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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3091, 7 May 1892, Page 2

Our Supplement this week contains the opening chapter of a thrilling atory, "The Gh'ist <>f Snint-Gery," being the last work of Guy de Maupassant; "Sporting Notes," by Le Nord ; "German New Guinea,," " Intermarriages with the Natives," and a number of other interesting ;.rticles. Messrs Runciman, Barugh, Allright, Wheeler and Rhodes were elected members for the Tamahere Highway Dii trict Board at the annual meeting on Wednesday. James McPheraon was reappointed clerk and collector.

We have to acknowledge the receipt of the railway time-table for the month of May. Mr William Grey, a relative of Sir George Grey, has been successful in establishing his claim to the earldom of Stamford. Tho Burgess List Court for the Borough of Hamilton will be held at the Council Chambers at 7.30 p.m. on Tuesday next. The Native Lands Court which has been sitting at Kihikihi for the past seven weeks, is expected to last for fully another month yet. The Thermal Springe Special Licensing Committee will hold their annual meeting in the Rotorua Court-house, at noon, on June 10th. The fine samples of potatoes referred to in last issue as the produce of a farm on the Pialto road, wore grown by Mr Levis, and not by Mr Taylor as stated. We would remind members of the Cambridge B-anch of the Waikato Farmers' Club that it meets at Cambridge on Monday evening, at 7.30 p.m. A full attendance is requested. The annual meeting of house holders at Tamahere, in connection with school committee matters fell through for want of a quorum. The appointment of the committee will now be left with the Board of Education. Mr E. M". Smith, M.H.R for New Plymouth, draws a salary of 25s a week for his work as turncock, etc., to the borough, and a ratepayer asks why the salary iR not raised so that Mr Smith will bo paid according to the services ho has rendered the place. Those persons who have neg* lected to send in their Income Tax returns are notified that legal proceedings will be taken against them if the returns are not forwarded by the 13th inst. The necessary forms may be obtained at all postal money order offices. The old man Lalor -who was discharged from the Old People's Refuge, at Hamilton, for drunkenness, was arrested at Ngaruawahia for vagrancy. He was brought up before K. Rathb jrne, Esq., J.P. yesterday morning, and sentenced to two month's imprisonment. We notice that Mr Joseph Pannell, formerly a resident of Hamilton, has taken over the Northcote Hotel. We wish him every success in his new venture, and we have no doubt his many Waikato friends will make it their business to pay him a visit when in Auckland. The libel action against the Wellington Evening Press by Colonel Frazer, M.H.R., respecting a case of eviction, has been withdrawn. The paper accepts without reserve Colonel Eraser's denial of the statements, and regrets that they should have been published. We heard yesterday of a very good bag of pigeons—107—made in one day lately above Otorohanga, by one sportsman. The pigeons are getting into good condition, the miro berries being ripe at this season, and it is upon these they are now feeding. This bag was all got oat of one tree. The Hon. J. Cadman and party passed through Hamilton yesterday en route for To Aroha. Owing to there beini; no train from Te Awamutu, on Friday, they had to coach it down from Kihikihi, where they had arrived on the previous morning. Mr John Hetit drove the party down in time to catch the train at Hamilton. The horse which was reported to the Hamilton police as lying in a dying condition on the main road between Hamilton and Cambridge, on enquiry, is found to belong to Mr J. Bell, of Cambridge West. It was ridden by one of his sons to the late Claodelands race meeting, and knocked up on the return journey, and was just left on the road without any further care or consideration. The police have the matter in hand, so we shall probably hear something more about it. Amongst the new Justices of the Peace recently appointed, we notice the names of Messrs R. R. Ralph and J. H. Graham, both residents of Huntly. These are the only appointments of interest to this part of the province. It was rumoured some time ago that these gentlemen had been recommended to the Ministry for the appointment, and some surprise has been occasioned by the delay in gazetting the same. By permission of the Colonial Secretary, a grand art union consisting of steel engravings, handsomely framed oil paintings, chroino - lithographs, will be drawn on Monday, May Kith, at Mr Sandes pharmacy. In drawing attention to this in last issue, we inavertently made it Monday next. We understand a few tickets still remain unsold, and considering the value of the articles, the low price of the tickets and the number of chances the investment is a good one.

