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Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2526, 18 September 1888, Page 2

Colonel Shepherd will inspect the Hamilton Light Infantry this evening at 8 o'clock.

Wheat is quoted at 4s 5d in Melbourne and 4s 4.1 in Adelaide, where also stone flour is £9 10.-i, and roller flour, £10 5.< to £10 10s.

The bakers have raised the price of bread to 31d for cash and 4d booked. The reasons for doing so may bo very satisf,»ctory to tho bakers, but are not so to the consumer.'.

There was a very Rood meeting of thq Waikato Educational Institute, at Thk Waikato Times Buildings, on Saturday, Mr W. S. Stewart, of Cambridge, occupied the chair.

Civil war ias broken out in Samoa between adherents of the late King Malietoa and Tainasese, the (Jcrmnn nominee, owing to the excessive tax-'*. Several have been killed on both sides.

At a confereice of Insurance Companies held in Wellington it was resolved that in nil cases of doubtful fires occurring throughout the colony, the buildings burned should be reinstated.

The latest market quotations by cable state that kauri gum ha 3 risen three shillinsrs. The wheat market is depressed, and New Zealand wheat has declined 'id per 4!Wlbs. New Zealand hemp is £'27 10s per t'jn.

The Christchurch Cathedral Chapter has decided to restore the spire in stone, according to a design by Messrs Mountford and Dob-ion. The masonry will bo less massive than that destroyed, and the iron cross lighter.

The resu't of the examination of tile Hamilton Kast school is very sati-fac-r.orv to h"admaster, Mr Stevens, Eightyei.'lit per cent, of the pupils examined passed.

The American Government have at last consented to give a sub: idy towards tin! Shi Francisco mail service, and the stun of 50,000 dollars (£10,000) has been granted for that purpose. The people of Auckland, naturally, feel very jubilant at the news.

Sir Julius Vogel appears to be mixing himself up with cable questions, and has made some proposals for the amalgamation of the Eastern Kxtenpion and the Pacific Companies, which Lord Stanley, President of the B :ard of Trade, however, does not approve of.

Mr T. G. Sandes received a sensational telegram from Hunt'.y oil Saturday. It stated that the miners there intended to tar and feather him for interfering with the coal traffic by writing to the papers, and the mines being stopped in consequence. There is evidently a misapprehension somewhere.

We would remind our Nfcaruawahia readers of the entertainment to be given in that township on Thursday evening next, at the Public Hall. Tho entertainment has been got up by a number of Hamilton ladies and gentlemen, and they are sparing no effort to make it successful. The proceeds are in aid of Mrs Abbot and family, which should alone be sufficient to induce a good attendance.

There have been two attempts made to hold a meeting of the Hamilton Cricket Club, which failed for want, of attendance on the part of members. The hour appointed was probably unsuited to cricketers, generally, and another meeting will be called for Friday evening, when we trust there will be a full muster, so that the reputation of Hamilton can bo sustained in the coming season.

The What a whati people, being greatly taken up with the Salvation Army, and as they liked their last meeting so well, have invited thorn out to that place again, and so one of the officers of the Hamilton corps, with a small contingent of soldiers, intends going out on Thursday next, should tho weather prove favourable. Several settlers in that locality remarked that tho " Army " meetings were just the thing for Whatawliata.

On 11th September, when the mail steamer Alameda was in lat. 25 46s long 175-4S W., one of the seamen, named Bolton, aged 21, a native of England, acoidentlv fell overboard. A life buoy was thrown to him and a boat lowered, and every effort made to save him, but without success. He was seen for a few minutes, and then disappeared. The boat searched for an hour and forty minutes, but he was not seen again.

As Thursday, the 27th, is the last night of 'he skating season at the Acme rink, the energetic manager, Mr J. G. Pannell, has determined to hold 011 that night a fancy dress carnival and masquerade, at which a number of prizes will be given for various characters. As this rink has been very popular during the winter months, we expect to see a good attendance at the carnival.

We have been requested to draw attention to the damage which has lately been done to the Hamilton West Baths. The caretaker's room has been forcibly entered and a number of the curtains for the dressing rooms stolen, and tho windows have also been broken. We understand that the names of the offenders are known, and the matter is likely to be put in the hands of the police.

