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Waikato Times, Volume XI, Issue 869, 15 January 1878, Page 2

A Select Qxtadbille Paety will take place to-morrow evenng m the Victoria Hall, Hamilton. The Valuation List of the Cambridge Highway District Board for the year 1878 is now open for inspection at the residence of the Chairman, Hautapu. Messes. Huntee & Nolan hold their regular mil hly tale of cattle, hprses, aiid sheep at the Cambridge Sale Yards on Thursday next, the 17th instant. Apfeabance of scab iv Wavganui.— Hi' 1 Want'»DU' papers ull^t* ihf.t -Cib Ims'mad" its appnai-a cc m that district aid u>ge that more acti»«* steps sli< uM be lak-u to prevent its sppf'aH Me D. Richardson, of Cambridge is advertising for sale an improved farm of oae hundred acres, situated about a mile from that to- nship. Opportunities of securing so large an area of ground m the immediate vicinity of "Waikato Townships are of rare occurrence. We call the attention of our numerous readers to an advertisement m another column, stating that Mr "Wiseman, the well known saddler of Auckland, has determined to extend his business, and ha^ opened a branch establishment at Hanvlbon E'ist, with a general selection of saddlery, harness, whips, &c. CAMBRIDGE C&VALBY VOLtTNTEEES.r— At the meeting held on Saturday afternoon last, at the Public and Volunteers' Hall, there was a full muster of the corps, and among others matters it whs resolved to erect a memorial to the memory of the late Lieutenant R. Parker. Some were for erecting a memorial window m the church ; others, for the erection of a marble slab ; but the decision was left to a committee appointed for carrying out the memorial, consisting of Captain Runciman, Sub - Lieutenant Fi her, Col.Sergeant Kirkwood, and the two churchwardens Col. Lyon, and Mr T, W. Hicks. It was resolved to defer the appointment of a successor to Lieutenant Parker to a future meeting. The Rev. N. deL. Willis has entered upon the labours of the ministry m Cambridge during the past week, and has, we learn, already won the good opinions of his parishioners. On the 6th instant, h-s first appearance before a Cambridge congregation, the audience was small, owing to the state of the weather ; but on Sunday last, despite counter attractions elsewhere, there was a full attendance, and the rev. gentleman very favorably impressed his hearers. He has a good delivery, and his discourse contained much sound doctrine and good seasonable advice. Uhurch services, however, are ( the least important, perhaps, of a parish ■ priests duties, and it is rather by a clergy* ' man s parish work that his usefulness or otherwise should be judged. . Highway District Valuation Lists.— The time for advertising that the valuation lists of the .several Highway Boards i are open for inspection has now arrived, ! and tho^e of the Kirikiriroa and Hamilton I Weot Township Highway Districts appear ! 't. to-day's ishue, The:-e notices have to ' ppear once each week, beoween the loth i •♦' January and the 15th of February, m ..,rm of the schedule provided by the Act.. ' Objections to the two above-mentioned lists must be sent m to the Hamilton Court House, addressed to the Assessment Court, and duplicate copies must be left With the respective Boards at least seven clear days before the sitting of such Assessment Court, due notice of which will be given.

