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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3162, 29 September 1892, Page 2

We notice the Musket horse Tetf.wil H t'. tun el our district as jjur ad verti>i'mniit in iliis l^stie. The prize schedules for the forthcoming Agricultural Slinw nre now ready fur riiitrit.'ntinn, und inny bo had on application 11 the Seeri'.tiry. The Rev. John Haselden will cive one of his interesting lecturec, illustrated by the mimic lantern, iti the T.inmhere school-house this evening. In our present issue will be found mli'crtised the routes to be travelled hv Mr./. .McXicol's "tall inns (Jip.sy King, Mountaineer, and (Jener.il Fleming. With reference to the wreckage found ue.ir lius-ell, the Wung.mui Herald says the official number (7513) is not represented by any vessel, but that 75138 is the number of an Auckland-built schooner Linda Webber. Shearing has already commenced in Waik.'ito, although the weatfier has not been very propiti us. MrPaton, of Haut ipu, tmole a start at the beginning of la«t week, but with the shovery weather sloiv progress has, so far, only be made. Mr Morris, the successful tenderer for the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company's new building in Hamilton, arrived hy triin yesterday, unci was engaged yesterday in making arrangements for a supply of gravel for the concrete foundation. We are sorry to hear that it is probiible that there will not be any cricket club at l'aterangi this season. A number of the last year's members, however, propose joining the Cambridge Club. This will be a great help to that body, and will enable it to put a strong team into the field. At the Hamilton Auction Mart, ! on .Saturday, 15th October, Mr John Knox will offer the privileges in connection with the Waikato Agricultural and Pastoral Association Show, to be hold at Chndelands, on Wednesday and Thursday, October 2(itli and 27th. On Saturday next, Mr Knox will offer the privileges in connection with the Hunt Club meeting, to be held on the Bth inst.

A brilliant vocal and dramatic entertainment will be held in the Alexandra Public Hall to-morrow evening, in connection with the Waipa Amateur Athletic Association. The leading talent of the district has been secured for the occasion, and the farce "A Regular Fix" will be performed by well-known local amateurs. During the evening the trophies won at the late athletic carnival will be presented. The following is suggested for killing insects 011 fruit trees : —One pound crude potash and one pound caustic soda, dissolved in water. This should be added to ten gallons of water, and the. fruit trees sprayed over with it before they come into bloom. A syringe or garden-engine should be used, and any juantity of it may be mixed at the vate given. This mixture will also keep birds from injuring the buds, and it will check the gr iwtli of moss on the branches. At the regular meeting of the Auckland Board of Education held on Tuesday, it was resolved to admonish the headmaster of the Hamilton East School, Mr Stevens, for employing persons to teach in the school, contrary to the regulations. A dispute between Mr Stevens and Inspector Crowe with regard to the last examination of the school, was placed in the hands of Mr Cooper. Mr Cooper stated that ho was going t'' Hwnilt m next week, and he would take the statements of the teachf.rs and submit them to the Board It was afterwards resolved that Mr Cooper hold an enquiry into the matter at Hamiltnn next >veek. —Mr Arthur Edwards of the Tamahere school was appointed assistant master at the Beresford-street School.

Constable Murray and family left Hamilton by train yesterday, en route fur Rotoma. A large number of his old friends were on the platform to wish him good-bye. In response to the petition sent to the department by the residents of Hamilton and district, asking that some other arrangement could be made to supply the vacancy at Itotorna, the Hon. R. Seddon sent the following telegram in reply:—"The removal of the constable in question in no way interferes with his status in the service, the removal being simply a departmental change. I have referred the petition to the Commissioner •if Police. lin no way wish to inflict any hardship, and, whilst admitting the inconvenience caused owing to members of the constable's family being in employment in Hamilton, yet the public service muet be our first consideration." The New York Tribune quotes a Kansas man on one result of prohibtion in his Statins follows " The fact tnat many people in prohibition States are using antipyrinc as a substitute for ale ihol shows how hard it is to make people sober by Act of Legislature. Kansas druggists sell an immense quantity of quinine, as well as bottles of bitters and tonics by the thousand, and Prohibition seems only t) succeed in compelling people to change their favourite drink. 11 is diliicult to imagine anyone eating quinine ;-r drinking it in solution from enjoyment or t iste, but the habit is a very common one in every large city; and now antipyrme is being taken to in the same way. No one can take large doses of quinine with impunity very often, and anyone who indulges in the antipyrine habit is laying up for himself a stock of suffering and debility which will make life a burden

to him." Dr. Newman put in a timely word the other night for the Maori place names, wishing to insert in the Land liill a direction that the irunes of townships should tie the Mairi names of each site. Mr T. Mackenzie, agreed that this should be done as far as possible, and the Minister for

