WELLINGTON.

Waikato Times, Volume I, Issue 30, 9 July 1872, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

From the Evening Star,

Saturday. The Nevada has arrived and sails North to-morrow. Mr. tialcombe has been appointed director in New Zealand of the Colonists' Aid Immigration Society. The official reports were received yesterday from the quarantine ground at Soame's Island. The name of the man in the Armed Constabulary who is reported as iu/ected with small-pox is Patrick Loughren. He has the variola all over his-body. Kaye is reported convalescent. The statement that he became affected ashore is untrue Kaye has made a written statement to the following effect: —" I first heard of small-pox being prevalent when at San Francisco,, but did not hear of it at Honolulu. A week before our arrival in Auckland I learnt that we had small-pox on board the Nebraska. I have not communicated or had anything to do with any of the passengers of the ship England at Wellington, I remained at Wellington while the Nebraska went South, and it was not until the steamer returned to Wellington that I first noticed the outbreak of the disease. The a,rnied constable now affected must have caught the infection from me*" The report that Kaye's washerwoman is infected has not been confirmed.

The Lady Bird, from Sydney, has arrived after a. passage of nine days. She brings female immigrants for the Provincial Government. Considerable indignation, has been felt here at the conduct of the Wellington correspondent of the " Otago Daily- Times," having iu a letter misrepresented the policy of Mr. Fitzherberfc and narty. The "Post," in a leading article, urges the formation of a. Freight Company in Wellington, and points out as an inducement that the freight on nearly nine million pounds! worth of goods, shipped to the North in 1871, was lost to the colony.

The vessel (arrived) supposed to bo the Excelsior, from London, proves to be a coal vessel from IS'ew South Wales. H..M.S. ltosario arrived at 1030 p.ui, last night from Auckland. DUNEDIN. Saturday. The returns of the yield of gold for tho half-year shows an increase of 18,000 ounces. The criminal calendar is light, only six cases being down for trial. The wheat market is quiet ; quotations, 5s •!cl; oats dull at Ls IOd; mulling , barley, s;* (Id; flour, £13. Trade is good, the articlebeing in demand. TIMARU, Saturday. There is great dissatisfaction in both tho town and districts in consequence of tho resolution of tho Board of Works to band over llungitata bridge to th© General Government without any monetary compensation. CHRISTCHUUCII. Saturday. Wheat is quoted at 5s to 5s 3d. Oats. 2s. dd, in demand. Flour unaltered. Barley, 5s 6d to 0s 9d,, scarce Butter, scarce at I'd. Cheese, 5d to o^d. MOIUTIKA. Butter scarce. Markets otherwise unchanged.

Australian Wink— The fortification of wine continues to attract a good deal of interest. At the tirao of the test at the International Exhibition last year, Mr. Scdgwiek Cowper explained with perfect clearness to those gentlemen who believed the wine to bo fortified, that tho extra natural strength of (he "must" aa compared with that produced from Continental growths, was attributable to the. fact that the ground in Australia, used for viniculture was mostly virgin soil, while that on the, continent of Europe, used for such purposes, had been cultivated for many Successive vintages. Many English people who are accustomed to drinking the light continental wines, are incredulous of accepting as. " natural" the high strength of the Australian products. No doubt, in time, this feeling will be overcome.--." Home News.". A very important paper has been read bofore the Institution of Civil Engineers, on tho Belgian system of sinking shafts through water-bearing strata, known as the <l KiudChadron " system. Our system of "tubbing"' to keep the water from bursting into (lieshaft is very expensive at first, and is liable to leakage, which causes great damage and after-expense, and as the late Coal Co mm is-, i-ijnlleportwill probably induce a considerable amount of boring through permaiu and now red sandstone rocks in search of the seams, which are known to exist under them, this new invention may come in very apropos. It consists of a combination of M. Kind's apparatus for boring wells ;nl M. Chadrou's plan for fixing cylindrical tubbing under water so as to make it secure and watertight. I'his last, of course, is the jist of the whole thing , . It is not only said to bo vory efficacious, but U* be incomparably clipaper than the ordiuary method, for whereas sinking by the ordinary plan with the help of punipingv machinery amounts on the average to £114 per foot, and, the rate of sinking to $.9ft. per month, by the Chadron process the cost is only £22 per fp.ofc, and. the rate at 15.8 ft. per month,

