The Waikato Times. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1878.

Waikato Times, Volume XII, Issue 1007, 5 December 1878, Page 2

The Waikato Times.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1878.

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The question of a proper rotation of crops is r&piUly .becoming the allabso.bing one with the, Waikato farnier. A large proportion of the district has passed that stage when the rough-and-ieady system of early seUlement is desirable; ipr even prac ticablo. The land has in very many cases become clover-sick, and will no longer grow" the luxuriant crops of clover that : it. formerly did. If the farmer is; to possess ? these'again, it can only-be done by seeking new aud virgin- land; altogether, or if he cling to the homstead ho has made, in restoring the former fertility of the soil r by a judicious system of cropping. To crop blindly is to ruin j- the soil .altogether. : That some rotation must be observed is admitted on all bunds, and lias of late formed much subject-of .earnest discussion 1 at the meetings ; of the Cambridge Farmers' Club,, but wh&i that rotation shall he :has : not : yet been arrived at.. The ,same ( question appears to be agitating the minds of settlers in the Middle Island, and we publish to-«lay a practical article dn the subject from the columns ol the ' Civnloibury Press? We doiiot say that the course laid down there is the most suitable,. even for the class: of ;lands it is proposed to deal .with. Indeed, no cast-iron rule for all lands or all parts of the colony can be laid down. We have a vast; rangeof climate in New Zealand- a : Varying demand, and special suitability; ill different parts of the.colony for t .e growth of special produce. The rotation of crops that- might be spch'.ily suitable .for some parts of the -Middle Island' might, therefore, - require ; considerable modification to- become equally desirable here, ixndivice m ; M,' The ventilation of the subject, ,ho.\yever, cannot be otherwise than advantageous; 1 There is a broad principle, underlying the details in either case, which is common ,to all v; , As we have said, the. need of reform is beginning to be generally felt in this district. Last year, ; a considerable amount of experiment was indulged in the matter of gro sving root crop 3 for. the winter feeding of cattle, but comparatively to-a very 'small extent 1 of what :; is'iieeded. But, ,t hpse who• tried these : |e^xperi;, ment d'u a larger scale, do iipt hesi-; tate to acknowledge the great benefit they received, and-, we have heard, in' rriok'e thari 'one direction, „|h.e superior clip of wool of. the present .season atttributcd; to I the winter feeding: on' turnips,, which was, in, many cases, available. [ The staple 'h as he ver' been r s6: good! iiut 1 . Waikato as it has been this seaso.ii, attributable to. a continuous .growth unchecked; by- want- -of food and the deoreise in bodily tehiprature, which an 'insufficiency of food necessarily ; causesi ''ln r hiost flocks there are generally a number 1 of .fleeces where the wool is more or l.ess',cogged as it is called, or grown together, but such fleeces- ti.is year are remarkable for their scarceness. The mere'production of a e'ertaiiv-acroage •Qf r .rpofc.,crp : rjs for .winter.o'r autumn nsQ isi.however,,. npt .the solution; of ithe'fa t mors ? ; difficulty. - : Good in itself iit'is' only 'another- rough and; ready systerh'of a : better.kind than the first unless.,, combined; yfiUi'-a regular system of roiaMoii. To find what. :vviir best sqlt;j,thei. soil, jih'e.climate and the local market, aud that;wlnch, while it will maintain: the- fertility of the sbili will at the same time Lgive.the'best .return to the' farmer, 'is a, work which ;ou.i' ; practical agriculturalists- ; : mus(i- : earnestly turntheir atteri'tiori : t6; ! '- ; He has a double harvest to secure^ —the-crops which ri pen in su.rajiier, and the meat which a judicious system of rootgro wins: • will- enable: him to turn

