The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2236, 6 November 1886, Page 2

The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

Equ.i.l and ex.act justice to all men, Ot whatsoever state or persuasion, religious or political.

SATURDAY, NOV. 6,1886,

The Banks in Waikato will be closed on Tuesday next, the Prince of Wales' Birthday. Numerous enquiries are being made for residences at Hamilton, but there in a great and growing want of the requisite class of hou^e.

Mr James Mackay went up to Matamata by Thursday's train, with a view to mediate in the dispute between Mr Firth and the native obstructionists. Mr Mackay is instructed by Mr VV. M. Hay, Mr Firth's solicitor.

The valuable two acre allotment near the Hamilton We*t lailway station, the property of Mrs Vialou, has bi>en purchased by Mr 11. Dellicav, who, we understand, intends to erect a dv/elling-houae on the property.

Mr W. A. Graham has sold a poition of bis recently acquired estate adjoining Hamilton to Mr K. Salmon, late of Auckland. The area of Mr Salmon';} purchase is atxntt 60 acres, and includes the botnobtea'l. The price p.iid is a very satisfactory ono.

We are pleased to hear that the lion. EaniosG Gray, M.L.C., is about to improve his valuable estate on the Mangawara, near Taupni. MrE. Cox, son of Mr A. Coy, late of Hamilton, will manage the estate for his uncle, and will shortly arrive in the district. It is intended to erect a,

commodious homestead forthwith. In the advertisement of the train arrangements which appeared in Tuesday's isMie an error occurred. It was made to appear that the train leaving 1 Auckland at "8.40 a.m.," and that leaving Fr.wkton for Cambridge at ''7 a.m." would not run on the !)th. These figures should read, respectively, "11.40 a.m." and "7 p.m."

Our readers are reminded that the Hamilton Post-office will be closed on Tuesday next, the Princ3 of Wales' Birthday. All mails will close on the previous evening at S p.m. The latest delivery of correspondence wfll bei over the counter between 7 find 8 p.tn, on Monday. This aKo applies to the brapch office at Kirik'iriroa.

The inquest on the body of the late (J-ipt.un Can commenced atTimuru on Thnr-.fl.iy. H.ill was present. The medical evidence went to show that the deceased h.ul been '-uiFenng from dropsy, but the symptoms disclosed did not appear sufficient to account for the .suddenness of his death. The evidence of the deceased's servants went to prove that Hall was very frequently at Capt. Cain's house, and sat ujj witli him at nights during his last illness. Miss Houston gave evidence to this effect also. The enquiry was adjourned until the 17th inst.

A meeting of all those interested in the Hamilton Christmas sports will be held on Monday evening next at the Royal Hotel, Hamilton East, when a conimittee will be elected and all preliminaries arranged for the usual carnival. An excursion train from Auckland will be arranged for, and the local train service will also be worked to suit the convenience or those who wish to attend. A fjoodly sum is already in hand to pay all preiminary expenses, and no doubt a wellmanajafed programme will be carried tlimtfgh. (

yThft following will represent Jruntlton to-day against Patorangi i: — Me«.sii Barton, Beale, Bindon, Browning, Bygrave, Chappell, Dockery Mo.icham, Radford, Sage, Stevens. Play will comaience at 10 o'clock sharp. Lunch will be provided by Mr Smith, of the Royal, at 2. With weather like yesterlay's, there ought to be a large attendance t<> witness the first m.itch of the faeason. Special seats will be reserved for ladies whose presence on the tented field adds so much to the picturequeness of the scene, and, as all genuine cricketers know, to the energy and &kill of the performers. A

- Yesterday being the first day ot the' issue of the return tickets, a goodly number of people were passengers to Auckland. To-daythe attraction at Auckland will be the race meeting. The Agricultural and Pastoral Show at Green Lane will be held on Monday and Tuesday, the 3th and 9th. On the latter day a cheap excursion traiji will leave Waikato for nd,' 1 returning same night. This uvim will leave Te Aroha at G a.m., .vlorrinsville 6.40 a.m., Cambridge 6.45 t.ui., To Awamntu 6.80 a.m., Ohaupo 6.55 a.m., Hamilton West 7.30 a.m., JNgaruawahia 8. 10 a.m., Taupiri 8.25 a.m., Huntly 8 45 a.m., reaching Green Line at 12.33 p. m., and Auckland at 12.."50 p. ir.., stopping where required to pick up pasbengeis for >ireen Lane or Auckland.

