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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3003, 13 October 1891, Page 2

John Smith charged at the Hamilton Police Court vfwterday morning, before Mr John Knox, J.P., with ill-treat-ing a burse by riding it whilst it had a sore eye. The defendant pleaded guilty, and was ordered to destroy the animal at once.

The return football match between the Hamilton and Ngaruawahia colts will bo played on Sydney Square on Saturday afternoon next. In con=equenc» of this the cricket mntcli Married v. Single has been postponed till the following Saturday.

The concert in aid of the Hukanui school funds will take place in the Hukanui Hall this evening. A good programme is provided, and free coaohes leave tho Hamilton Hotel at six o'clock for Hukanni. Tho precedence will be given to ladies in obtaining seats.

At a meeting of the Hamilton Library Committee held last night the resignation of Miss Chaopell (is librarian was accepted, and the Secretary was instructed to invite applications for the appointment to he in by Monday next, to which date the meeting was adjourned. A letter was also read from the Secretary of the Hamilton Amateur Dramatic Club, offering to give an entertainment on hehaif of the funds of the library ; the Secretary had already replied to this communication thanking the club on behalf of tho committee for their generous offer.

The man Blades, who was reported in last issue as boiug of unsound mind was brought into Hamilton by Constable Forbes on .Saturday morning. The police not considering his case such a one as needed medical examination, as Blades was rapidly recrvering, and seemed to be suhVing more from his exposure and want ot food than in his mind, brought him up boforo Messrs Knox and von Sturmer, J.P.'s, who remanded him for eight days. Blades said that he had been in the Lunatic Asylum on a previous occasion when he had rambled off as he had done this timo. He asked that he should be looked after for a little time, j.YIr John McNicol intends to hold an annual sale of stud and flock Lincoln rams, Polled Angus cattle, and young horse stock at Lochiel, Ohaupo, every spring. His first sale will bo held on the 30th inst., when he will olfer 120 ram hoggets in full fleece, equal to any in the colony, being by rams bred by Mr K McLean, Mr J. B. Sutton, Southland, and Mr Thomas Tanner, of Hawkes Bay. The sheep have been reared in a natural and hei.lthy state on grass paddocks, and not pampered or forced For show purposes. They are, therefore, in a better condition to do service than if unnaturally forced. Luncheon will bo provided, and the sale will start at one o'clock shaip.

It has been decided that the bonus on the export of butter from Victoria to Kurope slmll be abolishod, .is the Minister of Agriculture finds that tlio money Rues into the pockets of the bnttur merchants instead of beneliting the duiry farmers, .'is w;is intended by the Government. Out of £'10,000 due on thn past season, about £!),OUO will have been paid to Melbourne merchants. One firm ha.i sent in claims amounting to £2,500, a second for t-',uliO, and a third for £500. Thus three (iritis will receive more than half the Vital amount due as bonuses on butter exported. It is said by apologists of tlio bonus system that it has done good to the colonv by opening up a market for butter in Kiiglnnd ; but New Zealand exporters have effected this object without any help from the Government of that colony. Sunday last being the day set apart by the Wesleyan body in New Zealand for the advocacy of the Home Mission cause, the Rev. \V. Gittos, Home Missionary, conducted the evening service at Trinity Wesleyan Church, Hamilton, when there was a large congregation. The rev. gentleman uroached a very impressive, sermon from Romans I. 10, dwelling upon the Brand elfecr of missionary effort upon the history of the world. He said it was contended by some that the mission to the Maories had been a failure; but ho held that it had been a bright success. It was only some 70 years since the natives of these islands were sunk in savagedoin and cannibalism, and the gigantic change in their customs between then and now had been brought about by the earnest and selfdenying labours of the early missionaries. He instanced several cases where powerful chiefs had embraced tlio Christian religion, and been instrumental, by both precept and example, in spreading the good work in their own and other tribes. The preacher concluded with an earnest appeal for aid to carry on the work.—The annual Home Mission meeting will be held in the Wesleyan schoolroom, Hamilton, this evening, when addresses will be given by the Revs. C. H. Garland, W. Gittos, .T. Thomas, and probably by the young native clergyman who is assisting Mr Gittos.

