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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3009, 27 October 1891, Page 2

The annual meeting , of those interested in the Mangapiko Public Library will be held on Monday evening next in tho achonlrooiii.

Sir J. B. Lawes, Bart., estimates that, the British wheat crop will overagn 30 bushnls to tho acre, civing n tot.il of 0,000.000 quarters, and that 20,000,000 will bo required t& be imported.

An informal meeting of the Hamilton Swimming Club was held in The VVaikato Times Uuildings last evening. The meeting was adjourned till Monday, 2nd November, the date for holding the annual meeting.

Wβ have again to congratulate (inr locml sportsman, Mr J. O. Booth, with nnotlier win. On this oc&iaion Brown Besa has landed a eood thine for her owner by winning tha Kogarah Handicap nn Saturday last. The news reached Hamilton by table yesterday.

It is reported that several London i>ni Liverpool prndiica merchants havß iinifivl to pr iceo'l azain«t tha Now /.-■ihimi Shinning Company, in nrdnr to tail tho position of coosicnees and thi company with regard to damaged producu from the colony.

Wa would again remind our r«aders of tha sale of fnrniturn to be otferi'd ■it tha i'L>Hiduncd of Air J. P. Thomson, near (Jambi-idi?! , , on that account, by Mr W. J. Hunter, on Thursday n«t. In addition to tho list previously adveirr.tserl a piano, the property of Mr R. Reynolds will alno be oflomd.

Sections G5, 68, 67 and 68, of flio Oainiiridcn Wmt Domain land, wore offered by auction by Mr \V. .1. Hunter at Oambridfin on Saturday, and wore knocked down to Mr Richard Reynolds at ",* per ncro por annum. Tha lease will expire »n tho 10th August, 1902, and tho bonus of .-613 10s 7d, which had to be piid on the f.,11 of the hammer, is equal to a yearly rental of Is Id per acre, without allowing for interest; eomequentlv, the actual rent is about 6s Id per acre. The rent formally laid by Johna for the auction was ?s id pe» <icr>->.

A special meeting: of the Hamilton branch of the Waikato farmers' Club v/iil bo hold nil Monday evening imst, at which impuitunt business will bo brought i rwird.

Another larixe mob of store cattle caul;; through from Aotea on Monday fnr tin! Ohawpo sales. Frmn the drover in ch-irge (Mr Gilvan), wo learn that comparatively few cattle will cimio to Waikato tins se.asnn fnuii thu Aote.i and Iviwhia. 'lUtriets, tho bulk of their store stuck fjoing li'i'.vn the We-it Const, to Taraniki, whirr, a keen demand exists .it pre.sont for all classes of cattl'j.

An JSng-lishman is stated by Consul Pickorsgill tn have obtained from th>! (zoverninunc »f Madagascar a remarkable concession. It conveys tho right of s-'lecting in various districls a total of 3.000 square miles of territory, aud of mining ifmrenn for gold, or any nther mineral or pn'cious stones, during sixty years, on payment of £'60,000 in cash, and £20,000 in shares, No royalty is oxacted, All machinery, it is added, is to be admitted free of duty, and tho labour clause presents no real obstacles.

Three miles for a halfpennytint is about what 'bus travelling has come to in London, the strike notwithstanding. An enterprising tirm has hit upon thy novel expedient of utilising the tickets served out by the company lo their passengers for advertising purposes, and by issuing them at half the face valuo tn get the public to purchase and preserve them. Presumably the Omnibus Company gets tho full value of tho ticket out of the transaction, and presumably the advertising company makes a profit, but if tho system comes into anything like general use it is difficult f> see how it is to be done. That, however, is a matter upon which the public need not trouble themselves. It is sufficient fnr them to knnw that the resources of modern civilisation enable them to travel at a lower price than the omnibus companies could carry thorn at a profit.

Wβ had all along been under the impression that tho first qualification for a labour-candidate was that he should be a worker himself, but it seems, according to the Sydney Bulletin that this is not so. It says :—" What are the qualh'cations fnr iho representation of Libour? It is not absolutely essontial that this representative should have been a worker, either with hand or head. The man who has been overworked, either mental y or physically, cannot have had the time necessary for the study of economic problems, and, therefore, cannot intelligently represent Labour. Tho worker whose democracy is not the growth of thought, but simply the growth of environment, a consequence of birth in lowly circumstances, mny—uay, does—in many instances, become a Conservative nn elevation above hie primary social state. It is, therefore, evident that the sole qualifications for Labour representation are sympathy and a knowledge of economic law as applied to social problems."

