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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 767, 17 May 1877, Page 2

O& MBHIDGE OaVALUY VOLU NTBEBS .— The usuul half-joariy drill »»d iri&truetiosj for; t^be above ~ corps . .commences on Wednesday next. .

CAMHnJDGE Pabsonage.— The date for receiving toudcra for., the erection of parsonage house at Cambridge closes on Saturday, tlio 19th ins'tant.

, CAMBaiDQE Debating Society. — A inee iug of those interested iu the formation of the above society will be held oh Saturday evening, the 19ch, at* Kirkwood's Hotel.

Cambridge Football Club. — A general mectnig of the members of tin* above club will be held on Saturday afternoon next, at the National Hotel, Camabridge,'at 4 o'clock. The members .meet first, for practice, at 3 p.m.

Thames Waikito Railwat.— The first portioh.bf the su'iveyiog staff with the assistants, proceeded by railway yesterday morning to Mercer, M route for the Waikato> to commence the work' of surveying the railway, which it is intended shall connect the Thames with the Waikato.

Hamilton East. 'School. — A commencement has been made in the removal of the immigrant cottages Hamilton East, three of which; we understand, >are to be used in the construction of a, school-mas-ters house and outbuildings in connection, with the newsouool about to be. erected on the reserve above the punt.

An Inquest was held yesterday at Cambridge before Dr Beale and a respectable jury of twelve, of whom Mr S Bright was foreman, ou the body of Mary June Lamb, a young woman, who had only been ailing some two days before her death, and had been suddenly seized with inflamation of the bowels. The jury returned a verdict of 'Died from natural causey.'

Cambridge Literaby bociETX. — We have to apologise to the members of the above institution that the advertisement calling a meeting of those interested in the resuscitation of the Society, for Tuesday evening last," did not appear in our last issue. The letter, which bears dute the 11th inst, forwarded by hand, was only delivered to us on Tuesday morning, the day of the meeting.

Chukch Services. — The Church aerviceß for the Waikato district have usually appeared in onr Saturday's issue, but it has been represented to us that in very many instances the Saturday's paper cannot possibly reach the reader until Mon. day, until in fact such notice is useless. Such being' the case, we shall after the present week, publish the notice in our Thurday's issue, and for a lime at least in ■Saturday's also.

Auctionebbs Licenses.— The following appears in a late issue of the Napier "Telegraph": —" On Tuesday the auctioneers' licenaa feea were paid to Mr Tabuteau, to whom, . we understand, intimation was conveyed fron head quar tera that the Jicenae3 would authorise the holders to sell throughout tha diatricb which were fortnely comprised in the province j the fees will he handed over to thd buruugh or county, aa the case may be, where auctioneers have their place of business.

THK SHEBP WOEBXTira AT HAMILTON. — Mr Jolly has by now, it teems, been enabled to somewhat estimate tlie loss occasioned to him by the worrying of Im sheep on Sunday night list. Two fine ewes in lamb, we noticed, being curled home dead on Tuesday, but as over a hundred sheep are yet missing, it is nob possible yet for him to calculate his loss. A reward of five pounds lias been offered to auyone proving the ownership of the dogs which did the mischief; and Mr Jolly has taken further precaution against fuiuro loss of this kind by placing poisoned meat about his farm, notice of which appeard elsewhere. :

Accident at Ngabtjawahia. — On Monday evening Dr Waddiugtoa received a telegram from Mr D.ivioa u\ Ngaruawahia, staling that his infant child had iecuivtd injuries from falling from a verundali. The first thing on. Tueaday. morning the doctor proceeded to .Ngaruavvaliia, and an examination showed that the elbow had been dislocated, the swelliDg from which extending to the shoulder and chest, had seriously alarmed the parents for the child's safety. The dislocation was soon reduced, and the poor little thing relieved. The verandah was some threo steps high from tbe ground, and the child had fallen heavily while playing near the edge of it.

The Turkish Fleet. — On tho sea, Russia confessedly stauds no chance with Turkey. The navy of the latter power comprises at this moment 27 irunc^ads built and equipped in England, with all the latest improvements, besides 80 firstclass wooden vessels, the whole luruished with powerful artillery, aud manned by something like 40,000 seamen and marines. The Turkish fiact i3 therefore master of the Bltu-k Sea, and is strong enough to lay waste or blockade ever} Russian seaport; along its borders j while, if it should destroy Odessa, it would be the moans of inflicting a' deadly blow upon the commerce «nd prosperity of the southern part of the oujpire.

