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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9140, 23 August 1888, Page 4

Oar cable messages this morning contain intelligence of a disastrous volcanic eruption in Japan, by which many persons lost their lives. The Freeman"* Journal is confident that Mr. Parnell will be able to prove the damaging letters in the possession of the Times forgeries. News from Cairo reports that Lupton Bey has succumbed to the cruelties to which he was subjected.

The coursing meeting , held at I'lumpion Park yesterday was fairly well attended, but otherwise could hardly be considered successful, for there were a number of disputes arising out of the judge's decision;, and at the end there were not hares enough to complete either of the events, so that two courses remain to runoff in the St. Leger Stakes, and three courses in the Allaged Stakes. The results of the courses appear in another column.

Two of the shareholders of the Marotoio Company arrived from Sydney a few days ago with the view of visiting the property and conferring with the manager about future operations. One of these gentlemen is Mr. J. Plumb, the chairman of rhe company, ar.d the other Mr. Bell, a director. They will be accompanied by Mr. H. s. Meyers.

Our readers will remember that when the Emperor Frederick 111. died, that a cablegram of condolence was sent to Germany, expressing the kind sympathy and condolence of King George of Tonga, His Majesty having previously instructed the Premier oi Tonga to do so, and also, if possible, to have a wreath placed in the name of King George on the coffiin of the deceased Emperor Fritz the Beloved. By yesterday's steamer, Te Anau. official intimation was received by the Tonga Government that the same had been done. The representative of the Tongan Government in Germany (the Consul of Tonga) happened to be at Frankfort-on-Maine when the cablegram reached him. Frankfort is noted tor its floral displays. A wreath having been made, it was sent by express to Potsdam, and placed on the cotfinof the late Emperor by Fiirst Von Rodolin, chief of the late Emperor's household. A description of the wreath may not be uninteresting : —1 ; con ' sisted in one large leaf of a palm called the Latanie, six feet high by seven feet broad, and on it, from the stem upwards, was decorated a most beautiful bouquet oi flowers running out in single spray?, and over it a crown in white flowers ; round the stem were two smaller leaves of mourning palms, through which the fold-; » ncl knot of a broad, white, and heavy silk run with the inscription: "George, King_oi Tonga, to the Emperor Frederick 111Prince Von Bismarck has notified the imperial German Consul-General of the soutu Sea Islands to convey to His -Majesty tut present Emperor's high appreciation ot George's sympathy with him and the nation in the hour of his sorrow.

The business at the Police Court yesterday morning consisted of four ordinary oylaw cases. George Brown was charge with allowing a cow to stray at Devonpoit. He pleaded that the paddock into which_i ie had driven the cow was not fencecl ' ,t, r " of 5s and costs was imposed. \\im™ McKenzie was fined 10s and costs tor per mitting seven head of cattle to strav Edwin street, Devonport. Robert McM>' mont was fined 5s and costs for km '-"->,' horse to wander on the Northcote Koa«» Northcote. Mrs. Maria Lind and AuguM."Loftus were also fined 5s and costsior pw mitting horses to stray on Bradney s w» Northcote. Messrs. S. Y. Collins and V. B. McDonald, J.P.'s, presided.

Mr. Spragg, of the New Zealand Paitf AssociationTreached Ngaruawabia on Saturday afternoon, when the settlers nw f in the Public Hall. Mr. Ftap rick, Messrs. -Friar and Davis, occupy chMir. The business of the rneeung expeditiously disposed of. Aβ poor s the price offered for milk maj ™, settlers recognise that the return is e tainty.andfsamuch better cash return than can be obtained by any other™ of dealing with milk. The re-open under the new management ear > October.

Mr Hogan, the manager of the, Kolrirlraa institution, has received £3 3s from SrLuck in aid of the fund being raised f r the new steam launch for the use of the nupile in that school. One of the London papers referring to ,i,. Lite action against the Times by Mr. ODonnell, says :-" By the action which the proprietors of the Times have taken in [l is matter, and by the fearlessness with hich they have exposed what they believed to be the" complicity of the leading Nationalists in crimes of the most terrible ature they have done a noble service, not pnlv to journalism, but to their country." The following intimations are from Lloyd's Weekly of July 15 :—William Choat trent to New Zealand in IS(i5, and was last heard of at Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand. His mother seeks tidings. Mrs. lane Evans went to Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia, in 1861. She afterwards went to punedin, Otago, New Zealand, in or about gepteraber, IStst2, but she has not since been heard of. Her brother John and sister Lizzie would be grateful for any informajj.vi. Llewellyn Griffith is sought by his mother, who last heard from him at the Caledonian Hotel, Hastings, Hawke's Bay, Jfcw Zealand, in ISB4. It is notified by the officer in charge of the telegraph office that mails for Australian colonies, United Kingdom and Europe, via Hiibart, will close at the Blutf on Friday, the "-4th day of August, at noon, mails due in London on October 6. Ordinary toloprauis for the above should be lodged not later than half-past ten a.m., and urgents cot later than half-past, eleven a.m.

