The Maikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE. TUESDAY, FEB. 26, 1889.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2594, 26 February 1889, Page 2

The Maikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

TUESDAY, FEB. 26, 1889.

Equal and exact justice to all men, Of whatsoever state or persuasion, religious or political.

It will be seen from the latest telegrams that tho excitement on the East Const has reached a very high pitch amongst both the Europeans and natives, who have maintained a determined attitude to prevent the advent of To Kooti on the scenes of his old exploits. Tho -\varliko Ngatiporou have been ready to muster their lighting men, and the settlers were prepared to raise and equip an armed force for the purpose of opposing tho exrebel's presence in the district. The people of either race were not to be restrained, in tho course of action they had decided upon, even by the presence of the Premier himself in Gisborne. During the past week the Government ordered a force of men composed of tho Permanent Artillery and police to Gisborne to maintain order, but in reality, as was stated by the Wellington papers, to overawe the settlers who presumed to set the Government at defiance. In Wellington the resolute bearing of the settlors was regarded as a piece of insolence, and To Kooti was raised to the position of a "great warrior.' . Public opinion in tin: northern portions of this island has been decidedly adverso to the Government for their weak and vacillating action in the matter, and wo lincl that they have beivn compelled to give way to that feeling. Instead of attempting to browbeat tho East Coast people and make a mockery of their susceptibilities as regards the old murderer, the. Government have finally decided to take tho course they ought to have adopted from the very beginning. The Cabinet at last' realised the fact that Te Kooti was the sole disturbing element to the peace of the country, which would be broken to a certainty if ho made his appearance at Poverty I'.ay, and that to preserve the peace ho must be kept away from it. In consequence of this, the proper view, they have issued positive orders to the ex-robel to retire, and have despatched a body of troops to enforce their commands. Had they acted in a prompt manner from the time Te Kooti paid his official visit to the Native Minister in Auckland, there would havu arisen no ditliculfy, the Kast Coast would not have been roused into alarming disquietude, and neither the settlers there nor the country would have been put to the loss and expense that have been and will be incurred before Te Kooti is biought back to the Waikato. The old rebel is in a very sullen state, because, after proceeding so Car on his journey, he is checked by I ho Government, who had really .•oiintonnnced his progress in a tacit way. Ho is aftorall a fanatic, ambitious to gain great rnana ; and he has been joined by a large body of fanatics. Where Jin is now he can without trouble talre refug/s in the

impenetrable Uriwera country and tind thorough sympathy from the fierce tribes there. Should lie feel that tlifi Government have broken faith with him, and become possessed of a resentful spirit aud desire for v.lt>, or revenge, he may remain hidden in the Uriwcra, only later on to do some mischief on the numerous settlements of the natives and Europeans in the Poverty Bay district. There is even a possibility that, in aecordnnco with his old tactics, he may mako a coup-de-ijw.Tir on Opotiki before it can be placed in a state of defence, or troops be brought up to protect it, and take vengeance on the unarmed settlers. This is the danger the temporising and indiscreet action of the Government has given rise to, and which would have been averted by firm decisive measures at the outset. They have been very much to blame in the whole matter. Besides the undignified aspect of yielding to the demands of the settlers, thoy have su (Tercel in prestige in the eyes of the native people, whilst they have exalted Te Kooti's. It is to be hoped no worse evil will follow from their short-comings, and that the colony will be spared the troubles of a little native war which would check our returning prosperity and interfere with the settlement of the East Coast.

