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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2949, 9 June 1891, Page 2

The census for London, and suburbs shows the population to be 5,033,000. During the month, of May the British imports increased by £1,037,000, while the exports decreased by £3,1915,000. The Cambridge Catholic Church was lit up by the patent ptaa lamps on Sunday night and the light was pronounced A. I. Mr'Wragge,Government;ineteorologist, predicts a further spell of squally weather between New South Wales and New Zealand. Mr C. Lake went to Auckland on Friday with the thoroughbred sire Xa tutor, and banded hiinover to his owner on Saturday at Kllerslie. A. telegraphic chess tournament, between the Wellington and Auckland Clubs, was concluded on Saturday night, and ended in favour of Wellington. The monthly meetings of the Waipa County and the Hamilton and Cambridge Borough Councils and the Hamilton Domain Board will be hold at the various times to-day. We are very sorry to hear that Mr Ivobt. I'eat, stationmastor at Fran Is ton Junction, is suffering from congestion of tha lungs, and has to lie up. Mr Oldham, relieving officer, is stationed at Frankton at present. Two hansoms and a four-wheeler passed through the streets of Hamilton on Saturday en route for Xapier. Rather unfavourable weather for an overland trip of this distance, but as there were no passengers, we presume the proprietors are taking tfiis plan of reaching thoir destination rather than incur the risk and cost of shipping by c.'«a«tal steamer.

Mr J. W. Halkett issues a challenge in this issuo to J. Carboy or A. McKinnon, to run either of thorn any distance from 100 yards to a quarter of a Miile, on the Hat or ovor hurdles, for tho Miin of .£2O or upwards. A boy was had up before the Folkestone magistrates for using bad language tn the street, and the magistrate (Colonel do Crespigny) told tho boy ho ought to be "devilish well flogged," and lined him 10s, or six days' imprisonment. Yesterday Mr W. Bright of the Commercial Hotel, Hamilton, obtained a Ul order out of ono of tho wrappers of Messrs Udolpho Wolfe and Co.'s schnapps Imttles. Mr S. Mo-es, representing-Messrs L. I). Xathanand Co., was in Hamilton at the time, and immediately paid up the value of tho order. Richard Mitchell, of Cambridge West, has written us, stating that his daughter did not tell tiio truth when she told tho Hospital Board that he had turned her out of doors. He was not at home whon she left, and indeed he was working near Hamilton at ;the time, and did not know anything about tho matter until ho hoard of it being in tho papers. It is the fashion of many Australasians to sneer at tho Chinese, as a raco to lie despised, but the fact remains, that James Cheong, the son of the Kev. Chesk Hong Cheong, Anglican missionary to tho Chinese in Melboure, was lust year the head boy at tho Church of Kngland Grammar School in Melbourne, and won the Perry Classical Scholarship, which is regarded as the " blue ribbon*' of the college. The weather on Saturday afteruoon was very cold and bleak. About two o'clock a very heavy squall passed over the district from the south west, and when it cleared up a little, l'irongia was seen to bo covered with a mantle of snow. lhe squally weather still continues. Yesterday Commander Edwin wired to expect exceptionally heavy gale and cold weather from south-west to south. We are pleased to near that under tho skilful attention of l)t Cole the unfortunate patient Reginald I'itzpatrick is making good progress. It will be remembered that he was admitted into the Waikato Hospital about two weeks since suffering from a complication of diseases. The nurses and all the other patienu in the Hospital speak very highly of Dr Cole's ability and pleasant kindly manner. There have been several endeavours to get up a football team at Cambridge this season, but hitherto with no success. However, another meeting is called for Saturday next at the Criterion Hotel, when it is hoped the matter will be brought to a successful issue. There ara several Maoris attending the Land Court that can play a good f,ame, and surely Cambiidge can furnish sufficient to make a good teain with the help of these natives.

