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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 936, 22 June 1878, Page 2

Mb P. A . WuiTAKEB AT IviHIKIHI. — We give in another colunm a report from our Kiliikihi correspondent of the proceedings, wluok took pluce at the Public Meeting of the Electors, called byMr F. A. Whitiker for Thursday evening last

Tn f . Rbv. B. T. Dudley, of St. Sepulchre's, Auckland, will officiate tomorrow at both the services at St. Andrew's Church, Cambridge.

Mb Buckland's Monthly House Sale, at the Criterion Hotel, Cambridge, takes place to-day. Mr Buckland's Cambridge live stock sale also takes place on Tuesday next. St. John's Day. — Monday next is StJohn's Day, and a notice appears elsewhere of the half-yearly meeting of the members of Lodge Beta, to be held on the evening •of that day in the lodgeroom, Masonic Hall, Hamilton.

The Annual Meeting of the Ratepayers of '.the Taotaoroa Highway District^vill tako place on Saturday the 20th July, v at 2 p.m., at the National Hotel, Cambridge, to receive report and balance sheet; and to elect trustees and other officers for the ensuing year.

Tk Awamutu : Sal?! of Quicks, Fkuit Trees, etc. — Mr S. Bright will sell by auction to-day, at Te Awamutu, opposite Lewis's Hotel, at noon, a quantity of fruit trees, as specified in advertisement elsewhere, quicks, forest trees, &c, from the nursery of Mr John Sharp.

The Annual Meeting of the Ratepayes of the Hamilton Highway District will be held ou Saturday, the Gth proximo, at the Hamilton Hotel, to receive . report aud balance sheet of outgoing trustees, and to elect new trustees and officers for the ensuing year. •

The Lease -op the Hamilton Ferry, for one year from date, will be sold by auction to-day, at noon, by Mr John Knox, at the Hamilton Hotel. 'Jhe present opportunity of making a pile out of the lease of this ferry service will be the last, and doubtless there will be keen competition for it.

A Parcels-Receiving- House has been established in Wyiidhani Street, Auckland, near the ' Herald ' office, for parcels and light gooda intended to be forwarded by railway. Parcels left at this office in town are forwarded, a small fee of from 2d to (id being charged in addition to the railway freight. :

The First Concrete Building to be erected in Waikato will be a granary for Mr. Lainb, of Ngaruawahia, tenders for the erection of which are called for by the architect, Mr T. H. White, aud will be received until noon of Monday, the Ist proximo. The advantages of a concrete building are that it is both rat and fire proof.

Waika.to Biscuits. — Mr Trowheellar is not going to allow his biscuits to be fsat upo^, ana as will be seen, declares them equally as good as any that can be imported, even from the Thames. Mr Trewheeller in this states what is a wellknown fact to most of us, and such being the case "local industry," it may very fairly be urged, should have the preference.

Revision Courts for the electoral districts of Waipa aud Waikato will be held by the Revising Officer (H. 0. Lawlor, Esq.) ou Tuesday next, the 25th inst., at 10 o'clock, at the Court House, Hamilton. The business of the Court is the admission of new claims to vote, the hearing of objectionii and defence against the same, and the striking off the names of such as are dead, or whose qualifications shall be insufficient in law to enable them to vote. Those whose claims to be placed on the roll have been objected to in April last will do'weU to attend," .and, if they are able to do so, substantiate their right to have their names placed on the elaototal roll.

A. Seller ov Yxuktsv, I\otions and cheap jewellery, given away ineighteenpenny packets of stationary, has been enlivening the Hamilton township by torchlight this two nights past. The greater parO of his stock, however — certainly the most useful — was previously purchased wholesale by Mr T. C. Hammond, who has now on sale Yankee notions of a variety of kinds, appl» and potato peelers, egg-beaters, nutmeg-graters, knife - cleaners, nightlamps, shirt front starch gloss, ladies' hair-crimpers, and an almost endless variety of labor saving in useful inventions.

An Omission occurred in the publication of names attached to Mr Wlu taker's requisition, for which some apology is due, though not perhaps frcm us. -It appears that the requisition forwarded from Whatawhata contained several names on a back sheet which escaped the notice of the Secretary of Mr Wliitaker's Committee, iiud these were not handed to us for publication. A Whatawhata settler, who called upon u.s late last niglit, gives \is, from mouiovy, the names of three electors thus omitted, which we add to the requisition — namely, those of Messrs Foxall, McCutchcon, and Fitzgerald ; but at the late hour of receiving the information we wore unable to obtain an inspectiou of tho original document, so as to trive all the names thus accidentally omitted. Several other new signatures will bo found attached to the requisition, which is daily increadia^ iu uuiubertJ.

Cambbidoe: Litkbauy Ibhuption is ■ma Towxsirii I.—To1 .— To day Mr I'. C. Hammond will open one of the new shops in Clement's Buildings, with a very large and valuable assortment of books and fancy goods, which will be on sale for ten v dayy. "The books are of a class scarcely to be purchased out of Auckland, comprising a large number of .Standard works, such na Encyclopedias, Chamber's Works, Family Bible, the latter quite a new importation, Hood, •Tennyson, and other authors, illustrated by Gustave Dore. These books, which nrj substantially and clog intly <rot up, are specially suitable for presentation copies, and i'ov the drawing room ; and maybe purchased either for cash or on tho deferred payment system, at a slight advance. The stock which Mr Hammond* has taken with him to Camhridgj includes' also Japanese goods, mercantile stationary, and a quantity of Yankee novelties, finish a stock indeed as is seldom seen in a country district.