We learn that Sir W. Wastoneys is taking up his residence in Giimbridge,|where ho intends practising as a barrister. In future the Cambridge Road Board will meet on the third Saturday in each month at 2.30 p.m. prompt, instead of J 2 o'clock as foru.erly. A meeting of the ladies of S. Andrew's, Cambridge, in connection with the Garden Fi-tc is convened for to-morrow at the parsonage at 3 o'clock. An inquest was held at Tamahere on the body of Arthur Selby, which was found at the Narro.vs on Friday, and a verdict of "Accidentally drowned" was returned. There is one essential thing the farmers should not neglect to do. ISio-v that thoy have their grain stacked they should take the precaution to insure it. Many a pound may be saved by doing so. We are informed that this will be the best season for maize that Tβ Puke has seen. Where befote there were 40 bushels to tlio acre, there will be from SO to 100 this year. The average will be about 70 bushels per acre.—Buy of Plenty Times. We learn that an athletic meeting is to bn held at Cambridge on S. Patrick's Day. A very good programme has been arranged, comprising IS events, and the local men are nearly all going in for training. Our Te Awamutu reporter writes, requesting us to rectify an omission in the published report of the concert at Te Awamutu. By some inadvertence the name of Mrs Gresham, who sang, ''Never More," was oinmitted. Our reporter expresses his deep regret for the omission. The following names of Waikato teachers appear iu the result of the late examinations :—Class C: G. .F. Grierson. Class D : Win. H. Hill, Maria T. Mulgan, Elizabeth A. Nixon. Class E: Blaneho ISedlington, Martha Crookes, Emily Krippner and John Pain. We have not had any reply to the enquiry made by one of our correspondents, asking if Paris Green kills bees ? But we have had several orchardists call upon us, who say they will not use it again, as the trees that; were syringed with it last year are not fruiting this season. The Hamilton Light Infantry will parade this evening at 8 fi'clock at the Volunteer Hall. After drill, matters in connection with the proposed match with the Auckland City Guards will betaken into consideration, and also in what manner the anniversary of the corps shall be celebrated on March 22nd.

The Harvest Festival at S. Peter's, Hamilton, will bo hold on Friday next. Offerings of grain, <fcc, for tho Church decorations can be sent to the parsonage at once, and fruit and Mowers as late as Friday morni«g. " Helping hands" are wanted for tho Beo this and other after afternoons. A meeting of those interested was held in Tub Waikato Tim Ha Building last nitwit, when it was decided to form a club, tii be called " Tho Waikato Amateur Swimming Club." Mr J. Parr acted as chairman and Mr J. (i. Pannell as hon. nee. pro. ten). A meeting for thu election of officers and committee men will be called for an early date. In the cable summary of Mr Houston's evidence before the Parnell Commission, sonin of the names mentioned by him were mutilated in the message as received by us and that of Mr M. IXivitt is made to appear amongst them. We should read the names of O'Kelly, Biggar and Harris, as being present at the meeting in Paris and not O'Riely and Davitt. A report has reached us from Huntly that a very serious subsidence in the surface of the ground has taken place in the Tanpiri Coal Mining Company's mine there which will result in considerable loss to tho company by cutting off a valuable seam of coal. This accident will in no way interfere with the company's operations, as they have plenty of other good ground open for working. The remains of the late Mr Arthur S«lliy, who was accidently drowned in tho Waikato River, were interred in the Cambridge Cemetery on Saturday afternoon last. Archdeacon Willis conducted the service, and about 30 friends of the family attended. Had it been publicly known when tho funeral was to take place, there would have been a great number present, as the youii}.' man wan universally respected. Our Rotorua correspondent writes: —After a second attempt of about two years duration, the Hot Lakes Chronicle has ceased to exist. The latter few months of its career were somewhat erratic, coming out in various styles and on no fixed day, Man's a vapour full of woes Starts a paper, bursts and troes.' . The above is a very appropriate epithet for those who up to the present have endeavoured to live by taking upon themselves to guard the interest of the public here by the influence of the press. The plant has been removed to Tauranga, where it is said it will be put into use to run in opposition to " The Bay of Plenty Times.' , Here is something for protectionists to think over. Tho Taimii, has sailed from New Zealand to Plymouth, part of her cargo being -1000 kegs of butter, the produce of small farmers. Those small farmer will get in exchange other goods, and when they arrive here the Customs authorities will take about 25 per cent of tho value. Tins robs the farmers of one-fourth of their produce. If it is objected that the farmers get money for their butter it all comes to the same thing, for the money must be laid out in dutiable goods. But the " money puzzle" only bothers those who are uniustructed, the merest tyro in political economy knowing tb.it money is only a medium by which complex exchange transactions are simplified. Money is the pair of scales, and Protective duties are the lumps of lead which set the " turn of the scales" against the producer.—Exchange.

