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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2669, 20 August 1889, Page 2

The Hamilton Light Infantry parade this evening. The Pakuranga Hounds meet at Cambridge to-morrow, at 2 p.m., to run a drag. In consequence pf our Cambridge budget having miscarried we cannot give our report of tlia Itoad Boards and other news until next issuo. We have been favoured with a copy of the report of the annual meeting of tho Victoria Institute or Philosophical Society of Great Britain, which wo will re-publish in our next supplement. Constable Wild has returned from Te A. roll a, and will be stationed in Hamilton, t,iking up his quarters in the police building, Hamilton West, vacated by the removal of Sergt. McGrath. By an error in our local last issue, it was stated that t!io Acme Ilink would be re-opened oil Wednesday, in place of Monday (Ust niglit.) The manager desires as to'say that the rink will not bo opened on Wednesday, but on Monday next. Evangelistic services are being held each evening this week in the Wesleyan Church, at 7.30., the Itsv. C. H. Garland assisting. There was a good attendance lastevening, the subject being "The Parable of the Prodigal Son." The Cambridge cricketing team, which gave Oxford University such a thrashing last week at St. John's Wood, contained three Australians, in the persons ~f Mr H. Hale, Mr E. It. de Little, and Mr S. .M. J. Woods. (British Australasian.) Mr Exelby, of Te Rapa, has been selling magnilicent broccoli in Hamilton during the last two weeks, grown on his land adjoining Stokes' bush. A Chinese gardener from Auckland was so struck with their size and quality that he olfered Mr Exelby K7 per acre for his land. Yesterday afternoon Mr J. Harris, of Huntly. was admitted into tho Waikato District Hospital, suffering from an injury to his eye received while playing football at Mercer on Saturday. We are glad to state that it is not expected that Mr Hams sight will be affected. The editor of the British Australasian and Anglo-New Zealander, who is a personal fiiend of our own, has been good enough to forward us copies of that paper, from which we see the great interest taken in England on the financial and commercial status of these colonies.

A concert and tableaux will be held in the Public Hall, Te Awamntu, on September 12th, in aid of St. John's Church funds. As the tableaux performed there oil various occasions have been a decided success, there can be no doubt that these will be equally so, and as children are to take part in the performance it will give additional attraction to it.

To-night the entertainment in aid of St, Peter's Sunday-school will be given in tho Oddfellows llall, Hamilt-m East. On this occasion the Hamilton Orchestral Society, amongst whom are several good players, will m ike their debut, Hamilton people are well-known for their libeial patronage of local eftorts, and we have only to mention the object, a children s benefit, to enlist their best sympathies There are no reserved seat-*, and the prices for admission are Is for adults and children od. We would remind those interested to go early. The Salvation Army at Cambridge are having special meetings just now, which are conducted by Major Rolfe and Stnlf-OlKcer Sutton. They arrived at Cambridge on Saturday, and held very successful meetings in the evening and all day on Sunday. The concluding meeting will bo held this (Tuesday) evening, when they expect the ollicers and soldiers of the 1 lannlton corps with their brass band to bo present. During the Major's visit he will fm nl the corps and present the colours. The Cambridge officers have been very ,suc-ee.-sfid since their arrival in Cambridge, and are raising a strong body of soldiers. The English mail has brought us files of the Imperial Federation, a monthly journal published in the interest of the federation of the Empire by the federation League, which is active in its propoganda of the noble principles advocated. There i.s a report of the annual dinner of the League on which occasion the chairman, Eord llerschel!, made a very able speech in support of the great scheme. Under t.ie heading of " The Awakening of New Zealand," are reprinted portions of our leading article of April !»th last, on the question, and next on order come articles of the Ohristchurch Press and Lyttleton Times. At the Palmerston North cemetery the form of service for the burial of the dead at sea should be used. Father Patterson complains to the Cemetery Board " I have just returned from the late Mrs Peters funeral, and I never, in all my experiences, saw such indignities cast upon the dead as were this afternoon, The coffin floated in about four feet of water, and two inen had to press the remains down with two large pieces of wood until such time an gravel and earth were deposited upon the coi'iin to weigh it down. The grave digger was unable to dig the grave deep enough, owing to the flooded state of tho ground."

A spelling bee is advertised for t i-night, at CamUiidge, at St. Andrew's Literary evening. Wo are informed a prize will be given to the best speller.

