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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3048, 28 January 1892, Page 2

Mr Thos. Wells, of Cambridge, left by yisterdiy's train for Auckland, en route for Wellington, to attend the General Anglican Synod, he being the representative appointed for this district. Dr. Chessman, of Cambridge, has issued invitations to a number of gentlemen to partake in a friendly game of cricket, with dinner t) follow, at Cainbridge on Saturday. We understand the whole matter will be conducted en regale. The ways of" sweep" promoters ate peculiar. A Wbstportian was successful in drawing a prize in a Queensland "consultation," and, upon applying for the money, was informed that the treasury was bare, the whole of the funds having been expended in advertising and other expenses 1 Cool, certaintly.

The certificates ot proficiency awarded to Miss Maggie Elliott and Miss Hilda Graham at the late scholarship examinations were received by the Hamilton West School Committee yesterday, and will be presented to the young ladies some time after the re-assembly of the school next The Cambridge Domain Board have altered the by-laws relating to bathing in Lake To Koutu. A bathing house is being erected, and the hours for bathing are from sun rise to sun set, from noon to 5 p.m. boing ieserved for ladies. A penalty of £5 will be enforced against anyone writing on or otherwise defacing tho bathing house. The effect of competition on the Thames River, between the rival companies, the Hauraki S.S. Co. and Northern S.S. Co. has been to reduce the fare in the case of the former to 2s Cd from Auckland to Paeroa, and in the case of the other company wo have heard, but cannot vouch for its correctness, that you can get the trip for nothing and meals thrown in. At a meeting held at the Masonic Hotel, Cambridge, on Monday, it was decided to hold spjrts in Mr Carter's paddock, opposite tho Euglish Church, on St. Patrick's Day, March 17th. Mr Bach presided, and a committee was appointed to draw up a programme, which will be submitted to a meeting to be held at the Masonic Hotel on Monday next. Messrs Tuck and Kirkwood were appointed judges.

We hear that Messrs Coates and Metcalfe, of Hamilton, have disposed of their stock of dressed fl;*x to Mr Johnson, of Carr, Johnson and Co., of Auckland, who was in Hamilton on Tuesday last. The slieht improvement mentioned in late quotations from England has had something no doubt to do with this move in the market. We shall be very glad if the demand so improves thut it will lead to the starting of milling again in this district at an early date.

We hear that the heavy easterly sale on Friday and Satmday last did a large amount of damage in orchards throughout the Waikato, Most of the fruit plantations are carefully sheltered from westerly and southerly winds, but an easterly wind catches them properly. The principal fruits are now ripening;, and some orchards we know of were almost stripped of apples and plums—greon or ripe ; down they came, and we should say that 11 good innings is at hand for the jain-makers.

We do not wonder that many of the wholesale merchants have 11 wholesome dread of the cumbrous machinery connected with bankruptcy proceedings, and prefer assignments, especially if they can get the business put through smartly. An instance that we think breaks the record came under our notice the other dav, where an estate, in the Waikato, was assigned to Messrs Cook and Gray, of Auckland, on December 9th, and on the 23rd of the same month thev paid a first dividend of 10s in the £. That can give the bankruptcy court a few points !

An Eiffel tower upside down is the somewhat startling novelty offered to the World's Fair Commission by a Kansas City engineer, Mr Hastings. This plan calls for a tower 940 feet high, with a diameter of 20 feet at the ground and 200 foet near the top. It is an umbrella, 111 fact, standing on the handle, and to keep it in that position Mr Hasting would depend on stout cable guys. The Kansas City Times thinks that if any anything went wrong with these guys " it would not tike more than three agitations of the atmosphere before there would be old iron for sale."

Notwithstanding frequent references by the Press of this colony as to the car.; that should be exorcised by those desirous of investing in sweeps 011 the various big events in Australia, the practice of issuing prospectuses broadcast through the country prevails. No doubt these applications meet with some response, or the practice would cease, as being unprofitable. We have been prompted to make these remarks by seeing yesterday another batch of prospectus nrrivo from the Sydney Jockey Turf Club, an institution which, we understand, has no existence, and one to which we on several previous occasions have referred.

The Tuapeka Times says The Government have cabled Home to the Secretary of State for the colonies asking that beforo a Governor is appointed for this colony the name should be first submitted for their approval. The object apparently of this request is to f?et up a wrangle with the Colonial Office in the hope that it might strengthen their interests as a party. It surolv cannot be that they expect to get a partisan Governor ; for the simple reason that no Governor the Imperial Government could send out would submit to any unwarrantable dictation, nor would lie be likely to become a partisan of any Government. At the same time, they are doing that which they have no authority from the country to do, and what they are bosides hut very poorly qualified to do.

Money is at the root of threefourths ot our present political complications, says a Melbourne paper. If it were not highly desirable in the interest of tho two banks in which Mr Munro is deeply concerned to sell a goodly portion of the authorised but unsubscribed capital of those institutions, which in all amounts to £2,700,000, he would not go to England even as Agent-General with £3000 per annum and the prospect of knighthood. Indeed, he could do better lirre were a land boom about. 15ut the truth is that his banks, like all others without exception, feel the tightness of tho times, and must get miney. They nro solvent_enough. doubt they are worth from 2os to 40s for every pound of their liabilities. B'.it what is the use of money when you cannot get at it or do not, possess it in an available form. A man with nothing bat thousijud-pound note cannot buy a penny paper, a sixpenny drink, or a shilling cigar. Veyy few people he meets will be able to change it for hiii|. I myself never carry nnongh money with me to complete such a transaction.

