THE Bay of Plenty Times AND THAMES VALLEY WARDEN.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2204, 19 October 1887, Page 2

THE Bay of Plenty Times AND THAMES VALLEY WARDEN.

' The Spirit of the Times shall teaoh me speed — KINO JOHN, ACT IV. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 19, 1837, „ A oheat blot on our Educational systemis the distaste for labour -which it creates. Good honest toil iB regarded as something ungenteel and our lads are growing up seeking the office and the pen rather tban the plough and the spade. It will he a bad day for New Zealand should the successors 1 of the pioneer settlers deiert the homes and the farms where their fathers toiled and glared and made thii Colony what it is in to lhort a time. Wbat we want is a nation of ' workers -of men who, while having the advantages or* education, will turn their hand with pride to the tilling of the soil or to the handicraft of the workshop. "We want a nation of men who will recognise the dignity of labour. It is the yeomanry* of a country who are its very lifeblood. In their hands rests its future — whether that future is to be a f utare of greatness and strength or of decay, '111 fares the land to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates and men decay." A writer says; — "The most obvious defect in A.merican education, the writer holds, is the lack practical training in the productive crafts. The consequence is that the productive crafts and those who practice them are dtspised, so that American citizens will not learn them if they can find any other way of- making a liring. The children of the very poor classes, who, for want of anything better, would be glad to learn them, can find no opportunity to do so, especially now that the labour organisations so strongly object to the employment of apprentices. Thustijere are developed, on the one hand, an unscrupulous, supercilious non-labouring class, that, intrying to live by its wits corrupts public morality in a thousand ways ; on the other, a helpless class, utterly unprepared to fight life's battle, and sinking down after a brief ineffectual struggle into tramps, "loafers" and criminals, or at best into public slaves, for whom no one is responsible, and whose labour is sold as a substitute for steam power at > competition prices in a labour glutted market." This is what we in New ' Zealand will have to guard against. The remedy seems to be to provide technical education. Place the workshop, and the school together and ' teach the boys and girls something practical of the ways of life. Train them to recogniso tho independence i and dignity of labour. The trouble ; will be repaid and there s will be implanted in our lads and lasses the recognition of what it truly noble in the way of hard and earnest toil and there can be no doubt that the future generations thus trained will make of New Zealand a great nation.

MrF. A. Purvis advertises forsaleuntil the 4th November, several properties in TaupngßL and Katikati. Mr Bnokwortn nude a shipment of lambs by the a.s. lon* to-day for the Auckland market. * ( V t» practice of the Criokit dub wiil take place to-morrow afternoon. We have to acknowledge the receipt of a batch of Parliameatary papers from thf GoTemment printer, cont»minjr correspondence with the Imperial authorities, and also departmeatal reports for the year 1889. 1887. Truth ajtd Sobkw»ew.— What is the best family medicine in the world to regulate the bowels, purify the blood, remove eostireness and biliousness, aid digestion, and stimulate the who!e system? Truth and soberness compel as to answer, American Co's Hop Bitters, being pure, periect and harmless. See ■ • ■ i