All awkward man, attempting to carve a-goose, dropped it. on the,floor. "There now I" exclaimed his wife, "we've lost our dinner," "Ok no, my dear," answered lie, sare, I've got my foot ou it !" Closer Tocletukh.—Judge. 8., in reprimanding a criminal, among other names called him a scoundrel. The prisoner replied, " >S)r, 1 am not as big a scoundrel as your honor"—here the culprit stopped, but Jinally added—-"takes me to be." "Put your words,closer together," said the judge, reddening. Ahtkjj-.u.s Waiiu.—rMark Twain, in his lecture, on Artemus 'Ward, tella the .following capital story of the immortal showman : —As Arteuius, Ward was once travelling in the cars, dreading tp be bored, and feeling miserable, a man approached him, sat down, and said :— "Did you hear the last thing on Horace Greely, r" "Greely? Greely F' said Artemus; " Horace Greely ? Who is,he?" - The man was quiet about live minutes. Pretty soon he said:. " George Francis Train is kicking up a good deal of row over in England ; do you think: they will put him in a bastille?" "Train? Tram? George Francis "Train ?" said Artemus, solemnly, <( I never heard of him." This ignorance kepfc.thc man quiet for fifteen minutes, then he said, "What do you think about General Grant's chances for the Presidency ? Do you think they will run him ?" ♦' Grant r Grant ? hang it, man," said Artemus, " you appear to know more strangers than any man I ever saw!" The ,man was furious ; he walked along the car, but at last came back and said, " You confounded ignoramus! did you ever hear of Adam r" Artemus looked up anjl said, "What was his other name ?" DICKEX.S KUSTICATIXG AT B&OADSTAias—" In a bay-window, in a one-pair, sits from nine o'clock to one a gentleman with rather long hair and no neck-cloth, who writes and grins as if he were very funny indeed. His name is Boz. At one time he disappears, and presently emerges from a bathing-machine and may be seen, —a kind of salmon-coloured porpoise—splashing abqut in the ocean. After that he may he seen in another bay-window on the ground-floor, eating a strong lunch; after that, walking a dozen miles or so, or lying on his back in the sand, reading a, book. Nobody bothers him, unless they know he is disposed to be talked to—and I am told he is very comfortable indeed. He's as brawn as a berry, and they do say is a small fortune to the innkeeper, who sells beer, and cold punch. But this is mere ramour. Sometimes he goes up to London (80 miles or so away), and thea I'm told there is a sound in Lincoln's Inn Fields at night as of men, laughing, together with a clinking of knives and forks and wine " Yesterdays with. Authors," by Mr. J. T. Fields., A "Wisconsin, editor was called out of bed one night to receive a subscription. After that he sat up nights fo%a week, but the offence wasn't repeated,

A HKKMON TO YOUNG LADIES. Now, ladies, I will preach you just a little sermon about an inch long. J don't often preach, but in. thiscaso nothing but a sermon will do. Firstly,—You arc perfect idiots to go and we a lady pass. There goes one ! Isn't that a preiJy-looking object ? A big- hutnp, ihreo big lumps, a wilderness of crimps and frills, a hauling up of the dress here and there, an enormous mass of hair or bark piled on the top of her head, .surmounted by q Jit tie hat, ornamented with bits of lace, bird's tails, &c. The shop windows tell us all day long of tho paddings, whalebones, and etcel fipnngs which occupy most of the space within the outside rig. fn the name of simple sweet .sentiments which cluster about a home, J would ask, how is a man to fall in love willi such a piece of compound, doubled and twisted, touch-me-not artificiality, as you see in that wriggling curiosity there 'i Secondly,- -With that wasp waist—squeezing your lungs, waist, stomach, arid vital organs one-half their natural si/,e —and with that long tail dragging on the ground, how can any man who knows that life is mado of use, of service, of work, how can he take such a partner? He must be desperate, indeed, to unite himself for lifo wifch .such a fettered, half-breathing ornament. Thirdly,—Your bad dress and lack of exercise lead to bad health, and men fear that, instead o( a helpmate, they would get an invalid to take care of. This bad health in you, just as in men, male oh the mind as woll as the body fuddled and effeminate. I know you giggle freely and use big adjectives such <is " splendid," " awful," but then this doesn't deceive us; we see through it all. You uro fcuperJioial, affected, silly ; you have none of that womanly strength and warmlh which are so attractive to man.

