COUNTRY NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9145, 29 August 1888, Page 6

COUNTRY NEWS.

[from era own correspondents.] Hamilton, Tuesday. Considerable indignation has been expressed by residents her© at the cruel manner in which the poor paralytic, H. P. McPherson, is left to linger out a miserable existence; and yesterday, but for the absence of the Mayor at Palmerston, a public meeting would have been called to consider his and bring pressure on the Waikato Hospital and Charitable Aid Board to take further steps for the amelioration of his condition. The hospital authorities refuse to admit him to the hospital as an incurable case of paralysis. The Charitable Aid Board has given him but scanty relief. What McPherson requires is an adult male attendant and a comfortable home, and if the Board, in its function as a Hospital Board, is unwilling to provide, in its function as a Charitable Aid Board, it is bound to administer. Immediately on the Mayor's return, which is daily expected, a further meeting will be called. Cambridge, Tuesday. The return match between the Hamilton and Cambridge football teams will be played here on Saturday next. The anniversary services of St. Andrew's Church will be held on Friday next. Tie Awamuttj, Tuesday. It is satisfactory to find that the local dairying industry is not to receive a check by the dissolution of the Te Awamutu Cheese and Bacon Factory Company. The plant and buildings and land are to be at once disposed of as a going concern. With a fair start, unencumbered with debt in the shape of interest, and with good management, there is no reason why this factory should not prove a success. Surely by this time the causes of failure in the past should give guarantee of success in the future. In Southland the dairy factories have been an unqualified success, giving dividends to the shareholders and a price for milk to the suppliers which would be eagerly accepted here. Yet the markets are the same to factories here as there. The difference lies in the management, and this is the rock on which more than one such institution in Waikato has been wrecked.