A proposal has been made in America by Mr R. A. Cooper in the direction of allowing any.ino to travel free on tho railway, recouping tho outlay on the lines by a direct tax. It is pointed out in sup port of the idea that tolls on roads and bridges are gradually being abolished, aud that there is as much reason to advocate the abolition of railway charges as of the other imposts. The same suggestion was made by Mr R. C. Bruce in the House several years ago. It is estimated by competent statisticians that the total value of the private and public wealth of Australasia even now exceeds £1,100,000, or £3o;> per head of the population. This is exclusive of the value of tho lands not yet alienated from the Crown, a trifle of something liko 1,354,000,000 acres. Take the case of New South Wales alone, the estimated value of the public and private wealth of that colony is £581,000,000. The total public wealth being put down at £177,700,000, and the general and private wealth at £103,1100,000. In this estimate the value of the unsold public estate is only set down at £07,003,000. After this, who will dare to raise the spectre of " repudiation." The Rev. E. Walker, organising agent of tho New Zealand Alliance, occupied tho pulpit at the Hamilton We.sleyan Church on Sunday evening, and preached si very forcible sermon from tho words, " Christ came to seek and to save the lost," to a fair congregation, and held his hearers' attention for fully an hour, during which he reviewed Christ's three years' preaching in Jerusalem, Judea, and other places, and said the people of the present day owed a great debt ml gratitude to Christ, whether they hclieved in Him or not, for tho great revolution in the world, since l.e cauio upou earth, that the people enjoy, for it w is nothing but the love of Christ instilled into men's hearts that caused a world of barbarity to bo changed into what it. was to day. The rev. gentleman also addressed the scholars of the Sunday-school in the afternoon. The old proverb, " Actions speak louder than words," was clearly demonstrated at To Awamutu tho other evening. Adjutant Bishop, of the Salvation Army, aud his Quintette Company held an evening's singing meeting in that township, for which lid admission was charged. A good gathering of people rolled up to the meeting, and at tho close of it they subscribed the sum of £1 8s and gavo the Adjutant to assist tho Army woik. At lvihikihi aud Alexandra also the company waa well received, aud tho people would have had them stay several nights, to which the Adjutant would have readily responded had it not been that he had made arrangements to visit other townships. The peoplo of the Upper Waipa are looking forward to luning another visit from the Army, and hope that Te Awamutu will, in the near future, ba opened as a permanent station, from which the surrounding townships could be worked without much difficulty.

The Marton Mercury says We should presume that tlio most successful way of putting a stop on dummyism— about which thero is so much talk at the preseufc time —would ba to have a few more individuals the same as they have up the coast. We are informed that a certain land-grabber up that way, who wanted more land than he was entitled to by the Act, got two men to allow their names to bo put down for certain sections, ho of course paying the instalments as they came due. After the necessary improvements had been done, as required by the Act, Mr Land-grabber requested tho tranßfor of the said sections from tho dummies to himself. It had been, no doubt, previously agreed upon by the dummies that they would stick to the land, so each individual answered, "No, my name is on the lease as the selector, and I am going to stick to tho land." And they are both flourishing settlers up that way to-day. At the election of the Licensing Committee for the district of Timaru, tho prohibitionists were defeated. Their defeat, accordiuj? to the Rev. Mr "must have given groat satisfaction to the devils in the lower depths of hell, who would be greatly rejoiced over the fact that the liquor party had been returned at tho top of the poll." This opinion was expressed at a public meeting hel l by the prohibitionists on the evening of the polling day. Evidently, Mr Williams' theology is of a most antiquated character, and not in accordanco with tho revised version. Ho must have done his side moro harm than good by openly insulting those who held dilforent opinions to himself on the licenning question, as such intemperate language a« that quoted above would tend to com. pletely disgust the less rabid and fanatical portion of his audience. Those candidates whom the reverend gentleman stigmatises as the " liquor party ' are some of the best known and respected members of tho community, several of whom have passed the greater part of their livo* in South Canterbury, and against whoso honour and integrity nothing can be advanced. Three hundred and twenty hale, hearty, and stalwart yotinsr men (writes a Melbourne correspondent), all heavily pinched by want, and mostly tit for anything, applied for a vacant billet as barman, advertised in one of Saturday morning's pipers. Twenty-three applicants for a placo as coachman readied Jin'ghto.i, where the advertiser lived, at ton minutes to seven one morning last week. A well-known lodging house keeper in Collins - street advertised for an errand buy, and received among luir answers several admirably written letters from men evidently lit for superior positions and possessed of good testimonials, offering to dr. any work about the house she chose ; to scrub, clean boots, gratos, anything—for just as few shillings por week as she might pleaso to add to their board and lodging. The extraordinary tiling is that you cannot get a woman servant for any wages you can offer unless the plaen suits her in every particular. It is quite on the cards that we may see men t iking to household servico as they do in Trance, where the chambonuaids are very often men. Men manage to keep ships beautifully clean and why not houses. At any rate the prevailing distress in Melbourne ii disposing a great many of them to try.

