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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2987, 5 September 1891, Page 2

The p.s. Freetrader will leave Njjaruawahiii for To Rure on Tuesday morning next. A meeting , of the electors of the Waikato constituency will be held on Tuesday next at Olianpo, immediately after the Ciitlle site, to select a- candidate to fill the vacancy cruder) by the resißnation of the Hon. John Bryce. The secretary of the Hamilton Football Club is endeavouring to urranße for a team from the Hamilton jnd Paterangi Clubs to meet a third representative team in Auckland on Siturday next. A combined practice will be hold on Sydnuy Stjuiiro this afternoon. On Thursday evening at Ngaruawahin, Rev. R. OC. BiRRa rresented prizes to the children atten'litiK tha Sunday School in connection with the Holy Trinity Church. A very pleasant evening was spent, every child attending the school receivinß a prize, which sent them home happy. The examination cf the pupils at the Huntly District School took place last week, Inspector Crowe officiating. The result was highly satisfactory, 89% passing out of a total of 100 presented. Great credit is due to Colonel Smith and the assistant teachers for the marked improvement shown. The protest lodged by the Hamilton Football Club against the Huntly Club in connection with the late match was brought before the committee of the Auckland Rugby Union onTuenday last, but at the request of Mr L. B. Harris it was decided to defer the consideration "f it until the 10th so as to allow of Mr Harris being present. Mr Jas. B. Harker, watchmaker, etc., Hamilton, draws special attention to the stock he is now offerin?. In addition to a laree and well-selected assortment of watches, jewellery, etc., he advertises a special line of violins (in case, with two bows) at 30s each. A consignment of patent nickel watches just to hand are offered at 20s each, and are said to last a life time. The return football match between the colts and the Hamilton East and West Schools (combined) will take place on Sydney Square to-day, play commencing at halt-past two sharp. The following are Ihe names of the colts:—R. Hunt (captain), Bayly, Smith, Coate*. Johnson, F. Hunt, Tnnes, Hohbs (2), Stoadman, Care, Bolten, Kelly, O'Neill, and McKennie. Emergencies : Cnombes and Nelson. Judge Trimble and his Secretary Mr Lyon, accompanied by Mr Thompson, interpreter, and Ratimii (Latiiner), native assessor arrived in Hamilton yesterday afternoon trom Raglan, the Native Land Court at which they were occupied having concluded its sitting on Thursday afternoon. The judge and party will stay in Hamilton until Tuesday when they proceed to Mercer t<> hold a court there. Vaile's railway scheme will in ail likelihood be afforded a trial on the Auck-land-Waikato line. Mr R. Rew, the enterprising grocer of Victoria-street, Auckland, is taking time by the forelock, and offers to forward, freight paid, to any station on the Waikato line parcels of 201bs and upwards of his well-known and highly-appreciated brands of China. Indian, and Ceylon teas at Is 10J, 2*. and 2s Gd per lb. The advertisement appears in another part of the paper. The Auckland Acclimatisation Society made the following distribution of fish last season :—IOO rainbow trout, Lake Takapuna ; 1500 brown trout, Otornhittisra ; 40 rainbow trout, Whaingaroa; 25 ditto, Okoroire; 260 ditto, Mangavvhara; and 100 ditto, South Wairoa, making a total of 2230 fish distributed, and there are about 1400 rainbow trout still on hand. A report was received from Mr Cliffe in regard to the presence of trout in the Waipa and Patatere streams. A considerable number of trnut, some of 31b and 51b weight, had been seen, and the socisty might be satistied that their labours were not in vain. A correspondent writes complaining that when the Tamahere Road Board repaired the road over the Tauwhare hills they carefully avoided filling the worst hole, although they executed repairs on either side of it. Hβ says : " Why this has been left in such a dangerous state is a mystery to everyone passing that way, as there is sufficient ti-tiee clo>-e to tinnd to make fascines enough to till it. If the Board are sued for damages, they will certainly stand a good chance of having to pay for their negligence. The holo is close to a culvert about half-way over tho hills. ' He also complains that in the new cutting close to Tauwhare there is a dip left, which holds a little water, and the clay is being churned up until there will soon be a nasty The Mercantile and Bankruptcy Gazette is responsible for the following:— " In Dunedin, there are about 70 practising lawyers, Christchurch has a similar contingent, while Wellington and Auckland have respectively, rather more; this gives, i-xy, 300 in the four cities. Tho second siztid towns number amongst them another 100, and scattered throughout the country, thick as plums in a pudding, enough with those we have mentioned to make a grant total of at least 800 members of the legal brieade. Of these, say, 20 earn from £1500 to £3000 per annum, 100 more, say, From £?iOO to £1500, whilst the others are aarning enough to keep body and soul together, gruhinnq along from year to year without profit to themselves and with little honour to the profession in which they The " Morning Post " (London) iays:—"New Plymouth, a constituency in New Zealand, recently returned the local lamplighter as its member of Parliament. It was thought that when this gentleman was ,n receipt of the £150 >.