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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2663, 6 August 1889, Page 2

The Hamilton Light Infantry parade this evening. The Piako County Council will moot at Cambridge at 11 a.m. oil Saturday, trio 10th inst. The Watkato Farmers' Clnl) met last evening, too late, however, for a report t'i appear in this issue. Mr William Blacklock, American vice-consul at Apia, has presented Matiafa witli a gold watch and chain, as nn expression of gratitilde from the United Stitos. One of the insurance delegates from San Francisco passed through HainilCdii yesterday on iv visit to the Lake country. ' Ho speaks in high praise of our colonial cheese, and thinks this a magnificent dairy country. We are pleased to report that Dr. Waddiugton is progressing favour- - ably, although he is still very unwell. When sudioiently recovered, \v« believe lie intends taking a trip down South. The following tenders were received by Mr Garter, Secretary of tlie South Auckland Kacing Club, for ploughing, &c. at the ClniuJeliirids course :—Oarthy, £18; Jones, till 10s ; Dillicar (accepted), £1:2 10s. There was one informal tnnder. Major-General Edwards favours a strong navy for Australia, whoso policy should bo to keep an ensiiiy at arms'length. He thinks the harbour defences'complete, stud is in favour of a partially paid force, instead of a purely volunteer one. There is a prevalence of sickness principally throat complaints, amongst children in Hamilton at the present time. We regret to learn that five of Mr James Hume's children, at the bank oE New Zealand, are suffering from the epidemic. Mr 0. B- Alderton, the well-known agent for the (Jovernment Life Insurance! J Apartment, is again in Hamilton on his annual Waiknto tour. Wo understand Mr Aldorton intends to deliver one of his .Jar lectures before ho leaves Hamilton. At the invitation of the patients, the Salvation Army held a service in the Waikiito Hospital grounds on Sunday afternoon last, which was greatly nnjoyed by th-i inmates, espemlly the tunes played on the brass band. The Army often pay them a visit, on Sunday afternoons, and the patients always look forward to their meetings. A monster consultation is announced by printed slips to hand on the Melbourne'Cui>, of 50,000 members at £1 del), and called the Sydney .Tockoy Turf Club's Consultation, and advertised by Waller Orahnm, ]}..x 1411, G.P.O. Sydney. We understand there is no such Club as tho Sydney Jockey Turf Club in existence, and that in consequence this has a swindle written on the face of it. The valedictory dinner to Mr (Idling, lace Town Clerk of Hamilton, tikes place to-morrow, and promise* to be. a. groat snesess. Tin: address to be presented to Mr (Jelling by present and past Mayors and councillors, is on view at Mr Pannell's shop, [t has been prepared and illuminated by Mr Sinythe, of Hamilton, in a tasteful :md elegant des-ign, very creditable to the iittist. The Eight-Hour Roller Mills in Auckland have begun active operations acain, under the control of the Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. We understand that tho Company are prepared to purchase Waikato wheat in any quantity at current rate, and farmers can deal direct or through tho local branch at Hamilton, where simples of grain can bo Miblnittod to the agent, Mr Sare. An English tourist passed through Waikato yesterday. He has bought some laud at M'ildiini, Messrs Chat Fey Bros' irrigation settlement in Australia, but finds it not a desirable plaoa to live in. The heat is intense, and tho snakes arc a fearful trouble, swarming in all directions. Once going up the river in a boat, a snake got on the blade of his oar, and another reptile swung from the limb of a tree and coiled itself round the hat of a companion in the boat. We have been shown a copy of the returns of a shipment of Waikato sheep forwarded by tho Tongariro to the Homo market. There were -1(!2 carcases aggregating 30,~>0Slbs, and they were sold tor I. Sid per lb; the total charges wero 2.82 d per lb, which, with •■tad for pelts, etc., sold in Auckland, left a net balance of 2. ltd pei lb or 13s 3d per sheep. This result k very satisfactory, and the price obtained was higher than the sheep could have boon sold for in Auckland at the time.

