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Waikato Times, Volume XL, Issue 3259, 18 May 1893, Page 2

Constable J, Kavanagh has been appointed dog registrar for the Ngaruawaliia town district. The date of Mr Mason's clearing sale at Claudelands Nursery has been fixed for Wednesday, 7th June. : • Mr H. Bullock-Webster's houndi will meot at Fencmrt Railway Station tomorrow (Friday), at 11 a.m. The Colonial Treasurer of Victoria (a cable inform* us) has arraneed for the issue of twenty thousand £lO debentures, We remind those interested of the meetine thisorening, in connection with the Cambridge branch of the British and Foreign Bible Society, Chair to be taken at 7.30 p.m. A cablegram from Sydney last night sayn" The Premier has informed the southern colonies th it tin Government do not intend at present to consider the question of intercolonial free trade.

The date for receiving tenders for the erection of a house in ,Hond-4rnot for Mr Hatrick has, been extended by Mr White, the architect, to Tuesday next. This has aeen found necessary owing to the delay in get ting the plans into the several contractors' hands, Mr John Parr, Mayor of Hamilton, recently heard from Mr Seddnn, who stated that he expected to be in Auckland in theearlypartof June, and if time would permit, he. proposed giving addresses in Hamilton, Cambridge, anil Te Aroha before returning to Wellington, A man nanwd John Bonner was brouelit up at Cambridge on Tuesday, beforeTlios,,Wells Esq, J,P.,charged with being drunk and also with iudecent behaviour in Duke-street on the previous day. He pleaded guiltv and was fined 10a and costs or 48 ! hours imprisonment for being drunk, and 24 hours imprisonment for the other offence. Mr Elliott, the successful tenderer for the ere:t ! on of Mr Harker's commodious premises next his own new building in Hamilton, has made a start, the blocks and some of the lower framework bei'ng in position. The numerous buildings of late completed and those in course of erection give visitors a very favourable impression nf the progress of Hamilton. We hear that negotiations are pending in regard to the only piece of frontage on this side of the street now Tacant, between the Bank corner and the Commercial Hotel. The Hamilton Amateur Dramatic Society have, we are sorry to learn, been unable to make suitable arrangements within the time at their disposal forgiving a repetition of their entertainment, as was intended, at Te Awamutu. It, is tin-, fortunate that this has happened, as we feel sure our Te Awamtitu friends would have thoroughly enjoyed the ecellent programme that would have been presented to them. We feel sure that the Society would meet with a hearty reception if they would give another night in Hamilton, and we com-; mend this suggestion to the consideration of the company, At a meeting of the executive of the New Zealand Farmers and Country Settlers' League, Christchurcli, it \m resolved that a meeting of the League and delegates from the various branches throughout the colony, should bo hold in Christchurch, for the purpose of consider-, ing the legislation of the present Parliament, and how it affects tiio interest of the farmers and country settlors of New Zealand, to frame a farmers and country settlers' policy for tho next goneral olectioiy and to consider what steps should be taken for the purpose of advocating and advancing the interest of farmors and country settlers at tho gonoral election,

The Christchuvch Press records a')B liiislipl crop nf wheat <m tlio proprrty of Mr Jiilm Studliolme, nf Collslreftin. Tho de-ciiptinn nf wlirnt is Coldstream Champion, unit was imported about cix yii!.r< ago, Thi! yield-; in Canterbury woro very pour this year. Tho "Bruce Herald" describes Mr Hirnsli uv, M.11.11., "as a |j»«r craa» turn." "It is men nf his slump," adds our cniitfinpiiinry, "who rela'd progreffl insteal of promoting it, who trample true lihe.ity under font and set up tho spurious mticle; wile, servile from tlieit' birth, are never happy unless their weak Itnooi arc bending before sumo god tht'ir own nianulactnre.

A contemporary has the following ThiTi) is wason (says our London correspondent) to believe that tho reduced fares system to Now Z-aland is to bo wnrkfld in connection with tlm proposal nf the Eslates Company of thn Dank of New Z aland to settle selected families with small capit d upon their land, Nothing has yet been done about sending out any particular batch,

H new method of dressing wheat for dtxtmying rust and smut is thus do scribed : Lot sulphur bo placed on a plate iu a large cask and ignilod; when tho cask is qnito full nf tho sulphurous anhydride fumes tho lid is taken off and tho sulphur removed; the barrel is then half or threequarters filled with tho wheat, the lid is again put on and tho cask rolled about. The spores aro destroyed in a few minutes, whereas tho vitality of the wheat pnins remains for the most part unimpaired even after three or four hours' exposure to the gas. Only the feebler grains succumb to tho attacks nf the gas, but this is by no means a disadvantage.