An individual lately from Auckland (write? our Wellington correspondent) niade an application to the trustees of the Wellington Benevolent Society that they should supply him with leather, so that he might be set up in business. The application was refused.

Mrs. Burrows, wife of the Rev. R. Burrow?, died yesterday at her residence in St. Stephen's Road, Parnell. The deceased lady was an old colonist, having been resident at the Bay of Islands and in Auckland for many years.

A paragraph is going , round the Southern papers, in which it is stated that about a c..\rter of a century ago an Aucklander i;i;orested in foresting made some experiments with the object of finding out the ;.—in of time required to bring a kauri ..-.e to full growth, and his conclusion was •' ,; the kauri reached maturity in 3000 tears. This is nonsense. The kauri is not 'i whit more slow-growing; than any other valuable timber tree. In proof of which • ; : ,i.. may be seen in the Domain a number of vigorous young kauris some SO feet high j,nJ. six inches in diameter, which cannot be more than 30 years of age. It is not the flow growth of the kauri that has doomed our Northern forest*, but the fires of the gumdijrper. Mrs. W. J. Harris, better known to the renins, ,, world as " Jenny Wren." delivered an interesting lecture last night in the social hall of the Young , Men's Christian Association rooms on the subject of " Love. Life, and Labour.' There was a fair attendance, and Mr. Lilly presided. On the platform with the chairman and the lectures? were Mrs. Lilly and Miss Leacham. Mrs. Harris was received with applause, and as the lecture proceeded, her thoughtful and sometimes strong opinions on certain subjects showed considerable study, ami her pure and excellent choice of lan-ijua-re stamped her as a woman of great culture She introduced her subject as a trinity, as love was a divine element, life without love was nought, and life without labour was unprofitable, and the three were exemplified in the God-man, the beautiful life of love and labour. In the course of the lecture Mrs. Harris gave a great deal of useful advice. On the motion of the chairman a hearty vote of thanks was accorded to Mrs. Harris for her interesting and instructive lecture.

The recent flood* in the South arc stated to have done a good deal of damage to the Qiago Central works.

A case which involved the title to upward* of a million acres of land in the K:ny Country was before the Judge of the Supreme Court, yesterday, in an application by certain natives fora writ of prohibition to restrain the Judges of the Native Lands Court from granting certiricues of title to the natives whom they found to be :he owner?. The principal ground for the was that the proceedings were ikrgal. that the Court which pi rported to be adjourned by one of the Judges in the absence of the Native Assessor was not aiiourned, but lapsed, and that all proceed- [:::< taken afterwards wtre void. His Honour overruled this point, and others raise 1 in support of the application, and refused the injunction. The proceedings, which are reported in the usual column, are c: much interest, as bearing on the powers c: Judges of the Native Lands Courts.

The Camellia Show which the Royal Horticultural Society proposed to hold in Auckland on Saturday next, has been allowed to fall through, but the show in the Ponsonby H;ill is fixed to take place next Saturday week. It is understood that the Ponsonby local committee are making strenuous efforts to make their show a

A u.o6d attendance patronised the Columbia Rink last nig-h:. and the skaters, apparently, enjoyed the pastime a= much as ever. To-night a challenge polo match will ;ake place between the representative Auckland team, which will shortly proceed on a tour to the South, and the Grafton Polo Ckb, when a good game is anticipated.

Lt-t evening while Messrs. Farnsworth and Henrickeon of East Tamaki were returning homewards to East Tamaki the torse which they were driving shied near ttie Harp of Erin, capsizing their cart, and throwing the occupants violently to the ground. Dr. Leger Erson, who was close at h.tnd, attended to their injuries, which i'i Heiirickson T 3 case were of so severe a character ;-.s to render his removal to the H'«pital advisable. Farnsworth escaped with a lacerated wound in the head and ferae contusions. Henrickson is progressin.* favourably at the Hospital.