The members of the Whatawhar.n Native Football Club will gi'o an entertainment ill I In* Public Hal, Hamilton, to-morrow evening eousisr.ing of iiakas, Maori song-', poi dances, step dances, and a football song in pigeon Iviglish. Tho admission is -inly one shilling, and tho whole will be concluded with a dance. The weather for the last day or two lias been .somewhat unfavourable for the men working on the railway, but wo understand that all the sections an now let, and nearly aT the parties are at work. Ye-terday the Te Aroha West narty went out to commence operations. O.ie party, No. 24, havo intimated that they will nt continue unless the price offered for the work is raised, but if they leave there are others all ready waiting and willing to take over their section. —Te Aroha News,

At a meeting 1 oftha committee of the South Auckland Racing Club held last night, the Secretary read an interim statement of the financial position of tiie Club, which showed a sum of £135 as the profit over the lute summer meeting. General satisfaction was expressed over tho result and a vote of thanks was accorded to the Hon. Sec., Mr G. H. Carter for the able manner in which he had conducted the affairs of tho Club. The date of the autumn meeting was fixed for Saturday, April 23; and a sub committee was appiinted to prepare a programme to submit to a futuro meeting of the committee to bo held on Friday, February sth.

The Hamilton Swimming Club's Annual Gala, to be held on the Hamilton Lake, to-murrow, promises to be a big success, good entries have been received for all events, and the natives aro taking a great interest in that portion of the programme which includes their events. The Maori Canoe Hurdle Itaco is exciting a good deal of attention, the hurdles for which are being put up, and the committee hope to see five or six canoes onter and thus ensure a good race. Swimming,font and Rob Roy Canoo races also form part of the programme. The first race will st\rt at one o'clock sharp. A meeting of the committee will be hold this evening, and all.subscription lists are requested to be sent in. Arrangements aro being made for a publican's booth to be on the ground.

The late hot weather, accomI ii'iied generally by drying winds, has made thi; country very dry. To raise a fire is not by any means a difficult matter just now,and it is astonishing how many seem to spring up at this season of the year. During the late easterly weather, some largo fires have been burning in the Rukahia swamp, and also along the Raglan road in the Hakaramati ranges, as well as in, at least, a dozen other directions. No doubt the Rwamp wants burning out, though we cannot say that we are enamoured of the dense and stifling sinoko which comes from the pent fires. But we are always sorry to see large fires burning in the ranges. These forests will go soon enough, and whether it be for the purposes of health or utility, it is clearly the duty of us all, to preserve them as long as possible. In New South Wales the Tariff Bill, imposing, among other taxation, additional duties on produce such as is imported from New Zoaland, has been read a second time by a majority not at all large, and a protracted debate is expected in committee on the various items. Meantime the drought continues and is beginning to create alarm, and it is not unlikely that before long there will bo another of those extraordinary demands which sometimes occur for the products of this more fortunately situated colony. It does appear the height of absurdity that legislators should fly in the face of natural conditions by restricting trade between colonios so likely to bo useful to one another by their exchanges as New South Wales and Jsew Zealand.—Hawera Star. The records of the Melbourne Stock Exchange show that between the opening and closing prices for IS9I the eight principal Broken Hill mining stocks show a depreciation of £0,542,000, made up as follows :—

£0,042,000 On which The Age comments No community could expect to have passed through such experiences without showing the effects, and indeed it is only surprising that they have not been more severe. These figures, however, suggest another point, which is that a very substantial recovery oil existing low prices may, with better times, bo expected.

New Zealand is held up as a " shocking exatnnle " in spiritual mutters by the Rev. H. Vere White?, of All Saints' Rcctory, Waterford, who laboin-ed for about six years in the colony. Christianity, he fears, is at a low ebb among the many, and he cites the u N r ew Zealand Church News "as confirming his belief. He deplores the pitiful poverty of the country clergy, and hopes some woalthy churchman will assist those who are working in such great discouragement. Finally, Mr White concludes his rejoinder t) another correspondent in the following terms " There is not a diocese in the colony that is not in sorfe need of help ; there are hundreds of districts practically neglected by the church from lack of means to pay clergy ; and there are thousands of children growing lip and attending State schools who are as ignorant of the inain facts of Christianity as if they were born and living in midChina. To use the words in the article in the " Church News " : " The bulk of the children of school aee are moving in an environment which does not comprehend the church nor its clergy nor religion.' If this be true, and I fully believe it is, is it not better to remind churchmen at Home of the needs of their fellows in Now Zealand and other colonies similarly situated, rather than to let them fancy that their aid and sympathy are not required."

DepreciMine. Opening. Closing, ation. Broken Hill Pro- £ s. d. £ s. d. £ prietary ... 12 13 0 7 3 0 4,400,000 Block 14 . ... U 15 0 5 17 0 00,000 Block 10 13 17 0 11 IS 0 105,000 South (paid) ... 5 13 0 2 16 0 285,000 Junction 3 0 0 0 lu 0 -,/0,2j0 British Rock ... 3 10 (i 12 0 ;;S2,000 Central 7 0 0 4 2 0 431,-o0 South (contributin „) 5 0 0 2 3 0 282,500