The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 1919, 23 October 1884, Page 2

The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

Id) ml anil c\k t justice to a'l nion, 01 wli itsooM'i state or persuasion, religious or politu ll I Icie sin 11 tho I'icss thu People's njjhf niainlini Un.iwi-d by iiilluoiilo .mil iiulinbcd by jrim,

TIIURSDA V, OCT. 23, 1884.

For once Commander Edwin has been out in his calculations. At 4 p. m on Monday he warned us that heavy rain would fall after sixteen hours. Like Jack Kuns>by's the piediction was a very sate one, hut the gallant commander, unlike Capt. Cuttle's friend, is conscien tunis On Tuesday he telegiaphed ' Cancel warning .sent yebteiday, To night will be cold." As no rain fell it followed natuially enough that the evening was chilly. The weather we have been havinij lately must have puzzler! our Meteoiologist sadly, and the wonder is that, taking one thing with another, he should have been so conect.

A soiree and concert will be held in tho Mangapiko schoollioiibo to-morrow evening. Judge Mair, of the Native Land Couit, was a passenger by Tuesday's* train to Cunbndge.

An amateur negro minstrel performance will take place .it Hamilton sometime duiing full moon.

We are pleased to state that the R"v. R. O'C. Biggs the incumbent ofS. PetciV, H.multon, is lapidly lecovering fidiii the cttcct's of his lecent.icrident. The lev. gentleman hopes to be able to lesuuic his duties on Sunday next.

We are raauested to draw the attention of our Roman Catholic iearlci-i to the* altciation in the oidei of Sunday senices. Mans will be celebrated at Cam budge at 8 a.m., at Hamilton at 11 a.m., and evening scivice at 7 p.m.

As the Cambridge Brass and Reed Band is about to be resuscitated the member have made an appeal to tho public of the town for support. The appeal has boon libeially ic^ponded to, about £40 having been sublet ibed.

The nomination of candidates to fill tlio Niamey in fclic Hamilton Boiough Council, cau-jod by the 1 cognation of Mr Ua\y, took pi. ice yestciday. The candidates nominated aio, JMe-^sr-- Philip Mujjio, vcn., A. Y. Tliilip, and William Wood. Tlio poll will be taken on Wednesday next.

We regret that owing to lllho.illh, Mi liiooks, tlio a^cnt of the Bank of Now Zp.il.uid at C.uiibi ul^o, has beon obliged to obtain a iimntb'-> Imlicl.iy, which ho nitciuK to ->i«3ihl .it the Lxkr->. Dining liw .ibsi'iico i\Fi I<\ If. Templci, .lccount.mt of the ILunilton branch, will act a.*, iiyeut.

A number of natives attending the Land (Joint, at Cainlnid^o, pioccedi'd to Auckland by ti.un yeitoiday inoimng foi t) 10 puipoii- of anoidin^ .v wokmno to Taulnao. To Xirakan w,h ninon^fc tin* nnuibui. Tlwy uitond lotiiinuiK to Wliati\\hatihoo \Mtli Jli^ AE.ijc^ty by to-inonow'^ 11 1 .1111.

Ab the Police Court, Hamilton, on Tiu><hi\, bifnio Mi- 11. W. Xoitlicuift, IMF , I ..ibrll.i AliMiio ;i|iplicil fin .a piotccLion uidd ,iyain^tl)ui liu-)b.iinl •lolin Munii;, The Hppltcjant, win) declinwl to bo swiun, viid lii-i liusb.uid li.id left li'H about tlupp inonLl)^ ,\g<>, and w.it> not now t.u))poitiiig her. TlieCouil <ri anted the oidui, the to d.iti 1 fioni July h->t.

Complaints are already being ni.ido lrspcttmf,' tlio do]ticcUtimis of l.uliknis Dii the nmvly l.ud out giouncU of the C.unlnultfo Poni.un. A nunibor of tliu v>uug ticc-> li.xno been doliboi.itely biokon, <md othoi lmscliiexoii". .icts of minor M o nnlie,uite lmvc boon ated. Should this uu.iccount.iblc lm^clncf continue the Domain Bo.ud intend off in ing a io\vaid for the dUco\cry of the mi^cie .uit-.

The ceremony of blessing and laying tlio foundation -itono of tlio torn out and -cliool at JbJ .million Ka-,t will take place t>n Sunday uioinuij.' at 11 o'clock. Tlio building-, winch 1-1 to be of consideiable si/.e, will be elected on the lecently puicha-ied allotment neai the Roman Catholic Clmich. A new Ainciican oi^an, which \u\^ ju-^t been iecei\cd fiom New Yoik, will be played foi the iii-t time on the occasion.

The Raglan road is reported to be in a nm-t deplmable state, quite unfit for wheeled ti.ilhc. It i«. a somewhat icui.ukable tlnu^ tli.it the woi-,t poitious of the Hud aio jiM lit the wheic pood metal m any quantity is easily piocuiable. Many of the euhcits and budges lnue £i!m> biok^ii down, and unle^i something in the u \y of lepaiis be speedily dove, cominunicat'<m between Kaplan and the outer woild will be piactically cut oil.

