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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3042, 14 January 1892, Page 2

Mr and Mrs Roth well and family tender their sincere thanks for the great kindness showii them during their recent bereavement

The monthlv meeting of the membrrs of the Hamilton Branch of the W ikato Firings' Club will be held in The Waikato Timhh Buildings <m Monday evening next. The Lancet says that the brims of children's hats should be turned down, so that the sunshine may nut distort their faces, corrugate their brows, and half close their eyelids. A meeting of the Ngaruawahia Racing Club will be held in the Town H ill, Noarnawahia, at 8 p.m. on Tuesday next, the 19th inst. The meeting will be open to the public, of whom it is hoped there v/ill be a good attendance.

Colonial butter has been reehipped to Scotland, where the average price obtained is similar to that realised in London. It is considered that if the Government brand butters they ought to distinguish between factory and dairy made.

The Sportsman states that Africa, Canada, India, ail the leading Australian statesmen, presidents of University boating clubs, Lord Carrington, Lord Harris, Messrs Spofforth, Murdoch, Grenfeld, Perkins, and Alcnck warmly support the pro-p-jged Pan-Britannic contests. 'Xhe partnership hitherto existing under the .style of Larney and Clifford, as farmers and graziers, haa been dissolved by mutual consent, Mr N- A. Larney wi carry on the business in future, and will receive all sums owing to the Uteftra and settle all outstanding accounts.

Mr Lawson, who has made a temporary exchange with Mr Coom, resident engineer for the Auckland section of the railways, went up by.train to ie Kuiti, on Tuesday. Hβ was in Hay?i}ton for a short while yesterday, proceeding on to Iβ Aroha in the afternoon, and will return to Auckland to-day.

Messrs Souter and Co., seederaen, Cambridge, draw special attention in another er.lumn to their stock of binder twin*, they having received a large supply of "DinaghyV' from Dunedin, and also a good ptoclc from the Tuakan factory, both of which are well known in this district for the evenness and strength of the article they turn out.

A deputation of unemployed waited on the Mayor of Dunedin on Tuesday. It was represented that, upwards of a. hundred men arc in urgont need of employment, some haviosr been idle for two months, and some not /juvinz had eirployment since they wers din?.!i:n-,,'ed from the general work at CatliVs River. A Brisbane telegram states that ft terrific hailstorm fell over th» (iehs m and Crow's Nest line-: on Friday night. January lst. Tnn hailstones are described as bein» as l.ir»e a' teacups. They pierced iron vnnfi», killed fowls, destroyed fruit treas a,ml the growins? cropland did a great d'al nf damage. lfan<7 farmers estimate their I..b<hs nt sfwernl hun'ljvd pounds.

The Wellington Post says it Jβ that at t'i3 end "f his pmswift t-r-n .if office in Aoril n'-xt, Bnther H*nrv fiviinsm. fhe Mn-t Wor<Mpftil Orand Ma-t°r of HTftw inland will rotlr* fr.jm the Gr.vid Ma3ty>) chair. His successor will lih Vα- .itlu-r Malcolm Nicuol, at present B.W, Giand Superintendent of Auckland.

At the summer meeting of the Poverty Bay Tort Club on Tiißvliiy tho Wailtuto -p.'irtsman. Mr 1). McKinnon scored two wins ; in the Tnningii Handicap of t'2oo with Scot Five, and in theFlyinp Stukm i-.f t'SO with L'>ch Ness. The dividends were i'Bl* and t'l 19s respectively. Wβ hiiye " Donald'* "' Rood luck may continue.

Mr "William Duncan, J.P., Inspector lit Assessors under the Land and Income As-"'s>inent. Act, with Mr Campbell, the cthinf clerk in this Department, arrived in Hampton on Tuesday. Mr Duncan has been waited upon by the assessors conducting the valuation in Waikato. Hβ proceeds tn Mnrrinsville to-day, si.nd on Sftturilny leav.?s fur Raglan.