Mr George Hambiin, market gardener and orchardist, of Cambridge, died at about 4 o'clock on Saturday. Mr Ilnmblin was one of the most sterling and upright of men, thoroughly independent in character, liberal and charitable, and his lnany friends in Cambridge feel hU loss deeply. He was an old colonist, having originally gone to Victoria in the early mining days, and following the adventurous career of a miner, and worked with varied success on nearly all the goldfields in Victoria, Xew South Walos, Otago, and tho Wast Coast of Xew Zealand. Some years ago lio imrried and settled down in Cambridge buying n piece of land, which lie laid out as an orchard, and kept in first-class order. The immediate cause of his death was rupture of the aorta, caused by the strain he got in lifting a heavy post. j\fr Hamblin's agn was S'4. He leaves q> widow, but no ebildren.

A son of Mr Burke, of Huntly, dislocated his shoulder, while playing in the schoolgrounds at Huntly. yesterday. Dr Murch was called in aud reduced the dislocation, and the doctor expects that his patient will soon be about again. Owing no doubt to the carelessness of some passing smoker, the long bridge near the Hamilton Kast school caught fire on Sunday afternoon, and had it not been for the prompt action of Messrs Humors and Flood, who were passing by. the bridge would have been destroyed. The programme of the Autumn Meeting of the South Auckland Racing Club to be run on tho Claudelands race course, on Saturday, April 27th, appears in this issue. We must congratulate the committee upon tho arrangement and selection of the different events, which will no doubt commend itself to horse owners. A good day's sport may therefore be anticipated. The Financial News notes the fact that in the report of the Scottish and New Zealand Investment Company, which was adopted at the meeting in Edinburgh tho other day, it was stated that the colonial property tax upon the transactions of the company now amounts to 2 per cent of tho capital of the same, and it was suggested that tho company should retire from the colony '" fairly taxed out of it." Mr Thos. Rothwell, junr., of Whatawhata, one of tho soldiers of the Hamilton corps of the (salvation Army, applied for the Maori work about three weeks ago, and he has received word from headquarters at Auckland that he has been accepted, and was to be stationed at Wanganui. Mr Rnthwell will " farewell" on Sunday evening nfixt aad leavo next week for Wangauui, where he will meet the late Hamilton captain (Capt. Cutler.) A singular case of somnambulism is reported at Smart road. On Sunday night last (the Taranaki News reports), the 10th mst., the son of a settler pot out of bed in his sleep and travelled all the way to Waitara, where he was found next morning. The mystery h how he could have travelled all the way in tho drenching rain without waking. He cannot give any explanation of the occurrence, and was entirely unconscious until he was found lying on the road and awakened. His parents only missed him a short time befoie he returned home. The Rev. P. L. Cameron, writing on the Sunday question, does not disapprove running of trains to Wanpanui Heads between church tiraes; but draws the line at tennis, shooting, and fishing ; and while agreeing that looking over fantu with a view to purchase or otherwise, and str.ok viewing aud shifting and examining, and the numerous part-commercial and huckstering proclivities of many on Sundays is f|iiite out of place, says : —"lf I was a farmer and had trrain dead ripe, or otherwise requiring attending to or saving, and Sunday morning found me standing in front of a falling glass with a rising wind and sea outside, I know what I should do up till church time, and also what I would turn to after having been to church."