into money in winter, when fat cattle and sliedp' are at their highest value. At present, the generality of. settlers poWess neither of. , these. Comparatively, but little-grfin. and, ordinary produce is sent out of the district, and notably'last winter, when meat was dear and 1 scarce, our settlers had nd eattle fit'for the market; I't is to remedy 'this double defect that attention is needed, .and much may be done by such ,a, society au we have afc/ ; QaVbn'd'ge Jv ; whero the matter may not or.ly be discussed as an abstract question, but where members comparing their individual experiences. ,nmy bring increased information to the coinmon'stock, and, push forward the platform of agricultural reform a step each lime in advance for a new departure,

j Owixg to press of matter, the report of i the Hamilton Resident Magistrate's , Court of yesterday is held over. gpfpnp-examination of the Hamilton East 'Solibol takes place on Monday friexfc;v \ / [-■ - SfesoiAL Meeting- of the members •of the Cambridge Troop of Waikato Oavalry/yolunteers will be held on Saturday next, at the Hall, Cambridge. PiiOTmiitNO.—Mr John Bonf rey, of To . Kowai, Waipa, is calling for tenders for clearing and ploughing- from 25 to 30 | acres ot land.

- Messbs J. D. & K. Him,, will hold a sale to-day, ab their mart, Victoria street, Hamilton, at noon, of earth wagons, wheels, axles, chains, couplings, &c, as they now lie, alongside the railway at Rangiriri,. Huntley, and Taupiri; ajso, two sets of wheels and axles complete, lying at Hamilton and Ohaupo. Impoetadtp Sale op Live and Dead Stock.—The whole of the live and dead stock of Mr li. B: Harris, at his farm at the 1 halfrway house' between Hamilton and Ngaruawahia, will be brought to the hammer on the ,17th inst. MivJETaiTis' retirement frbmifarm business willj afford an excellent opportunity to the public generally of picking up some very excellent horse aiid shorthorn dairy stock. Amongst the latter are some 70 head ofchoice cows and heifers, andthe prize bull King of Barwood. The horses are chiefly by Merrylega and Prince Arthur. There j is also a large assortment of first-class farm implements. A very attractive programm.3 has been issued by the promoters of the Grand Promenade Concert, to be hsld this evening, in the late Bazaar building, Hamilton, for the double purpose, as we mentioned in;our-last, of prize's for the schooFcKUdren, and conserving the money already.raiaed by the bazaar in paying the expenses of erecting and taking down the bazaar building. It is the first promenade concert which has been held in.the district, and will be quite an attractive novelty.. The. structure in which the bazaar, was, held has been cleared out, the .floor smoothly laid, a stage erected, with a sufficiency of seats to accommodate over a hundred persons, and .plenty; of space for .promenading. This morning, cartloads of evergreens ; will be sent in for its decoration. It will be well lighted with Chinese latithoms, and' made altogether a pretty and attractive scene. The West Hamilton Schopr Committee had intended to have held their concert on the 13th, butfell into the arrangement of making it a joint affair with the Bazaar Committee, and the latter very generously further agreed to assist the School Committe, in the event of their postponing their concert from the 13th to the 20th, to assist them as far as lays in their power in making it a success. A. concert, therefore, will be held in the on the 20th, to which the children will be admitted at a low.charge, and in wh ch many of them will take part as perfowners. The usual monthly meeting of the JRangiaohia Highway Board was hold in TeAwamutu oh; Satiirday last, when the following tenders were accepted for the district works recently advertised:—U. Cunningham, ploughing, levelling, and harrowing, full width of roads at Paikuku and Rahgiaohia, 4s 9d per chain; M. Tiernay, widening hill cutting near Mr Oorrigah's, Is 3d per yard ; Cavanaghand O'Brien, f f6rmatioris on No. 4 section, Ohaupo, 128' per pliain; andfor a heavy formation at"; No'. 