TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1886.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2132, 9 March 1886, Page 2

TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1886.

The late industrial riots in England, ugly though they may appear, and shocking to our national pride, are apparently destined to bring forth good fruit in the shape of securing the attention of Her Mrjesty's Government to the necessity for adopting measures to relieve the terrible pressure of over-population. Late cable news has informed us that it is under consideration to establish a national system of emigration under the direct control of a department of state. Various suggestions have been made during the last two or three years by many influential men to devise some such system, and the Congregational Union made some strong efforts in that direction. It is amazing that British statesmen have not long since broken through the barriers of cl:tss prejudices and social amenities, in order to rescue their country from the shameful state of degradation with which the extremities of the lower masses have covered her. With the vast possessions she has acquired in every quarter of the globe, Great Britain has long held in her hands the key to the only true solution of this spectre question of pauperism. By entering upon some scheme of active cooperation with her great and flourishing colonies, the Mother country could bestow immense advantages upon the suffering millions in her over-crowded population. It is possible to deport by the aid of a well-devised state organisation, at least one hundred and fifty thousand people to the five principal colonies. That would be a positive lessening of the population which would in a very few years show a most appreciative influence on the pressure of the masses. It will rest chiefly with England to move primarily in the matter, for it is one that cannot be viewed in the same light from both sides of the water. The colonies can continue to grow and prosper without having recourse to any such means for increasing their population. On the other hand, the Old Country must eventually find itself on the brink of a terrible convulsion, unless some extensive system for reducing the superfluous masses be devised soon. In addition to such a federated system of emigration one, perhaps, more sincerely national, method could be adopted by the Imperial Government. Great Britain has gained her vast empire more through the enterprise and independent spirit of her sons than through any organised plan of action on the part of her Government. The isolated settlements and plantations, formed here and there on the earth's surface by small bodies of pioneers, became nucleii of these young nations of powerful growth, which have been giving prosperous homes to such countless numbers of her people. Now, what prevents the Imperial Government from entering upon a grand national system of colonisation with the spirit and method of a disciplined organisation? Great tracts of land throughout the Australian continent, the coasts of Africa, Canada, New Zealand, New Guinea and the Pacific Islands are capable of being utilised and made to flourish with settlement of the Britsh people. Old sailing ships of war, now lying idle, could be again put into commission for a more peaceful and nobler purpose than in their old days of activity. The deportation of so many thousand souls per annum could be commenced, who would be distributed amongst the several localities selected for colonising as opportunities for their easy settlement offered, the number of deportes being increased each year as the new colonies progressed. England would thus build up a fresh batch of nations in an infinitely shorter time than would be required to accomplish the task by means of private enterprise. It must not be supposed that these people would be landed on strange shores and then left to their own devices, with uncertain chances of success. On the contrary, the plan would have to be a thorough one, the superstructure would be complete, not mere walls or roofless. Without going into details, we are convinced that a system of state colonisation and emigration would do very much towards removing the reproach of pauperism from the body politic of Great Britain. This process would gradually give more breathing space, or " elbow room" to the lower strata of the people at large, and the ranks of the destitute and unemployed would diminish as the facilities for obtaining work became more open for the remaining numbers. From a commercial point of view, the establishment of fresh colonies would mean the expansion of the export and import trade of the Mother Country. The cost of the scheme would be a great, but, to such a wealthy country as England, not too great. The reduction in the annual outlay for pun per support would probably counterpoise the expense, even if the latter proved to be a couple of millions sterling per annum.

We direct attention to the altered hours for the closing of mails at the post offices, caused by the coming into foice of the new railway time-table. Postmasters will greatly oblige by forwarding alterations as goon, aij convenient.

Mr W. Reid, storekeeper, Cambridge, ha« been Scanned by tha rontmaf«terUener.il to sell pontage Btumi'fl.

The Cambridge Jam Company are prepared to k'wc 3d per 11) for pcAclie-> .uid pour?, and 2d per lb f«»r qtiince«.

Mr McLaren, of Ohaupo, has sold 150 acit;-< <>f hi-* farm to Mr Moar«, a new settler in the district.

A boiler explosion occurred on board thn 11. M S. Maripnin sit Honolulu, on th" 1 Ith ult., ro^ultinjf in tlie fleath of two men and the injuiing of several othoM.

Mr G- Y. Stewart is spoken of a* .1 probihlecindid.ita for T.iurjinffa ntthc next general election. Major To Whemu is coining out for the Western Maori district .igdin.

The E.Ms- Alameda arrived at Auckland nn Suntlny nmrninjr from Sun Fr.mcUco with the English and American mails. She ui.ide tho trip in a few hours under twenty days.

