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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3150, 1 September 1892, Page 2

A meeting ot the Te Awamutu Mounted Rifles will be held in Hamilton at 1 p.m. to-day, for the purpose of electing a lieutenant.

MrH. Bullock-Webster's hounds will meet as follows :—To-day at the Fencourt railway station corner, at 12 o'clock ; on Tuesday, (!th inet., at the Rangjaohia school-iiouee. at 12 o'clock ; and on Wednesday, 7th inst., at Cbrboy'e Hotel, Kihikihi, at 10 a.m.

Play-goers of Hamilton and surrounding district will be pleased to learn that the Dobson-Kennedy Dramatic Company will open for a short season in Hamilton, on Saturday, September 24th, in " Conn, the Shanghraun, The enconiiims bestowed upon this company wherever they have played convince us that those who do not attend their performances will miss ia treat.

Last evening Col. Fox, Col. Goring. Lieut, and Adjutant Grant, and a number of the officets and m6n of fcho Hamilton Light Infantry and the Tβ Awamutu Mounted Rifles attended the performance of Pinafore by the Hamilton Amateur Opera Club. There was ft large and fashionable audience and everything passed off very satisfactorily. Col. Fox will leave for the Thames via Tβ Aroha by train this afternoon.

A special meeting of the Cambridge Borough Council was beld on Monday evening, when a rate ot Is in the £ was struck. The nominations for the election ot councillors closed at noon on Tuesday, when the following had been nominated to (ill the three vacancies :—Messrs J. Hally, J. S. Bond, H. Kerr, J. K. .fierce and R. Davies. The firat mentioned three are the retiring councillors. It will be seen by advertisement the poll will be held on Thursday, the Bth September.

Nominations for the vacancies in the-Hamilton Borough Couucil caused by the retirement of Councillors Scott, Wood, and D. Salmon, were received yesterday as follow*:—Mr D. Salmon,, nominated by Messrs John Knox and L. O'Neill; Mr T. Qualtrough, nominated by Messrs E. T. Davy and Jas. Reid, and Mr S. Foulsham, nominated by Messrs G. S. jfenrson and E. T. Davey. Owing to the Returning Officer beiDg in Auckland attending the Supreme Court the official announcement will not appear until our next issue. It is rather disheartening after the lengthy experience which has now been obtained in the transportation of froznn meat, to read reports of ships discharging their cargoes in b.vd condition. In a report dated Julv 9th, Messrs Fitter and Sons draw attention to the larpe proportion of stinking hind-quarters of beef in some ot the shipments. Again, the report states :— "Wo are experimenting with refrigerated barges for bringing the sheep up to the stares, and doing all we can to get the meat to the market in good order, but when ship after ship arrives with soft and minildy carcases, it is very discouraging to us, and disastrous to the trade generally."

The success of the auction disposal in the chief centres of New Zealand, of goods consigned from Melbourne on behalf of insolvent estates, opens up a ratlier uyly prospect for importers and ratadere. The deplorable state'of affairs in Melbourne will oompel some fertility of resource as to quittance of overstock, and as the drawhack on duty paid etuff will pay the New Zealand duty, there is no reason why we should not have a trade disturbance from the necessities of our neighbours that may be awkward. There is no other spot in Australasia that goods can be shipped to fur cash disposal unless at a sacrifice, for all the continental colonies are in trade trouble.—Herald.

It was, we (Wellington Press) think, Mr Bruce who nsed a, most striking fiprnre the other evening to illustrate the effects of increased taxation. Add to the height of a monument and you inevitably increase the pressure upon its foundations ; and pile taxation on to the shoulders of the wealthy, and it is the working man at the base of the social pillar who will feel it mostly. A practical illustration of this is seen in connection with municipal rates and houserents. If the rates are appreciably increased it is not the owners of property who will really pay, for as soon as it can be done, all rents will be raised .to meet the difference, and when heavy taxes are hea-ped on the well-to-do they meet the case (if they employ labonr extensively) either by reducing the rates of pay or the number of their employees.

Those who are thinking of erecting good substantial buildings of any sort would do wall to consider the many advantages a good slate roof affords. In the first place it is mure permanent, and gives a mors equal temperature at all seasons of the year. The water frem a slate roof is not contaminated with vegetable matter, as is found more or less where shingles have been used, neither lias the water that peculiar taste frequently noticeable where galvanised iron is the material. We direct our readers' attention to Mr E. Atkinson'3 advertisement in this issue. Mr Atkinson is a very large importer of slates, and is prepared to give estimates, and provide competent men to carry out any work entrusted to him.

The two Waikato volunteer corps —the Hamilton Light Infantry and the Te Awamutu Mounted Rifles—will parade on Sydney Square, Hamilton, at 11 o'clock tu-day, for inspection by the recently-ap-pointed Commandant of the New Zealand forces, Col. Fox, who arrived in Hamilton yesterday afternoon, accompanied by Col. Goring and Lieut, and Adjutant Grant. It is expected that both companies will muster nearly up to full strength, and we feel sure that in every way they will bear favourable comparison with the corps lately inspected by Col. Fox. The tradespeople of Hamilton, by advertisement _ elsewhere, signify cheir intention of closing their places of business from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., in order to afford an opportunity for all to witness the manoeuvres.

The Government and their supporters like to claim that in abolishing the property-tax for their present pretended liind tax (which is really the property-tax with all its good point* taken out) they were doing service to the workers of the colony. The claim is a transparently absurd one. Without dwelling on the fact that they tax the savings of the workers in the shape of building society and friandly society funds, it must be borne in mind that in taxing joint stock enterprise the Government are also oppressing the workers. To take one example, the taxation imposed by the Government on the shareholders in the Kaiapoi Woollen Factory is just double that which they paid under the property tax. The factory employs (500 hands, and it is quite, obvious that as the company under the old system of taxation paid only very moderate dividends, the shareholders must, now that thuir taxation has been doubled, either submit to heavy loss themselves or else cons'llnnibly reduce the wages of their 600 employes. This is a fairly typical instance of the style in which' the Premier and his extremely "Libeiai ,, colleagues help the working classes and foster local industries.

A lady in Tasmania who had a fine show of Napoleon pear* in her Rarden last year naid in conversation with a New ZeitUnder who wan on a visit to thrft colony during the fruit season last year " that in former yeara ere this date, the fruit had all tallen from the trees." She considered the improvement due to the Codlin Moth Act being in force.

From an interesting report of nine month =1 working of the Tikoranei Factory, Taranaki, recently published we find that from October 2nd, 1891, the date of opening to June, 1892, the quantity of milk required to produce a pound of butter ranged from 261b llozat the first mentioned date down to 211b 15oz in June. It is worthy to note that the butter fat per Ballon increased steadily month by month iW the season advanced. The net value of the milk to the factory after providing for working and all other expenses, was put down at 3.Jd per uallon of lOJlb.

I'he planet Mars is now a beautiful object in the eastern sky every evening, and anyone within reach of a good telescope should nob miss this opportunity of having a look at it. The planet is now nearer to the earth than it has beon for 15 years past, and than it will be for the next 15 years. The distance is estimated at 35,000,000 miles. A good telescope readily shows just now the polar "snow" and the "oceane," and generally impresses an observer with the idea that he is looking at a real world not very unlike our own. The planet's position is a little to the south of east, and it is easily identified by its brilliancy and the intermittent flash of red light peculiar to it.