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Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2037, 28 July 1885, Page 2

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Tiif shouting season is almost tner, and in few instances have I ho.ud of laige bags in tliw patt of Waik.ito. For the fust niontli a few -hots could be heaid almost daily, but latteily it 1-1 r.ncly th.it i mi* hears a shot. Buds ,uo so t-caiee th.\t theie is no inducement to go for a shot. Two gentlemen made a \<'iy good bag in the native CdimtiVi twenty nine and .i-half brace betweon the two in le<.s th.m two days, but the spoit was well earned, for most of tho buds weiu shot in tall fern. A few shot* sent them out of tho clcaiiags, and the walking afteiwaids was h.ird woik. On one occasion 1 -uggestod to one of the com mittee of the Acclimatisation Society to try and get the -hooting of liens piohibited. He said he did propose it at a meeting, but it met with a moie deteuuined opposition from the other members, so, of coiiise, he had to alundnn the idea. >So long as liens .lie allowed to be shot, so long will theie bo a sen city of buds JYisonally, T should lie stiongly iv fa\oui of stopping all Emoting foi a \em, and after the biida became nioro plentiful, allow hens to be shot during the List month of the season only. They he cUser than cocks, and therefoie are moie easily shot ; but if the two first month* were closed, the noise of the shooting would m.ike them wildei, and the> would not he so cl<hcl\ dm ing the thud month. Thefaimeis .ue complaining bitterly of the action of the fiee/.ing company in overstocking the Auckland market with cattle. Men »ore employed ti> buy uj> cattle <>n the West Coast and the result ib that stock thus bought must be sold at any pi ice. So fur from benehttmg the Auckland fanners, tho company ha\odone them a, great deal of injury by buying so l.ugely on the coa*t. The people living theie h.ue nothing to complain of for they get rid of their ftock. When the proposal to form a fiee/.ing company was ki-t mooted, it was deuded and ridiculed because it wa.s to be a farmers iih■ioeiation, and the manager of the present fiee/mg company was loudest in his denunciations of the absiud scheme, but no sooner was it abandoned by the f.irmer& than it w.n taken up by him and others who saw that unless they had a finger in the pio, their business would be seiiously damaged. The project that was lidiculed and styled utopum, w.ia to be, when fatheied by them, tho salvation of tho farmer?.. Tmly when " asked foi biead they ha\e given a titone." Tho best friend the tar mer lias now is the Co-operati\ c Association, it is to be hoped the project for engaging in tho butcheiing business will not fall thiongh for want of support. The approaches to the budge over the railway cutting here are iv a very bad state, almost up to theguths iv mud. A dray loaded with hay, wai very nearly capsized a few days ago at that spot. A few loads of gravel would be a great improvement.—(Own Correspondent.)

Ihe Wai^a County Council invite tender* for road diTersion at Hindle's Bridge, near WJiatawhnt*. Mr John KnoT will sell b) auction at Hamilton to-day, at noon, by order of the R M Court, two cons, heifer, oats and a quantity of sundries On bdturda) next lie will sell at the Hamilton' Auction Mart, bis milch cons, four hcifcrf, one steer, dray harness, npnni; cart harness tools, iron, Sec , the property et Mr Thomas Caaiidy,