1 6 section, 25s per chain. The hill cuttings of Nos. 6 and 7 sections,, Onaupo, are also taken by the same contractors at Is od per yard. W. Bearnley, cuttings near Te AAvamutu, on different sections of the same hill, 7id, Did, and 1 Id per yard, and for all 30ffc-wide formations at the same place, 10s 6d per chain* A complaint has again been-made to the Board of the damage that is being done by a settler's pigs on that central, and now well-used public thoroaghfare, .the Ohaupo and Te Awamutu Road.:, Bight in the : rpadway- are- to he .seen deep and' curiously formed grave-like .pits, rather ingeniously double-hanked, an,d which, it is seriously asserted, the most expert whip in.Cobb's: establishment, cbulil not"drive, a vehicle over in.the night without, being nip; et. The sum of £Q 7' 4s Qd' ; was'passcd and paid by cheque at the Meeting. Cricket. A match, between the Hamilton and Cambridge Cricket Clubs> the first of the season, has been arranged for Saturday next, and will be played on ; the. cricket ground, in,, Mr . Martin's at, Hamiltom. : Should'the day be fine,' there doubtless j'' be a large .number'of visitor?oh; the ground^ ! and,' to render the affiiir','still niore';attra'ctivej .ithas, we'understaiidj been 'mooted' to ask : the Cambridge men; 'niariy 1 ' of ' iylibm are '■ members of the band also, to bring their! .instruments with them, and render.the proceedings more generally, enjoyable by «T,n interval of music between the innings, and before the match begins and after ft;'"' The following are the 'names, q£, the Hamilton team—those of Cambridge will, doubtless, be furnished to us in time for our next issue :—Messrs N. R. Uox, Steele, C. C. :Wood, Grleeson, E. Puling, Field,. Primrose, j. Wood, Edgecombev^Shaw^emergency). ,' a MejP.:C- HAM3IOXD, of .Hamilton, and Cambridge, announces that getting ready a new, large, and cheap assortment of goods suitable for Christmas presents, &c.'. Mr T.C. Hammond has received a large ambuht of patronage at both places, 'and'.especially at Cambrilge; where he j connection with his chemist's and druggist's shop—a' stationery establish-, merit and' repository for fancy goods, the stock of which he is largely increasing, with ' a view : to future business. Suitable prizes for schools will be. supplied in quantity at wholesale rates. At the Licensing Court, held at Te Awamutu . on .Tuesday before H. N.. Nqrthcroft, Esq. (Chairman), and Messrs Bbckett and Germany Mr W: M. Hay applied, on behalf of Jamie's Devin, for a license for the house originally built for Mr Canny, arid a license for which has been refused year after year. On this occasion, Mr Hay was more successful, and a license was granted at the rate of £25 per annum. - We understand that Major Glare's state l qf health is still much the same, but that :he -was; a little easier yesterday. Qn Tuesday, a consultation on J) is case wqi held by three medical men, who confirmed the opinion of Dr Waddington. At the Licensing Court held yesterday at Hamilton, there was an application from Mr E. Missen for a license for an hotel at Waihou, but it Avas found that the site was not within the jurisdiction of the Waikato Licensing Bench, and the Court adjourned without considering it. In consequence of the Rev. Father Golden being still detained in Auckland on ecclesiastical duties, there will be no Roman Catholic services, in Waikato on Sunday next. The tenders for the Cambridge Jockey Club Grand Stand must be sent in by Saturday next.

Tj[R advertisement of Messrs Campbell Bros., who have entoi'Gd qn the business of Land and Commission Agents in this district, and whose head quarters are at Cambridge and the Waihou, will be found in another column. Ma J. S. Bcicki,a.nd will, in addition to his 'usual cattle sale at Ohaupo, on Tuesday u&xt, offer for sale a number of ho.rßos, ploughs, harrows, <Sfo., the property of Mr Drabble, who i« giving up contract work.

