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Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2376, 1 October 1887, Page 2

Dr Kenny will amputate young 1 Heenau’s lev, at the Hospital, to-day. The report of the Te Awamutu , minstrel entertainment is unavoidably held over. A notification of the election of Mr Sydney Dando to the Raglan Road Board, appears in the Gazette. The official declaration of the poll will be made to-day, at noon, at Hamilton and Cambridge respectively. The railway stations at Papatoitoi and Ngaroto will be treated as Bag stations on and after the 10th inst. The population of New Zealand on the 30th June last, was estimated to be 037,582, or 343,085 males to 293,897 females. It will be noticed the Waikato Hunt Club races will be held on October 28th, <m the old racecourse at Gwyuuelands. The Roman Catholics of Dunedin have subscribed £4OO towards the testimonial fur Bishop Moran, in addition to £IOO collected in Oamaru. Mr J. R- Handyside is now working his wood-cutting machine with the aid of steam power. The knife makes ’ more than five hundred revolutions per ' minute. A number of sections of Grown 1 lands in Tauranga County, Parish of Te Papa, and the Maketu Survey District, ■ will be open for sale at the Crown Lands Office, Tauranga, on Thursday, lith October. 1 Messrs Thomas Morrin, H. F. Anderson, and J. \Y. Henderson have applied for the partition of Section 30, Block IX., in the Ta Aroha Survey District, under “The Native Land Court Act, 1880.” The Hamilton East and West . Public Schools re-open on Monday. Parents and guardians should see that their i children put man early and regular attenr dance during the quarter. , The Faterangi C-C- is unable to raise a team for today, but will visit Hamilton next Saturday. The Hamilton 1 players are reminded that there is practice . and rolling the ground every afternoon. The latter must be done while the present wet weather continues. The Inland Farce! Post came into i force to-day. The regulations fur the guidance uf postmasters are very ample, being ’ upwards uf one hundred in number. ( Parcels are nut to exceed lllhs in weight, and must nut he mure than 3ft Gin in length, or lift in length and girth combined. The New Zealand Gazette of the 22nd inst., contains a proclamation setting i forth that certain parcels of land situated ; in the Thames and Waihon Survey DisI triets have been taken for a further portion ‘ of the Waikato-Thames Railway (Hikutaia - section.) Sir Robert Stout, addressing a j crowd of sympathisers in Christchurch, said the widespread sympathy he had received was an evidence of New Zealand - public opinion. Surely the humiliating . defeat of his Government by the electors of the colony is sufficient evidence of the i existence of such public opinion ! ! This morning’s supplement contains the continuation of “Tie and Trick, , by Hawley Smart; tariff proposals, a ProI teetionist Catechism ; A Trip Through the I King Country, by our own reporter; an • article from tho “ Times” on Mr Gladstone : and the American People ; Paris Letter ; and other interesting matters. 1 The Druids of Wellington seek to erect a monument over the grave of a departed member of their order in the . Church of England cemetery, in the form of a rough archway of ancient Druidic design. The Bishop, however, refuses his i permission on the grounds of its pagan character and unfitness for a Christian cemetery. It is proposed to obtain legal 1 advice. Mr Douglas, the travelling agent for the Civil Service Supply Association, is at present visiting the Waikato on be--1 half of that society. The capital of the I association is £50,000, in fifty thousand ( shares of £1 each, fully paid up. It is intended tu be carried out on co-operative principles, similar to those in Kugland, - and its objects are to supply the wants of the members direct from the producers, obtaining goods at the lowest possible 1 prices, and to sell for cash only. Mr Douglas hopes to secure good support from the country. The Native Land Court that has been sitting at Taupo for some time past to determine the claims to the ownership of : the country that Mr Ballance alleged has been given to the Crown as a National ' Park, concluded its labours on Wednesday. ■ The result of the proceedings has been to reduce the Park from G5,000 acres to 7,700 acres. Instead uf the Park being in one large block as delineated in the elaborately . coloured map presented by .Mr Ballance to Parliament, it is in three sections, and includes the three mountain tops of Kna- : pehu, Ngarnahue and Tuugariro. These throe old volcanoes are miles apart, and so jealous have the Maoris been lest tho socalled gift should l,e of any value that it 1 has been stipulated, the area of eacli sec- ■ tion shall he computed within a radius of a mile round the summit of each mountain, with the exception of Ngaruahov, which shall be a radius of a mile and a-half. Here then is the end of the fizzle that has cost the colony thousands of pounds, to obtain for Mr Ballance a false credit of ■ having influence over the native race. — Daily Telegraph. Mr Spragg, of the Auckland Freezing Company, has been in Waikato during the last few days, making arrangements for building and opening three ■ creameries in this district. The tenders for . building the one at Ngarnawahia, and for ' adapting the factory premises at Hamil- ’ ton and Faterangi, have been dealt with, and when at Ngarnawahia, Mr Spragg . pegged out the site wf the creamery there on a piece of land adjacent to the river, granted by the Town Board. A very few days only will be occupied in the building of the creamery, so that the milk will he ready for treatment in a fortnight at the | farthest. The guaranteed number of cows 1 required has been promised by the settlers. , This is also tho case at Faterangi, and on Monday next the necessary alterations in the present cheese factory will be comi menced. At Hamilton the requisite number of cows had not been guaranteed, namely, 400, some IGO being yet needed to 1 make up the number, hut Capt. Steele and Mr A. Swarbriok have taken the matter in hand, and it is expected that the necessary milk supply will be guaranteed by Monday. As soon as this is done the work of putting the Waikato Dairy Compremises in order for the reception uf milk by the Auckland Freezing Company will bo commenced.