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The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1891.

Equal Kt.wt j.i-ticu to all tiK-n, Of whatsoever state or persuasion. rUiyous or political.

Tut; papers received by tho eMio„ Mail report a dceisiou by t.ho corder of Plymouth, whiuh is calculated to check the action of Trades Unions, in calling out their men, 01 threatening to do so. in ordor to compel employers to discharge independent labour. In the case in question the e.nployer was a co il merchant, who employed _ three "•ancs of men, two being Lmomsts amHhe other free. Tlw Unionist officers threatened to call out tneir men unless the free gang was dismissed. This demand was rehtsocl. The Secretaries of the Unions then issued the following proclamation to their men, which was read to them in the prosonce of tho employees . " Inasmuch as Mr Treleavon still insists upon employing nonunion men, wo, your officials, call upon all union men to leave thenwork, uso no violence, use no immoderate language, but quietly cease to work and go home. Tho union men immediately stopped work, although they had not completed the task they had undertaken to perform. Mr Treleavon proceeded against the seciotanes under the 7th soetiou of the Act. Tho 3rd section of the Act provides that " to do or procure to be done nnv act in coutomplation or lurtheiance ot' a trade dispute between employers and workmen shall not bo indictable as a conspiracy if such act committed by one person would not Vie punishable asaciimo. In section 7 of the Act are to be found tho limitations. " Every person who, with a view to_ compel any other person to abstain from doing or to do any act which such other pi'rsoi: has a legal right to do, or to abstain from doing, wroegfully or without legal authority uses violouce or intimidates such other person . . • shall on conviction

he lial.ie cit,hc.r to |iav ;i pouaky not. cxc-orhnu' ol ' to h>.\ imprisowyl. Till! insist rates lined encli of tlm iiocusuil in t«ii• t'lll p"ii.ilt\ oJ with !he alternative of four weeks ini prison input", niul tlic; iu'coiilei continued tin.* conviction. The result of this decision is that the power of strikes is limited, ami that only those are declared which are promoted in i;ood faith for tin; purpose of seeuriuy; improved Wii-'os or improved conditions of work. The decision of the. Recorder is likely to V appealed a-unst, hut it is to he. sincerely hoped that it will In; confirmed. The most o'ljejtiouiiblo feature of unionism is the attempts which are habitually made to prevent free men from earning a living. ______

The Guards are to leave Bermuda shortly. Newspapers fire not allowed to appear in Chili. The German Government are purchasing English coal to provide against a general strike of miners. The Weather Bureau forecasts squally weather during the next few days between the lilult' and Hobait. A boom has taken place in the wheat market, owing to t' rmicn demands consequent upon the bad prospects ot tlie harvest.. The Belgians on the Congo are accused of cruelties towards the natives, and trafficking in negroes for proht and pleasure. Two Protestant clergymen at Arklow, County Wicklow, have been miprisoned for fourteen days for holding openair services. The Te Aroha train, yesterday, had about fiO tons of libre on board, belonging to Mr H. 11. Adams, part of the cargo of'the Leading Wind. Official intimation his heen. received by the authorities in London to the effect that the New Zealand Government declines to send exhibits to the Mining Exhibition, to be held at Sydenham. Mr Gilmer, teller of the Bank of New Zealand at Cambridge, is about to leave for the Old Country. He has received six months'leave of absence, anil Mr W, I'.rodie, of Auckland, has been appointed to the vacancy.

The new Salvation Army officers that have been appointed to Cambridge arrive this afternoon, and will be installed this evening, when there will lie a public reception, to which all are invited ; afterwards a coffee supper will be held, the admission being one shilling. John, a Kanaka, in the employ of Mr H. H. Adams, met with a severe accident, on Friday, by being thrown from hishors'. lie was sent into the Waikato llo'iiital, wstcrdav. suffering from extensive. SO i!;> wounds and w x in great my when e:i^rgni a - ta-J tram at Hamilton. "We regret to learn that. Mr AiHmr I'ui/.e, 'if Too d.ere. met with an ; .ecMiei;t at iKfor.l. on 'v.turdny, and ••ntt'jrod ae.oinp »r.id »V..."r.e of the light lie f.-il ■ !: •> ■•■'a--';'iei ,i plour.di Ml on the top I'l ion:, inlliciing the injniy. ])r. Cushnev, ■•/ Cambridge, set the injured liinb.'and we understand Mr Fni/.u v.'as to be conveyed to his home yestereifbrt is boingr made by some , f fbp 'IV Awamutu resident* to resuscitate t'i>ol'd Waipa .Jockey Club, ami to hold t iieir annual race meeting next May Hi •• 'rs inst tliH oil tni" >pu.n<"*i<! eo.ii se were the best in the Waikat-.. A meetinn to revive the club w, 11 be held in Mr etKees, Te Awamutu, next Saturday zoning, 14th inst., wnen u h Co be hoped there will be a large attendance e> j.l' to tlie rricittci.

