The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.
SATURDAY, AUG. 1 1892.
Equal and exact lustire to all men, _ Ot whatsoever state or persuasion, religious or political.
Pressure on our space compels us to hold over our leading and other matter.
The voting at the local option poll in the Hamilton Licensing District resulted in favour of an increase of all forms of licenses.
As everyone was pleased with the day's hunting at Oliaupo last Tuesday, it has been arranged to hoid the meet next •Saturday about the same district.
In speaking on the Gaming and Lotteries Hill in the Housu on Thursday night, Mr Hutchison said that from 18S:> to 188!) the sum of £2(i0,000 had been sent out of the colony to Australia for sweeps, arid
only £37,200 had come back for prizes,
An Australian writer says : — " New Zealand women are the strongest and handsomest in Australasia. Such cherry-cheeked, healthy, robust children as 1 saw in New Zealand I had never seen before. Thay scarcely ever seem to ho ill."
Mr John Brooks has been elected a member of the Ragluu County Council for the Whangape Hiding. In the Waingaro Riding, two candidates, Messrs McDonald and Wilson, have been nominated for the i ne vacancy, aud a poll will bj held on tho Sth inst.
I* reply to the charge made by members in the House that he obstructed huMinjsj* by long speeches. Mr Jjuckland s iid ho never spoke oil iiuy subjuut that he riid not understand. He hud, he said, a more varied experience than any iu;\n in ttiO House, except Sir Gioy.
The following will show that the road between Hamilton aud Raglan is, for tho present time of the ye ar, in a good state Mr Jj. Sutton left Hamilton at (> o'clock yesterday morning and rode to Raglan, changing horses at Waitetnna, and was back again in Hamilton before 5 o'c'ock in the evening, bringing a led horse with him. Not so bad that for the middle of winter.
Mr Richard G-illet, jun., son of Mr 1!. Gillet, of Kliikiriroa, who it will be remembered was successful in passing as a candidate at the recent pupil teachers examination, h;is been appointed to the teaching staff of the Hamilton Kast school Mr Gillett received the greater part of his education at this school and we wish him success in his new connection with the institution.
The Tusipeka Times, writing of the prospects of the coming groin season, s:l y S We aro told that certain Christclmrch merchants have already made offers to certain farmers in this district to buy all their grain next season at 3s Gd per bushel. We do not think anyone ought to take such an utfer as this. A certain Oamaru man bought a lot of potot.oes in this district last year, but did he take them when they got so cheap 1 He did not, and neithor wnujd the Cristchurch merchants take the grain at 3-, lid rer bushel if it happened to fall to 2i OJ. They would find some loophole to escape by."
Mr John Miles Verrall, the State Bank advocate, thus describes in his pamphlet, " The Stockwhip," how ho was beaten for the Ghristchurch seat:—"Mr Reeves, the Infant Phenomenon of the Lvttleton Tunes, h is been advertised by the Lyttleton Times like so much patent medicine. Mr Reeves recommended Messrs Perceval and Tiylor, and they recommended him, themselves, and one another. They combined forces, di-ided expenses and—confoundod their politics—although they had all been ardent supporters of the Midland Railway contract, giving away two and a half million acres to a foreign company. they were elected as enemies to the monopoly of land."
A notice appears ia our advertising columns that Mr Jno. Arnold, of Cambridge, retires from Iho butchering Imsi-ieos from this day. 11« lias conducted the business in a most -uccessful manner for the pa-it seventeen years and now gives it up to hia son, Mr Charts Arnold, who we trust may be equally successful. Mr Arnold senior, intends living at Hautapu where he has an excellent farm, and indeed he has proved equally as good a farmor as butchor and in times past his namo has figured among the list of successful competitors at the agricultural shows of the province. Koi'.i father and son will have tho j lea 'y pood wishes of a laigtf circle of friends, the former being almost as well known in Auckland as in Cambridge, especially amongst the old pioneers win took part in the WaiUato war.
