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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2889, 5 October 1889, Page 2

The police station p,t Rotorua has been proclaimed a police gaol. A concert will be held at Ohaupo on November (Jth, particulars of which will be advertised in a future issue. The Piako County Council will meet at the County Office, Cambridge, at It a.m. on Saturday, the 12th inst. The annual bachelors' quadrille party will be held in the Public Hall, Cambridge, on Thursday evening next. The Kaipara Times, published at Helensville, by MrSmithyman, afterstruggling for eight months, has ceased to exist. Mr Isaac Coates was yesterday duly elected, unopposod, as a member of the Waikato County Council, vice Mr 11. Steele resigned. There will be a meeting of the committee of the South Auckland Racing Club in The Waikato Timks buildin? this evening.at 7.30 p.m,, for important business. Chinese importers in Melbourne strongly object; to the new duty on eggs imported into Victoria. It has transpired that thay have been in the habit of importing preserved eggs from China. We would call the attention of parents in Hamilton to the dangerous practice children have of climbing up the hill by S. Peter's Church, and if it is persisted in, a serious accident will be the result. There was a fair attendance of members of St Peter's Working Men's Society at Hamilton on Thursday evening, and the subjects introduced were freely discussed by all present. Rev. Mr Biggs presided. The formation of a boating club in Hamilton is freely discussed. Some contend that the current in the Waikato River is too strong for rowing with pleasure, an idea scouted by others who regard this as an excuse from those who dislike active exercise. Victoria has some wealthy men. A sum of £15,310 was paid to the Victorian Government as probate duty on the estate of the late Mr John Wilson, of Woodlands, whose estate was valued at £340,807. Another sum of £12,0!) i) was paid in the estate of the late Charles Campbell, M.L.C. Dr. Waddington returned to Cambridge on Thursday. We are pleased to learn that the voyago to Melbourne and back has proved beneficial to his health. We trust tho improvement is permanent and that it will bo a long time ere he again leaves Waikato where he is so well-known and respected. The Presbytery of Auckland are arranging for a series of Evangelistic meetings in the various districts within their bounds, and have appointed the Rjvs. Kinlav, of Pukekohe, and Comrie, of Waiuku, to hold special services in connection with Trinity Church. Cambridge, during next week. The mission will commence on Tuesday evening, and particulars will be notified in our next issue. The committee of the Trinity Church, Cambridge, are preparing for the anniversary meetings, and this year propose to depart from their usual custom _of holding a soiree, and have a concert instead, to take place on Halloween, 31st inst. A very attractive programme is in progress, and doubtless ''the gathering o' the clam" will be as numerous and enthusiastic a-? in former years. There was no quorum at the meeting of the Kirikiiiroa Road Board yesterday afternoon, Messrs Primrose and Coates only being present. These members opened the tenders for road maintenance, and road formation at Taupiri. In regard to the former, the matter of accepting a tender was deferred to this afternoon, but for the road formation, for which three tenders were received, R. Waite, 5s (id per chain ; T. Clarkin, 4s OrJ per chain (informal) ; and Owen and Churches, 3i Gd per chain ; the latter lender was accepted. The home mission services in connection -vith the Hamilton Wesleyan I Church will be held to-morrow (Sunday), fith inst., when the Rev. John Law, of Pukekohe, will preach in the morning at 11, and the Ruv. J. A. Taylor, of Auckland, in tho evening at 7. Collections will be taken up on behalf of the. Home Mission and Church Extension Fund. On Wednesday evening the home missionary meeting will be held at Hamilton in the Church. Addresses will be given by Revs. Taylor, Carr, Garland, and Mr Elliott, of Raglan. The Hamilton String Band will give selections at intervals. Of the celebrated Mount Morgan goldmine it is said that, ono way or another, the lawyers have had far the best dividends out of it up to date. The legal stampers are always at work upon Mount Morgan stuff. The Brisbane courts are now threshing out Myenberg v. Billy Patterson and the Halls, a little £100,000 dispute about part-owneiship of the Mountain. Myenberg poses as the father of mining in Queensland, having held the first miner's right, occupied tho first prospecting area, and erected the first mining battery in the N-.irth. The defendants are among the wealthiest men in Australiatwo, if not four of them, being regular ' old man' millionaires. The early history disclosures in the case are turning out 99ozs. of greed and crookedness to tho ton of mnllocky fact. But worse is to come ; that mountf in will yet produce such a villanous novel as a suffering world has not yet seen. Uoing from home for news, we find the following paragraph in the North British Daily Mail of July 20:—"An alarming report has just reached this country with reference to the New Zealand coal. For mauy years there has been an increasing output of coal in the colony, and recently considerable quantities have actually been exported, and New Zealand has been confidently reckoning on her coal as an important factor in her future development. Now comes a geological expert—Mr James Park, F.G.S.—who, on the basis of elaborate calculation, tells tho colonists that at the present ratio of increase of output their coal cannot possibly last longer than the year 20."i3. The total available coal Mr Park estimates at 1000 million tons—just equal to about five years' output of Great Britain, as the rate of output is more likely to increase than stand still, New Zealand may find herself without coal in less than a hundred years." Betting, professionalism, rowdyism at football matches in Victoria and South Australia are becoming very serious matters and are attracting considerable attention. The leading clubs in Melbourne have a trainer to attend to the teams, and the men are treated more after the style of racehorses or professional pedestrians than players engaged in a friendly game, each player being rubbed down and his body oiled by the trainer before the game commences. The latest case of rowdyism occurred at Adelaide in the match between Norwoods and Port Adelaide, which resulted in a draw—three goals each. It was a teriibly rough game, three players being injured and one knocked insensible. Fifteen thousand people were present, and the ground was rushed by roughs, and at the concluHion of the game there were several free fights. Some of thR females present fainted, and the secretary of the Port Adelaide Club dropped insensible through excitement. The great resources of the colony, and, wo may add, the industry and energy of its people, are shown in the most striking light by a return just laid upon the tablo of the House. The object of the return is merely to show the price at which various articles have been valued in the statement of exports, as they are given for each year from IS7U to ISSS inclusive. Many exports of a new character, practically unknown in 1879, appear in 1888. Woollens, for example, to the value of £34,437; butter, £118,230; cheese. £21,790; and bacon and hams to a similar amount. Potatoes have risen from £8(507 to £42,208, and other articles show despite low prices the value of our exports has materially increased, showing a little over two millions more for 18SS than for 1879; this, too, in face of tho much increased consumption of all those articles among ourselves. Thefiguros show what tho people can do if they have but fair play, and not overloaded by the Government and Parliament in pursuit of schemes in some cases premature, and in others absolutely wrong.

