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Waikato Times, Volume 2641, Issue 2641, 15 June 1889, Page 2

The Gazette notifies that all licenses to use the totalizators at race meetings are revoked as from the Ist July next.

The Wairarapa Daily states that Mr Beeth.im, M.H.R., is in ill-health at Home, and hesitates to face tho Now Zealand winter. He will probably ask leave of absence for the coming session.

A meeting of the Hamilton Choral Society will be held on Wednesday next, at the Public Hall, for tho purpose of receiving the secretary's report and deciding on the future movements oi the society.

The estate of the late Capt. Whiston Powell, of Ngaruawahia, estimated at £1000, has been placed in the hands of the Public Trustee for administration ; also the estate of the late H. P. McPherson, of Hamilton, estimated at £150.

Mr Lance, M.H.R., disclaims being a leader of the Opposition. Nothing, he told his constituents, was farther from his thoughts, for he felt that the acceptance of sue!) a position might send him on to tho Uovernment benches, and ho would much rather go to another place than there.

There are 190,000 cows in New Zealand. The Canterbury Press estimates that they have returned £5 per head, while, with careful treatment and better modes of manipulating milk and tho opening up of direct trado with consumers, the yield ought to bo £8 per head, an increase of £570,000 per annum.

The tender of Messrs T. and SMorrin, Auckland, has been accepted for iron castings for the Railway Department from Ist July to 31st Juno, L-iOO, and that of Mr U. I<\ Mellars, of Taiipiri, has been accepted for rimu timber for tho Auckland railway for the same period.

The mother of Constable Sutherland, who was shot in Sydney whilst arresting a burglar, has received a letter from Lord Carrington, conveying his and Lady Carrington's wannest sympathy with her loss of so br.ave .i son, and expressing pride of tho man who died in the execution of his duty. The deceased officer had his life insured for i'2so.

Mr John Knox being prevented by illness from attending, his assistant (Mr Carter) wielded tho hammer at the sale at MrNeill's, Rangiriri, on Thursday. Thore was a largo attendance of buyers, and the bidding was very brisk, realising good prices. Everything was disposed of; the furniture sold well, and dry cows fetched from £2 5i to £2 10s ; calves, from 12s to 14s.

Mr T. Marshall, well known in Cambridge, and the up-country districts, has bought the old established business of Mr I. Bates who is about to leave Waikato on account of ill health. Mr Marshall opens to-day in the premises between Messrs Boyce and Sargent's shops Victoria street with a large and new stock of saddlery and harness, and he has determined to give special advantages to cash customers.

The volunteer force in Auckland appears to bn getting more and more di.s organised. The official investigation into conduct of the men at tho encampment, still drags on without any signs of finality, and in connection with it, causes have led to the arrest for breach of discipline of two or three officers, including Lieut. Kecsing, of tho WaitomataNavals. Evidently there is much need for an entire re-organisadou of ihe service.

Messrs- Goldsbrough Mort and and Co's monthly wool report the shipments during May as follows :--From Victoria, 8,290 bales, total to date since Ist July IiSSS, .w7,ISJ bales; decrease 5,0-15. New South Wales, 5,-140, to date 447."w3 ; increase 5!>,251. South Australia, 822, to date 12.Vi0ii ; decrease 2(i,101. Queensland, 1.-H2, to date 00,34!); increase, 4,345. West Australia, increase 5,413. Tasmania, to date 1(i,441; decrease, 21li. Now Zealand, 14,720, to date 21i1i,105; increase, 13.555. Urand total shipments 1,303,41!) bales; increase 48,202 bales.

We are pleased to report that the Cambridge flour mill will be re-started in about a month's time, by Messrs Chambers and Ridler, late of the Hamilton mill. A Pelton wheel is to be put in, and many other improvements made, which will render the mill second ti none. We trust the new firm will be a sucecssful one. Both the members are hard workers, and we hope they will receivo a just reward for their labours. It is certainly a great benefit to the farmers to have local mills, and we trust they will encourage the industry in every possible manner.

The following are the handicaps arranged for the sweepstakes rifle match at the Hamilton range this afternoon :—Oapt. Reid, Lieut. Kirk, Pearson, Connolly, Kelly, Hooper, Alexander, Mettam and Tristram, 0 ; P. Munro, Hammond, and A. Allan, 5; W. Manktelow, 0; Dent, 8; Parr and W. Hayes, 10 ; Meredith. Nelson andCassidy, 12; McPhcrson, 15; J. Dillicar, 20; McMahon, Vowless, Hope and V. Thomas, 25. Tho ranges are 200, 300 and 400 yards, five shots at each. The match will be commenced at 1 o'clock, and each man is requested to bring his own ammunition.

