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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 815, 6 September 1877, Page 2

A SaIB 01 'WOBKtird BVLUOGBLa, GEAB, &", will will take place- at the Wh-irf, Hamilton, on Saturday, where iMr Knox will also offer saws, adzes, crosscuts, and other bush tools and implements. t £ Ploughiko.— Tomorrow is the las', day on which tenders for ploughing 170 acres of land near Cambridge will be received by Messrs McLean & Co. - Tenders for. the construction of station buildings on the Newoastle-Ohaupo section of the Kaipara-Puaiu railway,' will' be received at the Public Works Office, Auckland, till noon of Wednesday the 12th iust. Mb Kennedy Hill will sell on Satur. day, m addition to his regular sale of farm and dairy produce, several horses, a 1 quautity of saddlery and a number _of single and double-furrow ploughs. " ; Catholic Chitbch Cambridge.— The tenders lor she erection ofthe Nevt Catho* tie Church at Cambridge must be. sent m to Mr D Kichardaon,- the arohitecb, by Saturday next the Bth insb.. The Ohaupo Cattle Sale takes place on Tuesday next, and there are already notified for sale a considerable number of mixed' cattle, amongst them fifty head of store cattle, mixed sexes, from the farm of Major Jackson. • .• . Bagklan Cattlb Sales.-* Tuesday tho ejeoond of October next has been fixed upon as the date of fcne, first Raglan cattle sale of the season, which will be held at Mr W tt Wallis' place, Okete. Substantial yards have been erected and a considerable natnber of cattle of all kinds have already been entered for sale. Extraordinary Whbat Chop. — The ' Otago Guardian ' says : — • Aa an example of what oan be done by properly cultivating a naturally fertile soil, we may mention that one Taieri farmer has just threshed 25 acres of his last season's crop of wheat, the result being a yield of 60 bushels per acre. It ia expected that the orop from another 25 acres, which has yet to be threshed, will give an equally good yiald. With wheat at its present price* this may be looked upon as profitable farming. An Entertainment iv aid of the Fund? of St. Joseph's Catholic Church, at Alexandra i is advertised for the 14th instant, m which the Frontier Minstrel troupe will take part. The programme appears to be an interesting and attractive one, and together with the object for which the entertainment is held, cannot but draw a large audience. . ... Thb Education Bill.— We understand that a petition against the obnoxious religious clauses m the Education Bill bas been very numerously signed by the Boman Catholios of Hamilton and Cambridge. — The time for canvassing, a few days only, precluded the possibility of sending the petition to the other districts of the Waikato. The Rev J. Golden, to whose care the petition was entrusted," has returned the same to head-quarters with some 200 signatures. Bbioham Yonng is dead, and has thus saved the United States Government the cost of the rope he so richly deserved as a murderer and the accomplice of tbe lately executed ruffian Lee. Speaking of + bitn m her history of Morcbonißm, Mrs fStenhouse thus photographs his character :— ' A better people— aside from their religion— than the believing Mormons, when they emigrated to Utah, it would be diffioult to find. Their fault was m their faith. . They were honest, sober, industrious, and ready to sacrifice every, thing to what they considered religious duty. I cannot think of them and the implicit confidence which they placed m Brigham, without wondering at his folly m throwing away the noble opportunity, which was once within his graap, of establishing i happy and contented people. Instead of this, he has gathered wealth to himself and family j out of the poverty of his followers he has amassed enormous riches ; and that with the power to leave behind him a name as one of the benefactors of the human race. He has set the worst example that despot or false prophet ever presonted to the world.' An Opposition Catjojs.— The 'Herald' give the following description of Saturday's caucus : — Tho Auckland and Otago members, besides a few representatives of other constituencies, held a meeting on Saturday, and a deliberate attempt was made on the part of Mr Montgomery to bring about the deposition of sir | George Grey as leader of theOppo' sition. As soon as all were assembled, Mr said he thought it would Jbe as well that they should proceed to elect a> chairman, and he moved tHpt^Mr Thompson do take the chair. Tins J^opobition immediately brought Mafeanflrew to his legs, who protested almost this attempt to deprive Sir George Grey of the leadership of the Opposition by a side»wind. If anybody but Sir George Grey, who was the recognised leader of the Opposition, were to preside, the proposition ought to emanate from Sir Ghorge Grey himself, but ho thought Mr Montgomery's proposition was a direct insult to Sir George. The'lalter then rose and proposed that Mr Thompson should