Now that the fruit season is! coming en, growers would b» doing a great kindness if they would forward a little for the use of the patients at the WaiUatu Hospital, by whom it. would be greatly appreciated. The fruit need not be taken up to the Hospital; if it were left at any of the stores in town, arrangement* would be made for forwarding it to destination. Shortly after 6 o'clock on Tuesday evening a fire broke out in a shed in which soap is boiled at Pearson's soap factory, Hamiltsn East. The flames had burst thiough the walls and roof, and were shooting high in the air before the fire was noticed. Luckily, however, there was no wind at the time, and a number of willing hands were soon on the spot. There was a plentiful supply of water on the premises, and although the flames had apparently obtained a strong hold on the shed, it was not lonp: before they were subdued. Not much damage was done beyond the charring of the rafters and weatherboards.

The largest refracting telescope in the world at present in that known as the "Lick" telescope, in the observatory of that name on Mount Hamilton (observes an English contemporary). The diameter of the object; is 3G inches, and it* performance is splendid, more than fulfilling expectaUons. But it will have to tike second place shortly. There is being con strnctad for the observatory to be erected on Wilson's Peak, California, a huge telescope, the object glass of which will be 40 inches in diameter. The objective is being worked by Alvan Clark, and will itself cost £12,000, while the telescope, with mounting complete, will probably cost £24,000, and the observatory and dome about £6000. Perhaps it is hardly necessary to mention that it is proposed to exhibit it in Chicago at the World's Fair of 1893. To lovers of bathing, a few suggestions may be found advantageous in preserving life. Men ara drowned by raising their arms above the water, the unbuoyed weight of which depresses the head. Animals have neither motion nor ability to act in a similar manner, and therefore swim naturally. When a man falls into deep water he will rise to the surface and continue there if he does not elevate his hands. If he moves his hands under water in any way. he pleases, his head will rise so high as to allow full liberty to breathe ; and if he will use his legs in the act of walking, or rather walking upstairs, his shoulders will rise above the water. The weight of che hiiroai body and the weight of the water differ so little that the least exertion in the proper direction, and, above all, presence of mind, is sufficient to meet any immediate danger from drowning. Sir Mathew Henry Davis, the Speaker, in the Victorian House of Assembly who was one of the lucky few who made a rapid fortune in the early days of the land boom has been heavily hit by later speculations and has resumed the practice of his profession as a Solicitor. He is one of the very few who managed to obtain great profits without incurring any imputation of jobbery or wrong doing and great sympathy is felt for him. Most of the great land boomers were incarnate villains and unhappily some of them managed to secure their illgotten gains beyond all danger There were simply gigantic cheats obtaining money by false pretences ; declaring that they wera purchasers when they were really vendors ; asserting that they had given a particular price when they had really received heavy " rebates," and generally swindliug their own friends and confederates no less than the public. Fortunately for the interests a£ justice a pending law suit over the affairs of a bubble bank threatens one of the biggest of the lot with having to disgorge a great quantity of his spoil and with an exposure which will he feel even more.

The Evening Press says :—As We have pointed out previously, the Goverment have, whilst posing before the country as pitiless retrenchers, and actually indulging in " sweating " of a vnry contemptible sort, been so arranging the expenditure on public works that whatever party may be in power two or three years hence, another large loan will be an absolute indispensible necessity. What will happen in New Zealand is shown by the policy of the present Ministries in Victoria and New South Wales. In both of these colonies the Governments are ultra Democratic. In both they oustad the preceding Ministries mainly on the nonborrowing cry. Yet we find the Dibbs Government in New South Wales going in for Treasury bills to the tune of £4,000,000, whilst the Munro Mini»try in Victoria are attempting to rise £2,000,000 by a similar process of " kite flying." Here we behold a nefarious and illegitimate meane of pledging the public credit, whilst the money will cost 4£ per cent, instead of the standard interest of 3&per cent.

