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Waikato Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 2831, 4 September 1890, Page 2

Flour has risen £5 a ton in the Auckland market since August 23rd. The Cambridge Borough Council ha»e been lucky enough to find a first-class piano for sale in the township, nnd have purchased it for um ia the Fablic Jlall.

There was a clem sheet at the R.M. Court yesterday, at Hamilton. The well-known Ngatimaianpoto chief Hauauni is, we hear, dangerously ill •ind not expected to recover. The Cambridge Dairy Association will resume operation* at their factory, Hautapu, on Wednesday next. Eleven thousand one hundred and two rabbitsktii.i were brought into'Kihikihi from the King Country on Tuesday last by the natives, who receive a bonus of 3d per .-kin fr >m the Government. The larrikins were about at Hamilton East, as well as Hamilton West, ■hi Sunday evening last, when they turned n number of Messrs Coates and Metealfe's horses into Mr T. Hinythe's garden. We would remind those interested that the nominations for the leading races nt the coming meetiug of the Waikato Hunt Club, close with the secretary, Mr A. J. Storey, at 8 p.m. to morrow (Friday) evening. The Cambridge Borough Council will have new blood infused into it, as Messrs Jolin Robertson, Robert Kirkwood, and Chnrles Roberts have been elected t > erve upon it; the whole of them being new to the business. A well-known Napier lawyer was charged at the Napier Resident Magistrate's Court on Monday with supplying liquor to mi engine driver on duty, and was fined £15 and costs. The driver was fined £10 and casts.

The date for receiving entries for the prizes olfered by the Waikato Farmers' Club at the forthcoming parade at Cambridge has been altered from September 18th to September Kith in order to give more timo for preparing the lists, etc. Our report of the British and Foreign Bible Society's meeting at Cambridge will appear in next week's supplement. It contains u quantity of matter that refers to tho present disturbed state of the country, and suggests a remedy. Nominations for the vacant seats in the Hamilton Borough Council close to-day at noon. The following burgesses have been spoken of as likely candidates : — Messrs K. T. Davey, H. iM. Salmon, W. F. Hell, J. Keid. T. Slade, and Hugh Kelly. We see that the Cambridge Wesleyans are getting up a col Fee supper and entertainment for this evening on behalf of their Sunday-school. The one provided by their last year gave great .satisfaction, and should ensure a good attendance on this occasion. Mr John Hill returned by train yesterday with his horse Lowden Tain, as, in the first place, there was a difficulty about getting the horse shipped, and in the next, Mr Hill feared if lie did get away, that, owing to the Steamship Company's difficulties, he might be stuck up in one or other of tho Southern ports, as he had intended going as far as Dunedin. Queensland is making stranuous endeavours to establish an export trade in meat. A sub-committee has been appointed to draft the prospectus of a company, with a japital of £1,050,000, of which £250,000 is to be calle-1 up. Subsequently the sub-committee waited upon (he heads of the leading tinancial institutions in Brisbane, and in every instanco were promised most cordial support. A. suggestion has been made that Bishop Julius, Mr Justice Kichmond, and Sir William Fitzherbert, should be asked to mediate in the labour difficulty. There was n prevalent impression in Wellington on Tuesday that the withdrawal of the officers from the Unionist side is the " beginning of the end," and that the ultimate collapse of the stiiko is uerlrn. Others, however, hold strongly to thn opposite views.

The Waikato Farmers' Club are to the fore again with more prizes to be awarded at the horse parade, that will bo held at Cambridge on the l'.lth inst. Brood mares best adapted for breeding Indian remounts, is the cli?s for which the addi tinnal prizes are offered, and we shall not be surprised if Colonel Carre officiates as Judge. We would direct special attention t<i the fact that all entries must be made on or before the Kith of the month.

By train yesterday, Constable Murray brought a man named James McCabe in from Walton, on a charge of sheep-stealing from the Richmond Downs Kstate. McCube lived some miles away from Walton, in the bush near Matamata, in an almost wild state, having hardly enough clothes to cover his nakedness, in fact he had to mend his clothes at Morrinsville in order that he might come into civilization decently. Yesterday afternoon McCabe was brought up bef ire Mr John Knox, J.P., and remanded for eight days.