Mrs Mary Steadman Aldis, of Auckland, contributes an articln to tlio March number of the Cuntempoiary Review entitled Thou Ait the Man," in which slin gives the mule box a general dating down for opposing female franchiso; their reason for so doing, according to her, being that they want thn good things for themselves. The article is well written, and contains many strong arguments in favour of female suffrage, illustrated by examples of how the women working as conip isitora in Auckland during the strike of 1890, were treated, She also has a hit at theUniversties for excluding women from taking degrees, her reason for this being that if thoy were admitted they might want in tho end to be permitted to compete for fellowships.

A good story is being told of an encounter between tho Minister of Lands and a canny Scot in Canterbury, one of his intimnto friends, Mr M'Kenzio wis anxious to "draw " his countrymate on the subject of the Cheviot purchase, and asked what he would do with the bin estate if it were in his possession. "Weel, John," was the reply, " I am not tho owner, and am never likely to be," "Yes, but if you were the Minister of Lands, what, would you bo disposed to do with the property?" "lain not the Minister of Lands, and am sure I never shall be a member of any Government." "But you can at least tell me what I am likely to get out of the purchase." "Weel, John, ye'll get a dealo'experience oot o' it."—Press.

The following clipping from the Live Stock Journal of Fobruary 24th is of some interest in connection with the frozen meat industry" With regard to the frown meat trade of Australia, wo notice that several colonial journals comment on the great elasticity of the London market, and the immense quantities it can absorb, There is little doubt, however, that the demand will be fully met, since we learn from elaborate calculations by a competent writer in the Pustoralists' Review that New South Wales alone may count upon having every year from four to 4| millions of sheep availablo for export in the form of frozen and preserved meat and tallow. A good deal nf this Export must, for some timo to come, take the form of tillow; but there arc already freezing works in Nmv South Wains capitblo of dealing with a million and n-lmlf sheep per annum, and the Queensland works have an almost equal capacity. It is therefore assumed that the Australian exu.irt for 181)3 will touch something liko two million carcases, which will bo a considerable increase on anything before achievod," Apropos of" Inangahua Dick's" enforced rctiremer.t from politics, " Bohemian " in the Christchnrcli Press tells the following story:— I "Some years agj, it is said, the patriotic Richard, from his placo in tho House, was able to do a signal sorvico to a cortain local body, Its members in their gratitude, sent him a handsome cheqno—l forget the amount-say £OO. The cheque was returned with a dignified reiroach from Richard, 'The inotivo of his political action was lova of country, not lovo of lucre; as a patriotic and independent statesman he could not accept such rewards for his services," They understood the meaning of this perfectly, of course ; they rose to the occasion and took the hint j a chequo for double the amount was sent. Again citne the dignified reproach. Richard roiterated his patriotism, his incorruptibility. "As a member of Parliament, moreover, ho was unnhls to accept presents for his services.' He returned them a cheque for tho hundred, But it was not the cheque they sent him; that he cashed. The cheque he sent back was drawn by himself, and when presented was duly dishonoured. Tho members smiled knowingly, and solemnly rocoriled Richard's dignified refusal of their present, He was simply a shrewd fellow with ingenuity enough ti circumvent the formalities of etiquette, which forbade a member of the House to accept a grateful testimonial for his past services. That was how they looked at it." The Tuapeka Timos' Dunedin correspondent writes as followsNo country can ever bo great, nor will it bo able to hold its own in the future among tho other industrial and manufacturing nations of the world unless it is flighty educated. But in such a competition the education will have to be more of a technical than a classical character. Notwithstanding Sir Robert Stout's opinion on tho subject, I believe tiiat New Zealand is turning out far too many young fellows with degrees after their name*, The best proof of this is tho overcrowded stato nf the professions, The lawyers in all the largo cities, here and elsewhere, are eating their heads off dofending thieves, prostitutes, and drunkards in the police courts, merely for the wretched advertisement, the doubtful half-hour's prominence, it gives thorn. Doctors are undercutting each other here, and pulling their fees down to the merest nominal sum, so lively is the competition, and yet they are unable to do more than live, The Lift census shows that in this, a country great in its agricultural resources, but 15 per

cent, earn their livelihood, while the remaining 85 per cent, live upon the labours of the fifteen. Those engaged in agricultural, pastoral, and mineral pursuits—tho producers in the correct sense of the termout of a population of (12(1,(158, only amount to 90,000, and those engaged in other industrial pursuits number 70,521, both together forming only about 25 per cent, of the entire population of the colony, There are about 16,000 professional men, chiefly lawyers, doctors, and clergymen, the balance of the non-producers being made up of a huge army of nondescripts, who clearly live by squeezing the tillers of the soil. But a chap with a B.A. or an M, A, is, of cnurae, a'much more valuable product in Sir Robert Stout's eyes than a scoro of farmers, and heuce his disconsolate view of the future.