Attention is directed to a numb"r of additions to the sp"cial prize li-t I.t the 1 lurti'oltiiral Society's Shew; notillv to Mr W. S. Allen's special prize of l'u f ,r til.! b«--t collection of farm and dairy

Pr iiluce. Mv W. J. Hunter will hold liis second slice,, fair at. the vards, Ohaupo, tomorrow, when over MOO sheep will be ulfeted. Wil.h the pruspect of plenty _of f.-ed there is great demand on all sides for sheep and it is expected that prices will run high. The privileges of the Cambridge ■tuckev Club were s >ld by Mr McNicol, on S ilnrt-lav. the following being the prices r.- .li-"d • ■ ites. I). Campbell ; pnbI'l.iuth, Di, A. P.ich; temperance b.'ot.h, L'l 12s tid, n.Mahon; cards, £3 10s, 11. Mahon.

Thei'e boinp business of import in-O t"." be brought, furwaid it is to be 1,,,p"d th;.t t hero will be a full and punctual attendance of the members of the Committee of the S eith Auckland Racing Club „l. I.lie' uiee.titig tu be, hold in Till-: Walkato Timks lirti.!iiN.;s to-morrow evening.

Tho valuation of the Kihikihi T.iwn District tn ide. by Mr .Tohn Marie C race, hi, y-ar-ve general as l.liern was not a single, objection. I Ills is t i„. tir-t time this litis happened for many ,j|-. i;.-isuti'.tile reductions have been inad '.'in the. total at.d individual valuation ~f pr.'p -rty in the town district. The pvizo offered by Messrs E. Pinter and Co., a cruet, for the best half puund of butter, has been duly received by Mr Parr ;»»n.l »i Vl r Y uno one it is. Thn will h;ive n , nun to tie s it.isl'ied with t.lie prize as from jt, Kuli-'iiuiiai apoeaiar.eoit is probably one ~f the b'st this firm has in stock, and the ■Society feel much indebted to them for their liberality. A nine-roomed house owned and occupied by Mr Samuel Chalton, at Xethertuii Thames river, was destroyed by fire on Thursday nr.irnitiir. at about one or tw . o'clock Mr Charlton was awakened hy the crackling of the fire and found it was ton lite to save mvthin<r. The liunse was insured in the Xorwich Union fur €253, bit it is estimated that the damage done is fc!4")0. An will most prnhrtbly be held.'—(< Ihinetnttri correspondent.) Mr H. JR. Hyatt intends deliverin" a lecture on " Coal " for the benelit of the Huntlv Disaster Fund, at Cambridge (East and West), Pukeriinu and Hantapu. The lecture will bo illustrated with diagrams, specimens and experiments, and should prove, very interesting. It is most probable the first lecture will be piven in the Oddsellow's ltall, at Oambri.lse has , on Monday next, of which due notice will be given by advertisement. The "Waikato friends of Mr T. L. Murrav, of tl.o Bank of New /.ealand, Thames, will be pleased to hear that his daughter, Miss A. Murray, has successfully passed the first portion of the 13. A. degree. This information is all the, more interesting from the fact that Miss Murray is the first Thames-born student who has so far attlined this honour. Before going to the Auckland University Collet;.: she was a Student at the Thames High School under Mr .Tames A'lams, B.A. The Auckland Operatic Concert Company, consisting of Miss Rimmer supportesl by Mrs Kilgour, ami Messrs Jackson. Dnfaur, Bai'tley and Prof. Tutsc dja, which made a tour through the Waikato at the New Year, will give one of their concerts at Cambridge, on the 17th, the niL'ht of the races. From the reputation which the company established on their last visit thev have assured for themselves a bumper house. The tickets are 3s and 2s, and reserved seats can bo obtained at Mr liond s.