Mr Bis?, Chief Postmaster, arrived in Hntmlton but night, and will visit the varioin office in the dbtnct, the now tiuic-tiiblc making numerous changes in the mail scmco necessary.

Mr Robert Peat, of Hamilton, ha* «ont to this office a real inon>ter apple weiphinp two |)(»unds. Tho tree which produced this infant was procured from Mr C. T. Wren in 1880, and the variety was named in the invoice "No. 100."

The Auckland made cartridges were tried at the Wanganui meeting yesterday and found to be most inefficient and dangerous. Several of those who mcd them had their faces injured with the powder, while many carbines and rifles were damaged. An inquiry into the inattei will be held.

We remind our Hamilton readers that the Rev. H. R. Dewsbury will deliver his popular lecture on " Macaulay " in tho Public Hall this evening at 8 o'clock. It i.* not necessary that we should bespeak a good attendance as thn fame of the lecturer is sufficient to draw a full house.

Messrs W- A. Graham, Hamilton, E. Y. Roche, To Aroha, and T. Wolls, Cambridge, have been appointed a Board of Reviewers under "The Property Assessment Act, 1885," for the districts contained in the counties of Raglnn, Waikato, Piako and Waipa. The date of meetings it to be fixed by the board.

A special meeting of the Hamilton Borough Council was hold last night, at which the resolutions re the proposed loan were formally confirmed. The statutory meeting of ratepayers, before which the loan proposals must be laid prior to a poll being taken, will be held at the council chambers at 7 o'clock sharp this evening.

At a meeting of the Hamilton Cemeteries Trust last night, the following tenders were received :— E. Wilson, making drains, £'(5 ; clearing and gravelling wide path, fis <id per chain ; narrow path, 3s per chain (accepted) ; G. Brown, drain, £7 ; clearing and gravelling path, 7s per chain.

Mr Maxwell, General Manager New Zealand Railways, has replied to the Cambridge resolutions protesting against the new time table, to the effect that " lie regrets the opening of the line to Oxford necessitated a re-arrangement of the timetable, and that only one train per diem could be run from Auckland to Cambridge."

A meeting of the creditors in the bankrupt estate of David Bruce, of Waotu, contractor, was held at the courthouse, Cambridge, yesterday, for the purpose of passing a special confirming resolution accepting the bankrupt's offer to pay 10s in the £. The resolution was duly passed.

The following will represent the Hamilton Cricket Club against Cambridge next Saturday:— Messrs Barton, Brown, Browning, Connollv, Edgecumbe, Forrest, Kirk, Mclntosh, Primrose, Stevens, and Wood. Emergencies : Bindon, Bygrave, Murray. The Cambridge men arrive and leave by train, so that play must commence at 11.30 sharp.

The harvest festival services were continued at S. Peter's Charch, Hamilton, on Sunday. The decorations had been brightened up with fresh flowers, &c, and the church presented a very beautiful appearance. The sei vices were full choral, and the Incumbent preached eloquent and appropriate sermons buth morning and evening.

Owing to a dispute between the Constructed Railways Department and the Public Works authorities in reference in the right of running over the line at Te Aroha. Mr Livingstone's men employed in completing the station ground at Te Aroha were idle during the whole of la*t week. We underßtand, however, that an amicable arrangement was arrived at yesterday.

One million white fish ova arrived at Auckland by the San Francisco mail steamer Alameda on Sunday morning. They were consigned to Sir Julius Vogel, and are from tlra United States hatchery at North vill«», Michigan. Every care was taken of the eggs in transit, and on arrival at Auckland they were at once transhipped into the Hinemoa, lying in the Manakuu, on route for Wellington.

The Rev. D. J. Hamer. pastor of Collinn-street Congregational Chnrch, Melbourne, who came t<» New Zealand for hU health a few weeks ago, died at Rotorua on Sunday morning from pneumonia. The deceased gentleman was announced to preach at Auckland on the day of his death. The sad event was quite unexpected.

The Secretary of the New Zealand Smelting Company at Auckland received the following telegram on Saturday jiftornoon from Mr La Monte, who is at present at the Thames :— " Furnace working perfectly clean slags. Two hundred pounds sterling gold and bilver recovered first day's run."

Sir George Grey delivered an address on Land Settlement and Public Works, under the auspices of the Chamber of Commerce, at Auckland on Friday night. His panacea for all colonial and human ills is a land and income tax, and the cutting up the waste lands (in which term arc included many private estate.-*). Sir Geort»e is in favour of the vigorous prosecution of public works, and defends the East and West Coast Railway, though ho ridicules tho Meiggs proposal*.

