The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE. TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1887.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2320, 24 May 1887, Page 2

The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1887.

Equal and exact justice to all men, Of whatsoever state or persuasion, ..reliffioiu o: political. ,

Thanks to the firmness auel decision of a. liii'ge section of tliG House, the Representation Bill has passed tho House of Representatives. There is also little reason to believe that it will be materially altered in the Legislative Council. The Premier could not with any respect for decency do otherwise than brims: it on after the divisions upon Mr Bryce's motion to make it the first order of the day for Tuesday last, and which was lost by : only one vote. It accordingly came on on that day, and was recommitted in order that the question of the number of members, tho porcontage in favour of country districts, and tho margin should be reconsidered. The number oJ members was finally fixed at the present number of 91. In- one respect at least there is no roasor to regret this, as it was becoming quite evident that no substantia reduction in members would have been passed by the House this session, anel on the whole we prefpi the bill as it now stands to .no bil at all. The result is, however, mainlj owing so the want of firmness ane backbone on the part of the Pre mier, who, after saying that h( would loyally accept the decision o: the House in favour of the reduc tion, has allowed himself to b( coerced by a nurwber of Goldtiekls members, who declared they woulc stonewall the measure if any o their seats were taken from them He also, no doubt, feared that h would be open to the imputation o: secretly approving of their tactic: if the bill had ultimately to b abandoned, It would therefor appear now as if the Premier wa really more desirous of having ; new Representation Bill passe: than many gave him credit for. The result is, however, much t be regretted, On the score that an hope of material retrench men from this source must be abandonee On the other hand, there is th consolation that in all probabilit the electoral districts of "VVaipa an Waikato will remain as they no l :are, with perhaps this one exce[ iion, that a part of Waikato may )j