The Dunedin Evening Star, re viewing the work of the session, observes :— The comparison of the practical work of tho late session with the programme put forward in the Governor's speech at tho opening of Parliament is strongly suggestive of thu promises heralded in pictorial tabloaux nf travelling circus menageries. For weeks beforehand tho walls are placarded with representations of wonderful animals, nonexistent of such size and form, ss well as of marvellous feats in equestrianism and gymnastics. When, however, tho show arrives, and Raping crowds throng the tents, a rusty be:ir.;r two, some monkeys, and perhaps a mangy camel are found to constitute the natural collection ; whilst in the ring there is the old dreary spectacle of spavined horses, sunken-eyel performers in dirty tiehts, the clown with his venerable jokes, aud the perfumes of Araby mediatised through stale sawdust and orange peel. Ministers, previous to the session, effectually billed the country. Their "advanco agents" availed themselves of all the tricks of the trado to advertise tho groat liberal policy, which was to givo everybody oi-erythintr and explode the Old World fallacy—bused on the declaration of Holy Writ—that in "the .sweat nf their brow*' men must needs eat their broad. Economic law and solid fact were to go down before the power of tho new "lights which had arisen in the Legislature—a new order of things was to be inaugurated, in which every man was to be as good as another, if not better. The realisation, it must, we think, be admitted, is much on a par with the circus tents ; whilst as to tho performance and performers a cynip might discern close analogy.

The Christchurch says :- Sincu Tuesday last the s.ilo of p01ar..,.'-; at Ivuigiora das dropped from .-.ixprtiia) per sack to an appeal from one tinkler nf a laixe.-tock to the public 1.0 cart them away " fnr nothing." There is a -l.wided cmtrast between this state of nlf.iirs and tlio piico in 1803, which went up to and t'24.

"We would draw particular atteu tion to tlio sal. , of high-class household tnrnitiirn advertised by Mr \V. J. Hunter, tn he held at Claremont Vilh, near Cambridge, on Thursday, October 2i)th. The furniture waa made specially to the order of Mr J. P. Thomson, is of first-class quality and workmanship, and will be open to inspection on the day preceding the sale.

The surplus over from the last Hamilton spn.-ts has been duvnto'l to the purchase nf seats for Sydney Square. Six of theso were placed on tho square on Saturday afternoon, an<l were found very acceptable by those witnessing thn football match. The Sports Committee arct o bo commended for their generous donation, run} as tho seats need painting and a email sum is still owing on thflm, wo hope the public will riso to the occision and provide the neccs-arv funds.

The prizes offered by the Department of Agriculture at Melbourne fur the best .system of cooling a dairy havo not been aw.irdod.as none of the competitors werenble to fulfil the specifiod conditions. This can scarcely be wondered at, when one of the conditions was that the temperature of the dairy room above ground was to bo reduced tn 50 deR. Un a hot summer's day without the nid of machinery. A largo number of farmers came forward to compete, notwithstanding the severity of the regulations, and tho system which caino nearest to tho model required was tho plan of bringing cool air into the chamber by means of tin underground pipe. The pipes are laid in a drain about 3ft. doep, reaching from the duiry to a distance 'if from 100 to 200 yards. The outer end of tho pipe h raised from the ground, and a vane dirocts thn wind into it from whichover quarter the breeze may be blowing. In pissing through the the channei;tho air is invariably cooled to a temperature of between 00 and 70 deg. One of the competitors, however, Mr Mullane, of Riddler's Creelc, slightly iniprnved upon the others by introducing runninj; water into the underground pipe, which not only assists in cooling tho nir, but helps to create a current on still days.

