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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2708, 19 November 1889, Page 2

The deaths are announced of Mr Harvey, ex-district judge, and Mr Barnes, ex-mayor of Dunedin.

Councillor Priestly will be duly nominated for the mayoralty of Cambridge this morning by Councillors Is»nd and Webber, no other nomination is expected.

The frost of Sunday night did considerable damage to the early potatoes at Cambridee West, but strange to say only caught tho trench beans at Cambridge East.

The month for which the Rev. Mr liaruett came to Cambridge Tabernaeio as a supply terminates next Sunday. We have not yet heard if he has decided to remain permanently. To-morrow Mr J. McNicol will hold one of the largest s;ile< of horse stock ever held in the Auckland province, at tho Hamilton Borough Yards. The sale begins at noon aharp,

We are pleased to learn that Mr Thus. Wells, of Cambridge, is recovering from the. effects of his accident. On Sunday he was ablo to be present at the services at S. Andrew's Church.

The Jubilee Garden at Hamilton, has now a different and much iiwre pleasant appearance, since it was placed under the care of Mr King. Tho roses are again making tho profuse show they did last year. Mr W. Jones and Mr I. Coates were both nominated for the position of Mayor of Hamilton yesterday, but tho former gentleman having withdrawn his nomination, Mr Coates has been declared duly elected.

The nomination of candidates for tho vacant Wai pa seat will take place on Thursday. Wo understand that Messrs Luke and Ellis will nominate Mr John Bryce, against whom we have not heard of any proposed opposition.

The steward of the barctue Lurline, which arrived in Auckland on Saturday, assaulted the c >ok when oft' the Three Kings, and stabbed him on the arm willi a carving-knife. Ho was placed in irons and handed over to tho police. JJoth the men are West Indian negroes.

The meeting of the Cambridge Road Board lapsed for want of a quorum, only Messrs Forrest and Kallendar being presont. The following interim cheques wero signed :—R. Crickctt, £2 ;T. Wattain, £15 Os lid : W. Sotiter and Co., £2 11s; tho Clerk, £">; <i. Mann, 10s,

The finest looking crop of potatoes we have yet seen this season is a two-acre patch under cultivation by Air Ossler, of Koto-Kauri, on tho old WhatawhaU road. It certainly looks remarkably well, and a credit to the careful working of the grower, who, by the way, is not a trained farmer, but a scientist and college-bred man, who has taken to rural pursuits rather late in life.

One day last week an accident happened to a team of horses on the Rukuhiii Estate, which might have been attended with serious results. It appears that one of the station hands was ploughing with two splendid draught horses, when one of the horses Rot the blinkers off, which frightened the other horse, and both bolted with the plough, tho driver losing all control of the animals. When the horses were caught it was found that one of them had a hoof split nearly in two at the hind part, which was no doubt caused by coming in contact with the plongh.

It is stated that certain un titled and, comparatively speaking, obscure mombere of the West End Club, in connection with which a horrible scandal was reported a few days ago, are being indicted secretly on charges resembling those which some yoars ago were made against certain members of the aristocracy, known as the Bolton and Park scandal. The press have protested that such charges should not be heard privately, and that a distinction should not be made between offenders, some of whom were alleged to have been allowed to make their escape.

The Cambridge Cheese Factoryhas now » supply of nOO gallons of milk per diem, and it keeps increasing every week. The quality of cheese made is n'rst-class, most of it being put up in olilbs., as that is found the most suitable size for the Home market. Great difficulty is experienced in obtaining room in the cool chambers of tho direct line of steamers to Kngliuid, and there is now a package of 1-t tons waiting to be shipped, and the latest advices from the Auckland agents of the Company state that they cannot secure any space for it. The noble old game of cricket appears to have declined altogether in the Waikato; only a fow feeble efforts at a eaino can be made this season, apparently. No oncouragement is offered in Hamilton, at any rate, for cricketnre to continue the pastime. The once splendid ground in Sydney Square has been suffered to jro to destruction, and is now in such a condition that no cricketer would run tho risk of playing on it, and there ia no other ground to be had in the district. It is a pity in another sense, as from its central position, nittnido clubs ha»a had in view making the Square their battle ground, Very little expense in the proper season .would have Uej»t it. in order.

Mr Arthur Storey, who took the now celebrated bullocks belonging to Messrs McXicol and Hunt to lhe Christchurch Show, returned by train to Waikntn yesterday, hu say.-i it was pretty generally understood when ho loft Christchureh that the three fat prize bullocks had been purchased with the view of exhibiting them at tho Dunedin Exhibition, and that the speculation was looked upon as a remarkably pood one. Sums of from £200 to £500 were mentioned as a probable result cf charging a small fee for seeing them.

On Wednesday last, a plain and fancy dre»rf rink carnival and dance was h'ild in the Ohaupo Mall, the occasion being tho la.sb evening for this year, of the Kiueka Skating liink. There were about one hundred present, nmnngst them being visitors from Hamilton, Cambridge, and other districts There were not many in fancy dross, the most noticeable boing Mr James Quinn, as a clown, and another gentleman in Turkish costume. The rinkisls had possession of the floor until about ten o'clock, when dancing commenced, and was kept up until an early hour, in thu morning. Mr Sibley's band supplied the music, while Mr Caasidy mado an etheient M.C.

Servantgirlism has advanced another step. A lady, not a hundred miles Ifom Hamilton, had a stout young wench, who is a fervid Salvationist, and was frequently asking leave to attend the meetings. Her' parents have an objection to her doing so, and her mistress refused to give her permission to go one evening last week. But the lass took French leave and went; on her return her mistreat reprimanded her and told her she had disobeyed her parents as woll as herself. "Ah! but I obey my parents in the Lord," was the solemn rejoinder. The lady collapsed, and the pious maid has gone to the parental roof where an angry father will administer another salutary lesson, also in the Lord.

