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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 721, 30 January 1877, Page 2

A summoned meeting of the Hamilton Lodge of Odd Fellows is called for this evening on important business. The Ratepayers of the highway districts of both Eangiaohia and the 'own of Kihikihi are noticed that all arrears of rates not paid by the 10th of February, will be sued for forthwith.

New Seeds.—Mr Millar of Paterangi, it will be aee/i, has receive:! his new seeds from England, and has appointed Mr Henry Buttle of Cambridge, his agent for that district.

Whang ape Biding Election, Raglan County.—Mr John Martin, of Willowbaak, Waipa, was duly elected a councillor for the Whangape Riding, County of \Raglan on the 27th insfc. Mahk TsWAIN, -speaking of a new mocquito netting, writes :—"The day is omiug when we shall sit under our nets in church and slumber peacefully, while the discomtitt-d flies club together and take it out of the minis er." Cambridge Fakmeus' Club.—The adjourned meeting of ibe club will be held this evening at the usual time and pl«c*, and as the sheep and cattld fair of Mr Buckland, at Cambridge on the uftirnoo ■ of the same day is likely to bo )a ge y atfended, there will no doubt be a lull muster of members res. ut.

'i he Tenders foe LABJUK,(cari.enter.T, work only) r qui'el in the construction of tie Hotel at Piako, about to be built by Mr Viilou, for Mr John Wood of Hamilton, were opened yesterday, as fallows :—Baildon and Stephenson, £2GS 10. y Taylor, £240; Stewart, £187.; R Hill, £145; Kellett, £134;

Ttfß Ohaupo Raoe Co'tritSß presented; quite a lively api>e;rauoe yesterday, a number of workman' being employed in constructing the looee box«s for "the horses, aud others in the erection of a giand ttind aid the framework of the booths.,. General entries will be received on Saturday, when the gates and race cards will also be offered for sale«by public auction.

Sheep Wobk#in«.— If a farmer as not ■ to be allowed to poison dogs, sheep _farming, especially in thejj vicinity of townships, will be a losing business. On Sunday night, Mr Jolly, of Hamilton, had four sheep killed, and the night before as many by'dogs.- The difficulty in all these oases.is the proof of flwnersbip against the masters of the dogs, but possibly, as one was woundedwiih a shot gun, the ownership in this case may be traced.

Silmon. - Weiearn, from HobartTown glee, that the result of ihe introduction of salmon into Tasmanian rivers is, that it is now regularly sold by all the fishmongers in Hobari Town at 6d per lb. Two fishermen caught 16 salmon in one H'mht by a single net Some of them weighed upwards of 151b each. This is moßt complete and conclusive proof of the success of the attempt to acclimatise this speoies of fish in Australian, waters.

The Race Ball—Over three hundred in vita'ion cards have-been issued, we understand, by the stowards'and officers of the Waika.o Turf Olub' to residents in Waikato and others for the ball to be given on the night of the9iih' of February, in the large room of the Cotnmerciki Hotel, Hamilton. Ab tbkre will be a large number of visitors from Auckland in Uie Waikato, the uffiir is likely to be a brilliant one.

STfc/vwBWRRiBe have b?en most prolific during the past season even in tho -south. One garduer in New Plymouth,- a -Mr. Mitchinson, had on show seveuteea straw- ' berries weighing lib, and reports having pioked from half an acre of ground over one ton of strawberries during the season. Pr;ob of <T?loub—There is a downward tendency in breadstuffa. It will be seen that the mdiers' advertisments announce afall of £1 per ton all round inclusive of bran and sharps. Grain is beginning to come in from the other colonies* The u itfew Zealand Times annouuces the arrival of 1990 sacks GC'uearly •100 tons of prima Adelaide flour in the port of Wellington.

Waikato Annuaii Rapss.—lt will be Been from mir advertising columns that the entries lor our forthcoming rat>et close on Saturday evening. As. Hippocampus is not eligible ior *the Maid, n Plate, we expect to see a large field of local horses stait for that event. The Waifcato Stakes aud Ladies Purse btiug close -races for Waika'o settlers horses should bring a large field together. Every preparation i 8 being made on the course ior the con venience of the public. The piizes ate good, and in the event of the weather being propitious, we anticipate seeing a meeting worthy of the district.

W G- Urace at the Wicket. —The. following extraot from "orioket in Eng-' land" is taken -fiom the "Saturday -Review''of August last.:—As he walks to the wickets a shudder pafses through the fieklsrmn at the thought of the hot and weary hours that must elapse before that tali figure executes its r«burn march to the paviiiou. retreat* fc > a far distaut corner, wondering bow many hundred yarils of grouud he is expected to cover. C<>ver-point makes himself «ap to • meet 4she hits that would come straight at h.m with the ve'ocity of lightning. A sturdy Yorkshireman, bare armed to the elbow, takes up the ball; there is a moment of-husbed expectation, and even the umpire, for very love-.of dear life, feels it necessary to keep both eyes open, and to watch the .game. The champion stands in his wellknown position—he has described it h.mself for our benetit. The right leg quite firm, thes right foot just inside the crease, the toes just clear of a line drawn from wicket to wicket ; the left,, leg about a foot in front of, and nearly a right angle to, the heel of the right fiot; the bat held half way up the bandle, and not grounded, ; but gently swaying to and iro in pendulum ' fashion j the top of the handle just above the be t, aud the bottom ot the blade almost on a level with the centre of the middle stump. Bo stands the grwat batsmen, and so he will be seen s audiug two houts h«nce. Ke begins, oau'ioualy —few really great men are rash ; the bowling against him is the best that - England can produce, and, for a few oveid be feels his way. But the hitting soon begins, and, what is etill more aggravating to the opponents, the scientific placing of the ball which frustrates all atttmpt.<s to get the field in right position. The bowting is changed, bfeis and that expedient is tried, but without-, avnil. Atieugth the heat of tLe weather begius to produce its effect. The deliveries of the fast bnwler are le*u deadly; cover-poinc and long-leg do hot run so briskly as they did.; and the batsman takes ai\ antage of the -opportunity of launching out with increased vigour and freedom. The umpire, while taki-.-g a furtive glance at his watch fcj acertain the distai o-j of turn that divides him from his dinner, is very nearly cut in two by a vicious hit to square leg, and one of ' the scorers is observed to disappear suddenly from sight, amid a crash of broken crockery, afker the interval matters mend but little from the outside. Hour after hour passes, and there is the .champion in his old-position, with his 1 right and left leg placed as before, the top of the handle of his bat just above the belt, and the lotiom of the blade aluust on a level with the center of the middle stump. The field become demoralised ; the bowlers are utterly exhausted ; .even the boys at the telegraph can hardly summon up strength to put up the numbers that are jso perpetually increasing At last some desperate appeal' is made for leg before wicket, and an am-. pire, lou£ since unconscious of aught that was going on around him, decides against the batsman, lmmeditely eleven men prostrate -themselves on the ground in a state of coil ipse, and the ohampion marches indignantly to the parvilion, inveighiDg against the stupidity of umpires, deploring his ill-luck in being given out just when he was bo well set, and explaining to all who will lit-ten to him j howimpossib e it is that, with his system of placing his fest, it could ever be leg before wicket. ,