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Waikato Times, Volume XI, Issue 873, 24 January 1878, Page 2

Haotapu Chuboh Sebvioes.— On February 10, being the first Sunday on which the building will be available, the Rev. "W. N. deL. Willis will hold servioe m the Hautapu School-room at 3 p.m. We are obliged, through pressure of matter, to hold over the report of the proceedings of yesterdays Kesident Magistrate' s Court, at Hamilton. At the Police Court, William H. Grant, and William Williams, alias Fisher, pleaded guilty to the charge of drunkenness, and were each" fined 5s and costs, and William Mclrish, for a like offence, forfeited his bail. j Whaia Whata. Ferry. — Tenders for leasing the Whata Whata Ferry for. the six calendar months commencing February Ist, 1878, will be received by the Chair- j man of the Newcastle District Board until i Saturday next. The tbndebß for repairing the approaches to the Hamilton Ferry will be received up to Saturday next, the 26th inst. Mr T. G. Sandes will be on the ground at ten o'clock to-morrow morning to point out to work to i»£e&djng C0fl«

The Tkm»kb9 for shifting earth and forming a road to the Pukete railway siding must bo sent m to Mr T. G. Sandes by noon to-day. The- PIBONGIA..DIBTEIOT Boabd, m accordance with the • Aot, publiahea the names of thoße ratepayers whose addresser pr jftgentdajre unknown, notioing them of their names t>cihg on the valuation list, and of the" amount of their rates. • Mata Mata Races.— We would remind all. those intending to enter horses for thu above race meeting on the 2nd February that entries close to-morrow, and must b sent m addressed to W. T. Firth, Esq.. the hon. secretary. The entries for th several events will, doubtless, be for warded for publication m our issue Ox Tuesday next. Evening School.— Mr Field's evening school, East Hamilton, opeaed on the 21st instant. The opportunity might bt taken advantage of with m ich benefit to themselves by scores of youths m Hamilton, engaged m work during the day, wh are growing up m a state of ignorance, which will otherwise leave them hewers of wood and drawers of water to the end I of their days. Tuesday next is the anniversary of th* foundation of the Colony, commemorate - m Auckland by a regatta, m Papakura by horse raced, and m Waikaco by a shee, fair and cattle Bale held at Cambrdge by Mr A. Buckland. The Banks m Waikato notify that they intend keeping holiday pn that day; and the Wtrikato Steam Navigation Company will send ex cursionists down to Taupiri by the steame* Delta, at 9 a.m., starting baok with them at 3 p.m. Thb Doo Tax. — A correspondent, writing from Te Awainutu, says : — " Considerable discussion has arisen here lately regarding the legality of bringing the Dog Act into force m the district, when it is not under the working of the Counties Act. The disputants have agreed to refer the matter to the Preaa. W ill you, therefore, kindly answer m your next issue the following question : — Can che Dog Act be legally put m force m the iJangiaohia District by its Highwaj Board, when the Riding has not yet oome under the administration of the County Council F' We are under the impression that all operations are suspended, but the question is one which should rather be sent to a member of the legal profession for an opinion than to the Editor of a newspaper. A Cobbespondent from Alexandra writes, aggrieved at the notice of the township contained m Brett s Auckland Almanac, which .. he complains of as "not only unkind, but , untrue." He refers to the remarks that •' The town possesses churches and school, out wants a medical officer, flour mill, builders, saw uills, blacksmith, tinsmith, cooper, tailors and shoemakers" — some uf these, he says, it does not want, for what on earth should a cooper find to do m an up-country township — and trades generally are more or less represented, as elsewhere." Doubtless, Alexandra has received a somewhat depreciatory nofce m the " local gazetteer," but our correspondent and his fellow townsmen will yet, we trust, be rewarded for their faith m Alexandra. When onoe the country oeyond the boundary cornea to be opened ap to European enterprise, and the natives giving up their state of sulky isolation, urn m earnest to the cultivation of their i inds, Alexandra will feel a renewal of it.-) oirly prosperity. The Pbice op Floub is supposed to be .he bread barometer, but while this instrument is extremely sensitive m one direction, it is as pachydermatous as tho hide of a rhinoceros m the other. Let flour rise £1 per ton at a time, twice m succession, and up goes the price oi bread — another rise or two, and up 1.". joes again ; but let flour fall, and tho machinery works less glibly. It requirea good many raps with the knujklea to 'help it down. Flour is down anothrr '£i per ton, and has now reached as low a ligure ai £16 for best and £15 per ton for seconi quality, and there has been n.