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Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2617, 20 April 1889, Page 2

Lord Onslow is a passenger by the Mariposa. It is stated that Major Porter is to bo made a judge of the Native Land Court, We ire compelled to hold over the report of the Cambridge Cricket Club meeting. The annual Tauwhare Sports, to be followed in the evening by a dance, will be held on Easter Monday. There was very little business to occupy the Resident Magistrate's Court, Hamilton, on Thursday, and was unimportant. Mr Thos. Wallnutt, who, it will be a remembered, had his leg badly broken, is in Hamilton on a visit, his leg being now almoat wholly well. There was quite an influx of old Hamilton people by tho excursion train, and hearty hand shakes and congratulations were the order of the day. Tuesday next being a bank holiday, we would remind those interested that the Ngaruawahiu branch of the Bank of New Zealand will be open on Wednesday, the 24th.

The Ngaruawahia Race Club holds its annual meeting on Monday, and judging from the list of entries and acceptances which appear in another column, a good day's sport may be anticipated. The excursion train from Auckland was well filled, large numbers being booked for Te Aroha. As is usual with excursion trains lately, this one was almost an hour late on its arrival in Hamilton. During the early part of next week, the Grafton and Ponsouby (Auckland) Football Clubs will try their skill against the Poneke(Wellington)Club. We wish the Auckland boys every success in their matches. We noticed that some one near Wanganui is boasting about an apple weighing 280z., and measuring 15 inches in circumference. Mr CI. Mason, of Hamilton has a (iloria Mundi measuring 10 inches, and weighing 320z. Ho that beats the record. We draw the attention of the public to the military sports that will take llace in Sydnty Square this afternoon at half-past one, Thore will not be many events, but the programme will be an exciting one. The cavalry evolutions should ptove a great attraction, and will ensnre great success.

As Mr McLernonis about to leave the district he lias instructed Mr John Knox to soil by auction all his valuable household furniture and effects, particulars of which will be found in our advertising colums on Thursday next, tho 25th instant. The dates on which the Boards of Reviewers in districts in tho counties of Waipa, Waikato aud Puko, and the Boroughs of Cambridge and Hamilton, will sit to hear objections against the Property Tax Assessment, are notified in our advertising columns. The following were the wool exports during the month of March from tho Australian colonies. Victoria, 7,0G2 bales ; decrease during the year to date 15,7411. New South Wales, 21,007; decrease, 57,308. South Australia, 0li2; decrease, 215,715. Queensland, 1,804 ; increase, 0,570. West Australia, increase 3,002. New Zealand, 41,135; decrease, 14.14(1. A complimentary benefit will be tendered to Mrs Helps by members of the Alexandra Amateur Dramatic Society, assisted by several well-known vocalists and instrumentalists, on I'liday next, in the Public Hall, Alexandra. The performance will consist of a concert and comedy, " The Loan of a Lover," and the entertainment will conclude with a dance. We have been shown a purakin grown by Mr L. O'Neill, of Claudelands, Hamilton, which weighs HOlbs just beat ing tho one exhibited by Mr W. Gardner, of Rukuhia, at the late Horticultural Show by one pound. MrE. T. Davey, of Hamilton, has on view a pumpkin grown by Mr T. Clarkin, Hukunui road, v/hich tops the scale at 1231b5, thus beating both the others. Perhaps we will hoar of one now that will cap tho last one. We have to acknowledge the receipt of the first copy of " Zeitgeist," a clever little publication published and oditod in Cambridge by the Rov. 0. H. Garland, Wesleyan minister. It is devoted tj the interests of the body ho represents, and we are sure, from the character of the paper, that it will be productive of much good, Tho printer is Mr J. S. Bond, who turns out his work very creditably. The following ladies have kindly consented to act with tho executive committee of the Hospital Calico Ball to be held on Thursday, May 2nd :—Mosdames W. A. Graham, J. H. Jackson, 11. V. Sandes, W. Cussen, P. K Stevens, W. McGregor Hay, J. Hume, I. Coates and Kenny. Wo understand that the tickets are going otf rapidly, and the ball promises to be the success that the object deserves.

