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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2658, 25 July 1889, Page 2

The high wind on Monday did much daningo to property at To Aroha. The Post calls the Government the "Paper War Ministry," owing to wordy correspondence in the Fisher, Ward and Jellicoe episode*. Miss A- W. Knight, of Adelaide, lias been qualified to practice medicine and surgery, and has become a licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall. Mr Isaac Coates' traction engine passed over the Hamilton traffic bridge yesterday morning without straining the structure. Hie engine proceeded to Mr Jolly's farm for threshing operations. Messrs John Turnbull and E- WHanmer have been nominated as candidates to fill the vacant .'eat in the Piako County Council for the Waitoa riding, and a poll will be taken on Thursday next.

The closing of the New Zealand Dairy Company's creamery at Ngaruawahia will be a serious loss to tin settlers in that neighbourhood. So much so that steps are being taken to induce Messrs H. Reynold's and Co. to erect a plant to continue the industry. Professor Thomas, of the Auckland University, in company with Mr H. B. Morton, lias been in the district for the last few days, visiting Otorohanga and Te Aroha. He passed through Hamilton yesterday en route for Taupiri, where lie [imposes examining the geological formation of the Taupiri mountain.

At a committee meeting of the Hamilton Borough Councillor*, it was decided to present Mr J. M. Gelling with an illuminated address signed by the present mayor and councillors and the ex-mayor and councillors of the borough. The address will be presented at the valedictory dinner t»fbe given to Mr Gelling on the Gth prox. In reply to the injudicious and threatening letter from Mr Jellicoe, counsel for Chemis, the Minister of Justice has declined to hold any further communication with him on the subject, or to permit any interview with the condemned man. The Minister was, however, willing to receive any personal statements Cheinia might wish to make. A Southern paper says:-" The mean threepenny nit and the fraudulent button are the Financial Kings which reign over the churches of New Zealand. The results are a general state of ecclesiastical debt and starvation of church services. Tho latest instance is the difficulty about keeping up the beautiful music at the Christchurch Cathedral. A variety entertainment of songs, tableaux, and readings, will take place in the Oddfellows' Hall, Hamilton East, on Tuesday, 13th August. The best talent of the district has been promised, so that a really good evening's amusement will be provided. The object is a two-fold one ; to give children a pleasant evening, and to increase the funds of St. Peters' Sunday Sclwml. The return polo match, Hamilton v. Cambridge, is to be played at the Acme rink on Monday evening next. The Hamilton representative team are Messrs It. Parr, C. Ln Quesne, E. Hope, W. Misseu, T. Fleming and Howden, Messrs Windsor and Pannell emergencies. From the interest taken in this match there should be a large attendance at the rink on Monday evening.

A curious anomoly of the railway tariff has come under our notice, which, however, will not cause much surprise, seeing that so frequently the subject has been referred to in different ways. A 315-gallon cask of beer frem Ngaruawahia to Taupiri is charged Is ; three 10-gallon cfask.s cost Is 3d ; but a single 10-gulliin cask costs Is 3d—threepence more than three and a-half times the quantity as shown above costs !

There was a good muster of the Hamilton Light Infantry at the usual fortnightly parade on Tuesday evening, under Capt. Reid, Lieuts. Kirk and Pearson, A meeting of tho football team ill connection with the corps was held after drill, when it was decided that the team play in "blue jerseys with a red sash, white knickerbockers and blue stockings. The team is a strong one, and will no doubt give a good account of itself.

We understand that the Pakuranga hounds will be in Waikato during tho"onrly part of August. The Hrst meet will be held at Hamilton on Wednesday, the 7th, when it is to be hoped there will be a good number present, as it is some years since there has been a meet in Hamilton. The hounds will be under the charge of Mr Tom Brown. The Secretary will be glad to receive subscriptions, as it is tho intention of the club to wind up with a race meeting.

We learn there is likely to be trouble again regarding the Cambridge band, and legal proceedings are threatened. There apueais to be two factious, one consisting of old members and the other of the new. Neither side will give in and consequently matters are at a stand-still. Why do not both sides agree to make the instru incuts over to the Borough Council ? Then the dispute would be practicably settled, and a very fair band could be got together. Think this over, bandsmen.

