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Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2550, 13 November 1888, Page 2

Forty thousand people attended the fourth day of tho V.R.C. Meeting. Carbine won the Foal Stakes. The aew floor of the Pnhlic Hall at Cambridge, is finished, and will now be in first-class < rJer for rinking. George Syme, for shooting his mother-in-law, Mrs Clifford, was executed in Melbourne on Thursday last. A truck loaded with coal ran off the line at Frankton at midday yesterday, and caused some delay in the departure of the train for Te Awamutu. The Athenaeum and Pall Mall Gazette have complimentary reviews on Bishop Cowie's book. There is an advantage in being a bishop when one wishes to write a book. Messrs Rees and Wi Pere have been lecturing and speaking before the Balloon Society of Great Britain. What affinity would a society if balloonists have to thegreat scheme propounded by Mr W. L. Rees? Dr- McKenzie's book has been issued, and he is very sweeping in his accusations of incompetency against the German doctors. His account of Dr. Bepjmanns treatment with the ciinula is horrible, and shows it was the Emperor's death-blow. We are glad to hear that seven trout, about si* inches long, have been seen in the Waikato River near the Hamilton bridge. The gentleman who is our informant, is one who has had a lot of experience in fishing in the Old Country. A very successful meeting was held on the 4th inst., in furtherance of the oift auction in aid of S. Mary's Monastery Schools, to be held at the Oddfellows' Hall, Hamilton, on Boxing-Day. A number of ladies were appointed to collect subscriptions fur the purpose. Notwithstanding the small attendance at the entertainment held in the Oddfellows' Hall, Hamilton, on the 2nd mst., the gross proceeds amounted to £5 12s (id. which, after deducting expenses, left a balance of £2 !).s (id to be devoted to tho Catholic Church funds at Cambridge. Quite a large number of people were on board the down train yesterday, as it passed through Hamilton. A good many were excursionists returning from their holidays, as well as a number of clergy and hiity urocesding to Auckland to attend the-* Synod, which opens to-day. The Norwich Union Insurance Company has paid over to Mr Littlewood, of Taupiri, the insurance on his house, which was burned down some little time back. The delay was caused through the Company being unable to get any body to inspect the ruins. We understand that Or. Von Stunner will be nominated to represent the Hamilton Borough Council on the new Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. There is also a probability of Cr. Jones being nominated, and, as he is chairman of the Hamilton Road Board, it would virtually place him as representative of two local °Mr'E. B. Walker has just returned from a nine days' prospecting trip in the King Country and reports several finds of rich silver ores. Some very good specimens were got, but the creeks were very high and prevented many very likely places being searched. He was accompanied by a number of natives who proved good hands at the work. Mr John Finnerty wishes us to contradict the statement that he had declined to take up No. 3 Contract, as reported at the Piakci County Council. The truth is that he has a number of shearing contracts on hand, and he sold No. 3 contract to Mr G. Walker, junr., and his application was to have it transferred. We gladly make the correction, as the statement, (is it appeared, is calculated to do Mr Finnerty harm. At a valedictory banquet at Christchurch on Saturday to the Governor, His Excellency, in responding to the toast of his health, spoke in warm praise of New Zealand and her prospects. He said the colony was destined to be the foremost in the Pacific. Ho referred to the value of the Imperial connection, and said an elective Govern >r would mean separation. The Premier spoke of the improved aspect of affairs generally.

The death is announced in this day's lolegrums of The Right Hon. George Charles Bineham, G.C.8.. third Karl of LuGan. He was born in ISOO, was educated at Westminster, entered the army, and served as a volunteer with the Russian Army in the Turkish campaign of 1823. He served in the Crimea in command of a division of cavalry and was at Alma, Balaklava and Inkermann. He was in that heroic but mistaken charge of the Light Brigade. Hβ was Colonel of the Bth Hussars, afterwards of the Ist Life Guards, and was made a General in 18G3. He represented Mayo from IS2G till IS3O, and was chosen a representative Peer of Ireland in IS4O.