A big tangi was held at Maungakawa on Friday over the bones of William Thompson, which had that day been brought from Matamata. Tawhiao, the Maori King, was present, with about 600 of his followers, and several pakoha friends were invited to meet him, but the dusky monarch was not in a mood to bo interviewed, and hid himself until they had departed. The funeral partook somewhat of a military character, as the natives had borrowed some guns from tho Toatoaroa settlers, and fired a salvo over the remains. analysis of the tendering for the hospital buildings about to be erected in Hamilton shows it to have been a remarkably close contest, four of the competitors having calculated within £15 of each othor for the main building, and within £13 for the fever ward. For the refuge the six lowest tenderers were within £13 of eacii other, and the whole of the accepted tenders amounted to £1202 14s 3d, while the architect's estimate was £1200. This must be most gratifying to Mr D. Richardson, who prepared the plans, as it is seldom that an architect is so near the mark as in this instance. Mr Richardson has met the eon ■ tractors on the ground, and the work is now fairly underweigh.

Mr Frank Graham, a member of the firm of Cuff and Graham, of Christchurch, has lately returned from California, and records his impressions in the Lyttelton Times, He says most people in California look upon ns and our mail contracts as very small things indeed. I have a copy of a Californian newspaper, in which Australia is spoken of as "the rabbit-infested Island," and New Zealand as " one of the islands off the coast of Australia." In order to realise what a small place New Zealand really is, one has only to go out of it. At the same time I must say we might take a leaf out of the Californian's book in one respect. Many of 11s seem never tired of crying " stinking fish." We don't believe in our country. The Californians are not like that. They lose no opportunity of trumpeting the praise of their own country. They encourage immigration, both by their private exertions and by public organisations. They don't depend on the Government so much as we do. In America everybody seems to have been trained to look aftei himself, and ho does it remarkably well. Business seems to be good, and everybody, or nearly everybody, contented.

The an aigements made in Queensland for carrying on the frozen meat trade appear to oe an improvement on the Bystem in Xew Zealand. An arrangement has been arrived at between the Central Queensland Meat Export Company and Messrs Tyser and Co., of L indon, hy winch on and after March next the latter firm will supply seven steamers, of 7000 tons register, to convey SOO tons of meat monthly from the works of the the company on the River, fit Rockhampton, to London, at a consolidated charge of in the lb., including killing, freezing, wrapping the carcases, and insurance. The company have arranged with a syndicato of London butchers to take the whole of the 250 tons of beef per month, which it is proposal to send home in the steamers, ;o that the carcasses will go directly into consumption without involving the cost of placing them in cooling stores while sales are made. It is exppctr.d that, the Game syndicate will take the fiuO tons of mutton per month, which will make up the total consignments of 800 tons per month. It has further been arranged that the whole of the 250 tons of beef shall be supplied by stockowners in the Rockhampt.on district at a certain schedule price, which will be higher or lower, according to the months of the year when fat stock are plentiful or scarce. The beef will bo bought by the company, and shipped on their account, as it would not bo worth while for the pastoralist.s to specially consign a few beasts each on their own account.

Speaking at Christchurch on Saturday night, Mr T. \V. Glover replied to a letter written by Mr Alfred Saunders, and published in a recent issue of a contemporary. Mr Saunders advocated the reopening of distilleries in the colony for the purpose of utilising a certain amount of grain and finding employment for a number of hands. Mr Clover combatted the arguments used by Mr Saunders in favour of the proposal and pointed out that when tho distilleries were working in Dunedin and Auckland some years ago, it was ascertained that instead of barley being bought from the farmers to make whisky only a Binall amount of inalt was imported (on the gr.iund that it was better than the locally made), and to this was added refuse sugar and what could be obtained by boiling down old sugar bags. It was very likely, Mr Glover contended that this would happen again, as it was found that grain was not the cheapest article to use in the making of strong drink. The Government paid £20,000 to buy out these two distilleries because they wore doing the colony no good, and only employed a comparatively small number of persons. As an evidence that distilleries were not the best industries in which to invest capital for the purnose of giving employment, Mr Glover mentioned a large gin distillery near Edinburgh, which, with a capital of one and a half millions, only employed some 150 hands. As against this was mentioned an iron industry in Sheffield with the same amount of capital, which gave employment to 3000 persons. Therefore, Mr Glover contended, the Government should, if they desired to find employment for a number of people, graqt a buih of moijey fo? the

purpose of working the iron sand at Taranaki, instead of investing tho public funds in whiskey distilleries that would serve no good purpose.