Russia asd Tubkey. Thbib money 'i powers. — The fiuanoial position of the two powers id prety much on a p-r. Turkey, as a Goverument, is avowedly insolvent, white Russia contrives to maintain a dubious credit . by a forctd emission. of paper- money, and contracting new loans.in order) to enable "her to pay the dividends on the" old ones, Her present debt, .according .to the " Times," js L'434,000,000, upoq wrhich the infcerest amounts to something like £20; OuO, 000. Her productive power is paralyaedyby protsction, and as the Government; has become responsible to the land holders for the compensation duo Co them on account, of. the emancipation of the Berfs,its financas are likely to fail iato desper-ate-disorder, in the event of a .great and costly war j so that the Czw might well exhib.it cousiderable reluctance ■ to draw the sword against Turkey, conscious the while .that jsoine,_of the other great power* would be delighted to see him dissipate the national blood and treasure in this way. —^! 'Australasian." "?. ""; • , ij. -O ■

'*A. 0. Movements.— -Five of tno; men of the Cambridge and Taupp. road party caui.il- into* Hamilton; 6a' Tuesday,! and

were yesterday hard at work in t iking I down the large iron sfore oif'the barraok green for removal to Cambridge. • The next buiidiugs to go will be the Gymnasium and the row of buildings facing the' township, all of which will bo reinove.l during ,tho present 'month; The .large barrack •rqom,. in which the concert was/ ■lately Lel'd 'will be lef& %s >\ legacy, of the Force.fo H-ainilfcoh "for public purposes."

It ia u strong well-built wooden building, some 105 feet bv27 r eet, one half pf wbioh is subdivided off into several rooms which would make capital public offices', while the large room would serve as a Public Hall for some time to come. Alluding io the Cambridge and Taupo road pa*ty, we understand that all are in, except a doz-n men under sub-Inspector Newell, who remain to complete the construct;© 1 of the 'large 70ft.* bridge over the Pairiri Greek. Whjn this work shall have been completed the line of road botween Waipa and Cambridge will be open for wheel traffic, and looking at the substantial character of the works, the difficulty of moying material in such a country from the bush to them, and the time occupied, the work of the Armed Constabulary party employed, will boar comparison with that of any set of meo in the Colony working for contractors. Am" Imported Ram.— There is one ram lately imported into this district from America, and the only one of its breed in the district, which we fancy has not been iucluded in Mr Runciman's returns, published elsewhere. The animal has some very peculiar-characteristics, which render it specially .worthy of notice. ' It is perfectly free from wool of any kind, and lives, if we may ao say, entirely on suction. Give it a pipe, and an unlimited supply of liquor, and it needs nothing more provided for it, cares neither for sweedesnor mangolds, nor any kiud of green stuff; but, this we are bound to say, that those who mighi fry it for mutton, would lose their fat for their paiaa, This novel importation belongs, in* fact, to the hydrant species, and was specially imported by Mr W Oumming, of the Waikato Brewery, at Hamilton, for the purpose of raising water from a spring some fifty feet below his dwelling house to the house itself. This, the ram, which is a small unpretentious solid looking piece of machinery, about the size of an ordinary gasometer, does with perfect ease. It is placed some 15 feet below the water to be raised, au inch pipe leading the water from a tank straight down upon it. The force thus obtained can be turned on or off at pleasure, and sends the water through another smaller pipe up hill, a distance of fully 50 feet, into the resovoirs at the louse. The same force would send the water, though in proportionately les3 quantity, a much greater height. These rams are cheap, easily portable, and not likely to get out of order, and would be found most serviceable in supplying houses aud build* in»B at a high elevation with water from springs or surces which permit the fall necessary to obtain the foroing power, The height and the distance the water has to be seat becomes then a mere matter of piping.