The Wesleyans at Te Awamutti are busily engaged with their preparations tor their bazaar, and are hopeful of success. In addition to the display of useful fancy goods, clnthinET, ornaments, etc. (including goods to be sent from Auckland), there will be a sale of produce, fruit, flowers, poultry, etc. ; also a well-stocked and attractive refreshment table, and specially entertaining sources of amusement for old and young, such as a genuine and high-class exhibition of art, curios, microscope, etc,, galvanic bottery, shooting gallery, telephone, weighing machine, etc. There will be no raffling, and all goods will be marked at prices suited to the depressed times.

Referring to the lecture to be delivered by Colonel Forbes on the 21st inst., on the Seige of Ijiieknow, we may suy that although the gallant officer war. not in India during the mutiny, he arrived in that country within six month's of the I'rnelamatinn iif Sovereignty and trie transfer of the Empire tn the Crown. Colonel Forbes has spout twenty-six years in the province of which Lucknow is the capital and rose to tluliifth ami responsible |io>t of Commissioner uf the Lnckiww Division. Ha is, therefore, perfectly f.uniliiir with all the li :aiiti«s Mini detail.to b« touched upon, an I cmii s,ia.ik with autliiirityoii tho ca'iscM of the great revolt.

Tlie Melbourne :—"What Nnw Ze;il.ir.deis ie.|:iiie tn Rn-ird iiguu-t is their ci.li.ny bein S m "ie thn scene of rash experiment*, whether puiitical, financial, or aociiil. Tlie colmiy «eetm to hnvo a strange attraction for dnctrinsiireM of nil kind*,' especially tlioso who have f.ids abmit the forinntion of iiiodel cominiinitie.-*. Tlie latest of those which has been bnmght fti.* ward is the project of Mr \V. L. Roes fir transforming the poverty-stricken classes nf England into prospermia clonists in New Zealand by means of a fund, interest on the capital of which will be guaranteed by the Imperial Government. No such guarantee is likely to be given, and we may be sure that New Zealand herself will give the cold shoulder to any more impracticable schemes,"

From an authentic source we (New Zealand Times) learn that there is great activity in the dairy industry in Southland just now, and that American buyers are eagerly competing in the market for produce. The Republicans in the United States have now a majority of. 15 in the Houte of Representatives. The final result of the polling for the President gives the numbers as :-Harrison, 233; Cleveland, 108. The Republicans carried California and Indiana. Mr W- G- McCann will sell by auction the whole of the furniture of the Masonic Hotel, Cambridge, to-morrow. From the quantity and value of the articles offered the sale promises to be the biggest of itf. kind ever held in Waikato, and the wonder U, where can sufficient buyers be found ? The appointment of Sir A- HBlake to be Governor of Queensland, is unpopular in that colony. This is probably meant as a protest to the refusal of Lord Knutsford to allow tho colony a voice in the selection of Governor. The Daily Chronicle thinks the request of Sir Thomas Mcllwraith a reasonable one, and should be recognised. The committee of the Presbyterian Church Soiree, to be held in the Public Hall, Cambridge, next Wednesday, have published a very attractive programme, and will, no doubt, be rewarded by a crowded house. The sale of tickets has been large, and those desirous of obtaining good seats will do well to be punctual. Two distressing boat accidents are reported as taking place on )< riday. Mrs Kendall and two boys were drowned on theWanganui Kiver through the upi sotting of a sailing boat with a pleasure party. In Sydney a steam launch collided with a boat containing several people, and two men named Nettleton and Barddley wore drowned. A young lady, fiance of Nettleton, was gallantly rescued by a man named Bourne. The Tauwhare Sunday School picnic came off on November !)th. in one of Mr World's paddocks. The weather was favourable so that there was a good attendance of young people, and grown-up friends. The day was spent in the usual manner, and all seemed to enjoy themselves. Ample justice wa3 done to tho good things provided. Most of those prosent had to attend to the milking, so tho gathering was reluctantly broken np at four o'clock. There was a large attendance at the Salvation Army meeting on Sunday night. Ar :u-t the speakers was Mr Dando, of J.u.' n, who is well-known all round the Waikato, and he gave a very earnest address. Captain Cutler, in the course of a stirring speech r>n " Practical Religion " made reference to a statement which was made by Bishop Moorehouse at the recent Church Congress, that ''the time had come when the scientilic criticism of the Bible should be replied to by clerics of various denominations, and no longer bo treated with apathy and indifference.' Quoting from the Herald, the Bishop was also represented to have said that "the Church was the best medium for guiding public opinion on all burning questions." The Captain then took up subjects of local interestas "burningquestions," notably that of the waste lands and their use, applying them as illustrative of a religious life, or the want of it. There has been a great deal of 'needless agitation displayed by a number of Hamilton people over the location of the temporary fever hospital for the Wnatawhata Maoris. Objection has been raised to every place suggested by the Board, and even the Borough Council had an impro-' vised meeting to oppose the reception of the natives in any part of the borough. Finally, when the matter in all its phases was explained, His Worship the Mayor very humanely came forward and placed an empty cottage of his own on his farm at the service of the Board, which kind offer was accepted. A native patient is expected to arrive to-morrow, so the Board has little time to prepare for his reception. We are assured that the fever the natives are suffering from is not contagions, being of an endemic nature. Even typhoid is not contagious, and is only infectious when treated with careless negligence. /