The Christchurch Telegraph is at a loss to understand by what right the so-called " Liberal " party in Xew Zealand has to the hiifh-somiding ami honorable name it liux stolon. As far as wa can see (says the Telegraph) they seem to be the vory reverse of Liberals. If they get into power their leading idea is to bo liliernl lo theinsalvc* in tho way of large salaries, sinecures, and emoluments of all descriptions. For example, towards the closo of the last session of Parliament wo saw twenty Liberals of tho real genuine Xew Zealand type besieging and threatening the l'remier into passing tho Payment of Members Bill. Tho rights of other parties or of minorities they do uot respect. Liberalism for the party now in power means license to plunder those who we in the minority and erase the seals from bonds, deeds, and agreements made long years ago. Might i.s right with the Xew Zealand Liberal, whoso principle seems to be to take all he can get under tlia cloak of law. In order th it his cupidity may havo full play ho seeks tc« get the laws altered so that he may contiscato and plunder with impunity. He emblazons on his banner the maxim of n freebooter or pirate, and armed with a Statute, he thinks he has the right to annex the property of others without th;: slightest remorse. This is about the whole of his policy. Ho never socks to unduly exercise his own brains or muscles, but wishes to take life easy, and then to swoop down upon tho accumulated proeeedsof tho long|year.s of labour of others. Confiscation of wealth and not its creation is what he aims at. This is a far easier task for him. It does not require that preliminary fltndies should bo gono through to fit him for tho task. He can tret all the knowledge wo wants in/a political shillingahocker, winch, though without logic or learning, will Answer his purpose and influence h'i3 passion for greed as well as anything eUe. But what a contrast such a rule of political conduct presents to Liberalism correctly understood. Sue!) persons should not travel incog. If they are beut on looting expeditions they should wear no niaskn; they should call themselves the confiscating, plund«ring,or retrogressive party, and then we cnnld admire choir candour, while condemning their political morality. Unlike the dramatist, theysccm to think there is something in a name after all. Hence they havo chosen one which is eminently calculated to mislead.

Writes a Meltoourne corresponent:—The Salvation Army went to great expense to bnns the " General " tr> Melbourne on Saturday night—why, grindnees knows, for Monday or Tuesday wmilfl to all seeming have done as well, tint the Tainui beiim lata of arrival at Hobart, a special train brought the distincruisherl visitor to Linnceitou, when a specially chartered steatner bronptht him to the heads, at which point the Wmrarapn, al?o specially chartered, rant him and brought him on to Melbourne. Wo are told that £300 was spent on special trains and steamers. Saturday afternoon was unfortnimtoly pouring; wet—a steady soaking rain ; but still the Wairarapa was crowded by about one thmisind Salvation Army lads and lasses going flown tho bay to welcome tho (J'-'iieml. I wish I could quote you tho column and a half account of this trip which the Argus gives. It is onn of tho host pieces of description writing over fnrnishoil by tho newspaper prass. But space would not allow. '" They cared n.ifc a jot if it ruined or not,' they sang," says tho report, "»r sliouted, or burst forth into cries of ' Halli.-lnj ih,' or'(rlory, , as the fancy struck them, with uniliminished hopi , , and with unii.igging vigour. They reminded each other at intervals of ii iriinnte or so that ' The I Imioral was comins, (iod blnss him," ami that ' they were so happy, pr.iise the Lord.' On the flooded decks over a thousand peoplemen, women, and children in arms—were packed so closely that moving was almost an impossibility—so squeezed, anil jostled, and elbowed, that to ordinary heings the trip must have b".en one long endurance of physical discomfort, even of absolute physical pain. And yet no comuany of ploa-suro-seekfirs, bound on a joyous voyage under summer skies, could have shown themselies more conspicuously contented and happy than these thousand Salvationists, with their flaring garb and their uncouth cries and gestures. At no moment of the trip was there an instant's lull in tho uproar. Twenty different prayer meetings were going on simultaneously at scarcely so many puces apart. Meu and women were siimiiit;, exhorting, confessing, shouting 'Hallelujahs' and '(llories, , breaking iute the most fantastic gestures, without method or ordor. It was an intoxication—a religious saturnalia, in which the dominant nnto was jubilation, and the cry heard above all others was " Hallelujah. , "