Buokland's Oha'-po Sheep Faie takes ! place to-day. Printed catalogues of the 3heep for aale have been printed for the use of intending purchasers, and there will be little short of 3,000 sheep penned on the occasion. A very large proportion of these are first-class stock, of the purest strains of blood m the colony — the rams especiillj, of which there are over 100 entered, being from the very best and most carefiilly-kept flocks of the district. Heavy Fleeces. — A covresponde n write? to yesterdays ' Herald ' that Mr Finlayson, of Waipa, has shorn a lot of hoggets, and some of their fleeces have weighed 24lbs. The hoggets are three-quarter-bred, descended from the merino. Some of . them bear a strong resemblance bo them yet. The merinos were several times crossed with Leicester rams, then with Lincoln rams from the flook of Mr MoNiooll, Ohaupo. The hoggets have got both length of wool and thickness, the sure thing to make a heavy fleeco. The great evil with sheep farmers is that they keep too many sheep for their feed. It is time that farmers were thinking about how they can grow the most wool, for mutton at l^d to 2d per lb will never pay to put down artificial grasses. Leasing the Waikato jßatl-yay. — The 'Lyttelton Times' points out the undesirabllity of leasing the line to private persons. It says : — " Lastly, the Committee considered the question of leasing the railways of the colony, and reported that at present it would be inexpedient to do so, but that, as an experiment, the Auckland- Waikato line should be leased for five years. We agree with the first part of this, but we should have preferred that the second had been left out. There is nothing m the evidence to warrant the conclusion that leasing tho lines would be at all desirable. The only wstnesses who supported the idea with any eagerness wero Mr Henderson and Mr Billing ; and, as both of these gentlemen are connected with the Messrs. Brogden — a firm which would m all likelihood by no means object to become lessees, — their testimony must be I'eceived with some reservation. We certainly do not wish to see the railways handed over to the control of any private company. The creation of such a monopoly as that would be m the highest degree injurious. It would establish here the wor*t evils of American railway lings; it would tend greatly to damage the value of the public property, the rolling stock, machinery, etc.; and it would tend, also, to deliver over the public to tho tender mercies of a set of masters who could not practically be got at by complaints. Comparisons were made before the Committee between lines here and lines m England, which are often leased, but the comparison will not hold good. In England there is great competition ; there are a dozen different ways of getting from one place to another. If a railway company did not study public convenience, the public would patronise some other line. Here, we have only single railways, and every atom of traffic must pass along them . A company leasing our lines would have the power of doing precisely what it chose to do, regardless of the people, for there would bo no one to compete with it. It would be a monopoly on a gigantic scale, and of the worat possible description. The Wae News.— A correspondent writes us, saying that he takes a very great interest m the Ruoso-Turkish war, but that he has lately been driven to the verge of insanity by the extraordinary character of the telegrams. Colonel Baker is reportsd lost, and then turns up as Baker Pasha.' Then O-uman Pa>ha commits suicide ana is found to have been not interred but int"uved at Moscow. One day you hear that Scklamsket Pasha has captured 400 guns, bur«t up communication between General Androloppoffski and KalamwiloJiillipol, that Russummagdalovitch is surrounded, affd the provisions are running short. Then next day a telegram comes to say that General Androfloppoffski denies all the above, and intimating that it's all a square falsehood. The fact being that the General has ann'hilated Schlanis'tet Pa ha, taken 5000 prisoners, and is marching on some place (hitherto never heard of), say Ljen k >yz, and that so far from Kussiunmagdalwitch being stirrounrled and fhorl of provision-?, nothing cnn be further from the truth, because Objelliman Pasha for strategical puipo es has executed a flank movement to the right of Nicjtbskz Pass, thus of., cource threatening the Russian force under General Ninekon?onantzwithoutavowloff. After reading this, the war enthusist naturally flies tc the map, and after getting dazed, sleeps over it, to -find that next day it's all contradicted again. The war news would perplex any ordinary man into idiocy. Sarved Him Right. — A proprietor oi one of the large landed estates not very far from Colack says the ' Melbourne Herald,' has been the subject of a very good story which has been going the rounds for the last' day or- two. Ha is somewhat noted for the ' hauteur ot hi« demeanour, and for his «/'/ me tnvgore. air. A f-hort t=me ago he 'old several casks pf tallow to a local tradesman, who m turn sold them through one of the wool brokers of Geelanjr. When the tradesman received the account pales, he found that the tallow had brought him a profit, and he at once sent a cheque to the equatter for the amount of his purchase. It was with no little surprise that, lie received a letter a day or two subsemiently, enclosing his cheque. The letter directed his attention to the fact that the boly of the cheque was filled m, ' Pay Mr „' and requested him to fend another filled, up, ' Pay- , Enquire. During the interval which had e : apsed between sending" the cheque and reneiviner it back again, business had not srom wnll with the tradesman, and he found that he would not be able to carry on without calling a meeting of lur creditor". Instead, therefore, of the squatter moeiving a cheque with esquire impenrTpd "to hi« name, he received a circular colling a meeting of the tradesman's creditors The estate is expected to realise 2 s * 6d m the pound. And now the friends of the pquatter chaff him and say it serves him right. '