NEW ZEALAND. [BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2241, 18 November 1886, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND. [BY TELEGRAPH— PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

CHRIS TCHURCH. Tuesday. Mr J. P. L\nck, M H.R., tor Cheviot, Inafc night addieasru bis constituents at W'akane, and receivnl a unanimous vote of thanks and oonfiileure, R. 1). Thoima, jun., walked from Stoney hurst to Christchurch (67 miles) in 1 7 hours, beating Cotton's reco '. The Austrilian cricket match is definitely fixed for November 26, 26 and 29. OAM ARU, Tuesday. Colonel Whitmore inspected the Volunteers of the North Otago Battalion this afternoon. The weather was fiuc, and there was a large attendance of spectators, who watched the movements with interest. 464 volunteers, including cadets, paraded. After the inspection, a number of military movements were performed. At the condition of the p.irade, Colonel Whitmore said he was gUd to see so many volunteers in such a high state of proficiency present. A matke'l improvement \v s apparent -itice his last inspection, and Lieut.-Col'iul Sumpter, commanding the district, ua«. complimented on hiving <»o laige and elKuent a force under Ins eominan.l. DUXKDIN, Tuesday. Mr v Vales to-d.iv leMgned the chairm.mship of th« j Harbour Board. He < oinmuited fax oui ably on the board's position, aufl "aid he did not think a further loan would be necesFary to prosecute the fmther works. General t\ilton was nominated to the chairmanship, but he declined, aud Mr J. H. Ross was elected. The Retrenchment Committee of the City Council recommend reductions amounting to £4000 yearly, including £100 off the Mayoral salary. The Gas Committee of the City Council make several important recommendations, including a reduction of price to 7s 7d. WELLINGTON, Tuesday. At a meeting of the Wesleyau District Meeting, the Rev. W. Baumber was appointed secretary, and the Rev. J. N. Buttle reporter to the New Zealand Methodist The oial examination of Mr J. T. Nott was proceeded with, and he was unanimously recommended for the Three Kings Training School.

What a painful sight it must have been to see hundreds of people, starving men, breaking into jewellery stores in London so as to get ornaments for their suffering families- — Pittsburg Chronicle. "What station do you call this?" asked a man as he crawled out of the ruins of a car, after a recent railroad accident. " Devastation, sir," replied his fellow-passengers in chorus. —Chicago Telegram. Thk Oamaru Mail expresses astonishment, as well it might, at the fact of Californian onions finding a market in New Zealand. "We are astounded," says our contemporary, " with the knowledge that onions are imported from California and elsewhere for the use of this community— to a district possessing land of the rarest quality for the perfect g.-owth of this common vegetable. \Vhen it is mentioned that these imported onions fetched about £13 per ton wholesale, the neglect of our farmers to cultivate a few acres is inexplicable." It was stated on gooi authority in Vienna on 25th September that Lord Iddeslt-i<jh, British Foreign Secretary, is ! triiDg to effect an approachment between Servi'i, Bulsraru, Greece, and Turkey, and hopes tli.it Austria will favour men an alli.tnce, the formation of which is con*i !(M-<"i pos^iblp, owinyr to the necessity of uniting asfun^t the common invader. It is thought that the only serious difficulty will be to induce Greece to join the alliance. At lleaton Chapel Station, Cheshire, Saturday 2Sth August, a Manchester express for Crewe was running through when a passenger dropped a window and pitched a bottle out of the carriage. The train was tra\elling at a great speed, and the missile struck James Dawson, platelayer, full on the forehead, inflicting a terrible wound. He dropped unconscious, and was in that condition conveyed to Stock port Infirmary. Is every walk of life work is a powerful antidote for low spirits. The busy have no time to be sad. The saying '• Labour is prayer,' is never truer than when applied to thegriefstriken ; and to those whose woes are more fancied than real, but none the less productive of discomfort on that account, toil will afford a speedier and surer relief than any other remedy ever d^ised by man. Try hard work, then, bodily or mpntal, or both, as the best cure fora fit of the 'blues." The late A. T, Stewart, says Harper's Weekly, found it t» his advantage to give each head of a department of his business a percentage of the profits made iv that department, in addition to a guarantee! salary. One year the head of his lace department earned 27,000 dols. and the head of another department 29,000 dols , the percentage being about 1 per cent of the profits of the depart* ment.