Last night the first meeting of Mr. Geo. Oswald's Select Shakespearian Class took pkceat Granville House, Cook-street, and *"■- members read several portions of the play of " Macbeth." Though this was the *"-' reading of the session several showed Mrs-ifliirablc declamatory powers and a good •I'l'reciation of the text of the author.

At the District Court, Wanganui, on "ednesuay, Tare Peina, a Maori, charged *ith malicious injury to property, was ound to be a lunatic, and was ordered to r "-- kept in custody pending the pleasure of '■fie Colonial Secretary.

/■' the meeting of the proprietor* of the j-nion Bank of Australia Limited, held in Uiridon on the 30th ultimo, a dividend of '- per cent, per annum was declared, and a f '" ! of £10/268 was carried forward, the tesrve fund remaining at £980,000.

• n a letter received yesterday by Mr. B '"ekenrig, of the Young Men's Christian Aviation, from Pastor George Miiller, in !■' lu 'y, he -tales that he has been preach- !"-' five or six times weekly. Much interest L >hown in his work, all denominations lining in a series of meetings specially for .-''"i-Uiui.--, thirteen of which had already been held. Mr. Miiller states that he has | ar more applications than he can accept, "'"I is generally three weeks or more en-f-M beforehand. Mr. and Mrs. Mailer •J4«ct to remain in Sydney for some I 1""-', 'and they will then go on to Melbourne.

. * ! >e number of sheep in Europe has been ® a length of time largely on the der «ise. Compared with what they were a ° Zfcri years or so back, these animals in ; "t numbers are 50,000,000 less at the time. The largest decrease seem? , '": in Austria, which has fewer sheep °F 1«,000,000 than it once had. France r^ 1 --? less sheep by 11,000,0000; the de- ,■•'*•*: in Germany being £9,000,000; Eng*na, 6,000,000, and Spain, 5,000,000. At °"« time there were some 244,000,000 sheep Europe. Now the numbers are set down i about 195,000,000. So that in the comI«utiyely new countries of Australasia d ere is plenty of scope for the sheep inS( a ~ tr y, although there are now upwards of j*.WU,O(X) sheep in these colonies. It may arV stil i lfefi that in the United States sheep u-V 'J' 50 fast, decreasing. The numbers, mc " amounted in ISS6 to 44,750,000, prw 00,000 less than they had been the ec ju J 1 " i* oUr years, nave been further •p, cecl owing to various causes. Aueki l enin S the weekly lecture at the Mr no ena.'Utn will be delivered by F.fjci r \}- Galbraitli, F.1.C., and ' Man he , sub J ect of the lecture will be r ->iiiLf» - : Or »' a , n »c - Molecules, Infection, mtect and Disinfectants."

One of the last numbers of the Graphic has an excellent full-page illustration of the " obstacle " canoe race which took place on the Waikato, at Mercer, some time ago. The engraving is from a sketch supplied by Mr. W. G. Sinedley. The letterpress describing the picture is not quite accurate, as it says "The Maories represented in this engraving are of the ' civilised' and somewhat degraded type, who prefer to pick up a living about the seaports rather than go hunting and falling in the interior." As in the interior there are neither animals to hunt nor fish to catch this statement is misleading. To those unacquainted with the colony the engraving will probably convey a wrong impression, as it will naturally be concluded—as, indeed, we have done our best to impress on people at the great exhibitions —that canoes, canoe races, Maori whares, and so forth,'are common features of New Zealand scenery ; the truth, of course, being that, along with their owners, they are rapidly becoming as extinct as the moil, and are now rarely seen.

A few months ago. at the annual meeting of the Fanners' Alliance, Mr. W. E. Bear read a paper on the very appropriate subject of the " The Farmer's Share in His Produce," in which statistics were quoted which must have opened theeyesof those present as to the enormous cost of those parties who have been styled " middlemen," called so inasmuch as they come in between the producer and consumer, in the majority of cases taking the lion's share of profits— necessary evils no doubt, but evils that cost a lot of money. Basing his calculations on the figures of Mr. James Howard, Mr. Bear showed that, on the supposition of the whole of the United Kingdom being regarded as one gigantic farm, the value of its produce would be £216,139,496. But as a matter of fact, consumers have to pay for this produce the sum of £335,410,957 ; so that the enormous balance of £110,'270,461 went into the pockets of the middlemen. From these figures Mr. Bear argued that too many people were trying to live off the produce of the soil, that more co-operation was necessary in buying and selling, and that farmers should combine with the object of squeezing out the middlemen ; or they themselves would be squeezed out. Indeed, the very existence of the farmers depended upon their obtaining a larger share of profit from their own produce than they got at present. Mr. Bear affirmed that all the genuine tanners" co-operative associations established were doing fairly well.