Wellington is at length lighted (?) by tho electric light. When tho moon and the electric light are both full on, our street:* arc .quits bright—only they are nover on at the same time. When the full moon is blazing on liigh, tho electric light is turned off, and when the moon is turned ulf there is not enough electric light to swear by. Wellington is not fortunate in its improvements. It has a destructor which won't destroy, and an electric light capable of no more illuminating power than a fat and healthy flow-worm. —Catholic Times. Now that another fatal accident Ins been caused by a railway bridge being used for traffic, it is to be hoped that it will bot< warning to tliw.se who so frequently use the Hamilton railway bridge as a convenience for crossing the river, in spite of the notice. JOven since tho planking has been removed, people still continue to cross by stepping from sleeper to sleeper, and one man (who was too timid to walk on tho sli-epcrs) was seen a few days ago eroding on his hands and knees. To do such .1 thing is, to say the least, daring Providence, and if something is not dono to prevent tlio.su ;;eople from breaking the law, either sooner or later more fatal accidents will occur. The Tapanui Courier says that whatever may have been the result of small bush, settlements elsewhere, the smallarea of bush land opened for deferred payment settlement on the boundary of the town is likely to be a success. Fourteen settlers are now iu occupation, and 011 most of the blocks co.nfortiibla homesteads have been erected, garden patches formed, and a considerable amount of bush clearing done. Tho settlement has a thorough air of contentment and prosperity about it, and to all appearances the settlers are of the right sort and satisfied with their lot. Would-be settlers on the suburban lands near Tapanui complain bitterly of the action of tho Uovminwnt in so long delaying the opening of tho sections tor allotment,

In tho case Murphy v. Hewitt, luvird at tho Cambridge lI.M. Court on Fiiday, the plaintiff had taken a contract to do some work, and had apreed to have his little score at the defendant's hotel deducted in part payment. C.iptain Jackson held that it could not be done, and although no costs were allowed, Mr Hewitt had to pay the amount, £1 3s !)d. Our printer's imp's sympathies are clearly with the plaintiff, as ho—in Saturday's issuemulcted Mi Hewitt for £13 9s, instead of The contents of four of the five bags of 1000 sovore-igns each, stolen from thelbeiia, wero. recovered by the Sydney police, the *pot where they were planted under the Williamson pier boingaccidentilly discovered by some boys. Ttio boys tilled their pockets with the treasure and took them home to their respective parents, but the father of one,' an honest workingman, informed the police and handed all the sovereigns to them. The question is who was the robber, and what has become of the fifth bag? „ _ The day (says the at James Gazette) is far distant when the railway fares in England, even on the Metropolitan lines, will be assimilated without rctrard to the distance actually tiavelled. Butin goahead Hungary the Minister of Finance is going to try an experiment of the kind. The whole system of railways is to be divided into fourteen zones, and within any such zone all the fares are to.be equal; the rates may be guessed from the fact that the third class fire in the outer nine is four florins for over 500 kilometres—i.e., about Gs Sd for about 320 miles.

We notice that l?.st weeks Observer has a cat toon referring to the vacancy on the Bench caused by the death ■ of Judge Gillies, in which it suggests that ' Mr Hesketh and Dr. Laishley are possible candidates as his successor. The Observer has never, by any means, been friendly toDr. Lnishley, therefore, such a suggestion from that quaiter will, no doubt, be received ax a groat compliment. Wo fancy, however, that Dr. Laishley is hardly inclined yet for such an honour, and that, judging from liii recent writing? and public speaking, he has aspirations in another direction, namely, the Legislature. A remarkable useful invention, styled "The Canterbury Butter Box" was (says the Lyttletou Times of Saturday) on view yesterday at the A. and V. Association's rooms. It is intended to protect butter during transit, and preserve it from the elfoets of shakinu, and more especially from high tnuiporat'ircs. Each pound of butter is kept in a separate coll wliiah can be lined with a paraffin paper. The box is constructed fr: hold thirty-sW pounds in three trays of a dozen pounds each. The ends of the box are made to open f'li- c( "'- veninnce of handling the trays. The inventor is Mr Loonies, of Southampton-street, ■Sydenham. ' According to the Lyfctelton Timer, a eonrleinin well known in Chtistohuroh, who Ims lately re-turned to tho Old Country, writing by the last English mail t> one of the leaders of our commercial world, says : —' Whiln in London I was much amused at one butcher doinr; a biff frozen mutton business in tho evenings at Kilburn, about six miles out. He had large cards all about the shop, 'Canterbury Mutton.' I asked the shopman if it was all Canterbury mutton. ' Well,' he said, ' It's all New Zealand mutton, but it cornea from different partssome from Melbourne, some from Sydney, and some from llio !' I was, liowevevur, pleased to lind, when lunching with one of tin! managing directors of the Army and Navy Stores, that they sold tho mutton,'and that ho was in the habit of having it at his own table. Frozen fowls from Russia lie also pronounced very good."