Small farmers who are not in a position to raise a plough and team may perhaps learn something from tho following ingenious dodge, which has been resorted to by a settler on one of the special rueiit- holdings in Ueraldine, in order to guthis land brought undor cnliivaiiiui. This man got a good-i-.ized pig—a regular " (Japtain Conk," and tethered him with a .strong chain several yards in length, ho that he could conio and go upon Iho patch ho was at work upon. When all within his ramie of tether had beon turned ovur, his owner shifted the pig to a new patch of ground when a. fresh piece was turned up. In this way a small paddock of about two acres has been br.night under cultivation, and having been sown down with crrass, is looking o.xcsedingly well.

On Monday week the veteran artist, Mr V. Maccabe, will begin a tour of tho Waikato, making his appearance in Hamilton that night. It is said that Mr Maccabe, with his "Begone Dull Care," was the first great figure anions ontertaiucrs of the kind. He may be said to be the greatest still, imitators without number have followed him, but it they have approached him on one side of his performance, they have failed on another. In ventriloquism ho has not yet been surpassed. It is doubtful if he has been equalled. Unlike all other ventriloquists, Mr M.u:cabu does not use dolls and figures to aid his vocal allusions, and these are for that roason at once more difficult and worthy of admiration. Mdlle. MinnU (Mrs Mhcc:ibe) is one of the most fascinating actresses over seen, and, in her " Madrelina," shows the perfection to which the lerpsichorean art can be brought.

Mr Arthur Bach says we were wrongly informed about his having made arrangements to take the National Hotel at Cambridge, and further that he had never mada such a statement to anyone. We therefore hasten to make the amende honorable by publishing his denial. He tells ns he is bound under a contract with Mr Hewitt not to commence business as a hotelkeeper in Cambridge for a period of one year from the time he left the Criterion, about six months ago, and he naturally feels aggrieved that such a statement should appear in print. In self defence wo are compelled to state that we havo heard this matter mentioned frequently of late, and Friday it cumulated by being the common talk (if the town, or we should not have noticed it. We hate liars, and should like to see the starter of this, canard severely punished. The old adage, "what everybody says must be true," is out of it for once.

Mr Saunders, M.H.R., addressing his constituents the other day said :—lt was a vory general opinion outside Wellington that their present Parliament was an uneducated one. This was decidedly wrong. Anions tho members ware fourteen lawyers, a considerable number of doctors, scien-

tists, authors, and writers for the press ; indeed the House was distinctly above tin-. average in educational advantages. The popular error was mainly brought about by the fact that there uere live member*, four of whom were practically uneducated, who had as much to say as the other ninety put together". These five gentlemen thought no subject too high or too low for their attention. They were prepared with advice for the Premier on matters of finance ; could tell the farmers how to get rid of the .small biids initiate Dr. Mcdregor iu the treatment of lunatics, settle the difficulties ot tho Native Department, and show how simple it would be to keep up wages and a constant demand for labour by Act of Parliament."

Referring to the past condition of Irish tQiuuit fanner.-, a correspondent wishes u? to publish the following remarks by Dean Swift on this subject:—Another great calamity i.s the exorbitant raising_ of the rent <i£ lands, upon the determination of all cases iniidc! before the year 1090. A gentleman thinks ho has but indifferently improved his state if ho has only doubled his rentriill; farms are screwed Uμ to a, rackrent, leases granted but for a small term of years, tenants screwed down to hard conditions, and discouraged from cultivating the lands they occupy to the best advantage by the certainty they_ have of the rent being raised on the oxpitation nf their lease proportionately t.i the iniproveuiunts they shall make. Thus it is that kone.it industry is restrained : the far.ner in a slave to his landlord, mid it is well if he can cover his family with a coarse houieepuii freize." He also gives extract* from the report of the Devon Commission, published within the memory of men still living. The revelations of this commission absolutely shocked the civilised . world. The report says : "The effect of the land laws was to create a feeling of insecurity, which checked industry," and again dealing with the conditions of the evicted tenantry, the report says: "It would be impossible for language to convey an idea of the state of distress to which the ejected tenantry have been reduced, or of the 'disease, misery, and even vice which they have propagated in the towns wherein they have: settled ; they have even been obliged to resort to theft and all manner of vice and iniquity to procure subsistense, but what is the most painful of all vast numbers of them perished from want."

A correspondent writes as follows :—There is one thing that the Waikato Hospital and Charitable Aid Board is greatly in need of, and that is a trap or a buggy that oan always be available at the shortest notice to convey patients who arrive by train to go to the Hospital, for if there are any very urgent cases, those seem to be the times when a trap cannot be always procurable on tho spot. Kor instance tako the last urgent case that came by train, that of Gilley, who was mangled up at Huntly. When the patient (who had lost and was still losing a good deal of blood), arrived at the Hamilton West railway station in this terrible oondition, a trap had to bo sent for to convey the man to the Hospital, and it was just threequarters of an hour from the arrival of the train before the trap arrived. Fortunately, in tho meantime, an empty trap drew up to the station for Roods, and that was procured and the unfortunate man taken away in that. Of course the coaches were .standing in tho Htrttion yard, but neither of them were wide enough to contain the stretcher that the patient was lying in. It will he. seen from the above, that something ought to bo done in this direction, for accidents are continually occurring, and if the patients' life depended upon the promptitude of his reaching the Hospital, then would most likely bo, as 1 have already uointed out, the very time that a conveyance could not be immediately procured. It is to be hoped that the Hospital Board will take up the matter, and Bee that this little difficulty no longer exists, for oven if it did cost a few pounds, thfi money would be well spent, and it would prove very beneficial as woll to all concerned.