The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTH.

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1553, 17 June 1882, Page 2

The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTH.

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SATURDAY', JUNE-17, 1882. % *

Owing to the length of the Financial Statement a leader and other interesting'matter is crowded out of this issue. With this issue we publish the 1 second number of our supplement, which contains a, large amount' of reading matter interesting to all classes ol readers. The new tale, "Grit," will be commenced next Saturday. ■ The next put-going English Mail, via 'Frisco, will close at the Hamilton Post-Office, at 10 o'clock a.m. on Monday: . - It will be seen, on reference" to a report in another column, that Major Han is has been returned for North Franklin, by a majority of 30 votes. Another comet has paid us a visit. It was seen in Auckland, on Thursday night, shortly after sunset in the western sky, and was observed last evening at Hamilton, It is expected to be seen clearly in the course of a few nights. On our fourth page we publish an interesting paper from the pen of Mr Horace Walpole, on " Selecting Milch Cows." Mr Walpole'Jias furnished us with some indian ink sketches illustrative of the subject, executed by himself, which we shall be glad to show to anyone who may call at our office. At the R.M. Court, Cambridge, yesterday, before Mr Northcroft, a few small debt cases were disposed of. In the case Norgrove v Ransn'eld, Mr Dyer for the plantiff, judgment was given for the full amount of the claim, £27, with costs. At the Police Court. Te Awamutu, yesterday, an old offender named Dennis Boyle was chaiged witli vagrancy, and sentenced to two years' imprisonment. He will be forwarded to Auckland, today. Boyle has been convicted on the same charge about a dozen times, and has become a great nuisance about the Upper Waipa. It is reported that Mr Herring, who visited this colony last year, as the repiesentative of ceitain Yorkshire farmers, has adA'urtisud Ins property in England for sale, pieparatory to leaving the Old Country to settle permanently in New Zealand. He will doubtless be followed by many others who desire freer scope for their energies than can be found in the Mother Country; Mr W. Cumming has written a letter to the Hamilton Domain Board asking them to take steps to have Sydney Square fenced, and enclosing a telegram from Mr J. B. Whyte.M.H.R., to the effect that the Attorney-General had decided that the Square could not be vested in trustees, but only in the Domain Board. The letter will be considered at the next meeting of the board. At a special meeting of the Hamilton Domain Board, held last night, a letter was i eceived from the engineer, Mr T. G. Saudes, recommending the board not to alter the specifications for Scddon's drain, now in hand, as advised by him in a former letter, as he found that the banks were too rotten, and that in summer another attempt at improving it would be advantageous. The recommendation was adopted. We are sorry to have to announce that owing to the state of his health, which has been very unsatisfactory lately, the Yen. Archdeacon Lush has found it necessary to proceed to Auckland for medical advice. He left Hamilton on Thursday, and is not expected to be back for some weeks. Meantime the Vestry of S. Peter's Church have made application to the bishop for a temporary supply. The services to-morrow will be taken morning and evening by the Rev. H. S. Davis. The usual weekly meeting of the Hamilton Literary and Debating Society was held at the Court-house, on Thursday evening. There was a very large attendance of members and visitors, and in the absence of the president, the chair was taken by Mr W. Macgregor Hay. The Rev. David Fulton delivered a very interesting lecture on Sir Walter Scott, concluding with a reading from "The Lord of the Isles." The lecture was favorably criticised by Messrs R. Bradley, McLernon, and S. E. G. Smith, all of whom, however, deprecated the high estimate placed on the merits of the subject by the rev. lecturer. Then followed readings from Scott's Works in prose and poetry by Messrs Bradley, R. F. Sandcs, McLernon, and Smith. The meeting closed shortly after 10 o'clock. Next Thursday the programme vv ill consist of readings, recitations, &c.