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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3035, 29 December 1891, Page 2

During the hot weather preceding Christmas week, the thermometer in Kaglan registered lOldog. in tho shade on OD9 occasion. Some visitors to the South Auckland races expressed themselves as much pleased with the music provided by the Hamilton Brass Band (Bandmaster Mettem), one selection in particular, from the " Bohemian Girl," being beautifully rendered. We learn that the caterpillars ara causing (freak loss among the oat crops this year. One farmer, near Hamilton, litis hud what would otherwise have been an excellent crop, almost wholly destroyed by caterpillars and sparrows. Hr Horrell of Morrinsville telegraahed on Saturday to get all the machines he could, as he was similarly afflicted. 1 We hear that the late wet weather has damaeed a large quantity of hay, not only in Waikato but down coun- • try. Fur somti weeks it was almost iinpos- ' sible to do anything with hay, rain fdllmg every du.y. However, the weather seems to have settled down to fine at last—a i change which is much needed to properly '» till the fast-ripening grain. • We have seen heavy crops, but j seldom a mora even and clean paddock of oats than that at present growing alongside ' the Frankton Koad, and belonging to Mr Thos. .Jolly. The land is of a rather sandy r nature, and not considered to be altogether , of the best quality, but the grass and grain 3 crops produced this season are really good, and reflect much credit upon Mr Jolly's . system of farming. : In another part of this issue will be found the notification of a ball to be > given in the Whatawhata school-room on I New Year's eve. Mr Percy Meredith having been disappointed in his endeavour to obtain the building for New Year's night, has made arrangements as above. Sutton's coach will run from Hamilton with pas- ~ sengers, and that a good time will be spent Ki'Os without saying. On Thursday morning Alfred | r Clarke was charged at the Police Court, Hamilton, before Mr John Knox, J.l\, with being drunk and disorderly at the Waikato Hotel on the previous afternoon. Accused pleaded guilty, and a fine of 10s 1 and cists was imposed, or, in default, IS 1 hours' imprisouineut with hard labour. The s line not being forthcoming, Clarke was agaiu t-ikaii into custody. Mr Sandford, who represents an i Americau tirm of implemeut maker*, will l give a puhlic exhibition in Cambridge today at 10 o'clock, at Mr McNicol's sale ' yiirds. On Wodnesday a similar exhibition " will be given in Mr Minim's garden, at the . corner of Jlood and Anglese.? Streets, Hamilton. Wo have soon some of these machines at. work, and can testify to their - value as labour saving machines. We hear on good authority that the manr.gomont of tho Okoroire sanatorium is aoout ohacgiiiß hands, Mr James Shirley hiwincr gone up on Thursday as Mr -"•.cesKor. In tho old couching days i Isaacs a.. —«U-known 11 mine hosj" Mr Shirley was .. bv bU CBf,Aii!- , st Ritui'uiri, and. jurkc ; ,i(, cit.ii. 1.ui... ■ . !.,i Im ».. . a most, olfino.it am! (n<iii'ig»r, anu , ) by hw business ability will be sum to in- _ ci-oasi- tho popularity of this now f.nnoiis J Jl'llf-Plff. J

The Banks in Waikato will be froiu Thursday afternoon, 31i<t inst., until Tuesday morning, oth pros., for the New Year holidays. The annual Raglan Races will be hold on Thursday, 3lst inst, at Mr Kescel'.s farm at Okete. These gatherings have always proved mo-1 enjoyable and no doubt a large tnmibot will go over from Waikato to attend. A poll of the ratepayers of the Whuingaroa Road District and the town of Riglan Road District will be held tomorrow, to decide the question of borrowing .tL'42, being half the extra cost of constructing the Raglan wharf. Mr John McNicol will, under instruction-* from the trustees of Uie late Mr D. Thompson, sell without, the slightest reserve all tie live and dead stock on the premises, near To Awamutii, to-morrow, commencing at 10o'clock sharp. Luncheon will be provided. Tlie adjourned meeting of the Hamilton iSwimmme Club will be held iu Tub Waikato Timbs Buildings to-morrow nvenin? at 8 o'clock, when it is expected ther.) will ba a good attendance present to mako arrangements for tho coming gala, which will probably bo held on January Ulltli, 181)2. A3 will be seen in our advertising columns, a cricket match will he played at Hamilton on New Year's Day, between Waikato and Auckland, which should prove an interesting game. The visitors will be enter) lined in tha evening at a smoke concert, to be held in Uwynno's Ilotel. School feasts are usually reg.irded as tame, affairs, but the recent purchase of three gallons of good whisky for a gathering of this description, which is to come off shortly in the Waipa district, would make it appear as if the promoters intended it to hum a bit. We cordiallv Bay, in the Bpirit(n)of the season " Hero s to you and many of 'em." In our last issue, we omitted to state thai Mr T. Wells, of Cambridge, is agent for the " Planet Jr." implement'-, that will bo exhitited in that town this morning. Anyone possessing even a Binall garden should witness the trial of these labour saving machines, which will be found of great service in our light Waikato soils. Since the success of the Muska. peer stack at the recent South Auckland Racing Club's meeting there has been a great demand for hie services. Mr Brawn lias however had to refuse all these requests fur the services of his valuable horso as his liiit. win quite full previous to his progeuys' brilliant running at Claudelands. Cambridge will usher in the New Year with the usual belh iuging, etc., at. St. Andrews', and a dance at the Public Hall. A large number of country people have signified their intention of dancing the Old Year out and tho New Year in, so the gathering will evidently he a large one. Mr H. Bell will act as M.C. and indeed will vun the show so nothing will be lacking to mako it a .success. We would remind our readers that a fast excursion train will run from Te Aruha at 3.45, Cambridge 0.25; Tu Awamutii, ti.'i'i, and Hamilton 7.20, to the races at Ellorslie on Friday. On Saturday, 2nd January, a train will leave Auckland for Hamilton West at (i.30 p.m., reaching Hamilton West about 11.30 p.m. stopping where required. On Thursday, 31st December, the 2.25 p.m. train from Frankton Junction to Te Awamutii will run as on Mondays, Wednesdays - , and Fridays. Farmers requiring l harvesting machinery of any description will find it to their advantage to pnrtise Messrs T. .ind S. Morrin and Co.'s (Limited) advertisement appearing m this issue. This linn has on hand the Lowdown Buckeye, Massey Toronto light binder, Hornsby's and the McCormick reapers and binders, and the Hornsby Paragon Mower, and combined mower and reaper. Twenty pounds will procure tho indispensable self-raking reaper, so that no one need be witbont a machine. Hay rakes, forks, pumps, ploughs, and every kind of machinery ui implement is kopt iu stock. Retail shop Queen-street, Auckland; wholesale pre mtses : High-street; machinery premise.') Coburg-street. Tho carol concert that was given on Christmas night by the members of I lie Hamilton Ch-n'al Society, was not so we! patronised by the general public as in year: past., due, |l is said by .some people, l. i the charges being made 2s and Is, as agains the million prices of forui'ir concerts, whin tlie single shilling admitted to all parts o the house. So far as the performauci it.selfis concerned, it. beais vory favourable comparison with many of its predecessors, one or two items being particularly wel received by the audience, notably the duet "All Ho the Fig Tree," by Mts William; and Miss Jolly; "Entrent Me Not," b; Mrs D,ivies : "Angels Ever Bright, am Fair," by Miss Taylor, who received ai encore, and " Rocked in the Cradle ot tlii Deep," by Mr Davies, whiih was alsi encored. The concert,-?.!! piccw. with om or two slight exceptions, were weil ran dered, and the carols generally were dul; appreciated by the audience. Mr Davie* the conductor, deserves a word of prais for the efficient manner in which he dis charged his duties throughout. Mr J. S. Bond, of Cambridge, ii to tho fore with his Waikato Almanac fo the forthcoming year. It is infinitel

