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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3039, 7 January 1892, Page 2

The monthly live stock sales take place to-day in the Hamilton Borough Yauls. The fee for dog registration in theßoriugh of Cambridge has been fixed at 5a for all descriptions of dogs. Constable Brennan has been appointed registrar. An American paper says that the largest specimen of the bovine species ever recorded was the 4'Joolb ox raised by Samuel Arkley in Pennsylvania, and exhibited at the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia. At the sale of Mr Litten's furniture and effects, in H tmilton ynsterday, by Mr John Knox, there was a good attendance. Billing throughout the sale wa* brisk, and th 9 prices realised were very satisfactory. Mr E. T. "Davey notifies that bread will in future be supplied from his shop only, at the same price as hitherto charged, viz., 3J per 21b loaf. Mr Hugh Hunter, well-known as a first-class tradesman, has been engaged by Mr D.ivjy. Our attention has been called to an ovarturtied waggon lying ou the side of the Hukanui road where it runs through the bush, just outside of Hamilton East. There have beeu several narrow escapes from accidents caused by horses shying at this thing and it) would be well for the owner t j shift it before any serious mishap occurs, Mr O. F. Pilling met with an accident ou Tuesday morning, by which the small bone of his leg was broken. It appears that Mr Pilling was handling some oolts at Bruntwood and had just mounted one, which, however, threw liiin and then kicked him with the result as above; Dr. Cushney who was soon in attendance set the fracture which is not a very serious one and we hope soon to see Mr Pilling about again.

While sporting men who " knew a thing <>r two," wero losing their money at the races on Boxing Day, four others, who knew nothing about the inteutions of owners or tlioir riders, made a tidy sum in ntlii-r a novel way. Two gentlemen first of all put the names nf the horses engaged in each race, in a hat, and then drew as to which animal sh mid be backed on the machine. This was attended with such success, thii L two ot hors took the tip. W hen the day's r icing wm finished the four " sports " ha I succeeded in winning between them ovnr eighty pound-". Jjtr W. Dey, of Hamilton East, who has b>;en suffering since Saturday last with obstruction in the intestines, and who has been attended by Dr. Kenny, not pro-iir-?ssing as favourably as could bo wished, at Dr. Kenny's desire and recommendation Dr. O. H, Haines, of Auckland, was wired to, aud kindly came up yesterday. Dr. K«nny met Dr. Haiues at Frankton, aud at ones proceeded to the patient's residence, *«d, after examination, ha is of opinion ■- oatient has passed through a very t * : nflnmmation of the bowels, critical'stago o. ... ' '" ,naß d "° due to obstruction, but ° 0 lea^e ore and attention he will be a u .. his bed in a week or ten days. Last Christmas, says a New Zeal inder now in Melbourne we thought we were badly off ; this Christmas we kuow we are. Last year everybody could afford his annual holiday, this Christmas most people are preparing to stay at home. Yesterday I went to buy a travelling bag from a maker. He reminded ma that last year I did tho same thing. "Then " —he said " I had only two left and you had to lake one or the other. Now you can have ymr choice nf two hundred and fifty and yet I have not made n-arly so manv as we got ready for last Christmas. Trade is dead Mr Thompson " that'" vfcaf the init'.cr Sir

The Wesleyans of Cambridge have advertised a "Social"' (public) for tomorrow evening. We hear that exceptionally good instrumental music is expected ; also that Mr Neal will give a public phrenological examination of several of the friends present.

A singular question in ethics has arisen (says the Post), out of the late railway accident in thn Manswatu G rge, when a truck-l.'al of iron became d-rdled and ran into a horse-box. The guard has been suspended. It is «aid that he neglect-d to hook the chains between tha trucks. It is further a : leged, however, that had it not been for his fortunate neglect, had the chains been hooked, the derailed trucks must have been carred on to the bridge over the ravine, when the whole train would probably have been precipitated to the bottom, and, as one expressed it, not a soul would have bean left to tell the tale. The guard's nealact did not causa the accident, but saved the train. Should he be punished or rewarded '!

