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Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2400, 26 November 1887, Page 2

We have to acknowledge the receipt »f Statistics of tlio Colony for lS8(i, Part VI. His Lordship the Bishop of Auckland will hold a confirmation service in Hamilton to-morrow evening. The Hamilton Choral Society has boon practising assiduously for tlie concert they will give in Cambridge next week. The Moonlight Garden Party and Conceit at Mrs Gwynne’s next Thursday promises to bo a great success. The Bishop of the Diocese will preach in S. Stephen’s, Tamahero, at 3 o’clock to-morrow (advent Sunday.) An incipient fire was discovered at Mr Pascoc's brewery on Thursday, whicli was speedily suppressed before any damage was done. A cold westerly wind has been blowing over the Waikato since Thursday, which will probably do injury to the orchards. The great race between Beach and Hanlan will bo contested on the Nepean to-day. The result will be known here at about S o’clock. The road to Raglan is nowin very good order. No one need therefore be deterred from visiting Waikato’s wateringplace from fear of difficulties by the way. An old Maori canoe about twenty feet long was found embedded in the bottom of the Hamilton Baths, by the men engaged on the extension. To the Editor ; “ Sir,— I am sorry to inform you I am not the individual who is mentioned in the Herald as having received the legacy.—l am, &c., S. Pascuc.” The Gazette notifies the resignation of Dr. Mnrch, as Honorary Surgeon of the Hamilton Light Infantry. We bear Dr Kenny has accepted the appointment. The committee appointed by the Borough Council to report on Dr. Kenny’s application for the formation of part of Tlmckeray-strcet has reported in favour of the work. Admiral Fairfax, with H-M.s. Nelson, is to arrive in Auckland next month, and is expected to make it Ins headquarters for a term, and to reside at Government House. Mr Dalrymple, the bonanza farmer of Dakota, baa harvested his 32,000 acres of wheat, and the threshing is now in pi ogress. Ho says the yield will average fifteen bushels to the acre. The two hoys, Adcock and Bade, sentenced to a whipping and seven days imprisonment, by Mr Baddeley, R.M., Auckland, fur orchard-robbing, have been'set at liberty by order of the Minister of Justice. Mr R. C. Matthias, of Raglan, who.-e sudden illness was lepurted in last issue, is, we are pleased to learn, out of danger and in a fair way for recovery. Dr. March, of Hamilton, is attending him. There must be a great demand for Paris Green in Auckland this season, as we bear the Secretary of the Waikato Horticultural Society lias been reepn-utiouod for a supply, stocks in Auckland having run out. A Wellington telegram to the Herald has the following It will interest Waikato fanners to learn that the French Consul here intends starting the growing of beet in the Wairarapa district experimentally. Regarding the keeping of apples The Field suggests a better way than by putting them on a wooden shelf, and that is by placing them in a cool cellar, with low temperature, and excluding the light. The public trials given by Mr Johns, of his patent weeding boo, have met with universal approval. We gave in a previous issue a full description of this useful garden tool, which was supplied to us by our To Awamutu correspondent. Our Supplement to-day contains a variety of interesting reading. Besides Hawley Smart’s novel of “Tic and Trick,” and “ Bohemia,” will be found A Story of Mesmerism, A Thrilling Balloon Adventure, The Death Compact, an article on the Higher F,location of Women, Mr and Mrs Bowser, Sydney Stock Markets, etc., etc. The cricket match to day between the Taupiri Club, which Mr hi. Cox has organised, and the Hamilton Club will begin at 12 o’clock sharp. Among the Tallinn team there are several first-class players, and it is expected that the Hamilton men will have plenty of fielding to do. The return match between Hamilton and Cambridge will probably be played in Hamilton next Saturday. The following notice of motion lias boon given for the next meeting of the Borough Council, on the nth December next: Cr. Knox to move, ’“That resolution No. 21, of the Ist August last be rescinded—viz., ‘ that when the hour of 10 o’clock p.m. has arrived that no fresh business be introduced,’ —and that the following be substituted, 11 That this Council do not sit after 10 p.m., unless the Council consider the business urgent.” Here is an example of the supposed advantages offered by the Parcel Post. A lady in Auckland wishing to send a parcel to some friends in Hamilton presented it to the Post-uflico to bo forwarded by tin; Parcel Post. After weighing it the official told her the charge would be -Is !!d. She elected to send it by train, and tool; it to the railway station, whence the parcel was forwarded to its destination for one shilling. The late Mr Leach, who met such a humble death by the train on Saturday last, at Hamilton, was for several years station-master at Avondale, on the Kaipara line, and was greatly inspected by the residents for the conscientious manner in which ho did lii.s duty, combined with civility and a cheerful disposition. Wo understand the residents of Avondale arc very indignant at the manner in which poor Loach has been treated by the Railway Department, and they are, taking steps („ have Min mailer brought before Parliament, with the view tn an investigation into (he whole circumstances of Leach's case. Herald.

The alleged discovery of gold in tin; Wailoa district seems to have dual out of existence, lint it appears that the shareholders of the Waitoa Company are holding a private investigation on their own account. Two of the Canterbury directors of the Waitoa Company are at present on a visit of inspection. They have been to Messrs Fraser and Son’s premises, at Mechanics’ Bay, where the tests were mode, and have also interviewed Mr Pond, analyst, who had made tests. At Messrs Fraser and .Soil’s they made special inquiries regarding the hags in which the ore treated was conveyed, and we understand they are now on a visit to Mr Smith's property, at Waitoa, where the gold find was said to have occurred.—Herald. An amusing case was brought before the Reside -t Magistrate last Court day. A man bought a nice little pig from a neighbour for l.lie price of which he gave a promissory note or 1.0. U. according to the custom of the country, and duly installed his new porcine acquisition in his farmyard. Master grnnter hud a fancy for fresh eggs and robbed all the lions’ nests. Not satisfied with that he next devoured the liens when they decided at a convention that they would lay no more. Porker then got himself into trouble for he fell hither! ver and came to an untimely end. His purchaser concluded after all this experience that his venture in live pork was a clear failure, therefore lie refused to meet his bill when it fell due, hence the cause of litigation. Twenty years ago (says a contributor to the Field) tomatoes were unknown, and in the little midland towns of England could not he obtained at any price. Now every roodont of the better class, who has a small garden and a sunny bitwf wall, plants tomatoes, and heaps of the handsome crimson fruit, which are eagerly purchased at (id per lb, may be seen in the shop windows, for the dyspeptic finds that a diet which includes tomatoes increases the action of his torpid liver, and gives him brighter views of life. The same writer, speaking of apples, says if he was going to plant apples for profit, and had tn rely upon one variety, he would plant Lord Sntheld. On warm soils Cox’s Orange Pippin, as a Christmas dessert apple, is without a rival ; the Ribstone Pippin is nowhere with it—in fact, the Ribstono is played out. Looked at from a commercial point of view, there seems to he scope for a judicious outlay of capital for apple culture, considering that each Londoner lias been staled to consume o7lbs of tomatoes and (iolhsnf apples annually.