take the fjhair, which was agreed to. Owing to the determination of the Auckland and Otago members to stick to Sir George Grey, no understanding was arrived at, or programme drafted. Mr Murray waß the only Otago member who de- . plated for Mr Montgomery. Since then attempts have been made, but up to the present time unsucc3ssfully, to form a ! party. Mesßrs Ballance, Montgomery, and Gisborne are, said to be candidates for the leadership, but as they each have too small a following, should, any parly be formed, ib will have lit its head none of these three gentlemen. , The questiop of leadership has been the sole cause of a strong Opposition party not having been formed long ago ; and the recent action is looked on as another indication that the Government ia likely to pull through this session, simply because of the absence of a united effort against them. Indeed, it is considered by, men on the Opposition Bide that a change of Government is not probable until after a general election. Thu Auckland men will agree to no other leader than Sir George Grey, except Mr Whitaker. This they positively declare. Sir George stated that although he could not accept office under any circumstances, still his mind was firmly made up not to allow himself to be supplanted as loader of the party by any other member of the flouae,

OiYDESDALB Entire— M> Harding, of Mechanics Bay, A.uokland, has just imported from Wanganui a handsome dark brown Clydesdale stallion, bred by Mr Patteraon of Wanganui. Youug William, tho horse m question, is rising eight years, and. is out o{ an imported Hobarfc Town mare, by, th> well kuown Clydesdale « Welliogton/ ; Tnß'BptoT Fomribin the river by the Natives near TOangiriv •* of which Sergt MoGoveru received notice on Sunday last, tuqne out aa was expectTd to be that of Bentley. In had been removed to Churchill and Sergt MoQ-overn at once recognised it both by the clothes and by the peculiarity that deceaaed'sJeft arm was crip, pled and turned inwards. Bentley was formerly m the army and for the wound received m tbie arm above alluded to. was m receipt of a pension of three shillings a day. He had been missing some three weeks from Hamilton, arid when lust seen had been drinking The deceased's ; body when found was not disfigurnd though its features were perfectly black. An inquest was held on Monday before W N Searancke, Esq, Coroner, and a jury of whom ' Mr T W Wilson was foreman. The body was identified and circumstances of fiading it deposed to, and a verdict af *' found drowned', returned. Hamilton JJiqht School. —Elsewhere we publish a letter from Mr Field, the master, of the Hamilton East School stating that what we instanced as a wanb m Hamilton has been open to all desiring it, and that very few have availed themselves of the opportunity. Mr Field, it seems/ some time since opened a night school,, fnd had to close it for want of patronage. So much for the fact, now for the moral. Mr Field did not advertise his school, and thus while a school m Hamilton East was opened nightly, would-be .scholars m Hamilton Wept were regretting that no Bnob! opportunity was afforded them, of obtaining education. The only way to find customers is to advertise for them, and just what has happened m the case of the Hamilton East' night aehool happens to every tradesman, who neglects the glorious 'privilege of. advertising. In holding up the case m point as a shocking example, and publishing the letter m question free of charge we are, we know, giHng Mr Field the best of all advertisements, and we do so all the more readily, that we should'bo heartily glad if the ventilation of the subject shall have led to the establishment of a well attended night school m the district. A Worse Plague, to the sheepowner, even than scab, is beginning to make itself felt m New Zealand and that U. the Bathunt burr. The one may be eradicated .with cost and trouble; but if once the other get* a fair hold of the soil ita eradication is hopeless, and the loaa occasioned some ten or fifteen per cent m the value of the wool must ba quietly submitted to. The following extract from the New Zealand Loan . Company's London advices received by last Mail has been' for warded to us for publication : — " We regrot to observe the presence of burr m sjme of the parcels. If burrs be allowed to spread m New Zealand pastures, it will seriously affect the value of . wools from your colony, their previous immunity from this pesc to growers having favorably weighed with buyers here m operating. la the various parcels we still observe a great want of attention m sorting the fleeces, and m mixing m the same bales wools of different quality. Possibly amongst the smaller runholders and farmers, facilities may not exist m their sheds for properly classing, sorting, and paoking their clips. If, however, more attention were paid to the matter, the attendant trouble and expense would be more than repaid by the higher prices secured.-' .. - ..