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Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1572, 1 August 1882, Page 2

The bridge over Walker's Gully on the road between Cambridge and Ohaupo has been .again opened to traffic. The Small Birds Nuisance Bill has passed through the House of Representatives.

The Pukerimu-Ohaupo road is temporarily closed for traffic pending repairs being effected to Fleming's bridge. The Goodwood Cup was run on Thursday last, the 27th, the result being, Friday (?) 1; Tristran 2; and Geologist 3. Christchurch must be a happy place to live in. Our telegrams informs us that on Friday last eight young children were arrested for petty larceny. A cable message informs us that the House of Lords has accepted tho Arrears of Rent (Ireland) Bill, not wishing to precipitate a criris.

The schooner Mary Bannatyne, has arrived at Port Waikato from Oamaru with a cargo of 150 tons of milling and seed wheat and oats for Mr R. Lamb and the W.S.N. Company. In the match between the Australian cricketers and the Gentlemen of Scotland, played at Edinburgh on Thursday arid Friday last, the former won in one innings with 18 runs to spare.

The free and independent electors of Stanmore are so disgusted with Mr Pilliett, whom they recently placed twice at the head of the poll, for voting with the Government, that they contemplate burning him in effigy. The concert and dance advertised to come off at the Hautapu school-house on Friday last, had to be postponed on account of the wretched state of the weather. The concert will be held on Friday night next without fail. The pheasant shooting season which closed yesterday has been the most barren that Waikato has known. In addition to the scarcity of game, the weather has been throughout very unfavorable, and very little sport has been enjoyed. The dates on which the quarterly meetings of the Licensing Committees of Kirikiriroa, Borough of Hamilton, Hamilton, Rangiriri and Newcastle, will be hold [are published in our advertising columns.

The polling for the election of five trustees for the Newcastle Highway District, took place at Whatawhata on Saturday, under the provisions of the Local Elections Act, and resulted as follows :—A. Dawson, 32 ;C. Limmer, 32 ; W. Washer, 30 j W. Macredie, 29; W. Shepherd, 28; C. Day, 18. The first five were accordingly elected. The Rev. Mr Robinson, lately from Victoria, ■ took tho services at S. Peter's Hamilton, on Sunday. The Bishop of Auckland is expected to officiate on next Sunday week in the morning, and in the afternoon his lordship will perform the ceremony of dedicating to the purposes of divine worship the new bells of S. Andrew's Church, Cambridge. A ■ Press Association , telegram states :-*-Reuter haying forwarded, ; two contradictory telegrams as to the National Bank dividend; it is officially stated that ' the dividend declared for the half-year ending March was 4 per cent., making 7 per cent, for the year. '.■ <, " \ /

At a meeting of the farmersof the Cambridge and -Hautapu districts, held at Camp's Tarnahere. - Hotel on Friday evening last, Mr Rhodes, in the chair, it was agreed to start a farmers club. Messrs W. A. Graham, Majn, Rhodes, J. J., Smith, Wheeler,, and Camp were elected,a committee to organise the club. The heavy rain of the latter part of last week seems to have been experienced all over the colony. In this district, however; little or no damage has been done so. far as we know. The Waikato, Waipa, and other >riv;ers. rose considerably above their normal level, and the various creeks have beenflooded. The roads throughout the district are in a shockingly bad state, and nothing but the fine weather will improve them, as any expenditure to that end just now would be simply wasted. ,

