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Waikato Times, Volume XI, Issue 869, 8 January 1878, Page 2

Tendees for ploughing 200 acres of land are called for by Mr Smale of Mangakawa. Tendbbb for the 'ease of the stables of the Koyal Hotel, Hamilton, will be received till the Uth instant. New Clover Seed.— Mr E. T. Millar of Pateraagi announces the early arrival from Holland of 104 barrels of extra prime new clover seed. Mb J. Mokenzie, of Hamilton, announces to Waikato settlers that he is a purchasar of wheat as agent for Messrs Bycrof t and Co. Hamilton Cbobal Society.— ln con* sequence of the absence of the conductor, there will be no meeting for practice this evening of the Hamilton Choral Society. Cambhidge North Township Highway Board. — Notice appears m our advertising columns that all rates with arrears due not paid before the 3 1st inst will be sued for without further notice. The Boaeb of Education are advertising for the services of a master for the Paterangi school. Applications with testimonials, must be sent m not later than the 14th inst. The libel case, F. Whitaker v. George Jones, jun., is to be heard, at Dunedin m the second week of March. The defence will be conducted by Mr W. L. Bees, of Auckland. St. Andrew's Church Cambridge.— The annual meeting of the Church of England congregation m Cambridge is called for Saturday next, the 12th inst. at 3.30 p.m. and will be held m the churoh. t he wncat naiht- red last harvest id c Uni'e«l States is sated to be tb« larjjt-Bi quantity ever < btaiued m <has •■•untry. Newcastle Bridge. — Tenders will be received until noon of the 18th inst. for supplying rough stone for the protection of the piers of Waikato bridge at Newcastle. t he Colorado Beeble m Private ODGiKGs. A labourer named Giles oliii.s has been fitud 5s m » ousts by •it* Wei is magiivra es tor keeping n ye Colorado beetle m bis house a 1 W<Mi, Pi 'inn <-d. S m<TB t. Sib George Grey and Mr Sbeehan visited Coromaudel last week but the latter we regret to say was too ill to leave t he steamer. The premier had a most enthusiastic reception, and on leaving, the noraes were taken from- his carriage which was drawn by the townspeople from the bridge to the wharf a distance of more than half a mile. Sporting.— The racehorse Magician aas been bold by Mr Buckland to Mr R. Kelly for £100. Mr Hill has sold Golden Crown to John Thorpe, and La Belle, the inner of the match on Thursday, has changed hands. Mr McGee's racing mare Simplicity dropped a fine colt foal by Akeake a few days ago. The colt is to be called Tauranga. The Waikato Turf Club Annual Meeting is fixed for vhe 13th and 14th of Febi-uary, and the programme of events to be run for, and other matter connected with these annual races will be found elsewhere. The stakes, it wilj be seen, are fully 25 per cent, larger than those of last year, and the number of events the same, the Turf Club Handicap Stakes being £100, ten per cent of stakes to go to the second honse. The nomin&tipn fpr all handicaps are to be sent m on or before the 29th inst., and weights will be declared on the 2nd proximo. The Railway Terminus. — During the recent visit ©f the tivo .Ministers to Auok land,, represwut-ftfrioua m favour of remo.« i ig the lerounus of the Auo dard-Wai-xcaco line, from Point Br comarb intt Queen-street, were made t iem. and the Premier telegraphed upon the matter to Wellington. The following was this reply received :— " Re the Auckland Railway terminus, it appears that the Government did not agree to any plans, so far as the Department is aware. Your telegram, apparently, refers to a proposal which would coot £30,000, for which v substitute of a back shunt has been propotd, to cost £'.-,000. The question hu.been considered by each tmcce*>ive Ministry, but has never been settled by any, because it appears that the expenditure would not do the least good to the Railway, but would seriously lessen the revenue of the Harbour Bwd. The alterations of ihe f-9,1.00-piopobal wo\u\ only give a platform a small station shed. Perhaps it would be advi&able to defer the discussion till ihe Cabinet meets. — G. S. Whitmobe." fcHELP JIP. - We lake ilie followii.j. iriu i low lue • x\'T I. Briii-b A» i ,-v v Mist: - lie btsi prepa a.v . B,a,\ call aip |v is a in. me inau' ' U >„v Ufa* gr unu liHliboie, lib so.soap 4fe fOf.u, H gallons loliactjuice, «uu 2 galluiiV pure ••i-stor i>i M.iiiiiitj viaer to in..ke 30 M ailolJS . wi'iicli will b): uffi-unt to pour lUU, h• p JB >U thr Uoi bore u» wnivr.-'

oil Htid u»baci!<» juiue wi'h it in'a'^ub wliilc tho water i« hot. One dn'ssiaa , nt" this preparation ••areully applied, ' will oure scab ahci l.'aye the wool greasy, without discolouring it m the least. Th«« sh ep. dips advertised do well enough for ordinary dressiugu, bur Arv> not i^nffi.'ient to cure s«ab, howejMr ra^fu'lly tlitriostrujbti'tas are Car \e% > ou * and two dressing* Are, tjonerSfly j . ; pV-- ir ßcrib»».l,'tS ; efFe.Jt a i-u ■e.ifJf I Win, &(*;. \ >HBKP FABMKB.r-CaffehS' ties*. <)<•! 20 h 1877. • The Wheat King op VhsNßs.m. ' A Miunesoia aper. Mv» ' Fanjo Times,' i'lv^s ~an acn'i'Uiif of a recent vi^-it to Oliver Dairy njpl.r. ike * Wheat Ein^ of Minnesota,' as he is c lied. Besih-s his home firm near S . Piul, he ig half owmr, m eoriju- otion with two New York aent ctuen. of 75.00 an res m the Kt»d Kivec Valley- Abou> 170,000 bushels of wheat has been raised 'his y< ar. At, the u me of the visit nine at- am thrtinhers were st work, eac'i with »i capacity of 1000 bushels per day. The grain is hnuled directly m ih<* ca-s, and sent to Now York via Dilutii »nd he Likes. The owners intend to break about 5000 acres a year, uuttl the whole shall be brought under cultivation. 