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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2649, 4 July 1889, Page 2

The rainfall at Whangarei during the past month was 17i inches, being the heaviest on record. The revenue ol the Auckland Charitable Aid Board for the last financial year was £'17,155 from all sources. £5,320 was f rum subsidies. Subscriptions are being raised in Auckland in aid of the widow and children of Patrick Cnnnell, who was killed at the Poro-o-torau Tunnel. The total cost of the Te Kooti campaign was £i2,SGI. The Government expected a sharp attack on this charge, but the subject passed* without much comment. Mr C. J- W. Barton has entered upon his duties as clerk of tho Hamilton Uorough, relieving Mr (Jelling, who will leave for the Ivormadecs about the end of the present month. Mr W L. Rees has arrived in Auckland from Kngland. IJe told a reporter that he would not abandon his colonisation scheme on tho Last Coast whilst there is a chance of success. Judge Puckey opened a Native Land Court in the Public Hall, Hamilton, yesterday, t« .v«(;ertai« the owner* of certain portions of the &£at«tamainn BJock, in the Whaingania district, llr Ti"U Maata Rimini, as Native Assessor, Mr Swanson as interpreter, and Mr ,-js clerk, are the officials of the Court. The sitting last a week. The attendance of natives is small.

The Opposition have decided not to assail the. Government oil the Pro-perty-tax or offer any factious opposition during this session. At a meeting of the Library Committee of the Hamilton Borough Council, it was decided not to accept the offer made by Mr Pannell in connection therewith. A commission consisting of Col. Hume, Major Birnic, and Capt. Skinner have hegun to investigate the charges against Capts. Hitchens and Hulse, with reference to the conduct of their men at the Faster Encampment at Hamilton. Capt. Jackson, R. M-, sat at Hamilton, yesterday. The case of Calder against natives for illegal impounding was again brought up and judgment was reserved. A case, Trustees in Kstsite of Lewis and Simpson v. Kdgecumbe was heard, judgment being reserved. Major Jackson, member for Waipa, and Mr Ballance, the new Opposition leader, voted for the retention of Dr. Macgregor's salary of £1200 per annum as Inspector of Lunatic Asylums. The Government had renewed the term of Dr. Macgregor's appointment for five years, but seeing the feeling of the House, they have agreed witli that well-paid official to curtail it to three years. Considering the wretched state of the weather, a very fair number of people congregated at the Salvation Army barracks at Hamilton on Tuesday evening last, to hear Lieut, Arnold's final address. The Lieutenant will leave Hamilton for his new appointment (Otahuhu) this morning, and his successor (Capt. Kemp) is expected on Friday afternoon, and the captain will hold a " holiness " meeting in the evening. A Cambridge correspondent writes I was rather amused the other day by an old resident who asked me whether it was true that the number of

Borough Councillors was nine. On receiving a reply in the affirmative, ho said : "Now, do you know it seems to me that a Mayor, a Town Clerk, and nine councillors are a lot of bosses to look after one surface man working half time." But that's New Zealand all over.

Mr Ruge, of Cambridge, has developed a new feature in his business. For a few days past he has had on view a pretty cabinet, with drawers and outer doors, the exterior of both being profusely ornamented with sprays of leaves and flowers in relief. The ornamentation has been patiently and laboriously cut from thin wood with a fret saw, and afterwards glued on, and the effect is both striking and good. Mr Huge lias some pretty card baskets, &c., similarly got up. In this issue will be found an important notice, drawing attention to the celebrated Spread Kaglo Teas, put up in various sized packages by Messrs L. Buchanan and Co., of Auckland. Mr John Buchanan, who is, we understand, associated with the firm, is a name wellknown to Waikato. Mr Buchanan was amongst the first of the Auckland merchants who sent travellers through the Waikato, and his name for extra good value in teas has become quite a household word. For the egg and spoon race at the Acme Skating Rink on Monday last, four competitors faced tho starter, viz., Messrs 15. Hope, C. Le Quesne, Stevens and Howden. The result of the event proved an easy victory for Mr Chas. Le Quesne. For Monday next a collar, cuff, tie and eyeglass carnival is announced. There will also be a scratch polo match, when a team will be selected to represent the Acme Rink in the match Hamilton v. Cambridge, played at Cambridge on Tuesday, the oth

A story has reached us lately about an act of wanton cruelty that has been perpetrated more than once by an individual at Cambridge. He owns a dog or two, and affects sporting tastes, and to prove the pluck of the unfortunate canines that come under his tender mercies, is in the habit of picking up the poor brutes by the loose skin at the back of the neck and running a knife through the folds. If the dog stands this without yelping, he's a " plucky" one. How .vould the experimenter like the test tried on himself? There is a branch of the Society for Preventing Cruelty to Animals in Hamilton. Verb. sap.

