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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 742, 20 March 1877, Page 2

The Abea of the farm sold at Razorback alluded to m our telegrams of Friday evening should have been 72 aores instead of 12. Fat CatjiiE. — Mr W Qualthrougb, we are requested to state, will send som* forty head of fat cattle to Auckland for Mr Buckland's aale of the 20th inst. Mr Missen, Boot Importer, of Hamil ton West, ib will be seen by our advert s-ment elsewhere, draws attention to tLe arrival of new goods. L 0 L. — Members of the Loyal Orange Lodge No 21 — William Johnston — are reminded that tbe Lodge will meet on Fiid ay evening next, at the Oddfellows' Hall, Cambridge. ASSESSMENT Courts will be held to-day at Alexandra and Harapepo for part of the Alexandra township and Pirongia districts ; and at th« WhatawhaU hotel, o-morrow, for the Karamu and part of the Newcastle districts. A rural female beauty alighted from the stage-coach the other day, wheu a pieoe of ribbon detached itself from her bonnet and fell into the bottom of tbe carriage. 'You have left your bow behind,' said a lady passenger. ' No, I ain't; he's gone a- fishing,' innocently replied the rustic. ■ Mr Thomas Russbll and Mr James I Williams m arrived m Hamilton yesterday from Auckland, having travelled by rail to Ngarnawahia, and thenoa by con veyanoe to Hamilton. Here they will be joined by Mr A. Oox, and all three gentlemen will proceed to the Lakes on Wednesday, returning to Waikato About the eeoond week m April. Making a Bag.—' Bell's Life ' reccr is the following most remarkable example of tbat system of modern fashionable (daughter, denominated battue* shooting : ' — "H.B.H. the Prince of Wale*, Duleep Singh, with six other guns, reoently killed, m three days, 6000 pheasauts, besides other game. One cover yielded, m the short space of 40 minutes, 1030 pheasants." Ellis and Selby.— The admirers of pedestrianism wili be glad to learn that our Auckland runner, Ellis, has gone over to Australia, as much as anything for the purpose </f having annother shot at Selby. the English cricketer, {whom he is confident of beating. He excuses his defeat at Newmarket on the ground of being altogether out of form. It seems he has received very good information of Selby'a exact form through men he can depend 4 upon, and who are willing to risk their money to back him for another race. A coming Libel Case.-— One of the beauties of the law of libel is, that a man never knows when he may not see the bit of blue paper. A. Dunedm contemporary says : — We understand tbat Mr Barnard Isaac has instructed his solicitor to take proceeding against Mr Solomon, foreman of the Coroner's jury m Deudney's case, for the statements contained m the rider which was appended to tbe verdict returned. Damages have beea laid at £1000. Land for Local Endowments.— -it will be seen by our report oi the proceedings of the Auckland Waste Land Board that the Thames County has made application for certain lands m its district to be set apart as endowments for hospitals charitablea institutions, &c, for the Thames County. JNo dou*t, when tbe Couuty maobinery is available for the purpose other parts of the oountry will en leavour to obtain euch endowments while as yet the whale of the land within their boundaries is unalienated. A Soibwe and Concert on behalf of the building fund of the Presbyterian church will be held at N^aruawaliia on the erening of the 27<h inst. he aoiree will be held m the Church, after which those proßi'ut will anj .urn to tho school- i room where the concert will take place. ; It is uot often an evening's amusement : is provided for the people of Ngurumva i wahia, and at there will be a good moon, < and the usefulness of the obj-'Ct will i attract many, doubtless there will be a ' fall gathering oa this occasion.

