The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE. THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1892

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3075, 31 March 1892, Page 2

The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1892

Equal and exact justice to all men, Oi whatsoever state or persuasion, religious or political.

+ ! Mil W. L. Rees, M.H.R,, who must be accepted as a " Liberal " of the new school, addressed a meeting of the members of the Auckland Liberal Association on Monday evening. He appears to have been invited to do so by the Association, for the reason that he is one of the representatives of the city. His audience must have been greviously disappointed that he should have studiously avoided allusion to important matters appertaining to this colony, aud that in order to occupy the customary time, have indulged in platitudes and speculations as to the position of affairs in England. It is somewhat gratifying to find that .Mr Rees recognises the fact " That those who endeavoured to advance the interests of any portion of the coJimunity to the exclusion of other portions were not Liberals." The above sentence is quite refreshing, coming as it does from the man who threw himself into tho arms of the trade unionists and promisod to swallow, and did swallow some of the particularly nauseous boluses prepared for him. Mr Rees is pre-eminently thoir Parliamentary representative, and we fancy the

outburst of truo liberalism we have ] quotod is calculated to lesson his chance of re-election. The essence , of trado unionism is selfishness: £ each trado in the interests of its own members claims the right to ! say that no man shall work at his j trade unless he signs away his indi- ; vidual rights, has their brand upon i him, and pays a considerable sum for the privilege. Our object in noticing the address is mainly to . call attention to the only new and important proposition put forward. Mr Rees, in reply to a question, so far as we can gather, said "He now believed that both Judges and Justices of the JL'eace should bo elected by the people." We regret that our contemporary did not report the reasons given by Mr Rees for the opinion; wo are very curious to know what argument could be used to support it. He does not tell us either how the election is to bo carried out, whether as has been proposed by Mr SealeHayes in the Imperial Parliament that the power shall vest in the County and Municipal Councils, or whether the whole population shall vote. If the latter, the rosult of the elections to Parliament is a clear indication that the best men would not be appointed, for it is proverbial that our most able men and those of the highest integrity are not members and do not aspire to membership. There are exceptions of course, but they are very fe-v. Thero is, however, a certain safeguard in the fact that members must come back for re-election at short intervals and opportunity will be afforded to weed out the black sheep. In the case of judges and justices the appointments are for life, or during good behaviour, and in the case of the former they can only be removed by resolution of • both Houses, the Ministry having the power to deal with the latter. : Surely Mr Roes would not propose that they should be subject to periodical re-election. This couid only have the effect of lessening their independence and lead to their decisions being biased, in a degree at any rate, by electoral considera- > tions. We cannot conceive anything more dangerous go the lib arty of the people than the lessening by ' one iota the independence of those who administer our laws. In the case of popular election the responsibility is so divided that few of the electors duly appreciate the ! gravity of the duty they are called upon to perform. An English con- - temporary writing recently on the subject, said : " Certain qualities are imperatively wanted in a magistrate. A magistrate should by his