Cambridge is about to lose one of its oldest and most popular residents in Dr. Waddington, who has decided to remove to 'IV Aroh". Dr. Waddington's facc and figure is familiar (o every settler within the Waikato and I J iako distiicts and there is scarcely a household within ranee of the township of Cambridge with which he has not, at some time or another, been associated either professionally or by friendly intercourse. The_ worthy doctor has had a large experience in various parts of the world and was in the old days attached to the military forces of the Ktnpire whilst in active service. His skill as a practitioner is undoubted, and there is this also to say of Dr. Waddington that he possesses the kindest and most sympathetic of dispositions.

Mr Wise, formerly AttorneyGeneral of New Suuth Wales, writing in London on Australian politic*, makes some severe remarks on colonial Irishmen.

lie stated that members of Parliament who make themselves conspicuous by disorderly conduct are generally Irish or represent Irish constituencies. The Irish vote is cast in New South Wales for protection, in Victoria for publicans, 111 Queensland for nationalism, but in all eases it is always against tiie Government. The wbject of the Roman Catholic priesthood, he alleges, is to obtain control of the public schools, and the oibject of the laity is to grab the public offices. Fivesixths of the billet-hunters are Irish. Mr Wise also quotes the remarks of the Melbourne Age on the political organisation of the Catholic Church.

The following appears in the Pall Mall Gazette That rara avis in the British dominions—a bishop who had stood for Parliament —will bo with us this summer, in the person of the Right Rev. Dr. Moran, Bishop of Dunediu, New Zealand, who must not be confounded with the Australian Cardinal of the same name. Dr. Moran came forward a few years ago as a candidate for the representation of his cathedral city, but did not succeed in securing a seat. He is a pronounced Nationalist, and personally conducted the New Zealand Tablet for years. Me has a substantial grievance to pour into the piivuto ear of the Pope. The vast majority of the Roman Catholic population of New Zealand is Irish, the other three prelates being English, with no very pronounced affection for Mr l'arnell. In justice, the proportion should be reversed three Irish prelates and one English."

When Mr W. C. Buchanan, I-H Rfor Wairarapa, took his last trip to Hug, land, ho went by way of_ San Franciscoand paid particular attention to the cost of living when passing through the States. He told his constituents at Greytown the other day that he paid 5 dollars (20s lOd) for a hat in Chicago which would have cost 12s Gd in New Zealand. He also bought a suit of clothes at Chicago which the tailor told him could not be made under 40 or 50 dollars, or somewhere about .£lO, that can be made in this colony for from ill 10s to £(">. And he had to pay it, for the natives at Samoa somehow managed to steal his clothes, and he had to renew his wardrobe. He went to a bootmaker and paid If! dollars for a pair of boots which were valued by a Wellington bootmaker at 32s Gd. This is what Protection has done for America in 100 years. But someone may ask : "What about wages? Are they not very high? Platelayers earn in New Zealand bs Gd per d;ty, wet and dry, for a day of eight hours. Tn America they receive from one dollar to 1 dollar 75 cents for a day of 10 hours. Comparing rates of wages, men in New Zealand earn Id per hour more than the highest rate paid in America. To the poor man Protection has nothing to recommend it. It means dear living, low wages, and keen competition amongst factory hands to secure work. Only the thin end of the wedge of Protection has been introduced in New Zealand, but already the baneful effects j{ the false policy Have shown themselves in the poverty of the poor work girls in Dunedin, Christchurch, and Auckland. Some people talk about the advantages of Fair Trade as opposed to Protection and to Free Trade, but fail trade means tho protection of industries that can be fostered in a country, and free admission of all goods that cannot bo manufactured or grown. But the result to the people is the same as under Protection. Under Fair Trado it would be said that New Zealand can manu facture nearly everything she wants in the way of clothing and machinery, and therefore all those tilings would bo protected by prohibitive duties'on the imported articles, while tea and such like that can neither be msdi3 nor grown would bo free. The consequeuce would be that manufactured articles would be excessively dear, as in America, or wages would be excessively luvy. In either case nothing would be gained.