A meeting of the members of Trinity ' Church is to be held to-morrow night at half past seven in the Native Court House, when in addition to general business the question of adopting the e nvelope Bystem will be considered. The football matoh Matata v. Opotiki was played at Opotiki yesterday and resalted in a victory for the Matata team by two {points. l^fhe School Committee intended holding ■sports in the Domain on Abe Prince of Wale* ■ Birthday, November 9fh, on behalf of the INo I School Building Eund, but found that I the Crioket Club haqt ajready made arrangements for playing \a/ match that day, and I have accordingly made way for the game. I It is expected that a- combined team from Te I Vukm and Katikati -will play our boys on I that date. From the calibre of players to be I found at each of these places, it is anticiJpated there will be an excellent match. Afiter the match it is intended to have tilting at [the ring and horses' high jump, but full I particulars will appear in an advertisement I in a future issue. P^The wedding of Mr John ifale and Miss iVickery took place this morning. The cereImony was performed at the residence of the ■bride's parents by the Key. Mr McLennan at lan early hour in order to enable the happy ■pair to start on their honeymoon by the s.s. Eona, which in honour of jthe happy event left the wharf gaily decorated with flags. Pilaster William Turner, son of Captain Turner, was a passenger to Tauranga by the s.s. lona yesterday on a short leavo of ! absence from his duties as apprentice on the i N. Z. Skipping? Go's sbip Piako at present in Auckland. Mr It. C. Jordan advertises on salo a consignment of Indian tea. A list of entries to date for Mr Jordan's annual stock fair will also be found in our advertising columns. The body of Mr Bishop, who was recently shot in San Francisco, is to be brought over by the next mail steamer to satisfy some persons interested in the will proceedings, that he is really dead. The Herald states that some aerated water manufacturers of Lyttelton and Dunedin, have arranged for a regular supply of water from the Waiwera hot springs for us« in the manufacture of aerated beverages. Perhaps it would "be worth the . while of some of the Rotorua people to find cut if the water from some of the springs there is not equally as valuable for the purpose. Captain Edwin wired at 1 p.m to-day as follows:' — "North to west and north-west heavy gale after 10 hours from now with glass falling soon." Tho Auckland Woollen Manufacturing Company have received orders for £1,000 worth of their fabrics. Their mills were onjy opened on Saturday, ""ifr Copelandfof Te Puke, who went through to the Thames on Saturday, took with him a parcel of quartz from the Te Puke reefs whiih it is intended to have tested <*t the Thames School of Mines. A tennis match in fancy costume was played at Cambridge on Saturday. Alexander Polley who, as will be seen by >ur telegraphic nows, attempted to commit luicide at Opotiki yesterday was a resident >f Tauranga, for several months last year, is manager of Messrs Garrett Bros, boot md shoe. shop. He is at present at the Royal Hotel under the oare of Dr Reid. PettengelFs exlAbition of boxing, and ithletic evercise*, inf the Temperance Hall irasbut poorly attended on Monday night ; ;hose who were there however seemed well jatisfied with the efitertainment which the jhampion boxer promded for them with the means at his disposal; In the glove contests trith theHaua brotfersMr Pettengell proved Qimself thoroughljsgnaster of the art of boxiog and his swinging of, the Indian Clubs nras very good. (Swing to the want of anDther competitor, 38 single stick contest had to be abandoned In the glove competition between the Han brothers for Mr Winter's silver cup, after a olose contest, Mr J. Haua *r as adjudged the* prize winner. |%t Macadam's Junction, about 60 miles south of Fredori ton, the capital of New Brunswick, there fell an aerolite on September 17 at five minutes to eight p.m., that has causedagreat sensation in scientific oiroles and among all classes of the people in the Eastern States and the provinces. The aerolite buried itself nearly out of sight, but kept a glowing red for several hours, and at the date of the despatch was still smoking hot. It looks like apiece of brown sandstone, and must weigh at least 70 tons. A piece cut off and polished snows its metallic nature. So hot was the incandescent mass that a pile of rooks 20 feet away was partially fused ; it is pear-shaped, the largest end being buried out of sight. A poultry keeper, writing in an American contemporary, says: — My experience as regards feed for laying poultry is that there is nothing better for producing fins eggs and plenty of them than the bes£ quality of wheat ; baaidea, it gives the yolk of tne eggs a richnesa and a deep orange pojour, which is so much likod fo? pastry in private families. Advices receivod from Zug give a detailed account of the catastrophe which visited the ! little Swiss village on the afternoon of the sth July, at 4 .o'clock. The first landslip oocurred with a terrible noise. ; A house situated on the new quay near the railway station was preoipitated into the lake, oarrying with it the greater part of the whnrf . There was not the slightest warning «f the impending landslide, but fortunately it happened that most of the oooupants of the houses were away from home. The citizens immediately organized. Precautions were taken to prevent, if possible a repetition of the disaster. They were, however, without success. Three hours later another land-slide occurred larger than the first, and this time six houses, with most of their occupants, were submerged in the lake. Shortly before midnight, as the affrighted villagers were retiring to rest, the third and most disastrous landslide took place. Five more houses were oarried down into the lake by the crumbling away of the hillside. Among them was the Hotel de guriph, one of the largest in the town, and at the Itime crowded with strangers. Many were sleeping at the time, and never awoke. This last land-slide completely terrorised the town, and the quarter overlooking the lake was immediately des-rtad, and a cordon of soldiers was placed around it to prevent the people from returning to their hooves. In the morning four more houaes fell, Ifc is impossiblo to describe the panic which prevails hers. The number of victims is estimated at 100, which is liable to be increased rather than decreased by later advices. GarHck and Crunwell have made a general reduction in prices to suit the times Their'sisthe largest and cheapest stock in Auckland of Furniture, Bedding, Carpets Floor Cloths, Iron Bedsteads, Perambulators! Curtains and all kinds of Furnishing goods Goods are very carefully packed. Prompt cash, discount 5 per cent. Prioe lists sent post free. Chairs in great variety-a-good strong oane-fieatod chair for 3s 9d. Furnish your house from Garliek & GranweJJ, Queen Street, Auckland, George W- Atty, coach builder, Taurans?a, established 1881—Adyt, 43 S J Beware of packages of injurious stuff purporting io make genuine Hop Bitters ,- also preparations and fluids said to pontajn all the properties of American Hop Bitters. They spnng up on account of the great popularity of the gßnuine, which is onlj put up in large square-panel amber-colourea bottles, with the names "DrSoule," and ''Hop Bitters' blown in the glass, and is the ties* family wegiewe eyer made, Bead