Whenthe Maori footballers played their first match at Melbourne, a coirespondent savs, there was ample evidence that New Zealand was well represented in the crowd of onlookers. From all over tho enclosure could be heard encouraging cries to one or other member oT the team, whom the ' barraker' had evidently known in the days ot yore. It was 'Buck in, Ellison,' 'Go it, Gage,' ' Now's your time, McCausland,' ' Played, Warhrick,' 'Good, Poneke,' and so on. In addition, too, the New Zealandcra aired their knowledge of the Maori language by yelling out the battle cry of the team, ' Ake ake kea kaha I" and by working in ' Kapaij' at every available opportunity.

Mr David Carman, of Masterton, who has just returned from a trip to the Old Country, brings a good account of the frozen meat business as conducted in London. Previous to going Home he shipped por Invercargill from Wellington 300 lambs and 200 wethers. They were consigned through Messrs Murray, Roberts and Co. to Messrs Nelson Brothers, of London. On his arrival Mr Carman called on the London salesmen with ths intention of disposing of them himself, but he found that the carcases were in excellent hands ; that the London agents were doing their level best to push the trade; and they were affording the retailer every facility for purchasing and distributing the New Zealand article. In every village and hamlet that he visited Mr Carman heard the New Zealand mutton very highly spoken of, and his impression is that very shortly instead of New Zealand mutton being sold as British, the tables will be turned, and British mutton will be sold as the New Zealand article. Mr Carman has shown us the account sales of his shipment. The lambs averaged Od per lb, and the wethers 4d per lb. The gross amount received for tha mutton in London was £468 9s lid, the charges amounting to £41 lis lOd. The advances (id per lb) and charges in New Zealand amounted to £303 2s id, and, on Saturday last Mr Carman received a cheque from Messrs Murray, Roberts and Co. for the balance—£l2sl6s. This means a return of 10s a head all round for shorn lambs and wethers that would not have fetched halt the money in the local market. Mr Carman is highly satisfied with the result, and he points out that since these carcases were sold mutton has gone np in price in the London market. There is one erroneous impression that he wishes to remove. He was told when selecting sheep for freezing that fat carcasses were not approved of. When he visited Loudon he was astonished to find that the more prime the carcase the greater tho demand and the better the price, and that several very large and very fat carcascs of New Zealand mutton were the theme of general admiration.—Star.

The career of the Canadian doctors and the fame of the Golden Chariot are still familiar to New Zealanders. Wo recently read an account of a similar wonderful cure.nil in Chicago, who pulled teeth with lightning celerity and gave instanteous relief to the deaf, lame, etc., with the sounds of a brass baud. He sold thousands of bottles of liquid in a short space of cime. The following extract describes another of this fraternity who is "practising" on the Irish. It looks as though there was a big gang of the quacks "doing" the world pretty freely. The " Chemist and Druggist says:--"The great medicine-man, whoso doings we have recorded from time to time, has appeared in the Irish capital straight from the Susqtieah Indians, and is attracting ciiounous crowds of the working-classes every evening. Hartley is the name of this wonderful Indian necromancer. He is a sallow-faced, long haired man of uncertain age, in backwoodsman's garb. Before commencing the sale of his wonderful ' liniment ' for rheumatism and all other ills, for which he gets 4s, Hartley gave practical evidence of his skill as a dentist. To the strain of his buglers and the tattooing of his big drummer lie drew the teeth of a number of persons, and v then there was carried lit) to the platform a an suffering from rheumatism. A speech from the quack preceeded the application of the liniment to the invalid's joints— which, by tho way, was done behind a curtain —and after half an hour's vigourous rubbing tho patient took a walk, which he had not done for 12 months. Then a man as deaf as a door post had a little cotton wool and liniment put into his ear, there was a tremendous crash from the baud, and lo ! the deaf man responded to a scarcely audible whisper, that he lived in Thomasstreet. The annosncement was received with enraptured applause. The sale of the medicine followed, and in a little while about £14 worth was disposed of. When the ready-money customers were all satisfied, a number of bottles were distributed to ' poor patients,' who had been recom mended by clergymen. The medicine ho supplies was made, he says, from ingredients not mentioned in any published book, and not to be had at the druggists'. The water in which the medicines are dissolved is imported, he further declares, from a medical spring in America. One of our correspondents assures ns that lie counted the sales of this gentleman last Saturday, evening tip to 262 at 4s each, equal to £52 Bs. Need it be added that the philanthropist puts up at the Shelbourne ?"