My dear girls, you must, if you would gel husbands, and tlecont ones, dress in plain iiiofii., brooming garments, and talk like sensible sinters. You say that most sensible men are crazy after these butterflies of fashion. I boy pardon, it is not so. Occasionally a man o[ brilliant success may marry a Billy weak woman, but to s;iy that the most sensible men choose women without sense is simply absurd. Nineteen times out of twenty sensible men marry sensible women. I grant you that in company they are very likely to chat and toy with those over-dressed and forward creatures, bill they don't ask any of them to go to the altar. Fourthly,—Among , the young- men in the matrimonial market, only a low are independently rich ; and such very rarely make good liu.slmnds. But the number of those who are just beginning , in life, who are filled with ambition, who desiro to havo a future, is very large. These are worth having, but they will not, they dare not, ask you to join them, while they see you so idle, silly, aud gorgeously tittired. Let them see that you are industrious and economical, with habits that secure health and strength, that your life is earnest and real, that you would be willing to begin ut the beginning in life with the man you consent to marry—-then marriage avi 1 1 become the rule, and not, us now, the exception. — Sydney Taper.

Mr. Koofc, writing to the "Ilural Home," mentions the vise of foul seed as one of the great evil incident to a slack and thoughtless practice in agriculture. Men do not seem to realise, he says, that it is impossible to raise a perfect crop from an imperfect genu of an imperfect seed. There are few thing's more generally acknowledged true than that all life produces after its kind, aud to improve we must select the best to propagate from, and this law is no more imperative in the animal than in the vegetable kingdom. But what is the common practice of the farmer in general in preparing his seed ? lie often plants his poorest potatoes, such as are unlit for use, he takes his seed grain from the bin with little or no uxlra care in cleaning, often mixed with other grains and foul seeds, with no regard to purity or quality. Is it any surprise that with suqh indifference on this important point crops are small, and varieties of grain, do dogenerate and finally run out, so as to become unfit for cultivation, and are replaced by new varieties, is a wellknown fact to all observers. It is an important question to consider, whether there is any inherent principle , in vegetable life thut teuds to degeneracy, or that requires a continual change of varieties to keep up the standard of quality. All our domestic animal?, our cereals and vegetables, have beeu reclaimed from their natural and imperfect state by the careful attention of enlightened man in selecting- the best pareut-igo in animals, aud by selecting - the most perfect seed, and bestowing- the most careful attention to the cultivation of grain and vegetables. It is perfectly logical to hold, that if care and attention with judicious selections, will improve the productions of the earth as found in their native state, that with want of care ! in selecting to propagate from, and v bad culti- i ration, the plant will go back to its primitive ; state, and it is equally logical to hold that the i same care and attention that has been be- '■■ stowed in bringing all productions to their I present improved condition, will continue to improve them to a far greater degree of excellence, . . I

ItUJB TiiEATY OF WASHINGTON AND THE ENGLISH PKOTEST. Tjik declaration attached to the British countercase presented at (ioueva on the loth ineb, together i with two notes of Lord (jranville embodying the ! agreement which ha« been entered into with the ' American Government as to the interpretation of the action taken by England, will enable the public : to judge what is the position of thoHritiah flovern- : ment at tho present stage of tho proceedings, ! far a,s the text of the explanatory note may be taken i io exprww itfi simple meaning, there is nothing with which we have to find fault. Her Majesty'e Government have announced in sufliciently plain language to the arbitrators that their counter-ca:3C (which is strictly confined to tho claims for indirect losses) "ia presented without prejudice to the position assumed by Her Majesty's Government in the correspondence to which reference hai been made, and under the express reservation of all her Majesty's rights, in the event of a difference continuing to exist between the high contracting parties as to the M:i>[Xi and intention of the reference to arbitration." This is satisfactory emnigh to the extent that it goes ; and with all our newly-awakened distrust in j the resources of the English language, as used by her Majesty's Ministers, it is ditlicult to see how our rights in regard to in\y future notion could be more plainly reserved. At the same time, we cannot but regret that no intimation -was expressly couveyod in this note to the effect that the jurisdiction of the I arbitrators would only be acknowledged in future so far as the cases to be submitted on either side keep within the scope and comply with the intention of tho Treaty creating the arbitration. To declare that you reserve your rights in a certain action to be taken is not quite equivalent to protesting that, if the action is taken, you will withdraw from the court. This is the essence of the question, and the one thing which concerns the British public. It is true that our counter-case has been submitted, so far as we understand, without prejudice ; but is the instrument by which this reservation is made sufficiently clear in respect to future proceedings ? On a careful perusal of the declaration handed in by Lord Teuterden, it certainly appears that the British Government do not acknowledge the American indirect claims as being within the scope and meaning of the reference to arbitration ; but it is not equally clear whether they will go on or not with tho arbi- . traLion in spite of this objection, and whether the arbitrators will or will not view the declaration as a bar to their jurisdiction if that objection is not removed.