WAIKATO NOTES.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 314, 7 November 1888, Page 4

WAIKATO NOTES.

SERIES OF HORSE ACCIDENTS. No less than three accidents to record this week through horses. First, the boy Smith, of whom I wrote last Monday as having been thrown from the racer Signet and l-endered insensible. He lay unconscious for forty • eight hours from concussion, bub is now recovering slowly. The horse in galloping crossed his logs and rolled over. A young man named Arthur Petty, whilst training a horse over at Raglan, was thrown and his leg badly broken in two places. Ho has been fixed up and is in the Hospital doing as well as could be expected. Next a lad named Taylor, son of Mr Wm. Taylor, plumber, of Hamilton, was thrown whilst riding, and broke his collar-bone. He walked home and got it set and is doing well.

THE WEATHER. The vi eather continues as bad as bad cun be. We have had nothing now for a fortnight but a series of heavy, cold blows, alternated with cold, sharp sleet showers, and all growth has been immensely retarded. Fruit has not at all improved in consequence, and if wo do not soon have a change for the better, and some nice warm weather, the heavy yields of fruit looked for will be conspicuous by their absence. Wheat and oats, too, also want dry warmth now to push them ahead, and it is anxiously looked for. Wo have had in several parts of the district extremely heavy falls of hail, the ground in many places being covered with a thick coating of the stones. Altogether I may tairly call the weather most unseasonable.

SILVER AND HOLD. I see that, flaming accounts are going lound re the find of silver ore somewhere in the King Country. Now 1 would very very strongly advise people not to be led away by any yarns, or by a single sample of galena ore. Tho day for this soi tof thing is surely played out. If not, it ought to bo. Many of us know that the precious minerals exifct in the King Country (we know it of our own knowledge), and specimens have been obtained at various times. So far back as before the war the late Mr Buckland ob tamed silver ore when journeying through the country, and oft" and on since specimens have been found, but up to the present the lodes from which they came have not been located, or if they have the tinders have kept the locality ti profound secret. The way things are at present situated would prevent anyone, from working at a reef, because as soon as a man did this ho would be &et upon by every native in the country, each and all of whom would claim the particular spot of ground where tho find was, and then the trouble would commence. No ! nothing can be done of moment until the country is bubdivided and the titles to the land individualised. Then we may look for something and not until then. The piece of galena ore reported as having been recently found near Te Kuiti ha-, I hear, been in possession of the owner for a long period of time, and has indeed been to Wellington to be shown. Anyhow, my advice to folks is to "Bide-a-wee."