The Minister of Lands (says the Evening Press) seems to imagine that any mechanic who evinces a desire tn become a sin ill {.inner must necessarily bo a dummy. In an interview with a deputation at l'alnierston the other day, ho stigmatised a printer as a would-be land grabber because lie wished to become a settler in ono of the small-farm blocks. Another would-be settler wan asked his occupation, mid he having frankly confessed to the sin of being a carpenter, the Minister metaphorically "jumped down his throat" on daring to aspire to take up land. What could mechanic* want with land? They must be dummies. It was no use for the printor and the carpenter to urge that they wished to make homes for themselves. The Minister for Lands knew bettor. No tradesman would )r could make a farmer. Mr McKenzie is ignorant *f many tilings, amongst them being the well-known fact that a large number of New Z«aland's best and most, successful farmers were originally mechanics. McDonald's Scottish Minstrels gave one of their national entertainments in the Public Hall, Hamilton, last evening, but owing tn the Doistorous weather the attendance was not large, ceitainly nothing like as large as the merits of the entertainment warranted. Miss Jennie Macdonald is one of the best lady violinists that lias visited this district, and her rendering of the spirited Scottish music was perfect. Miss Macdonald also possesses a sweet soprano voice, which was heard to advantage in tho well-known "Caller Herrin. Mr Macdonald has a baritone voico of good rango, and which lias evidently been well trained. The song, " Gae' bring to me a pint of wine," was one of his best elforts. As a pianist, Mr Macdonald is of no low rAnk, and his execution would have been displayed to more advantage on a better instrument. All lovers of really good Scottish music should not miss the opportunity of hearing this company whose last performance will bo given in tho Public Hall to-night. In a letter under the heading "Social Anarchy," which appears in Monday's "liveuing Star," Mr J. G. S. Grant indulges in some very s'rong language. " Membeis of Parliament,'" lies .ys, '• sometimos advise their dupes to stick to the principles of unionism. What aro those principles ? On the part of the cjuasileaders of labour they are quackery, presumption, ignorance, and imposture ; on tho part of their obedient army, they ara idiotcy, imbecility, stupidity, and cowardice. Let in speak out plainly. They who Hatter the working classes aro certainly thoir enemies. Look at tho result of the last elections in this fair colony. A ferociously ignorant band of place-hunters and time-serveis befooled the people, got elected marched to Wellington, stayed there eight clays, rushed to the Treasury, and abstracted £20,000 out of tho taxes, and returned, like Highland savages, to their glens and huts, after that infamous spoliation ! . . . Our Parliaments are filled with needy-seedy and greedy limbs of the law that fatten upon oddities, quiddities, and forensic quibbles. Much talk is spent upon Tories and Liberals ; but really there are only two sorts of politicians—tho Ins and the Outs. Both try to git as much out of office as possible, and when ousted an unscrupulous Ministry tries to get itself permanently billeted upon the public !

Mr Gideon Inkster, writing to the Wanganni Herald in reply to some remarks by that paper on Farmers' Unions, saysSir,—You ueern to think farmers have no right to co-operate, although every other class of men, from the sweep on the street to the highest in the land, do unit? for their own protection. The late Mr R. Chambers, in his report on the first cooperation that was started in England, says: "If there was anything to raise a working man from being a working man, co-operation was the thing to do it, and to put an end to all strikes." If farmers would only read a little moro, think a little more, and then learn enough energy to act, they ought to see that it would bo to their own interest to co-operate. Wore farmers justified in paying <> per cent, for selling their cattle, sheep and horses, whon the work can be as well done through the Kgmont Farmers' Union at 2 per cent. ? Were farmors justified in paying the retail price for farm implements whon the same implements can bo got through the 1" armers' TTnion at 10 per cent, less? Were farmers justified in paying Is per lb. for clover seed when seed of as good quality can bo got through the Farmers Union at 3d per lb? Were farmers justified in paying l.Vd for sending Home their wool when by°sending through the Union at Ijd per lb. as good a price can be got? Would it not be a wise thing for fanners to cooperate and start a woollen mill on soire of the streams that are now running to waste, and keep our nnuey in our districts instead of sending it to the Middle Island for their tweeds and blankets, enabling the farmers there to sell their fat oxen at fiom £10 to £12 per head? Would it be a foolish thing for farmers to unite and send Home their own wool and get it made into blankets and tweed, and save 25 per cent. ? I must now conclude this letter, wishing every success to cowpmation and John Stevens in his effort.