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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3021, 24 November 1891, Page 2

Horse-owners are reminded that nominations for the various events at the forthcoming S.A.R.C. Meeting close with the Secretary on Friday next, November 27th, at 9 p.m.

On Saturday evening the Whatawhata Race Committee held a meeting, and decided upon their programme for their annual gathering on New Year's Day. Full particulars appear in another part of this issue.

The time for receiving returns undor the Liud and Income Assessment Act, 1801, has been extended to December 81st. The returns must howsvor be made showing the property as existing ou November Ist.

The total returns from the social in aid of St. Pdtor'H Sunday-school m'to fund, on Wodnesday evening last, were €12, which, after paying all expense", will leave sufficient to pay the yearly instalment of tlm loan from the Dioce.s-in fuud.

The English and "European mail via San Frnncisco will close H the Hamilton l'ii.it-i)fflco on Friday, the ltli December, at JACi p.ip. For inonuy orders and registered letters not later than X p.m. Tins mail will be due in London abuut the 7th Jiiuuary, ISO-.

Thu New Zealand ' ; tally "of 21? .iheep shorn iu onu day by a Wolaeley machine has been beaten by a sheiircr nt Camperdown station, Queensland, with the same machine. Ue recently shore 255 in a day of 7 hours 10 minutes, and his average tally was 200 per day.

We have been shown a private letter from the South, from which it appears that in some parts of Canterbury potatoes were so plentiful that it was impossible to givo them away. In the Orari district the growers are assisting one another to cart the tubers from their paddocks and deposit them in the river.

At a committee meeting of the South Auckland Racing Club held in the Waikato Timks Buildings yesterday afternoon the tender of the Hamilton Bras? Band for playing at the ensuing two days Summer Meeting of thu Club wns accepted. Messrs Wyattand Latham, of Ngaruawhia, and Mr E. C. Shepherd wore duly proposed and enrolled as members of the Club,

The offertories on Sunday next at all tho churches of the Church of England and the American Church will bo devoted towards the assistance of missionary work. The amounts collected in the Auckland Diocese will be donated to the Maori mission fund, which at prespnt only allows to the clergy engaged in the work a stipend of less than £U0 per year each.

On Sunday morning next (Advent Sunday) His Lordship Bishop Cowie will administer the rito of confirmation to 8 candidates at Holy Trinity Church, Tau--I'iiri. In tho evening he will administer the rite at St. Peter's Church, Hamilton, to 9 candidates from the Tamvhare district. These candidates have all been in preparation for some time past nnder the Rev. R. O'C. Bißgs, tho incumbent for the district.

In the Handicap Maiden Hurdle Race in the South Auckland Raising Club's programme there appears to be some misapprehension as to the meaning of the condition "For horses that have never won an advertised race." To be more explicit, this should read "an advertised jumping race." A horse therefore may have won any number of races on the flat and yet be eligible to cuter for a maiden hurdle or steeplechase race.

The following is a French writer's opinion of the freedom enjoyed in the Great American Republic :—" When yoa road, as you surely will, that the Americans are in f.dl enjoyment of civil liberty, political equality, and such like statements, reverse the proposition and you will not be very far out from the truth. Thoso who rant after this guise not only draw the longbow, but have never visited tiie country, and ooiy speak of it by hearsay. Ou the contrary, iu no country in Europe are minorities, however imposing by their numbers, so ruthlessly downtrodden, so heartlessly overridden, aa they are in 'Free America. , "

Mr Nevil'e Thornton, the scenic artist, acting under instructions from the Hamilton Amateur Dramatic Company, ia at present busily engaged painting :i magnificent scene of the Lakes of Killnrney This scenq is used when Danny Mann attempts to drown the Colleen Bawu in the lake, but who is frustrated in the dastardly outrage by Myles na Coppaleen, who shoots Danny Mann, and then jumps into thu lulce and gallantly rescues the Colleen fiom drowning. This is one of the most sensatioual scenes in tlii3 stirring drama. Wo can confidently recommend the public not to miss the chance of seeing ono of lioucicault's famous plays.

Wβ understand that Sunday was Mr W. A. Grah.im's fiftieth birthday. It is titting that this should be chroniclod as it is stated and wo believe correctly, that Mr Graham was the first child of European parents born in Auckland, In the Burly llisLury of New Zealand an engraving is to bu found representing the first settlement of Auckland and depicted in tho engraving by live tents pitched somewhere near tho spot where Winks aud Hall's shop now stands in Sliortluud Crenceiit. One of tho teuts ia marked as occupied by Mr George Graham, the f;itht:r of our respected fellow settler, and it was bore where he first saw the light. Uy last accounts from Mr Georgo Graham, sen., he was still hale and hearty, and had lately been for a pleasure trip through Wales.

Notwithstanding the labour troubles and the prevalcnco of nnemployod in (Queensland, the "drink bill" shows a great increase. l'"or the year 18S9-90 the number of gallons of foreign and colonial liquors (spirits, wine, and beer} entered for home consumption, and presumably consumed in Queensland, was 4,-140,19'). This qusiutity, one would think, was onoiish in all conscience to satisfy a population of loss than ■100,000, since it allows over 11 gallons to each man, woman and child in tho country. Vet for tho year just ulnpsod the number of gallons consumed has risen to 1,781,2(1(1, or 12 gallons per head > f population. The chief increase was in colonial beer and wine, but whisky went up W'.OOO gallons. Tho Courier calculates that there was thus spent in drink a sum which would givo 8s a week all the year round to every family in Queen.'.and. and which would Iconp tlic unemployed like piince.o.

