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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 766, 15 May 1877, Page 2

vLiQ.L.—An emergency meuting of the members of tho Sons of Ulster Lodge, No. ,9, will' be held on tbe evening of .Saturday.next, to arrange, for,the.celebration of che 12th. of July.

The- Hamclton Wbst Birthday Sports.—lt is intended, we understand, should the amount of subscriptions received warrant it, to increase tne number of'events upoti the of the above sports, one of the first of which new events will be a second trotting match. Tb Pati will probably be executed .during the present week.,'. Oolonel Haultain, the Sheriff, has received a telegram from the Minister of Justice, intimating that hia Excellency the Grovcruor sees ho reason why tho- law should not take its course injregard" to tho oondemned convict Te ; Pati. vrhe.warraut.will arrive in Auckland in ..a- few. days, and probably some day next* this will be fixed for tho execution;.; ! ■• r •; , , ,

• SOOIBTX IN TJHB SOUTH ISLAND. —The 'Tiniaru 'Herald' is candid." ; 'lt says : the number- of disorderly-' houses' which have sprung up in and on the outskirts of Timaru during the past year of two ' is surprising:"" J't also asserts, speaking for Timaru, of course :?'The present harvest season has y brought . with it a greater amount of drunkenness,and all its attenden't miseries than,' perhaps, any previous one. The criminal statistics of the current quarter will be something terrible to contemplate; and. all becanse' the' great muss of the labouring class, are over paid and terribly dissolute!"

f'v'A-. Mew,. Cheap, and easily manufactured <. gas has recently been discovered, and is now in use in the colony. A Duriedin/paper gives an account of the lighting up of a-large warehouse in that city, with gas manufactured from a gasoline, on the jiremhes.-. It is an American invention. The gas is made by pressing air through water' and gasoline in a small cylinder. It produces 30-candle .ppvyer gas,for six shillings per 1000 ft, and. is almost certain to revolutionise the gas companies j and will be of incalculable lvalue. mansions and in . email .country. ;lo.wnships.

Municipal.; Legislations". Between municipality arid ;V cbunty"'legislation, it "will soon "be;"hard" to' escape the Police Co'urt in New Zbalahd.A The muriici?" pality of Oamariihav'e adopted bylaws jfor the.-regulation of tueatres>. &c., which impose,, aihpug'.other things, 'fines not exceeding £5 : for ; taking 'a dog, cat, or other animal to any public entertainment; 'or for : interrupting'.a'-"perfbrmahce, or annoying any of the audience*, by using loud and unseemely ejaculations,.swearing, smoking, &p. .The offender against good .'manners is, also liable to forcible i i9x|ihrßi6o;_-^'l)ainediii' ;,r< Star." ' Accident. —On Saturday evening, Mr Peter Walker*.with Mrs Walker and.Miss M. Campbell, were driving home from Hamilton. When a short distance past Capt Steele's place, going down the hill? the horse, for some reason unknown, took fright audi bolted, arid, wo regret to say, : overturned the vehicle and those in it, damaged, the trap and harness, and sue* crested in getting himself Mr Walker, himself, was not seriously hurt, being slightly cut about the face, but, we regret to say, the ladies suffered ' more severely,; Miss Campbell, it is feared, having suffered a dislocation of one of the,-ribs,-and Mrs Walker being much hurt about the face and head. Both ladies were, for some time, insensible. Dr Waddington, however, roporcs favourably |.of;both cases.

Kussian as compared with 'Tubkibh Soldiers.— Inthe estimation of competent judges, says the "Australasian, the Kusßian soldier is inferior to the Turk. He is smaller in stature, not so abstemious; and not so well drilled. • The Turk is tall, heavy and soldierlike. He figbts with the inspiration of agnatic, and faces death and danger with the composure of a fatalist. The ,-Asiatio recruits which have been pouring into the uanip.on the Asiatic side of the Bosphorus for man? months past are described as hearty, hardy, "sunburned fellows, full of martial ardour and religious enthusiasm, and easily initiated into the "trade of war." They arrive-there from Syria, Barbary, Egypt, ar.d from various parts of Asia Minor, aro placed under arms in camps of instruction for a while, and then equipped and sent to the front.

