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Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2399, 24 November 1887, Page 2

At the Resident Magistrate’s Court yesteiday, the business consisted of several unimportant debt cases. Mr Hudson, District Railway Manager, is on an official visit to the Waikato lines. Major Tisdale, Government Audit Inspectin', arrived in Hamilton on Tuesday on a tour of inspection. The s.s- Rangiriri, Captain Gail. commenced pile-driving ter the Hamilton baths extension yesterday morning. The baths will be closed to ladies for the next few days. The Bishon of the Diocese will .'idmiMisti'r the rite of confirm ttion in S. t’eti r’s Church, Hamilton, on Sunday next, at the evening service. Mr S. S. Graham, of Tamahere, whilst catching a horse yesterday was kicked in the face by the animal. He came into Hamilton and had bis injuries attended to by Dr. Kenny. V/e would remind members of the Waikato Horticultural Society that under rule (’• a meeting of local committees should bo held in the month of November to elect members of the chief committee. John Hardcastle, journalist, of Napier, has applied for a patent for a new means of filing or binding together multipage newspapers, called “The A 1 Weekly Paper Hinder.” The following are the stakes drawn hy the two successful Waikato sportsmen at the A.K.C. Spring Meeting : Mr J. Allwill, £163 Ds; and Mr W. Iv. Carter, £7<i. Yesterday afternoon a message was received in Hamilton fry Dr, March, staling that Mr 11. C. Mathias, of Raglan, had been taken suddenly ill, and requesting his prosuncu. \Vc trust tho £cnllcu);ui s ill* ness is only temporary. We have been given to understand that it is the intention of Mr Sydney Taiwlianga, as soon as his Native Land Administration Bill has passed, to start a new Maori paper in the interest ot the Maori people. The following tenders were received for the removal and re-ereetioii of the Cambridge Grand Stand to the racecourse at Claudehiuds, Hamilton : E. L. Smith, £llO (accepted), Madigan and Miller, £73 ; Hogan, £13!). A prisoner, with a number of aliases, was brought- to Hamilton yesterday hy the evening train from Auckland, charged with horse-stealing at Nganiawaliia about a year ago. He will be brought before Mr Nortliorcft, R.M., to-day. The following item of news we din from the Bay of Plenty Times of tlm. 18th ;—“ Hamilton folks hoaxed by bogus exhibition saurian monster. Bag of chaff dressed up for occasion.” Surely the Bay of Plenty Times must have plenty of time on its hands to manufacture such chaff for its credulous readers. At the nominations yesterday for the civic chair of Hamilton, Mr C. J. W. Barton was re-elected, without opposition, for a second term. He was proposed in a few felicitous remarks by Mr John Knox, and seconded by Mr Tippen, Our report of the Waipa County Council, which came to hand at a late hour, is unavoidably held over. Mr Lang was chosen chairman, and Crs. Kidler and Hunter were elected to represent the Council at the Hospital Board. Our enterprising townsman, Mr, J. Parr, lias made an important addition In his business, in the shape of a large and well-selected stock of ironmongery. He makes a very striking display of In’s new goods in one of his windows. We trust ho will find his new venture in every way a successful one.

At the sports held jn the Auckland Domain on Saturday last by the Amateur Athelotic Club, Mr A. F. Handyside, of Hamilton, won the 1 mile Novel bicycle race, and came in second in each Bicvcle lace for the Club Cup, o miles, and the Lady’s Bracelet, two miles. Great credit is due to the Hamilton Light Infantry for the promptitude with which they turned nut to attend the military funeral on Sunday afternoon. Although a number of the men were scattered mer the Waikato, yet they mustered HO -Lrong out of a possible OH.—Auckland Bell. The police at Whangarei have in heir pos-ession unclaimed property in the diupe of twelve bottles of gin and six boltVsof whi-koy. The traditional usages ..f Red Tape render it necessary for so high a functionary as the Commissioner of Police in Wellington to insert a notice in his own name in the Gazette announcing this “ woo drop of the rale stuff ” for sale by auction. The Minister for Public Works has arranged t* appoint a jabmir bureau in order to decide as to Urn best means of utilising the unemployed. The Government nominate Mr Halos, District Engineer, and Mr S. Percy Smith, Assistant Surveyor-General, and the Auckland Corporation are to bo requested to nominate Uvu membiT.-i, A fire occurred at the Onehunga factory of Ilio North New Zealand Woollen Manufacturing Company on Tuesday morning, which resulted in the gutting of the compartment of the works in which the dveing operations wore carried on. Fortunately through timely assistance the conflagation was conlhfeij to the dyeing room, and was soon extinguished. Ihe South British office held the, destroyed portion of the works covered for tl’OO. The now police magistrate of Auckland, Mr B.iddeley, sentenced two small hoys, on Tuesday, to seven diys imprisonment, and to receive a whipping, for .-lealing soma loqnats from an orchard. It is generally considered the boys have been too badlv treated, aipl the severity of the punishment has beet; brought under the, notice of the Government by Mr J, M. Shera. A gentleman who has made Natural History a study sends ns the following;-“ The true class to which the Raglan se.a) belongs is the Stanorhynchns Lcopanlinns; its do;-.t;)J formalins; incisors, ■l-1; canine, d-d; molars, 10-10. Risa very rare animal, only found on the Coast of 'Terra del Forgo and the Falkland Islands. Its appearance on the New Zealand coast is accounted for by its having been canied away by a storm from its natural habitat.”