'J bis is the second y. ar «>f th«» enterprise, and so far the t.et p ofiis have exceeedfd 10-dwi* pit ai.'f m ihe yen.r — -•, - Found Dbowned. — Some littte-ekcita-ment was caused m Hamilton on' Saturday afternoon about 4 o clock when two boys named How and Norris who had been fishing m the Waikato River below No. 1 bridge came into tho town and reported to the police that the dead body of a man had floated past them. The police at once procured a canoe and Constables Wild and Haddock went m search of the body. After going down the river some miles however, the old canoe became leaky and it was necessary for one of the two men to leave it. Constable Haddock went-on shore and Wild who is especially skilful m managing these frail crafts, went on with the pursuit. The sun soon began to get low down but nevertheless, although at great personal tiik, Constable Wild continued bis voyage, and was rewarded by at least seeing and overhauling the body some miles on the. Hamilton side of Ngaruawahia. Hia astonishment was great on finding it to the body of old Samuel Harvey, a carpenter, of Hamilton, whom he had seen, walking about Hamilton during the forenoon of the same day. By tfee time the Constable had secured the body, the canoe had 1 floated to w.t a:n four miles of Ngaruawahia, and ie would have been impossible to have gone up to Hamilton against the stream, even had darkness not already set m, Wild took the body on to .Newcastle there to await a coroner's inquest. Great ciedit is due to Constable Wild for his pluck and energy m sticking to the canoe as he did and working his way manfully down to Ngaruawahia on such a coarse dark night as that of Saturday, arriving there about 10 p.m. That the body should have floated at onoe ia somewhat curious, but the fact that Harvey had been heavily drinking for some time may account for it.Educational, — At the meeting of the Education Board on Friday, a discussion arose on the state of the school property at Paterangi. In this case the school and the land on- which it stood were vested m trustees. The trust was of suoh a nature that the trustees could never have the power to «onvey. The Board possessed . the adjoining land, upon which a teacher's house had been erected, The application originally was for £34 for fencing and £14 for bui ding a chimney to th.c schoolhouse. Two sums — £25 for the fencing, and £10 for the chimney — were granted upon the condition that the trustees would o nvey, the Board not being aware of the position of the land. The trustees were willing to make arrangements by whioh the Board would permanently have the use of the building. Mr Allwright had also reported that the fencing would be valuable for the property of the Board which adjoined the 1 and on which the school stood. The members of the Board generally thought the proposal made by the committee to accept the reduced amounts could not be entertained. — It was resolved that the inspeotor should make inquiries as to the nature and particular!) of the trusts. With regard to the Ngahinipouri school, the Inspector recommended that a three month ' extension of time should be allowed before closing the school, so as to see whether m the meantime there would be any increase' in the number ; nothing to be done m the meat* (rime with regard to the teacher's house. — Motion made accordingly, and passed. An application from the residents of Huntly (Coal Mines, Waikato) was received, asking the Board to cause the, above locality to be constituted a school district under the Act of 1877.— The Inspector lecommended that the application should be granted. The application granted on condition that a site should begiven for a school building-. As touching the granting the use of school houses tor the purpose of religious teachings out of school hours, we take the following from the report of the meeting of the Education Board, held on Friday last :—" Otahuhu (the Scripture Gift Association;, The Chairman of the local committee (Mr S. Luke) wrote to the Board enclosing a communication which he had received from the Hon. Secretary of the Scripture Ijhft Association, who desired to be informed whether the chairman, representing the local committee, would grant permission to the agent of the society to "enter and use the .-chool Duilding at an hour that would not interfere with school duties for carrying out the work of the Association.' 1 Mr Luke t aid there was some difference of opinion among the members of the committee upon the subject, and he was desirous to elicit for his own and their guidance some expression of opinion on the subject.— The Chairman said Mr Luke wrote, apparently, as it' he had not made him ell thoroughly acquainted with the Education Act oi mil. 'lots Act stated that the education to be given must be "wholly oeoaiai'," it saw. noptung about the couCiol of the school building out of school noura beyond this, that the control of -the school (building) vested m the local committee. Under the former Aot, provision was made for the use of the sohool for certain purposes, such as religious instruction outside of school hours. The Aot of last session said nothing on the subject, and as it appeared to him, until something elae was done, vested those buildings m the School committee. — Mr Luckie : iiut vie Education Board would have power m reopect of such buildings under the iules and regulations to be made by Jit Governor. — iho inspeotor said that the proposals made m the last session foi • facilities' to be given, were rejected.i'he chairman : That is quite true. Tut Legiolature gave no encouragement whut evtr to tne employment of schools for airy putyOoe except that to which they wtix applicable. — Mr Prime, m an. .-» ti to oome queotioUj as to the nature oi th> uujeots lor wiucii the association debiie«.<. to oe able to enter and u&e the school building, said he btLevud the object wa: tv cateonis>e the oiulureu upon theii imowleage of Suripnuc, and to give them prizes according to merit for the answering. — After home further discussion, ii. was resolved, "That until regulation.should be muae unuer the Act of 1877 foi the management and control of school \ buildings, this Boaru io not m a position to give' an answer to tho inquir^ submitted