The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE. SATURDAY, OCT. 20, 1888.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2540, 20 October 1888, Page 2

The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE. SATURDAY, OCT. 20, 1888.

One of tlie numerous Acts passed last session amending previous Acts of the Legislature is the Land Act, Amendment Act, which is to be read together with, and enlarges some of the provisions of the Land Ant, 18S5 (called the principal Act) and the Land Act Amendment Act, 1887. The points of interest in the latest of these measures are those which modify the residential clauses on certain classes of lands and define the areas of and classify the lands set apart for pastoral and agricultural purposes, or selected on deferred payment; and also refers to the exchange of tenures. As it will bo interesting to most of our readers, who have not the opportunity of looking at the statues, to obtain information on the subject, we wi!l here give a brief synopsis of the clauses of the Act of last session. Clause seven provides that the Land Board may dispense with personal residence on swamp lands in the same manner as on bush lands, and this will also apply to the holders of perpetual leases of that class of lands. Clause nine and following sub-sec-tions provide for the classification of rural lands wholly or partially suitable for pastoral purposes. They will be classed, first as pastoral lands that can only be profitably utilised in areas of not less than five thousand sand acres each ; second, such lands as can be sub-divided iu areas not exceeding five thousand acres ; and, third, pastoral-agricultural lands, suitable part for pasturage and part for agricultural purposes in areas not exceeding five thousand acres. Under clause ten, the pastoral lands in areas not exceeding five thousand acres may be disposed of for occupation for any certain term not exceeding twenty-one years in terms of Part VI of the principal Act of 1885, and the PastoralAgricultural lands in such manner as the Governor may from time to time appoint. In the conditions of the former Acts, the deferred payment selector was restricted in certain lands to an area of three hundred and twenty acres. This has now been extended under clause eleven to six: hundred and forty acres, in one or more contiguous blocks, which can be taken up under Part 111 of the principal Act. Clause twelve provides that a perpetual leaseholder, who acquired his land under Part IV of the first Act and before the passing of this latest Amendment Act, may apply to exchange his lease for a deferredpayment license, which the Board will grant on being satislied that he has hitherto fulfilled the conditions of his lease. Piually, clause thirteen adds that no exchange of the tenure of laud from deferred payment to perpetual lease, or vice versa, can be procured by any selector or holder more than once during any period by himself or by any other person on his behalf.

A considerable quantity of land in tho paiishes of Waiuku, E»st and West, will bo offered for sale at the Crown Lands Office, Auckland, on 2Gth instant at 11 a. m The Victorian railway returns for the July-September quarter, show an increased income of £131,238 (is 7d over tho amount of tho third quarter in 1887, and an increase of i' 378,807 » 3d for the 12 months. The hawthorn is now just coining well into bloom, and if anyone desires a fragrant ride or drive lot them go on the Hamilton-Cambridge road and they will have their desire fulfilled to the uttermost. Professor Anderson gave a conjuring entertainment at Cambridge, on Thursday, and was well received. Tho performance was very good but in couseouence of the advertising being badly done, the attendance was not large. Her Majesty is deeply annoyed with Sir M. Mackenzie at the publication by the medical journals of portions of the late Emperor's diary which the Queen had erased. Forty thousand copies of tho doctor's book have been seized at Leipsic. A boy, five years of age, whilst playing with trucks at the Mount Eden station, was run over and killed. A lady, leaving a car whilst in motion at the same station fell and had both her legs broken. Both accidents occurred on Wednesday evening. The band of the Hamilton Light Infantry will play choice selection of music on Sydney Square this evening, commencing at half-past 7 sharp. Tho baud has decided to play once a fortnight in future instead of weekly, and will play on each side of the river alternately. The election of a lay representative for Waikato, to the General Synod of the Anglican Church, will take place on the 29th day of November next. The nomination of candidates must be sent to the returning officer, Mr S. T. Seddon, not later than Tuesday, October 30th.