The following is clipped from an English exchange:—ln further reference to the danger of importing poisoned rabbits from Now Zealand, now that they are coining to market in carcase form as well as iu tins, we (tho Anti-Jacobin) notice that a deputation recently waited upon tho Minister for Lands to induce him to corrojt the prevailing impression in the cnlony that the poisoning of rabbits in the spring is compulsory. The Minister expressed his willingness to make it known that tha destruction of rabbits, which is compulsory, does not necessarily moan poisoning them. He declined, however, to prohibit poisoning, even in the neighbourhood of rabbit-tinning or refrigerating factories. He was afraid, he said, that rabbit factories meant rabbit farming and tint rabbit preserving in one tense might moan rabbit preserving in another sense. Very gocd. But in this country we havj to consider the preservation of human life ; and the New Zealand tHivernment should be told that they must either give up rabbit poisoning or rabbit exporting to .England.

Mr F. G. Ewingtou, in the course of some able articles on "The Down Grade to Socialism," if we may use au Americanism, "gets thore with both feet" in the following paragraph :—•' Oucu get workmen to see that socialism means slavery, the sacrifice of individuality, the destruction of the free social and political life, which is niora than raiment, and they will then wake up. Once show them that irresponsible and self-seeking agitators are goine tn climb up their backs to power and self-advancomant; that the same fate of confiscation, awaits their small savings for a raiuy day, and their acre, as awaits tho rich man's million and broad acres, then they will awake. Show them that snoialism means an irksome, slavish, militant life, instead of free social individualistic life; that it means awaking at thu sound of the State gong, dressing at the sound of the State gong, breakfasting at huge tables at the call of tho Stato gong off food prepared by State cooks, working and doing everything at the sound of tho State gong, then they will awake." This is right enough, but we believe it will take it all to awake some of them up.

The following will shew that th'ise who look forward at no distant date to i> large ami profitable export trade in fruit and dairy produce, need have little fear of overstocking the English market:—Tho L iiidon correspondent of tho Australasian writes:—lt may interest colonial fruitgrnwfcrs uud expnrters tn loarn that last yuir this country imported fruit to tho value of iM.b'W.OOO, an incro iso of nearly half a million upon the imports of the previous year. Tho import of apples iiinminSiid u< i.'*oo,ooo ; of mil.-, WOO,OOO ; of oranges aud luinous, £1,800,000; and nnonumurateii fruits, of which probably line-fourth could be grown in this country, another £1,800,000. Mr Chaplin, the Minister of Agriculture, thinks there i< no reason why this country should not, at any rato. decrease the importation of foreign fruits to tho value of £1,200,000, and instead produce thorn itself. He is equally emphatic in impressing upon fanners the lucrative character of tho dairy-farming business. He has pointed out that this country imnoits dairy produce to tha value of £15,500,000 annually, and ho asserts by far tho greater part of these imports might be produced perfectly well in our own country. He also expresses a hope that an effort would be made iu this country to produce the £3,409,000 worth of eggs which aro annually imported from abroad.

At a committee meeting of the South Auckland Ricing Club held last night, tho secretary was instructed to write to Mr Hudson, re train arrangements for the Summer Meeting. It was also decided that the club should support the action of the Takapuna Racing Club in the matter of endeavouring to obtain representation of. country clubs at the conferences of the Metropolitan Clubs. In tin) matter of a band, the secretary was authorised to call for tenders from local and Auckland bands. The question of defaulting horse owners and members was discussed at some length, the secretary explaining that ho had used every etf.irt to obtain a settlement, but had so far failed. A resolution was passed instructing the .locretary to post the names i»f all defaulters with tho Metropolitan Club. Another matter of considerable importance was also brought forward at the roquost of Mr Nuble—namely, the danger anil nuisance that arose on the course during the time races were being run by dogs being allowod upon tho course. It was resolved that notices bo posted up in conspicuous places, intimating that all dogs would be shot, and that a gun be provided and a man employed to carry out this restriction. Several other matters were discussed, but no further business of any importance was transacted.

