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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2422, 19 January 1888, Page 2

New Zealand Stock is 93*. j The Auckland Girls' High School j i has obtained n grant of £1000 from the s Government. j There are good reports of the gold ] discoveries in the ranges near Greytown, ; Wairarapa. , The Cabinet held a long meeting , yesterday when the Retrenchment Scheme , was under consideration 1 A French sentinel on the frontier i has been attacked by Germans, and his '■ rifio stolen from him. Bishop Moorhouse, in a recent 1 sermon stated the fear of the military : alone averts a bloody Socialist revolution. I Tvphiod fever has attacked the Russian troops in Poland. Forty men were recently frozen to death owing to the intense cold. A cable message states that large bush fires in the Albany district have destroyed an immense area of crops and have been most ruinous to farmers. The valuation for the Borough of Hamilton for the year ending 31st March, 18N9, exclusive of Crown Lands is £l>,oi ;l i-s (Id. The Government say they are willing to order 300 Martini-Henri rifles from A T -w South Wales if the Association .vill guarantee £500 or a third of thencost. A special meeting of the CamliricW I'.orough Council was held on Monday at 7 p.m., when by-laws for regulating the management of slaughter-yards were h.ptecl. Wirerau Te Whitu, alias Paddy l« hi .vas apprehended bv Con-table lireniian yrsterday morning at Cambridge tor having stolen a mare and foal, the property of Robert Heslip. It is rumoured that Lord Charles B-resford is about to resign his position as a Lord of the Admiralty, owing to the rejection of his scheme for navy organisation. To the Editor.-Sir-Will you kindly permit me to trespass on your space to correct lino -!0 "f " Ode to Music? - "A man to supplicate, and Hun a< ore ; .hould be, " A mean to supplicate, &o. •- TIIKMA. At a meeting of St Peter's vestry hold last night Mr H. Connell was appointed oriranist anil choir-master, vies Miss Xewell and Mr Templer. It was also decided to recommend the Uhurcli Society not to hold the annual picnic on the 30th iust., the day of the aquatic sports on the Lake. It has transpired that Mr Jasper Pyno, has otrected his escape to Lindane! Mr Fyue, who is member for West \Vateiford was charged with inciting resistance to the Sheriff, and in order to prevent b,un" arrested, fortified his residence, Lisfamy Castle, and after holding out for some time succeeded in escaping. The new Ferry Company between Auckland and the North Shore has collapsed, the bank having refused to give further accommodation. The two steamers Kagle and Osprey have ceased running and the whole of the directors except. Mr Quick and Capt. Webster have resigned. The unlucky shareholders are puzzled what to do. The postal authorities have at length notified the Cambridge postmaster ■hat the office is to be kept open for 10 minutes after the mail is sorted on the even■m's when the train does not aiTivenntil late. 11 will be remembered that our member, .Mr f 15 Whyle, outlined the concession some eousiderable time ago, md it has ta.cen until now to go through the red tape routine of the Department before being put m operation. We beg to draw the attention of the local authorities to the spread of the briar in many of the onen and unoccupied pieces of land in the borough. It is very . noticeable in the open ground ,n Hamilton Fast, at the old redoubt and facing the 1 school, where it is showing itself to be soreadintr very thickly. Some steps should be taken to check the evil promptly, and prevent it growing into unsightly dimensions. > That handsome building, the Kihikihi Catholic Church, winch has been enlarged and greatly improved during the last 12 months, will bo rodedieated on [ Sunday next. His Lordship bishop Luck, r with one or more clergy, will arrive by I the afternoon train on Friday tor that i purpose. Thev will be accompanied by s several of the laity from Auckland, with a - strong choral party, who will take part in i the ceremony. ! A singular and painful accident happened to a little hoy son of Mr Wright J.lloved on Mr Seddon's farm, Ha.m ton ' ,„riy on Tuesday morumg. The child fell ' ~ut of bed with his head on top of Hie chamber utensil which bmko and cut his face and neck very s"ve,-e.!y, inflicting ' several nasty wounds. brought in ;■ to Dr. Kenny who bound epirs injuries; ,„ |„s usual skilful mum,., and the l.tlle , fellow is relieved and progressing favour ,"' ably, Ws notice that J. McNicol, is I o,ent for W. T. Owen's Latent X.Z. Sheep ■ 'Tip From the result given , i vihis dip to all who have. i.-ed if, it „-.<uises to become the most popwplar one m . use. Besides being a certain euro for scab, '■■■ ; tick and liee. it is also a sure remedy for i-; lungworm and footroot. It is used too f or t dressing sheepskins, preserving them from - i decay and] attacks m .insects, and gives il thrma better commercial value, it is used t, la.eely on thu VyVsi Coast and should meet :, ' with li read}' sals here.