We have to acknowledge the receipt of the first number of the Mirror, a new twenty-four page weekly journal published in Melbourne and devoted to social, political, literary, dramatic and sporting news and gossip. It is well got-up, the letter press is excellent, and the ability displayed in its columns is very marked. The question of Arnold's corner will come up again to-day before the Cambridge Road Board, as will also the proposed Hantapu-Kencourt road. We trust there will be a full attendance so that these matters may be settled, as the latter has been on the tapis a long time, and some of the settlers are anxious to know whether it is to be made or not. An Australian paper says;—ln the midst of all her troubles New Zealand can point with pride to the fact that relatively to population she is the largest exporter of all the group of the Australian colonies. The development of her export trade in meats and dairy produce may be said to be just commencing, England offering an almost boundless field. At last the foot traffic on the Hamilton railway bridge has been stopped, as yesterday men were employed in taking up the planking between the rails on the bridge. This seems the, only way that it is possible to stop the traffic, since the Railway Department do not prosecute all persons who are caught crossing the bridge. Professor Anderson, the famous prestidigitatine, gave an exhibition of his skill in the Public Hall, Hamilton, last night, to a very good audience. His marvellous dexterity in the various tricks, especially the bowls of live gold fish and umbrella changes, afforded much delight to the audience. The clairovogance and Milda De La Cour and the spiritualistic manifestations in the cabinet were also very cleaverly performed. Mr W. Salmon, who was injured by a fall of earth on the Whatawhata road some months ago, died yesterday morning. The serious nature of the injury, as is often usual in this class of accidents, did not reveal itself until within a few weeks past. The spine had evidently been originally affected, and the symptoms spread to cerebral membrane and, as we regret to record, has terminated fatally. The 1.-.te Mr Salmon was a man of good parts and quiet, unassuming manners, and his death is mourned by many relations and friends. We ars pleased to see that Messrs H. Reynolds and Co. have taken over the Te Aivamutu Dairy Factory for the season. The enterprise and energy displayed by this company deserve every encourageu.ent and success, It is most satisfactory to think that the various factories in the Waikato are not to be permitted to remain idle, and that by tho means offered by the Company, the farmers in the several localities can find disposal for their supplies, and that a better spirit is being infused generally amongst the settlors.

Our Te Awamutu correspondent desires to draw the attention of the Waipa County Council to the fact that two large stumps of pine trees are lying close to the road at the Parsonage gate. They are a source of danger, as horses frequently shy at them. One accident has occurred already, two buggies having collided, one having been damaged to such an extent that it could be taken no further without repairs. The horses in one buggy shied at the stumps with the above result. It would be a very easy matter to remove them, and it should be done before another accident occurs. On Wednesday morning, October 10th, while the gale was blowing in full force, an official of the Colonial Bank (says the Southland Times) became a victim of its playfulness. He was taking a bag containin* some £500 or £(SOO in notes and cheques bank a short distance away, when away went his hat before the wind. He ran after it, but as he stooped to pick it up the bag opened and notes and cheques were soon flying hither and thither through the air. After a long and tedious search all the paper was recovered except one cheque for £3 15s and notes to the value of £22, for which missing paper a reward is now ottered. We notice that Mr G. E. Alderton lectures on Monday night on "A Model Orchard : How to plant, what to plant, how to cultivate, cost of management, yield and value of same." As this will be the last opportunity, we understand, that Mr Alderton will have of delivering a lecture in the Waikato as many fanners as possible should attend, as the lecturer has probably a wider knowledge on tho allimportant fruit subject than any other man in the colony, ho having had tho opportunity of visiting and inspecting almost every orchard of note in the province as well as having made a special study of the subject in America and England. We would remind settlers in the neighbourhood of Cambridge that the Cambridge Dairy Factory will commence operations again on Monday next. Milk will be received from 7 to 8.30 a.m., and the price paid will be 2£d per gallon of 10 lbs with 10 per cent, of cream, and one farthing will be paid for every additional 2 per cent. It is intended to manufacture cheese only, and we trust it will prove a remunerative investment for the gentlemen who have so spiritedly come to the rescue, and furnished the necessary funds to keep the factory going for the public weal. As heretofore Mr George Watt will manage the factory, and Mr J. P. Thomson will have charge of the office work. One of the sis fits of Hamilton, at the present time, is Mr Mason's garden where everthing shows the amount of work that lias been expended on it during the past season. The azaleas, which include some choice varieties, are one mass of bloom, and sonic of the earlier reses as just bursting into bloom. The.fruit tree* are looking splendid, and the gooseberries which had such a magnificent crop last year are again laden, the fruit being of good size already. Mr Mason has just finished a large greenhouse tor his grapes which will enable hirn to save his vines from the late frosts which proved so destructive to them two years back.

A young native chief, Kura Kaanga by name, met his death by drowning on the 2!>th of last month, in a tributary of Ilia Manganui-o-te-ao. He was crossing on the large boulders, slipped, got his legs jammed in a hole, and could not extricate himself owing to the force of the water. He was found when the water went down three days after. He was a grandson of the great chief that first sold Wanganui to the pakeha, and was a brave man. He was well-known to Mr Rochefort and the explorers of the Central line, as well as to the writer of this notice who knew liiin from a child upwards. Although he was the moving spirit in the partial stoppage of tho survey he was an open opponent, and held the belief that the only salvation for the Maori was to hold the land, and keep the white man at a distance. In fact he was a genuine patriot, and his untimely death at the age of thirty will be regretted by all who knew him,—Yeoman,

