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Waikato Times, Volume XI, Issue 904, 9 April 1878, Page 2

The Premier .and the Native Minister will leave Auckland, by special train, at half-past ten o'clock this morning, for Hamilton. They will be met by the If ayor and Council at the railway station, i Avhere an address will bo 2^'esentcd. At Sir George Grey's own "wish, he • will , not be entertained either at a banquet or luncheon . At Te Awamutu, it will be seen, he will be entertained; at a banquet m the evening of Wednesday. A Meeting; of the Borough Council of Hamilton was held last night, but, owing to the lateness of the sitting, our report s necessarily hold over. Mr S. Brichit, of Cambridge, has been appointed Sheep Inspector for the "tfpp<a-' Waikafco district. . . " ~ : : The Annual Meeting of supporters of the Wajkatp^ Agricultural ujid Pastoral Association will be held to-day at Ohaupo. The ; members of the shooting club of the Hamilton Contingent of Te iiwainutu Cavalry Volunteers will compete on Saturday next for tho prizes, al the Butts, Hamilton. i iring will commence at 8.30 a.m. House Sale. — We would draw special attention to Mr Bucklaud.'s advertised #i;.]o of horse stock, to take place on Saturday next at Hewitt's Criterion Hotel, Cambridge, Saturday, a boy named W^ter Harvey Coward was arrested by Detoctivc Doolan, for Btealihg from the house at Messrs Carpenter and Byron a cashbox. The boy has since made discovery of the box, vhjch contained the sum of £3. Government Land Sale.— ln &uj? advertising columns will be found a long list of lauda to be sold m the Turanganui and PatutaUi districts — township, suburban, and rural sections. Plans of both districts, with the mualiGi's and $roas of the several lots, etc., may be ' seen at the office of this journal. Thursday is the last day on which tm&ys will be received by the Hamilton Borough Council for plans, specifications, working dnwiags, ajid such general information as will enitUfc extractors to tender for the proposed traffic t>i<i<ks at Hamilton. I?j-b?:qree Stock.— Those settlers having well-bi'ed eo^s will be glad to learn that they can have them e*osspd with a bull of the best blood to be found m iUe copies or at home. Mr A. Fauthain advertises tho services of '< Lord Darlington, 2nd," pilose pedigree appears m another part of - to- outer's paper. A SHiKKE^jf gf 30 splendid merino rams has reached C^terbury for Messrs Waytui? and Whai^on, Jfighgeld, Amuri. lhe rants a^e frgin the wdJL-knqvm flocks ot Messrs Kevniode, Mpi^a ya^'au'l V rc some of the finest that have lieen imported. Sale ov Household Furniture axd EiioECTS.—Mr S. Bright has received 3»^.ij<.VJtiflns to sell, iit Clements' Park, C/'aiuiyridg.e, Tiiesday next, tho liouhcliuld fimiibnvfj y fy .(ji. ogects of Mr A. Clements, iv\m i^. s io^i j^i§ furm. A full list of the iirinciplo ai-tiojLos q$ furniture, etc., appeai'o m oui' advertising colums. The Tnonou(JHi)iir,D Horse Pacific. — The-'fi^ybys Bay Horald,' c.f the 30tli ult., says; ' v We hour, that Mr Kelly, of Poverty Bay, liit.s sofa ifi& famous .English thoroughbred liov.se Paoiflo toBi), McGree, of Auckland, the fortunate owner of JtUiia. Wo think our neiglibors have #yi,fc <i. Munder m allowing an animal- so kioUiy 4l>]ji,«. elated wherever his /jtock are kuovtt to leay* jt-h^ district."