> reduction m the price of bread since flout ivas considerably higher than it now is. In all probability dour will go down lower still, for ouriously it somehow always does fall just as the new wheat crop is coming into the market, and risen again when the aforesaid wheat crop has "been purchased. This is a theorem the mystery of which we leave to tho millers and farmers to solve, but the bread-con-suming public have a right to demand, that, whatever the cause of the fall iii flour, the price of bread should keep m proportion with it. . Save Yoto BONE 3. — Sir Cumming, of the Waikato Brewery, recommends tho public to " save their banes." No one, we should imagine, would willingly lose them unless, indeed, some of our youth intend entering the acrobatic line, and desire to beoome " boneless boys " and " indiarubber brothers." But wonder was changed into horror when we proceeded to read that the undersigned would purohase (our bones) m any quantity, on completion of the mill." We f ully looked for the signature of Fee-Fo-Fum, of nursery rhyme recollection, at the end of this announcement, but found simply that of an inoffensive member of the community, a great deal too jolly looking for the ogre of our youthful imaginings. To unravel the mystery, wo yesterday took a walk over to the brewery, and after having been duly initiated into the merits of the various brews on hand, we were shown into the malt grinding house, where the whole mystery was explained to us. _Mr Cumming has lately superseded the windmill by a steam engine, and intends to apply the spare power and time of the latter to the crushing of bones for agricultural purposes. It will now be understood why he recommends us to save our bones. And truly the waste of a valuable raw material has been steadily going on m our midst for a long time post. Bones lie about here, there, and everywhere, wbigh would well repay boys the trouble of collection, and be converted into a valuable fertiliser. Mr Cumming will find a ready sale for large quantities of bonedust at Auckland prices. It is the cost of carriage added that makes the use of this and other manures so much less m Waikato than it would be. Waikato Coal.— A great prejudice, says the ' Herald,' at "first existed on the part of tho railway stokers, and even some of the higher officials, against the Waikato coal, and great dissatisfaction was expressed at Mr Stewart's persistent determination that it should be used and no other. The prejudice has not only disappeared against what was contemptuously denominated " 'Maori " coal, but it is preferred to all other kinds, and now that the stokers have become fam'liai with its use, a much less quantity is used than formerly ; indeed, a ton of Waikato coal now lasts as long as the same quantity of Newcastle formerly did, and when it is remembered that this coal is supplied to the railway at 5s per ton, an idea of the saving m the cost of fuel is obtained. TtfßF Morality. — The Melbourne correspondent of the 'Sydney News' telegraphs to that paper that a rumor was current m Melbourne of a rathei startling nature : — " It is to the effect that the boy who rode Waxy m the Cup race has died from the efieot of his fall, but that before dying he mide an astounding statement. He made confession, it is alleged, m which he states he was proiru&ed £1000 cash and £2 a week for life by several leading bookmakers if he would run down Savanaka and prevent him winning tho Cup. Inquiries are 40 w hftinir madeJ*

Da Bxvrrrs, of Lichfleld, says the ' European Mail,' has a boat built to go up and down the canals. It oontains a shapel capable of holding fifty people, md hia Lordship opened the campaign a ■:4w days since before a full congregation of bargees. This is taking a practical view of episcopal work, and is just what one would expect from a Bishop who used co preach to the New Zealanders not m lawn, but m his shirt sleeves. Remedy fob Ambbxoan ' Buoht.— We ('Taranaki Times') are happy m being able to inform oiir readers that an effeooual cure has at last been found for the American blight, and, like many other lificoYeries, it is so very simple that we .>'m only, wonder that it remained undiscovered so long. The remedy ia the liberal ■prinkling of the earth around the roots >f the trees with common salt. Mr Gh>orge, •I Tikorangi, Mr Romulus Street, of Taorutangi, and Mr Carriok, of Upper langorei, have tried it, and found it Btfioaoious. Mr Street has, during the winter, sprinkled three sacks of salt on iis orchard, and his trees are now perfectly clean. i