We are sorry to see by the Te Aroha News that Ferguson's special claim, Waiorongomai machinery water race, etc., is in the hands of the bailiff of the R.M. Court, and will be sold to-day under warrant of distress unless certain claims to local tradesmen aro paid. This state of affairs at Waiorongomai bears out the remarks ley a member of the Hospital Board at yesterday's sittings that unless some improvement took place in mining prospects there or the families removed, the Board might expect a large increase in the number of applications for relief from that end of the district.

Mr George Walker, of Mangawhara, expired about-1.."i0 p.m. yesterday, at Mr Kirkwood's cottage, Cambiidgo. Ho has been sulfering from uraemia, and finally succumbed to exhaustion. Tho deceased gentleman caiue to tho colony in Juno, 1810, when ho married a Maori wife, who is still living, as are also two sons and a daughter, all of whom are married. Ho was one of the oldest pakeha Maoris in the colony, and ranks as a Ruigitara <if considerable note. The remains will be taken to Mangawhara to be buried, as deceased would not be brought into Cambridge until he was promised that if ho expired his body should be taken home to be intorred.

At a meeting of the Mangere Farmers' Club held on Monday last, tho following resolution was carried : "That in the opinion of this club it is desirable that a Farmers' Association be formed for the bet'.er protection of fanning interests, and for the purpose of obtaining, if possible, reiimnerativ". prices for tanners prrdnce ; that this Club is also of opinion that any Farmers' Association formed for these purposes will have little or no influence unles> it embraces all the farming districts in the colony, and that the secretary be requested to communicate with all farmers' clubs and kindred associations askinf, for suggestions and opinions with a view to establishing a New Zealand Farmers'.Association.

A Nelson man who says he was brought up and passed a considerable part of his life in the midst ot textile manufactories of nearly every kind, suggests that the (Government should assist men of small capital to become weaver*. It takes some thousands of pounds to start a mill to spin yarns at profit, but if yarns could be got reasonable iu price and spun to different size, weavers could st;>rt in a very small way, and in all tho different departments of their trade, For instance, with a capital of i'3oo one could procure, say, threo or four power looms and a steam engine, and stooking weaving, carpet and hearthrug making, at considerably less, and hand loom weaving on all hut a cypher. The great desideratum is the procuring of the yarn, (iiiverumeut should offer a bonus on the yarns sold for manufacturing purposes, that is, as soon as a bona fide sale was completed the spinner should receive, sr.y 5 per cent on the value of the yarn sold. He made this suggestion first in 1875.

A saddle which was lost from a horse in Hamilton Kast some five or six weeks ago, and belonging to one of the men employed at Hillside, was recovered in a most unexpected manner on Monday night. A young man mimed (J. Smith went to pay a visit to a married sister in Hamilton Kast and mi going in the gate he saw some one running across the other end of the enclosure. He gave clmse, under the impression it was his sister playing a joke ; on drawing nearer to the fiigutivo ho f.nind it was n young man who bolted over the fence and away. On making nn examination of tlin premises he found his horse that had been grazing in the paddock had been caughtnnd saddled, but the individual was disturbed before he had time even to girth up. The recurrence was duly reported to the police who took possession of the. saddle and bridle, and from enquiries instituted by them, it was found that the tiuddlo is the one referred to above, nnd from it« mildewed appearance it has evidently been stowed aw iy in the scrub. The prevailing opinion is that the perpetrator of this act is the same mysterious party who has been committing the various outrages on property during the last few weeks in tho Hamilton Kast neighbourhood.

Here is an instance of how Protection pans out in Victoria. In 1887 there wore two nail factories in that colony, and for the assistance of this particular industry a duty uf £1 j per ton on horse nails

and of £3 per ten on other nails was imposed. It) 1888, as tie result of yet higher duties on nails, two ir..ire factories were opened. "The total number of hands employed m this industry," observed a speaker at a recent meeting 'in Melbourne, " was now IS men and 12 boys. The total annual production wus 1000 tons of iron nails and about 200 tons nf other nails. Now, if knowledge were desired n» to how much the employment of these IS men and 12 boys cost the country, all that would hava to tie done would he to add to this production the total impost of nails and calculate the increased price resulting from the duty. "We imported," continued the speaker, " in 188!) 81 tons of horse nails, and l>7o lons of other nails. The cmsumers paul the duty of £5 per ton on 41570 tons, and of b.t'2 per'ton on 2SI tons. In other words, the community paid £2G,722 a year for the honour and glory of employing 18 men and 12 boys in making nails."