In consequence of the death ot Sergeant Murphy, of the Thames police, changes are being made in the force. We regiet to siy that Sergeant McGrath, of Hamilton, has received instructions to proceed to the Thames to fill the vacancy caused by the late Sergeant Murphy, and he loaves Hamilton shortly. We feel suro we represent the feeling ot whole community in giving expression to the regret felt for tha departure of Mr McGrath, who i-i not only a good officer, but ha 3 won the esteem of everyone by the tact and kindly disposition he has always shown in the discharge of his duties. Sergeant McGrath has not made a ainglo in this district, and he carries with him tho good wishes of the Waikato for himself and family in their new quarters.

An exchange says that the system of bonuses for assisting the development of agriculture adopted by some of tho Australian colonies is held by many of the hard-working farmers to be of no advantage to them. They have come forward with a suggestion that the Government organise a farmer's bank with a capital of £0,000,000, to be loaned on farmer's improved real estate at four or five per cent, interest per annum, for fifteen or twenty years. As it is now, many farmers in Victoria and elsewhere pay from eight to twenty per cent., and to advance them money at the rate quoted v/ould enable them to pay their mortgages, and hxve somothing to work on. Tho same scheme has been frequently agitated in tho United States, but has made little headway, owing to the independence of the people and their desire to have the general government do as little of the country's business as possible.

We have been shown a private letter ftom Melbourne, written by a former resident of Lawrence, who states that living is no cheaper in Melbourne than anywhere else.' " You uiay get board and lodging in Melbourne for 21s a week," he says, ''but it will be of a very inferior quality. With the exception of fi nit everything is much cheaper in New Zealand." "As regards clothing," ho writes, " my experience is that there is no difference in the pi ices, but there is a very great difference in the quality, and all in favour of New Zealand. Things are, perhaps, cheap here, but they are nasty in proportion. You get nothing, either food of clothing, of fair quality unless you pay an outlandish pi ice for it. The food particularly is horrid stuff, them being nothing like it in New Zealand. I have met dozens of New Zealand people here, and they all agree with me in what I say. Everything considered, he concludes "give me still New Zealand to live in."—fuapeka Times " Gentlemen," savs the New York Herald, " who are in the habit of paying fancy prices for choice Welsh mutton will be interested, of course, to learn that nearly two millions of carcasss of New Zealand and South American sheep were imported into Kngland last year sold, most of them at least, under the guise of the native product. The .London and lilbury Lighterage Company took a party of sixty odd gentlemen down the river yesterday afternoon to inspect the patent rofrigej rotor craft in which, for the past twelve months, they have been lauding this alien meat from the steamships in which it has crossed the ocean to London warehrms'. s. Much good meat which has travelled over t.he sea in perfectly good condition has been spoiled by exposure to the warm summer atmosphere during the petiod of its transportation ashnre. Thi.s is exactly what the London and Tilbury Company have snccissfLilly undertaken to prevent. They have a fleet of refrigerator barges constructed under Williams and Pupplett's patents, in which they are able to presirve me it at a period of about 20deg Fall, for an indefinite period." These barges the guests inspected yesterday in the Lower Thames, and after a cosy dinner at the hotel in 'lilbnrn, the sixty odd gentlemen returned to London firmly convinced that both the barges and the imported meats were a wondeiful success. Amongst other Bills that have been introduced this season, and which will assuredly be hurriedly consigned to the wastepaper basket, is a short measure .it two lines repealing the Gaming and Lotteries Act, 18SL, and the Amendment Act of 1885. Neither the House nor the country, we fancy, is prepared to sacrifice an outward appearance of morality. Parliament, eight years ago, decreed that respectability demanded a national protest against gambling and that protest took the form of an Act which was so ■ devised that great sinners can do what they like, and small sinners can be punished. The colony is none the more moral on account of that Act; the same things are done to-day which were done before the law was passed, only they are done secretly, or done by proxy in New South Wales. Immense sums of money are annually sent out of the colony for gambling investments, and we doubt very much whether the respectability wo have gained by the Act balances the cash we have lost by it. Wo are certain the tutilisator has mure mischievous results than the sweep>t.ikes and " consultations" that used to give an interest to hors i-racing, and while it is known that the law has done nothing more than to cleanse the outside of the platter, leaving the inside as Hliliy as ever, we think we might as well throw off hypocrisy, and abolish the (laming and Lotteiies Act, But that is just what will not be done. Parliament, and the good ladles and gentlemen whom Parliament very justlj respects, hog anything that is reproof ol the wicked. Thus it is that, the law msiston public houses closing punctually at u certain hour, heedless that the shutting ol the front door no more puts a stop to trarh than the existence of a gaol removes ■ the necessity for prisons. lint while Parlia -nient likes to be thought the embodiment of respectability, Mr Reeves' little Bill wil hardly allowed to sao the light oE day.— Napier Telegraph.