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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 791, 12 July 1877, Page 2

OwiKatqpressu»eonour Bpace, by late adveitiaements, we are compelled to hold over the letters of ' Vates,' also the re» portuf the Pukekura Highway Board,'and other local matter. Tbndebs for the erection of a four roomed house at Cambridge, labour only, will be received up to the 19th instant by the architect, Mr I R Vialou The Pkizk3 awarded at the recent examinaiitm of the children attending the Hamilton We3t District School, will be distributed to-morrow. A Cambbidge Cobebspondbnt informs us that ib is reported in Cambridge that Mr Corcoran, late of the Greyhound Hotel, Aucklaud, has purchased Mr A Clements Masonic Hotel. Mr S Bright has received instructions from Cyl. Lyon, to sell on Saturday, the 21st instant, iu the Government paddock, Cambridge, at noon, staunch heavy horues, a trooper horse, Government .express wagons, tip-drays, barneae, &c. The Alexandra Habmonitjm, which has produced more discord than a whole orchestra of onto in f u 1 voice on a moonlight night, will be offered by public auction by Mr Bright on Saturday next, at Finch's Hotel, Alexandra. The Cambridge Bbawch of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society will meet immediately after the Highway Hoard meeting is over, on the 26. h iust, to receive the annual report and for the transaction of other business. Ths Ratepayers of the Cambridge District Highway Board are warned that the annual meeting will take place on Thursday, the 2fith inat, for the election of officers, and passing of accounts; It is also intended to take the opinion of the ratepayers whether future Elections shall be held under tbe operations of the Local Elections Regulation Act, 1876. Auckland Abt Union.— There is an association established in Auckland called the Society of Artists, of which Sir George Grey is patron and Bishop Cowie ckuirman. The council of this association consists of some sixteen. gentlemen, and they have instituted an art union for fche purpose of encouraging a taste for thnfine arls in its various brunches. Subscribers of ten sb ill ings become honorary members of the association for the current ytar, and have the chance of drawing a prize Mr T C Jlnmmond is the Society's agont fov Waikato.

Thb ,Ji.A.Tl,T&XttAfi 'of fche flamilton West ; ToTCd JBcniid will htive need to bear in mini that their annual meeting as advertised in our last issue is called for the 30th instant. Another public uiseting is also called to take place immediately after ' the annual meeting for tbe purpose of elicitiug an expression of opinion as to whether tbe Central Board of Education and the Waste Land Board should be elective or nominative bodiee, also to discuss other important business.

The War, Eastern Names.— The name of the valley to which iff our la~t issue it was said the Russians have fallen back, is the Araxes, not Arotes, as telegraphed to ÜB. Other words when indistinctly or incorrectly given in a telegram can be worked- out by reference to the context, but not-so in the case of proper names In wriving these and forwarding them, telegraph officials might expand a thought nnd save the Press much study and trouble and sometimes the necessity v o£ excluding a ssnunee altogether.

Drunk in Charge oi? a Horse and Caht. --It was only the other day that we drew attention to the penalties incurred by persons guilty of a breach of the provisions of the Public Works Aot, headed 'Offence* upon Roads,' aud amongst these, we referred specially to that of getting drunk when in oharge of a horse und\ehiule. Yesterday, Mf J Ddugan, of Hamilton, was instructed in the mean ing of the luO.b. clause of the Act, the lesson costing him just £5 and costs. It is a lesson, once learned, that is not likely to be forgotten. We have since learned that Deegan accepts the alternative of a fortnight in Ngaiuawahia Gaol.

The late Ploughing Match, Cambridge. — We omitted 10 mention in our report of the after dinner proceeding.-*, not thinking the matter of sufficient unportan be at the time, the explanation made by Mr John Runciinan to Major Jackson's remark, that it was a good way to welcome a new comer, as in the case of Mr Fantham, by ploughing up his land. Mr itunciman explained that, ho far from this being a benefit to Mr Fantham, that gentleman did not want his land ploughed up at. all, and it was ouly because no other suitable place could be obtained that he reluctantly cousentei to allow the match to take place in his paddock.

Sale of Mb John Runcistan's Stock axd .Effects. — Mr Kennedy Hill auuounces iu our advertising columus an important clearing out Bale of the whole of the live aad dead stock of Mr J hu Eunciman, of Cambridge, who has let his farm on lease. So large a sale might well have occupied two days, but in a country district this would have been obviously inconvenient to many. The sale which is advertised for 12 noon, will therefore coinrpeuce punctually to the minute. The list of articles for sale comprises over 2,000 wel -bred sheep; agricultural and riding horses, cows, pi^s, poultry, &c, the necessary implements for a large farm, and a quantity of household furniture.