Lands agreed with his namesake. .Mr Bruce Slid tint Americans now regretted not having preserved the Indian names, and in onr own cour,try we should preserve the musical and appropriate native names, which threw a halo of romance over a country without a history. The Mini.-tcr for Labour agreed us to the musical and poetic names, but hoped such mime* as Tapuae-harm-u, Waimakariri, and Paikakai iki, would be abandoned. Mr Wright and Mr Taipua exclaimed at this. As a matter of fact, the Minister had been singularly 1111foitunate iu his choice, for the names quoted were bath poetic and descriptive of the, locality—" Sounding Footsteps" "Icy Water," nun "The Hinnt (or Perch) of the Parakeet." Tlie feeling of the House wis evidently with the member for the Hutt, and the matter was left to tne SurveyorGenera I.—Post.

At tlie coming Agricultural and. Pastoral Society's show there will be exhibited some neivly-i m ported Romney Marsh sheep. The Kentish Exnress of July 30th says:—"Mr Robert Cobb, of Palmerston North, New Zealand, son of the late Mr Thomas Cobb, of Romney Marsh, has recently returned to England for the purpose of selecting some more Romney Marsh sheep iu order to procure a change of blood, and if possible improve his noted flock in the new country. He has spared no time, pains, or money in attaining this object, having thoroughly examined most of the Romney Marsh flocks throughout the district. Although experiencing great difficulty in obtaining the quality and evenness of fleeco required, in the colonies, we venture to say that the draft which he is now preparing for export, from some of our best breeders, in eluding the names of Messrs F. Xeane, Millen, James Chittenden and Gambi-ill, will not disgrace the breed in any part of the world or the reputation of their spirited owner." These sheep are on board the Coptic, due in Wellington on the 10th inst. In a private letter Mr Cobb said he went Home because the Homney Marsh sheep hitherto imported to order have nroxed comparative failures, because English bleeders give little attention to the wool, and devote their energies to the production of the best carcase. Mr Cobo, however, thinks he lias now secured "the evict I tiling,'' to use his own words, f--r the New Z aland flockmaster. -• Hawke's Bay Herald, 1

There has been lately a con-M'l.-rable falling otf in the monitor of r.-ci-pjenti of (ioverunieiit leli.'f in Brisbane. 1 his is partly due to the w.'eding-out process. many cases having been found to tie undeserving. There were now about SOO on the list.

Mr Bruce, the Member for Raugitikei, is regarjed ah a tolerable judge of Parliamentary ability. If he is Mr lush should feel honored, as he is described by Mr Bruce as probably the ablest ir.ember in the House, and tiie m 111 of the greatest general capacity.

Some idea of the magnitude of the operations at the Creentield Station (Utago) may he gathered from the fact that last year 11!,000 sheep from the estate were sent home as frozen mutton ; that all the year lonnd 2.) teams of four horses each are engaged in ploughing operations, and 1000 acres are annually under turnip cultivation.

The Garrison Band plays on the Esplanade in Wellington on Sundays, and the New Zeilimt Times says: —We hope that during the coming summer the band will continue these Sunrtiy performances. A collection was t.iken amounting to £11 2s 2d, and bad coins and buttons were conspicuous by their absence.

A good story i 3 going the rounds at the expense of a Victorian politician. When Minister of Education he visited a certain Sta e school, and was t .Id by the head teaeher that the standard of the er.rriculmu was not as high as it should be. "Inieed," replied the Minister; "that must bo rectified. I'll see that a carpenter is sent round to have it rai-ed at once."

Republics do not seem to come out any better than Constitutional monarchies after all. Neither are small peasant holdings the great cure all. Ln-t year in France 72,000 deaths resulted from starvation, and 75,000 people were driven insane by misery and the struggle for existence. The land is said to be at the root of all social troubles, yet in France it is said that the land is most evenly distributed among the people.

" Anglo-Australian " in the European Maii, wrotes :—"lt must be highly giatifyinetoall New Zealand wheat-growers that at the recent milling and biking exhibition, held in London, the wheat which won a gold mednl was stated by the judges to be that which most nearly approached the character of wheat grown in the Britiin of the South. It is certainly much to find tint the wheat of New Zealand is thus taken as a standard."