The annual meeting of the Waipa Racing Club will b.3 held in Mr Lewis's Te Awamutu Hotel on Monday evening.

Apropos of exhibitions a good story conies from Gisboinn. Mr Shelton, of the firm of Common, Shelton and Co., said at the meeting of the local exhibition committee the other day that his firm intended sending some produce to the London Exhibition, but on enquiring received information that wool, grain, etc., would havo to be exhihited in different classes, and therefore nothing further was done in tho matter. Later on. however, a communication was received stating that the firm had been awarded a bronze medal for the excellence of their exhibits —though no exhibits had ever been sent!

During the discussion in the Victorian Parliament on the proposed duty of 2s per gross on imported eggs one member said there was nothing egg-ceptional in the proposal. " Eggactly so," assented another honourable and ruthless member. A Freetrader threatened to move a direct neg(g)ative. AMr Peacock claimed to be heard as belonging himself to the feathered tribe. A Protectionist member spoke contemptuously about the eggs imported from South Australia as being only Addle-laid eggs at the best. Another speaker opposing the duty with some warmth, was requested not to get egg-cited. Finally the duty was carried amid a triumphant chorus of cock-a----doodlr,-d i, in which two-thirds of tho House heartily joined.—Oamaru Mail.

The Ohristchurch Press publishes the following extraordinary yarn from its Akaroa, correspondent. A skelton of an animal two chains in length beats not only any record, but anything ever conceived as possible by naturalists :—" While some men were fencing on Mr M'Hale's property, at Raupa Bay, between Okain's and Little Akaroa, they came across some bones, which up to the present have not been identified. Part of the slHton was unearthed, and the spinal column and ribs exposed to view. The skeleton measures two chains in length, or about 130 feet. The diameter cavity or the spinal is 17 inches. The find Ins occ.isiond some interest, and is said to be well authenticated.

A man named White was in Hamilton last week, and represented himself as possessed of means and in cjuest of a property to purchase. A wellknown land agent took him around the locality to see a few properties in the market. He, Inter on, took a fancy to a horse Mr Windsor had in the sale yards and arranged with him try it with a view to purchase. Next day he said he was satisfied with the aniimil, and paid Mr Windsor ten shillings on account, until his remittance arrived, tho price of the horse being i>s. Ho then, it appears, sold the horse to Mr Qualtrough for ,K1 10s, and disappeared. It was ascertained that he had taken thu tram for Lichh'eld, and Constable Murray, armed with :i warrant, proceeded in that direction, and the, Tanpo police were, tilejjruphed to. Wliite was iirresto 1 by the Taupo police on his way bo Xapier.

There is nothing like a healthy emulation. I am told that the great couimsroial success that has attended the establishment of a surplice choir in a suburban Anglican Church has induced the minister of the Presbyterian Church not many miles from it to propose to his peoyle a novelty that he fondly hopes will bo oven a greater draw. His idea is to have :\ choir in which tho music will consist of a band of bagpipes, played upon by gentlemen clad in the national cost'inio, while tho ladies who join the. service are all to be dre-wed exactly on r,he model of tho Lidy of tho Lake. This may be all vury well for tho summer months—indeed the gentlemen with " nodings on them " would then be objects of envy. But for tho winter—for such days as last Sunday, for instancewould it be right even for the. sakuof bringing people to Church to ask 20 or 30 young men to turn out in their kilts ?"—" Atticus," in Leader.