In our obituary notices to-day will be found the death of uneof our pioneer settlers, Mr Michael Krippner, of To Ror6. Mr Krippnorwas a native of Bohemia, and came out with his family early in 18G3 with the l'ulioi special settlers. On the outbreak of the Maori war his brother, Captain Krippner, organised the (Termini cmnimny nf volunteers Httiicheii to the 3rd W.ukato reciiuent. Mr Kiippnei was a inemliei-of this company ami untuned his land at OLiupn ; and was one of the first to tnke up the practical work of settlement. Hβ resided lor several yoacs upon his land, and sabsequeotly Bold out to Mr J. T. Edwurd*, hH son-in-law, and puruhaxoil a lai'Korpiaco near Te Kore, whore he lias sinna resided for about 1U yearM. The subject of this notion wart a very kindly upright man, «tr.ii(fhtforw.ird in all his dealings, and hn will bo much missed by all who c.imo in contact with him. 110 hiaves :v widow and ono koh, Mv J. -\f. Krippner, of Tβ Roro, and threo married daucrhters— Mrs Miller, now residing in Brighton, England, Mrs ,T. T. Kdwards and Mrs P. Rice, Tiiupiri, and two brothers, C.ipt. Krippner of Warkworth, ;>nd J, Krippner of Oliaupo, to lament hii loss. He passed away peacefully on Sunday morning |r, s f, at) the residence of hi.i son-in-law, Mr Edwards, of Ohaupo, where he_ had recontly removed jn order to obtain tha benefit nf Pγ. idvicc. aa ho had

bai-n ailins for some timo pant. The funeral took pUcn yestcrd-jy :it Ohaupo.

Russian. Jews arriving at Boston (sivKthi> Times correspondent) describe tho p.'i»ocution9 to which members of their creed an) subjected in R'mbm as boyoni all endurance. Baino of them aro from a iiaiiilncfoiir milus from Vielo,:ind they state that the place was burned on June IS. Twelve Russian ofi'icialsaiidsnldiers aniveil tnure aliiiot uiidnipht on tint, date, nod sot lira to tho houses without any warning what soover. As a coos'iepifincis 14 Jews were burned to death, while 20 others wore injured by the flumes.

The Grey River Arirus says : — Tin Rosamond commenced to load coal yestordny afternoon, after having; been iyins? idly alongside the wharf oince Friday last. Thiswns not due to any want of co.il but to tho difficulty of koowiiifj where to place a cargo of ' black diamonds,' all the principal depots in the colony apparently being fall. This state of things is one of the legacies of the strike, and in all probability the colony is destined to sulfer from it for some time to come. Instead of Sh.iw, Saville Company and tha Naw Zealand Shipping Company using New Zealiutrcnal, as they did formerly, they were compelled to resort to tho plan of br ; ns;ine: coal from Homo by means of cargo steamers. Thoy object to entering into any coal cimtract9 in this colony and raoject themselves tn the dangers of a ' strike clause. 1 Last week there were afloat in Wellington harbour 8000 tone of coal, not in hulks, but in tho bottoms that brought them out. Of this lot 2000 tons came direct from Cardiff 3000 from Newcastle tha balance being from Greymouth and Westport. It is to all these causes we must look for an explanation of a bout like the Rosamund lying empty alongside the wharf for four days, Just now, when popular opinion is howling down the Upper House, it irny convey a lesson to reflect how much better it would have been for the varinu* Labour Unions if they had a superior body to act as n steadier to them and prevent them rushing to find disaster in the great labour strike. If, instead of trusting blindly to Miller ;ind the Executive, they had the advantage ~f a check to enable thnm totak's a littl« brnalhingtiine, the colony would have been a (»re it deal better off tn-day. In tha coal trade alono thero would have been a more extensive market and a Ciirrivpondiugly enlarged Held of employment.

Our Cambridge correspondent writes: —Some months ago several of the Cambridge youii" ladies mot in solemn conclave and decided it was timo they gava up some of their frivolities and devoted their physical and mental onergies toamendation and cultivation. For this purpose tliny formed a mutual improvement society of a must exclusive kind, which not only debarred "the tyrant known as man" frmn all participation, but also "warned iff" all females who had not been duly initiated. I am told they had, however, to relax their stern rule anil admit one young lady, because she had hidden behind the piano in the room where the mystic ri wore performed, and consequently know all that transpired. The society prospered and its members were itnpmving so fast that if the Female Franchise Bill had passed they would have been ready to blossom into M.H.R.s without further training—not that id needs many qualifications, judging by some of tha present members of tho House — lint whi'n tha Bill was thrown out, and tho members of the s.ioiety siw they could not delight tho whnlo of New Zealand with their eloquence, thoy decided to follow the lead of the Good Templars and have an "open night" for the benefit ot their Cambridge friends. Mrs John Hally kindly placed her house at the disposal of the society, and the entertainment was given on Friday evening, which unfortunately proved very w«f. but there were, neverthelass, a find many present. A Ciintata, "Tho Mountain ' 11-udiMis" for female voices, was I am told, I'xcollently rendered ; after which a charade upon the word " lawsuit " wars performed, and this I belime was also vary gmiii, some of the young ladies taking Hm ni-ilo characters in firstclass style. lam afraid some of tho members show a disposition to relapse as a dance was talked of when the performance whs over, but it was promptly suppressed as being infra dig for a mutual improvement society.