A Premium on Embezzlement. — The manner ia which the defaulting secretary of the Canterbury Inve^tmont Association defrauded that society, which has been referred to in recent telegrams from Chrisfcchuroh, is thus described by the "Tiinaru Herald":— " There is in this province an luvestmeat Society, the directory of which comprises several of the smartest men of business ia the colony- The auditors, too, were selected on account of their keennees and scrutiny, and great capacity for checking accounts Yet what ia the melancholy fact ? That Investment Society has been systematically robbed by its secretary for several ytara, the whole sum mißsing amounting, we understand, to £7,000. The man -not only took all this inouey without being even suspected, but he compounded his appointment by a handsome bonus to be given to his wife, and he got away safely before anything was found out. It is asked, by what complicated trickery did he manage to elude the vigilance of directors and auditors ? Wo reply that he adopted no more cunning plan then that of stealing the money beforo their very eye?. They did nothing to .prevent his doing so. They actually handed jthe money over to him themselves. 'For example, one day a geutlemaa who had lent the company JBSOO came to draw his quarter's interest. The secretary, filled in a cheque for both principal. aiid interest, and took it to the directors to eign. They Bigned it, he cashed it, and, giving the investor, the amount due for interest, put the £500 in hia pocket. Time slipped away,| and presently the'aame gentleman came again for another quarter's interest. The secretary filled in another cheque for both capital and interest, and took it to the directors to sign. They sighed it, he | cashed ib, and, gave the investor tho amount due to him for interest, and put the £500 in his pockefc. This is how the society managed its borrowing ; now let us see how it managed its lending. A person |wishing to raise £750 made the necessary arrangements with the Bociety. and received a cheque, through the secretary, for £500 to start with, tho remainder to be paid when certain buildings were completed. Ia due course the borrower came for the balance. Tho secretary filled up a cheque for £750 and took it to the directors to sign. They signed it, he cashed it, ami, giving the borrower the amount due to him, put the £500 in his picket. Nothing could be simpler. In each of theee three cases

i.h« sum whiou the directors gave him was £SUO, but the secretary was a car,--lesH, gcoii-natureti fellow, who was not particular to » puuud or two. On oue oconsi.m tie ivokivwil £1,000 all tit 01 ce uurler circumstaac-s wer^ aimilar to th s already de.-cribcii, a«id ucver tr-'ublei the directors to give him change." Imported jJheep. — \iy the iCiwi, the Hun tl K Russt-ll tas juut imp'rted 5 rams from the* cel«l>rateif stu-l fl »uk o 1

Messrs Dow ling ai.d Son, of Jeta aba i, Victoria, from whiuh flock he also imporleil three ye*Tß ugo ten rama of the same high class, but tium d fferent sires. To

the produce of those tbe rauia n w imported a^e to bo piu, and Mr Itusaull h*B bi'en breeding up very carefully from im potted, ewes aud rauia siuoj.lß62, titl he

has now a breeding flock of 1,20) perfoctlj pn • e pedigree e was. The five Rams juat landed are by ' Sir Jaiflga i'-ouii ..of; pure stnd owus." *Sir JaineV waß purchased at auction ;ia ; Melbourne ,iu ;18j2 from James GibKOiij^Efq.. pf TfsinjiuiW for 255 guineas, ttieri tW-Eiigheijt prje> thatihad been paidtfbr a Bingle ehWp iu Vibtpjia. His sireVUhe . i • $ir Thpinas',' byed bynames 1&b8O$ . Esq!, wasvpevor- beaten -lit^aiiy Bhow.j at which

Hewaa exhibited. Mr Qibs6n''S"ld |ovsji* £5,0 0 worth of male progeny from' thtia grand sheep, and has now iu hU possession a son of his f>r which he has refused 1,000 guinsas. • Sir Thornau ' was Bold -hyauctiofi in Melbourne to Mfeasra Cum-" micig for 780 guineas whea over tix years old. • Sir Jamoa ' tojk the cbam piou prize at Sfcipton ia 187 1 and has proved himself a most; invaluable sire, his progeny having taken most of the highest honors, j at Skiptou* and Hamilton, the two greatest Victorian sheep shows .for the lass tb>oe years. The.folldwiug'is a list of piizas taken by Bis alook :— ln'lß74 at Skiptbu lat prize 2-tooth' ;ewe, 2ud 2-too^h mm and Champion ewe ; 1875 at Skipton, Ist 4-tooth ewe, Ist 2 tooth.trwe, 2ud, 4-iooth rani; ■ Ohampion.and^Ad Ohampipii ewoe, and 25 guiuea cup fof3 best 4->ooth ewes in yard. At. Hamilton, Ist 2- tooth rain, Ist 2-tooth ,eweß, Champion . ewe, |2a.i Champion ram, and the 100 guinea gold, cup for beat 2 tooth ram, 1876 ,at Skip-' ton, Ist 2 tooth ram, 2nd 2-tooth ewe; 3rd"4-toii.th ewe, . 2nd T Champion ram, Mt-sara Dowling and Green's Own ram * Wooliiiug' taking Champitn prize. At Hamilton, Ist ' 2-looth ram, lit 2-tooth ewe, 2nd Champion ew«, aod lOi) guinea gold cup for bent 2-tooth ram in yard. rh«Be pn'ze3 wore all taken in competition with the very best breeders in- Victoria.