The annual picnic in connection with St. Peter's Sunday-school, Hamilton, was held in Mr Jolly's paddock, near tha Lake, yesterdiv. There was a good attendance of the children attending the Sundayschool, and all seemed to enjoy themselves thoroughly. The children -.ver3 provided with dinner and tea, the afternoon being filled in with games of various descriptions, Rev. Mr and Mrs Biggs, Mr Stevens and his teachers working hard to amuse their charges. Uev. Mayers and the boys from Dr. Barnardo's Homes were present during tha afternoon, and were entertained at tea. A number of parents and othor pdults attended during the aftornoon, and assisted materially in tha various amusements.

There are signs already that the people of New Zealand are by no means proud of the legislation which has been forced upon them by a band of faddists, supported by another band of laboujr agitators. An attempt to degrade the Council for nominating a number of dummies, or mere time-serving creatures of tha Ministry, would eive pith and vigour to tho Opposition. Tha Now Zealand people are csrtainly patient. It may be becaui-o their amusements are few that they allow their property to be experimented upon continually by legislative theorists, and follow tho consequences of each blunder with a certain mournful intt»«t. But even those who may wish to see the nominated Council reformed can hardly care to shb one of the Houses of Parliament deprived of its independence.—Argus.

Our colonial governments are professedly not merely non-sectarian, but non-religious. The Government of Tasmania is proved by tho following incident to be non-human, and it is quite within tho bounds of belief that the Government of every other Australasian colony would act similarly in a similar case: —An unfortunate woman walked from Launceston to Hobart'recently with a two-year-old Jhild to see her husband, who had been sent to gaol. She was nine days doing the journey of 110 milus. The Benevolent Society

applied for a free pass for her for the return journey, but received the callous reply from the Government that she only wanted rost, when she, could go back tho way she came. The Government thus condemned her and her child to walk 140 miles, although at the time they were carrying passengers t > the Liuneeston Exhibition at 3s -Id ! The Benevolent Society, with more charity, paid her fare.

Lady Hopetoun says an Australian exchange is preparing 11 add a unit pt-rhaps more to the Victorian population. She is said to bo v<>ry angry about it but to rind some consolation that.it compos her

11 keep out of Vct 'rian Society which she hates undisguisedly and smiles to the best other power. Soci. ty as it happens does not care a rush. It likes to go to Govern-

ment House forthe name of the thins and because it is a good oommou meeting gr'iind but it does not can three straws whether the hostess is urhaueor unbending. In fast at a garden party or a, bull Lady Hopetoun is allowed to look as cross as she pleases and no one attempts to win her notice. Indeed heaps of bar guests novor go nea.r her even to how to their hostess and she just as well be the landlady of an inn for all the civility she (,ets. She givos as good as she sends and between her studied contempt and her guests' supreme indifference the observant looker on gats a good deal of fun "Nature has her own remedy for diphtheria," says a Chicago man. "It is nothing more nor less than pineapple juice. I declare tha" 1 have found it to be a specific. It will cure the worst case that ever mortal flesh was afflicted with. I did not discover the remedy. The coloured people of the South did that. Two years ago I was engaged in lumbering in Mississipi. One of my children was down with diphtheria, and tha question ot his death was simply the problem of a tew hours to determine. An old coloured man to whom my wife had shown some kindness, called at the hous*. and -aying he had heard of my little on»'s illness urged me to try some pineapple juice. The old fellow declar d that in ±*>uisiana, whore he cmne from, ho had seen it tried u million times, and that in each case it had proved effective. So I secured a pineapple, and squeezed out the juice. After a while wo got some of it down the boy's throat, and in a short time he was cured. The pineapple shauld be thor ughlv ripe. The juice is of so enrro-siv-i a nature that it will cut out diphtheritic muscus. I tell you it is a sura cure." Madame Nechar relates the following anecdote of M. Abauret, a philosopher of Geneva ;—" It was said of him that he had never been out of temper ; some persons by means of his female servant, were determined to put this to tho proof. The woman in question stated that that she had been his servant for thirty years, and she protested that during that time she had never seen him in a passion. They promised her a sum of money if she would endeavour to make him angry ; she consented, a.nd knowing he was particnl irly fond of having his bed well made, she on the day appointed neglected to make it. M. Abauret observed it, and the next morning made the observation to her; she answered that she had forgotten it. She said nothing more, but, on the same evening, she again neglected to make the bed ; the same observation was made on the morrow by the philosopher, and she agaiu made some such excuse, in a cooler manner than before. On the third day ho said to her: "You have not made my bed; you have apparently come to some resolution on the subject, probably you found it fatigued you. But, after all it is of uo great consequence, as I begiu to accustom myself to it.'"