>or annum, which is uaid to each member of the House of Representatives, he would retire from his josition as lamplighter ; bathe has decided ;o retain the appointment and Zealand papers announce that ' Mr K. M. Smith, M. H.R.. has been re-alected lampighter of N.sw Plymouth at a salary of £23 i-year.'" Wo trust that the combination n one person of the qualities of lamplighter md statesman may tend to a brillunt Humiliation of the dark places in New Zeaand politics. A few lamplighters might iven be an improvement in the Imperial Parliament. The Western Mail, a paper pubished in Western Australia, says :—"Now few Zealand his a Government in power ivowedly Socialistic in their aims, and bent n reducing many of the theories of that rend to practice. It remains to be seen irlnt success .vill attend their eiforts, but, ndging from past experience, there is a .reliability that the condition of the country .'ill not be improved, and that the drain of lobulation will continue. So far as Western Lustndia is concerned, she will gladly roeive all the capable colonists Now Zealand an send her." Tho article goos on to show hat though Western Australia has not aparently been so largely endowed by nature s New Zffaland, and that tho.se who come ■om the "Britain of the South" will have hw experiences thoy may rest assured that 0 Socialistic experiments will be tried there, nd that whatever wealth they may leaally cquire as the result of honest industry, jlf-denial, and thrift, will not be touched y the Socialist or the faddist. Here is an xamnle of the way our contemporary puts ; :—'"There is a pretty general feeling mong us that the most valuable possession fa community's the individual energy and 3lf-reliance of its members, and nur aim is 1 foster rather than to weaken those instirnable qualities. Such we are, and su'jli o are likely to remain, at least for some me tn come. If, therefore, there aro auy eople longing to escape from lands of fads nd theories.of labour parties and employers' nions, of discontent and unrest, they canot do better than come to Western Aus■aliii. But there are twa classes of people hich arc not wanted, and thoso am tho ritator and the faddist."

All the available shops in Hamil•oii 10 ist will shortly lie occupied ntr-iin. Mr Hammond, a ci,nnrcti"ii of Mr W. I , '. liti'l, is ab'int, to open an iiMuiiinngery in the primisiM litely ocuii.liud by Mr Bell, nii-1 Mr Manning wi 1 -r.ul. ;i hrnnch of his sttitioni'ry and fancy .'nods bii-iness in onu of Mr (iardiier'n •ihoiH, adjoining Mr IJey's general store. There will be a big , muster oi horses for Mr W. .1. Hunter's special sale at Hamilton on Wivlniwday next. Ani'nmst Uie lots to be olfcred will be found many first class young Ingomur horses, from tw-i to four years old, as well as a large number of medium ami heavy draught cults and fillies. This sale will afford an excellent opportunity to anyone requiring good horse -toek 'if any description, as there will bo fully 200 horses brought forward. A notice appears ia this issue cdling a meeting of W.iikato electors at Ohaupo on Tuesday iiftXtto decide upon the selection of a candidate for the vacant Waikato se;it. Ni'twithit.iiuding n statement that has been made purporting to come from MinistiH'h! sources tint tho Govern Mient have not. decided whether they would take any part in thu contest or not, it may safely be concluded that the most strenuous efforts will be put forth to win the seat. Wβ are pleased to hear that there is every probability of Mr K Lake consenting to .stand if requisitioned to do so and in our opinion he is by far tho strongest man that can be put forward at the present juncture. A prominent man in the leather trade in Sc itland, writing to a friend in Dunedin says :—" Matters in our trade are quiet, though we keep on f.iirly well. The strikes and thu general unrest of labor ar l ! often denounced as a nuisance. To my mind they threaten the veiy life of tho c»inmr<n-wt;nlth. You in the colonies, under the-sway of the working man (I hate the term, aa if all mh idlers except the hand worker), havo adopted a system of Protecttion and of public works that may land you ill bankruptcy; but simple communities like yours would recover. Our country, once iiown, would lise no more. A society sn complex—the most complex that the world has ' ever seen—is the last one to try Socialistic ' cantrips' in." An old man named Bailie, a recent inmato of tho Old Men's Refuge, at Hamilton, would cm tainly have been seriously injured, if not killed, at the Hamilton West station on Thursday but for the pvon.pt assistance rendered by Mr Stanton, of the Polica Department. Tho old man, who was under the influence ol liquor, attempted to got on to the train whilst in motion, and was on tho point of being drugged iff liis feet when Mr Stanton, who was luckily at lund, seized him round the waist and dragged him back. The old man was taken in charge, and on being brought before the b;nch yesterday was discharged with a caution on his promising to leave the district.