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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3019, 19 November 1891, Page 2

Messrs Moore and lVlcKenzie are the successful tenderers for the erection uf the Anglican Church at Panroa.

As we anticipated, Mr Jas. Webber was elected Mayor of Cambridge on Tuesday, he being the only ono nominated for the office. We wish him every success and trust his year of office may prove a prosperous one.

A movement is on foot in Paeroa to requisition Mr J. McNicol to hold monthly cattle sales in that rising township, All these little, matters tend to show the community of interests between tho Waikato and the Thames districts.

Mr Isaac Coates being the only candidate nominated, ho was declared duly elected aa Mayor of Hamilton for the ensuing twelve months. This is Mr Coates' fourth term of office, and it speaks highly of tho esteem in which ho is held by the burgesses.

The second prize of £10,000 in the big Australian sweep has come to New Zealand, the lucky winner being an extra clerk in the Government buildings at Wellington. It is said that he now con-t-mpl.tes retiring from hii temporary posi'ion in the Civil Service.

Messrs W. Souter and Co., agri cultural seedsmen, Cambridge, have received a largo consignment of swo Iβ and turnip seeds from Sutton and Sons A list of th- vnriet'os i* adver.ned elsewhere, and Messrs Souter and Co. are prepared to forward samples for testing on application.

The tallowing , will represent the Hamilton Ciicker. Cbib in tha match with Tidiikariiniuii on S.turday: Browning, von Stiirmpr (ciDtain), B>rton. Stflveii", D'vios, Smith, Ewen, i'lliing, Hcott, Fielder, andOGira. Emergencies ' Hliaw and Hopkins, i'lay will start at 11 o'clock sharp.

Lord Onslow has placed his resignation as Governor in tho hands of the Secretary of State, for presentation to the Queen, If it ia accepted, he proposes leaving hero early in January. The reason assigned for his resignation is important business connected with his estates, which lenders his return Home imperative.

The Hamilton Amateur Dramatic Company have had scenery specially painted by Mr Neville Thornton, of Auckland, for the production of the " Collem Bawn" on Wednesday and Thursday next. A synopsis of the various scenes i 3 given in our advertising columns to-day, and a full programme will appear on Saturday.

At a meeting of the Hamilton Animal Boxing O.iy Sports' Committee on Tuesday evening a programme was drawn up fi i- the annual meeting, and which is published in thia issue. Mr C. J. W. Barton was appointed lion, secretary. Tho programme is a very attractive one, the Cup being worth £15.

Archdeacon Willis asks to be permitted to notify through our column that he will be remitting to Dr. Barnardo by tho next San Francisco mail, leaving Cambridge, November 27th- He will be glad to include any sums sent to him, no matter how small. He should havo them, however, not later than noxt Wednesday, Xovember 25th, so as to include them in the bank draft.

Yesterday we saw six very fine l'ttucn in Mr T. Well's store at Cambridge. They haH been grown by Mr Chambers, of Cambridge Went, and are to bo sent to Messi-3 Yates and Co—from whose seed they were grown—to compete for the prize which they give. Tho plants were of the cabbage variety and weighed 12ibs. This weight proved successful last year when Mr J. Palmer, of Wuodville, carried off the prize.

According to the Woodville Ex atniner, sheep-shearing machinery is fast cominir into general use wn the stations of the E-ist Coast. The machines give every satisfaction, and those who are using them reckon they will pay for themselves in the first season. It is estimated that from a half to one pound more of wool is obtained by the machines above what can be shorn by hand, in consequence of their cutting so much closer to the skin.

A few weeks since there was a considerable and unexpected rise in the price of beef in the Auckland market. This, we learn, was due to a cable order having been received by tho Auckland Frozen Meat Company t» send forward four hundred circuses of beef at unci'. Considerable correspondence has been goiug on for some time, past upmi this qnpsH'xi <>f export of beef, and thoro is every leason to look forward to an improved piio« tor bei f cattle, due to an extension in this branch of our fanniug operations.

The scholars ot the Hamilton Wnsl Si:l>ool are br.sily eiig.itfod preparing tor 'li-ir annual (Jlii-Nt'ii is pntertainiuont, winch will be held on Tuesday, December lorh. Th- , C'linijdieui, '" Cindorellii" i.< in cnuse oF prepuralinn, tiiblnaiix anil Songs will iil«.i form a portion of tlio |ir.>pramnie. Thfi-<e are in rnhnawd al.<'', and an oxC''|jtioii:il!y irood evening's amusement may lw liuiljiid forward t.i. as nnny of the chil-di-i'ii c-i«'e for the ilitfrtrent cliaractnrs, are evincing great aptitude f>>r the parts assieiiPd to them.