•I notice it stated in last week's Weekly News that Mr. MoKerrow in his annual report, gives it as his opinion that " the gumfields have been a drawback to the settlement of the North of Auckland district," giving as his reason that " its pursuit has a tendency to foster roaming and irregular habits unfavourable to steady industry." I am of opinion that Mr. MeKerrow has come to his conclusions from insufficient data and other causes which are unreliable. From my knowledge of the kauri gum industry and its effect on settlement in the Ninth, his conclusions appear to me to be wide of the mark. Take this district, for instance, it being fairly representative of many districts in the North. The soil mostly requires too much artificial manure to be profitably fanned for general agricultural purposes, but with a climate unsurpassed anywhere, and hundreds of spots suitable for orchards, and where oranges, lemons, vines, olives, and other sub-tropical fruits can be grown to perfection. But these fruits take years of toil and careful attention before they become profitable to the owner. Most of the land in this district was sold by the Government many years ago in 40-acre lots, and had it not been for the kauri timber and the gum, most of the settlers could not have remained on their holdings. The gum has been a good stand-by, and a source of wealth to the hard-working settlers and others for many years : and would have remained so for many years to come had our kauri gum resources been husbanded as they should have been. But our representatives have not taken the necessary steps to conserve this great boon, or they would never have allowed the Government to ship hundreds of unemployed from the South to Auckland (a.« was done a few years ago), thus virtually killing the goose "that lays the golden egg. These importations vastly increased the number of gumdiggers, thus incvasing the output of gum without a corresponding increased demand, and the result is we now receive between "-'•ls and 30s per cwt, instead of s<>s or 60s per cwt, for our gum.— [Dairy Flat Correspondent, August 21. J

Mr. J. \V. Shackelford, of 210, Queenstreet, left for Sydney on Tuesday last, the object of his visit to Australia beinp the purchase of a new stock of gents' and youths' hats, shirts, ties, mercery, &c, &c. The ■ioods will be the best to be obtained for cash in the Australian markets, and will comprise the latest and most fashionable styles. The prices will be moderate. The old premises— No. "JlO, Queen-street, a few doors from the Auckland Savings Bank.

Messrs. Garlick and Cranwell are setting a good exam) ile to local manufacturers. By the new tariff the duty on wire-wove mattresses amounts to 22\ per cent., which was ample protection at the prices they were selling at: nut to show Freetraders they will not suffer they have reduced their 40s double wire-wove mattress to 'A'ls, and their single from 30s to "J. T >s, anii second quality much lower. This should effectually shut out the foreign-made article, and L'ive employment to extra hands here. By their advertisement in another column it will be seen they have opened up a lot of Liberty Art muslins, which are now in demand for drapings and curtains.

In consequence of a misunderstanding as to the day of opening, there was no one in attendance to unlock the entrance door of the Welleslev-street school yesterday evening. Mr. Whitcombe's French class was not held, as advertised, in consequence. Mr. Whitconibe apologises to his pupils for the delay, and will open on Monday evening, the 27th inst., to make up for the lost day, as well as on Wednesday next.

The honorary treasurer of the Auckland Benevolent Society desires to acknowledge the receipt from Miss Matthews ami Miss McHarg of £1 14s sd, beinj; the amount collected at the close of an entertainment given in St. Sepulchre's Schoolroom by the pupils of the Mount Eden Collegiate School, on Tuesday evening last, 17th August.

Attention is drawn by Mr. T. M. Jackson to the sale of valuable books at his mart this day. The list contains many handsomelybound volumes, and some very rare ones. Connoisseurs in literature should not miss attending this sale.

The Rev. H. J. Lewis will give the fifth of a series of winter nijiht entertainments in the Congregational Church, Edinburgh -street, Newton, this evening, at eight. The rev. gentleman will read Dickens' Christmas carol "Scrooge." The well-known abilities of Mr. Lewis should ensure for him a large audience.

Attention is drawn to the entertainment at St. Matthew's .schoolroom to-night. A rehearsal, which was held last night, passed off very successfully. The admission is only Is.

The City Council are calling for tenders for certain drainage works advertised in another column.