Regarding the Mayor's application for cheap fares from Auckland to Hamilton at Christmas time, Mr Graham has received the following satisfactory letter faom Mr Hudson, the District Traffic Ylan.-ipfer : — Sir, — With further reference to ynur letter of t!ie 2(ith ult., I have the honour to inform you that, subject to the (isnpral MaiVigpr's approval, T will arrange .1 special excur-i'm fi<>:n Auckland to K'imiiton and hack on th. % 2') th December at the following fares : — Kir>t-olas«*, return, Ss fid; second cl.is>, it'L un, o_-> 3d. AUo, Situiday retain faro- t> Hunilton by any orain dunnej Chiiitiius week, and cheap weekly tickets fiouj Auckland. Newmarket, and'Onehunfja to HaiiMltou on certain days at Christmas timo to ha arranged and advertised in due couise.

On Thursday evening a meeting of the cnmiuittee to receive and entertain Mr Mathe\V Hu.rn.ett w.ws held in the Wesley an schoolroom, Hamilton. Arranyiitifenta were made for roepiving the lecturer, and sub-committees ap[>>inted to cany out dotailn. As will bo seen by advertiseiuont, threo lee-

tures will be given, and Mr Burnett was desirous to address a meeting <>t tlio united Safldsy 9ch6ohi, tiut -wei undorstftnd that this arrangement may fall thro uh, as the Anglican schoolroom (tb.e Public Hull) ' cannot be obtained, tor the occasion, t}iose in authority not agreeing to have pucli meetings oa Sunday, and as this is tho only room large enough for such a\ gathering, it may have to bo abvndonod. -A eho£r will be present each Jiighlpaml\will »mg hymns "' oin Moody and S mkey s collection. The choir will bo umku- the nunajjoment of Mr Meachem, and will l^ccoiu k jjaed of uiembers of chinch choirs who may be willing to assist. The lecturer boi7>s s>» well khown and popular we Anticipate large attendances* at each meeting. An American paper says that Chicago is a bud city ; lioston is a wurso one. The Rev. Dr. H. L. Hastings was recently imprisoned with the "drunks" and ''di«.ot del lies" for preaching on Boston Common on a Sunday, and was refused a lieens" to preach. He was again impns.med and fined for reading, three ch.*i>tere of the Bible on the following Sunday on the same Common. He states these facts fiom his cell in Charleston jail.

The Great Eastern is earning Boino money at last, (her 20,000 people went on board from Liverpool and its neighbourhood on Whit .Monday and the day after to witness popular entertain* monts in the cable-tanks and other places; When a big thing fails, make a show of it, the British public are always ready to walk up., It is surprising that the directors have no,t before thia made a "floating" fisheries of it, with gardens, electric light, etc., and obtained an enterprising entrepreneur to take it round for them.— Nautical Magazine, 1886.

A curious newspaper lately made its appearance in Pans. It is called the Insurrection, and is dedicated to Louise Michel. It contains an appeal to arms with that lady's name attached to it, and in hor usual style ; but the arms on this occasion are to bs applied on the whole male sex. War is declared on the monster man who has so long held us under his yoke —the tyrant who, contrary to all laws social and human, has kept us in a state of slavery. All the contributions .are signed by women, and the proprietor is a woman. It is edited, printed, and published in different streets. It is also entitled the Journal Cotnique, and one of the chief comic items relates to the c.ise of "a gentlemvn." The whole thins: is a joke, but is only an example of the mn-nv curious sheets which eirianate from the neighbourhood of the Montmarte.