We draw attention to the anniversary soiree and concert to be held on Friday next in the Public Hall, Cambridge, in connection with S. Paul's Wesleyan Church. The programme will be a very attractive one, and we understand the following well-known amateurs from Auckland, will lend their assistance on the occasion, namely, Miss Culpan, Miss May Taylor, Rev. John Dellow, Mr E. Hoiking and Mr Archibald Taylor. The latter gentleman is, we believe, a member of tho Auckland Choral Society, and is one of the leading bassos of that city.

The Oxford line was opened for traffic yesterday. Mr Hudson, District Traffic Manager, Mr Coom, Resident Engineer Auckland railways, and staff, arrived at Hamilton by special train on Saturday night, and proceeded to Oxford on Sunday. The party, with the exception of Mr Hudion, who remained at Matamata, returned by the first train yesterday morning, that gentleman following in the afternoon. Among the other passengers were Mr James Stewart, Engineer to the Kotorua and Thamen Valley Railway Company, and Mr D. Fallon, the contractor for the line. There was no ceremony of any kind. The line is reportbd to be in excellent order. The Oxford line is now the main line from IVankton, passengers changing at Ruakura for Cambridge, and at Morrinsville for Te Aroha.

The following special messages to the Press Association, dated London, March sth and fith, have been published :— 1 His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has been asked to preside at the farewell dinner which is to be Riven to Sir Murray Smith, on the occasion of his leaving England for Victoria.— lt in announced that Her Majesty the Queen has , been pleased to create Lnrd Richard Grosvenor and Baron Kensington Peers of the 1 United Kingdom. — Tender* »re invited, on behalf of the Queensland Government, for . a loan of £1,500,000, at 4 per cent. The minimum is fixed at £103. Tenders close 1 on May 11th. — New Zealand frozen mutton ; is ssd to nfd per lb. The total quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 1,870,000 quarters, an increase of 00,000 quarters during the week.— Prices are firm ; with a rising tendency, which has diminished supplies. A cargo of old Australian (October) hat been hold at thirtyfive shillings and sixpence, and a February cargo at thirty- five shillings. Flour js in , better demand although values art un- , changed, and stocks have b«en reduced.

The funeral of Mr James Bracewell, the engine-driver who was killed by his head striking against a tank at Tnakau while his train was passing, took place on §iroday» from his. residence iq )?*rnell, and

it was the largest proceiaiun of the kind which ha» be(»n «aon in Auckland for many years. Some GO or 70 members of the Masonic lodges headed the procession, bearing Rprigs of acacin. They were followed by a large concourse of Oddfellows, in mourning regalia. The railway authorities had thoughtfully provided traiun from Mercer and Helensviile, to convey the tailway employes and friends of Ihe decoasted who desired to attend the funeral, and the result wan that there w«r a \ci y l.irpre number of the employes, wearing their uniform caps, who marched in a body after the hearse. There was an immense concourse of the general public. It is stated that the widow of the deceased intends to institute a claim against the Government for damage*, on the ground that the tank in question was .so close to the railway as to he, unsafe. Since the accident the tank ha* been removed. At the inquest a verdict of "'Accidental death" was returned, and the following rider added : — "That in the opinion of the juiy the frame of tho water tank is too close to th« line, and immediate «tcp» should be taken' to pievent further accidents." — Herald.

"Phaeton," the sporting contributor to the Auckland Herald, makes the following reference to Matchlock, the winner of tho Champion Stakes at Melbourne on Saturday : — Matchlock, the winner, wan bred by Mr W. Walters of Papakura, and was purchased when a yearling by Mr Joseph Bennett, wlio forwarded him to Sydney, and the colt eventually found a home in the Hon. James White's stable. His first essay was in the Hopeful Stakes, nin at the V.R.C. Autumn meeting last reason, for which event he went to the post with odds of 5 to 4on him, but finished unplaced. He then figured in a Nursery Handicap, but again failed to gain a situation. Journeying back to Sydney he wai pulled out for the Trial Stakes, limile, at the A.J.C. Autumn meeting, which event he won in evcollent style, and at the same meeting he won tho Nursery Handicap, 0 furlongs, beating a large and high class* field. His next trial was in a two-year-old handicap at Rosehill, in which he finished second to Astroea, who beat him by two length*. When the three-year-old events began to be talked about, Matchlock's name was freely mentioned in connection with them ; but, unfortunately, just prior to the A.J.C. meeting he injured one of his feet, and his trainer was compelled to case him up. Since the colt had again been put in work he had shown wonderful improvement, and his first essay « ben that age was in the V.R.C. St Leger, which he won. He is said to be one of the handsomest horses in training, nnd, no doubt, before the close of his career, he wilt win many more honours for the " blue and white" banner of his popular owner. Mr Walters is fortunate in having a full brother to the Champion winner, and he is said to be, if anything, superior m looks to his illustrioui relation.