The usual fortnightly meeting in connection with the Hamilton Wesleyan Biind of Hope, was held on Tuesday evening when there was a large and appreciative audience. The programme, which was an excellent one, consisted of both vocal and instrumental music, recitations, readings, dialogue, etc., and all the items, especially tho musical onos, were gone through without a hitch and in first rato stylo. The Rev. T, G. Carr officiated as chairman, and Miss K. Salmon in an accomplished manner presided at the organ,

Mr George Edmonds, of Claudelands, has returned to Hamilton after a brief visit to C uitcrbury, glad to get back to the gonial climate of this province. The winter down South, he says, has been very severe, and he felt the cold so much that he spent the most of his timo in doors. He reports considerable activity down South, and that lands are being eagerly sought after there for cropping purposes. In some cases that came under his notice as much as forty shillings per acre for one crop was being paid.

The sinking of the bis shaft at Huntly is being actively proceeded with, two shifts of men being employed to push forward the work now that the difficulty with the water and drift sands has been overcome. The big cylinder is now secure and down to 90 feet, below that to tho 100 feet level it is proposed to brick, many thousands of bricks being on the ground ready for use. At the IGO feet level a seam ef coal 36 feet in thickness has been pierced, and in addition to this there is an eight foot seam passed through in sinking which it is not proposed at present to work.

Nothing under separate maintenance with 15s a week would satisfy an irate wife who had her husband up bofore the District Court this woek. The husband offered to provide a comfortable home if she would return, but she scoffed at the idea. "He bates me, your worships," said she, for she conducted her own case, " and besides, I have every rayson to believe he does'nt lade a moral life." "But what makes you think that ?" askni the chairman. "Well, your worships," she replied, "to the best of mv knowledge and belief, he is not tho father of his last child." And yet in spite nf that evidence she did not get an " ordher."—Atticus.

The Taranaki Herald says : -Sergeant Duffin, of the local force, is not a Maori linguist, but in the Police Court he figures now and then in petty cases as a native interpreter. On Monday morning a Maori was charged with drunkenness, and after the charge was read the Sergeant .said to the Maori, making a sign at the same time like blowing the froth off a " long sleever," "You take too much waipiro?" " Aye," replied the Maori, and lie was fined on tho regulation scalo. Tho next charge against two Maoris was one of tightin? in a public place. The Sergeant explained the charge hy squaring up a la Sullivan, and on witnessing these pantomimic signs tho Maoris answered simultaneously "Aye.' The pair were fined, and paid up.

News from Timaru and Oarnaru distiicts is to the effect that farmers are in good spirits down there, having sold their grain profitably, and are putting in large areas ot winter wheat with great despatch. Some of the larger areas are let out to plough, sow, and harrow, by contract, and the contractor's teamsters are, many of them, men who do the work on a large scale. A gentleman who recently returned from the South says he has more than once seen two or three double-furrow ploughs, sets harrows, and the drill all following one another in the same paddock. In this district, owing to the low prices ruling for beef and grass-seed, and latterly also for winter-made butter, farmers are inclined to envy their more fortunate fellows both north and south. Wool returns received in this district so far have, however, been docidedly satisfactory to growers.—Hawera Star. Ad address has been prepared for presentation to Dr. WaJdiugton repressing regret at his leaving Cambridge, and an earnest desire tha the would reconsider his decision. It is couched in general terms so as to express the feelings of the doctor's fliends throughout a wider sphere than the immediate neighbourhood in which Dr. Waddington lives. A copy lies at Tub W.uk vro Tiiiks Office, to allow Hamilton friends to append their signatures if they so desire. The following was received by telegraph last night -.--Over 120 signatnies have already been received to the address to Dr. Waddington. It has been definitely arranged that tho address shall be presented to the doctor at his residence this (Thursday) evening, at 7 o'clock. Several of the lists out for signature have not yet been returned, so they will be added afterwaids. Those desirous of being present at the reading of the address will meet at S. Andrew's parsonage at a quarter to 7 o'clock.

As previously announced, Mr Mcßride, the enterprising merchant tailor of Auckland, has opened a branch in Hamilton in the shop lately occupied as an office by Mr W. M. Hay, which is being fitted up by Mr Elliott. Mr Mcßride is a brilliant example of what British pluck and energy in legitimate trade will accomplish, for he has built up the largest and most successful clothing manufactory in the colony. He employs at the present moment about 120 hands, and in the busy season has as many as 200 operatives in his Auckland establishment. Mr Mcßride seldom employs other than the best labour; that is, he studies tho individual capabilities of each of his employees, male or female, and knows exactly what they are lit for. Ho treats all fairly, and gives them a rate of wages adjusted on a just scale. There is no such thing as " sweating " possible with his business, where young women experts can make as much as 30s a week, on an average.