There is evidence forthcoming from the bush (save the Wairaiupa Daily) that the present attempt 5o run public works construction on the co-operative system is a hideous failure. We have some reason to believe that the £17,000 to be divided amongst small contracts on the Eketahuna-Woodville line will only purchase about £7,000 worth of work, and that even the £10.000 surplus which raigh'; be siippo-ed t>) be divided a< a bonus amongst a couple of hundred w-operators, and thus promote settlement, will find its way into the pockets of a few lucky contractors. We say "lucky contractors" because, although the new system 18 intended to abolish contractors and their profits, it virtually perpetuates them under a new name. Smith or Jones, as the case

may be, is no longer a contractor tendering in the open market, hut a Ranger, who secures a fat contract at a fancy price without competition. The old-fashioned tenderer was often an " unlucky contractor," but the new-fledged ganger is perse "the lucky contractor," and in the bush there is a regular howl about the gold mine which a few men have struck. A very serious danger has been exposed by Dr. Hpath in a paper to the American Farmers' Club, of which he is president. He asserts that turberculosis is a prevalent disease among animals slaughtered for food, and that cows' milk may be a ready vehicle for the communication ot the disease. Further confirmation of Dr. Heath's observations is, of course, desirable. In the French Academy M. Pench has described a series of experiments be has conducted. In one case he fed two of a litter of three labbita on disoased milk. One of them succumbed, and the othar was killed some time after. Both showed turberculoeis granulations. Some other experiments described were hardly so conclusive. The Medical Pres3 says:—"lt would seem conclusively proved that young children may acquire constitutional taint from the food which is regarded as their staple diet. Thore seems but one certain preventive at present, and that is to thoroughly boil all milk used for feeding purposes, and this precaution, at the pi'eBent time of year especially, ought always to lie observed. On a recent occasion the South Melbourne' Justices of the Peace made aesei of themse)vea in the true Dogberry manner. Francis Gleary, who was chargad with complicity in the horrible J>rkm frauds, was charged before them, and David Gaunson appeared for his defence. Now some months aeo when the Emerald Hill Justices were sitting in Petty sessions, ftaunson, whose Rood qualities and bad temper are equally notorious, had a breeze with the Bench, packed up his papers in a rage, flounced o.ut of the court, and swore he would never enters wain. Oni his appearance on Saturday before ,t. differently constituted Bench, the Magistrates present were stupid enough to demand *o apalogy, and to threaten not to hpar Mr Gannson if ho did not flKiije »ne- Of course he laughed at them and Mnnpd on his legal rights of audience, whereupon they were so supremely idiotic as to day fchey would not hear him on Wednesday, to which day the case was adjimrned. They could h<4 his game nor thxt of his client, better than by rafiwing. It U a question if they had any power .to punish him when the quarrol tnuk place, ft is quite cert tin they have no power to do 80 now. However, the preeenou of a police will be obtained and as hHCitP adjudicate ulojje,, Oho offended magistrates enn' tbip avpny jl .they'jplpiwa. They nerer will be missed.

The reported suppression of the rising in Northern China is doubtful. One of the most curious revelations ever discovered in a state paper is that which we are indebted to Lord Wols«ly in his article nn Count von Moltke in the Service Magazine. It appears that in 1841, when a European war seemed imminent, the King of Prussia made a formal request, to the Duke of Wellington, then in his 75th yei.r, to take command of his army. At this time of 'lay, when the immense re-

putation of "The Duke" has perhaps somewhat faded in comparison with the scientific abilities of the German generals, the proposition seems almost incredible, but Lord Wolsely has seen it in black and white ; and also the Duke's reply.

The Supreme Court of rasmania was occupied for a month previous to Bth December in hearing an equity suit Nicholas v Howells and others. The plaintiff, Nicholas (who was for some years a sottler in New Zealand), claimed either to share under the will of his late father, George Nicholas, or that a certain family arrangement agreed to between the partiee should be carried into effect. The Att'irneygeneral for defendants raised several points on which he contended the bill of complaint should be dismissed. The moat important were that the plaintiff had practically acquiesced in what had been done, having slept upon what he called " his right " for 20 years, that he was therefore barred by time, and thirdly, that fraud, on which his whole case resUd, had utterly failed to be proved. The court held the plaintiff had failed to make out his case, and dismissed the bill of complaint, but refused to give cost. Nicholas are said to be worth £60,000. Plaintiff eeemed to have been treated by his brother (siuca deceased) as ft person of weak mind, giving him to much us pleased him of their great patrimony. The Chief Justice, in giving the decision of the court, expressed a hope that, although the plaintiff had failed in hie euit, the executors would give him a share of what really belonged to him.