The Star's London correspondent, referring to Mr W. L. Rees, says :—Mr W. L. Rees has given up his Scottish trip. Lord Lothian, it seems, though so very much interested in his colonisation plans, thinks the crofters would bo more suitably and easily settled in Canada than in New Zealand, and without his backing a Scotch campaign might prove abortive. I might mention many other influential people whom Mr Rees considers "much interested." He is a sanguine man, and a little encouragement goes a long way. I fear, however, he will find that between getting big people to confess themselves " much interested " in his scheme and inducing them to back the said scheme with money and influence there is a good difference. Two serious drawbacks handicap Mr Rees—(l) the vastness and vagueness of his scheme; (2) the lack of colonial backing. What I fear is that Mr Rees may get lost in the mazes of his own schemes. If he confined himself to proposing to the Crofter Commission and to Parliament a trial settlement of crofters on his block, something might come of it, but the Honie of Commons will not listen to anything vast and visionary. Our Melbourne correspondent writes:—l told you some weeks ago in one of my letters of the miraculous care of the girl Mulley in Brunswick, and I cannot refrain now giving the sequel, as it came under iny notice. A friend told me last week Miss Mulley was going to address the congregation at a certain Baptist Church iu St. Kilda, and more out of curiosity than anything else, I went to hear her. If I had not known for a certainty that for ten years she had been a hopeless paralytic, I should not havo credited it for one instant, for there the girl stood sound and whole. Her story was indeed remarkable, and all the more so because true. She said she had suffered from double curvature of the spine for ten years—the spine cjrving under the left shoulder to the right hip, forcing the hip bone out of place. The toes and other bones were contracted, and not in their right olace. For ton years, she said, she had lieen like this, and had been discharged from all the hospitables as incurable. Then in her own home once again she put her faith in Divine Providence. As she said herself, " I took it to the Lord and He cured me." Oneday(sho went on to say) she heard a voice in her ear saying, " You aro healed," and she called her sister in, and the latter, placing her hand under her spine, felt the bones move into their places. Such was Miss Mulley's statement, which I heard with my own ears. Can anything more miraculous be conceived, and could anything more wonderful be witnessed than her presence there, as she stood whole and upright, relating the marvellous tale? I think not—at least not in the ordinary experience.

