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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 921, 18 May 1878, Page 2

Tenders for painting the Royal Hotel, East Hamilton, will be received to-day. Specifications may be seen at the hotel. Tub quarterly meeting of the Cambridge Branch of the Acdimatisatiou Society takes place at Cambridge this evening. PromnnNa. — Tenders for ploughing and twice harrowing about 200 acres of land at Waitoa will be received by Mr W. S. Lowric, of Auckland, until "Wednesday next, the 22nd inst. Sale op Farm: Stock axd Fuhitcture* East Hamilton.— We would remind our readers that Mr John Knpx will offer for sale to-day, at East Hamilton, the household furniture, farm implements, and cow belonging to Mr Kiddle. At the meeting of the Auckland "Wasto Land Board, held on Wednesday, a letter was road from the Chairman of the Tuhikaramea District Board applying for a road bureau Newcastle and Ngahinipourl. Ifc was agreed to withdraw the land specified from sale, Jn regard to an application re a hospital endowment, it was agreed to apply for information. In reference to Mr Robert Home's application for land m Tuhikaramea, as it was the only piece m the possession of the Board, it was agreed not to sell it. A New source of rpvouue fop' the Country, sayH the ' Graharastown Star,' ha 3 been opened. A letter has been received from the Secretary to the Treasury stating that the sum of £1 some odd shillings has been remitted to the credit of the County, being 20 per cent, payable to Counties from land sales within their boundaries. We believe the bounty authorities are completely m the dark as to what land has been sold within, the Thames County, but they would not quarrel with the source : they would like the amount to be larger.

