Untitled

Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2429, 4 February 1888, Page 2

To day's Supplement is full of very readable matter. The talc "Tie and Trick " is concluded ; there is a variety of stories, articles, and children's stories, also our Paris letter, a sketch of the celebrated Jenny Lind, and many other interesting paragraphs. The London butter market has declined 8s per cwt. There is a plague of caterpillars in the Awatere district, Marlborough. It has been decided in New South Wales to give a trial to M. Pasteur's remedy of chicken cholera for the rabbit pest. The race for boys under 14, left undecided from last Saturday's sports, will take place on the river this afternoon, at 3 o'clock. We learn that the Misses Gray and Uusseus arc about to start a Catholic infant school in the house that was formerly occupied by Col. Lyon, at Cambridge. Although scarcely any rain fell in Hamilton yesterday, the Raglan coachman reported that it was pouring with rain from the time ho left Haglan till he reached \Vaitetuna. The extraordinary weather we have been experiencing has, wo are informed, retarded the grain from reaching perfect maturity, though it has been full in the ear for some time. Mrs Johnston, of Te Aroha, who has been in the Hospital for two or three weeks under Dr. Kenny's treatment for strangulated hernia, returns to her home to-day, perfectly restored to health. The Auckland police have not yet succeeded in tracing the robbery of the £(IS odd from the Police Court. Mr Cunningham, the Clerk of the Police Court, has been relieved from duty, owing to the trying position he has been placed in. A letter in the Temuka Leader warns people against using the new cowmilking machine, as it ruins the cows, and causes something like a gathering in thtf udder with the result that the cows get miserably poor. The Registrar-General's return of Immigration and Emigration for the year 1 ended 31st. December, shows there were IS,(WO arrivals into the colony and 12,712 departures, being an excess of only 977 in favour of the former. The Antarctic Exploration Committee have decided to request the British merchants and shipowners to send two steam whalers on the prospect that a grant may be obtained from the colonies in aid of an expedition to the Anfartie Ocean.

Thomas Baker was brought before i Mr H. W. Northcroft, R.M., at Te Awa- I mutu yesterday, on a charge of cattle-steal-ing, on the information of the natives at Korakonui, and was committed for trial. We have received complaints of the inefficient manner in which the street lamps have lately been burning at nisiht, ' especially those at Mnnro's corner and on t the bridge. The attention of the contractor is drawn to this. The Cable Company have decided ' to retain ISs (Id for ordinary and 3s Id for ' press rates, the latter to be without guarantee, trusting to the liberal concession and ] benefit *,o the public for compensation, by leading to an increased supply of news. ' Every day nearly we hear of fruit- ] growers being astonished to find apples in their gardens affected with the codliumoth. Orchards free from this pest, we fear, are the exception. It behoves every one to place bands of some sort round their trees. The latest account sales from London show that Wairarapa butter has realised there from r>os to 70s per cwt., and this is for inferior to medium quality only. There is no doubt that a really first-class article would fetch about 100s, and Canterbury butter has gone as high as 120s per cwt. in the Home market. Wanganui Herald. Mr Isaac Coates, of Hamilton, has further added to his extensive plant of agricultural machinery by the imp> ration of a steam elevator of a new design, and only lately patented by Messrs Hornsby and Sons. Mr Coates cabled for the machine, which is the first introduced into the province of Auckland. A full description of the elevator appears in another part of this issue. It; is reported from Wellington that another of those unauthorised items of expenditure of Mr Balance's has come to light, in the shape of a claim for £20,000, which was incurred by him without " the shadow of authority." The Government are fearsome there may be more of these unpleasant legacies of the late ministry yet to come, The Wellington Press comment strongly on this scandal, and say it marks Mr Ballance as a man totally unfit to be trusted with power. Several boys belonging to Hamilton have lately been breaking up a barge belonging to the W. S. N. Co., which was wrecked a few miles up the. river some months ago, and has since been lying stranded on the river side. The boys have stripped some of the timber, which they formed into a raft and floated away. The. value of the timber thus plundered is said to amount to twenty pounds, We understand the Company have instructed MiO'Neill to take legal proceedings against the lads. Mr. A. Isaacs, late of Cambridge, is about to start a sanatorium at Oxford where there are hot springs much prized for their curative properties. Mr Isaac's property contains three springs from which there is an abundant supply of water, and also what is very unusal, a waterfall of hot water. An hotel is to be built and several descriptions of baths erected, and indeed everything that is necessary to make it a thoroughly good sanatorium is to be done ; as the waters have been analysed and are found to be second to none in New Zealand in medicinal properties.

The Lyttelton Times states that the record of the Canterbury province for big fish caught by the rod was beaten the other day. Mr R. Be.etham, when fishing in Hall's Creek, Leeston, got on to a big fish, which, after affording one hour and thirty-five minutes play, proved to be a grand female trout, scaling 241b, the heaviest trout ever captured by fair means in Canterbury. It was in superb condition, and measured 32Mn. in length, 22) in. in girth, Sin. across the fan of the tail, Tin. in length of head, and weighed exactly 241b. We take the following particulars from Messrs Goldsborough and Co.'s monthly circular of 12th January :—During the four weeks ended Oth January, twentyseven vessels cleared from Victoria with 91,020 bales of wool for the English and European markets, making 200,542 bales since Ist July, and being an increase of 14,<i78 bales over the corresponding period of the previous year. Twenty-two vessels left New South Wales, taking 78,539 bales, making 237,375 for the period, being an increase of 58,218 bales. New Zealand shows an increase of 2,245 bales ; South Australia, 8 421) bales; (iueenslnnd, 20,58!) bales; West Australia, 1,310; and Tasmania, 2,750 bales. The total shipments from all the colonies from Ist July were 71)1,208 bales, ur an increase of 105,393 bales during the six months. The Martinborough correspondent of the Wairarapa Standard, writing on the subject of the supposed visit of the Star of Bethlehem, says:—"Probably it may yet be discovered in the direction of Martinborough, for a little stranger has made her appearance in our midst. It was on tho 2nd January—it ought to have been the Ist, for that was a Sunday, too—that a native woman gave birth to twins, both girls. The first born is still living, but the other did not survive the hour of birth, although it was a fully developed and full grown baby. The living child has drawn many from far and near to see it, for it is no ordinary child, and this makes me think the Star of Bethlehem is not far off. It is a bright little thing— the baby, I mean—weighing only a pound and a-half, its length being seven inches, lam not joking; this is the correct weight and measurement, and as I have held the wee thing in one of mv hands (for I did not need both), I can testify to the fact, and also that tho child, to all appearances, is in tho best of health. It has red hair, and is dark in complexion—quite a little native—and lias "astonished" the other natives down this way. It feeds at the breast, and takes arrowroot like any other mortal just ushered into this state of existence."