;aken to make up tno quuin, . v. juirecl for the three districts of Uixuranga, Thames and Coromandel, rhis latter appears ;to' be iilniost nevitaljle, even it" the,full benefit bj :he 750 margin be allowed tc Waipa, Thames; and OoroiMindel. L'he per - eeiitago ' in- : favotu :it country districts was reduced from 20 per cent, lo 18, but this was quite a reasonable compromise, seeing that thimargin allowed to the commissioners in fixing the boundaries was settlee at 750. This question of allowing ji margin has also been so hedgec round with rules for the- guidance of the commissioners that it musi assuredly work in favour of the country districts. The considera tion laid down by the Bill in allot ting (this margin is unanimity oi diversity of interest in geographica considerations, and the excess oi male over female adult?. All oi these it-will be seen, tend- in the direction of favouring the countiy districts, by lessening the quota re ejtiirecl tyi'd increasing the quota inquired by the towns. Be sides this,-the 'eomnnssion«rs'are instructed alter ■ existing boundaries' : if'"'it canvbe Avoided. In view of this, it must be admitted that, on the whole, the result is favourable to the country districts, alttl therefore to the' welfare of the colony. Not that any one will con-tend-that intelligence is more gene ral in country districts than within towns, but because the country communities are influenced by passing popular breezes and temporary political nostrums. At the same time tli'ey are quite within hearing of any proposed reasonable reforms. Speaking generally,, therefore, the colony, and especially the Nortl Island, is to be congratulated or: the passing of this measure, how ever disappointing it may be in .some respects. . ■ ■. '' This subject being practically dis posed of, the next sensation will be the discussion on the financial pro posals of the Government, which art fixed to commence to-morrow, Owing to the Queen's Birthday intervening, it could not come on sooner. It is quite on the cards that this discussion may end in the defeat oi the Government, which again will involve either the formation of a new Government or adissolution. In view of the latter possibility, the ; North' Island is again to be congratulated on the passing of the Representation Bill, as it has the effect of taking three 1 members from the South and giving them to the North. To-day, the 68th anniversary oi the birth of her Majesty the Queen, will be observpd as a general holiday through nut the Empire. The. chief amusement* provided for the day in Waikato is the Cavalry sports at Te Awamutu, and a foot-ball-match between Huntly and Cambridge at Hamilton. The 107 th English Derby will be run for to-morrow. - The Cambridge Jubilee Ball Committee met last evening to make arrangements for bringing the mutter to'a successissue. Mails closing at the Hamilton Post-office at 5 p.m. will be closed acpiartci of an hour earlier. The amended mail notice appears in another column. • Messrs S. Higgins and N- Anderson have been elected members of the iVJatainata Road Board. Ihe board give notice- of their intention to strike a rate oi in the £. - Nominations of candidates for the office of Mayor of Hamilton, vice Mi W. A. Graham resigned, must be by noon on .Friday, the .■ird .rune. poll, if necessary, will be taken "n the loth prux. The saurian monster has turned up again, this time at Pulceritnu. Weaieinformed that two Cambridge gentlemen went to look for it on Sunday and when they arrived they were informed it was a red deer. At a special, meeting of the Hamilton Jiorotiirh Council oil Siitilicl.ty, the resignation of Mr W. A. Graham as mayor was received and accepteel, and # Mi Geo. Edgecumbe was appointed actingmayor. The auctioneers of Cambridge must look to their laurels or the inhabitant,of the .neighbourhood will be getting the poundkeeper to hold a sale. Yesterday he sold five horses and a colt., and realised £10 8s Gd upon them. Forty people were present and even scrubbers fetched a good price. The number of Roman Catholics in New Zealand is 79,004—in the North Island 34,82-1 and in the South 44,17!). OI these-at least To, 000 are Irish, either by birth or immediate descent. There -are 102 priests, of whom one is Italian, 0110 a Colonist, 3 Germans, 8 Englishmen, 1 Scotch, 21 French, and (>4 Irishmen ; 3 lJishops, ol whom one is an Irishman and the othei two' Englishmen. This afternoon the opening' match of the football season in Waikato wi'l be : played on Sydney Square, Hamilton, be 'tween teams representing Cambridge anc Huntly. Both teams have been in practice for some time, and Cambridge _ will have the advantage of Newman, one of the best , Gordon forwards of last soft-son. Notwith i standing this the Huntley men are con fa .. dent of success. ! Some more litigation is likely to i arise out of the Vincent-McLeod dispute ir ,-. Hamilton East. The Vincents got pos session of the house on Saturday, but wen ' turned out by McLeod yesterday morning I Mrs Vincent's arm being hurt in the scuffle McLeod left a young man named McPher son in charge. Yesterday afternoon the ' Vincents made a second attack on th< ■' stronghold and ejected McPherson, win | says he was somewhat roughly bandied Both parties have laid informations fo assault. James "Wallace was brought up ii 1 the Sydney Control Gouvt the other '* charged with' being the occupier of premise! " which were used for the purpose of receiving money on his £10,000 annual consultation' oi F Oueen's Birthday Cup. This was era-cec by the misleading title of Sydney Jocke; " Turf Club's Consultation. Detectivi i Geeking hud forwarded £1 and obtained i . ticket, and ho appeared as prosecutor ; Wallace pleaded guilty, and was fined iio 1 with 10s lOd costs, three months in default £ The fine was paid. This particular con sulfation is one against which the publn have been specially wanieel for the past twi e years. E We are pleased to learn that th( subscriptions to the fund for enlarging tin Cambridge Library are steadily progres ® sing. The amount promised up to his) e evening was .t'.'l-', while only a little more s than half the townspeople have as yet beet canvassed. .Many of the country settler; * will doubtless subscribe, and should the 1 races and ball prove the ««ccc u -?cs that lire anticipated, the committee will be able te, make considerable additions to the build--0 ing. The lir-t consignment of new. books srfected by the committee some little time y since have arrived, and will be placed ill t the library in the course of a day or two, [ They are in much better bindings than any,of the former ones, and wo trust the ® readers will take every care of them. Messrs- Goldsborough and Comd pany, Limited, report having sold to :: ,y powerful London company, Mr O. Ji. Fisher's station property in the northern ' territory, South Australia. The property e consists of about 34,000,000 acres of lease

hold land, the leases for which have eightc&i years yeEliiV run, with 40,000 acres of freeholdsj together ,with 25,000 head of cattle;' 0000 horses, several steers, and a large The carrying capabilities of 'the Restate are estimated at 1,000,000"head oLcattle, or the equivalent in, shebp, for which the country is well adapted. A public meeting, called for the purpose of affording the bin-posses information in regard to the proposed public buildings, was held at the Public Hall, Hamilton, last night, the Acting-Mayor, Mr fcr. Edge- * effnibe/litthe ohiiir.S TheraHvaa a very large about 2pdpersdhs v beiug pfesent. l A iiiunbet' of aßked.amd answered by the chairman and members