A Napier paper commenting on the Hall case says :— " His victim is to all intents and purposes a widow ; separated for ever by the righteous judgment of the law from her husband, she cannot obtain a divorce because the man who would. gladly hive compassed her death had, apparently, remained true to one portion of his marriage vow. It was reported that after Hall was arrested Jiia- wife refused to believe that he was guilty. She cannot but believe in his guilt now, and yet she and her child have to bear the name of a would-be murderer and felon, linked to him for life. An unsuccessful attempt ha* been made to alter tho law to enable a woman to claim divorce on the conviction of hor husbind resulting in several years' imprisonment. Probably a similar Bill will be introduced next session, and another etfort made to emancipate women."

The London correspondent of a Liverpool paper write* as follows in regard to the sad straits in which " General " Booth finds himself :— I hear that the financial position of the Salvation Army is much more serious than is generally imagined. Recent 'secessions have weakened the receipts, and the desperate step just taken by " General " Booth to recruit the funds_ threatens the army A ukase has been issued ordering the members of the aymy during a waek in September to abstain partially or totally from certain indulgences, such as eating, drinking or smoking, and to forward the sums thereby saved to the general's headquarters. No doubt if every member of the army subscribes tiie prico of, say, even peven dinners to "General " Booth, there will be a prompt increase in the funds ; but human nature, is human naturo and fasting very often is followed by waste and riot. If " General " Booth han to restort to this method, we are within measurable distance of the collapse of the movement.

The following gem is clipped from a Cape p.ipcr :—": — " An interesting 1 instance of camp >sition with conscience was perceptible iv one of ouv up-country exchanges received the other day. The editor is great on abstinence— even to prohibition. A flaming advertisement of ' Walker's Whisky ' appeared in his columns, and it is quite clear that when it was handed in a brief refererioe was stipulated for the local columns. We pity the editor in his struggle of profit v. principle, but he seems to have compounded with the 'inner monitor ' very gracefully. He savs>— ' It is the duty of an editor who for y c:\rs has advocated tempeianoe principles to avoid referring to any popular brand of liquor in terms of recoixitnend'itum. But when theie is so much stuff in the market which has no better claim to attention than that of being a bad imitation, it comes within our vocation .to point out the admitted excellence of "Walker's Whisky," and to advise the buyer who asks for it to see that he gets thereal thing.' 0 sancta simnlicitas.

A paper on the value of ensilage was read at the Darrington Chamber of Agriculture meeting lately by Mr T. Easdale, as:eut to Mr Stobart, of Pepper Ardon. He said that their experience on the estate he managed had now extended over four year?, and th.it Mr Stobart continued to hold the same favourable opinion of the system as at first. Since the enlargement of his silos he had made 200 tons of silage in 1884, and the same quantity in ISSS. In the two past winters he had fed forty fattening beasts, from sixteen to twenty milking cows, and upwaids of sixty store cattle, all of them receiving a share of ensilage, but not entirely fed on it. He specially alluded to the advantage of feeding milch cows on silags in winter, and maintained that of about six hundred persons whose opinions had been obtained, 98 per cont. were favourable to silage as food for cattle. Strange to say, there appeared to have been po allusion in the paper to the ereat extension the system is likely to have owing to the high success of the stacking process.

An Australian visitor to the Principality of Wales says :— "The more I see of Wales the more assured I am that it wants, as Ireland does, Home Rule. They are all Gladstonians here (you never meet one in England), and the reason Home Rule has not passed is, that, when it comes, as it will, both Wales and Scotland will insist on it, too, The Welsh appear to me to be the French of Great Britain. The houses are full of good prints or paintings, and the photographs you get are really works of art, taken by men a good eye for eifqct. I could sit listening to a Welsh band for a whole evening. No matter how small, they play with great enthusiasm f 4ind precision, A musical man tells me that the Welsh sing in harmony, the English in unison. I heard a beautiful original waltz played yesterday at Aberystwith under the direction of the composer. I thought England lo\ely till I saw Wales and we have not yet seen Snowdon nor Plinlimmon." Let not that visitor omit a day in the Vale of Llangollen, with a dinner iv the parlour of the Royal—with the .table in the bay window projecting into the trout stream below, with a bottle of that crusted port, if thero be any of it left, since I was there ever so long ago. —^gles.