The Ngaire correspondent of the Hawera Star gives particulars of the course pursued by the local farmers in regard to the butter export, and which might well be copied by farmers in those districts where no butter factories are yet established. Twice a week each farmer churns his butter which is not allowed to pass beyond the granular stage, washes it thoroughly, and ieavas it to soak in brine all night. The following morning it is taken, still in the granular state, to the factory. Here it is received by the manager, who washes it once more in brim , , blending tho various churnings together as he does so, and then works it all up together and kegs down for the London market. The quality is pronounced first-class, and it is hoped by those interested that this plan of kegging down large quantities of one quality of butter will bn found to very favourably affect the price. The first shipment leaves here in a fnw days' time, so that it will not be m-uiy months before something definite is known as to what the L uid in buyr.s think of our l"Cil produce Tins little company lia< set an cxampl'. which if s'lucessf.il will, no d nihf., De largely followed. Th'To hate been no share lists, no lawyers' bills no p.<jipn-ive buildings, nor m.ichiru'iV, nor l>.ink over, draft, nor iiiillstotn-s of that β-rt g.ui'frally to hang around the r.esk of thu omeern. The settlers intpre-ted c.mlributuil nlw.it » pound apiece, I believe, to purchase timber and utensils, and then formed a working bee, during which they split the piles and shingles and put up the building, many hands and willing <me< at that) making light work of it. The manager is not a highsalaried officer, but is ji.st nne of thu patrons him?elf, with a good repute for skill in his business, who is paid so much a pound on the butter he works tip, with a percentage upon the price which it realises beyond a certain figure. Such is the experiment now being tried in this little quarter of the world. No one probably will begrudge a hearty good wish for its Success,

Victoria went iu for a heavy Protective tariff to discourage imports, and imports have been rising ever since—Protection cannot protect. Victoria adopted Protection to supply the " markets of Australasia," and her exports have decreased — Protection kills trade. In 18S7 Victoria s exports were less by £4,000,000 than in 1884. Her imports in 18>S7 were £15,381,fi94, and hor exports of goods manufactured in the colony only £S, r>72.070 while New South Wales exported during the same period £15,500,000 worth of products. The figures are from the Melbourne Trade Review. The " Evening Press" says editorially : —"Messrs Kitchen, Sons, and Apollo Company inform us that colonial candle manufacturers have advanced their prices for candles, and are quoting for thencheapest brands oil a lb., and for other qualities 5.W, 0d and (Sid. No one will blame the colonial candle manufacturers for accepting the handsome present offered them by Sir Harry Atkinson out of the pockets of the consumers. Only wo want our readers to mark the daily accumulating evidences and proofs of the truth of the principles we laid down when the Tariff was under discussion in the House. We said that Sir Harry Atkinson was going to give money out of the general consumers pockets to the manufacturers. Sir Harry raised candles Ad, and the manufacturers havo improved "on his Tariff and taken Id. The Id is not going to swell the revenue, nor is it going to pay higher wages ; it is going to the capitalists, the lucky proteges of Sir Harry Atkinson." Mr O'Sullivan, formerly Chief Inspector of Schools, in his reports was always strongly in favour of half-time schools, saying that the progress they made was far better in proportion than the fulltime ones. From his long experience in school matters he should be an authority on the subject. Perhaps the following will prove that there is a good deal of truth in his opinion. At the recent examination of the Harapepe school (half-time), a little lad 12.V years old, the son of Mr J. 11. Thompson, passed the Ijth standard well in every branch, not just a scrape through, but a thorough good examination. He lias passed a standard every year for live years, and intends next month to compete for a junior scholarship. Mr Goodwin, the Inspector, remarked that such a case as the above was unprecedented, and that he had never had such a one durinr; the whole of his experience as an Inspector of Schools. The above speaks highly in favour of the teacher. Mr C. K. Cornforth, who was formerly head teacher at Puriri, Thames where his average of high standard passes was higher than any school in the province that year, and since then several of Ins old pupil's have taken scholarships. Mr Cornforth is also a great favourite with tho readers of The Waikato Times, being a contributor to its columns, both in prose and verso, under a nom de plume.