of the council, after which a motion was carried almost unanimously, leaving it tu the council to determine the site. Oil the motion of Cr. Knox,,it ( was unanimously resolved'to ask Cr. Edgecuihbe tuicontest the mayoralty, but Cr. Edgecumbe, while acknowledging the high compliment paid, him, said he could not accept the honour. He moved a hearty votecofr thauks'to-the; late mayor, Mr Graham, for the active interest that gentleman had always taken inthe welfare of the borough. The vote was carried by acclamation, -and the meeting closed with the usual compliment to' the chair. < The Otago Daily Times has the following: — Certainly) thebrightest and most 1 original idea yet""conceived for the Jubilee celebration has been i mooted at Tomuka. At a public meeting held there a fow nights ago to consider the matter a Mr i Badman proposed ; ; —" That the justices of the peace of this, district be ; :requested to .meet the citizens in this-hall,that they bo courted by the citizens to the,.public park, and that they shall -theije-, be hiing by the? neck till they , are dead." He objected to the numberless suggestions about free this and free that,, that had boeu : -made 'ffethe celebration.of this aitspichms event. had too many things free already, ihey had free education, which was only rearing up a lot of larrikins, and they would soon be. asked to buy pianos for them. He thought his proposal was a most fitting (nib. If hq were a justice of .the peace ..he should feel proud of the honour of dying for his Queen and country. , An interesting episode has been brought to light in connection with the death of the late Earl of Iddesleigh. A London correspondent of a New York paper was passing the Foreign Office on the day in question, when an attendant rushed out in a great state of excitement, saying "that he was in search of a doctor, to attend the Earl, who had suddenly been taken ill. A few minutes later it transpired that theKill was dead.' The correspondent at once telegraphed the news to New York, andimproved the occasion by sending another | telegram to the Queen, couched in the foli lowing tenns Correspondent, New Y, o rk.—Queen Victoria, Windsor.—Lord' Iddesleigh died ten minutet smco. I lie Queen, of cour.se, could not at first understand how it happened that the fiistintimation of the death should have reached v her from such a source ; but, having ascertained the facts of the case, her Majesty at once forwarded a letter of fchruika to cpitespondent for his thoughtful promptitude in thus>anticipating her responsible advisers.

Puff, in the Wellington Press, says :—lt has been decided.to sink a well and erect a pump in, the suburb's ! I'wish they'd do something of that sort:here ! its bad'ly wanted ! Last night I met a ; loyal subject about lift x 4ft, singing .UocJ: Save the Queento the tune of Rule Britannia, and he bore down on me at an angle of 4o degrees and nearly knocked \ne into little flinders ! What did you say ? I said Hold up, sir ! I fear me you have been looking cm the wine when it was red How did you suffer your rebuke ? He let a house lean up against him while he lit his pipe, aud then lie replied " T'worn't wine—twas whizzle, whisky ! I've been joolibratin er Mashsty s Colly bee ["—Colonial delegates had lunch with the Queen at Windsor yesterdy ! My stars, they're having , a high tune 1 Such dawgs ! Hum, well it's liigh-toned,of course to have lunch with the Queen at Windsor ! But I should say it s precious slow ! Any amount of gold plate and frozen grandeur, but deuced little grub and no conversation ! Thanl«,l think I prefer ' a homely eighteen-psnn'orth at Ucciaental ! On Saturday afternoon the chairin an of the CcUiibridcfe Road L>oard some of the mombers met for the purpose of opening tenders for contracts No. 11 and 12 forming and gravelling at the half-way road and No. 3 Cross road. The following tenders were received : —No. 11, !)5 chains long : C. S. McCallum, formation, bs per chain ; gravel, Gd per yard (accepted); J. Coombes, 2s (id and 7d ; Norrish, 2s (id and 11.'.d ; Jas. Hamilton, 3s and !Jd ; Gnckett, 4s and Is ; T. Norris, 4s 3d aud Is ; Thomas Brothers, 5s 3d and Is. For contract No. 12, the following tenders were received T. Wattain, 4id per yard (accepted); Vickers, 4kl ;" Crouch, 4','d ; Thomas Brothers, Bd. Mr J. R. S. Richardson wrote, re making of drain from the JVLaungakawa road to the Karapiro at the junction of the country district with the borough. The domain board and Messrs Richardson and W. K. Carter were all interested, and would combine to do the work. The board agreed to subscribe £4 towards the work, as the engineer reported that the road wanted draining badly. No future responsibility would be undertaken as to the maintenance of the drain.