Mr John Knox has been instructed to sell on Satnrdiv, October loth, the privileges in connection with the Cattle Show, to be held at Claudelands, 011 October 2ilth and 27th. To intending purchasers, wii would point out that the demand upon those who cater tor the public on this occasion will be considerably greater than oil race days. R icing as a rule does not commence till after the mid-dny meal hai been discussed, on the show days a large number of people will have to be provided for who have been on the ground from early morn.

The Lyttelton Times say : The condition of the bulk of the wheat exported this season from Canterbury has been on the whole so unsatisfactory, owing to the bad weather at harvesting time, as to warrant the most careful inspection,and a good deal of necessity has been rejected. Hence it has been a rare occurrence for a consignment to pass without any being rejected. Mr Charles Jeffs, of Templeton, has however, just completed the delivery of between 3000 and 4000 bushels of prime wheat, without a bag being rejected. It is almost needless to add that Mr Jelfs had his stacks thatched immediately they were built.

According 1 to the Post, in the early days of the settlement of this district, Edward S. Curling purchased a property and died, laving it heavily involved in debt. His tir tin r in Kngland, Robert Curling, took over the estate, paid all the debts, and expended laree sums in developing the propeity, but never came to New Zealand. Mr J. C. Andrew is now pstitioning tile House through Mr Hogg 011 behalf of Mr K. Curling, against the payment of absentee fc,ix, as the latter claims that he is now so old that to compel him to come here would be " dangerous to life," and tie cannot" ti averse half the globe "to avoid the tax " unless prepared to die and become incorporated with the soil of New Zealand to complete the circuit. *'

Co operation (says a contemporary) is the hope of our immediate future —a system of hearty, honest, organised co-operation. We want n system in which capital shail no longer claim to dominate labour, nor labour to subjugate capital, but in which each may find its own good in that of the other. We want a system which, in the words of John Stewart Mill, " will seek conciliation, not by compromise, but by justice—by giving to every man. not the half of what iie a-'ks, but the whole of what he ought to have." And how does the philosopher think this is to bo brought about? By the magical substitution of the principle of men co-operating with their brother men instead of competing against them. "Of all the agencies,"' lie wrote, •'which are at work to elevate those who labour with their hands, there is none so promising as the present co-operative movement."

A somewhat unusual spectacle was witnessed on the Eastern Oval, Il.llarat, recently, when 40 Chinese assembled to play a game of football in aid of the local poor. There was a largo attendance of the public, who were in.icii amused by the wild movements of the Mongolians, many of whom appeared to think that seizing the ball end making off with it was the main point to be observed. Spills were numerous and play was carried on amidst the constant excited chatter of tho players. The sides chasen were Gardeners v. Miners, the whole of the players appearing in orthodox football costume —the former wearing blue knickerbockers and yellow guernseys, and the latter in yellow knickerbockers and blue guernseys. The gune resulted in favour of the Gardeners by 4 goals to 2. During tho progress of the match a large quantity of fireworks was let off, and substantial refreshments were dispensed among the visitors, It was expected that the effort would give a handsomn profit. The Chinese expended £50 in making preparations for the match.

The clever writer of Political Notes in the New Zealand Times, a journal which has been for some months past run in the Government interests, speaks of ■' the last sigh of the freeholder." The wit of the phrase lies somewhat in the truthfulness of the idea it conveys. Just as our friends the Russians have insidiously and persistently drawn a cordon round northern India, so the Government have for some time past been engaged in a quiet but determined effoit to ring-bark the freehold title in this Colony. They dare not openly propose to destroy it, but the chiefs of the party are, in the main, avowed Land Nationalists. and they are diligently engaged in undermining a time-honoured institution which thev have not the courage to kill openly. It is, perhaps, rather early for one of their supporters 11 talk about " the last sigh of the freeholder,''but it is quite time that the somnolent freeholder himself woke up betore his title is filched from him. We hope to hear, not of " the last sigh of the freeholder,'' for sighing after all is a sdly, sorry business, but of his last kick at the men who are wantonly destroying the fruits of his industry and toil. The last sigh of the freeholder will come some day if the present party remains in power, but before that sigh is emitted we trust the freeholders themselves will have something to say and something to do. If they remain quiescent much longer they must not complain if their freeholds become converted into leaseholds —if they become a race af serfs instead of a community of yeomen.—Wairarapa Times.