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Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2366, 8 September 1887, Page 2

It is reported that the German Consul ul New York is recruiting fur the German army. Mr Chamberlain, before proceedin(i to Canada, will visit Ulster to prepare a scheme of local self-government, for Ireland. The Queensland Revenue for the past two months shows an increase of £(12,000 as compared with the corresponding period of last year. It was announced at the meeting of the Acclimatisation Society on Tuesday; that a number of rainbow trout had been liberated insome streams at Ohineroa, near To Aroha. We have been compelled to hold over till next issue HarapipiVletter, Mr H. Roche’s letter on “High rate of Interest,” Poem by Nemo, Waikato Hospital Board meeting and other articles. The report that a conflict had taken place between bodies of Russian and Herat soldiers ’on the Gfcli August near Eulficar, is officially denied at St Petersburg. The semi-official North German Gazette declares the statement of the reported meeting between the Emperor William and the Czar to be a pure conjecture, and that no such meeting has been arranged. , The polling for the election of nine councillors for the borough of Cambridge takes place to-day, between the Imurs of!) a.in', and (1 p.m. The names of Messrs Sargent and Boyce having been withdrawn, there are only ; fourteen candidates to chouse from. We learn that 30 acres in the neighbourhood of Hamilton have been laid down in oats, on what is known as the metayer system, and is the rule in Italy, the landowner providing seed and manure, the cultivator labour, the produce to be divided. We recommend this example as worthy of general adoption. Many have more land than they can utilise; many others have teams eating their heads off. Why should they not combine to the advantage of both. The monthly meeting :of the Hamilton Road Board was held bn Sat.ur-.. day last. Present: Messrs Maunder (chairman), Livingstone, McPherson, and : Way. A loiter was received from Dr. Carey and Messrs Vincent and Medland, asking the board to gravel and improve the Whatawhata road from the railway crossing to the Hamilton-Ngaruawahia road. The clerk was instructed to acknowledge the receipt of the letter. Mr J. Casby wrote, asking the chairman to return his deposit cheque. The chairman at the next meeting of the board will move, “That in future the board pay only 5s per day for day work nn the roads in the Hamilton Road District. Several accounts were passed for payment, and the board then rose.

In the Herald’s leader, yesterday, the following paragraph appears which it would bo well for electors to hear in mind ; —ln the appeal therefore which is now being made to tho people, the Ministry appear as the authors and leaders of an organised resistance to an economical administration of tho colony’s finances, while tho Opposition appear as the only consistent representatives of a genuine retrenchment policy. The history of the past three years shows conclusively that these are the respective characters of the two parties now soliciting tho approbation of the electors. With tho electors accordingly, it now remains to determine whether the destinies of the colony are to be guided by the men who have been doing their utmost to blast its reputation and credit, or entrusted to those who ha ve been persistently endeavouring to save them. .