In consequence of the liberal donations of special prizes made bv the public, tho committee of the Horticultural Society, at a meeting held last night, decided to make it a. two-days' show this voar, in place of one. rne-daj and Wednesday in next week will therefore be devoted to this purpose. Wuh such n number of valuable prizes, and such extensive competition as may in consequence be expected, we think the publu will appreciate the conclusion the committee have come to. Tune will be afforded for making a further examination at the various interesting exhibits. "We have frequently heard it stated that red clover occasionally ger.s fertilised without the aid of the humble bee, and only a few weeks since a Gambridge wiseacre assured us that it was accomplished by a small species of dragonfly. We ventured to remark that dragon flits were not supposed to live on honey or •inv vcetable product, and that if the red Clover was being fertilised, probable the humble bees imported l>y Mr J. C. I* nth to M itatuata, had increased and were doing the good work. It seems we were correct ri our surmise, for Mr C. Garland, of - /,in| - brid.-e West, has ,i veritable " humble bee in his possession that, was captured last Friday, so there is no lunger anv doubt as to how red clover becomes fertilised.

The Rev. Joseph Buttle, a resident ill Waikato, some twelve years nrso lie. and who, during that interval, has been tilling charges in the We-deyan Church, in various loealities in the South Island, has been in Waikato lately on a visit to his brother, Mr R. N. Buttle, of lunesfallen. He is much surprised at the wonderful impriveinent to be seen in all directions, and the extraordinary growth <if the trees. In his opinion Waikato will hold its own witn any of what are Generally spoken of as more favoured localities, as a grazing country. Vt Ashburton, where 1m? is at present residing," the grass paddocks are burnt up and bare, and many of the rivers and creeks shown as such upon the maps of JSew Zealand, have been dry for the last two years'.

Mr Isaac Holden, M.P. for Keighley, Yorkshire, is an absentee, who, is su:h. would he taxed out of his New Zealand possessions, or inade to li\e in tlie colony, if scallywac: politicians had the ruling of this country. Mr Holden had th» audacity to buy a thousand acies in New Zealand upon which he has spent £10,000 on improvements. A Glasgow paper tells us that ho has lately Riven £1000 to the Irish Home Rule fund. He is believed to be the richest M.l. in the House of Commons, his income heme £•200,000 a-year. It takes 30,000,000 sheep, or about double the number in _aM New Zealand, to keep his wool-combing mills going. yet at one time his income was not iis a-week, and he manager to live within his mean 3. Even now his tastes are as simple as those of a clerl: on 30s. He has made most of his money by inventions. —Exchange.

The Hamilton Amateur Dramatic Club, as already announced, has had in rehearsal for some time past Boucicault s well-known play "The Shaughraun.'' A very strong cast of characters has been made, and the company are sparing neither trouble nor expense in the production of this piece, which will b« stagod in a manner never before seen in AVaikato. The dressos will all bo new, and the scenery has just been painted specially for this piece. There are, in all, nine scones, and Mr Ise-viUe Thornton, scenic artist, to whom this work has been entrusted, has been engaged for sometime past in painting them, and his work reflects the greatest credit on him, the company being very pleased with the scenery. The first scene, showing the ruins of Suil-a beg Castle on the clilf in the distance, is one of the best, and the decorations of the drawing-room scene in Ballyrn""ot House, the residence of Corry KiTehela show that a master's hand has been engaged. In the scene depicting the ruins of St. Bridget's Abbey, where Conn, the Shaugliraun, is shot, the sea in the hack ground is lit up by moonlight, the rippling of the water under the sheen of moon being distinctly produced by clever mechanical ell'eet. Among the other set scenes, the mo:;t striking are the Cave scene. Widow Kelly's Cottage and the interior of Father Doolan's house. The mechanical etfccts in the prison scone allow of a full view of the escape of Robert Folliart, the change from the sombre hues of the cell to the landscipe being very pleasing.

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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2910, 10 March 1891, Page 2

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The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE. TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1891. Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2910, 10 March 1891, Page 2

The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE. TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1891. Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2910, 10 March 1891, Page 2

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