The Argentine Republic has just tried the experiment of shipping live cattle to Europe. A herd of 48 ozen havo been despatched to Paris, and have sold at rates varying from £10 to £'20 per head. The experiment cannot be taken as a fair criterion of tho possibility of opening a paying trade in live cattle between the River Plate and the European markets, but in the opinion of the promoters it establishes the fact that a sufficient improvement has already been introduced into the native breeds by judicious crossing with English cattle for it to be feasible to breed animils which, delivered alive in Europe, would return a large urofit to their owners. It. is stated that the Argentine Republic lias about 20,000,000 head of cattle whose present average value is not above 15s, and it is therefore held to be possible that a very considerable number may eventually be, exported alive at prices which will enable tin; breeders to realise a large profit. Out of the 4S head exported to Paris only one died during the voyage.

The Rev. Mr Barneld. a LiberalUnionist, who was supposed to have Imun murdered, has really eloped with a girl to Canada, says a cable, -The Rev. Mr BuKeld has fallen a prey to the Invineibles, but in this c-ise the words conjure up no visions o? masked men and foul assissination, no murderous weapons and midnight, crime. It is to the Invincible passion, thu willing enslavement of the affection*, that Mr Barfield has fallen a prey, and he is as effectually put away—more so remarks the philosophical woman-heater,—as if he hail fallen beneath th-i daggers of the Clan-na-Gael Society. But what a vast field of operations this opens out for the anti-murder section of the Irish League. Let them gather together those of Ireland's fairest who are willing to sacrifice themselves on the matrimonial altar for the good of their fatherland, and then when it is necessary to remove swme human obstacle from their path, let them substitute the hymeneal bonds for the dagger and the pistol, and trust the voluntary martyrs for their country to effectually extinguish any refractory tenderness of their unwitting spouses.— Oamaru Mail.

We (Napier News) notice that thers is a ' vacant chair' to be filled at the Ot.igo University,—that of English language and literature, and qnite a number of applications have been received from gentlemen of high attainments nod excellent testimonials to be seated in the v.tcant article of furniture. In this connection it might not possibly bo out of tho way to give expression to the opinion that if in our schools, colleges, and univeisiliex, in addition to all the learned professorships of languages that are dead, and philosophies thnt might as well be dead, there were a suitably endowed professorship of Common Sense, it would servo to supply a felt want among the student*. Tlmre arc so miny things of which they arc ignorant, yet. which every person of common sense is supposed to know, so many respects in which young men who display the college parchments with such an air and grace, need to be instructed by their grandfather, that it would really seem as if such a professorship would be no sinecure. The professor of common sense would find occupation for his talents among the learned and unlearned of both sexes, and of every age, to whom he might teach lessons of propriety, frugality, and integrity, and it is probable that for the purposes of practical hfe the learning which ho would confer would distinguish highly those who who might be so fortunate as to obtain it.

The Wairarapa Standard is responsible for the following :■—The police of Wellington took charge of a young man who had passed off a cheque on a Greytown tradesman. The prisoner wa.s duly presented to the Wellington bench, when it was decided that he should be sent back to Greytnwn. This was a nice little trip for the policeman and his charge. When the case was called on at Ureytown it was found that the witnesses were not ti) hand and the young man was remanded for a week. Constable Eccleton has no accommodation for weekly prisoners, and so the man was sent back to Wellington again with the constable, who expressed himself as much pleased with the outing and tho progress Greytown had made since he saw it last. On Tuesday night another constable was told off at Wellington to bring the prisoner up to Greytown again. On Wednesday morning the case was called on, when prisoner's counsel asked that the case be adjourned to Wednesday next. Constable Eccleton objected, owing to the expense the Government was being put over tho affair. However, the remand was granted. The constable who had brought the prisoner up to Greytown had gone back by the morning's train, before the case was cailed on. Constable Eccleton had therefore to leave his duties in tho Wairarapa to go down to Wellington with the prisoner, Ho returned yesterday. On Wednesday another constable will bring the man back again, and should he not wait till the caso is over Constable Eccleton will escort him back if the charge is proved. This is the way in which time and monoy is frittered away. '

Inspectors of schools often call upon scholars to perform tiling that would puzzle older heads. l'\>r example, in. one of our town Hchools d'irinir Mm mjuiit examinations one of tlie lower standards was asked to put the sentence, " l.lio bird flow o'.it :if tho window " into other words (x'iys tho Oainarn Mail). Of course, the majority found it no easy task, but we are told that one small boy proved himself equal to tin-, occasion by producing the following elaborate paraphrase:—" The diminutive lneinber of tho beautiful feathered tribe soared gently and gracefully through tho aperture constructed in the wall for iho purpose of admitting light into the apaitmont, and, treed from that restraint and confinement which are foreign to its natire, sought again tho delights of perfect liberty.'' That lioy passed, and the inspector is said to be still engajrwl contemplating the possibilities of our national syttrni of education, and vainly hying to divine the boy's future — whether he will bo a distinguished doctor of divinity, an eminent barri-tor, a leading politician, a popular novelist, or only a poor penuy-a-liner on some obscure public print.