At a meeting of the Executive Council, held to consider the case oi the condemned Maori, under sentence of death for the Pook tragedy, the report of the judge who tried the case was read and considered, and a decision arrived at that the law should take its course. The date of the execution has not been fixed, and the final decision will be left to His Excellency the Governor. A petition to the Crown fur the murderer's reprieve is talked of in Wellington. Mr J. Smith, of Pukefce, nearly had a valuable dog killed by the train la?t week, the escape being almost miraculous. It appears that Mr Smith had crossed the railway line to work, and before the doff, which was following him could cross the line, the train came up. The dog not seeming to notice the train, rushed in under one side of the carriage and out at the other, the wheels just, grazing him. The train at the time was going at a good speed, being on a down grade. It is not intended to let Mr W. S. Stewart leave Cambridge without some tangible mark of respect lining presented to him. He has been a strong supporter of both the cricket and football clubs, and one of the chief olticers in the Good Templars Lodge, and has been connected with almost every public movement that has taken place during his stay in the tiiwnship. A meeting of no less than six public bodies will be held in the school-room on Thursday next, at i p.m., when he will be presented with an illuminated address, and a, gift of plate. Mr and Mrs Stewart leave Cambridge on Friday next. In spite of the breakdown of the land boom, the closing of the Exhibition, and the apparent tightness of the money market, there is every prospect of the Victorian treasurer's estimate of revenue of £7,703,000 being exceeded. The first throequarters of the year gives a return of £0,59(1,000, leaving only '£1,200,000 to be made by the fourth quarter. The Argus, commenting on the returns, says that the customs go on increasing, this last quarter's receipts being .fi'JS.OOO above those of the Christmas quarter, and nearly iIIoO.OOO above those of the corresponding peiiod of last year. In other words, the. volnnu of imports, ro far from being checked, is.siill growing larger. On the whole thii.'tmnof the year are magnificent, and yot, lookin? ahead, wo would say that they were not to be lived up to.

The Sydney Telegraph says: - " A discussion has been going mi in Melbourne and mentioned in the society papers of that, city as to whether the term ' Excellency'' should be used in addressing the wife of a Governor; for instance, ' her Kxco'leney Lady Carrington,' or ' her Exu! lency Lady Loch.' It has never been done in these colonies, but L idy IMake, wife of the rejected of O loensl'and, has raised a tea pot storm in .laiuaici, where her husband was aftonvaids appointed, by insisting that sin shall in a Idressed as 'your Excellency,' a term which, li.-hlly or wrongly, the Jamaicans ic'iisi >o ace >rd. ft is said that at the Colonial .'fill :: Governors' wives have the title of I'Acellency, and also that Lady Br.issey when she, was in the colonies invariably used the form of "your Excellency Lidy Carrington or Lady Loch." It is not a point of very great importance, but as a strict matter of fact ' her Excellency 'is correct. A (Jovernor's wife is so styled by curtesy, but only when resident in the colony under her husband's governorship."

Li Lung Chang, whom General Grant called " the Bismarck of China," has been interviewed, and says some very remarkable words. Ho declare, the American exclusion of the Chinese is "an outrage," and if it be not repealed, proposes to advise the Chinese Government to retaliate by excluding all Americans from China. He predicts that, within half a ccntuiy, China will be covered with a network of railways and telegraphs, and that the Chinese will do the manufacturing for the world. " This," he adds emphatically, "is a serious fact for tho working people of Europe and America to face. The Chinese are intelligent and skillful ; they work as hard as your people, and live much more cheaply. When our mills and furnaces are opened, and our railroad system completed, the difference in wages alone will turn the balance of manufacture in favour of China." Li Lung Chang is the Viceroy of the North-Western Province of China and Superintendent of Northern Trade, and is the chief adviser of the Emperor in regard to foreign affairs,

The Sydney Daily Telegraph, commenting <>n lli« first quarter's work ot the new Railway Commissioners, says:—"The country will be strongly confirmed in its approval of the great administrative reform effected by placing the railways in commission when it learns the particulars of the first quarter's working of the new system as given in the Commissioner's report. While the revenue from the quarter increased, compared with the correspondingquarter the former year, from £071,203 to £757,881, or an increase of £Su',(>fl4, the expenditure decreased from £122,994 to £119, 100 or a decrease of £3.811 giving a net gain of £90,127. But this is not the only gain which is shown in the report. What outweighs the pecuniary gain is the change of spirit and policy manifested in the report. The Commissioners are obviously anxious to put the railways on a sound business footing, and to avoid anything like the attempt to bring out bogus profits by the practice of charging to loan capital outlay properly chargeable to revenue. In this way they insist on the necessity of largo additional expenditure from revenue on painting station buildings and relaying the permanent way with gtcel rails. It is bad economy to allow costly buildings togo to ruin for want of paint, and no one can question that this, just as the renewal of the permanent way, is an expenditure which is properly charged against revenue. They also contend that old, worn, or antiquated engines, waggons, carriages should be replaced out of revenue instead of being paid for out of capital, excepting in the case of plant required to meet increased traffic and the opening of new lines."