We would call attention to a new artvmtisi'iii"iit of tin Melbourne Drapery C iiitp.inv at Cambridge who are Imhiiiisr a special sale to clear the surplus stoc!: of winti rgo .ds. Any one requiiing bargains i innot. (Jo better than pay a visit to the Company'sst'*re in 1 )i ike-street, Cambridge, wheie tiiey wid find the nuireroiis lines marked down to a very low pric>% some even as much as 30 per cent. An Ethiopian entertainment in i<] of the Hamilton Light Infantry band funds will lie given in the Volunteer Hall on Thursday evening. The latest songs and dances wi'l be introduced and the farce " That Boy Pete," followed by a Maori war dance will keep the audience thoroughly amused. We hope the performers will be favoured with a good house as the object is one which deserves the support of all. The ranks of the Hamilton Light Infantry are gradually increasing, seven new members having been sworn in on Thursday. New life is being infused into the company no doubt on account of the formation of a Brass Band in connection with the corps which proves an attraction. Under the able conductorship of Mr S. Meachem who k well known as a capable musician we hopo soon to hear the newly formed band performing in public. No little interest appears to be taken among the youngsters in the football match to be played on Sydney Square today between the Hamilton East and West schools (combined) and tho East boys, under 17 years. The odds are slightly in favour of the schools, but tho seventeen-year-olds are sanguine of "putting them through." However, both teams are in active training, and a good and interesting game may be expected from the smalt fry. Mr E. Steeds writes to the Christchurch " Press'' as follows regarding New Zealand potatoes in Sydney : "Sir,—l have just returned froma hurried visit to Sydney, where I saw a considerable quantity oiNew Zealand potatoes, and I regret very much to say that all of them were moreoi leas inferior in quality ; small, large, and rragli potatoes, all being inixod together in anything but a marketable condition. If the Canterbury farmers want to hold their own in Australia they must make a paint of having their potatoes carefully sorted out before shipment." The Rangitikai Advocate has been assured on very good authority that a large proportion of the members of the three small farm associations which were formed some time ago—viz., the Stanley and two others—to take up land, have determined to leave the onntry if it is decided that tho right of purchaso shall not be given. They refuse to take np land unless they can make it their own. They say that there are other colonies where a title is procurable where t. man may call his home his own, and while that is so, they do not see their way clear to slave their life away on Government land here. In a recent issue we alluded to the carelessness of sheep-owners in the matter of branding, and that the auctioneers at the request of Mr Sutton, the Sheep Inspector br the district, had drawn attention to it at recent sales,. Since then, in order to provide that the necessary information may be easily obtained, Mr Sutton has forwarded copies of the Sheep, Cattle, Ribbit, and Branding Acts to the clerks of the County Councils, to the secretaries of Farmer's Clubs, and to the auctioneers throughout Waikato. This will be a convenience to settlers who may want information in regard to any of the above Acts. In the discussion on the Legislative Council Bill Sir Geo. Grey was taunted with inconsistency in advising the present, Government to appoint a sufficient number of their supporters to the Council to carry their measures, while he supported Mr Rees' Bili. He replied to this by showing that the present Parliament represented the people of New Zealand, and that if a large majority of the Parliament passed a certain measure, it might be assumed that it was a measure supported by the people of New Zealand ; therefore no Government would be justified in allowing a nominated House continually t > throw out measures upon which the people of New Zealand had set their hearts. Of all the proposals for the settle ment of people on the lands of tho colony, that of a Mr S. Stidolph, of Wellington, is certainly the boldest. He proposes in a letter to the Post, that the Government set aside, nay, a block of land of 00,000 acres, the said land to be surveyed and subdivided into 5000-acre blocks, the same divided into 200,100, and 50-acre sections, to be disposed of by lottetv, at £1 tickets (£10,000), half to be paid for the land, and the other half to be given to the successful winners of the sections, ihus anyone drawing a lucky number of say. 200 acres, receives also £200 ; 100 acres, £100 ; 50 acres, £50. This would enable any one who drew a prize to have enough money to make a good start in life, and so do good to all. Tho above could be worked out by the Government by the aid of the Postmasters in each town or city acting as agents, ana tho shares would, (the Napier News thinks) be in great demand all over New Zealand, and also Australia. It would be the means of stopping the people leaving New Zealand and would give such a start towards progress that its effects would soon be felt in the increased revenue. Fivo thousand acies divided as under :—52 prizes (2(>00 acres), into 50 acres, and £50. £5,200 ;12 prices (1200 acres), into 100 acres, and £100 added, £2100 ; ti prizes (1200 acres), into 200 acres,
and £200 each added, £1100 ; 70 prizes, £10,000. Total number of settlers on the 50,000-acre block, 700, aud all independent with a pood start.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2972, 1 August 1891, Page 2
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