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Waikato Times, Volume XI, Issue 897, 23 March 1878, Page 2

Tuhikaeamea Rates must be paid by to-day, to the collector, or they will be handed over to a solicitor for recovery. Tenders for the erection of a platelayers cottage at Ohaupo are called, for, and will be received at the Public Works Office until noon of Saturday the 6th proximo.

Tenders for the rental of the Billiard Table at the Royal Hotel, Hamilton East, will be received up to noon of the 27th inst.

His Loedship the Bishop op Auckland Dr Cowie, arrived at Hopahopa last night, and will hold divine service at Ngaruawahia at 11 a.m. to morrow, and at Taupiri at 3 p.m. Cambridoe Church Seevices.—The Revd W. N. De L Willis will perform divine seevice to-morrow at Matamata, and the service at St. Andrew's Church, Cambridge, will be conducted by lay readers.

Mr Perkins has arrived with his recently purchased racehorses, Zantippae and Pungawerewere. Both are in excellent trim, and will prove a very valuable acquisition in our future race meetings in this province. A Special Sale of 1,600 four and six tooth half-bred wethers, fat and in good condition, and of 400 three-quarter bred ewes, four tooth, will be held at the Cambridge yards, on Tuesday next, the 26th hist., at 2 p.m.,by Mr S. J. Buckland. Tenders for the erection of a bridge at Blackman's Gully, on the Hamilton and Piako road, and approach to the same, ■will be received by the Kirikiriroa Highwav Board on or before noon of Wednesday, April 3. The Councillors of the borough of the Thames are, it will be seen by our telegrams, likely to be sued by the ratepayers for the recovery of the amount expended from the public rates in entertaining the Governor during his recent visit to the Thames. The Cambridge Cavalry Volunteers will muster for Tuesday's Parade at the Public Hall, Cambridge, at 9-30 sharp, with swords and belts and ammunition (not carbine), to form Brigade with the Te Awamutu and Hamilton troops. The Te Awamutu and Hamilton troops will assemble at the Cambridge Bridge at 10 a.m. Tenders for the construction of a bridge and cutting at No. 1 Creek, Ngaruawahia and Whatawhata road, will be received by the Chairman of the Newcastle District Board until Saturday, the 30th instant. Also, will be received—to same date —tenders for a culvert and cuttings on section 8», Horotiu, deviation of Whatawhata road.

The Hamilton Contingent of the Te .' Awamutu Cavalry Volunteers are warned ; to muster at East Hamilton, at 7 a.m., '. on Tuesday morning, to proceed in a body to take up their position at the Cambridge Bridge. We understand that it is more than likely that the Hamilton Contingent will be called upon to form a guard of honor to His Excellency at the railway station at Hamilton, and escort him into the town.

Mb J. K. McDonald, formerly agent at Hamilton for the Waikato Steam Navigation Company, has, it will be seen, opened a receiving and forwarding office at Hamilton, and made arrangements with Messrs Patterson & Co., produce merchants (of Queen-street, Auckland), to receive and. forward, per rail, to Hamilton all parcels addressed to his care. Mr McDonald will deliver these goods by his own express immediately on arrival, and, from his well-known attention to business and painstaking carefulness, those ordering goods to be sent through his forwarding office may save themselves all trouble and anxiety, and rely on their being delivered with punctuality and despatch on reaihing Hamilton.

Sir George Grey and the Ladies. — In addressing the 1,500 people who had crowded into the Queen's Theatre, Dunedin, Sir George Grey said:—" WhatI am anxious to see done myself, what those who think with me in Parliament are anxious to see done, is this: that the franchise should be oxtended even beyond its former liberal limits, and that the new law, in fact, shall say this: that every male adult who has resided for a period of twelve months within an electoral district should have a vote in that district to return its representative (cheers), and that women should have more than one vote (renewed applause)."

The Visit of the Govebnob. His Fxcellency the Marquis of Normanby, Lady Normanby, the Defence Minister, Col. Whitmore, and suite, will leave Auckland on Monday morning, by special train, at half-past eleven o'clock. They will be met at the station at Hamilton by the Mayor and Councillors, who will be introduced to His Excellency on arrival by the Member for the district, Alfred Cox, Esq. The party will return to Hamilton in carriages, when the public reception will take place, and the Mayor will then present an address from the inhabitants of the borough and other, residents in Waikato, expressive of loyalty to the Sovereign. The Governor's party will be lodged for the night at " The Cottage," connected with the Hamilton Hotel. The banquet will take place on Monday night at the Commercial Hotel. After which a ball will, we understand, be held.

