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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2431, 9 February 1888, Page 2

Profespor Kirk will shortly visit the Waik..to to inspect the foru.-t plantations. The healih authorities at Sydney are urging that tho greatest precautions be taken on the arrival of the Mariposa. Only one tender was received for the Ministerial residence, lately occupied by Sir J. Vogel. The price has not been made known. Hard to believe, bat nevertheless a fact. Eggs are ao plentiful at Gate I'a that the settlers are feeding their pigs with buckotsfn! at a time. In winter hero eggs realise from 2s to 3s per dozen.—Bay of PUuty Tiui«a,

Some young trout, four to six inches long, have been seen under tho Hamilton Bridge. A special sitting of the Resident Court will bo held to-day, to hear a case, Hay v. Barlow, to recover costs. It is reuorted that two or three of tho judgesthe Native Land Court will shortly retire, in compliance with the order for retrenchment. Mr Douglas, the Postal Secretary of Tasmania, who attended the Postal Conference at Sydney, caught typhoid fever there, and died in a week. The general meeting of the Hamilton Library will lie held to-morrow night. We trust the committee will see its way towards providing a building more creditable to the place. It is observed that many children are fond of eating laurel berries, just now ripe. It is as well that they be warned nut to eat the kernels, which contain prussic acid, a deadly poison. The annual parish and school picnic of S. Peter's Church, Hamilton, will bo held on Tuesday next, in Col. Forbes grounds at Lake House, and promises to be a very great success. "We have been shewn an excellent sample of wheat grown this season at the special village settlement at 1< irewond Creek, in the Waipa district, which was established loss than a year ago. In our advertising columns will be found the programme of the Waikato Jockey Club's meeting, that is to be held on St. Patrick's 'Day. Nominations will be received by the Secretary up to 8 p.m. on Ist March. A terrible tragedy has occurred at Salford, a (own in Lancashire, bamuel Derby, a chemist in that city, who was in destitute circumstances, poisoned his wife and six children, and then committed suicide. We are pleased to see a new busi ties* establishment opened in Hamilton. Messrs Murray and Spencer have commenced a branch shop, stocked with stationery and fancy goods, next to Mr Hatrick's present drapery stove. We have been requested to notify that offerings of grain, fruit, and flowers, for decorating S. Peter's church for the harvest thanksgiving services on Sunday next, will be received at the parsonage dining the week; or at the church, on Satutday. The following notices of motion have been given for the next meeting of the Borough Council on the 14th iust. Or Von Stunner to move " That the Council takes the necessary stein for the crection of pubie sale yards for cattle on the market reserve, or such other site as may be considered most convenient.

By an advertisement which appears in another column, it will bo observed that tho tableaux vivants that have been given with such immense! success at le Awamutu are to be repeated at tho Jyhikihi Hall mi Friday, the 17th inst., in aid of Chinch funds. We heartily recommend ovcry <>no that can to see them, as lieing ail eloquent i:erfonnance they arc a great musical treat. The business of the butter department. of the New Zealand Freezing and Storage Company is steadily increasing, and the customers state that if butter of the present quality can be regularly supplied, there is a large market for it. lhis it is the intention of the company to do, and it is believed that they will m a short time have the lion's share of the trade. Herald. Much sympathy is felt by the friends ill this district of Mr and Mrs 1 leerdegcn who, it will be seen by a notice in another column, have lost their youngest son, who died at Kotorua last Friday, after a long and painful illness. LWore going to Kotorua to take over the Carlton Club Hoarding House, Mr Heerdegen was a farmer at Tamahore, where he and his family were much respected. Things are undoubtedly looking brighter in Waikato when it is possible to dispose of six pianos during a week's canvass in Hamilton and neighbourhood. This, we hear, has been the happy experience of Mr Cordon L. Coward, now in Waikato, representing the well-known finn of importers, Messrs T. 11. Webb and Co., Hobsoii-strcet, Auckland. Tho other districts iu Waikato will, in the usual oourse, leeeu'o Air Coward s attention, and hope to hear of a continuation of satisfactory business results. This is ail the notice the Herald takes of the systematic shunting of the Auckland unemployed into the country, which has been recklessly rarried out by the city council: —There, is still a steady stream of applicants at the office of the town clerk for free railway passes. Nearly oO have been issued since the commencement of the present month. Some of those who go up are quite unsuited for country work, and they try and head back for town again, when they have exhausted the patience of the. settlers and the contents of their scanty purses.

