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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 840, 3 November 1877, Page 2

The tale " Wife ia Name Only" Jwill be found continue I oa ouo toui-tli page. Mr Awked BuciCLANij holds hh tirat wool aale of the • season oa tho 20oa inst. Tkndees will bu received up to tl»e 9th indtaut from persons wilJiu^ to sorvo the Mangapiko High way Bowd »» Valuer. Floub has again fallen another £1 per ton. Io is about timo the publio had We b jnefic of another half ponuy decline m the price of tne 21b. loaf. Mr J. K. McDonald has on sale a large quantity of bricks, gram, beuedust, lime, timber, fencing material, and a first ciass combined reaper and mower. Removal ok Building —Tenders will be received by Mr \V. Reid, of Hautapu, for taking down at Tamahere, and for removing to aud re-erecting at Cambridge, a large douse of eight rooms. Indian Famine .Relief Fund. — The publio meeting for the purpose of devising means for f unnering the above object will be held this afternoon, m the Public Hall, Te Awa nntu. Messbs Hunter and Nolan's second c ittlo fiir of the season will come off on Wednesday next, the 7th inataut, ac the Papakma yards. Io will be seen that nearly a thousand head of cattle of all sorts, and among them a large proportion of the kind of stock suitable for turning into beef-grown steers, will be offered. The Waikato Terns 1 Club Spring meeting m connection witn the annual Cavalry review, will Come off on Monday the 26th instant, on tue Uhaupo ace Course. The programme will be found m another columu. .Entries must, it will De seeu, be sent m oa or before the 16th instant, addressed go the Secretary; The Waikato Steam Navigation Company advertise that reou.n tickets at single fares will be issued on the Bbh iu&tant, available for a week, by any of the company's boats between Na ruawahia and the following places : Hamilton, Cambridge, Te Jtiori, and Alexandra. This will afforo au opportunity of cheup carriage to those seeders aud others desirous ot visiting Auckland on the 9ihiust., when tue races, agricultural show, and other excitements will take place. Lims. — Mr Adam Laybourn is advertising lime, amongst goods enumeratd m our advertiaiug columns. Nothing, doubtless, m the shape of manure, will give so good a return for its outlay on our uevv lauds a3 lime. It neutralises the acidity of the soil, decomposes vegetable nutter, kills slugs aad insects, ensures the growth of clover, hardens the straw of grain crops, and gives heavier grain: Indeed, there are scarce any crops, or any soil m wuicn it is absent, which will not be benefited by the application of lime. Waikato Woql. - Mr A. Cox ot Waikato m proposing the * successful competitors' at the tiawke'a Bay Agricultural Association's dinner the other day, is reported to have said : — " He believed the New Zealand climate was adapted to turn oat the best ammtls. He might mention a circumstance which had came to his knowledge. A breeder m Waikato had sent home a sample of wool, hlis friend at home wrote back, 'If you tell me that the sheep from whoso back the wool came was not artidcielly fed, you need say no niora as to the adaptation of the colony for producing tho best stock.' He thought all honor waa due to those who invested ther capital m first-class stock. No one could bßuefits himself iv this way without also benefittiDg his neighbor." The Bank of New Zealand's halfyearly report, which waß read the other d*y ut the meeting of shareholders, presents a most satisfactory statement of the business and prospects of one of the most prosperous institution*, established m the oolony. The matter is not only one of congratulation to ihe shareholders, but to the public geaerally, for the success of the bank is an iudication also of the. increasing wealth of the colony m which its business is conducted. Not only are che business and the profits steadily increasing, but so too is the funded property of the bank. During the last couple of years, the profits have risen from £47,000 m the half-year to £72,000 for a similar period, and the reserve fund m the samu time has been increased from £180 000 to £300,000. It is a noticeable fa<;t, too, that the increased growth of business is pniely the result of dealings iv ordinary commercial transactions, and not due, as might have been said m respect to former half-yearly periods, to exceptional dealings m connection with Government loans. Some idea of the business done by the Bank of New Zealand may be estimated from the fact that its transactions cover a sum of close upon tea millions sterling namely, £9,774,802^

Home MisaioK Sbbviceb — me Key |; W. J. Wiili»Dßß will preach on behalf of the Home Missions to moirow morning, ia the Wesleyan Chapel, Cambridge, at Hautapu School-house ia the afternoon, and at Hamilton ia the evening. The Rev Mr Brawn will preach at Hamilton ; and the Ray J. Smith at Te Awainuta m morning. L J aterangi m the afternoon, aad Ngahimpouri m the evening. The people of Hamilton ana Cambridge aro specially favoured m tie opportunity afforded to them of listening to to eloqueut and worthy a divine as Mt Williams. Spabiiow Catcher — Amongst the arrivals yesteaday, per *stainer, we noticud a mdit peculiar pie^e ot mechanism, and ie was BOaifctiiue before we could discover ita particular virtues. On enquiry, we find Mr R ii iUasou, of Hamilton Jfiaat, has to order received from Auckland, made b.y a Jocal inauutaciurer, a peculiar kind ot uparrow catcher, made after his owu design, aud if hi* statement be true as to isa properties, we expect ere long to Ob gorged will sparrow pies. The machine itseu is very simple, being of wickerwork, about , eighteen inches m diameter and 12 inches higb, m shape rambling an ordinary spntjon. Alchongh not doubting Mr iViasona philaatropny iv trying to rid the neighbourhood of an imported nuisance, we°ne iuolinod *» ihink he has ulterior ideas m view, and we should not be surprised at hearing of some of our crack sportsmen tryiug conclasioiiH with the unfortunate uuarroW. The Dkvi& akd Vincent Ttkb.— Tho gos^ps m town, sfcya the ' Star's ' correspondent, are talking about a little soandal. It appears that a person named Cotton, professedly ' of the upper ten, met Mr fyke at th* CJub, and expressed a fraternal deaire to get a photograph of Mr Pyke's noblo visage, iv order to hand it dowu to posterity, especially as he (Mr Cotton) was going home. In faot, Cotton cottoned to Py*e, who accompanied Cotton and one of the Governor's aide-du-camps to a photographer's, where Fyke 1 sat tor iui'Horcinity. Meantime, Cotsou j had a mask repreienrin^ the devil rigged m a camera. Mr Fyke'd likeness (bedeviled, we presume) was shewn m the club aud about t«wu. A friend informed him, and he wroM a letter to the Marqa.s ot iNorinaubjr, «xpit»i«ing tho circuinbtanced, and a^kilg lh« protection of the Governor. With a proper tense of hia responsibility, Hit Excellency made the aid-de-caiup wri» • teller w«tt the regal arms above, to Mr Fyke, expressing sincere sorrow for having aided m perpetrating a most ungeutlcmanly trick, and iutiniitbd that he had destroyed the negative and all pictures. This conduct of the Governor* hai raised him m the estimation of rigkt-thiaking people here.