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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 867, 10 January 1878, Page 2

Ms Vbbhom Bobbsts, of Alexandra, ii gazetted an interpreter under the "Native Land Act, 1873. Cambridge Sale Yabds. Messrs Hunter and Nolan will hold their next cattle sale at the Cambridge Yards on Tuesday the 17th inat. Messrs Runter and Nolan's Sheep Fair has been postponed from the 16th inst., to some time about the middle of : February, the exact date of which wjjl jpe given ip a future advertisement. ''.'■'' Mb Reader Wood, it is said, goes or a two years trip to England, so that there ! will be a vacancy in the Assembly ior j Parnell. It is rumoured that Mr Wbod ■ will take the Agent-Generalship when Sir Julius Vogel's term is up. Totttkabamka Eoad Division.— The application made on behalf of the Board by Mr T. Or. Sandes to make a new section of road to the Tuhikaramea block was acceeded to by the Waste Land • Board on Tuesday, so far at least as they ! were concerned. A portion of the road, however, as appear by the plan, would have to go through native land. The mobophoeses expected by Mr Buckland, have arrived in Waikato from Po« j verty Bay, and will be sold at Cambridge, at the Criterion Hotel, on Saturday, the 19th instant. A number of draught , horses, ladies' horses, and others are advertsed. for sale at the same time. Though represented in the advertisement eslewhere as " upstanding" riding horses, , the auctioneer will, we trust, succeed in ! knocking them down — to some one. Refreshment Room at Merges.— We j are glad to find that our suggestions ' have received attention at the hands of the Railway authorities, and that tenders for leasing the represhment room at/ Mercer have been called for. On this occasion, we trust, that whether the offer may be what is considered satisfactory or not the room will be leased, as the require- ' ments of the travelling public demand such consideration. From Auckland to Ham'lton, a journey of nearly six hours, and wiih trains leaving as early as seven in the morning from either end of the line, it is absolutely necessary that the public should be provided with the opportunity of supplying themselves with refreshments on the road. Ngarttawahia Pbesbyterian Sabbath School' Picnic. — On New Years Day the children attending the Presbyterian Sunday School at Ngaruawahia (about fifty in number) with the teachers and several friends trore entertained at a picnic at the farm of Messrs James Bros., who liberally placrd their orchard at the disposal of the visitors, and the cherries being plentiful and ripe, ample justice was done to them by all, as was a) ■ o the case with the wt^pjes provided for the children. ISporto £nd amusements of various kind* were indulged ia, everyone trying to mal?e themselves agreeable, and a very hapoy and pleasant days enjoyment was the consequence. . On leaving, . three cheers were given to the Messrs 1 James for their kind hospitality.

Mb Bttokxand announces the sale at ' to the Ohaupo yards, on the 12th Feb., c f . the he whole of the stock of Mr A. Wallace, oui Grand Stand Ohaupo Race Coubsb. — mo Tenders for the erection of a Grand Stand usi at the Ohaupo race course will be received ( till the 16th inst. The plans -and sp&sifi- foe cations may beseefiatf Mr White's , office, he) Hamilton and a&^the office of ". Mr W. th( Percival, in Auwuand.l '<; « ;' y ! h& Labqe Sale at Hamilton. — There will,, °* doubtless, be a large%stendahce from all t\u parts of the district at the sale of farm Cr stock and furniture to be offered by a*' Messrs J. D. and K. Hill, on Saturday th< next, at Greenb.Ul. the property of. Mr ft. l ai F. ClaiideV There are close on a- thousand l ai carefully bred sheep, and a large number 'hi of very superior- cattle, besidea farm im- fl o| plements, houeh Id furniture and the w | lease of tfie farm. Wi It was in Boston. A low musical sound T came up from the closet under the stairs, , and the mother listened. It was her little eon softly singing to himuelf. "i need n^ thee every hour.' " How glad lam that I took my boy to hear that sermon on ♦ Closet Devotions " at the Taoeruaule laat aevening," said she. Then she could not JI J forbear at pping quietly to the closet door H< to cacoh a glance at the " dear oiuld," the " "preoioua lamo— bless his heart!" So B she did. And she saw him — saw him ;l . devoutly engaged in humming that revival ; ., hymn, and also — running his finger around in the preserve jar ! And there j tho devotion broke up — broke up amid groans of, repentance for sin found out. si The following appeared in the 'Wananga' under tfie heading of . ' Adulterated Beer' : — It is reported that the officers of the Government have " recently analysed, at Wellington, a quan- a tity of beer in daily use by the people. * There were two hundred sampler of beer I so analyzed, out of which one hundred C and ninety-nine samples were found to contain certain noxious or life-destroying drugs. The reason giving is this, that that these drugs are mixed in with both >irits and beer for the purpose of creasing the desire •.