What are known as the senior gentlemen players, i.e. the must cient, of the Cambridge Lawn Tennis Club, have arranged a handicap tournament to bo played among themselves. Each one who wishes to play pays a small subscription, and the victorious one is to purchase a trophy with the winnings. The tost is to be by three sets ; but instead of the game being decided in the usual way by two out of three, in this instance the winner of the greatest number of games in the three sets will be declared victor. The tournament was commenced on Tuesday by Messrs Hunt and Rutherfurd, the former giving 15 in each game. Hunt scored 10 guinea to his opponent's 10, and thus won, although Rutherfurd won two sets out of three. The funeral of the late Mrs Hewitt took place on Tuesday afternoon, and was attended by a very large concourse of sympathising friends and acquaintances, as :i mark of respect to the deceased lady. The service both at the church and ceiue. tery was read by Archdeacon Willis. Mr Hewitt has the sympathy of all who know him in his present trouble, and more particularly of the congregation of St. Andrew's, of which church he has been one of the most zealous supporters, until the latter stage of his wife's illness deterred him from taking so active a part as hitherto. Last year Mr Hewitt was churchwarden, and would have been re-elected this year had Mrs Hewitt's health permitted of his accepting the oltice. Puffin t-lie Wellington Press says : Talking about dolit, I hoard a funny thing to-day! About debt? I don't see where the fun comes in ! A farmer-was down from Mastortou uud he met a lieutenant of his who owed him A lieutenant? Was he in the volunteers? Haha ! No, a lieutenant is a pleasing euphemism for u tenant who has lett without paying? Well, did he get the money ? 'Not exautly ? He asked for it, but the man said, " I c.in't pay you the cash to-d iy, but I'll give, you a l'.N,!" Did the farmer take it ? No ; he looked rather astonished, and then ho said 4 Blow your pea 'en ! I don't want no pea'ens ! I've got more poultry up at Masterton now nor I knows what to do with ! A correspondent of the San Francisco News Letter, writing from Panama under a very recent date, states that almost nothing in the way of work is being done on the canal, and that the employees of the company, in conversation among themselves, admit that the groat waterway cannot bo completed for years to come. The largest machine shops on the Panama section arc closed, and those on other sections are almost in the same plight. The canal company's treasury is about empty, and the few men who are at work, here and there, are simply kept for effect. Meanwhile, it is fair to assume that Do Lesseps is not idle, and it will bo strange, indeed, if his fertile brain does not devise some method of raising funds to finish a work in which his reputation is so deeply involved, A special meeting of the Hamilton West School committee is called for Friday for the purpose of milking some representation to the Auckland Board of Education re-appointment of a teacher. No doubt the ruling of Judge Williams below will strengthen the position the committee propose to take The judgment given by Mr .1 ustice Williams in regard to the dispute between the Kaikorai School Committee and the Education Board of the district has excited a good deal of attention, and definitely defines the powers of the School Committees under the 15th clause of tho Education Act. Mr Justicc Williams, in his judgment, was clear on the point that the School Committees were a factor in tho appointment and dismissal of teachers. His Honour's ruling created some surprise, but it is exactly on the lines laid down by Dr. in one his essays on " Education and Educators," published in IKB4.

Extensive floods have occurred m West Australia. Houses were submerged and the railway and telegraph lines much damaged. The total loss is estimated at £30,000. The Civil Service Supply Association have commenced operations, and opened up stores and offices at No. So Queen-street, Auckland. The capital of the association is £20,000 in £1 shares fully paid up. We have received a copy of the association's price lists in all the lines they do business in, which show a considerable reduction on prices ruling elsewhere. A strictly cash business is done with members and shareholders only. The following is the schedule of liabilities in the estate of Mr F. Smale :—Secured debts, F. 1). Rich, toO; Unsecured : Cambridge creditors—Wells and Soutter, £150; Isaac Bates, £20; \\ . Souter, £12; Waikato Shipping Company, £12 ; Clark and Gnne, £12 ; John Arnold, £15; James Webber, £3 10s; W. K. Carter, £(>; Bnc.kland and Co., £10; H. Gillett, £1 10s; Dr. Waddington, £o; Young and Nixon, £10; North New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Association, £12 ; E. Hewitt, £7 ; trustees of Lewis and Simpson's estate, £2; trustees of Reids estate, £10 ; Cambridge Town Board, 10s, The Auckland creditors are : Russell and Campbell, £7 10s ; Porter and Co., £1 10s; Hunter and Nolan, £-4 10s. Other creditors: M. Brown and Co., Thames, £0 10s; Murray Brothers, Waitoa, £12; Burnett Brothers. Waitoa, £1; W. M. Hay, Hamilton, £2 10s; W. Dibsell, Te Aroha, £4 10s ; Friar and Davies, Ngaruawahia, £4 10s ; H. Clifford, Morrinsville, £10; New Zealand Mortgage Company, £700; F. D. Rich, £200. The assets are nil.