The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2155, 1 May 1886, Page 2

The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

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SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1886.

■« " Rumour has it that a well-known hotel in Cambridge, is about to change hands. Mr Horgan, from the Thames. hits been appointed to the What*wh»ta school, in the room of Mr Walter, removed to the Bay of Islands, Mr £. Lake, M H.R., will address his constituents at OJmupo at 7.30 o'clock this evening in Delaneys Hall. On Monday evening nevt at the same hour, he will address a meeting at Hamilton in the Public Hall. Commander Edwin wired at 3-30 p.m. yesterday:—Expert b.ul weather betweea north west and west and south, and heavy rainfall. IJU-« fnll 'again, but rise after 10 hours, and weather much colder. At Wednesday's meeting of the Hospital Board at Auckland, the resolution ptwed by the Conference of delegates of local bodies in Waikato^ thanking the board for the spirit of ferries* shown in passing Mr Lake's motion, was received. The pheasant shooting season begins to-day (Ist May). Prom all account there seems to bo a lar^ei- number of birds about thi* year than. la»t. Sportmaen should bear in mind tha^fc they ais not permitted to shoot heim.

Mr\T B.Whyte,Jf.H.R. for Waikivto, announces that he will uioet the dec tors at Te Aroha on Wednesday, at Cambridge on Thursday, and at Hamilton on Ft iday evening next. An election to fill an extra ordinary vacancy in tho Hamilton Road Board will be held at Hendersons cottage, Frankton, on the lOtb iiwt. Nominations must be vent in by noon of the 12th. The annual meeting of the Hamilton Football Club will be held at Barton 'a Commercial Hotel Monday e\eniug noxt at 8 rfclock. All interested .tie invited to attend. ' , On Monday next the committee appointed by the Domain Board to im prove the domain lands intend to meet at the corner near Manktelow'o, to show the work to be done, clearing, levelling, ploughing, &c., &c. : The Hamilton Band will nlay a number of selections on the open space between S. Peter's Church and Mr Knoxs store on Saturday evening next. The secretary expects to receive a large parcel of new music by the incoming 'Frisco mail. We direct attention to an advertisement in another column .announcing that the v isit of the Diocesan Sunday-school , Inspector (the Rev. P. Smallh'eld) to ' Hamilton jb unavoidably postponed for ft fortnight, when the programme as arranged will be carried out. A corrwroondent at Waitoa writing on Thursday, says :— Mr J. S. BuckUnd sale at Waitoa to day wan a great success. There was a large number- of cattle, sheep and horses yarded, and tn|>«t of everything was sold at good prices. There were several persons from the Ohineniuri district present. The first exhibition under the auspices of the South Franklin Agricultural Society, was held at Pukekohe on Thursday and, despite the unpropitious weather, proved a success. There were 700 people | present, and the number of entries was large. Want of space prevents our referring more fully to the show. Our Waiorongomai Oorrelpandent writes :— A large number of persons who have been on a vis.it to this district lately have been up to see Mr Fergusons battery, and all agree that it is a splendidly finished piece of work.— The repairs to the Katikati-Te Aroha track are now finished, and at present the track is in first-class order for traffic. The lizard referred to in these columns some days ago as having been caugkt on the Piako ro*d, was forwarded to the Auckland Museum by Mr George Edgecumbe. 'In his letter of thanks, the Curator, Mr T. F. Cheeseman, informs the sender that the specimen is a tree lizard, the 'scientific designation of which m "Nanltinus Pacificus " A statutory meeting of the Hamilton Borough Council was held last, nitfnt for the purpose of revising tho burgess roll for, the year commencing on the Ist. June next. A large number of names were placed on the roll by the councillors paying for persons who had allowed the time to go by through inadvertence. The roll wa< then formally adopted, and the Mayor and Crx. Edgecumbe and Scott wore appointed to sign it. The following items are stJPPlwd by a Whatawhata correspondent :— The late fine weather and gentle showers have made the grass green and the farmer's hearts glad. Most of the potato crop is now housed. It is rather better than medium, especially the latest planted.