The Christchurch Press London correspondent say* : — "An enoimously long, but mo-,t interesting, correspondence has beeu of Life going on in the columns of the Daily -Telegraph tinder the head of *• Buying Goods Abroad. ' The revelations contained therein respecting the origin, encouragement and success of foreign competition form a most valuable addition to our commercial knowledge. Briefly summed up, the correspondence has clearly demonstrated that there are two dangers which specially threaten the vitality of our commercial prosperity, the ono being legitimate, the otlipr by no means so. As to the fir^t, the rate of wages accepted by Continentnl workmen is much lower than that taken by their English confreres ; some of our Trade Union rules militate terribly against the prosperity of our trade ; lastly, pur artisan-, are not properly supplied with the means of cultivating their technical skill and artistic instincts. With regard to the illegitimate dangers, inferior goods are sold abroad extomively, and sent into England um'er English trade marks and names. These rascally proceedings at ono and the same time rob us of our trade and lower the reputation of our goods in the markets of the woild."

For some time past, says Iron, attention has been directod t<-> a vcuy interesting product, consisting of o\trem«ly thin and slender shavings of wood, which are comparable to paper cut fw packing.

It is known by the name of " wood wool." Thus product was first introduced into Franc j as a packing njaterial. Il weighs ab >nt 40 or 50 per oent less than the material!* gonerally used for such a pui pose. Its beautiful appearance, its fhjess, and its o\freme cleanness, at once broilgSit it into fa,* our with shippers. It was afterwards found that the material was well adapted foi the manufacture of mattro3ses, for litter for eittle, for the filtration of. liquids, and for sfc'iiting horse collars, &Or« the moat ■.uitable pieces of wood being selected tor each of tin so purposes. Its elasticity cuise^ it c> no considered the best mateiial for bed ling 1 after horsehair, and =dt is .even prefewtble to any other sustano^ when it ip deriv^tl iiom resinous wood, srtice it does not absorb moisture. In work shops wood wool is tending to replace cotton waste for cleaning machinery, and it has likewise found an application on the rolling stock of railways for lubricating car axles. While it has the same property which cotton waste lus of absorbing oil, it costs ten times less than that material. use ia said V> be rapidly crowing in Austria and Germany, and also in France.

The N&pier ITews gays of the intention of the Minister for Lands to introduce a bill next session having for its object the openiwg up for settlement of large estates : — '"The principle of the bill is that under the Mutual Provident Societies Act ot 1868, wo believe) settlers may form themselves into registered associations, and may apply to the Government for a block of land on any private tun. The owner of the run or block of land applied for will be entitled to select (100 to 1000 acres on any part of his e&tate, \ and the Government will have power by Very simple machinery .to take the balance of the land for settlement purposes paying not more than 10 per cent, on the property tax validation. Such a principle will also ge a great way to prevent frauds at present prepetrated on the Property Tax Department by absurdly low values being sent in. On the Government acquiring the land required by the association, it will be sub-divided into village sections ranging from two to ten acres. The land will be opened for settlement under the special settlement regulations and perpetual lease clauses of the Land Act. The principle has been practically affirmed by the House in the Laud Act of 1885, and we have little doubt that, seeing tho imperative ivod for such a measure, the proposed bill will pass through the House."

The Napier Telegraph says, with a good deal of truth :— What a god-send tho Imperial Institute uni'-t be to Renter's London agent ! He would scarcely have had anything to vviro if it had not been for the fuss that is being nude over this proposed permanent exhibition. For weeks past we have hardly had anything else but this precious inst'tute: meetings of commissioners, votes of thanks to the Pnnce of Wales, and what Sir Graham Berry says, and Sir Philip Cunliffo Owen thinks. And all this while the question of peace or war is trembling in the balance. At one time the special messages to the Australian papers were more sensational ti»an reliable, while very little that c.imo from Renter needed correction. Hence Renter's messages, were valuable. Thi\y are not so now, for the reason that they seldom contain anything of general mterost. They seem to be compiled by an old woman or two, who make it their business to send us only wh.vt is good for colonials to know. Unless these old ladies are sent to the ricrht. about the colonial preys will have to make some other arrangements for acquiring news from the metropolis of tho world. As »t is now we should bj inclined to think tint Router's agent lives with her grandmother at Putney, and only sees a second-hand Copy of the Times or Standard.