CAMBRIDGE.

Waikato Times, Volume XII, Issue 998, 14 November 1878, Page 2

CAMBRIDGE.

November 13, 1878. Mr Buckland's Cambridge Horse Sale has now become quite an institution, settlerß and buyers from all parts of the Waikato being present. On Saturdaylast, about eighty horses were yarded. The prices of last sale day were not quite sustained, but, nevertheles, there was considerable demand for the better stamp of horses. Draught horses realised up to £40; hacks, up to £25. "Weeds were unsaleable. After the sale, a trotting match was arranged between Mr E,. K. Carter's bay mare, Miss Wiffler, and Mr J. AllwilVs black gelding 1 , Bl^okthorne. It wag fpr £5 » side, coui^e from Jqhnsan's tq English Church, distance about 1^ miles, the horses to be ridden by their owners. The start was effected at 5.30 p.m. For the first half-mile, the horses kept neck and neok, when Blackthorn broke, and had to turn round ; this gave the mare time to get some 30 yards a-head ; Blackthorn then d}d lv's b,est, and lessened the distance to 10 yards by the time tUeiuaro !

( arrived at the winniug post. About fifty | people came to Hee the match, and conj siderable interest was taken m it. } Labor is very .scarce m this district. A loohl publican requiring a well dug, has been unable to get anyone to do it for nearly a month. Other j obs are lying idle for want of hands. The weather during the past month has been very seasonable. The growth of grusa and other crops has been vory good. A large quantity of meadowpasture is being reserved for hay this season, so that next winter the supply of that commodity will, perhaps, be greater and cheaper Chan last. Mr Firth is, I see, advertising for tenders to plough another large tract of land. The land to be ploughed, I am told, is the beat on the Matamata estate, and is not to be surpassed for quality iD any part of the Waikato. He has also, I hear;' ordered a hundred tons of animal manure for extensive turnip cropping. The various Road Boards of the district are actively engaged improving the highways, so that, during the summer, they may become consolidated, m order that they may stand the winter traffic better. The Hamilton road still require much doing to it. Mr Carter and his passengers , are constantly complaining of the holes m the road. — Own Cobbjsspondent.