— Messrs Kempthorne and Wright have completed a contract for fifteen chains of road formation, but not to the satisfaction of the road board, as I hear on good authority that they are to be sent back to make sundry improvements. A meeting of those interested in the Cambridge Jockey Club was convened for Thursday evening, in the Town Board office ; but, as the attendance was very small, owing to the inclemency of the weather, it was adjourned to Thursday next at 3.30 p.m. Mr T. B. Lewis was elected chairman, and in the course of a conversational discussion it was arranged that an effort should be made to obtain a good representative mpoting.l and procure the names of the most suitable gentlemen for stewards. The plans of the first section of the uncompleted portion of the ThamesRotorua railway will be completed by Mr James Stewart, C.E., in about a week, and ready to be forwarded to Wellington for the approval of the Government. "When that j approval lias been obtained, no doubt tenders will be at once invited for the construction of that section. It is anticipated that the Oxford-Lichheld section will bo ! opened for traffic by the Ist of June.— Herald. Mr T- T. Gamble, the Ameriuaai vice consul at Auckland, died- suddenly at his office on Thursday of -aponlexy. The deceased gentleman was" well-known in Auckland, having been agent for the P»c«fic mail steamers before he was made U. S. vice consul. He had only resumed his duties a few days ago, Mr Shipley, the consul, having g«me to San Francisco by the Mariposa. Mr Gamble was an officer of cavalry in the Civil War, and w*s presefit at several engagement's. He was at the time of his death Master of Masonic Lodge Remuera, 8.C., and his funeral, which take* place to-day, will bo conducted by the fraterinty. Two miners, named respectively Hugh Hill and Thomas Caseley, were suffocated by sea* in the Caledonian mine, Thames, on Wednesday afternoon. Both were married men, and Hill leaves a family of six children. At the inquest on th« bady of Caseley on Thursday, the following verdict was returned :—": — " That the deceased, Thomas Caseley, came to his death accidentally by suffocation in foul air in the Caledonian mine," to which was added the following rider : " That more caution should be exercised by the managers in allowing men to work in the presence of foul gas." We learn from Taupo that Mr Laurence Cussen, District Surveyor, is now in the Taupo country extending the triangulation from the Auckland end to join an with Mr Wilson, who is working from the Wellington district. Some years ago Mr W. Cussen, then in the Government service, erected a trig, station on the highest point of Ruapehu. Mr Wilson has twice endeavoured to ascend the point, but ovwi}g to the snow being too heavy, had been unable to reach the summit. From native accounts just received it is learned that tyr L. Cussen has been successful in reaching the trig, station on this point.— Herald. Our Morrinsville correspondent writes :— The usual monthly meeting of tpe Waitoa Road Board was held last Saturday. Present: Messrs Chepmell (chairman) Gould, Parr and Turnbull. All the contracts which were let on the Maunga-kawa-Waiorongomai road are'now finished. The contractors for sections Jfos. 1 and 2 made a good job, while the contractor for sections Nos. 3, 4 and 5 made very indifferentNvork. The way most of the sets of pipes are put in is a caution. The amount of labour expended on these contracts would have made a good job il properly gone about. The board, however, by putting two men on for three weeks have considerably improved at least part of these sections. Accounts amounting to £229 (is 6d were passed for payment. A Huntly correspondent writes : A concert was given at Huntly on the 22nd inst. in aid of the library, and was a greht success. There was a large attendance. Mr Talbot occupied the chair, and Mm Skellon presided at the piano. Part I. Solo, Messrs Turner and Steel ; MrT*ylor'« song, "The Sea is England's Glory,' evoked much applause. Mr Ralph sans "Boys Keep Away from the Girls; "Fifty Miles Under the Sea," by Mr; Richards was a great success, and she re ceived a unanimous encore. Mr Murdock't song, " Eighteenpence ;" recitation, "Rolla's Address" Mr Molesworth ; song, " Parspn and the Clerk," Mr Wilaon ; song "Blu< Abation Mountains," Miss Talbot ; song, "Far Away," Mrs Callighan, very wel: rendered and received an encore : song, " Empty Cradle," Mr Singer : song, " Pat rick Mind the Baby," Mr Bailey ; son?, "Little Jessie." Mr Richards. Th< concert concluded with a negro farce, which amused the audience greatly. There is to he seen at the Cam bridge post-office a most remarkable native flower, which was obtained by Mr Bull, tht postmaster, in the neighbourhood of the Karapiro creek. It is five starred in shape, and grows on a vine, and appears to f be oi the lily species. The back has a coating ol pink-streaked wax-like substance, similai to the lily. The face is of a brilliant golc colour, streaked with black, and is beauti fully gathered up, but it has a fleshy ap pearance like the skin of a toad's belly. Ir the centre is a puffy ring, inside of which ii a beautifully shaped double-crossed .stamen, So far, this curious specimen of the New Zealand flora is pleasing enough to the eye but its charm instantly vanishes when it it raised to the nose in expectation of j