A deputation consisting of Messrs (}od. E. Cl.uk and James Taylor, interviewed Mr Hudson, Ti attic Manager, at Mautapu station yesteiday morning, respecting the inconvenient way which the enhance to the cattle -y.ud.it that station was constuicted. The enhance gate, hm\o stated in a pievious issue, is mj constructed as to cause gieat ineomemenco in shipping cattle, and much unnecessary Libom. The fault was pointed out to Mr Hudson by the deputation, when he promised that tho engineei's attention should be diaun to the in at tor.

People who have occasion to travel on the Jlanulton-Moiiinsville Railway, complain of the want <•( proper fmt-clasi accommodation. The carnage at piesent -in that biancli which sei\es the purpose of fn->t-cl.is»> tiavcllmg i-s one of a pievious genci.ition, and having evidently been pensioned off foi some time, 1 educed circumstances lu\e necessitated the department tiottmg it out once moie and pacing it otf on an innocent public ab an idea in carnages piuely niodein. If a fciavellor can enjoy a lough and uiNciable jaunt in a railway cairiage, and 11 in any way anxious, foi an outing, by all means let him invent m a fust-class faie to MornnsviUe,

A meeting of the directors of the Noith Ni w Zealand Fauneib' Go-opeiati\e Associ.itiou was hold at the ofhco, Hamilton, yasteiday. Tim meeting was, of course, pi i\ a to, but w e h.i\ c ascci t.iined that the inclination submitted was of a most s.itisf.ictoiy and oneoui.iging liatuic. The amount of buMiicss done hn-> oxecodod the must -.anguine cxpect.itions, whilo the cost of m.in.igoinent, Sec, has been very small, ["ho tmn-o\ei for August w.\^> .ilumt £2800, and for September £Pi(>oo. The annual general mooting of sh.uoholders will be held .it H.imill.on o.u'l y in December, and, judging l«y the pii'sont .ispeut of thing-, the nhaieholdeis will have good caiuso to be satisfied.

The anniversary services in connection with tlio Clinic'! of Christ, llan.ilton Kast, will take place at Le Qucbiio's Hall on Sunday nest. Mr John Kees, the pastor of the congregation, will conduct the 1 L o'clock service, iind Mi ( ieoige \.ldiidge \s ill lectuus 111 the aftoi noon «it 'A o'clock on '• The Tioc of Life,'' .incJ 111 the evening, at seven, on "The Ifopp of Cie;itio»." On the Monday o\cninß following Mr Aldiidgo will lectnie on the .subject, " ]\ loses, the Histou.in of Cieation . Was he mistaken?' On Tnet>d.iy evening there will be a tea and public meeting, at which addresses will be dulivoied by Messrs Taylor (Thames), Aldiidge (Auckland), Kees (Hamilton), a,nd other".

The usual fortnightly meeting of the Hamilton Piesbyterian Band of Hope was held in tho church on Tuesday evening last. Theic was a fair attendance of children. Mr .T. Cochrane was in tho chair. A very inteiesting programme was gone through consisting of the following :— Recitation, Louisa Roeburn ; reading, William Andrew ; riddles, Albeit Eg Qnesne ; recitation, Francis Young ; riddles, Colin Le Quesne, recitation, John Oalderw ood ; recitation, Susan (iaudin. The Rev. Mr Raebuin gave the children jvn address on the temperancecause. A few hymns wero sung during the meeting, Miss Campbell jncsid'ng at the haimonium. The Rev. Mr Raebm-n pronounced the benediction which bioufht the meeting t« a olu&e,

At the Hamilton Police Court yesterday, before His Worship the Mayor, and Ml- John Knox, J. P. a man named Thomas Howard was charged with, on the previous day, stealing a ruler from the Hamilton Hotel, and a box of draughts from the Commercial Hotel. Prisoner pleaded guilty, and said be wan so drunk that ho did nofc remember what he had done. Hergcant McGnvern, who pposecuted, said the prisoner had been knocking about the town for somo days In a state of intoxication. On the previouH day he met him down Victoria street with thfc ruler in his hand. He questioned him, and prisoner said he had borrowed it. This wa^ found to be false. The same day

lie offered to make a present of the draught box to a resident of Hamilton East, remarking that he had found it. The Bench Hontimced tho primmer to 14 days imprisonment with hard labour for each offence.

The following special messages to tlio Preiß Association, dated London, October 20th and 21 si, have been published :—(reiißial: — (reiiBial De Xii^lc, in command of tlio French troops in Tonquin, has made a demand for a further reinforcement of 10,000 men.— The blockade of tho Island «f l<\)tmos.i lias been notified. — A Roman Catholic minion is proceeding to New Guinea.— Tho Finance Committee have reported f.ivomably on the coat of the Recidnisto Bill, which was referred to them by the Senate for consideration. — No allotments of sh.ireh have yet been made in tho Perth L.md Agency Company. — Tho Agents-Goner.il of the several colonies have, as yet, settled nothing amongst themselves as to the approaching interview with Loid Derby. They are now finally Cv>nsultmg their respective Governments. — H.M.S. Lark, n survey vessel, has been commissioned for tho Australian station.— Arrived : The steamer lonic, from Wellington.