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Waikato Times, Volume XII, Issue 974, 19 September 1878, Page 2

■• Thb Rev> -W. Oalder; will hold Divine service at Whatawhata and at Ngarua^ wahia on Sunday next. :/ ; ;■ ' : At a meeting of the parishioners of St* Peter's, Hamilton, held .last; night, the following were elected a committee ; to arrange for the construction of thep'rfci p,psed Sunday Schopl-hqusei for which the forthcoming bazaar m November is to be held, namely— Messrs Hume, Gwynnej Laishley, Cpates, R. Sandes,' N. R. Cox, and Le Quesne. , . ''- ■:•/..' /■. . . Woman's SuFFEAaE^liijtlie Assembly, on Tuesday, on tbe ; discussion of the Electoral Bill, Dr. Wallis proposed, as &ix amendment, to strike out the word " male,' ' making the franchise applicable to both sexes. Mr Murray made a strong appeal to the chivalry of the House. The amendment w.as negatived on a division by 36 to 26. ""' ; Whatawhata and Hamilton Roads. — Councillor Potter^ since} the last meeting of the Council, has left the following notice of motion with the Clerk, ior next sitting day, the 30th instant : — "With a ; view, to aid j settlers, »west of the river Waikato, m their traffic and" transport of producer' (especially the residents of tbe district of Whatawhata) into the Borough of Hamilton, this Council does hereby authorise the expenditure of the /sum of .£6O m making and repairing such road communication between Whatawhata and Hamilton, the said money to be paid upon the production of tho Borough Engineer's certificate that theV. work * lias Been -raipcomplished to his satisfaction." J%_ Enomsh ' Chxtkch, Ranoiaohia. -rTenders for repairing and painting the English Church at Rangiaohia will be received by Mr C. JT. Storey, until Satur« day next. \ Ohaupo Cattlk SAf*. — Messrs Hunter and- Nolan will hold their regular monthly sale of cattle at Ohaupo, to-day, when a number of stock of different descriptions will be offered. . Football Accident. — That pastime which Wellington youths dolight in — football— resulted, «n Saturday, m a very serious accident to a lad named Bell, whereby one, of his legs ,was broken. The bafi having been kicked over the gaol line, at the rear of which 5 Bell was standing, one of the players, made what is elegantly. expressed as a "grand rush" after it, and m doing so ran up! against the boy andbroke his leg. The poor boy was carried home on a stretcher, and medical attendance was provided for him, for which it is hoped the footballers will pay. — 'Chronicle.' A vocal and instrumental concert ist o be held m the Cambridge Public and Volunteer Hall, m aid of the f onds of the building, on Tuesday, the Bth proximo. The Waijeato Torp Club, at a special meeting, have appointed Mr Cox President, and a member ex officio of the Committee, also three new committee men m Messrs J. A. Douglas, Hindle and Buckland. The Beer Tax— Says the ' Herald's' Wellington Correspondent, on Tuesday : — There is a story current that Mr Sharp, of Nelson, a brewer, is to move that the Beer Tax Bill be read a second time that day six months, and that a similar motion will be made regarding the Companies Income Duty Bill. Some appear, or profess, to believe that these amendments will be carried. I don't, nor do Ministers. Manoapiko Saw Mills. — Mr S. V. Coulthard haring taken the Mangapiko Saw Mills, announces that he is able to supply timber, at the mill, at 10s per hundred for first, and 7s per hundred for second-class quality. Mysteby Creek, on the Hamilton Ohaupo road, the site of the late bridge which has been temporarily occupied by a sort of culvert, is to be again substantially bridged, and tenders will be received by the Hamilton Highway District Board until Saturday, the 28th inst., for a brick ««lvprt 90 feet long by 8 feet m diameter, and also for the necessary earthworks, I

Peimiats few thingis to the mind ot the practical man (says the Birmingham 'Hardware Trade Circular') are more amazing thanthe profound belief existing -r-sown abroad, aiid cultivated by the journals of tffi^Mjuntry — thit the day of j haMj|Sreas over: aid henceftorth^n'jlislp&n^nust fbe ?> sontent to be the ancl factord*>f the world, and ■leavMmamif alluring t&theiidrje inventivo. • >'4»! , fast I ° ..'«:?«* „ . „ Dijjn&and cpnstructivjßj jinjenßuOf other of>this extra&rdmary? idea^^We nave endeavored to spread a healihy feeling of scepticism m the downfall of English manufaotures r but, as announce of fact is worth a bushel of reosons, we give a fact. "One of ' the principal 'sewingt machine makers m pur town has had an order from a"hbusrin"the^same"bu«iti^& x in 'America;-* iprj 1000; ;of- his^maphines,^ as, the buyers were uuajblo to maice 'any tiling so good at the price' on i\S othfer side of the water. The " cosmopolitans " and. " citizens of' every country but their own" had better make' the best they'oari of this little bit of news. ' s ' REAVi',it'iß,sa^d, has'telegraphed to the Govornnient,' l cautioning-^hem not to believe ariywlirig ? thai; he Jriay. be credited with' saying as : to Vbeing opposed to the railway to Waikato, or that he has cx r pressed himself as approving m any way of ex-Judge Thomas's • Hystem of land tenure. He says that somo time since there was another man from India who hud had half a million of money, and he submitted to the Maoris a similar scheme as that proposed by ex-Judge Thomas. The Maoris considered the matter, and could not agree with him, for they were not like, the Indian natives who could live on U few grains of rice like rats. With, reference to Mr Fox and Wi Parata, he aays it is very small of them for the sake of again wanting to get into the Government m order to secure eachiJGlOOO a-year, to make little of poor Rewi. Mb T. C. Hammond is the solo wholesale' agent m Waikato for that sovereign Tertvedy for £6 1 many* ailments, Professor Scott's " King of Pain." We would draw bhe ; attention of our . readers to his advertisement elsewhere. It is said that, whonl Professor, Scott first discovered this wonderful medicine, and wished to try its curative properties, he cut half the tail off a dog, and, throwing it away, applied tno mixture to the stump. In two days, the tail had grown to its original length. A. new idea then struck him. Searching for the portion of the dog's tail cut off, ho applied the lotion to it, and m ten days' a dog, the complete counterpart of the original animal, grew from the tail. This simple fact at once proved the value pi the [specific; !/;](,•] y. ;■ ,Etw; Mills, Hamilton.— The new works at tne Kiwi Flour Mill have been completed', and the Proprietor, Captain Beere; will formally open: them on Saturday afternoon, -at 2 o'clock, to wb^ich. ceremony a large number of visitors haVe received invitations. ' ' Waikato Potlio Buildings. — The sum of £250 for a Court-house at Alexandra, and a similar amount for a Court-house at Te Awamutu are placed upon the estimates ,; also a sum of £1920 to open up roads bet^reen lake Whangape and Awaroa block No. 7 and the Waikato river and block No. 14, a distance altogether of 26 miles. ■ At the Police Court, Hamilton, on Tuesday, Charles Bernard Beale appeared on remand, to " answer : the charge of forcible enticy into the occupied By Mr T. C Hairimbnd. The hearing dt the case, for the same reason as before, was again remanded until the 25th inst. The Cambeidqe Cattle Show ComMraTEß|ineet on Saturday ; next, at 3 p.m.