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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3099, 26 May 1892, Page 2

The usual monthly sales will he held in the Hamilton Borough yards today. To-day (Ascension Dayj there will be two services in St. Peter's Anglican Church, Hamilton : Holy Communion at 7.30 a.m., and evensons at 7.30 p.m. In our advertising columns today MrO .T- Neal of Cambridge, untitle? the'importation .if a large shipment, of fencing wires of various description*, wind, he is offering at very low prices for ca-h He has also in stock the leading lines in the New Zealand Drug Company* manure; : and implements, windmills, and fixings for the same, from the well-known firm of I Booth, iUacdonald, nnd Co., Christehursli.

The number of men working on the Chicago Exposition buildings is now more than 0,000. On .some of tho buildings work is proceeding day and night. Meetings of householders in Ihtso school districts in which committee-* were not appointed at the tune of the annual election will be held on Monday, June O'th. A meeting of the Queen's Birthday Spurts Committee will be held this evening to receive the Treasure!'s report and statement of accounts in connection with the late meeting. A full meeting of the committee is requested. The Mayor of Brisbane lately stately (says the Queenslatider) that the distress in the community is far reaching and severe. He snys that if any one wanted 1000 to 1200 sterling honest labouring men they could begot in Brisbane within an hour. The Salvation Army notify throuuh our columns that Colonel Bailey, Staff-Captain Edwards, and Ensign Jackson will hold special demonstrations as under:— Cambridge, 31st inst. ; Hamilton, June Ist; Te Arolia, Juna 2nd; and Paeroa, June 3rd. We notice that Mr Jackson Palmer. M.H.R., has been elected member of the Council of the Auckland University College, beating Mr J. H. Upton. The voting being Palmer 13, Upton 9. We a»ain congratulate Mr Palmer and expect we shall live to see him a Cabinet Minister yet. The Board of Beviewers—Messrs Rithbome, Barueh, and Teasdale—appointed under the Land and Income Assessment Act, 1801, will hold a court to deal with the objections to the assessments in the County of Waikato and Borough of Hamilton,'at tho Court-house, Hamilton, to-day, at 10 a.m. The Moderator of the Sydney Presbvtery asserts that the pauperism of Christian countries may be traced almost entirely to wilful ignorance, voluntary idleness, and vicious habits ; adding that never was wealth less accumulated, never was it more distributed, and never were the masses possessed of so large a proportion of it as at the present time. In our telegraphic news this moraine will be found the description of a man found drowned under the Devonport wharf yesterday. On a bank book found in liis possession was the name James Keilty, fireman, Hamilton. We have made enquiries from the police, but thoy have not received any particulars as to the occurrence, nor can they give any clue as to his identity. A private letter received in Oamaru states that a drought is again threatened in Australia, and that sheep can be purchased in any number at the present time at Is per head. If this be the case, it seems to open a Held for speculation for some enterprising individuals in New Zealand to purchase sheep there for import into this colony now that such a margin in prices is afforded. Some very good dividends were paid on Tuesday, at race meetings in various parts of the colony. At Dunedin, Cactus in the Maiden Plate, returned his supporters £10 12s; Belmont in the hurdles, at Takapnua, £17 4->: aod Empire in tho Trial Steeplechase at Wanganui, £39 78. Yesterday, at Dunedin, Tniquoiso in the Selling Hurdles, paid a dividend of £43 ls - - - "We would again remind our readers of the British and Foreign Bible Society's meeting, to-morrow evening, in the Presbyterian Church, Hamilton East. Rev. Robjohns, the Society's representative, will deliver an address dealing with the more recent work of the institution, and steps will be taken to re-establish a branch of the Society in Hamilton. A number of owners of steam yachts in New York intend to utilise them to transport themselves and friends to the Exposition by way of the St. Lawrence and Welland Canal. They behove it will be of great advantage to live aboard their yachts, and thus be independent of crowded hotels. It is reported that the owners of many steam barees in Canada will fit them with comfortable living quarters, and carry Canadian visitors to and from the Fair.