Carrying out a suggestion made bv the Marquis of Lome a short timo back, Air J. "K. Cracknell (says the Kuropenn Mail) has arranged to make a practical expeiiment in colonisation in the North Island of New Zealand, and to that end a party of 12 people—from Lancashire—are to be sent off on May 30th. The party is a .suitable one in every way, consisting of several married couples and families, and all possessed of that essential requisite for a mission of that kind-a practical agricultural experience. The whole of tlm outlay iu connection with the experiment is falling upon Mr CracknolPs shoulders, and ho is still some fe.v hundreds short. A largo number of philanthropic gentlemen have c .mo forward to assist, and one gentleman has generously handed Mr Cracknell a dipqiM for €100 to help him through the A meeting of members of SPeter's congregation, Hamilton, was held in the Church on Sunday evening after service to consider proposals for establishing a Working Men's Society for promoting union and fellowship amongst Church people. ■Vbont tsvonty-fivo were present, and after the recommendations of the Vestry had been laid before the meeting and fully explained and discussed, it was unanimously resolved to establish the Society. Twentyfour cave, their names as desirous of joining the Society, and it was resolved to hold the first meeting in the long room in Thk W.uK.vro Tim us building on Thursday next. A committee of management and officers will then bo appointed and rules adopted. There is every promise of tho new Society being successful and doing much good in tho parish. Churchmen willing t-i become members can signify as much to any of the Vestry, when they will be proposed for admission on Thursday evening.

We have received a cosy of a pamphlet entitled the Bank of New Zealand, being a reprint of a series of articles which appeared in the Auckland Observer, written by Mr J. L. Kelly. The writer takes the President and directors to task for, as he considers, not taking the shareholders fully into their confidence and affording a complete explanation of the state of the institution. He asks why the " more specific action " threatened by Mr Buckley as likely to be taken against certain persons of the '"' limited circle " was not taken, and why so much hn.s been hushed up. So far as the "specific action" mentioned by the President in his address at the annual moating is concerned, it does not necessarily follow that it implied criminality on anyone's part requiring the intervention of tho law. The articles arc well written, and in a forcible style expresses the views of the writer on the position of the bank, as judged from late proceedings. The senior partner of the firm of Ciwse and Blackwell has given his views on the sugar question in an interview. In the ease of this firm any increase in the price of sugar under the Bounties Convention would prejudice and injure an enormous export trade in preserves. Tho gigantic nature of their trade in this branch alone may be inferred from the statement that while in 1850 only 300 tons of sugar were used, the consumption has how risen to 3,000 tons. As a ton of fruit is used per ton of sugar for preserves, any curtailment of export would also re-act on the growth of fruit. Exports are sent to iilmost every country, and with the exception of India, customs duty has to be paid. Cheap sugar is the chief agent in the ability to defy tariffs. Tho firm are now sending large quantities of preserves to the United States, where the ad valorem charge is 30 per cent. To raise the price of sugar by even a penny per pound would seriously derange trade ; and a general loss of business in the jam and confectionery trade would affect many thousands of employees.

In a leading article in reference to the transference of Mr Cooke from the management of the ; Christchurch branch of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company's business, the Press refers to the circumstance that tho speakers at the banquet given in his honour took a hopeful view of the colony's future, and gives tho following comparative statement of the colony's exports for the first half-year of each year since ISSti :—Half-year ending June 30, lS8(i, i' 3,781.,32!) ; half-year ending .Tune 30, 1887, £4,0(i0,(J0-l; half-year ending .lune 30, ISSS, iM,-!0!),!U0 ; half-year ending June 30, 188!), £5,1522,283. There is every prospect, therefore (says the Press), of the returns for the whole year, ending 3|.st

December next, showing a very large increase over those for ISSS. It nm.4 be remembered that there is still in Canterbury and North Otago :i quantity of wheat and other grain held over for a possible rise in the market. The bulk of this grain, it is to be presumed, will be got rid of during the current six months, then, attain, we shall shortly have the two great freezing works in this district in operation. The Belfast factory will be ready to resume operations at an early date, and the Islington works are already working to the hill extent of their capacity . . . , . Since ISSIj the expansion of our export trade has been most remarkable, as the following figures will show :— ISSIi, fi,1!72,721; 18S7. IC.RfiC.Ki!); 1888, 17,707,323; ISSO (say), 1.0,000,000.— The estimate for ]8S!) is based on the reasonable assumption that the exports fur tho halfyear on which we have just entered will at least equal in value those of the, same period of last year. It is to be hoped that this marvellous growth will keep up, and that it will mean prosperity and contentment to colonists).

