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Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2365, 6 September 1887, Page 2

In consequence of the Public Hall, Hamilton, having been previously engaged, Mr Teasdale will address the electors of Waipa in the Court House. In Free Trade New South Wales the increase to the revenue in July alone was ,illoS,ooo. Happy New South Wales ! 1 low we covet thee !

Affairs in Central Asia are evidently very grave, as will be seen from a telegram in another column.

The Bishop of Manchester is promoting a scheme for the employment of working-men evangelists in his diocese.

A German newspaper devoted to forestry says that for forest culture in Germany there is a decided preference for American hickory.

The Lyttelton Times says by reducing the price of the paper to a penny the circulation has been increased by 3500 copies daily.

We would remind our readers that Mr Knox will bold an important sale of leasehold land at Ngaruawahia on Thursday.

A report was current early yesterday, that Mrs Corboy’s store at Kihikihi had been broken into on Sunday, and a quantity of goods stolen. No further particulars reached us during the day. The polling for the Western Maori Election takes place to-morrow, So far as we can judge the real tug-of-war will be between Major Te Wheoro and Hoani Taipua, the late member.

Mr Chappel’s skating rink in the Public Hall, Alexandra, continues to attract a good attendance on Saturday evenings, and affords an amount of pleasure to the youths and maidens of that quiet little settlement.

Old soldiers and volunteershaving unsatisfied land claims are invited to attend a meeting at the Commercial Hotel, Hamilton, on Thursday next, when matters of great importance will be brought before them by Mr Hay, the convener of the meeting. The Trustees of the Alexandra Public Hall have effected great improvements to the interior of the building, dadoed and lined throughout from floor to ceiling. It is proposed to complete the work by papering the walls, which will also be pannelled with appropriate designs. We again draw the attention of the Wat pa County Council to the state of the main road from Te Awamutu to Alexandra, which they have so long studiously neglected. There are far too many great holes, by which the road has become very much broken up, and it Is high time some repairs were done.

At Ballarat, a Chinaman, aged 80 years, was nearly burned to death through the bed-clothes taking fire. His countrymen refused, notwithstanding his heartrending screams, to go near him, as they held that evil spirits had caused the fire. Tho sufferer was ultimately rescued by Europeans. He is not expected to recover, In our next issue will appear a valuable contribution from Capt. Daley, Hautapn, giving a description of the right stamp of horses to breed for the Indian Market. A letter from Mr H. Roche, on the high rate of interest. A letter from a ratepayer Cambridge, and our correspondents report of Mr Campbell’s second meeting at Raglan. At a committee meeting of the South Auckland Racing Club held on Saturday, a programme for the races to take place on Thursday, December 29th, was adopted. The secretary informed the meeting that he had already ninety names on his subscription Hat, and he expected it to reach at least two hundred, aa no active or personal canvass had yet been instituted.

The Argus referring to the fact that the average net return from New Zealand frozen mutton for a year was 8s Gd, states that Victorian graziers obtained an average for over 100,000 sheep of 9s lld per head, so that while New Zealand mutton brought a higher price in London, the net result to the Victorian shippers had been better than the New Zealand ex porters.