- thirst for drink, id thus to incite men to drink to excess, > that the money profits of these vendors E drink may thereby be largely in:oased. The Ex-Pbesident in Good Qttabbbs. — An American journal has the allowing : — " And I must say, Ulysses," amarkea Mrs Grant, as she put on her ightcap, while the General swallowed is at Windsor Castle t'other night, " I aust say it was very rude of you to ask if the meter was frozen ' when they lit he candles at dinuer. You know how tard times are, how high gas is, and what i large family Victoria has. I dare say ihe, poor thing, has to economise all she san. You know we had to when you were Bang — I mean President ;" and the good loul dropped off to sleep, leaving his Ex-ness to wonder whether " Dieu et mon Droit," over the fire-place, was a Latin notto, and if so, whether it meant " No unoking in bed." East Waikato Pbesbytebian Chtooh. —The Kev W. Evans having accepted the call to this charge, is expected to arrive in Waikato during the present week, and will commence his ministration on Sunday next. The committee have secured the use of the Cambridge Public Hall until completion of the new Church, which is to be ready by the end of the present month. Arrangements have been made that Mr Evans' induction to the charge, and the opening of the new building shall take place at the same time, early in February, when special services will be held. According to advertisement in another column, the Eev W. Evans will preach next Sunday, in the morning at Cambridge, and in the afternoon at Puke-* rimu. Healthiness of Milk.— -If anyone, says a writer in the 'Australasian,' wishes to grow fleshy, a pint of milk taken before retiring at night will soon cover the scrawniest bones. Although now-a-days we see a good many fleshy females, there are many lean and lank ones who sigh for the fashionable measuse of plumpness, and who would be vastly improved in health and appearance could their figu-98 be rounded with good solid flesh. Nothing is more ooveted by thin women than a full figure ; and nothing will so rouse the ire, and provoke the scandal of the ' clipper builds ' as the consciousness of plumpness in a rival. In oases of fever and summer complaint, inilk is now given with excellent results. The id«a that milk is "feverish" has exploded, and it is now the physician's great reliance in bringing through typhoid patients, or those in too low a state to be nourished by solid food. It is a mistake to scrimp the milk pitcher. Take more milk and buy less meat. Look to your milkman; have large-sized milk pitchers on the table each meal, and you will also have sound flesh and save doctors' bills. The Land Tax Question is thus humorously dealt with by "Attious" inthe Melbourne ' Leader ' : — " The Gover-nor-in-Gouncil has given one of the most unanswerable arguments that oan be brought forward in supgort of a progressive land tax. Sharks in the Bay are nuisances that must be abated. The larger thoy are, the more they require to be kept down, and so a scale of payments is advertised for their capture, increasing gradually with the size of the fish till a prohibitory limit is reached, beyond which a monster of the deep cannot live in anything like peace. The public simply desire to see the same rule applied to land sharks that the Governor-in-Council has thought fit at this particular juncture to apply to sea sharks. Take the small land shark gently — he cannot do much harm. Put a good round sum on him when he is big enough to swallow up the farms and selections in his neighbourhood — he is then getting dangerous. But, when he becomes an overgrown monster that will suffer nothing to live within miles of him — burst him up !" The 'Herald' of Saturday contains an account of the virtues of a New Zealand plant as a specific. We can bear testimony to the value of the plant mentioned in the diseases referred to. Its virtues are well known to the Maoris, and, we had thought, to European settlers