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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 786, 30 June 1877, Page 2

Corrbspondencs m reference to the Waikato Cavalry, is unavoidably held over till oar next. Tub English Mail via San Francisc » will uot be closed m Aucklan.i before Wednesday. The Banks will be. clojed on Thursday ' next, m honor of St Agrioala, the patron Saint of ploughing niatohe*. Mr Thos H Whitb, it will be seen, has commenced business m Himilton a* Architeot, Civil Engineer, aud Survojor. Tjs Awamotu Sali ov Fruit Trhbs.— Mr 8 Bright will sell by auction to-day a largu collection of fruit trees, shrub v roses, cuiiokf, Ac, from the garden of Mr J Sharp of Jambiidge. Salb of L vkd at NbwOA3TIjE. — Messrs 8 Uochrane and Sou will sjII by auction at- their Mart, Fo t St. Auckland, on Wednesday next, allot ueut. Flo 16, ofthe Township of Newcastle. Mr John Knox bh\U at 1.30 p m to-duy, and will offer mangolds, carrots, sharps, drapery, horses, bags, and a variety of other fatfcv articles. The valuable farm on the Whatawhata road — what a road it is !— will bo offered at 1 30 pin sharp. MBBTIN& OP EiBOrORB OP W.AIPA.— It will be seeu on reference to our advertising columns that Mr Cox, tite member for Waipa, Has announced his intention of meeting the electors of the district m. the Public Hall, Te Aw.»mutu, on the ereniug of the 4:h July. Secular v. Denominational. Education. — The discussion tournrmeut on ihis subject between four gentlemen of Hamilton, with whom will be associated both wig and cassock, and four members of the Cambridge Djbatiug Society will come off on Monday evening at Cambridge. There is likely to bo a lurge attendance to witness the contest. Mr Kennedy Hill will sell to-day horses, pi»'s, tip-drays, farm and dairy produce, drapery, clothing, and boots ; the whole to conclude with the battle of Knock enioff, ending m the complete defeat of Turkey,., whose forces haviug been knocked down two at a blow, will be led away captive m pairs by the victorious citizens of Hamilton. The Nottingham Castle Hotbl at the Piako will open on Monday next, wl«en travellers aad visitors may sofelv calculate on meeting with firatclnsa and ample accommodation for both man and beaat at Mr Woods' new ho»telry . Parties driving fat cattle through to the Thames market Will fiud enclosed paddocks provided. The Concert m ail of the Ilarraonium fund of St Peier* Ciiurch, Hamilton, hold o;i Tharslay evening was a very successful oae from an artistLt pnnt of view, overture, aongand reading followed one another, and the audience showed evident sigus vi being pleased by the hearty applause with which most of the pieces were received. A sum of about £50 altogether is m hand towards the cost of a new hurmouium exclusive of what may be obtained by the sale of the one now m use. Fcrmturb Sale, West Hamilton.— We commend the sale, by Mr John Knox, of Mrs Webb's furniture, at River Bank, Humilton West, to all youthful couples contemplating matrimony, or to those who have already faced the grim peril, and found out the continual demands snch altered condition of life makes on the purse for the replenishment of household goods gone the natural way of all crockery and timber, or used up, like a broken broom-handle which has served as the peroratiou to an excited wife's speech, m the more striking enforcement of conjugal argument on one side or the other ; tor, as experience teaches us ' life is not all beer an 1 skittles,' so does Shakeapere say, ' There are more things m wedded life, Horatio, thau are dreamt of m thy philosophy.' Horatio, however, did not live m the time of Mr John Knox, and could nob, as our readers can, replenish at an auction sale the broom-handle which Mrs Horatio had broken. The Hamilton West District School examination will be concluded today. Yesterday we were much pleaded with the advancement m reading, spelling, English composition, and geography shown by the older boya, whose work throughout reflected most creditably on their own exertions and the oare and attention bestowed upon them by the the teacher, Mr Danvers. To the latter great praise is due for the manner as well as the matter of the work done, the boys showing an intelligent comprehension of the subjects on which they were engaged, proving that they were not orammed like guns to the muzzle to go off when the match was applied by the examiner, but intelligently informed tipon trie subject

under considers! on m additions to being well up m details. The reading was remarkably good, arid a number of sentences abounding m faulty grammar and Provincialism* dictated by the visiting examiner were rapidly written cut into correct English, m two instances with only a single mistaka. As on former occasions, none of the friend* ©r parents of the children were present, and nuny of the children were themselves absent, showing hor littlo, interest some parents take m what really most vitally affects the future wcifare of their children. Truly the work of a district country school teacher is one of ill-requited trouble, and often the more so when most faithfully performed. Making bricks without straw was a fool to it.