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Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2380, 11 October 1887, Page 2

We are requested to state that donations of old linen will be very acceptable at the District Hospital. The standard examination of the Tamahore District School will take place on Friday, 4th November, The sitting of the Native Land Com t at Otorohanga has been further postponed to the Kith November. Monday, the 17th of October, will bo observed as a special holiday by the Bank of New Zealand, being the anniversary of its opening. Sir Robert Stout gives emphatic denial to the statement going the round of the papers that he is about to leave for Melbourne to engage in legal business with a firm there. The Native Land Court at Paeroa closed on Friday. Judge Mair and his staff, with Mr Wilkinson, native agent, returned on Saturday. Messrs R. F. Sandes and Isaac Coates were the only candidates nominated on Saturday for the vacancies in the Hamilton Borough Council, and were consequently declared duly elected. The well-known entire, Parthenopieus, was sold on Saturday to Mr N. Hunt, of Gorton. We arc glad to see the Waikato still retains this splendid animal, and congratulate Mr Hunt on his purchase. The price given lias not been stated. Mr Qualtrough lost a valuable dog on Saturday, which was springing up playfully at the horse attached to ids butcher’s cart, when it fell in front of the wheel, that passed over its back, inflicting internal injuries, from which it shortly after died.

Mrs Hill, who has been travelling in the colony, engaged, it is muicr.stond, upon a literary mission, left Auckland yesterday by the mail steamer Zealandia, and it is her intention, we are informed, to give a series of lectures and Shakesperiaii recitals in the United States—Herald. The following tenders for the drain works on the Lockerbie Kstate have been received :—Burge and Maidens, £l2O ; J. Shine, £l2llls lOd; O'Brien and Kelly (informal); B. Murray (accepted), £ll4 4s lid ; ]?. Bice, £142 (is !)d ; .1. Wiseman, £l4l 3s; Cookson, £204 i.2s; P. Bolton, £1.12 Os !)J. The engineer’s estimate was £111) 7s. Mr N. Hunt, the new owner of Parthenopaeus, announces that the horse will stand this season at Horton. This horse has the biggest bone of any thoroughbred in the Waikato, and is especially suitable for getting either hacks from light mares, or coaching or artillery horses from light draught mares. His father, “Traduoer,” has the best blood in tbe colony. The following lots of Waikato lands were sold at the sale of Crown L inds, in Auckland on Thursday last: —Hangiriri: Lot 110, Ir, .T. flerrard,' £7 30s; Newcastle: Lot 004, 2op, H. Williams, £7 Us 3d. Suburbs of Newcastle North ; Lot 201, oa, P. H. Kdgocnmbe, £ld; Lot 202, on, P. H. Edgecombe, £lb. I’okcte : Lot 1008, 7a Ir lOp, P. S, Osier, £4 os. A correspondent asks, “what action is being taken by the Month Auckland Racing Chib, to prepare for the proposed meeting on the 2!) th December. With the prospect of a large increase of population to the district, attracted by the Waitnn, and with the facilities afforded by the railwaysoonverging on to the ground nl Claudelands, a very successful meeting ought to attend any efforts the Club makes.” The Christmas cards advertised by Messrs Sandos and Co. of Hamilton, aiid by Mr j. S. Bond of Cambridge, are the work of our local artists of the National Photographic Co. Each card is formed of a collection ol views taken in varujiis townships and country districts in New Zealand. They are exceedingly well executed and mounted, and ought to be mo-jt acceptable souvenirs for friends in the “ Old Country.' 1 The cricket match between Hamilton and Paterangi did not eventuate on Saturday, as only four of the latter team pot in an appearance. This is the second time they have failed to keep their engage ment, and, whilst it betrays an absence of organisation as a club, the conduct of the Patorangi men is, to say the least, clownish. The local club were prepared to receive them well, and had arranged with Mr E. L. Smith to supply a luncheon. We would like to see more of the old esprit-de-corps amongst cricketers. With reference to the proposed alterations in the Midland Railway contract, it is stated that the company wish them, in order to inspire confidence on the Stock Exchange. Their own representatives arc quite satisfied with the valuable nature of the concessions, Mr Brodie Hoaro having stated that the forest block around Lake Brunner would in itself pay the whole cost of the line. Half of this block the company get in alternate sections, and the timber royalty is estimated to bo worth £lO an acre alone. For the other land the company have already been offered £1 per acre. A shocking tragedy occurred at Knrrachee recently. A Sepoy of the 2lith Native Infantry, ha ving got possession of forty rounds of ammunition, ran amuck through the lines at one o’clock in the morning. He first shot two Sepoys who were asleep in the barrack verandah. The alarm was immediately sounded, and the regiment turned out; but nothing could he dune fill daylight, when detachments were sent in various directions to search for him. Meanwhile the murderer had proceeded to the soldiers’ bazaar, and had shot four shopkeepers who were sleeping outside their houses. Ho then went to the plain behind the infantry linos, and shot , five cartmen. When ha found that the regiment had turned out, he took lefnge in a stone enclosure, whence he fired many rounds. The colonel called for volunteers to rush in upon him, and two, Sepoys responded. When they got within six yards of him. ho shot himself through the heart. The eleven men whom he, had shot were killed on the spot or' died in a few hours. A few days ago it was whispered about in Cromwell that a ghost had taken np its residence in the neighbourhood The figure of the supposed visitor from other regions had been seen by several in the vicinity of a local alanghtcryard, and one young couple out sweethearting had mot it almost face to faqn on the open highway. The butcher who owned the slaiightoryard in question confirmed the rumour with an assurance that he had of late been missing quarters of mutton from his premises, and