HAMILTON.

Waikato Times, Volume I, Issue 22, 20 June 1872, Page 2

HAMILTON.

[From our own Correspondent.] June 17

"We have been favored during the past week with the presence of Vice-royalty amougst us, who has | been enjoying himself in a thoroughly sportsmanlike j style by knocking over the pheasants which are very numerous aud will ill a year or two require the determined efforts of sportsmen to keep them within bounds. At present, wheat and other grain needs to be sown a little thicker on account of their visits. But I do not agree with several about their destruction to grain aud other crops, for I consider the insects devoured by them in such quantities far more than counterbalance any injury they may do ; in fact our eomptete immunity during the past season from caterpillars and crickets is entirely due to their insect-devouring proclivities. Numbers that have been shot lately had their crops full of grubs and other insects, thereby proving the immense numbers consumed by them. The recent stormy wet weather has somewhat retarded agricultural operations, notwithstanding which a considerable extent has been sown with wheat in this part of the district. Farmers in general are directing more attention to its growth than they have done since the occupation of the Waikato, and the much vexed question as to whether that cereal will pay for growing is likely to receive a solution next harvest—in fact I may say has been satisfactorily solved *. as those who sowed some last year are putting in- a greater breadth this season, which is proof positive that they consider it does pay. Its growth has no doubt received a great impetus from the various flour mills erected or in course of erection throughout the district,' and we may congratulate ourselves on the prospect of being able at no distant day to export both wheat and flour, ; thereby incalculably increasing the prosperity of this splendid district. All that is required is a population to occupy the hundreds of thousands of acres of ex- i cellent land at present lying in a state of-nature, and ! which only requires capital and labor to make happy \ homes for thousands of our countrymen who ar - in ; quest of a favorable field in which to exert their ; energies. Great progress is manifested in reclaiming j the land from its primitive state. Smiling fa ms I are being rapidly brought under cultivation in all I directions, aud our population is being slowly but j surely added to. ' His Excellency took his departure from Hamilton ; to-day en rou'e for Auckland- The Hon. the Defence Minister left by the p.s. Bluenose on Saturday evening. "• During the past week we had an exhibition or ths : in connection with the Congrega:iona! ; Sunday Scho 1. The proceeds—about two paiui :u - ' are to be devoted to the purchase of more slides for ! the illustration of popular lectures on ?ub- ! jeote. The instpument is in itself first-class, ind ;

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. HAMILTON—Jiwe 18. [Before W. N. Searancke, Esq., R.M.] Civil Cases. Le Queane r. Martin; claim, 61654 d. Judgment for plaintiff. , Hamilton District Board v. Bucholz ; claim, 8s 4dCase withdrawn. Farrell t. Downs ; claim, 1/ 135... Adjourned to July 2. r-v I . ./ Assault Cask. Arthur Salmon and Frank Cornish Were charged with having assaulted Jacob Barnes. They appeared in answer to summons. _ On, the application of the prosecutor the Magistrate allowed the information to be withdrawn, but before doing so gave the accused a severe reprimand.