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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 769, 22 May 1877, Page 2

Thb Cambhidqb Voluntbkb Civaley meet for their usual half-yearly drill tomorrow.

The Rev D. ButTCE will meet Church members at Cambridge to-day, and tomorrow at Pukerimu and Ohaupo.

Meeting- of Parliament.— lt is tolerably certain now (aaya the « Post ') that Parliament will meet for th<? despatch of business on the 20th July. , '

Cheap Drapery. —With to-day's paper is issued a baud-bill announcing the sale of a..large quantity of drapery, daring the ensuing fortnight, at Joseph's old store, near the Punt, Hamilton West.

Cambridge Pauso^aoe.— The tenders for the erection of the above building were opened on Saturday. Messrs Madigan • and Miller were the successful tenderers, tho amount being £208.

Farm foe Sale. — As will be seen by our last issue, the farm be'ongtng to Mr Morris, between Hamilton aud Ngaruawahia, adjoiuiug' Mr Harris's fann° wilh house, outbuildings, laborers cottage?, &c, will be offered for sale by auction by Mr A Buc'xl md, at the Haymarket, on Friday, the Ist proximo.

Cambridge Football Club.— There was a pract.c; on .Saturday afternoon aud a full attendance. Nothing practical was done at the meeting which took place subsequently, and it atands adpurned.

The Cambridge Literary Societjt, we underataud, has not.collapsod, but will be carried on iudependeutly of tha newly formed Debating. Society, the former society devoting itself almost exclusively to the circulation of sorials and magazines amongst members. The list of books is second to that of no other club in the colony.

Haili Stjrm. — There has been a thundoratorin in the Bsmgilikei district .during which largo pieces of ice the sizoofnuta —not cocoumits — fell in showers. One person who was caught in it had to difmount and seok shelter under a bridge, the big lumps of ice bruising his knuckles to such an extent that ho was unable to hold the bridle. A JMr Gaipin states thtit some of the pieces whicli fell afc bis placo during tho hailstorm, whicli ra^ed about fire iniuutcs, wore foui inches long by an inch and a-half thick wilh small icicles on oue side, an.l that sjme of them, he felt conrincod, weighed fully a quarter of a pound,

The /Star' of Saturday learns from Mr J Buoklatid, who arrived in Auckland on Friday, th*t the recent Honda have infliotel very heavy damage uiion the new ro=id from* Oam^ndtfe to Paeroa. One bHdge over a creek haa beeu totally washed away, -auii every -cutting has fallen in. .. QiiteSOOOo .btc yards of earth will require to bo mo.ei before the/oid lt*cl'jar Mgainn '

QlTiSBp'S BIRTHDAT SfOBTS, HAMILTON Wast.— The weather, we trust, will take up, and, allow these sports to come off with success. A couple of new events, it will be seen, hive been added to the programme! We would suggest how desirable it would be that those who have placed their names on the subscription iist' should "ante up" before Thursday next, so as to ebabfe the prizes to bo paid at once to the successful competitors.

Cambridge and Waikato Rbbd Band. — A baud, with' the above name, and uii'lor the able curiduotorship of Mr (J I) Mackintosh, J,has beeu formed al |Cambridge. Tile number of members ia, at present, twenty. The instruments to the value of' i'lOOare to arrive on Wednedday next, aud. practice will begin" the foliowiug week. Jh.ia the intention of the' Band td give 'their • services for ihe first year for any --charitable purposes. We heartily wish the new Baud every success. j'3 „ . Ik Dalkeith was an eccentric character named Philip Q'lX^ainoud, who had tuken some offence ..at ?||praian" MacLeod, and left going to ,tha;O,l}urch. Dr MacLepd niot him, 'and eaidL- ' VVell, Philip; why don't you come <l Tfco -church bow ?' ' I dinna ken, air, I flinWken.' The. doctor . said, ' liemembepj Philip, there will be no sermon ih hell ;' to which Philip replied; 'Eh, eb, -skj-, it'll no be for want of mini sters, then ! :.

AUCTKMTEBas' %ECENBKS — Mr D Oirdwood, auctioneer, Q-rey mouth, has been fined £100 at Ahaura for holding a sale outside Ihe district* for which his>auctioneer's license $vas jss.ued. ]from what we .('Grey liiver Argus ? ) know ot the cise, it is probable that the fine is a formal one, and will be remitted, as tho facts show that the breach o f the Auctioneer's Act wa3 not only an inadvertant one, but was incurred upon the responsibility of the opiiiioa of the coun'y. chairman, who had assured the defendaut that he might safely hold a sale 'anywhere within the Grey couuty. \

Kaipaba Eatl^tay. — Wa learn from the • Star ' of Frid'ay that th« tender of Messrs Larkina and O'Brien, for the contract for making the first ten miles of the Kainara Extension Kail way, beginning from the NeWmafket junction, has been accepted. The bond, was signed by the sureties yesterday. The amount ia £16,600, which give's W bmaller average per mile than the HelensVille and .Riverhead portion cost,' The next tender, we are informed, wad that of Mr Q-oodall, for £26,000, and the highest ia said to be nearly £50,000. !