The adjourned meeting of the Hamilton Road Board will be held on Saturday next. We are informed that a visitor at To Aroha, Mr Sully, the fortunate holder , of a quantity of shares in the Broken Hill ) ' Company, lias already made one hundred thousand pounds therefrom, and still holds a farther number of shares. The new Wesleyan Church at Xgaruawahia. which has just been erected by that, body, is a very comfortable building, ami is situated close to the Bank of New Zealand. The site, which has a depth of three chains, cost 81. and is in a most prominentaud accessible position. The lady cricketers of Cambridge are very anxious to play a match at Hamilton against a team of ladies of the. latter place, the proceeds of which will be devoted to the District Hospital, and we have been requested to aid the object. We shall Ve very glad to do so, and trust some of the ladies of Hamilton will take the matter up with interest, and organise a team to enable them to accept the challenge. A very mean action was perpetrated at Xgaruawahia , m Tuesday night last, Mr Bycroft placed his paddock at the disposal of those who came from a distance to the soiree to in,t their horses in to keep them in safety, but during the evening some evil-minded person or persons opened the gate and tinned them adrift. When the, owners came at about 10.30 p.m. to get their horses they found them t'one, and had to hunt about Ngaruawahia ni the, dark for them. After same considerable time, however, they found them and started for their homes rejoicing. The New Zealand Times commenting upon some samples produced at the woika of the Onehunga Iron Sand and Iron Foundry Company says :—One of the samples is bar iron worked up out of scraps, and is a very superior specimen of metal indeed, clean and fine in the grain ; the other is a lump of metal, the result of the. first process of smelting iron sand. It looks more like steel than n-.in, and is evidently of extremely high quality. We are glad to hear of thogowd prospects of the Oiiohunga works. Five hundred tons of pig iron can be turned out every week now. The Daily News says :—" Apropos of the phonograph, a story is current that is good enough to be true—we will not say too good, since a clergyman is its author. The Lords of the Admirality have been down to Portsmouth inspecting the Vernon. The phonograph was turned on for their edification, and the first words this treasurer of vocal sound yielded to the eager ears of the naval lords wore, 'We want more pay, we want more pay." Upon investigation it was discovered that this was the bottled up voice of the, lieutenants. If, as we believe, the phonograph is still too far from peifeet to disclose the identity of the particular voice that confides its secrets to it, this mode of petitioning for favours heats the round robin. The demand for phonographs will probably improve after this." A meeting of the Library Committee was held last, week, at which the annual accounts were read and adopted. The statement of accounts for the year ending December 31st, ISS7, is as follows:— Total receipts, €-17 2s Id ; total expenditure, £37 4s lid ; cash, balance at bank, .t'l)

"jilu-ary fund is nut available this year, it las bocii deemed advisable by the comnittee not to invest m new bonks until the inuual subscriptions have been collected. II 1 ~.., riMMmrWl tllil.t tlinil' SUbsCl'U)-

tions are now duo, and the committee earnestly invite public support. New books are badly wanted, as am also illustrated papers and other publications that would tend to increase the membership, but the committee feel that they would not be justified in launching out into fresh expenditure until the working expenses have been secured. The '"Duke" cigarettes of late have with each package a small mounted photograph of some female in dress and posture of questionable propriety and shocking to the sensibilities of refined and wellbred tastes. Under ordinary circumstances we would not perhaps think it worth while to comment on the fact j there are of course many who relish such things, and to those we would simplv say " chacun h, son gout.' But when vulgar pictures like these are allowed to fall into the hands of little innocent, though curious children, it is time tor us to utter a word of caution to parents and guardians who place any value on the preservation in all their simplicity of the purity and virtue of the rising generation. It has just been brought to our notice by a teacher in one of our Sunday-schools that no less than a dozen of these photographs were found in the possession of some of the children in his class who were using them as markers in their hymn and lesson books. This may have occurred with or without the knowledge of the parents, but in either ease it displays an utter indifference to, or culpable carelessness of, the moral welfare of their children, which should be guarded against all contaminations. The Herald has the following : - "A week or twoasro an announcement appeared iu our columns that Mr Smith, of W'aitoa celebrity, intended to communicate with the police authorities and offer a reward of £100 for such information as would lead to the discovery of the party or parties who "salted" the Waitoa deposits. On making enquiries from Inspector Shearman as to the stage ut which this mysterious " salting " business had arrived, we were informed that Mr Smith had seeu the Inspector on the subject, and made a somewhat lengthy statement in connection with the all'air, but that no definite offer of a reward was made. Mr Shearman recommended Mr Smith to see Inspector Kieley, in whose district the alleged offence i.s said to have been perpetrated, but nothing further is known here as to the result." With reference to the latter portion of the above paragraph, we have made enquiries of Inspector Kieley, who informs us that he has received no communication whatever from Mr Smith, or anyone else, on the subject of the proposed reward for the discovery of the "salters,"