superior to its predecessors, and reflect-! great credit upon its publisher and proprietor, who lia-i striven to make it of so useful a character to fanners and the inhabitants of Waikato generally, that we feel sure it will find a place in nearly every household. It contains articles on the Waikato generally—Hamilton, Cambridge, Hotorua, and Ta Arohn, and a legal compendium of matters pertaining to farming guch as fencing, impounding;, and trepaßs, brands and branding, dog registration, drainage, rent, rates, sheep, rabbit®, etc. It also deals with electoral and licensing affairs, the laws relating to births, deaths, marriages, vaccination, and many other questions. In addition t'> the " Farm and Garden Calendar,"'by Mr Neal. it contains " Orchard Notes " by Mr Wells, " Waikato Soils "by Mr H. R. Hyatt, and an article on "Cottage Gardening " by a modest author who does not give his name. Every possible information is furnishwl as to the meetings of country councils road boards and other local bodies, also the members comprised in them ; and in the monthly calendar the forthcoming sales:, etc., for the year receive due prominence As ii directory of Waikato, tho book is well worth tho shilling charged for it, aud bv consulting the advertisements anyone will find out whi're to purchase anything from " a needle to an anchor." A goodly cumber of plain pages are provided for memoranda, in addition to the daily diary. We recommend our readers to purchase the almanac at ougq as the edition is limited. The Melbourne Argut has a few words to s»y about Sir Robert Stout and describes him as one of the political unemployed. Referring to the land and income tax, our contemporay sayß it is quite enough for Sir Robert Stout that Mr Ballnnce's scheme resembles, in its leading features, the scheme which the Grey-Stoul Ministry submitted to Parliament many yenrs ago, and could not carry. He has not yet had an opportunity of reading Herbert Spencer's latest work, tho " Ethics of Justice," or ho might see that it requires defending from beginning to end, for reasons which Sir Robert makes no allusion to. The r.ew Bchemo (the land and income tax) is commended because it raises the same amount of money as the existing property tax, from fewer people. It is "an exceedingly liberal one," because it exempts £21i,000,000 of property (land and improvements) from taxation. Tins is an unlookedfor illustration of Liberalism as expounded by Sir Robert Stout. In the reform period, remarks Spencer, the cry was that " taxation without representation is robbery,"' but now wo have robbery that takes Iho form of " represent * turn without taxation," and if the principle is carried far enough we shall have, in the course of time, a few persons bearing tho expense of protecting the whole community, reviving the picture of Atlas carrying the world on his shoulders. A tax on land is justified, we presume, on the ground that (he protection and safeguarding of it entails upon the State expenditure which cannot fairly bo charg-d to the same account as the cost of protecting the lives and personal property of the citizens. How then can all landed estates worth less than £500, apart from improvments, bo justly exempted from the tax onlandsAbove £000, all properties are taxed at an increasing rate, till the -charge amounts, on the large ones, to nearly two shillings in the pound per annum. These riles are consequently to bear tihe cost .cr.tegW!??)? »h» U'tb "r.f\ •X-Mr.h PRC otf ff.i!.. l'h:ro i« Diwtiu* unfairnew. Up f o fiaOOii iioptoyeiocts are not taxed, fm—represent, (he value of tho work ' the holder—f ie good provemo.., hill put into fho land >.j ho l" xrith thr< l.vvt. ,

it only good to improve up to £3000, and I that you nms'i be t »xed for improvements. I