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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 938, 27 June 1878, Page 2

"Waipa Election. — It will be seen byadvertisement that Mr Whitaker will address .the electors at Hamilton, on Fridav evening, at the Court House, at eight o'clock. The Sons of Ulster will hold an emergency meeting on Monday next at the Victoria Hall, Hamilton. ( The First Whatawhata Cattle Sale, to be held quarterly by Mi' J. S. Buckland, will take place on Tuesday next. Messes Hunter and Nolan will hold their monthly sale of cattle, sheep, _c, at Ohaupo this day at 1 p.m. The meeting of electors at Alexandra — to receive the addresses of the candidates for the seat vacant for Waipa in the Assembly — will take place on Saturday next. . Messes Tonks & Co., at Auckland, advertise all sorts of articles of American manufacture, including buggies, double, single, covered and open, harness, clocks, furniture, &c. 1.0.0 JF.M.TJ, — _ special meeting of the members of the Loyal Hamilton Lodge will be held in the lodge room on Tuesday evening the 2nd proximo, for the election of officers. Cambridge Farmers' Club. — A special meeting of the members of the Club will be held on Saturday afternoon next to j receive the report of the Scab Commission, and to consider matters in reference to the forthcoming Cattle Show. Pu_e_ur_ Highway District. — The annual meeting of the ratepayers of the above district —to receive report and balance - sheet, and for the election of officers — will be held in the school-house, Pukerimu, on Saturday, the 13th prox. Raglan and Waipa Road. — Lt is with satisfaction we state that the natives engaged for 7 the construction of the above work have made a commencement with their operations. The weather has been as yet most unfavorable, but should it take up with the new moon, we may soon learn that active work has been commenced. It is the intention of the inhabitants of Newcastle to give Mr L. B. Han-is, and Mr Crombieof.the Waikato Steam Navigation Company, a complimentary dinner to-morrow evening at the Royal Mail Hotel, JNgaruawahia. Both gentlemen are leaving the district, and both have earned the goodwill and esteem of the residents of Ngaruawahia. A Redpath lecturer, whilst speaking up in Scott county, Pa., used the French quotation : " Honi soit qui mal y pense," whereupon the ladies in the audience stared — then blushed — then looked at each other — and, finally, got up and stalked out of the hall, and the local paper, in its criticism, said that " various portions of the lecture were too indecent for publication." Petty Robbery.— We are sorry to have to record a very mean description of petty robbeiy as having taken place in' Hamilton. We had thought that even our thieves had something of manliness about them, but to steal linen from the clothes'line is something low even for a thief. On Tuesday evening, a couple of linen table-cloths were left on the line in the back premises of the National Bank, and in the morning they were gone. We recommend the investigation of the matter to the police, and caution to our housewives, who in all confidence have hitherto left whole lines - full of clothes out by night to dry. It appears that at the present time there are some strangers to the district of bad character hanging about the Hamilton township. An introduction to the police cells or a quio'- dip in the river would either of them prove mo.it effective in shewing such persons that they have made a mistake in coming to Waikato to carry on their . operations. •

Delayed Telgkams.— Such is the term for a new system of telegraph service to be undertaken by tho Department in New Zealand on and after tho Ist proximo. On July 1, the system of delayed telegrams will come into operation, by which, when a telegram is so marked, it will be received at any telegraph office in the colony, and sent to the telegraph office nearest to the destination of the telegram, and the final delivery to the addrefe ■•will' be effected by post. Tho charge for such delayed telegrams will be sixpence for the first ten words, and tho usual postal charges for final delivery of the letter. The Telegraph Department engages to telegraph all such messages to the destination on the day of the receipt, and post them the same evening-. A clergyman injkmedin, while making his rounds amongst his poor parishioner^ found a woman, very sick, who was lying on the floor of her house without bedding of any kind. After ministering to her immediate wants, lie went about his usual business, but at uight, when he was about to turn into his warm bed, the poor woman's wretched condition recurred to his mind. He bundled together his own mattrass and. blankets, and set out after midnight for the woman's house— a mile and a half distant On his way he met a vigilant guardian of the peace. ' Halloo, my man,' said the constable, ' what are you up to ?' ' It's all right,' answered the minister ; 'I am ' ' None of your larks,' was the observation of the policeman ; 'show me what you have here.' 'I am - ,' replied the minister, and throwing down the bundle and revealing ,the well-known features, he explained w_at ho was about. The jDolicenian seeing his mistake, at once apologised and exjiressed his regret, and insisted on himself taking up the minister's load and accompanying him to the house. We want more of this kind of real Christianity among our parsons. Courts for both the Waipa and Waikato Electoral Districts were held by the Revising Officer on Tuesday. In the case of Waipa roll, fifty seven bad votes were struck off, out of sixty names objected to by the Registration Officer, three objections being withdrawn. Of new applicants and amended applications one hundred and seventy were placed on the roll, which now numbers .seven hundred and sixty-five names. In the Waikato district the number of bad vote i and names of deceased voters struck off amounted to twentyfour and one objection was withdrawn. The number of new applications placed on the roll was one hundred and forty, making a total number of electors for the electoral district of Waikato of three hundred and seventy-nine. We would take the present opportunity of stating for general information that the rolls thus revised do not come into operation till September next. Those whose names are now for the first time placed upon the roll will not be qualified to exercise the franchise until September. At the same time we may state that all those whose names are on tho old or existing rolls are qualified to vote, even though successfully objected to as regards the new roll. The old rolls are in force till the new ones become valid and that is not until September.