Correspondence with the AgentGeneral as to supplying New Zealand tinned and frozen meats to the Imperial troops iii England has been laid upon the table of the House. Tho correspondence dates back from July, ISBS last. A letter from the Agent-General on the subject is dated ]Bth March last, aud runs thus:—"The Hon. Premier. Sir,—As indicated in my letter of the Bth inst., I have now received the' answer of the Admiralty on the subject of tinned meat. The annual conKUinption of preserved beef in the navy is only 300,0001b5. of mutton 150,000! bs., or less than a 2ooth part of the annual importation of frozen sheep. The Admiralty do not see how tenders could be obtained direct from the colony, but. would be willing to make contracts for two or three years, and to inform me when tenders are invited. Tho form of tender specifically named Now Zealand meat, and the good brands are in fact known here. In any ease there ought to be agents here fully authorised by a New Zealand contractor. I have now got information as.to all-the best brands, and am sending it. to the Admiralty and War Office," The gigantic iron .tower which it 'is intended to erect in the Lxhibition at Paris—called the Eiffel tower —is not meeting with universal approval, for the Paris correspondent of the Times says the following remonstrance is being signed against the famous liiffel tower, nicknamed the " Tower of Babel," by the leading authors, artists, and dramatists : "Wo"come, writers, painters,' sculptors, architects, passionate lovers of the hitherto intact beauty of Paris, and protest with all our might and all our indicrnation in the name of disregarded French tasts, and menaced French art and history, against the erection in the very heart of our capital of the useless and monstrous Eiffel tower, which public sarcasm, so often marked by common sense, and a spirit of justice, has already christened " Tower of Babel. Is the city of Paris about to associate itself with the grotesque and mercantile imagination of a machine-maker, irreparably to disfigure and dishonour itself? For the Eiffel tower, which even commercial America refuses, is, rest assured, a dishonour to Paris., -Everybody feels it, everybody says it, everybody is deeply grieved, and we are only a feeble echo of the universal opinion, so legitimately alarmed. . . • Imagine for a moment a dizzily ridiculous tower, overlooking Paris like a gigantic black factory chimney, overpowering with its barbarous mass Nutre Dame, La Sainte Chappelle, the tower of St, Jacques, the Louvre, the Invalided Dome, and the Aye de .Triomphe —all our monuments humiliated, all our architecture dwarfed, and fated to disappear in this stupefying dream. _ For twenty years we shall see tapering, like a spot of ink, over the entire city, still thrilling with the genius of so many centuries, the hateful shadow of the hateful column of bolted sheet iron."

Considerable excitement was caused in Hamilton East yesterday inorninr» on tho circulation of a report that a boy named Cockhead had so severely injured a lad named Roach that the latter was not expected to live. We have made the fullest enquiry, and find that the circumstances of the case are somewhat as followslt seems that _ tho boys had quarrelled tho previous ( day and that Cockhead, with the assistance of his brother, had succeeded in adirunistering a beating to Roach. _ Yestorday morning young Roach, who is about lh years of age, went to meet hi 3 opponent of tho previous day, who is about the same age, and challenged him to fight. Young Cockhead, with his little brother,

was returning from the cemetery reserve with a truss of hay at the time, his brother carrying the haykuife. After fighting for some time Cockhead was apparently getting. the worst _of if,, being underneath, when ho sang out to las brother to cut Roach's head on. Ine youngster obeyed, but not literally, as ne only succeeded in inflicting a severe wound upph Roach's left leg, just above the knee. Nb, sooner was the wound inflicted .than the combatants separated, both parties making for home. Roach lost a great aoiti of blood before he reached his mother s -house, where some of the neighbours bound the/wound's up temporarily; .pending the arrival'of Dr Kerfny, who was sent for, and who sewed upthe cut and did all that was necessary ,in the case. The injury is not considered dangerous, but the patient will be laid up for some time. Subsequently the two Cockheads were arrested and lodged in the loQk-up, but it is not likely,that they will tie, charged with any serious offence.