Dr. Kenny has been confined to his bed for the past week with a very severe attack of bronchitis and laryngitis. We are glad to say he'is now recovering fairly, and expects to be about again in another week's time. Now that the new floor is about to be laid in the Cambridge Public Hall, we trust the Borough Council will have the space underneath tho stage thoroughly cleaned out. When tho hall is used for rinking the seats are packed on the stage, but the other day when Mr McNicol's furniture sale was held, the stage also was required and the forms had to be put in the space underneath, it is very evident that the remains of sandwiches, etc., from soirees, together with dust, have been swept into this hole for a considerable period, for when the door was opened the stench was something awful, and disenfectants had to be freely scattered about. We have often noticed a strange smell when upon the stage ; but were not aware that there was a dose of concentrated typhoid immediately underneath us. If filth is to be ph.cod there, let us at any rate have a ventilator for the escape of the noxious gases. Says the Rangitikei Advocate :- One of the most comforting pieces of news that we have had from Home for a long while was that contained in our cablegrams last night that the Australian eleven had finished their tour in England, and that there would not be another eleven for four years. It was better news even than that which appeared just above it, that the Thibetans had been scoured out of the Jalapla Pass. It looked as though the Australian eleven were chronic. They were a terror to the colonies, but must have been a great blessing to the newsman at the other end. All he needed to do was to look up his old copy, alter the number of wickets or runs, and the thing was done. They seem to have been there ever since the flood. It is time they came home. Lord Harris talked about English public opinion demanding another eleven before the lapse of four years, but if it does it will constitute a good ground for New Zealand to demand separation. Mr J. D Arnaboldi, of Cambridge, is about to add another to his already long list of patents. This lime it is a fruit picker, and we think it o:ie that will prove a scrvicable machine, and should find a ready sale, both here and in America. Like all other fruit gathering instruments it is mounted on the end of a long slender polo, and when the fruit is plucked oil" the tree it drops into a receptacle immediately underneath. It is in this receptacle that the main point of Mr Arnaboldi's patent lies, for instead of having a not or small bag that needs to be emptied very often, he lias substituted a funnel, made of calico or some other soft material, down which the fruit glides, and is delivered into the hand of the operator, or into a kit or bag which be may have fastened in front of him. Mr ArnaVoldi claims that it will deliver uninjured, even dead ripe plums. If it is got up in good style, (the one we saw was in tho rough,) and put upon the market in a proper manner, it will prove a good thing for the patentee. The Agricultural Gazette of Aucust oth writes thus on the price of wheat in England :—" Forty shillings a quarter for wheat ! Surely there is a bit of "silver lining" here. There was a time when such a price would have been deemed an insult to the wlieat.grower, but a great deal has happened since then. The sale of wheat at 2Ss to 32s a quarter has happened very frequently, for instance, and fanners have been so used to the thirties that they will welcome the forties—and we hope that the advance will go high op in that cateK „ r y—with enthusiasm. What can have conie to tho buyers of wheat to make them so prodigal with their money » They successfully withstood for years all attempts on the part of the modest growers to get the baro cost of production, and now, all r.f a nudden, they are throwing their money about with the utmost recklessness. Forty shillings a quarter for wheat. ! Was there over such prodigality in times like these, when cum is apparently supposed to be produced for nothing, ami railway companies (abroad) and shipowners are almost expected to pay for tho privilege of carrying it? It is true that the meagre crops produced after the most fructifying season wo have had since 18711 are being beaten down, and all but rotted before they are half ripe. But what then ? Wheat has come into the laps of buyers for a long time as if it were, rained clown from heaven. Why cannot they have faith, and expect it to keep on coining down in future, instead of paying growers something like the cost of producing it 1"

A Cambridge correspondent sends us ii correct solution of the puzzle we inserted in a late issue, and says : Why your lady contributor who dobs herself a Duffer, should have found any difficulty when she had arrived at the sixth day, I cannot understand ; for the seventh is equally easy. She certainly cannot have adopted any method. It is not necessary to be a mathematician to solve the problem, for I am but a poor one, and yet I saw how it was done almost at a glance. As it would take up too much of your valuable space to gve the figures. I will briefly describe the method I adopted. Let the first column of figures— 1.4.9 etc.—remain in their original position during the whole process. Then bring up the second figure (5) of the second column, and the third figure (9) of the third column to the top of the line, and follow on in like manner with the whole of the figures, taking a downward angle of 45 degrees' (if the squares are correctly drawn), and when you arrive at the bottom lines, insert the unused figures that have been left at the top, of course keeping them in their original columns, and you have tho second day done. You then apply the same rule 'to that day, and it gives tho third, and so on up to the seventh. That it is correct is evident, as if you attempt to do it the eighth time it brings the figures back to their original position. While on this subject, perhaps, I may be permitted to propound a puzzle that is certainly more difficult than the one above, and can only be done by one method. Draw a square and subdivide it into 4'J smaller ones, i.e. 7 each way. In these squares arrange the numerals from 1 to 49 in such a manner that when added together horizontally, vertically, and from corner to corner, the result will be exactly 175. Anyone who knows the method, can of course do it in half a minute ; but those who do not, will find it takes u considerable time t« solve. I may state the same rule applies to any number of squares, as long as the number is an odd one ; and the additions will always be found similar.