That the Ngaruawahla folk are determined to maintain their pre-eminence in the Waikato for attractive and successful concerts, is e*ident by their having engaged Miss Alice Riminer for their forthcoming Presbyterian Church concert on Wednesday next, but how they ara going to •' make it pay "at the prices, remains to be seen on settling day. However, as the management is in good hands, there is no doubt but that thi; programme will be choice, aud the results satisfactory. The Maungatautari natives have a really good thing on. They are going to spend £50 over a horse, that was sold the other day for 15s. in the Cambridge R. M. Court. SVe are afraid they will find the pakeliu, Court worse than their own, and according to report that is bad enough. One of the natives (Paddy Regan) has just returned from a sojourn in Mount Eden ; he says: " Kapai Mount Eden ! Plenty kai; plenty bed ; clean bed, kapai ! " Paddy looks as if ha had fared well, in fact the 14 days has made him 10 years younger. It is stated that no less than 12,000 rations per month are distributed to the indigent in the city of Wellington. And yet Wellington is said to bo the most generally nrosperous and go-head town in the colony—if not the most prosperous in every way ! What a commentary on the state of the colony ! It will be noted from the last monthly returns that the departures from the colony still exceed the arrivals. There is one advantage in this that the more and faster people leave the sooner will an equilibrium be restored and the system of Government rations, be abolished, though not to be despised in the meantime. Speculation is rife as to who will obtain the appointment of clerk, etc. to the Waipa County Council, applications for which are to be lodged by Monday next, 9th instant, addresssd to the Chairman. A considerable number of local men are spoken of as intending applicants, but there is only one opinion, that the bonds (two at £000 each) are out of all proportion to tho amount of risk incurred by the Council. The experience of many of the residents in tho district over the Picturesque Atlas business will make them very chary of affixing their name to any sort of a document for some time to come, even in the case of a very dear friend. Mr Ballance's repeated assertions that, as the result of his financial policy, capital is not being withdrawn from industry, have been rudely contradicted by undeniable facts. The bank returns for the March quarter have been published in the Gazette, and there, for everyone to see, Mr Ballanca stands in the light of one who has cried "Peace, peace," when there is no peace. In the last March quarter over half a million of monefy has been taken out of circulation and put in deposit, showing an increase of £91,000 over the returns of the corresponding period lust yea*. Mr Ballance may say that his policy does not attack capital as often and as loudly as he pleases, but the fact remains that directly, in consequence of his policy, capital retreats from investment. The Premier knows this, hut, as children say, he doesn't like to show it. It will be remembered that in the efforts of Ministers to hide from the public their knowledge that capital was shrinking within itself, they first of all said capital was not being withdrawn ; then, if capital was leaving the colony, it was only in the ordinary course of business ; next, it was absurd for capital to bo taken away, as New Zealand was the finest field for investment in the world; then, it was a device of the Tory to get capital to withdraw; then, it wa? all owing to the Conservative Press that money had left the colony, and that capitalists had been frightened ; and last, let capital go, and be hanged to it, we aro better without it! And simultaneously with these words of wisdom relief works were being established all over the colony to find bread for men who otherwise would have been employed by capital. Mr Ballance is known to be a veritable infant in matters of finance, and his more recent experiments in that line promise to be more disastrous than the fiasco he made of it when Sir George Grey turned hira neck and crop out of his Ministry.—Napier Telegraph.

Tickets for the Shaughraun, to be performer! in the Public H >11, Hamilton on Friday next, in aid St. Mary's Parochial School, can be obtained [r.iin Mr G. C. Manning, stationer, Victoria-street. The Maori Parliament opens again to-day at Maunf.akawa; the Icing and a host of chiefs having arrived to take part in the proceedings. A preliminary korero was held on Wednesday, when Maj>>r Kemp, of Wanganui, Wi Parita. of Otaki, and Wi Hapi, of Wellington, "harangued the crowd." They said they had been to Waitangi and had seen the treaty. In it Potatau told them "to be dark outcide, but white insid<\" This they ton's to mean that they should do nothing, i.e. not sell land, pay tixes, or take any notice of European laws. This is to be " the platform " for the present Maori session. Tawhaio contented himself with welcoming the strangers, but ha will doubtless give vent to his feelings from " the throne."