Mr Ernest Eugster, of Auckland, has published a neat, little book called " Words of Cheer for Young and Old." It is a collection of numerous poems, made by Mr Eugster at various times while travelling in different countries, which he has compiled and published in order to be. "a faithful companion for s'.uis and daughters leaving their parental habitation and separated from hallowed home influences," as well as a, blessing to many others. Tho book does not supply the names of the authors of the poems, which are full ;>f beautiful sentiments and useful, moral lessens.

The Salvation Army at Cambridge had a big meeting in the Oddfellow's Hall on Thursday evening, when a "coffee supper" was given to bid farewell to Captain Duggan, who is about to depart for Napier. A good number of recruits were enrolled, the flag of the Army being held over them while the " Articles of War" were read, to which they consented by holding up their right hands. The Captain stated that a corps would be formed at Cambridge, instead of it being an outpost, as at present, After full justice had been done to the good things provided, the residue was disposed of by Dutch auction. The meeting broke up a little after 10 p.m. In our last issue wo stated that the rent the Army was paying for the Hall was 2s (id per week. It should have been 12s (id.

The Good Templars of Cambridge arc evidently, what is termed in colonial parlance, "on tho job," for they are not content with making complaints, but thoy also offer to form a Vigilance Committee to catch the unwary publican who may servo liquors aftor the stipulated hours, etc. The following letter was read at the late meeting nf the Licensing Commissioners :— Cambridge, June 10th, LSiW. To tho Licensing Committee of the Borough of Cambridge. Gentlemen, —The members of the General Gjrdon Lodge, 1.0. G.T., No. -10, at theiv last session resolved to draw your attention to the tact that several complaints have been made in the Lodge from time to time to the effect thai the Licensing law of tho colony h.is been violated during the past year by certain Imtelkeepers under your jurisdiction, by allowing gamps of gambling, by selling drink during prohibited hours, viz., on Sundays and holidays, and after 10 o'clock at night, also by supplying persons already intoxicated. The members of the aforo-named Lodge respectfully request you to warn the hotelkeepers that tho laws of the colony must be kept with greater strictness in the futnro than in the past. 'Further, that the members of the aforo-named Lodge are prepared to act as a Vigilance Committee, and will aid the Licensing Commissioners in enforcing the laws in relation to the same. Signed on behalf of the members of the General Gordon Lodge, G. O. Giuri-'iTiis, C.T., J, Cabnachan, V.T.

There are eight cats on the staff of the Midland Railway. Tho expenses connected with them are regularly shown in the accounts of the Company. These lucky felines have under their charge, according to the season of the year, from one to three or four hundred thousand empty cornsacks. The holes in tho sacks which are eaten by tho rats, which are not eaten by the cats, are darned by twelve women, who are kept constantly employed,—Lyttelton Times.

The flax industry still continues active in the Raglan district, and it is stated that several other mills will soon bo in operation in various parts of the district. Enquiries have been made about the tow now unused, and a gentleman has shipped 100 tons of it Homo for experiment there. It is hoped that they may bo successful and then it is said tow will fetch prices that will enable flax millers to soil it at a profit.

\ tin order that the planting of forest trees may become more general, theOamaru Mail suggests that tlm Government should appoint one or more practical gardeners in the chief districts of the colony to raise trees of this description and supply them free to all bona fide settlors applying for them. It might be advanced that were such a course adopted it would handicap private enterprise. This need not be the case, as timberproducing trees form the class required, and thßso are not largely raised by private nurserymen.

A statement recently made by one of the Melbourne journals that there was an increasing dearth of employment in the city, was challenged by one or two persons, who maintained that thure was work for those who choose to do it. Tho writers of the letters were in turn assailed by some of the unemployed, and their assertions characterised aa misleading and untrue. One writer said : " I have exerted myself in every way to no purpose, and have lately applied for the post of night-watchman at the University and caretaker at one of the state Schools, etc. In each case there were from 00 to 200 applicants waiting for admission."

The Reefton correspondent of the Press says : —"The prospectus published in London by the Midland Riilway Company when floating the debentures recently, lias reached here. It shows that of threequarters of a million raised, ±,':")20,000 will bi expended in completing the railway from Urey mouth to Reefton and constructing six-milo sections at Springfield and Nelson respectively. The company undertake uwt to issue further debentures until the line is completed and running tu Reofton. Tenders tor the construction of the Ahaura section (about six miles) are now invited. It is expected the line V> Reefton will be finished in eighteen months.

The half-yearly meeting of the Loyal Duke of Oanitnidero Lodge of Oddfellows was held on Tuesday last at Cambridge. There was a good attendance and one candidate proposed for initiation at the next meeting. After the ordinary business the selection of officers for the ensuing half year took place. IJ.1 J . T. White was elected N.T. ; Brother Walters, V.T. ; P. N. (J. Arnold, U.M. ; P. T. McDermott, R. H.S.N. U. ; and P. T. Uerrish, T. H.S.N. (Jr. Secretary FitzgeraM stated that the Solvation Army had notified their willingness to rent the hall for the ensuing six months, with tho option of renewal for a further six months. It was decided to lengthen tho hall, erect a platform and make further alterations so as to make tho hall suitable for any kind of meutiug. Tenders weru called for »nd 1". T. White was tho successful contractor. This Lodge is in a sound financial condition, and to any ono desiring to join a good bsuetit society it offers special advantages.