The reduction on freight charges i>ll fri.z-'U inuf.iiii ti> Krmlaii'i, referrfid to liv Mr Uivevliill fit tlm nineliug of Hie Farmers' Club on Mnnd.iy, will he a very wulcume iitlditiim to tho (j.-izicrs returns Lmt tht! oli-irea »';»■* lj J V r '"< now reduced to li'l-a s.wir.g ui at lensi 2i Ud tier head, and this desirable consuiniiwti.in Ins oeen brought about mainly by the wer-sistent etYovts of Mr L-.iwry. manager of tho \>nv Zualand L''ui and Mercnutile ■V'oncy C.impiny, who took every opportunity of pressinj? the matter on the nttenti.m of the Shipping Companies, with the forgoing satisfactory results.

MrßecKer, a Southbrcok farmer, li '-: a cow which is suckling a pig. He had s- 'lie pigs running in tho same paddock with tl.y rows, and oiiiiehow thi< strung'! frieii'i•i'.ip wis struck up. Before, ho knew of it, I,'. shifted the pigs, and was puz/.led by the u'leasincss of one of the cons, when a boy t.ilil him she. must lie fretting after the pig, which he had seen suckling her. Mr lacker put the pi;,' back into the field, and the cow and it ran to meet one another, delighted at tho rniinini). The social tea and entertain--iient, held in the Public anil Volunteer Hall I -,t night in connection with S. l'uier's, Hamilton, was a thorough ■aiccy.ss. Over ohm hundred and fifty of tho parishioners ■< it down to the tea, fur which ample pro-WM-.n bad been made. The after part of r!ie entertainment, which was devote , ! to >ocd and iii-trument al inu-ic, added much I 1 the pleasure of the evening. Pressure on our space precludes our dealing with tho programme in detail. A gentleman lately from Birmingham, England, supplies us with tho following :—Just boforo leaving he visited the business premises of the New Zealand Frozen Meat Company, situated in the Bull ring, High-street. It was six o'clock in thn mornintr, and the large shon was filled with frozen mutton, about 1100 carc ises, he was told. Eight hands were employed. At eleven n'ch.ck it night ho again called, and there was scarcely a scrap of meat lofc. Hundreds of pnoplo Hocked in and out of the shop during tho day. The roason for such a ready sale was obvious ; where English meat cost from 10d to lid parlb, New Zealand could be obtained for-11 to (id. The people like the frozen meat, aud in a city like Birmingham, where there aro thousands of factory people, the industry ia considered a great boon and freely patrooised.

Speaking at the Aehburton show luncheon, Lord Onslow said he had again visited the Longbeach Estate, and ho would never be tired of visiting it. He had visited many landed estates in England, and had inspected some large properties in America, and was in some degree capable of forming an estimate, but nover had he seen an estate so conspicuous for good management as Longbeach. It was a fertile spot now worked to advantage, and had been won from tho wilderness, a portion of which could still be seen at one side of the property. The employees themselves were enabled to acquire portions of land from the estate and settle down on them after having savei their earnings. If New Zealand were managed on the principle followed by the proprietor of Lonebeach thero would bo no need for immigration, and all difficulty over the land question would be at an end.

The Post's Featherston corres* pnndent wires : — " Notwithstanding the rough treatment he received on his previous visit Rundle, of ' Picturesque Atlas ' fame, accompanied by another man, arrived yesterday to deliver copies of the work. Having engaged rooms at the Empire Hotel they proceeded to distribute the numbers to the subscribers, who refused to take delivery of them, and threw the books into the street. Later on they brought a large cise containing copies of the atlas to the hotel and asked for a sample room. Mr Smith informed them that his sample room was let, aud positively refused > to have the case taken to the bedroom. Kxpostulation proving univailing a constable »vaa called in, but refused to interfere, and the atlas men paid their bill and left, vowing that an action would be brought against the landlord. They tried another hotel in town with the same result."