Professor Lio Medo has lately bre'i at Kihikiiii, and while there he phrenol"Kically examined the Maori chiofs Rewi Maniap'itn, Wahanui and others.' He states that Wahaniii has a grand Imad, and is a noble old man with .a splendid character. Ho also had it long chat with Te Kooti, and was able to write o-it a correct chart of his faculties, from observations. The wily old man would not let the professor niciisuro or touch his lieiid, as being too sicrod.

The Christchurch Telegraph says : —"We unhesitatingly say that the Government ought not 'to listen to any proposal to go back to the original number of muiiibp.rs. On the contrary, if electors would be careful, and vote for suit.ible representatives only, a very substantial further reduction in the number of members could take place. If logrolling, stonewalling, and tho other evils which are entwining themselves round our Parliamentary syt<*in, ci.nld only bo dona away with, a House of thirty or forty members would be ample, and furthermore, they would be able in one month, with ea.so, to get through all the administrative and legislative work we want done."

A writer in an exchange says: — "The Chancellor of the Exchequer recently culled attention to the fact that both the captain and the stalf-cominandp.r of the Calliope we.o Irishmen. He might also have pointed out that the two men in the united services mosfi beloved by their men and of whom England has the highest hopes are Irish—Wolseley and Beresford. Indeed, it would have been an easy matter to have named score?, or even hundreds, of Irishmen who have distinguished themselves during the century under the Union .Tack, from Wellington ta the captain of tho Calliope. But of all of these, as well as of Irishmen who have distinguished themselves in other positions under the State, h«w many aro there who would support Home Rule in its most modified form? Indeed, of all opponents of disunion, none lire so determined as the Irish of the Wolseley and Beresford typo, for they know wh.it an Ireland ruled over by Fenians and Clan-na-Gael patriots would b«."

Lord Meatk has introduced to the House of Peers , , a Bill which, in plain English, is to iKgalisß the sale of children. And lid one will deny that it- is not needed. There is nn law to prevent men and women in Knglaud bringing into the world as many children as they may, whether they arn in a position to provide for them or not. The streets of London and of other largo cities .swarm with poor little things who ought never to have been born. These children aro ill-fed, and worse cared for, and wlula their parents may ill-treat them, and often succeed in killing them, they must not sell them. But why, asks the Pall Mall Gazette, should parents and next of kin of unfortunate children be forbidden to dispose of them to people who want-I hem ? Children, it is true, aie a drug in the market. But that is only an additional reason for refusing to make the sale and transfer of children impassible by law. Lord Meath, of conr.-e, will protest that ho says nothing about the s.d.i of children. He only contemplates >heir transfer. What he, does is to legalise the conveyance of children from their natural parents and guardians, the legal lights of the former, which at present are inalienable, being in the future rendered capable of transfer under due form of law. But the moment you can legally transfer anything it becomes a matter of sale. Tlio law has made most strenuous attempts to prevent the sale of living--, but it has utterly and completely failed. It will also fail even if the attempt is made to prevent the sale of children und«r Lord Meath s Bill. He, in fact, provides for the due celebration of the result of the s.ilu before public court.

In a paper on the Civil Service read by Mr A. Clark at the I'ollok Mutual Improvement Society, the essayist says :— It is a poor look-out when the (..overnient has to borrow money to pay the interest of the borrowed money. This system cannot last lone;. Tlio present state of things cannot last long, unless the Government make ■a bold stand, and cut down all Civil Service expenditure to a mininum, thus putting the colony on a firm basis ; than the people might sen a ray of hope. The Education Act might be suspended fora decade. The colony would suffer nothing by it ; on the contrary, about £1,000,000 would be saved, which would pay a large proportion of the debt. In the golden days, when every person was in good circumstances, and thefiirtuorpoltinjra reiminor.itivo pneo fur his produce, when fathers and K u:udians were paying their children's school fu<--, we had of course fewer pupils at school, and fewer larrikins to disturb quiet people. Willi all the education that has been dispensed from our seminaries under the new system, we can see little appearance of any shining lights. Where talent is, it will soon h'ud ' its way to the front, and with keener zest, despite the "cram" of our (werdoiiß .schools. Another phase of our present system of education may be looked at. Our young people are now clucated as ladies and jrnntlemen. They cannot be expected to eat the broad they earn by the sweat of their brow. Then what is to be done? Who is to do the work? ])omoslie servants nowadays, must not bo called servants, but " lady-helps." They can run their fingers over the keys of a piano, but in many cases cannot cook a pot of potatoes properly. They know something of the geography of the world, but very little of the geography of the scullery. Much talk and pretty pictures will not save the colony from dishonour and ruin."