Texder3 for the erection of stabling a* Harris's new Railway - tation, Hotel, Hamilton, will bo received by MrT. 11. White, architect, on or before Monday next. Cambridge Farmers' Club. — A special meeting of the members of the above club, for the consideration of important business, is called for Tuesday next. „;,\ -: ■;. .■ Auditors HAjnilbisr Bpßouoir Council. —The nomination of auditors for the Borough Council|ta|ct's ftlace on Sjsurday i next, and the eleijson,j|||aoro than two •' candidates are riid^iij^Kd, on $lie ls% proximo. V *?' The Swiss Bazaar, m Hamilton, will be closed after to-night. Lovers of •curios -in- carved works -of- a variety ofdesigns, articlos both nscful and elegant, would do well to pay the bazaar a visit to-day or to-night. „ . BREAK DoWN Op' THE.T ; ELEORAEu'.LINiSr —A telegram «• fronl on {j Thursday night, states' Ihit the Port' Darwin line is interrupted north of Charlotte \Va,tersl Another one informs us that communication ' with Tasniaiiia has been restored. Hamilton-Tuiiikaramea Road — Tenders for forming section No. 1 of the above road, and for building 1 a bridge on the same will be received by the Tuhikaramea Road Board up to Saturday next. Plans and specifications may be seen at the house of Mr Hadfield, Ngahinipouri, or on application to Mr T. G-. Sandcs' On Tuesday the shooting season commences, and on Monday the Waikato sportsmen — and many from town, too — will be off to tho best spots to take up ground for a start the first thing m the morning, as it is a pond d'houeur on tho part of our shootists as to who shall make the best bag on the 'first day of the season. To-night, also, at Gwynue's, the knowing ones will be on the alert to pick up the favorites m the Annual Calcutta Sweep, wliich is held a few days before the shooting season. The drawing -will take place at nine o'clock. Mb T. C.. Hammond's New Chemist and Duugoisx's Shop will be opened today, though as yet the interior fittings arc not quite completed. The stock howeyer is there, and business will be commenced. The exterior has been painted a less sombre colour, ■ and tin shop itself internally will be one of the handsomest fitted up m Hamilton, second m fact to few establishments of the kind even m Auckland ; while for quality of the goods -and reasonableness of price it will yield the palm to none. The fifth annual sale of Messrs. Robertson Brother's fine Short- horn and Herefords^ wlrich took place at Colac early m the year affords an evidence of the high profits obtained from breeding pine stock only. We notice from the priced catalogue of the sale since issued by Messrs. B. -Gibson and Co., the auctioneers, that notwithstanding the unusual depression occasioned by the drought, the competition was very brisk. The prices obtained where, it is said, thn highest .ever yet .reached m the stud Short-horn heifers making the magnificent average of £1102 10s, and the stud Short-horn bulls, £792 los. DAXGKnous Kehosine. — A proclamation m the ' New Zealand Gazette ' declares " that all light miueral oils, tho specific gravity of which is less than 0*133 at a temperature of 00 degrees Fahrenheit, which light mineral oils include painters' spirits, cupione, benzine, gasoline, and light naptha, shall be deemed ' .specially dangerous' within tho meaning of ' The Dangerous Good.-i Act.' " The vessels, therefore, m which Mich oils arc contained must, nnder a penalty of £o, be labelled by the vendor" Dangerous, no light to bo brought noar." Under such conditions the public are not likely to purchase dangerous oil. . those who do so will only have themselves to blame for accidents. Thk new butcher's shop of the Messrs Coleman, erected on Mr Gwynnc's leasehold property m Victoria * Street, was opened last night with a splendid show of meat, beef, mutton, veal, and pork, each fiiat class of its kind. The veal was a very fine animal, fattened by Mr I. Coates, though only two months old ; the mutton four tooth wether was prime meat, one of them weighing about DOlbs. The Messrs Coleman, it will be remembered, were the first to bring meat down to a reasonable price m Hamilton, and as a consequence their trade has largely increased on both sides tho rirer, so that the oponing of a shop on the we at side will not only tend to increase their busines, but bo a great convenience to their present customers residing on that side the river. Thk Pharmacy, Hamilton, — Messrs Sande.s & Co. swiiirunee that they have received ji large and choice assortment" of new goods, botli m the drug tl ud fancy goc-ds department, A« may be swn by rcfercro.' to the advertisement, the list comprises a great variety of elegant requisites for the toilet, ornaments for the household, toys, mediciues, books, stationery, and tobacco- indeed, all that the heart of man, or woman either, might desire, with the exception, perhaps, of the nicely-prepared prescriptions which make one shiver at the thought of them. For such, however, there is the sweet and harmless globule, which, taken with faith, may cure, and is certainly pleasanter to the palate. A great recommendation will will be found m the announcement that everything is charged at Auckland prices. OYSMErtS,— Mr R, Mason will open the old hall, Hamilton East, as an oyster saloon this evening. The Herman Bros, appeared last night at Pearce's Hotel to a wretched house about a score persons only being present.' What the reason may be we cannot say, but m the south they met with a marked succoss, and drew large houses. They are highly spoken of m a critique now before us by the Napier Press, and though they went through but a small portion of their performance last night they met with very general applause! The ventriloquism was good and exceedingly amusing whore a conversation was kept up between Mr Fred Herman, an imaginary girl m a box, an imaginary man m the room above, and m the Court yard, ana a doll sitting on the ventriloquist's knee. The conjuring tricks were good, some of them new, and skilfully executed. Tho banjo playing of his brother was also excellent. They perform again m the large room, to-night, at the Commercial Hotel, and on Monday and Tuesday at Cambridge. New Zealand Bred Cattle. — A gentleman* who had recently returned from a tour m the Australian colonies informs us that the boasted Australian herds of Short-horns have sadly deteriorated of late years, and that no animals can be shewn equal to New Zealand bred stock, and he points to the prizes carried oft' by the bull Duke of Newcastle and other animals as confirmation of his judgmentHe traces his deterioration to the fact that, for five years past, the importation of stock into thu Australian colonies has boon prohibited, and stockowners have been compelled to breed in-and-in, and Uave thus produced all the evils attendcel upon such a system On the othor hand, fresh stock, of the average value of £30,000 yearly, has been brought to New Zealand, and our herds have thus rapidly improved, while those of the sister colonies have gone backwards. In Horefords New Zealand cannot for some years hope io compete with Australia, but there is no reason why, ten or twelve years hence, she should not produce Horefords equal to her Short-horn stock.— Wellington Post.' *

Messrs J. D. IrK. Hill will oft.r fo r sale to-day three choice buililin<r allot. incuts m the busitg 1 ; part of the town :it Raglan, also a quantity of niati'iial m Mr Message's estate, and the library of Mr Peacock, concluding with pearl barley, perambulators, carrots, and a variety of other fancy articles; a number of pigs, al|q, wijl lend their cheerful vri ;cs to add 'to^fche general life and bustle of tlio and now that the cold woather jo|: Setting m, and the frosty days of a iWaikai^.wmtor are about to invigorate wo trust that not only the .unctuous and succulont porker, but our old friends of last season, or their oifspring rather, the turkeys, which formed such ran important item m these weekly sales, will again bo forthcoming. To-day we must be content with the pigß.