The Patea Press has the Wanganui Herald "on the hip." Three years ago the Press reported Mr Geo. Hutchi.on to have said that Sir Julius Vogel was " a political gambler who played with loaded dice." The Herald furiously denied that Mr Hutchison over said so, and there was much ado and production of shorthand noto.* and all tho rest of it, the Herald proving, entirely to its own satisfaction at anyralo, tho words were never used, But recently the Herald, in the course of an attack on Mr Hutchison, made it a serious point against him that he had said Sir Julius Vogel was "a political gambler who played with loaded dice." The Patea Press naturally has pasted the fly on tho wall. Clearly, if Mr Hutchison did use the expression, the Herald's " proof " that he did not wa.s more creditable to its —well, ingenuity, than its honesty. On the other hand, if he did not use it, and the Herald knew he did not, what shall be said about its making the charge now. The position i.s awkward, and needs explanation.

Our Cambridge correspondent writes:—Ra tho surpriso party, tn which reference was made in last issue, I find the facts were smnewh it distorted. The prinio movers in the scheme were two y >ung ladies, who were visiting Cambridge, and having spent an enj lyablo evening at a friend's house, they wished in eome measure to repay the host and hostess, and hit upon this plan to do so. naturally pressed a gentleman friend into the service, and ho, by their directions, issued invitations, the majority of which were accepted. The party would doubtless have been the success anticipated had not u busy-body made it her business to ride round the dist»ict and tell the country fiianda invitod that it would greatly inconvenience those whom it was intended to please; lience the catastrophe. However, a dozen were present, and spent a pleasant evening. Common courtesy demands that all polite invitations should be answered, and meddling with other people's affairs is apt to beget more enemies than friends.

Inspector Emerson and this force have returned from the Waipiro campaign. It was a regular picnic for the police and artillery men, and they enjoyed the fun immensely. Many old A.C. chums met and yarned about old times and the fun they used to have in days of yore, and thereby contrived to make fun for the time priisant. The police speak highly of Tub! and his tribe, and some of them brought back photos of the Chief taken in his regimentals aa Captain of the Waipiro Mounted Cavalry,in which he looks a sxreat swell. Everything was done en reglo, even to the firing of a salute, for the Dingadee sported an old six pounder that had probably not been discharged for half a century ; but that did not matter, for the old gun had about three charges of powder rammed into her when nearing Waipiro and was then loaded to the muzzle with —no ! not shot—"spuds," and (after the artillery corps had failed to fire her), n red hot poker was applied and the Maoris were duly saluted with three rounds of potatoes. This was more than the natives bargained for an>l they caved in at once. May our victories always be as bloodless.

The "incendiary rat" has frequently bean blamed, rightly or wrongly, for the destruction of valuable property. To-day (says a recent number of the Wanganui Herald) whilst Mr James Bock was dismantling an old dwelling in Guytonst.reet, formerly occupied by the late Mrs Campbell, he came across a rat's nest which contained among other things an iiupresented cheque on the 13 ink "f New South WaleH, drawn by D.»vid Murray in fivour of "Brandon," for the sum of £2 3s, and dated 2nd January, 188 G. MiBrandon has, no doubt , , lamented in vain the loss of the check in question, and will be glad to hear of its having been so c.trnfully kept for him by the larcenous rat in whose n«st it was discovered. The original purloinur of the cheque has no doubt lone since died and its descendants never considered the extent of their unrealised wealth. The cat has hitherto been blamed for many petty larcenies, which have in all likelihood boon the work of a member of the rat family, who are very numerous in Wanganui, and terribly destructive where their natural enemy, tho cat, cannot get at them.

Cardinal Moran, in opening the new Roman Catholic schools at Surrey Hills, New South Wales, said that at tho recently hold Anglican Synod, one of the resolutions adopted was for tho establishment of sisterhoods, or Protestant nuns, and ho wished their friends every success in their undertaking, though he had to confers th it ho had fears that their anticipations would not bo realised. Some years ago an effort was made in the same direction by thf? introduction of n community of Puseyite nuns from England. The rums were set to work in one of the dioceses of Australia, but with the result that half of their number became Catholics, whilti tliH other body returned to secular pursuits. If their friends succeed in establishing the proposed sisterhoods, he believe J th.it many of those who joined would soon rind themselves coining over to Rome, while the others, though dontitless in no way earnest in their desire to do good by works of charity and benevolence, would probably return to secular life. The religious life to be sustained, said the Cardinal, must bo veal, There wero two kinds of soldiers, the re;il and the theatrical—the one walked the stage with paper armour r.nd pasteboard helnibt, and to him a battle was a passing amusement; the actual warrior, on the other haud, was traiuad

and tried by service; his arms wens deadly, and war wa-to him a st.'in re ility. Tliis was ri.uch tho same with -istorhoods.