At a recent meeting of the Auckland Board of Education, a communication was received from the Department, covering a copy of the regulations issued twelve years ago to instruct police officers with respect to the services they were expected to render Education Boards in giving effect to the compulsory clauses of the Act, and asked if the Auckland Board considered the regulations sufficient and satisfactory, or had any suggestions to offer. A private letter from a gentleman in Sydney to a friend in Auckland contains the following :—" A reaction against Trades Hall domination and Seamen's Unionism is setting in here, and will make itself heard. There are now 7300 registered unemployed in the city, and hundreds are hungry. This is the outcome of the niaritima strike, which has produced the collapse of outside credit, and caused pockets to be buttoned up. The failure of the so-called Labour Party is now admitted," The Evening Post says:—Following up a recent circular to inspectors of police having reference to the suppression of larrikinism, Commissioner Home has just issued a memorandum, in which he says that as it has been found that the nuisance still exists to a considerable extent in some districts, any non-commis-sioned officer or constable who fails to grapple with this class of offence will be at once removed to another station. Tim commissioner hopes that this warning will stimulate the members of the force to use their utmost exertions to at once stamp out this g. owing evil. in an article in the Sunday Magazine on ' Modern Proaching and Mr Spnrgenn,' Dr Farrar tells how in describing affecting and pompous preachers Mr Spurgeon says :—Their oratorical pedigree in Chip, which was the son of Lisp, which was tho son of Simper, which was the son of Dandy, which whs the son of Affectation; or Wobbler, which was the son of Grandiose, which was the son of Pomposity, the same was the father of many sons. And again he said :—There is an ecclesiastical twang which is much admired in the Establishment, a sort of Rteeple-in-the-throat grandeur, an aristocratic, parsonic, supernatural, infra-human, mouthing of language and rolling over of words—Ho that hath yaws to yaw, le 1 ; h'un yaw—which is a remarkable if not impressive rendering of a scripture text. We have to acknowledge the receipt of a new exchange, "'The Umpire," a weekly journal devoted to football and footballers. Already tho new paper has a complaint. It says:—"When the idea I first entered our heads of doing our best to confer upon the footballers and enthusiasts of Auckland a medium in which they could always rely upon having the latest information of the football world, and also the great boon of publishing the results of the day's matches in brief form, we had no idea of treading upon the corns of the very Liberal—Liberal indeed !—evening paper. Directly our intentions were known by the props of the said paper it was at once decided to bring out a special edition of their paper, in order to try and discourage us from carrying out our good intentions towards footballers. We are both young fellows, starting to try and earn an honest sixpence, we hope that, notwithstanding the powerful monopoly-holder's opposition, who is doing his best to crush us in order to further increase his hold on the public, the young fellows will stick to us, and by doing so assist us to give them a true and impartial paper, which will be a credit to Auckland footballers and to ourselves. " General " Booth evidently thinks that this colony is as willing to receive five hunlred converted paupers as English ratepayers are anxious to get rid of them. He not only wants a free gift of land, but he has the impudence to think we should pay the passage money :if the people he will put upon it. Considering that the colony in its wisdom, has put a stop to even the assisted immigration of respectable and -plf-mppoi ting persons whose friends and relatives are in this country, it is not likely that we shall agree to pay for the reception ot a mixed lot of people who are admitted to belong to the lowest scum to be found in England, the "submerged tenth" as "General" Booth has named the ragged thievs, the hopeless an I helpless and fallen women, of whom he wishes t ■ rid England a-.id transplant to these shores, His scheme embraces i sort of moral whitewashing in what he calls the "home colonies " beforo sending these unfortunates to the over-sea colonies, but there can be no guarantee that the process will materially alter the character of the emigrants. There can hi' tin guarantee that after arrval t" tho over-sea colony these p*oi>le will remain where they are put, or th.t they will consent to work for their living. It is much more likely that they will drift into the towns and become a permanent burden upon the ratepayers,—Napior Telegraph.