The Population or tub Piako Courrn V , according- to tlio Census just taken, m 447, thus described :_Taotaoroa Riding, 100 male.., •JTtfpmaloj ; Ptitatero Biding, males, 8 taMoa ; Mafcamuta Hiding Mk m ,*' -i&i!f males ; jyait,qa Riding,, §§!# mules, 45 gejjnales ;jpi, 44^ !k ; lias fceen soui3|tiine §%age'd>du the in-« i tere^of thoM&laiinafif! hi iiuntin<>- *# SrfMbe, andj£frho htirdiscoyered CreSswen m tho "Paramatta Asylum, and identified him as Orton, is well laiown m tho Waikato for more than one conviction obtained under the Arm* Act. OBrieUj ,it ia said, haa *: discovered.-~the captmn of tho Osproy as a hotel-keeper m one of those colonies. : ; ' : ." ; < ; - Whatawuata School .QpENJ.va. — A soiree and concert, m 'connection with the owning, of the school at Whatawhata, will be held on Friday next." . The concert it is expected, will be over at 10 o'clock when tho room will be cleared for a dance' —We regret that the report of tho late concert, held at Whatawhuta, forwarded by hand to this office by our local correspondent, was never received. Adulteration of Mile. — Now that feed is scar co, and milk becoming dailyscarcer, it ia well that the p"ublic should know how they may easily detect the use of tho "cow with the iron .tail." A correspondent writing to yesterdays ' Herald ' says : — " A few clays ago you gave insertion to a paragraph commenting on the adulteration of milk prevalent m this city. Permit mo to furnish you with an extract from' a German publication, giving a test for watered milk, which. is simplicity itself. A well polished knitting needle is dipped into a deep vessel of milk, and immediately withdrawn m an upright position. If the sample is pure, some of tho fluid will hang to the needle ; but if water has been added to the milk; even m small proportions, the fluid will not adhere to the needle." The Narrows Bridge.— At the meeting of tho Narrows Bridge Committee, held on .Saturday, one tender only 'from Mr Reid) wa3 received. It was resolved that the time for reciviug fresh tenders should be extended to the -ith of May, and, with that view, an advertisement appears m another column. We understand that one or more tenders from Auckland would have been received but for tho vagueness of ''tho address, which has been made clear enough m the present advertisement. The scarcity of both sawn timber and workmen has, perhaps, had nioro to do with the matter. The sawmills m various parts of the country are idle— Avaiting a fresh to drive down loga, and tho number of new buildings going up m all parts of the Waikato district has made skilled labour quite as scarce. The Raolanßoad.— We trust that tho report— that the Raglan Road is about to be commenced, aad that the amount voted by the Assembly for that purpose will be; handed over to the Raglan County Council— is correct. The work, which has been long promised (and as long defprrod), is one of vital importance to the settlement of Raglan. . : The road surveyed by Mr Palmer, under whose superintendence, it is said, it is to bo constructed by native labour, comes out upon the Waipa River —opposite the Maori settlement, some four miles above Whatawhata, There is a.- good spot there for a bridge, and the Raglan Road, crossing the same, might, without difficulty, be continued straight on into Hamilton. A sum of £2,000 wao voted for the Raglan Road List session. A Pigeon Match, says the ' Herald,' m which a considerable amount of public interest is taken, is announced to take place on the '20th iust., at Pokeno, between Mr Henderson, of Waikato, and Mr Bishop, of Auckland. The match is tp .;be fired immediately after the i; arrival of the 'first train from 5 Auckland, and the object of fixing it for Saturday, the 20th, is that gentlemen from Waikato coming to town for the Auckland race-meeting, wluch is to commence on the 22nd, may, if they choose, get out at Pokeno, and wait to see tho match boforo coming on to Auckland. The stakes, which are already deposited, are £50 a side. The conditions are that there shall be 20 birds, each Avith 25 yards rise, three traps, and 80 yards boundary. As both competitors are wellknown marksmen, they are likely to be largely back/jil, and a good deal of money will no doubt change hands on the result. The Waikato " sports " are pretty confident m Mr Henderson's abilities, for ho is bu-id to be a brilliant shot, while MiBishop's repu tatiou rests more ; on his steadiness. . • Aximal Larrikinisji. — The solving of the railway mystery, when a watch set fcr the purpose discovered that instead of' somo malicfcusly disposed 'person placing the pouts accross the laij^ay line between Hamilton and Newcastle, they were tqs.