also. Our contem porary says: — "At the present time, when so many are suffering from diarrhoea and other similar complaints, the followinformation may be useful. Mr Shaw called at the publishing-office of this journal yesterday, and stated that the settlers of New Zealand have a cure for these complaints at hand without cost and without much trouble. He stated that the well-known shrub — • l.oromiko,' — of the Maoris, is an infallible cure for all b >w-.l ;omplaint-t, either in ruan or cattle. He has uded it for years in his own family and amongst his tiook, and in every case it effected a safe ani speedy cure. His mode of using the shrub is to gather a small handful of the green leaves, and digest them amongst hot water as tea is prepared. Then take a cupful of the decoction in the morning (sweetened or otherwise) and another in the evening before retiring to rest. Two such doses will invariably effect a era. even in very severs cases. To ca. e iijvger quantity should be given. Tne liquid is not unpleasant to the taste ; it is slightly bitter, but does not leave an unpleasant taste in the mouth. He states that the shrub is quite harmless, and that no injury need bo feared from taking a much larger quantity than the above. We are not aware of this plane having been made the subject of chemical analysis, but if the statement of Mr Shaw be realised in the experience of others, it would be desirable

have such an examination made, for . tereby a useful drug might be added to ir chemists' stores, where it would be j ore available and in a handier form than ting- the gTeen leaves just when wanted. Confiscated Land. — At the first meet.g of the Auckland Waste Land Board, : sld since the passing of the Act of 1877, ' le chairman said that the confiscated tjdß had been placed under the control I the 1 Board, and could be de jit with by iem; He read a letter from the General rown Lands Office, Wellington, drawing btention to the sth and 38th section of le Lands Act, 1877, under which "Crown mds' was made to include confiscated mds and the provisisns for classification, le letter went on to state that the confi3ated lands might now be leagelly dealt 'ith in the same way as other lands rithout the necessity for a proclamation -The Chairman said that there were bout 200 applications in for this land, rhich he proposed to bring forward at ext meeting. Time would be required 0 complete plans, &. Mb. W. ti. Lockk, who is acting as ■j, nt in Aust a'.iu t.»r the persons who uain'airi the Tichb -rue agitation in i)naland, is (says ilu- Melbourne ' \ruua") abi>ut. f fake to Great 3 itnivi the man William Cteswell, Aas Smith, al.as U ti>n. who is now • nfin<'d in the P.irrama ta Lunatic asylum. Mr Locke accompanied Mrs Jury, Orlou's Hi-.tt j r, to Sidney, and is atisfied with her recognition of the ngn. He- identifies him also by hifl ibrrespond'-nct% with photographs of )!rion which have b en sent out to uira, and by evidence which it if» n<»t 1 ivisable too diaclo«e. Mr Lockf, if n'ill be reujembered, made a statutory leclaration that he a a present i' LJourt when De Castro and Orton were (•barged with hor^e- stealing at Castle* niine, a>id he has thus been mixed up with the case from the commencement. VI r L eke taken the man home at his • .vn expense nd his own risk, and tuu-t gi re* tangible evidence of the firmness of his belief in the identity of ■us protege with the vVapping butcher. The incident will be a new and unexP'cteu chapter iu the Tichborne romance. Gou»BßOucm'B Wool Cißom^AE for December, published on the 27th of that month at Melbourne, says : Prices gradually beoame weaker soon after the departure of last month's mail, more especially for inferior to ordinary descriptions, and a decline was clearly established when cable communication with Europe was restored on the 6th inst. Telegrams which had been detained for a period extending over fourteen days flowed in freely, and the news generally was of an unsatisfactory character, the London November sales being in progression at reduced prices. The war news, too, was unfavorable ; the victories of the Russians pointing to the probability of further complications in the Eastern question. Later advices received during the past few days have caused a further depression, until we may now quote a reduction of Id to l|d per lb on the rates which were current during the early portion of the season. Lower sorts and eross-breds especially have suffered, whilst superior clips, of which there are now few in the market, have remaned comparatively firm.