There is a war of extermination raging in France, between the dairy and the margarine interests. The former assert that the harsh inspection to which their butter is now subjected is the consequence of their adversaries working up axle grease and ground-nut oil and palming the product off as butter. The margarines retort, their foes syphon the cream oil the milk, and then with the " feeding-bottle" machine pump into the milk a vile preparation of fats to replace the stolen cream. Marseilles prepares largo quantities of ground nut oil for Holland, to be converted into margarine, and the latter is largely exported by the Dutch to France. Politeness for politeness, The Prefect do Police recently visited the cellars beneath the central markets, where food supplies are sorted, mixed, and " arranged; "he stumbled into a cellar, where twenty persons were busy adding 50 per cent, of margarine to butter; the overseer took the visitor for a memter of his firm, and explained all the mysteries of the adulteration. As recompense he and his band were marched off to prison. Speaking at Castlemaine, Victoria, recently, Mr Patterson thus denounced grades-hall tyranny : — " Tyranny of all kinds must be opposed, and sad experience tells us that Trades-hall tyranny is the worst kind possible. Tradeshall Government means trade quarrels, strikes, and starvation, more unemployed, and fewer at work. It means trade disorganisation, and the whole country set by the ears. It means scowling, stern-faced mon lounging listlessly at the street corners when they require only to be guided in the paths of peace and brotherhood, earning bread by fair wages. Trades-hall rule means the triumph for a time of the socialist and revolutionary rabble that are always only too ready to infUmo the passions of the more violent and ignorant among us. Let it then be our task, gentlemen to prevent this. Let us, as lovers of law and order, as true friends of this fair and fertile land.as worthy heirs of the glorious heritage handed down to us by the pioneers of 40 years ago. and which, unblemished and improved, we wish to transmit, to our children and children's children—let it then be our task, I say, tn manfully stand against all attempts to hand over this priceless trust to ignorant, mischievous demagogues. Let us sink all our petty prejudices, and in the true spirit of practical patriotism, fight ever onward and upward in our endeavor to maintain the high standard set us by the founders of, perhaps, the fairest land the sun e'er siw." The following simple and touching words, says the Otago Daily Times were uttered by the late Sergeant-Major Bevin(one of the "Six Hundred") to the Rev. Mr York, after the administration of the solemen sacrament of the church :—" I am an old soldier, sir, as you know, perhaps, and there is always an amouut of good fellowship and freemasonry—if I may call it so—among old comrades that is never forgotten in after life. The dangers they go through together make them feel like brothers, and I have felt the loss of one old chum after another as I scored their names out of the list of the survivors trim that charge, and I know there are still left a few who will sadly scratch out mine, and ask when will it come to their turn. Duty is the watchword I learned early, and I have always tried to do mine. I have never wantonly or willingly injured any one, I have always done the best I could for widow or orphan when I found them deserving, and ray only trouble now is for my own poor widow and orphans—God bless them. I trust I have led a just and correct life, and that I will be able to meet my Maker without fear. Young soldiers, you know, lead a free and easy life, but they are no wickeder than other young men outside the ranks, only their sins are magnified because the crime of one seems to tell against the whole roE.iment. Soldiers aro generally thought little of in time of peace, but when the enemy is in the field they are looked up to. Peace or war, I hope they will always do their duty." The following extracts from the speech of the Secretary of State for War, when moving the Army Estimates on March 7th, in the House of Commons, will be read with interest by volunteers and those interested in the issue of improved arms, and specially in the new Lee-Mitford rifles to the Imperial troops, as being the latest and at the same time the most authoritative statement on the subject : " All the defective swords and bayonets in the army have been taken away, and replaced by perfect weapons of English manufacture. . . . . We have completed for the Home Army and for India no less than 300,000 magazine rifles

The reports which reach me as to the Lie Mitford rifle both as regards Mark I, which is in the hands of the troops, and Mark 11, which is about to be manufactured for service purposes.are completely satisfactory. On the former the Lewis sight, however suited for skilled markastnan, did not appear to he equally suitable for ordinary men in the ranks, and for that has been substituted a sight similar to the one tc which the men are accustomed in the case of the Martini-Henry rifle. . . . The difficulty which prevents a very much larger issue of the rifle to the troops is that of obtaining rifle ranges, and it is a difficulty felt in all parts of the country. Further experience with the new smokeless powder tends to confirm the favorable opinion formed of it. . . . But as every foreign power has hitherto failed in attaining the much-desired object of a smokeles powder absolutely stable under all probable conditions, I do not venture to assert with too great confidence that we have been successful." _^___