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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2946, 2 June 1891, Page 2

A v/heat corner has been eslab- ' lished in Minneapolis, and it has secure 1 3 9,000,000 bushels. 3 Owing to the heavy shipment of .. wheat to the English market the price of food has seriously advanced iu the northern 3 provinces in India. A meeting of nil those interested l in hunting in Waikato will be held at Ohaupo this aftornoon immediately after ' Mr J no. McNicol'ssale. Samples and quotations of goo: J . ' Tu-can seed wheat are wanted by Mr J. f MeXicol at his Ohaupo sale to-day, and 1 also at, Waitoa on Friday next. I The annual meeting' of the licensing Committee for tho Borough of l Hamilton will he held at the Court-House, L Hamilton, on Saturday next, at noon. A telegram received last night states that the newly elected Licensing i Committee for the Onslow Jjorongh granted - a license to a new house which was rejected , by the old Committee. ( By an error in Saturday's issue, we announced that Dr. ISrootn would 1 address the electors at Cambridge on Tucsi clay iu the Public Hall; it should have r been in the Oddfellows' Hull. ' The gallant seaman ship of Cap tain Kane, of H. M.s. Calliope, during the ' severe hurricane at Apia in March. 1SS!), ; has been recognised by Her Majesty, and he has been created a Companion of the Bath. Mr Clifton, Chief Sfheep Inspector 1 passed through Hamilton on Saturday last I en route for Tauranga, to confer with Mr , McLean, G lverninent Vetinary Surgeon, as to the diseasi prevalent among the ' sheep in that district. i I'he unfortunate man Richard K-th who was arrested on Friday last at \Vhatawhata was on Saturday brought up before Messrs Knox and W. N. Searancke, J.l'.'s, and on tho testimony of Drs. Murch ; and Kenny committed to the Lunatic , Asylum. During Saturday and Sunday Ksh bocamo very violent and had to be handcuffed and yesterday he was taken down to the Asylum by Cons'able Berriman. The farmers in Canterbury are complaining that the market for potatoes in Sydney is periodically glutted through the action of the Union C uupany in trying to run otl the Jubilee. This comes about by tho Union Company sending a couple of steamers to follow the Juhiieo and oy offering lo'v rates of freight to starve hor out. Consequently three large steamers ariived in Sydney about the same date loaded with produce and the market is glutted. The North Otago Acclimatisation Society turned 100 strong and healthy three-year-old salmon into tho Waitaki last December, but none wore caught iu tho angling season. They had hoped that a few would be captured, and heard of tish believed to be real salmon being caught, but unfortuuately. those were not sent for identification by experts, so they have had no tangible proof, so far, of the successful establishment of this fish in the district. The non-completion of the approaches to the new bridge at the Blackwater Creek near Mr Kothwell's farm, Whatawhata, is proving very awkward to residents in the neighbourhood. Quite recently when Mr Rothwell son., was removing into Hamilton, the whole of his furniture had to bo carted round through the township and over the swamp road, about twico the distance and over a bad road. Tho local body interested, should see to it. A meeting: of the committee of the Waikato Farmers' Club (Hamilton Branch) was held in Thr Waikato Timks Buildings last night. A draft letter to the Hon. J. Bryce, asking him to endeavour to get the Government to bring in a Bill to prevent fraud in the manufacture of artificial manures, was considered and approved, and -iilered to be sent to the Cambridge Branch for its approval and co-operation. The lion. sec. was requested to write to the North Auckland Cattlo Board, asking for information in regard to the proposed tax- i iug of stallions. i The report of the board ap- ! pointed to inquire as to le.ikagein the South ' Australian Telegraph has been dealt with ' by the Government, and four operators have ' been dismissed. Cue operator last year . bought and sold £-10,000 worth of stock. ] One instance of leakage of important mes- j sages was as follows :—On the b'th March . last Mr Horrocks, telegraphed from Hobart to Mr Irwin nt Adelaide : " Buy quickly ! to-morrow any |iart of 10,000 Adelaides, best under I.'!-i Struck ininietwe carbonate lode : bulk assay I'.OOoz." This was a bogus ' telegram sent in pursuance »f nn arrangement previously proposed by Monocles by ' letter to Irwin, under data March .1, and was intended as a test of the secrecy of tho telegraph oflice. For a couple of mouths - prevously little had been doing in this stock v the price ruling to 7s. Mr Irwin did not ' receive tho telegram till late on the follow- j* ing miming, but. on the evening of the (ith, ' Herb;rt Fisher, in the Telegraph depart- T. ment, oporated largely in these shares. The contents of the telegram had been known to two operators, Bradshaw and Madderforde. Fisher admitted that he had made a l.urchaso of shares for another, but failed to b give tho name of his principal. Ii