The Russians have an abiding belief that the Turkish fleet has been bought—not indeed by England, they cannot quite bring themselves to think that—but by a Hebrew syndicate, consisting of the Rothschilds, Sterns, Cohens, vontefioras, &c, acting under the concealed instigation of the Hebrew Premier; and they fully anticipate that when the peace crisis approaches, the war-ships over which the Crescent floats will quietly steam out of troubled water, and that a Russian demand for them as a contribution towards'a war indemnity will be met by the Turks with a civil non possumus : " The ships do not belong to us, but to the company which has bought and paid for them." How much truth there may be in this belief remains to be shown. If it prove well founded I fancy self respecting Englishmen will view the transaction with hardly less favorable eyes than the Russians themselves. An on dit from the Mediterranean fleet is, that to check talk which is distasteful to him, the Duke of Edinburgh has had a legend written out large and stuck up in the Captain's cabin of the Sultan: " Please to remember that the Emperor of Russia is my father in law."—' Atlas' in the Worid. The Thames Lands, —One of the many disappointed expectants for an opportunity of settling on the Upper Thames lands, writing to the' Thames Advertiser' from Grahamstown, asks what lands in the Upper Thames are available. The ' Advertiser' replies: —" In order to answer ' Inquirer,' and, if possible, elicit information of value at the present time, we addressed the following inquiry to the Chief Commissioner of Crown hands in Auckland yesterday:—'D. A. Tole, Esq.: Kindly inform ' Advertiser' if you think any lands in Upper Thames district will be available for sale when the purchases in progress are concluded.' To this the following very unsatisfactory reply was received:—' Board prepared to deal with Upper Thames lands so soon as they shall have been proclaimed waste lands of the Crown.—D. A. Tole, Commissioner Crown Lands.'—We have no doubt there are blocks besides those of the Aroha which the Board expect'to get into their hands, but the utmost vigilance is necessary to prevent even these from falling into private hands. Besides the 50,000 acre block at the Aroha, which is in the Piako Country, there are 7,000 acres within the Thames Country, and an effort should be made to secure this for the Thames people. A protest must be lodged on behalf of the latter against the passing of the Wairakau Block into the Broomhall grant, and"if this is not done at once it may be too late hereafter. Besides this there are the Pourewa, Waihou Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4, Te Mutu, Waikuku, Tahuroa Nos. 1 and 2, Te Wakahone, and other blocks, chiefly outside the Thames Country, it is true, but excellently situated, which ought to be made avail able for settlement, if they are not like the Broomhall block, pledged to outsiders."

Wesleyan Soibee. On Wednesday last a soiree and musical entertainment was held in the Public Hall, Te Awamutu, to raise funds to pay off the debt on the Wesleyan Chapel of that place. The evening was fine, but the attendance was only moderate. Mr J. Gane, of Pukerimu, occupied the chair. The tea table was presided over by Mrs J. Bridgman, Miss Short, Miss M. Bridgman, and Miss Qualtrough. The musical part of the evenings proceedings was conducted by # Mr James Culpan, from Hamilton, assisted *by Mrs (julpan, Miss Lilian Culpan, Messrs J. and E. Wright, Mr Vincent, Mr Hedgecock, and AJr H. Culpaa Miss Culpan played the accompaniment with good taste and ability, though so young—only eleven or twelve years of age. The music was excellent, and judging from the frequent rounds of applause, was highly appreciated by the audience. Mr J. Culpan's singing of "Come into the Garden Maud" was loudly encored. Mr Culpan gracefully accepted the compliment, and gave in his best style " The Arab's Farewell to his Steed. A short address was given by the Chairman, after which he called upon Mr S. Short to give a brief financial statement, which showed that the building, including £lO to the Government for the site—a qnarter of an acre—cost £l2B 8s lOd. The proceeds of last years soiree was £l2; subscriptions and opening collection £Bl, leaving a debt still existing of about £2B Bs. During the year a harmonium had been purchased and paid for by subscriptions obtained in the district at a cost of £ls 10s. Mr Short said that he hoped soon to have the debt cleared oft' by subscription and the proceeds of tea meetings. Addresses were given by the Revd J. Smith, Revd W. Evans, from Cambridge, the Revd Mr Wright, Presbyterian Minister, in charge of Waikato West, and Mr Stephen, of Paterangi. Mr Evans delighted his audience by introducing a number of illustrative amusing anecdotes, The

point of his speech was that all should aim at making, progress in what was highest and best, •" to be good and do good," and not let all the religion they ever possessed be put upon their tombstones after they were dead, as was sometimes the casa. Mr Wright spoke in eulogistic terms of the Eevd. J. Smith,, who was about to leave the Waikato district. He said he thought it a pity and a great mistake when a minister was iiked by his people and liked the district that he should be compelled to remove at the end of three years. Mr Stephen, of Paterangi, spoke in complimentary terms of Mr Smith, and said that as they had been listening* to the sweet music produced by the many notes of the piano, they should be willing to give a few notes of another sort to pay off the debt on the Chapel Mr Thomson, from Manawatu, moved, and vlrJ. Bridgman seconded, a vote of thanks to the ladies who had presided at the tea table, to the choir, to the Kevd W. Evans, and to the Chairman. The meeting was brought to a close by singing the " National Anthem " ; and the benediction was pronounced by the Revd Mr Wright, of Paterangi.