" Georgics," a writer in the Invercargill News, concludes a letter on the Property-tax as follows :—There seems to me to be no difference between indi.idual and colonial borrowing. If the colony continues to borrow to pay interest in the shape of inscribing, and calls it borrowing for remunerative works, and the Treasurer shows that wo are steadily going to the debit side of the ledger at the rate of £1,200,000 per annum, it can only be a question of time when a precipitation of affairs will occur. The same argument holds eond with tho individual. It has always seemed to me that Sir Harry Atkinson has had one idiosyncracy that ruled his method of taxing—that is instituting a tax that shall include moneymoney, leaving the colony in the form of pintit. Hence his stupidity. Every Chancellor of Europe has aimed at taxing profit. Let the wells of industry go free; they have sufficient obligations to meet in other ways, which already burden them to the fullest extent and threaten their very existence, and if there is anything that requires fostering it is bona fide industries. The outcome of these industries is that which must and ought to bo taxod, namely, accumulated wealth.

Captain Forbes, of the Oamaru Rifles, lias resigucd as the outcome of a fracas in the train after the Easter encampment. The Oamaru Mail states the case thus:—"From what we can gather, it seems that a number of the Naval Artillery corps were more or less under the influence of liquor, and during tho return journey by rail a disgraceful fracas ensued, one of the men especially conducting himself in a brutal and disgraceful manner. There were a number of ladies in the carriage in which the row occurred, who were greatly terrified ; one of them so much so that she went into hysterics. Captain Forbes, who was standing on the platform, was appealed to, but it was not until he had fairly choked the rowdy in question into submission that anything like order could be restored. The matter was reported to Lieut. - Colonel Sumpter, who instructed Lieutenant-Commander Crossgrove (ot the Navals) to institute an enquiry into the matter. The proceedings were, however, rendered ultra vires, through the enquiry taking the form of a trial, at which the accused wag adjudged to pay £1. The matter was referred back to LieutenantCoinmander Crossgrove, instructing him merely to take evidence and report."

I stepped int© a Salvation Army barracks a few evenings ago (writes •' Atticus '' in the Melbourne Leader), and heard part of an address that struck me as forcible. "Make sure, my friends," said the sergeant on the platform, "that your tickets are right, and that you know where you are going to. There's many a traveller now on the great rail of life hurrying along in a first class carriage, and cock sure that when the train pulls up at last he will find himself landed safely at the gates of glory. He wraps himself cimfortably up in his rugs, pulls his cap over his ears, smokes his cigar, reads his paper, and thinks ho has nothing to do but to wait comfortably for his arrival at the Happy Land. The whistle sounds to warn him that he is coming to the end of his journey, but lie suspects nothing wrong and goes on smoking his cigar and reading his papers. The air gets hotter and closer, and there is a sulphurous smell in the atmosphere. In another minute, the poor first class passenger says to himself, with a smile, ' I shall be with all the dear ones that have gone before, and my pleasant journey will be over, and ho collects his little woidly gools and puts them in order and waits for the train to stop. It stops. A grisly head is put in at tho window, and the tenor stricken wretch hears the awful name shouted into his ear of ' H—11!'" If the infernal porter shouted the word as vigorously as tho S.A. sergeant, it was certainly enough to strike terror into the soul of anyone..

The total defalcations of Dean, the absconding: Tlnunos Town Clerk, ainout to £2495.

Flour advances £1 or £110 a per ton, and the bakers meet immediately and advance the price of the 21b loaf a halfpenny, and then chuckle at how they have "had" the public, and what a good thing the rise in flour has been for themselves (the bakers). For years the production of sugar largely exceeded the demand, and Gorman beet sugar was as low as lis (id per cwt. The low prices ruling quickened the consumption, and now, whilethure has been no falling off in the production of the article, so enormously has the consumption increased that we are almost threatened with a susar famine. New South Wales and Queensland produce sugar largely, but tho now crop cannot roach the colonial markets for some two or three months, and as tho markets are very bare of supplies, prices have advanced rapidly; in fact, the rates ruling in these colonies are not legitimate, for they are not based on tho cost of laving down the article. The sugar market of each colony at present seems to be held by two or throe firms, and, of course, they are reaping a golden harvest. In no colony lias the price been forced up so higli as in Now Zealand. The retail grocers in Wellington the other day raised the price of Nos. 1 and 2 to Gd per lb, or 18s Gd per bag of '101b. That is to say, they want nearly £52 per ton. That is putting on the screw with a vengeance, and sugar will no longer be considered unprofitable—by the grocers. Seeing the wholesale quotations in other markets, there is nothing to justify snch extortionate rates ; it is simply a repetition of the baker's device —there has been a considerable wholesale rise in the price of tho article, but there is an enormous extortion in the retail demand.—Napier Telegraph.