own circumstances bo in a pecuniary position which raises him above n temptation. It is true that pe- a* cuniary temptations and opportuni- P ties may be more serious to a town councillor, but it is not so essential to guard him tho slightest t breath of suspicion. The magis- C trates and j udgos are the means to tl punish corruption. They are the ii checks on the dangers of the elective s system. Election can be in proportion to the care with which ii the judicial is preserved from cor- « ruption. The contractor who wants a to buy a town council fears to do 1 so now, because he knows that if £ he is found out he will not be able n to prevent a magistrate from com- j mitting him on a charge of fraud, t In America it has frequently been t the ca3e that such a man has a pluudered with impunity aftor get- J ting the judicial officers in his pay, 0 and no local magistrate would grant t a warrant against him." Jj - c The monthly sales in the Hamil- 1 ton Borough yards, will be held to-day. At the Cambridge Co-Op,. Mr Thos. Wells has now a great show of sea- s sonable goods in all departments, drapery, ironmongery, and grocery, the stock in j hand being the largest and beat in the dis- f trict. i Mr Jno. McNicol will sell at ( Ohaupo about April|3o, on their arrival from , Inland Patea, 3000 big fat Merino wethers , and 7000 big framed sound-mouthed Merino ( ewes, if not disposed of privately, and also , if arrived in time 2000 longwool ewes from | W hakatane. ' The Observer paper and plant ' were sold on Tuesday last as a going con- i cern foi 11500. It has since changed hands, Mr William Bloomfield lining the purchaser, in conjunction with Mr W. J. Geddi*, who 1 will in future be in charge of the editoml department. We understand that Mr W. J. Hunter has leaned Mr J.. W. Wrigleys farm at The Narrows, and intends utilising it for grazing purposes. As the farm was placed on the market in our columns just a week ago, Mr Wrigley has not been long in securing a tenant. Mr G, Howard will open up an entirely new stock of drapery at Cambridge House, opposite the Bank of New Zealand, Cambridge, on Saturday next. Mr Howard has had long experijnee in the home .and colonial markets, which enables him to offer uoods of the best possible value, and so save the public the expense and trouble of travelling to Auckland. We agaia remind horse-owners that nominations for the Welter Handicap, Handicap Hurdles, Autumn Handicap, Galloway Handicap, Handicap Steeplechase, Claudelands Handicap, and I 1 lying Stakes Handicap, to be run at the autumn meeting of the South Auckland Racing Club on April 23rJ, close with the secretary at Hamilton to-morrow (Friday) night, at 9 p.m. Messrs Souter and Co. (Cambridge), announce in another column that they are cash purchasers of wheat, oats, chaff and other produce. Arrangements have been made by which they will act as representatives for the Cambridge Roller Flour Mills, one of the local industries which do so much to assist in the development of the Waikato, and which deserve the support and assistance of all those interested in the welfare of the district. Tlie Sydney Morning Herald, referring to Sir John Lubbock's remarks with regard to the claims of the New Plymouth Harbour Board bondholders, says that to charge the New Zealand Government by implication, and Colonial Governments generally, with dishonour in cmnectiou with the non-payment of is ab'Mit as unreasonable as to hold the Governments responsible for mortgages on private property. The charge (the Herald says) is entirely untenable. The following paragraph appears in the Wanganui E location Board's inspectors'report It afiord ius great pleasure to be able to report most favorably upon the excel louce of the work presented bv the Maoris at most schools where they were found. They appear to be gifted with fine obseiving and imitative powers, and with retentive memories, and in consequence they show special aptitude for drawing, writing, and arithmetic. Reading is there great trouble, but the now pre ty general practice of teiujhinfr words by tho pho. etic system is fast clearing away what at first appeared insuperable difficulties in this subject, and now it is by no means uncommon to hear Maoris reading quite as correctly and distinctly as children of British descent. We cannot speak too highly in commendation of those teachers who are taking so much pains to educate ) their Maori pupils. 1

On Tuesday, Aprit 12th, Mr W. ft .T. Hunter will hold a sale of turnip c.tle, in his yards, at Ohaupo. Nearly one hundred and fifty head of v.irious kinds j are now ent*red. t Mr W. J. Hunter has two clearing sale* advertised for next month, viz., I t Mr C. K. C"rnforth's at Tu Awamutu, on c Saturday, 2nd, and Mr J. W. Wrigley's r at the Narrows, on Wodne-day, (ith. Full s pai tieulars of both sales will be found in v Mr HunU'r's usual column to-day. At Mr McNicol's sheep fair yes- c t-inlay a large propoition of the sheep offered worn from the King Country. Those * were brought down by train. 37 trucks being ' required for their conveyance, necessitating e thr) running of two special trips. We understand 25s per truck was the charge j> made, so that the development of sheep 1 rearing amongst the Maoris will add some- * thingsui s'antial to the railway receipts upon * this portion of the line for the past munth c at any rate. 1 The Bradford Observer remarks J that complaints deep if not loud are from t timoto tune made by wool men as to the ( amount of sand and dirt which they buy at £ the London wool sales; but now it would j seem as if the Australian squatter had found a new blend. In the centre of a bale j of colonial wool lately opened up at a shipping combing shed was found a tortoise. , It was not a big one, and although it must have been at least four months, and possibly a good deal longer, pent up under the enormous pressure to which these bales are subjected, it was not only alive when found, but ran about with evident delight in its freedom from restraint, On Tuesday evening the Bev. C. H. Garland delivered his lecture on " Womankind " to a large audience in the Wesleyan Church, Hamilton. This lecture was to have been delivered a fortnight previously, but owing to indisposition Mr Garland wai not able to attend. The lecturer was listened to with great attention and the excellent manner in which the subject was handled by the reverend gentleman wa< testified to by the frequent bursts of applause with which hii remarks were received. During *.he evening musical selections were rendered in an efficient manner by a string band, and at the conclusion a vote of thinks was accorded to Mr Garland. On Tuesday afternoon Mr Coates, Mayor of Hamilton, and Mr J. T. Home, inspected the proposed walk along the west bank of the river at Hamilton. Mr Coates was surprised at the amount of work which had been done by Mr Home in levelling and clearing, and was ulgn struck by the pretty and pleasant walk that can be made. The Csst would not be heary as there will be iio grant difficulty in making a very t,ood and safe path along the bank, hut in order to render it more safe it is intended to fence the side next the river. It is not intended to ask tho Borough Council for any assistance beyond perhaps a few drain-pipes as the promoters have received such promises of subscriptions as will cover the whole cost. The Simsites (says an American paper) are a sect, formed in Choctaw County, Alabama, who profess to hold as their chief doctrine of the supremacy of the conscience above hum'.n and divine laws. Tho so-called ' prophet' was one Bob Sims, who preached on Sundays, and published woekly a periodical entitled the True Way. He was assisted by his daughters, Laura and Beatrice; also by a farmer and an illicit distiller. At Christmas Bob and two others were lynched for the murder of the M'Millan family as the result of a dispute ' about some land. The other members of the sect were pursued until Neil Sims and i two others were caught and hanged. Laura and Beatrice stoned the lynchers, who caught and hanged both the girls from the same tree. Although they were neatly dressed, modest-looking and intelligent enough to favourably impress the Governor

