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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 777, 9 June 1877, Page 2

Mb John Kwox, will hold hia usual Saturday* »*le at Hamilton this afternoon, wh«ri he will offer tmv sale a useful mare, ca:rots, fowls, drapery, Ac. •:•: Ohatt*O Sales.— Mr Alfred 3«ckkad, m addition to tbV ianal itbek'siiit (• tbe phaupo .r*r,d?, will,, on .Tuetday next off«r for iale' some 44 head of t*ttl« and ■11 fafc-pitftt the.- propertj- «f - Mr-:H«iify Johnsfan/ of.Wellaad IParm, , Alexandra; ; Mr Ejwwsdy ill£l< 'announces 'a.qua.v-Hlfcy-bf produce^ Kaeon, &uttor*nd;ch«eiie, ■ also laraa implements, clothings Ac, for 'sale at his weekly *ate to-day. In «4di;tibn to thes», Mr Hill will offbr for tale 50 I acreeef land kiio.wn as. BaskerT/ille'a farm, 'on the Waipa, horses, "Ac. : . PreSBYTERIAIC; AlfD CuiraBEGATIOtfAB Chuboh, la Awamoto. — Tke metting of personi i interested id tho abora church is called for: this afternoon, m the Public Hall, TeAwamutu, Te A-WAMOTU. — There is an improyement noticeable m the abov« township m the handsome building being ertoted as a fctoro for Mr It D L Duffus'of Alexandra. Thoframe work iai.up, and the building when completed; will bo an ornament to the township. . A .Eainhto, Acoidbwt ocenrred to a young man named Peatherel while cutting ti-tr'ea on a- farm s i Nuahinipouri; He was talking to another person at the time and looking up, and continuing the chopping at the same '■moment, found when he looked down again that his finger Was gone- ■ • - ' CATHOtIO CHxfflCH, HAMIIiTON. — The opening serrice of the new Catholic Ghurch at East Hamilton will take place to-morrow at 11 o'ciock, when mats will be celebrated by the Her Father JTyne , Vicar-Q-enei-al of the Diocese. The building bos* been ns.'itly and satisfactorily fioished, .and interiorly and exuriorly reflects considerable credit on the architect and confcractir. . ■ Auyauck OAittßßibQß.— We see by our adyertislTjg oolrimns - hat tho Presbyteriaus iutend ereclimg a new church at Cainkridjje. The building, w.b are iuforniej,is. to be 40tb by 24ft, wftli vestry and spue. It i« to stand on the allotment ■ Tory hear the : present Bpiscopalian Cfturcft, and is designed by the same- Arcßit^ct, Mr BicUßrdsonj as is also the., notiso aboat >o be built for Oolouel Ljoa'is rtsidencs. These buildings with, ihe HpiooopaliAn parsonage will form a oonapiuoua blucit on enberiug Cambridge by the Hamilton. road, The ' Ohareh Times' speaks thus of a voluuie of po.erna pdbJißheit by v H S King and Uo;, entitled 'Kays from the Southern Crosß,' by Gborgin a . Peacock, who is. a youug 'ady buloij^iug to . this province, and is a daughter .of Colonel Peacock. 'It is a volume of poetry considerable m bulk — rather : more than K«ata or Coleridge wrote— and very respectable m culture aud execution, particularly the verse with local refrenoe ta Now Zeaiand.' It is a h'ighiy desivablVthiug that literary activiiy of ,thia kind should <liv play isseif m young oolonies, which are J.OO apt to neglect .tho imaginative side of m'ihdi arid if 'Misi Peacock e'a lines wn 'ou her colonial >friends to a taate for poetry, which, they ar<» quite good enough to do, she wiil /hare done useful work m her ti»e, thpagh she ia.'npt Jikely to oohiere immortality.' Fatai Accident ax Te Awamutu. — Elsewhere we grre an abridged account of the procsediugs afc the Coroner'a Inquest hold yeßtercfay, »n the body of a young man named Monnsty, wh j was killed bj aecidenfcnlly falling from a dray at Mr Taylor's fnrm, T« Awtmufcu, the wheel of the dray passing ovar his head, killing him inatantanously. Deceased w»a a yonng man of good expectations, -who, more fr»m ill health than any-ofchor cause kat i«ft and aoine out to his iricud Mr B Tonks, of Auckland. Wishing to learn colonial farming and being heir to considerable meano, when hs arrived of age, and intending to settle iv Waikato, he went to live with Messrs Taylor of Te Awftmutu,. He was known to many ol'our Hamillon readers, having Jived for some, wee'ia a* the Hamilton Hotel, when ho flrit eume up to Waiknlo. l'hesutl affair Seem-i to have been a purely accidental, one m which blame can ut-ither be attached to decoased or any other party.