Tub Sirnna of the Residrnt Magistrates Court «t Hamilton, which should have been held on Thursday next, wt'l oe poatponfd until the following Saturday, m consr quen oe of the Courthouse being retired by his Honor the Judge of toe District Court, who will sit on Thursday. There are only two cases for hearing m the District Court, Lamb v Wells, and Emsley v Lawrence. Ik Ocb Last issue Mr dimming, of the Waik.tO brewery, advertised, announcing that m the event of the party who took the keg of beer from the verandah of the Royal Hotel, returning the empty keg within three days, no questions woa d be asked, but, if not, that the name would be published. Yesterday the keg was returned empty with a few lines stating the borrower was perfectly satisfied with the brew, and would be happy to do further business with Mr Cuwming on the tame terms. What with St Patrick's Day, the usual Saturday's bustle, and the sale of Mr A A. Brissenden's effects at the Hamilton Hotel, the township looked like a fair on Saturday last. The sale was well attended and the bidding brisk, and m very marfy instances high prices were realised, though the goods were sold m somewhat, large lots for the general buyer. The eale lasted for several hours, though not a moment was wasted by the auo tionoer, and must have realised some 25 per cent more than it would have done had the goods been went for convenience of sale to Auckland instead of Hamilton. \atcvb Meeting. — We learn from the 'Taranaki Herald' that at the native meeting held m the beginning of the present month, at Ohinemutu, the natives resolved that their lands should be brought under the jurisdiction of the Native Lands Court and the owners permitted to sell or lease to Europeans. This is a step m the right direction, for up to the present the chiefs have held a reBtraining hand over the owners of the Arawa lands, and the aettlerß at Ohinemutu and Maketu have been unable to get any legal title to their building sites. Piako Farm Sale.— There have just arrived m Auckland, we learn, bo me three or our gentlemen from the bouth desiious of migrating, the price of land having largely risen m Cauterbury and proportionately much cheaper m Wkato. Since our last we leern that Mr Jenkins' improved property at the Piako, which that gentleman bought just twelvemonths ago from Mr Morrin, has been sold to a Southerner, Mr Choimondeley of Canterbury. The farm, some 1200 or 1300 acres m extent, is partly improved. Maeblb m Otaoo.— Vincent Pike» Esq., yesterday exhibited to as a very fine sample of white marble, which was obtained by him from the Oaimmuir Range, and which he bai dug out of the solid vein, and was afterwards polished by Mr Blair, the district engineer. Ihe vein has been traced for a distance of three miles, and there is an inexhaustible supply, notwithstanding the assertion of the Government geologist to the contrary, that marble would never be discovered m New Zealand. A company will probably be formed to work the quarries. Two Men, within a few days of each other, have met their deaths m Dunedin by having been '• rua in '' by the police as drunk, when really suffering, not from liquor but disease. The one was the proprietor of ihe Turkish Baths m Dunei m, who died during the night m the lock-up, as was proved by medical examination, from disease of the brain ; the other, a carter, was delivering coals when he fell down m a fit, and could not be aroused. Beyond the fact that he fell down 'here was nothing to the presumption lhat he had been arinkin .>, yet an hour or two afterwards he was taken to the lock-up and treated as a "dead drunk" till morning. It aws then fouud that he was still unconscious, and he was taken to the Hospital, where m defiance of croton oil, ho never rallied, but died. The post mortem showed that death was the resnlt of apoplexy. Pooiby a»d His Bbt.— ln explanation of the character of the b<-t made between Pooley and Djnkin, we may state ; that Donkin, the complainant, offered to take the odds of 6 to 1 that he would name the scores of each of the Christchurch team. The odds having been laid Pooley propertied that ail of them would get duok's egga. He, of course, expected to receive six pounds (the bet wan made m pounds) for ev> ry duck's c g made, and to pay £1 for every player who broke his duck. The result of this would, of coarse, have been that had only three players made duck's eggs Pooley would have gained £3, if four had failed to score. £10, had five failed, £17 and so on ; whereas had only two or one retired with 0 to their name he would have lost £4 m the first case and £11 m the second. The bet seems to have been a fair one enough. Po& I"ax —Our canny Scotch friends at home are not half so sbarp m this matter as tbe New Zealand Colonists. Dogs, we learn from an Eagliah paper, have a hard time of it m Glasgow ; periodical crusades are initiated against them and every dog found m the street unmuzzled and without a collar bearing his his master's name and address is mercilessly seized and slain. In a recent doghunt ie is alleged that the oonstables seized unmuzzled dogs from the very fe*t of their owners, out of shops, and even dragged them from under kitohen be is, and led them to tbe slaughter. In New Zealand we know better. Some of the newly instituted County Councils are utilising the raw canine material ; not by killing it out of hand, but by putting a tax of 10j per head on every dog. Looking at the nuisance the vagabond dogs about every township are, any County Council wou d be doing a public service by going a step further, and making the tax 20s instead even of 10s. The New Steamer Waipa, builfc for the Waikato Steam Navigation Company by Mr Nicolof Ngaruawahia, has had her engines tithed m and will get up steam some d^y this week and make her trial trip. Indeed it is expected that she will next week, take up her regular running alternately with the p s Waikato. The vVaipa will be a great convenience to the travelling public and make the river trip one of pleasure m anything like fine weather. Her accomodation of all kind, is ample. Her cabin saloon is 18 feet square with a height of 8 feet, the sidewalls being handsomely pannelled is imitation of birds eye maple, and the ceiling is white with go ldm ouldings. There is, too, a ladies cabin, 12 feet by 16 feet of the same height, and a fora cabin or seaman's house 23 feet by 17 feet 7 m. The vessel is fitted up m the most elaborate style aod with every modern convenience. The deck accommodation is also most am. la. The hull of the vessel ia 120 i fi-et with a beam o{ 18 ft>et, depth cf hold 4 (eat. The hurricane deck i« 100 feet by 1 8 fast, and aa the vessel has a sponaon deck of six f et over all, there is a promenade of as many feet wide on t'iihrr side her. 'Jhe main deck will be protected with an awuing 70 feet by 18 i'oefc. Her capabilities of cargo carrying are la>'ge. She has epace forward to ih« extent of 30 feet by 18 (e</.t 8 inches and aft Hi feet by 18 feet 8 inches, and it is oalculuted that with 3J to 40 tons A o-ir-go m her she will not draw more than

2 fret of water. The painting and decorations have been entrusted to Mr Henderson, ship-painter, of Auckland, and . do the firm groat credit. The teeth m the driving wheels bare seen made of tiuiber instead of iron bo as to prevent as much as possible the noise of the working of the engines.