A few mouths ago the three pap.es running in Tauraiijw K'erjs amalgiimuted under the proprietorship of Mr lla--in. Since which the old-established paper, tlie IViy *j[ Plenty Times, Inis had the iiehi In itself. We hear that this state nf thine-* i» about to change, iu Mr I\. Henry, f**r many yeais foiennn mi the staff uf tlie Times, has severe.! his e'limectien v,'i'h Mr Hoggin, ami has cmiehniecl ar-range*..-nits fnr another plant In stait an npp'i-itim, (.anei t*. I lie Hay of JPlenty We learn from an Engiiitk journal to Iniii< l Ih.at a n. w ilepariaire Inis' jiisi iie;n laU'-.n • iy ihe Ancient Dialer nf Voresters, which, if geperaily fallowed, will largely supplement Iw-piim.' work throughout the country. The Midland f'onrts nf the Society have erected and opened a s;;lf-sup-p ,rt in" convalescent home, where members wl 10 Va.m s'.ifieiv.d a long term of sicknos-, may be sent !>,'y of charge, ami with-

out any iiiinieii being placed on charitable lands or public money, '[’lie. inoiemeiit liroinises to bo one of iho most successful which the Foresters liavc undertaken. Tlie Wellington correspondent of lie; .Star says Annoyance is expressed by many members at. liu; length lo which ihc Financial St,idem ait has been allowed to extend. The, speeches have been of lire tamest possible desci iplimi, and t lie wonder is that the debate lias been allowed to iliac on so lung. Major Jackson’s -pencil has excited some comment. It was a Maori,ns inn-Inight on Mr BMhuice and his party, delivered at 1 i«gbtuinfg spend, and tin; Major now has the ere lit of being the fasle.-t talker in the House. He followed Sir Julius’ tactics in challenging Mr It.ill.nice in resign. Effoits will be made 1.. liTininate the. debate to-morrow, as no .'••oil purpose, can be saved ill keeping it g ing longer.” At the conclusion of the special ng of the Hamilton Borough Council ye-terday, Cninicilhir Knox look occasion to congratulate the Mayor (Mr Barton) up ai his re-election, and referred to his conduct in the chair during his tenure in vei v c-impliiiieidaiy terms. Mr Barton, in ln il Ity replying, thanked Councillor Knox and the rest of the Council for their expressions of goodwill. He appreciated keenly Ihe honour the burgesses of Hamilton had conferred upon him. Has ing lived so long in the Waikato, it was a sconree of considerable gratification to him to think ho was so well thought of by his friends. As to his conduct in the past in that position, hn nnisl not take all the credit to himself hj i the smoothness with which the business had been conducted. He had to thank the members of the Council for giving him every assistance in the, discharge of duties that were in a very groat measure new to him. Not in the recollection of even II the oldest inhabitant” has the Wairarapa district looked so beautiful at this time, of year as it docs now. It is literally “with verdure clad.” The pasture is almost rankin its luxuriance, gardens are ablaze with llowers, fruit trees are loaded with their produce, and crops are “ coming on splendidly,” and there is nothing of Nature’s handiwork fur the eye to rest upon but is calculated to aiford delight. The effects of the last disastrous season are, of course, severely felt. A summer of intense drought, f,,i 1 ;od by a harsh winter, told witli serious e r 1 - upon stock, and the smaller setters • . jially felt the pinch. But, if this season, so auspiciously commenced, is only fairly favoured by weather, there will be a harvest of hay, fruit and giain that will make the Wairarapa sing with joy from end to end of the valley. We sincerely hope that the bright anticipations present appearances warrant will meet with liberal fulfilment, and that the sharp nip of depression, that has been so painfully felt during the last six months, will be forgotten in the abundance bestowed. —New Zealand Times. The following letter appeared in yesterday’s Herald and is worth repeating in our columns.—Sir, I was much interested this morning in reading amongst your leading articles a topic on “ butter” and the exportation of it to England. It would indeed lie a great boon to the people in England to get good butter at a reasonable price. At the present time they are paying Is lid and Is i)J per lb, and sometimes at Christinas and during a drought in summer, or a very hot season' when it cannot be churned, I have paid 2s per lb for farmhouse butter. Tiie pom-, in fact, respectable people, trying to make both ends meat, cannot look at it, and some are forced to buy dripping at 7d or Hd per lb, or butteriue at 10(1 and Is per lb, to use in its place. Now, if fanners, etc., here were to pot their butter for exportation during the cheap season, it could be bought, I suppose, in England for lid and Is all the year round, and then leave a good profit for the wholesaler and retailer, etc. Of course there are many who would look askance at it at first, as they did the New Zealand mutton, but, like it, the prejudice would soon subside more especially so as it could be labelled “ butter.”’ I will just add for the benefit of some, that the English law will not permit adulteration of any kind.— lam, etc.— A Lady (Housi-ickei'icii) Just Aiuuvkd fhom list!land. November, 22.