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Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2379, 8 October 1887, Page 2

The German Crown Prince is again ill, and lias gene to Italy fur the winter. The next English mail via San Francisco will close at Hamilton, at 11.15 p.m. this day (Saturday). New Zealand securities which had fallen to '.ISj has now an upward tendency again, being quoted at 91IL The cricket match between Paterangi and Hamilton will be played to-day, commencing at 11 o’clock. Hamilton players are requested to roll up to time. The Rev. Mr Philps, of Norfolk Island, will preach in tho Wesleyan Church, Kihikihi, on Sunday morning, and at Te Awamutu in the evening.

Messrs Binney and Co., of Auckland, sold, yesterday, 442 sacks of potatoes at 35s per ton. Tins is not very encouraging for fanners. A fresh rapture has taken place between the French and the Government of Madagasca ; owing to the granting of an exequatur to the British and American Consuls. Latest news from Samoa states that the Germans have transported the deposed King Malietoa to German New Guinea, accompanied by his son ami a few chiefs. Gapt. Lindsay’s house, at Ngaruawahia, burnt down on Wednesday morning was insured in the New Zealand Insurance Company for £SOO, and the furniture for £2OO. An incipient fire occurred in Mr Trewhoelar’s bake-house on Thursdayev cuing, which did some slight damage to the floor. It was fortunately discovered in time, and soon put out. Mr Connolly s wash-house, at Hamilton East, caught fire on Thursday afternoon, but the flames were promptly suppressed before they could get a hold of the building, otherwise serious consequences might have ensued. The Railway Revenue tor the Financial year 1337, was £01)8,7G8, and the expenditure £(>90,072 or 00.!)!) percent. The total number of miles of railway constructed is 1,722, not including S3 miles of private lines.

The personation case that occurred at the Cambridge polling booth on the 2(51h of September, was beard yesterday before Mr Xbrthcroft, and resulted in a regular boil over ; the magistrate discharging the accused after hearing only two witnesses. We are informed that very few Maoris attended the Land Court at Cambridge. The natives, it appears, are being influenced by Tawhiao to keep aloof from the Courts. It was hardly worth the trouble and expense of sending the judge and staff to Cambridge to open so unimportant and brief a sitting. Mr Brown Wood, who has been a resident of this district for a number of years, and who lately disposed of his property, is leaving for Xelson, where be will in future reside. Mr Wind and his family will carry away with them many regrets and the good wishes of their Waikato friends. A supplementary return of the Postal and Telegraph Department for 188(5 shows the estimated correspondence for the colony, posted and delivered, to have been 38,084,002 letters, 1,433,887 post cards, 3,-4117,<51)3 books, &0., and 14,324,047 newspapers, conveyed at a cost, including salaries, of 61(58,0(50 15s lOd, and yielding a revenue of £281,03(5 3s sd. According to the Registrar General’s Statistic for the year 1880, there were 5,003 prisoners received in the various gaols of the colony, of whom 2100 are returned as members of the Church of England, 1027 belonged to various dissenting denominations, and 1,722 as RomanjCatholics, the remainderbeing Jews, Pagans, and other persuasions. \ Mr H- P. McPherson, an old settler of Hamilton, whilst on his way home yesterday evening, at about 7 o’clock, was struck down with a sudden stroke of paralysis. He was taken into Mr D. Hyde’s lionae, near No 1 bridge, where he is lying in a very precarious state. Dr Kenny was speedily sent for, and has been giving the unfortunate man every attention. Mr McPherson occupies a farm, about two miles from Hamilton, near Frankton. ' We have received from .the New York Life Insurance Co., a copy of their Financial Record for the year 188(5. The tables have been prepared in the fullest possible maimer, and arc excellently well printed. The business done by this society is of gigantic proportions, and is on purely mutual principles. The statement for the year show the Accumulated Funds are 615, 518,818, the surplus over liabilities and reserve fond 63,111!),448, and the income for the year £3,0515,874.

Mr Pond, Government analyst, who has paid a visit to the Waitoa, passed through Hamilton yesterday on his return to Auckland. Ho takes with him a considerable number o! samples of wash dirt, taken from as many different parts of the fields. These are all labelled separately, and it is Mr Pond’s intention to make a thorough assay of each parcel. He would not, at present, express any opinion as to ihe value of the Waitoa as a payable goldfield.

The man who was badly injured by the fin; at Xg.»nuw.»hia. ami \vu-» i.- a \vcll-kn<>vvn tl»*r numcd Dishwuid, vvmains in tilt: I>i- tll “ t I! under Ik Kenny's treatment. His held is in a bad condition from the «tb cts m the burns, A young man. called Henderson, was al-» slightly burned on the same occasion. P is due to Constable White to say that had it not heon for his prompt action, Dashwood would probably have lost his lib-. He had become stilled by the heat, and fed surrounded by the Ihuims, when the Constable rushed in and dragged him out of the burning building. Oae of the last acts of the late Mr Macandrew, before the abolition of the provinces and when he was Superintendent of Otago, was to obtain a Parliamentary grant of £IO,OOO for the construction of a water-race from the head of the Mannhcrika stream to the Mount Ida goldfields, a distance of sixty miles, in addition to about seven miles of sludge channel below the workings. One of the most interesting sights in that mining district, many years ago, was a water tinmc built by one of the water companies, to convey water from the Kyehurn ranges, over plains and across ravines for a distance of over twenty miles. In some places the huge wooden Mructure was fifty or sixty feet in height, the whole being the work uf miners without engineering training.