; QrBVMASIY- and Fjbancb,—Jßefering to the teljigram that Germany wub locating an increased number of troops in the conquered provinces of Alsace and Lorraine, the "Herald" of Saturday says " France and; Germany have lately, become even less friendly than they were. Germany has declined to exhibit at the forthcoming Paris exhibition, and views with suspicion the constiuction by Franco of a second line of. fortifications. A.n article lately appeared in the "Revue cles Deux, Moudes," discussing the strength of the second-rate fLets in the Baltic and the North Sea, warning Sweden and Denmark againgt Gerihanj's lust of conquest, and calling upon them to arm for defence against the daugeia threatening them, and to seek support iu their elosely allied interests. A German jouroal, the " Provincial Oonvspondanoa," concludes an article on the tsubj ct as follows :—" The frivolous game carried on two years ago iu the French Pnss of imsultiug and challenging Germany i 8 now repeated, with the secret reservation of complaining afterwards of threats and co9rciou when these insults, as is natural,. are repelled on the part of Germany*."

Sheep WoaiiTiNft.—The dog nuisance in Hamilton is something serious to shoop owners in the neighbourhojd. %■ Mr Jolly has suff .red frequently fnmlos-tby the worrying of tiia sheep, and uow only so la(e »s bunday night last, tha sheep in his .home paddocks' were chafed by ,dogs, iiud. Having broken tha fence, wore scattered ,ail over the. neighborhood, two even .being yesterday fount oni,bii.ii oLh.tr side the riv«r. Whether, any have, been killed Mr Jolly h*a not discovered, and, worse still, he is at pros in t ignorant of the names of ttte owners of the do^s. A Habu Would tj Livjb Ik.—A. oor.rejrondeusJroui Cambridge writes us :- "Poor Toinn,y the Clock, after his long study of horoioey,: and ve:y' many yeara of usefulness in repuring innumerable „^and... - Watches all over tee word, bus been, sent at last to rusticate for fitree ino-tbs in the Auckland garden of Eden. Tommy was a special importation from. Ljudon .solely for the use of IWaikato-settlers, to ikeep their time in order. But now" arrivals have elbowed Tommy out of businesi,.'and;• in .utter desperation he. calmly denuded himself ot the last manufactured piece „of; art and took a Eeat in a mud'puddle, solemnly declaring that he wo aid beoniea JTeriian or die, as Time for nirn was no more. Even in this position he was hot allowed to rest, for ,during the. uocturnal peregrinations of: the Cambridge guardian of the peace Tommy was found- holding a debate with his ,Btepmother.over the wa'6r,- arid condemning her iii good round/terms, and all sueh relations in general, «s it was they, he said;;- wboi induced -hihai ot the first to repair tiuie,g.raiuitously. * : Mddlb; TiiißNS recently sang at the Guildhall, Plymouth, and in response to an encore gave the well-known song "Kathleen Aaavourneen." In noticin* this the '■ Western Morning News ' tells the following story :—" Ttie author of ' Knthleen Mavourneen ' was Mr Crouch, a Plymouth music-master, who received for the copyright a£s note. He left the town a quarter of a eantury ago. Exactly a year ago, Mdlle. Titiens, being in New York, gave * Kithleen ' as an en.ore, the only time she did so while in the Stales. It excited a furore of applause, and when it subsided she was told that some man, presumed to be a lunatic, was fighting his way over the barriers from the pit to the flies (it was in the Opera House), snying ho was determined to speak to Titiens. The prima donna told then to let him come in. Ou entering, he burst into tears, sobbing out, " Oh, Mdlle. Titiens, 1 nerer before hoard my song sung as you have just sang it!' 'Your song!' was the rep'y, ' why you are not Crouch, surely V • 1 am, indeed, rejoined the poor old composer .■■.< and I felt I must thank you myself.' Crouch had scraped together two dollars for a' pit seat, little thinking to hear his now famous song made the most teliing morceau of the night." : SroBTiKG.—Mr Owen Gurran McGee, pf t Auckland, h-»B.never : yet ;; (says the Wanganui Herald') visited Wanganui without taking home with him some of its racing stock ; but while it is to be regretted that our district should lose some of its .best horses, it is at.the same time gratifying to know that they have passed into the hands of a thorough sportsman. Mr McGee's first purchase before leaving here was the steeph chase; horse MP C, since called Cohnaught Ranger. 'ln this animal-the owner lias a capital jumper, and we should nob be surprised to hear of him pulling off some of the prizes in Auckland open for cross-cjuiitry horses betorj very long. Elsa has also become the property ot Mr McGee, Mr C Durie of Waitotara having parted with her lor £2OO. JE'sa will no doubt be nominated for some of the handicaps to be run on the "24th-May in Auckland, and with a light impost,, say 7st to 7st 7lbs, would' no doubt figure well With' the crack horses of the North.. Elsa is by Traducer out of Orinolinej and if only for stud purposes a cheap investment. May Moon, by; some called the Wonder of the North,'has returned from Taranaki to Waitotara, "where she will remain during i ty° months, her, owner having de-. cided to send her to one of the studhorse's in this district.