«d there by a bullock/ has been followed by a similar instance of animal larrikiniem " on the river Waipa. A settler living above Whatawhata had ordered some bags of grass seed to be delivered on tljo river bank, and failinsr to receive them oomplainod to the captain of the steamer respecting their non delivery. Tho latter declared however that he had placed them on the usual landing place over night, and the settler had to come to the conclusion that the bags had been stolen from the river bank. A canoe had passed early m the morning down stream, and ?/as visited at Newcastle by the police, but no grass eped was found m it. The policeused every endeavour, but failed to trace tho bags of seed. Shortly after- , wards a second consignment of grass seed was sent by steamer to the same party, and this time ween it was landed from the vessel it was placed high up on the bauk, and securely, as it was thought, behind a stack of rails. In this case also the seed disappeared, but a careful examination of the ground shoAved the fqot- , marks of pigs. And doubtless it was these animals that m both cases had destroyed the bags, for as the steamer went down tide river that day first one ! and then another bag of tho grass seed Avas found floating down, more or less gnaAved and torn. "The atovo circumstance should cause settlers to be careful m leaving goods landed on the river bauk wy Jpnger tllfi n they can help before fetching ii;em away, lest they |be destroyed or rolled down £he bank into the river by pigs or cattle. Making the Deaf Hear;— The telephone is being put to a new and wonderful usp. Mr SpA-crn, late of Auckland jt-nd tho Iftaines, Ayritiug to the ' Sydney Morning Horaid/ says ;— " I sei/d you the details of a singular discovery I have just made, if it may bo so termed, viz.: enabling deaf persons to hear by means of the simple tin-pot, parchment, and string telephone. To say much on the of this simple instrument is Ifc may be thus made:— "pake, an ordinary tin pot, say three hudi.es m 4^mat(;r ; gp,(,n.tho closed end, and tie over it a piece d parehiftent as tightly an possiblo ; i>,iss a, niie string through the centre, and make a knot inside ; connect two sudi tins by a. low string, from 1 to 500 yawls in* length"; keep the string off the ground; let it jfj.uuji' or bo stretched from the one tin to iji^"ot^ex: It only remains for us to bpisiit v* Qne tf jtheso ti, IS Av i icu om . friends may hear the s^uWfl- etc.. by placing the ear near the faraway tul. , Ihis hearing 1 of the hum.<m voice, under such circumstances and with so simple an ; apparatus, is very wonderful. My object *£ l n ; e^ lrf to Point out how this A-erv tii«Ele.iftsfeunuy i .t lriay be turned to ami* , i-ovvice, uam6ly-,ouablmg : ft QSO deprived ct the sense of hearing to h&wl. Mv i txpenmeufo led me to make tho hiimajj

head the receiving or hearing instrumentProceed thus: Put aside the tin at tho hearing end,, and cause a loop to ho mado j u #° string, Koino 3 feet long; put this loogiover the forehead of tho listener : , caus§ him to place the palnu of hid hands 'flat; and ■hard against the eaivi let the loop- pass pyer tho -lianas and now tho listener Avill hear the amallest Avhisper, 'letf|un b^deaf or hot. This fact may appßai- extraordinary^ but it is nevertheless true tKat.ii deaf .porsoti'' : m;iy thus bo enabled to hear the voice, music, etc. The Farewell Address and Presentation, to be given to the Rcvd J. Smith, -who for some time past -has had charge of the Wesleyau Church m the Waikato District, will tako- place on Thursday evening at Cambridge. Tho earnestness and single-minded efforts of the Revd Mr Smith m the discharge of his ministerial duties luvo avou for him the esteem and good will of the large and influential congregation over Avhich for the last few years ho has presided as pastor, and avo have no doubt but that the occasion of Thursday night Aviil bo takeji advantag-o of to express that appreciation of hi a services which they so fully doocrve. The lIAirrLTON Railway Approaches. —We lately drew the attention of the railway authorities to the state of tho approaches to the Hamilton railway station, pointing out that that portion of the road formed by them is metalled to too narrow 'a Avidth for the .amount of traffic. The local Boards have spread gravel to double the Avidth on their portion of the road, and it is none too wide. The last eighteen chains, done by tho railway department, drops suddenly off to half width, and the consequence is that carts passing one another have to pass along the incline and water table on either side. In wet weather this will mean the cutting up of the road into a slough of mud. There is another matter m connection with the above to which wo 'would also draw the attention of the railway authorities. ~ At present the station yard about the goods shed and elsewhere is m excellent order, and Avill remain so for a short time, till ths Aveather breaks, but then it will cut up, and soon bo iome impracticable for A'elueles, unless advantage be taken of the present dry weather to give it a good coating of gravel. This might be done at little co.st Avhile the contractor's Avaggons are still available.