There is every probability of a good attendance of buyers at .Mr McNieol's "ale of pedigree and grade bulls nt the Hamilton yards to-morrow. Catalocues ;;iving the ages and pedigrees of thu Waikiitn fjaud Association's stock will bo placed in thu hands of intending purchasers, >>ii the morning of the bale.

Our Cambridge correspondent writes:—He the two small paragraphs that I sent you referring to a surprise party that w,n 1 itoly held in Cambridge, and which appear to have caused u stir in cortain circles ; I have hoard so many and various opinions expressed that if I was at all nervous I should cry, Peccavi! and say my report of the proceeding was "falmnn in uno, falsuiii in omni." But that I know is not the case; and I also know that some of the particulars which weto given to me for publication were incorrect, as I havo since ascertained the facts ; and further, that many of the gossips of the town have, by additions of their own, construed the second paragraph «<> as to make it cruel and malicious. Tuts hiving been done I shall carefully ascert-iin the truth and theu return to the s.ibject again.

The Wellington Post says :— " The telegraphic reports failed to do justice to tho Premier's impassioned address to the Knights of Labour at Woedville. Fortunately a reporter of a local paper has preserved a record of the most impressive scene. After expressing an opinion that the recent reform would fail to sufficiently Liberalise the Upper House ' unless sufficient now members were placed there to secure a majority,' we are told that the Premier ' came impressively forward again, and, holding both hands appealingly above his hearers, said that they must determine to abolish that House for ever, and they must combine in convention to secure this object, for tho revolutionaries were those who obstructed the will of the people. What a scene for the futuro historical painter of New Zealand to limn !"

At various times complaints have reached us with reference to tickets being issued to stations to which there is not a regular service on days when the train does not run to these stations. Within the last few days two instances have been brought to our notice. The first occurred on Saturday, when a ticket was issued from Tβ Awamutu station to Oxford. The pansenger, on arriving at Hamilton, found however that there was no train to Oxford until Monday, and he was compelled to remain in Hamilton ovor Sunday. The other instance happened yesterday, a ticket being issued from Otahuhu for Cambridge. This time the passenger was worse off, as he was taken out to Ruakura, aid landed there in the middle of a swamp, having to walk some distance back to Hamilton. Surely the officials might post •hemselves up as to the days on which the trains ruu, and thus save passengers considerable inconvenience and annoyance.

People of " gentle birth and breeding" are assured by Mr Aifchur Montelioro, iu an article in Macmillau, that fruit-growing will be found by them a morn ■suitable occupation than farming or ranching. Particularly is this so in Florida, which Mr Montofiore, " speaking from much experience uf various cuuutrius," has found an exceptionally good place to live i:i. The English there aro either settled singly or iu colonies, and this geutletnau draws quite an enchanting picture of the recreations that await the fruit grower after the toil of the day. There is the clubhouse, where papers and magazines from the old country are to be raad. Or at homo in the evening, the wido veraudulis 'are lighted up, armchair:! and little table; are brought out from the rooms, visitors unbidden, but welcome, ride or drive up, and music and song, jest and laughter, and oven gossip and scandal, enliven tho cool evening. Who after this will not yearn to grow fruit in Florida '!

The Otago Daily Times says :-— A well-known firm of Dunodin solicitors han shown us letters from a client in Kngland, who has had money invested here for many yoats, from which we make the following oxtracts :—" I observe in the daily papers several remarks respecting the proceedings of the new Government of the colony, which appear to ino to indicate clearly that the property of absentee? from tho colony is no longer safe there. It is, therefore, with no inconsiderable regret that I feel compelled, in justice to myself and those who follow tne, to instruct you to remit to me at once all the cash you now hold of mine, and which may now be on deposit in a bank; and, further, to call in and realise all money on mortgage and remit all to me. It seems to me that the colony is committing itself to a most suicidal policy. ... I have lost all confidence in the integrity of the Government of the colony. Tt gives me much pain to have to say this, as I hitherio have had the highest opinion of the colony, its Government, and its immense natural resources." The Melbourne Age, which is a distinctly a Democratic paper, warns the labour parties that havo organised for aggressive political purposes against pushing forward their policy with undue haste. An aggressive policy too openly avowed or too persistently pushed must produce a counter movement on the part of the other sections of the community, who imagine, lightly or wrongly, that their interests are about to be unwarrantably assailed. It is very easy to formulate a programme, but no programme ever yet was carried out in its entirety by a sudden coup. How many years have passed since the Charta was presented to the House of Commons ; and yet how many points of the Charta still remain to be put upon the statute book ? If the working classes are wise they will take warning from this famous historic example, and be content with vory small victories at first. It is net their interest neither now nor in the future to starve the industries by which they thrive by frightening the capitalist out of the country, or by preventing foreign capital trotn coming into it. Some of tho sentiments expressed by tho labour members in the Sydney Parliament would not discredit Jack Cade himself. One speaker was so much out of his mind as to say that " there is no necessity for the employer at all," which is about as rational as it would be to say there is no necessity for the steam in the engine, or that the machinery can go on without stoker or engineer. The utterance of such vapid nonsense would throw ridicule upon any movement, however philanthropic and humane its object, and the man who indulges in it. at the present critical moment, whether iu Parliament or on the platform, is the very worst enemy that th» cause can have. No great beneficent change has ever been permanently etfocted by such agencies as these. Every friend of humanity deplores the inequalities and hardships that are tho direct results of the present scheme of society ; but only a fool or a madman supposes that they can all be redressed iu a sitigle session of Parliament or by a singlo appeal to the constituencies.