delicious aroma conai^tent with it* gorgeous appearance. It emits a ntench which can only bo compared to th;it issuing from decomposed animal matter. We hate been unable to find nut its native or classical name, or to what order it belongs, Dr. Bailer's work not being at hand, but Mr Bull -.ay* he has seen it before at the Thames, where it was called the "Toad's Eye." Can my of our readers give any information on the •übject? This is how United Ireland refers to the recent ceremonial of the opening of Parliament :— ",TJhe plunder of the world flittered in diamonds around the Queen, iind the HC^no in tho Lords was a crystal mirror in which tho fate of many murdered nation* was visible to the historical eye. Not a jewel in the army of coronets that did not represent the heart's blood of millions. Amongst the nobles could be recognised not a few whose titles and tiaras were bought by {reason to Ireland. Amidst the reprosentatiifs of centuries of robbery and massacre sat her Britannic Majesty, with sour, unhappy countenance, surrounded by the stage managers who invited her to inflame by her presence the diabolical hatred of ignorant Britons against Ireland. As Queen Victoria is no friend of the Irish people ... it miiy not have required much coaxing to incite English antipathy to the Irish by parading herself between Buckingham PaUce and Westminster. To evince her hostility to any cliange in the •fundamental law of fraud and corruption of 1800 she allowed herself to be made a show oT in order to impress upon her whitelivered subjects how highly she valued the foul treachery which blackens the name of Pitt and curie* the memory of cut-throat Castlereagh." The following special messages to the Press Association, dated London, April 28th and 29th, have been published :— Mr Thru. Fallow has been recognised as Columbian Consul for Australia.— Bishop Moorhouse will pay homage to Her Majesty the Queen on TtfSsday nett.— The majority of the Australian cricketing team have arrived, the remainder being still on tho Continent.—The American fishing smack which waa seized by the Canadian authorities off Nova Scotia ha* been released.— Nelson, the New South Wales sculler, has %avely rescued a boy from drownioein the Thawon. —The South Australian loan is expected to be floated at par.— Mr 'Strange way ba<r written a letter to the Daily ChVonicle in which he states that Home Rule will prove unworkable, and if given effect to will destroy the unity of the Empire.— The directors of the Scottish Australian Company are prepared to send labour out to Lambton in New South Wales if advised.— The English cricket team, which visits the Australian colonies next season, will comprise Shaw, Shrewsbury, Lillywhite, Barnes, Bnggs, i Cur.n, Redowers, Bates, Lees, Preston, Lohmann. W. G. Grac« has been invited 'to accompany the team, which sails for Australia in September me^t.— Jefferson Davis is delivering a series-of orations in *c Southern State*. —The men comprising the outpost, which was captnred by the rebels ne..r Sun kirn, have been released.— Four regiment* of Indian troops have been sent to reinfoice the tioops in Burmah.— An agreement with France in connection with the New Hebrides i.s considered imminent. __