Wrc have not seen or heard the last of the "Hamilton Bazaar wedding-cake" j yot. It is si veritable cruize of oil and barrel of meal. Given to the Bazaar by MrTreewhoolar, it was raffled, and, to encourage the raffle, Mr Treowheelar j took four tickets, and, winning the calcq, gave it agajinto the bazaar, when : sold at'the" gift auction; and boiifht by J Mr Moses'. Mr-Moses, who was; ono of the most liberal patrons of the latei BWalßfe; has now* handed the cake over* 'to bej| ta'Hcd for yjho benefit of Sunday-school annual \troat. "Tossibryf. the raffle may be got up in the concertrGOm to-night after the performance, or during the intei-lude, -when no doubt- itwould go oil to advantage. . . , i .. Tub Annual Meeting of the Hamilton Choral Society was held--on Tuesday evening, when officers were unanioiisly re-elected as follows: Mr A. Cox, President;. Mr Searancke, Vice-President; Mr Culpari, Conductor; ,Mr Laishley, . Secretary and, Treasurer. A committee," consisting ; of 'the. Spregoing officers, together with Rev. W.!Calder,Rey. H.S. .Davis;-, P. :^Shndes;, -%as also ■ elected/ •"•The accountSj'sliowing a Balance .on hand.of £8 9s 6dj w,ere read and passed. ■•, A , wellj-merited . vote of ; [thanks ; to the ■ Conductor, who time nor trouble, ; in forwarding, the; spoiety's interests,,.'terminated,., the proceedings. The society now numbers forty-five ;working members, there is an average attendance of ,tliirty,,'iai. the • practises. •

At a meeting of the Education Reserves Commissioners, held oni Monday, Mr Brookfield gave an opinion in regard to the'claim of Mr Reed, of Hautapuj that, although Mr Reed had no title to. a lease, he had a fair claim f»r compensation. His claim was under promise of the Board in 1872 that he should have a lease: of the* land claimed for, ;21 ; years. He claimed' £33 15s 6d for improvements. - lb was agreed to put the section up, to /auction, subject to the improvements.—A settler, also, claimed compensation for his section. Mr Kennedy Hill had valued his improvements at £lO 10s, or 7s a chain for fencing. Most of the iurprovements were destroyed. It r was agreed to offer him £2O in settlement of his claim, without prejudice. AS ssioxal Ball will be held on the evening of New Year l s day, in Le Quesne's Hall, Hamilton, by the Independent Order of Eree Templars, on the occasion of holding the first Session in Waikato. '

Tenders : for half-a-mile of fencing, three sod ditch, post and wire, are called fox* by Mr James Brown, Ohaupo road. An accident, -which, fortunately, was attended with no really serious result, occurred on Tuesday, during the unloading of the barge containing the heavy timbers for the traffic bridge'at Hamiltoin. The large derrick .whlchthad been erected to lift the timber up on to the bank, had been working some little time, and had raised some or 17,000 feet, when one of the massive stays suddenly gave way, and the. huge concern, just swinging round a lift of 400 feet of timber, fell to the ground. Fortunately, a warning cry from one who. noticed the tottering mass, enabled all hands to get clear "out of the way before it fell, and only a few seconds before, a little • child had crossed the very. spot. The load under which it broke, was less by a third than some of the loads which had been lifted by it in the earlier part of the day.; Tiie following tenders were recpived by the Kirikirirca district Board, ,at its mesting, on Tuesday:—No. 5 contract: Mr Walsh, erecting bridge, at' 32s 6d per iOO feet, and Is per lineal foot for piles ; Geo. Worfchington, 31a' per 100 feet, and 5s lOd per lineal foot for piles ; B. Brown (accepted), 30s per 100 feet, and 3s lOd per lineal foot for piles. . No. 6 contract: Mr Walsh (accepted), erecting, bridge, '2tfs Gd per 100 : feet; S." JSmi'th, 34s per 100 feet. No." 7 '6ontracV: EC. Ellison, gravelling, '22s 6d per chain; W.Lovatt, ,22s 6d; Jno. Primrose (accepted), 22s 6d. No. 8 contract: : Wm, Russell (accepted), clearing Is per chain, forming road 10s .3d per chain, laying pipes 6s per set; M. JR,qach, forming, lis 6d per chain; 0. Miillions, forming, 7d per,cubic yard; ¥m. Bolton, forming, cubic yard. ??.;■'- . , : '■';