Fully fifteen hundred free lubnurers are now onjj'itfed by tho pastoralists in t^ueeiiMhind. The Singer Manufacturing' Company's Agent, Mr Htourrie, in ut prcKentcnnMi*sing tho SVaikatn district having succeeded Mr Percy Misaen, tho late agent who has resigned in order to take up iinnthcr line of business. Mr Stutißie draws particular attention to the new desiu'n —Viabrating Shuttle machine — which is acknowledged to be the lightest running and the simplest machine in the market, making a perfect stitch and can miw from the lightest to the heaviest cotton without change of tension. We learn that another saw-mill is about to be stinted in the Waipa, the sight being somewhere about, the junction of that river with the Kiniwhaniwha stream. A huge extent of timber country will be accessible to this mill, including Mr Harsant'-i fine area of rush along the Kaniwhaniwha. In addition to kahikatea and riinu, there should be a good supply of lunekalla and totira available for sawing purposes. We have heard Capt. Lindsay's name mentioned in connection with tho venture, and we know of no one better suited for erecting and running a first class saw mill. A trial consignment of eggs has been made from Canada to London. The M'Kinley tariff will cripple or crush the trudo hitherto carried on in this product with the United States, and investigation has shown that from September In Mirch the Knglish market can take all the eggs Canada can send. The den.and is always increasiue, and although nupplies from Prance, Italy, and Austria have also increased of late, prices have not fallen. Tho tendency is still upward. The result of the trial has been 10s per 120 eggs. The top price for the tinesteggson olfer the same day was Us and lis 3d. The Canadian consignment reached tho market well packed, and in as good condition as many consignments from Normandy. In the summer prices rango down tn 8< 9d, Out! in winter they attain to a very substantial figure. Cool storage and good packing are the essential points. Referring to tho defaulting- Harbour Boards a southern contemporary has the following :—New Plymouth is like the ancient milliner. It always has the same tain to tell. Last year the Covernir.ent saved tho Harbour Hoard from default in May. In November the Board saved itself from default by refusing to repay the (lovernmant the amount of the May advance. May has come round again, and the Board is again tolling the story of default. What is to be done '! There is no disguiung the fact that the default of any member of the New Zealand family in the London in irket is unpleasant. On the other hand, there is the certainty that one swallow of the good Samaritan order would make a perfejt summer of content among the Boards that are in a similar plight. If New Plymouth can show anything exceptional in the position the Colony ought, in common fairness, at loast hear it with patience. An exceptional reason, being free from consequences, as a precedent, ought oven to obtain the necessary fiiim the public chtst. If tho one man one vote principle is to be introduced (says the Argus), let it be carried fairly into effect. The theory is that no elector is entitle 1 to a greater voting power than his neighbours. Yet in tho colonies the electorates are unequal in size, and it is notorious that electors in th; rural constituencies have far greater voting powers than residents in the city electorates. Of this anomaly New Zetland itself is the most prominent example in tho whole Australian group. If wo represent the voting power of the town elector in that colony by the number 1, then the voting power of the rtiial elector is abiiit I.}. Is this complying with Sir George Grey's theory, which he deems of such importance that he would sacritice federation to it ? Whon the electorates are unequal in siV, and when the law deliberately gives to a smaller population a political power equal to that of a larger constituency, then it is somewhat absurd to prate about tho one-man-one-voto principle. It is a principle which could not be adopted in its enliruty. What is meant by the agitation in Victoria is simply to disfranchise the owners of property in tho city of Melbourne, and not by any means to equalize tho voting powers of the constituencies. As all the elections are, held or. one day in this colony, the only plural voting that is at all appreciable or:curs in the mo'.ropolit.oi urea, and within that area it only influences the city constituencies. To abolish it, to prevent a man frnui registering a vote for hi< nflices or his v/arehou..!!, would be to leave the centre of all the. business skid and commercial enterprise ot the colony to be represented by a few eiretakers. And electors in small country constituences would have more political power than the men who are managing the great linancial and commercial concerns of the colony.