A correspondent writing from Oxford, says:—" I' should . feel truly grateful if, either through 'the medium of your excellent paper or .by you could let me know (1) the, rainfall in Waikato since Ist September!. 1881, up to the present, and (2) a list of fine' days and rainy days, as I wish'to compare the i two localities." We are sorry that we are unable to afford our correspondent the information be seeks, but' perhaps some of our ineteofologieal readers can make up the deficiency. ' On the 25th 1 ApriP last tha employes of Messrs John' Brinsmead, and j Sons, of London, presented to Prince: Leopold, Duke of' Albany, aud Princess, Helen of Waldeck, a grand oblique t pianofdrte 'in a very handsome i ebonised' case, decorated in Adams' style. It is I 7s. octaves t in J compass, ,and contains all; "thelatest improvements of,,the,firm, in-' eluding a third pedal that.produce^,fmqstj melodious'effects, the sound r bejng bus-; tainedto am almost, indefinifo. length., of time.— Morning Post. r , Those 'of our' readers -acauarhted* with the Lord Abbot-AlcooksAtO.S.B{,[ will regret to hear 6i hia» ill-| ness; V(( our ! Auckland-morningUcoritem-i porary, regrets to Abbpt' A.lcoik's'' illness— ofi the lUngs'-irHas^assumed' l »flr^d%^gM r ous «till^hop,ea&are &ined ? 6f hiff< r&fcvery>%<Dr^ has bW^calleTin?^^^^ ;are doing fflltlHfcmb&^&vMwk

Sunday morning, besought the prayers of the congregation on behalf ofrtho Lord Abbot.

The Egyptian difficulty appears to be as far off as ever from a solution. England continues.to \be the" sole agerlfin the operations ». now being '| carried!? on against Ar.ibi. M. de Freycinet's motion for a war credit has been rejected by the French Chamber of Deputies, and the Ministry have in -consequence .resigned. It is still doubtful whether 'Turkey' will interfere. Meantime Arabi has grown defiant and threatens a war of extermination against the Europeans." It is extremely" difficult to foresee what issues will arise out of the present complicated state of affairs.

We are in receipt of the July number of Te Korimako, a Maori newspaper which has been lately started. From the convenient form in which it is printed, as well as from the.subjects chosen for the various articles In .it we would predict for it a successful career. It must naturally be expected that it may be some time before its circulation is very large, but we have every confidence that, if future numbers contain as much information of a kind which will prove as interesting to the Maoris as that contained in the issue now before us, it will gradually become a favourite amongst them, and soon prove a profitable venture. The Maori language as written in it is almost faultless, and gives evidence of careful and painstaking study.—The first article, which is a " History of the Bank of England," is not likely to be read with so much interest as several others in the issuer The next one "An Account of the last meeting of the Auckland Synod," will be closely read, as the natives are acquainted with a large number of the clergy belonging to the English Church whose names appear in this paper. The Maoris always manifest a great deal of interest in anything which pertains to matters with which some of the old missionaries may be connected. The column devoted to general news, as also that devoted to Parliamentary intelligence, is just of that sort which we should say was most suitable. The choice of such subjects as the " War in Egypt," and " The State of the People in Russia," is also a happy one. A letter from Mr 0. O. Davis on the evils of intemperance is both appropriate and welltimed. A larger space might, we think, profitably be given to the proceedings of the Land Courts, which must, as a matter of course, be of great interest to the Maoris. However, no doubt experience will soon rectify any errors which may at present exist in this way. Suffice it to say, that the last issue of the Koriimko is a creditable production, and we will watch its future life with interest and goodwill.

Mr John Knox will sell at his mart, Hamilton, on Saturday next, valuable freehold properties in Hamilton East and West, and Komokorau.

Mr Thomas S. Runciman, Marsh Meadows, offers a reward for the recovery of 27 half-bred ewes. ,

The Mangapiko Highway Board notify that it is their intention at a meeting to be held on Saturday, the 2(Jth inst., to strike a rate of jM in the £. The rate-book lies at Mr N. T. Maundcr's residence, Te.Rore.

: Mr A. Helps, Alexandra, notifies the owners of certain allotments in the Parish of Pironjjia, County of Raglan, to fence their boundaries.

Messrs Laidlaw, Cook and Co. notify that they have disposed of their storekecping business at Te Awamutu to Mr J. A. Stitchbury, and of their baking and butchering business at the same place to Messrs Glass and Co., for whom they request a continuance of the liberal patronage bestowed on them in the past. Mr Frank Vialou desires those having claims against him to forward same to his address, Upper Symonds-strect, Auckland.