is in this colony. Mr Jenkins says the Victorian samples of oats are little, if any, better than New Zealand-grown "seconds." Victorian farmeis also suffer from drought and a largo number of insects —plagues that are unknown in this fertile land. The wages of agricultural labourers are also lower in the sister colony. The Victorian railways are managed in a most liberal manner, and visitors can at any time get cheap excursion tickets that enables them to visit the principal places of interest. Mr Jenkins considers that the Melbourne Exhibition is a splendid advertisement for New Zealand, as her exhibits of grain and crossbred wool are infinitely superior to those from other colonies.

Referring to a recent local in our columns re the wintering of bees, a correspondent sends us the following :—I am only in a small way an apiarist, but venture upon a word r two nevertheless, to amateurs like myself. And first half the trouble many persons find of enabling their swarms to winter well and struggle through an unpropitioiis spring, is due to the disastrous policy of taking honey too lute in the season, when the bees cannot by any possibility put matters straight again, the forage being all done. Another cause of tiouble, is the failure to put in winter and spring forage, and all acquainted with the laborious insect is aware of the importance of this measure, one of the best for that purpose, is tho borage which will keep in flower all the winter, and indeed is now in bloom. With me, another excellent thing is the common ice plant, 1 have this growing about the banks and hedges of the garden, and as it continues flowering all through the winter and spring when forage is every where scare*;, it is invaluable. As a proof of tho value of winter forage, and the leaving plenty of honey iu the hives as a winter supply. I may mention that I have not required syrup for the season, and have only lost o'neoutof 55 stocks, and that was dm.' to the Maori cockroach—keheriru—getting into the hive, and by the way bees will stand a large nmount of ill usage and carelessness from their owners, but the last named abomination is really the last drop, and they just clear out. Re the borage, it will grow anywhere and does not want re-sow-ing, shedding its own seed, when the ground only wants manuring a little and breaking up when plants have ceased flowering, and a plentiful crop is sure to .succeed. The plant grows anywhere, capital for keeping up earth banks, &c.