Miss Missen's concert, to be given on Thursday evening next, promises to be highly successful, l>olll the programme, which appears elsewhere, it will be seen that several well-known local amateurs have consented to take part; Miss Swan, <ii Auckland, and Mrs Maxwell, of Cambridge, will also render vocal selections. Miss Missen and her pupils will perform several pianoforte solos and duets, and as Miss Missen'a ability as a pianiste is wellknown, tl)3se should be. not the least of the attractions. At tho close of the musical portion of the programme, the prizes won at the late, swimming matches on the Hamilton Lake will bt>. presented to the successful competitors by tho Mayoress of Hamilton. The Taupiri Coal Mining Company are meeting with considerable difficulty in the sinking of their main shaft. After the failure of " Captain Lindsay to carry out tho work of driving piles, it was decided to put down an iron cylinder similar to those used in the Ngaruawahia and Hamilton bridges. This, however, has not overcome the trouble with tho quicksand which rises in the cylinder faster than it can be removed. Mr Collins, the manager of the mine, was in Hamilton on Saturday making enquires about the air lock that was used in getting down the bridge cylinders, experts who have been called in to advise having recommended the adoption of this plan for overcoming the difficulty. The pressure i» so great that a superincumbent weight cf fifty tons tried last week failed to force the iron cylinder forward. Wβ have received ocular proof of the capabilities of the soil on the Waipa for fruit-growing from Mr E. C. Shepherd, who hai left with us some very fine specimens of apples grown by him on his farm at Whatnwhata. The varieties [are Yellow Vandevere. Beauty of Kent, King of Pippins, Bismarcks, and K«d Caldwell, all very good of their kind. The soil iu the Waipa watershed, and of a very extensive area of the "Raglan County, is of s-upenor quality ; in fact the excellence of the country in that part of the colony is hardly yet known. When settlement is stimulated there, the increase of population will effect a large incraaso in tho production of fruit, for few districts are better fitted for the planting of clean and vigorous orchards than that on the west side of the Waipa.

Mr Vincent Pyke was made the happy recipient of a purse of sovereigns a day or two ago. Mr Pyke has n.nv received what he, no doubt, considers a very good equivalent for his open abandonment of principle during the late session of Parliament. We never credited the member for Dunstan with being very much burdened with political principle or consistency ; though we always knew he had the trick of calling his delinquencies by very agreeable names. In thanking his goneroue friends at Clyde the other day, he announced his intention of opposing the reduction of members next session, and denounced it as an injustice to the country districts. Probably he had discovered, like some other politicians of tho siinie stamp, that his r.ccuptation is in danger; and this, to Mr Pyke, despite his fluent patriotism, is the only consideration worth thinking about. The country has spoken definitely on this subject; and, if only for decency sr.ke, Mr Pyke should endeavour to mako a virtue of necessity and quietly submit to the inevitable.—Tuapeka Times.

The early settlers in Waikato must have been a "happy baud of brothers," judging from the manner in which they carried out public works, without troubling themselves as to the legality of their proceedings. At the last meeting of the Cambridge Koad Board, Mr Forrest greatly astonished the clerk by asking him to search the records of the ljnaid, and lind out if the drain on Mr .Arnold's land, at Frogmore Gully, had been declared a public road under the law existing at the time at which it was made ; and if that was found not to have, been done, he suggested that steps bn immediately taken to get it made a public drain, under the Public Works Act. The Clerk replied that the early settlers did not trouble themselves much about legal formalities but studied one another's interests, and if a public work wanted doing it was done, generally, irrespective of the law. The late Highway Hoard had a solicitor, to whom they paid a retaining fee, but he was not often consulted. Ho intimated that to search the records of the Board for upwards of twenty years would occupy some days; but he would endeavour to furnish tho information at the next meeting.

A boom in. wheat was caused at Wycheproof, Victoria, recently, owing to a buyer offering the unnrecedently high price of 4s Sd per bushel. Tho buyer in question, named Charles Holland, was engaged by Mr John Cameron, who represents the Bridgewater Water Alilling Company at Wychitella, to buy at Wycheproof on his behalf, and he furnished him with a supply of blank cheques signed by himself. These cheques were to be tilled out by Holland on the ptircnase of wheat, and the wheat was to bo sent to the J-Siidgewater mills. Me visited Oharlton and made a commotion amongst the wheat buyers there with his high oilers. He next proceeded to CJlenloth, struck terror into the hearts of the Glenloth buyers, and then put up at Wycheproof, where he effected several large purchases, for which cheques were given. Having purchased a good supply of wheat, for most of which -Is Sd per bushel was given, he then sold it to the local miller at •Is LM, receiving a cheque which he immediately cashed. He then decamped, it is supposed for Donald. On Wychitella some of our passengers were, engaged conversing on the wheat markot at Wycheproof, when Mr (,'ainpron learnt that it was his man who wnn giving 4s Sd. Hfl had previously heard that the Wycheproof market was very high, but had no suspicions that his employee was tho causo of a sudden rise. Air Cameron has been hit severely, seeing ho is responsible for the cheques issued. A warrant was immediately issued for Holland's arrest.— Lender,