Lost.— MrWarreo, of the Piako, when ia Hamilton yesterday transacting busi, ness ia the Post "Office between 2 and 3 o'clock left a parcel of bank-notes to the value of £19 lying on ttie sill of tho office ■window, and, missing them shortly afterwards returned to look for thorn but fouud them not. That they were left there is certain, for tha Postmasler transacting business with a- g- ntleman at the window a few minutes afterwards distinctly saw them lying on the desfej* but beltiving them to belong to the parjiy. present said nothing. Between the ttmo* they were lost and missed' only one other person besides the one above mentioned was seen in the office. A reward,pf £2 ha? been offered fb*r their return.,.- Warren is a man working for Mr Tjcklepenny and can ill afford the loss, .„

The Ska Serpbnt.— One of the results of the lat& tidal wave in the Pacific is the solving of the vexed question of the existence of- the sea-serpent. One of thsse monsters has been thrown ashore on the beach at Mercury Inland. The Auckland "Starr'' says :— 'There can now be no mistake at all about the leviathan's existence, and the minds of professor Owen and other distinguished savants need no longer be exercised over the question. A specimen of the once mythological monster has been cast upon the beach at Mercury Island by the tidal wave. The roptile is rather a juvenile specimen of the species, and,-no doubt, owos his capture to his inexperience. He has been most graphically described to us by. Messrs Madison and Graylin, the happy possessors, and it may interest scientists to learn that he (the serpent) has several very bright spots" on hia tail. He is to be exhibited. 1 .

Vegetable Silk,— A Frenchman in London has just perfected a remarkable process for converting vegetable fibres into silk, Specimens of the silk are on view at the Wellington Museum, and it will -really (says the "Argus") be a difficult matter to distinguish the samples from the best Indian Bilk, the luafcre, softness, and all other necessary qualities being present. Sir Julius Vogel, who forwarded the spacimena to Dr Hector : —says 'A moßt wonderful discovery has baen made for turning vegetable fibres into silk; .-.: Cotton yarn, for example, can be converted into silk not in appearance only,, but =in reality, and in the operation it gains weight and immensely increases in strength. The samples 1 enclose herewith are cotton .converted. The iuyentor, a Frenchman, claims to he able to perform the operation so as to be. able, to produce the silk at : bne-fifth of the prioe of silk-worm silk./ Very soon it will become possible, we suppose, to convert (he traditonary aow's ear into a velvet purse. . ... .... -

OPENIST<J OP THE SPOBTINa S BASON.— Yesterday was all in favour of the bird's where there '■was I '. cover, but otherwise we fnncy the sportsmen would have the advantage, as the -birds would lie ; close and rise sluggishly.. There was a continual downpour of rain throughout the tl-iy, and very little wind in the earlier parl of it. We have not, of course, heard as yet the result of the day's spirt, and certiiuly do not look for very heavy bigs. On3 gcntlera-jn from the Piako, where birds are plentiful, informed us that he had been out for three hours in the morning and k.d not got a feuthor. Still, despite the inclemency of the weather, the pheasants got a pretty good rousiig up, one Bottler who ciine in from Cambridge slating that the sound of firing all around as he, travelled along the road was as if the country was covered with skirmishing parties actively engaged. Mr Gwynnc, of Hamilton, brought home 7£ brace for his day's sp^rfc.

The 'Lyttelton Times,' April 20 says : — " A farewell dinner was given to Mr A A Funthaai, fcho sborb-liorn cattle breeder, at the Clarendon Hole], on Thursday eroninß. There was a full attendance of Mr Fantham'i friends, and a rao3t pleasant evening wa3 spent. In proposing the chief toast, »a inpsb deserved compliment was paid to Mr Fanthain as one of our chief cattle breeders, and a very wish was expressed that he would be as successful on his new estate in the North' lsland, to which he is about to remove, as he bad been on his farm at Canterbury. There is no doubt that Mr Fan t ham will bo greatly missod in this province, whsre, for many years, he has maintained a high reputation : s a breeder of first-class cattle."

Cambridge Dkßatino Society. — A meeting of those interdstedinl.be formation of a debating society was hold last Saturday at the National Hotel, Cambridge. There was a fair attendance. Mr Mclntosh was voted tp the chair, and the following resolutions wera then put to the meeting : — • Thit a Society be formed, ird bo ciilled the Cambridge De-b-itin<r Society.' * That. Maj ir Druinmod UE'iy be the President of the Club for the ensuing season.'- 'That the, Heva S J Neiil and J Smith and Messrs Brooks. -Buttle, and Camp form the committee.'' •Thut Mr Mclntosh be Secrelary and Treasurer.' 'That application be made to- tho offioer commanding the district for the use of the mess-romi' to hold the meetings in.' • That, the first nveting be held on Wednesday, the 23rd inst ; and that the. subject for debate be 'What sauce 13 best for t urkey ;' and lastly, . 'That the session close on the 30th September; and that the subscription for the season be 2s 6d.' We trust thut there will be a ! full attendance at the first meetißg of the Society, when the subject of debate gives an opportunity ot settling once for all the momentous Eastern question.