Sir Wm. Cumming has been removed troiu the position of Deputy-Lien-tenant of Elgin. The Queen personally invested Mrs Oimwood with the Order of the Red Cross at Windsor, and invited her to lunch. The Financial Netfs says that in future the colonies will find the pocket of John Bull inexorably closed and buttoned against his promising off spring. The quarter's revenue for the United Kingdom shows an increase of i' 443,000. The principal items in excess are thoso which give evidence of general prosperity. The musical people of Paterangi have lately Riven a very successful entertainment in aid of the funds of the public library. Tho proceeds amounted to the very respectable sum of tb. The pupil teachers' examinations at tho Hamilton West School were concludod on Thursday afternoon, and Mr [> Crowe, was was acting as supervisor, left for town by train yesterday morning, lie will inspect the Rangirin School on Ins way down.
A special meeting of the Rag-lan County Council will be held at Ngaruawahia on Augustloth, to make a special by-law to regulate the traffic on tho Tuakau punt. On Tuesday next, before Mr W. Hunter's sale, Mr John McNicnl will offer eight first-class heavy draught horses, on behalf of Mr Tho*. Ooodfellow. Six of the animals are especially good and aro fit for any work. It has been resolved to hold the Presbyterian concort at Cambridge on the With instant. It will bo remembisrod this concert was postponed in consequence of the demise of Mrs J. P. Thomson. We loarn the programme will not suffer in coiiicquence of tho adjournment, but, on the contrary, will be made even moro attractive. Wo trust tho friends of Trinity Church will roll up in force and add a substantial amount to the repairs fund. Yesterday morning the secretary to tho Hamilton Football Club telegraphod to the secretary of the l'aterangi Club to the effect that his club could not get a team together to go to l'aterangi to-day. This is rather unfortunate as Patorangi had a good team and would have had a chance of wiping out tha defeat sustained by them lately, but as only about seven men could have got away no match could have been played. We understand that the match will be played on Saturday next when it is hoped that both clubs will have their best teams in the field.
On becoming acquainted with Mr Roes' action in the House of Representatives in the direction of obtaining i *' rla ' of Mr Vaile's railway schema on the Auckland line, members of tho Railway Reform League and other representative mnn at once took steps to support Mr Roes in his efforts. Telegrams in this direction wore forwarded yesterday from the Railway Reform League, the Hamilton Branch ot the Waikato Farmers' Club, and from a numbor of influential sottlers in the Kirikiriraa district, to the Premier and the Hon. John Bryce, asking them to support the proposal. A curious specimen of fungoid growth was lately unearthed at Tamahere, fully four feet fiom the surface. In shape it is like a spray of large leaves of a dense leathery consistency, and with a thick, woody root, which at first it might be taken to be growing out from, but on closer examination it proves to be a portion of the plant, It has been sent to Mr Cheeseman, the curator of the Auckland Museum, for his report. Mr Wheeler, who left it at our office, told us he had never seen anything like it before, and several people who have since examined it can give no idea of ita nature, never having seen anything of the kind before. Mr Thos. Bracken is announced to lecture in Cambridge on Monday light on Irish Humour, Pathos and Poetry. Mr Bracken, who formerly represented a Dunedin constituency in the House of Representatives, established a colonial reputation by his well-known satirical sketches written under the name of "Paddy Murphy." Beyond this Mr Bracken has given evidence of far higher genius in the realms of literature, many of his poems having been highly commented on by the press of tho neighbouring colonies and in Europe. As a lecturer and pourtrayer of Irish character, Mr Bracken has few equals and as he takes his subjects from the best known Irish poets and authors, Ins audience can follow and appreciate the efforts of the lecturer. Those who heard Mr Braclcon at Hamilton wore delighted with the evening's entertainment, and we can promise our Cambridge friends who make a point of attending equal satisfaction. The use of artificial manures for raising turnip crops has been proved to be a necessity in Waikato from the peculiarity of its soils. Tho outlay in this direction, however, has fortunately been proved to be amply repaid by results. The steady advance in the prico of wool and mutton in the English market gives assurance of brightor prospects for the district, ana with its large area of unoccupied lands, this is bound to lead to a very extended demand for artificial manures. The question of the purity of manures, however, has been one of concorn to Waikato farmers lor soma time past; since the inferiority of much that was supplied a yoar or two ago was proved by analysis to have 'ooen, in some cases, almost worthless, and in other? charged at a price far above its value. In this connection, it will be or interest to many of our readers to know that Mr Godbrey, representing the wellknown firm of Fison and Son, of Ipswich, is now on a business tour in Waikatu. we trust before he leaves lie will arrange for agencies, as the purity and excellency of the manures supplied by this firm is above question.
For our part (says the Catholic Times) we do uot believe that Mr Ballance will be able to get the necessary revenue out of his proposed system, and we loathe the income tax—ono of Sir Robert Stout s fad.i because he never had to pay it—believing it to bo the most unjust and inquisitorial of any tax invented by tho perverted ingenuity of man. ith such a tax, in a circumscribed community like ours, no man's private affairs will be any longer private. Tho assessment of the property tax, in some cases left to clerks and office boys, was bad enough ; but tho collection of the income tax will in all human probability be ten times worse as far as publicity is concerned. It is a memorable fact that whilothero is a strong agitation in Kn»land to abolish this impost, a country like Now Zealand, which continually boasts of its progression, adopts it. However, New Zealand for the time being is given over to the propounders of political quack nostrums. The sooner those people have their innings and make a hash of them, the sooner will the country return to commonsense.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2960, 4 July 1891, Page 2
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