It is not to be supposed writes "Civis," iu the Otago Witness) that the •easons assigned by the Governor for his resignation are going to pass without question or criticism. " 'Urgent private affairs,' forsooth," says the political quid nunc. " Don't tell me ! Something more in it than that!" Well, very likely theie is something more in it than that, but Lord Onslow can hardly be blamed for nnt taking us unreservedly into his confidence. We are left to guess for ourselves. He came out, as he informed us in one of his Dunedin speeches, "a young peer," in order to get colonial experience. Well, I suppose he has got it. As a young peer—a Conservative young peer—sometime L >rd-in-wait-ing to Her Majesty and an Under-Secre-tary for the colonies in the Salisbury Administration, he has acquired by three years' residence in New Zealand quite as much col >mal experience as he will be able to digest aud comfortably assimilate during the rest of his natural life. A few months back ho must have felt himself p'rilousiy near to the possibility of having to welcome Mr H. S. Fish as one of his responsible uriviußrx ; at tho present, moment he has be-f.-ri him'this fxhilarating prospect of being authoritatively " advised "to call Mr J A. Mdlar and similar notables "of tho right colour "to the Legislative Council. At the

next ineotine; of Parliament it would bo Ins duty to congratulate the cjuutry on a policy "f fa In, crotchets, and class legislation. Probably he thinks tint he has already had about enough of this sort of thing. There is in vice-royalty a good deal to tempt the vanity of eveu a young peer. It is something to be unquestionably the first man in the land, though that Inn 1 be only a fifth-rate colony of the antipni-js and for these reasons the "private affairs ' of a colonial Governor seldom prevent his ■■— "at his term of office to the full. "" -'-"w's colonial experiences sf'l'"'* . „ —>Monal, and I exBut Lord 0n...... •-, t, 8 can have been somewhat pect he feels that the only serviu, . render us, with comfort to himself, is to return to England and promote the popularity of frozen mutton. Some time ago a letter appear* d in our col'imns, savs the Ta'-auuki New.-, stating th»t the g-iol officials are much overworked. We determined to obtain some information on the subject, and also, if possible, to ascr'.ain whether there was any othpr cause for complaint. Our task was a difficult one, as the officials are not hiiowed to givo any information, and the !

secrets its to internal arrangements are kept very close. However, with perseverance we managed to gh'au some particulars which we think will be of interest to the public, and throw some light on affairs which are supposed to he kept in darkness. First of all we found that thp regulations are as unalterable as the laws of thp Modes and Persians, and no matter what dire eifects may result the regulations must be carried out to the letter. The following is a sample of how the regulations work. It appears th-it all boys under ,-ixt.een years are only allowed half rations, which means half a loaf of bread a day, a few ounces of soup, etc. There is rme boy in the New Plymouth gaol at present, wo believe, who is half stirved on account of lliis inflexible rule. He is within three or four months of boitig 10 years old, and as he is a growing lad, ho can eat as much as any man, yet he only sets half rations. Half n loaf of bread with the few extris has to servo him 24 hours. Fancy that f>r a b»iy, who has to do ha>d labour, and whose bone and muscle should be growing every day. From accounts from various sources we hear that the lad is in quite a deplorable stat-". of constant hunger, which must as. suredly toll on his heal'h sooner or latr. Some of the prisoners do not eat their full allowance, and they would gladly char* it with the boy, but here the inflexible i -guli tions step in and prevent even a prisoner Bhowing compassion towards a fellow prisoner. Such an a'.:t of charity would be a breach of the regulations, resulting in the charitable givpr being docked of his raliens. So that the food which some of the prisoners cannot eat is thrown into the slop bucket, and the lad must st<rve. We are informed that one day his hunger so much overcame his respect for the regulations that he hurriedly snatched a piece of loaf out of the slop bucket and ate it ! We do nnt hlame tin gaoler or anv of the officials for this state of affairs. We believe they are too humans to see a bny half starved if they could prevent it. but they are pnwprlsss. This all goes to show the folly of hard and fast regulations, and not allowing the officers any discretionary powers. Such a state of affairs should be remedied at one, and we hope the member for Xew I'iyinnuUi will make some representations in the mat ter, as it would ho quite inhuman to allow the boy to starve for throe or four months longer, until he is sixteen years of age.