The persecution of Jews in Russia, and the efforts of thia unhappy race to emigrate to other cnuntrii;s, is causing much concern in the United States, where— naturally enough—an invasion of Jewish paupers is received with considerable alarm. An American New York contemporary Ha y 3 : _" Perhaps the most burning question of the hour is the repression 3t immigration, and especially the Hebrew variety ot it. Only a fow days ago the Hebrews themselves held a mass meeting at the Cooper Institute, and bitterly denounced the local managers of the Hirsch Fund for swamping all the trades in which pior Hebrews have hitherto made a scanty living, with hordes of pauper competition for employment. For some of the clothing trades wages have from this cause already declined GO per cent., and yet the importation of the fugitives from Russia has but barely begun, at the most only about 60,000 persons having as yet reached our shores. In New Jersey an agricultural colony for Hebrews has been founded, but it mainly subsists, not by raising produce, but by making cheap cigars and hats. By the time Congress meets, there will probably be an irresistable agitation for shutting the gate against the admission of more of these unfortunate people, and also of all pauper immigrants, without distinction of or nationality.

The entertainment at the Trinity Wesleyan Church, Hamilton, on Tuesday was not so well attended as the gatherings of this body usually are, a falling off which was referred to by the Rev. Mr Thomas in the course of the evening. The musical portion of the entertainment was certainly deserving of a full attendance. The cantata "Christian Graces," was excellently rendered by the members of the choir, assisted by a very efficient orchestra, consisting of first and second violin, Messrs Meachem and Rain, two 'cellos, Messrs Pallairet and Edgecumbe, Miss Kate Salmon presiding at the harmonium. The concerted parts of the Cantata wore sung with great precision, and although at first sight, there seemed to be too few male singers, the oarts were well balanced. Mr Montgomery's well cultured tenor voice, though not prominent could be heard to great effect, and we feel sure it would have gratified the audience if a tenor solo had formed part of the cantata. The humourous reading of Mr Manning entitled " What the Old Man Does is Right ; ' was a very happy selection containing an excellent moral to the ladies. This is the first time we have heard Mr Manning read, and we shall look forward with pleasure to another opportunity cf doing so. The ladies who provided the refreshments which were handed round during the evening, are to be congratulated upon the excellency of the different viands, which were of such variety as would attempt the most fastidious. Not the least important part of the entertainment so far as the younper members of the audience were concerned was the distribution of prizes to the successful scholars attending the Wesleyan Sunday Schools. The Rev. Mr Thomas in presenting these prizes congratulated the children who had been fortunate enough to secure them adding a few kind words of encouragement and advice. The singing of the doxology brought a very pleasaut and sociable evening to a close.

The monthly meeting of the Pukekura Ro&d Board was held in the Pukerimu School-room on Monday evening, there being present: Messrs E. Lake (chairman), J. Seiitt, and H. Kusabs.—Mr Thornton Walker wrote, drawing attention to the crossing at the creek on the road near Mr George Bailey's, which was in a very bad state, owing to the large amount of carting done on the road. He asked the Board to erect a bridge in the autumn, a» he intended tn take his threshing plant over it during next season.—As the letter did not say what was wanted, Mr Anderson was authorised to inspect the place and report at the next meeting.—Mr Shaylor Weston, of Hnkitika, wrote with reference to a piece of land (la lr Kip) taken from his property, Lot 243, Ngaroto, for a public road, and asking what compensation the Buard was guing to allow him.—This is an old affair, dating ten years back, and one which should have been settled by the Waipa County Council. It was left in the Chairman's hands, as he knew all the particulars, to endeavoiir to get the claim settled.—lt was resolved that the registration fee for land taken in exchange in opening up a new road be refunded to Messrs Caley and Wallace.—With reference to Mr Hughes' letter, held over from last meeting, the Chairman was authorised to have the panel complained of removed as soon as possible.—The Chairman and Mr Kusabs were empowered to get the furze, which is encroaching on the parallel road, at Ohaupo station, cleared and also to get some work done on Mr Gubbins road beyond Mr Mears. The secretary was instructed to see Mr Burn-Murdock with reference to removing the bramble on the roaa between Mr Day's corner and Mr Bells house. A rate of iu the £ was struck for the year 1891-92, and accounts for £10 7s 6d were paseed for payment. The next meeting of the Board will be at 7.45 p.m., on Friday. 22nd iost. :