The Waikato Times.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 565, 4 January 1876, Page 2

The Waikato Times.

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TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1876.

PpkeeimuEleciionMkkting.— Vl r McMinn, we sto, will ad'lresi the cleotors of Pukemnu on tho sth mstant (to* morrow), immediately affcrr Mr 'Jox'o mepting.

WHITSOVS BREWbBY, NOiIUJAVTAHU. S Teral improvements have lalely boon mif'o in this well-known establishment. Mr Dicknon, a pontleuian of large experience in the conduct of a brewery ha» lately arrived at Ngaruawahia to fulfil the duties of resident manager The Latj: Accident.— Woiwo Rind to bo able to Htatft that Mr Vialou'i apprentice, Archibald Molnlyr* 1 , who met with so severe an accident by falling on thfl 23rd ult, from the iteps leading to the upper room in front of Mr Vialou's workshop wat bo far recoverpd as to bo pre^ont at the •ports hold on Saturday in Hamilton Went.

Advancb TiMAHEBK.— Thii district is looking really iplendid. The crop* of whpal, oats and barley especially those of Messrs Douglas, John llui'Cimnn, Cr.vwford and Pearson mart bo entirely intisf.ietory to to «ho onterpriaing growern, vfhile tho grrnn and potutoes galoro o» our Maori fellow-seUlers at Tamahero must not be paiied over without their duo meed of praise.

waixato t Auckland.— Although our Wmkato members of the Auckland toam in the inter provincial pigeou shooting match of Friday last, did not chalk top scon s some one from Waikato, it seems, is determined to uphold fho honor of the district in this respect, and has challenged all Auckland fo a coutest between this day and Thursday. TV following challenge appears in the " Herald " irhieh that paper lays is made by a gentleman who beat Mr Midrlleton on Fridny, in a private pigeon match at Epsom : " Waikato is willing to back one man belonging to th«ir district against Auckland from £10 up to £50. Match to be shot Monday or Tuesday next. Money will be staked at the Exchange Hotel." S

BoTifIOAL Curiosities —There have been lefb at our office some curious ipecimens of the cover plant, gathered from a paddock at the half-way house between Hamilton and Ngaruawahia. True clover, we behove, has only three leaves, but theat' freaki of nature have four, fiv?, six, seven, *nd eight respectively. I hit it the first time we have heard of any snoh ii regular ocurrence in tho giowth of tie clovor plant,, and na it may be a matter of interest to come of our r^O'lord, we slia.ll lxs happy t» «how tbora to am one calling at this office during tho next fowdava. Our ln^nrie contributor was in the ('flice looking at them jcstercltty and made a S'Vgcatton for wli'ph we inttantly kicked him out He Biicl tbey were special argument « in favour of alcohol, thi' thoy were a result of the iiaaj.diate virinity of a pub, and probably of good beer or upint npilled on the particular tpol whoro they grew. That man will como to a bad end. lie.is nillicted with menial gtraßbismus, and if he dors not \eiy quickly pull himself up on the grumon in a O. T. Lodge ho will wake to conßciousnens lome cold morning vi the teader caro of Con»tablo Haddock.

Waikato E\st Election. — Calmly retiming on the bo*om of Mr Wlntaker, the olectorate oi WaiWo East has tranquilly watched the hopci and foars and smiles and night which vex or illu.i mine the face of her lister of Waipa with her pair of admirers, each eagerly pressing his suit. "Happy's the wooing that's not Ions; a doing," says tho old song, at)d 10 it has been with Waikato Eait. Indeed, to tell th« truth, there's been little wooing at all. She had not even the oh&nre to r;ay " ask Pap*," for tfhe busy and business like bridegroom asked Papa hitnsolf, and father Patrick consulted a friend one whom he know to be true a* steel, quickly made up his mind, and snid " Tako hor my dear boy, you're abc, industrious and persevering ; norer mind the girl, I'll make it all right with her." The ceremony comes off to-morrow, at tho Courthouse, Cambridge, wh.ch will be olegantly ornamented with swamp roses (Piaka rosea) and otHrr appropriato decorations for the occasion. The Hamilton Wkst School House, remnant of the architecture of the early ages in Waikato, has been removed bodily and carted by its purchaser to be the ornament and delight of some other portion of the township, Mii the Question naturally arises, where, when the holidays ore ovsr, vnlltlw) school l)e reopened P The old building wheu put up by auction the other day realised the Tcry respectable sum of £28 and another question now presents itself to tho enquiring mind, who has got tho money f Beport says that it was sold by order of the Town Board, and that tho money has come in very handily to help p»y for that •xceedingly useful and much needed public work known as Neales cutting. Some foolish people scorn to think that tho building was given bj the Defenco Minister as a gift to tlie people of Hamilton for school purposes and that the prooeeds raised b> it* sale should go towards the erection of a new school-house. But what do wo want of a new school-house ? Surely if such a building wero ncceißary the highly intelligent and active local school committee would have made an effort to have gone halves at any rato with tho Town Board m tho price of tho old building, or would long since have stirred the residents up to raise tho ncccssasy funds for » r.ew building. When the timecomos for the reassembling of the scholars towards tho end of tho month it wfl b« very easy to borrow the Wcelevan Cbopol, or Mr Danvcrs like the pbilosphera of old can lecture his disciples from the porch of one of our public temples, say the Court-house. School homo, indeed! Why more could'nt be expected of Huinilton if it wero all it olaimed to be, ihe metropolis of Waikato. Wo shall next hear we mppose that the late movement to subscibe fund* for a Public Hull was meant seriously and not intended as a joke as most people suppcaed. Truly we are a. go-ahead community ! T)ea Nuisance. —Correspondents hare written lately complaining to us of a nuisance in tlie town and district of Hamilton, not confinei to one side of the river only, but most impartially affecting tho entire neighbourhood, in the shapo of a number of hungry hounds cf the bengle persuasion which seem to hate bern cast upon the world for their living. It is not »o much what they steal as the mischief they do tiafc is complained of. One person informed vi that pheasants will bo found less plentiful thaa usual this coming season in fhe neijrtibourhjod of Hamilton, as ho has seen them more thm once hunting and destroying hens and their broods. Another, living some distance in the country, complains that he had several fowls and i fcurkoy destroyed and on taxing tho party witi whom tho dogs *ere generally seen, he quietly wiped his spcotaoles and denied ownership, the dogs io fact being simply in his charge at the time. Another hnd a quantity of valuable poultry killed. Our correspondents ask, to vhom do the dogs belong and what can they d) P We must decline to givo advice on the matter. Our correspondents muit be their own lawyers an such case. It ia no doubt exceedingly annoying to "have unowned d»g« committing mischief of this kind, and if a bengle were found dead outside a settlers poultry yard ■with a turkey (thick in his mouth and a hempen cravat worn very tightly round "his neck, or anotlar of the pack were found drawn up in tke shapo of a bow attempt ing to touch the bark of his held with his hind feet, tho owner of tho poultry would of course know nothing about it. We know we should'nt if it was our poultry that had beea destroyed. Am we said h*ft**» wa mm offer no advice on the matter, bat if a beagle so misb« hayed himself in the presence of an editorau chicken he would'nt do it a second time and we alive. Perhaps some of our readers can inform our correspondents thron»h our columns to whom those cunuo lahtnaelites belong