DAY BY DAY.

Waikato Times, Issue 12185, 21 September 1911, Page 4

DAY BY DAY.

The good old roaring days when good yellow gold was being Thames " got " at Thames, and Old the pioneers worked with Boys, feverish haste to " win " Ithe precious metal, provide the " old hands," and the younger ones too, with topics upon which to hang many an interesting, and exciting' yarn. The glory of the field, hciwever, has to a large extent departed and with it a large portion of the once large population of 20,000 inhabitants, until, at the present day, the town itself only boasts some 4000. Old Thames Boys who have gone to other countries have made good, and news is ever coming to hand of their successes on other fields. Some of them, however, following other lines than mining have not gone so far and a glance at the list of members of the Thames Old Boys' Association in Auckland discloses the fact thaJt soma 300 of them at least are in that city. The idea to start a branch of the Association in Hamilton was a very bright one, but the promoters never imagined

that the local association would start with over 100 members. The movement is mora far reaching' than would at first appear for the names and addresses of almost every Old Thames Boy abroad are in the possession of the secretaries and letters of introduction are 'given to globetrotting members with the result th a t they are mads welcome by representatives cf ih: did field in aim est any part of the world they m-H-y happen to visit.

The New South Wales House of Assembly is going from bad Sydney's to worse. There ha.-; Bear been a series of disgraceGarden, ful scenes, cidminntinir in the uproar contained in our cables yesterday. Th> speetaclo of police ejecting members on the Speaker's order is not an 'inspiring one, nor one, indeed, calculated to keep up the traditions of what should be an honorable house. The Assembly in Sydney has always been more or less of a bear-garden but the occurrences lately have outdone anything that has happened in the past, and the proceedings have now relegated themselv.es to the order of common farce. Mr Speaker Willis, whose acceptance of that position has caused all the rumpus, appears to have been correct when he classed the members of the Opposition " a band of ruffians," because it seems that they are ready on the slightest pretext to cause scenes and acrimonious discussions. Meantime, we 'are told, the Government members sit quiet. It s t ems a pity that these disturbances should be allowed to continue day by day, and if they endure much longer wo will not be surprised to hear that the Sergeant-at-Arms has run the more recalcitrant members through the vitals with his sword, or that the Speaker has broken the heads of his 1 adversaries with the mace. These tilings would not be out of place in the Parliamentary bear-garden.

Shaking at the annual meeting of th& Wanganui Freezing FroE?n Company, the chairMeat iman, Mr A. E. CampShipments, bell, said there had lately been a lot of talk about dirty handling of 'meat at Home, and those companies in New Zealand who were unrepresented at Home had appointed Dr. Robinson to watch their interests at the other end. He would visit New Zealand during the coming year, and inspect conditions in this Dominion, and thus would be .able to 'gain some knowledge of what was likely t 0 tak D place in transit. Dr. Robinson, who was recommended as one having experience in the meat trade, had been engaged for one year. He regretted that efforts to find fresh markets in Europe had met with poor success. Meat imported into Austria bad gone off well at first, but then hung fir e , and the meat had to be sent back to England. More success had been met in Switzerland, but there was the disadvantage of being no port there, and the handling and red tape on the French and German railways were a great handicap. He had faith in a possible trade with Vancouver, and now that the Dominion had direct shipping to there, he exdectod to see every outgoing steamer carrying a fair amount of frozen produce, especially as British Columbia was not a sheep country.