JFOOTBALX., WAIKATO V, AUCKLAND,— Ib has been arranged by the frontier football players to phy the Aucklanders a match. The. game will take place iu Hamilton as the Anck and men could nut manage to get up any further and play in the time ac their disposal. . The 2iLst instant will, most lifc ly, be the date on which the nntcli will come off, that being the time fixed on by the Aucklanders. The captain of tha Auckland Football Club will not ; bring up as strong a team as he at first; thought, but then the absence of the Hamilton contingent and the disabling of two of the frontier team considerably reduces the strength of the Wuikato. A good determined fight will no doubt be made by both sides for vie* tory, and we hops that the game will be free from any accidents, such as have been lately only too plentiful in the football ffcld. We would also have our men study the rules of the game well, so, tbat no disputes may occur during the play, and not only must tiny learn the rules but when learnt they must act up to them and play a strighiforward game. The town men having so many oppor. tunities of practising together will prove doughty opponents, and the game will have to be played judiciously from stare to finish if victory is to rest withJWaikato.

' Snyder' in the ' Poverty Bay Standard' proceeds to the Patoral Show, but says : Upon arriving at tbe outside of Mr Poynter's Paddock £ was about to entor through a a open gate when a man stood in the way and asked would I £ive him a shilling. I said, my good fellow, it is a sad and piteous sight to find one who evidently from his ai pearance has seen better days, but still quite able to work, asking for money. If. I said, you are really hungry and in want of food I will give you an order to get a meal. But I fear that it is drink you wanb, and I cannot bestow alms for any such purpose. The man said he did not want any of my nonsense, admission to the ground was one shilling. If I went in the price was a ' colonial robert. 1 Then T knew that I had made a mistake. I told him that I represented the noble institution of the * press' which was looked upon as the fourth eßtate of the realm. Further, that 1 was to be admitted free. The gatekeeper said he supposed this going in free by newspaper gentlemen was what was called the freedom of the press. He didn't 'see it.

The Blue Giass Cube.— So far as can be ascertained, only one Detroit family (says the ' Free Press') has as yet taken advantage of the wonderful curative properties of General Pleasonton's blue glass discovery. The idea took- with, themfrom the start, and three or four weeks ago the blue glasa converts commenced hammering at their ailment,, the. lady of the bouse, who has for yeara been such an inyal.d that she could not make over five calls in au af.ernoon, was in two weeks so restored to health, that she was able to leave her home in the morning aud remaiu away all day, leaving her children to get their meals among thoir neighbours, and her husband to lunch down town. Before she bagan taking sun-baths she was melancholy and despondent, and didn't care for fine things. In one week from the time the first blue lights were in, she planned a trip to Florida, ran her husband into debt for a set of oameo jewelry, set in pearls,' and had a bard crying spell because she couldn't have a new velvet dress. She was formerly so languid that she could not shake down tbe coal stove. On Tuesday morning she not only .shook down the stove, but all the stove pipe, and when her husband jumped out of doors to call the neighbours, he looked as if she had shaken him round too. Her appetite was wonderfully improved under tbe strange cure, and now me can cat. almost, anything which her husband will come home and co >k. Eor three loner years she was always complaining of headache. That complaint is now entirely vanished, and she continually scolds about the corns on her toe?, thus giving her husband a grateful change. One of the pleasante9t eights on that street, these sunny day3 is to sec this ladv behind the blue "panes seated in a rocker, her nose close to the pages of a novel, hair down, eyes half closed, and the blue glasa throwing a beautiful shade over hor old wrapper and broken-back Slippers.

-Thames- Waikato Railway. -Speaking of this project, tho Thames 'Evening Star ' says :— "ln Otag'» there is au almost unanimous movement eoing on to press upon the Government the desirability of completing railway communication in that part of the colony, and from the way in > hioh that movement has been p osscuted we feel sure that it will farm a pro inent feature with membeis during the r.exfc session of Parliament. No matter what turn affairs may take as regards politioal parties, we feel assured that no stone will be lefc unturne.i to secure for the already ovei^favbured pro-, vincial district of. Ota'lb some fres*. advantages in the shape'^of votes for railways. We leel no compunction, therefore in urging all parties to^'ink 'their political differences in uniting to demand this one concession, the continuation of railway eomm union tion from' Waikato to Thames, and thence to the East Coast. This province has suffered in the past from its being in opposition to the Government, but it may, and probably will, exercise a turning point in the political balance nest session. As regards the Thames and Waikato Railway, we f3el that we have less to fear from Southern influences than the want of unanimity on the part of Auckland members j " but this, should not discourage us from' helping the movement in every legitimate way. We may remark that there would be little difficulty m getting a company to construct tho Thames Valley Kailway if the G-overnmenb could be induced to grant certain conditions. Quite recently the County authorities received an offer from an Auckland capitalist to build the railway from Waikato to .Ohinemuri it interest on the outlay at the rate of four and a half per cent, per annum were guaranteed for a number of years, and it is quite possible that this offer may yet be further considered by the County Council. In fact we would urge them to take the matter up, for it ia one on which the future of the district very, much depends, and it would, we presume, be perfectly legitimate for the Jounty to lake the responsibility of the work under the Public Works Act if it cannot be accomplished by any other means. The capitalist who made the off -r had previously communicated with the Piako County authorities, but aa they have p.actically abrogated their funccions by h lnging up the Act, it is not surprising that they vouchsafed no 'reply. If anything is to be done it must oe done at once."-