jf Alabama, whom they visited on behalf of Iheir father, the girls carried rifles, and are | said to have used them with fatal effect in . promoting their peculiar propaganda. Those people who still imagine 1 that Protection benefits ihe working man 1 should read the report recently made by the United States Consul of the Manchester Consular district on his return to America. He says The United Statss buys in the dearest markets in the world and sells in the cheapest, and its people consequently suffer—that is, the masses of the people suffer for the benefit of a privileged class. . . We have heard a great deal at var- I ious times about the terrible condition of I wage-earners and mill operatives in Eng- I land, and these alleged hardships are . attributed to the Freetrado policy of Great Britain. This is all nonsense. As a matter ■ of fact, operatives in Freetrade England ( earn better and work a less number of hours than do the workmen in Germany, Austria, or France, all J> f which are protected countries. Let us tike, for example, the Consular district of Manchester. In this district are 5.000,000 people, and they are the best clothed and the happiest people I ever saw. They work short hours, have more holidays, undergo far less privation, and suffer less distress than any other people. Every man of them lives in his ovn little house and has his own fireside. There is no community in America that can compare with this in tho comfort and happiness of ito people." The Cambridge committee of the Auckland Chrysanthenum Society has decided to offer a number of prizes at the show to be held in Cambridge on tho 29th and 30th of next month, for bouquets that have been made up by children attending schools, either public or private, in the Southern Waikato. The committee was desirous of offering jfrizes for each school within the area named, but the funds at its disposal would not admit of that being done, and after considerable discussion it was thought best to allocate the prizes t» five districts, which are as follows Cainbridge, Hamilton, le Awamutu, Ngaruawahia and Te Arohu. These districts embrace all school* between Te Aroha and Alexandra, Kihikihi and Huntly, and in the course of a post or so the chairman of each School Committee, and also the schoolmaster, will be invited, by circular, to lend their help to bring the matter to a successfuljissue. As the committee does not know how many private schools there are within these districts, it would be well for the proprietors of such institutions to apply to the secretary, Mr F. J. Brooks, of Cambridge, when they will be furnished with full particulars. In a future issue, we will give a list of the schools contained in each district. The London correspondent of the New York Herald writes When this great city gets a tight hold of any good fad it runs it to the death. The latest craze, and no other word but " craze " adequately expresses the situation, is for eucalyptus oil as a cure for influenza. This eucalyptus boom was started by a letter from some eminent doctor, which inspired a newspaper controversy. There has tnen a varying demand for it all winter, but it would probably never have burst into such a positive rush if the reporters present at Sandringham had not discovered that the Princess and the young Princesses sprinkled a few drops of it on their handkerchiefs before going into the sick room of the Duke of Clarence. Since then druggists have been overwhelmed with orders for eucalyptus oil and it is has trebled in price. Throe weeks ago any druggist would have been glad to sell you an ounce bottle for 25 cents. Today he considers he i» doing you a favor if he sells you the same quantity for 7o cents. During the royal funeral at St. George's Chapel, Windor several women carried eucalyptus oil in silver-mounted vinaigrettes and Bprinkled it freely on the;r handkerchiefs and on the overcoats of their male escorts. It made the nave of the chapel smell like a painter's shop. In the railway trains, omnibuses, railway stations, and even in the streets, it is the same story. People almost soak themselves in this odoriferous fluid. Woman in the Strand tea shops, pnt three drops on a lump of sugar to suck. Confectioners make eucalyptus lozenges, which can be bought everywhere—in barber shops and at cigar stands. Diluted eucalyptus is disseminated through spray bottles. Clerks in the offices sprinkle their blotting-pads with it. Hansom cabs ore redolent with it. It is impossible to escape its all-pervading odour. The demand for it at the Medical Department Army and Navy Stores is so great that a clerk has been suecially set i.side to till up ounce bottles with eucalyptus, which are sold as fast as he can hand them over the counter.