Mr Gile, ex Governor of Pentridge, the big Victorian gaol says "A reformed prisoner, I have never in my thirty-eight years' experience ever seen one. If a man is sent to gaol, and does not come ii]) again, I do not call him a reformed criminal. But, if a man who is a hereditary criminal, and has been in gaol a number of times, turns to honest pursuits, that would bo reformation, but I have never seen one of those yet. As a means of reformation I rof j\rd R.iols as piwitivnly useless; as means of punishment they are all right; as reformatories their effect is nil. Once a man gets into gaol he is lost to all intents and purposes. Ho is led away by others. Habitual criminals talk about, ciime at it, and then weak-winded associates arc soon led into the same grooves. No doubt crime is a kind of moral in - sinity. If it were uot, how do you account for the same men coming back again and again to gaol. They work for less food and for loss rations than they get outside. \ r et they prefer to do so rather than to earn an honest living. Thore must bo something wrong with them in some way."

" Civis," in the Witness, says:— There are plenty of hard words to fling at a retrenchment policy that you don't like — hard words that no one can accuse of ambiguity. You may call it "mean," ''shabby'," "stingy," "niggardly;" you may siy that it is a " cheese-parinp policy," or a ".skinflint policy." If you merely call it " parsimony," the oilier side may justly reply tint many political writers have commended parsimony ; that there may be a wise paisiiiiony, a timely parsimony, a necessary parsim'iny. Sic Robert; Stout says that the word in this case should be "economy." 15ut not even the word " economy " will serve his turn without a qualifying adjective ; for does not common parlance recognise a falso and a true economy, a sound and an unsound economy, a mistaken economy, a misdirected economy, and the like ? However, the e-sential thing to know is that in Sir Robert Stout's terminology the Stout-Vogel finance is " economy," and the finance of Sir Harry Atkinson "parsimony." From this point of view 1 admit tho following choice doggrel, in which the junior V. D. at tho Witness office sums up tho discussion :

Atkinson cut down expenses; Hcnco is, Says Sir Robert, " parsimonious "■- (Which it's a most uncomplimentary expression— so it is !—and in my opinion quite erroneous;. J.V. regardless of expense was ; Hence was, Says Sir K obert, " economical" — (Which the use is entirely new to me, and in this connection highly comical). The pursuit of pleasure under difficulties was well illustrated on Wednesday night. Four young men were sitting in a Cambridge hotel, when some of them remembered th.it a dance was to take place at Ohaitpo that evening. "Lot's go," said one, "it isn't very late. We can get a buggy from Carter's, and be there by twelve ;" so after a brief consultation the trip was decided upon. Two of them, at least, were iirdent votaries of Terpsichore, and, thoir imaginations fired with the prospect of the smiles of beaut}', the joyous di'.nco to the enchanting ntrains of music, they wore prepared to face the icy cold, the howling blast, and the drenching shower whan such a consummation of their anticipations awaited them at the end of thoir journey. At a few minutes to eleven, macintoshed, and wrapped up to the eyes, they started, and after proceeding some distance, one little man of the party who though usually of a thrifty disposition, had been led away by the impetuosity of the others, asked his mate. " I say Blank, what will the buggy cost us ?" " Oh, only seven and sixpence each," replied Blank, slightly exaggerating the amount by-the-bye. The little man chewed this over in silence for a few minutes ; his pleasure seemed likely to be expensive, but presently, "hang the expense, what are a few shillings v/hen a tellow is se#mg life and enjoying himself," he soliloquised, as shivering with the cold, he endeavoured to crouch lower from the piercing wind and lain. By-and-byc he spoke again, " What is the admission to this dance, Blank." "Seven and six," again replied that joker, with a wink to the others, that was lost in tho darkness. Tho little man was silent, his meditations were not of the pleasantest, but he consoled himself with the thought that he was a gay young spark, and seeing life in earnest. At length arrived at Ohaupo, the party knocked up Delanoy, put up their horse, and went to the bar to warm themselves after their cold drive. The little man drew Dolauey to one side, " What do you charge for a bed," said he. " Eighteenpence," replied the host. " All right, I'll go to bed," and to bed lie went, paying for his share of the buggy hire and the price of his lodging for a few hours' sleep—for ho was roused out to return at four o'clock— when he might have enjoyed a good night's rest in his own bed for nothing ; but then, he has shown that he does not count expense when he goes out to enjoy himself.