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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2433, 14 February 1888, Page 2

The fruit used in the decoration of St. Peter's Church on Saturday has been forwarded to the Waikato Hospital. The attention of the Tamahere Road Board authorities is directed to the dangerous state of a bridge on the Victoria road. Capt. Coleman, of Wellington, has been appointed Instructor of Cavalry for the colony. Admiral Fairfax offers to place the Calliope and Diamond in dock together to show the capacity of tho Calliope Dock. S- Peter's parish picnic takes placn to-day at the lake. Mr Handyside's merry-go-round has been erected for the amusement of the children. To morrow being Ash Wednesday. the first day of Lent, there will bo service m S. Peter's Church, Hamilton, at half p. st o'clock in the evening. It has been arranged to hold the Harvest Festival at is. Andrew's, Cambridge, on Friday, the 21th instant. The •ervice will be full choral, and with a special anthem. The Cambridge Borough Council will hold a special meeting at ti.45 p.m. tonight to confirm the adoption of bye-laws for regulating slaughter yards, after which the ordinary monthly i;;eotmg will beheld. On Sunday Capt. Steele was not in so satisfactory a state as could be wished, and Dr Waddington was called in to consult with Dr Carey. We are glad to hear that, yesterday, the patient was much improved. Our attention has baen drawn fcp the state of the fence at one end of the Kirikiriroa bridge which has been in a broken and delapidated state for tho last two or three weeks, and .;h.(;uld ba repaired, as it is a dangerous spot at night,

Wo liave to acknowledge the receipt from the Government Printer of a volume of the statutes of the last session of Parliament. Members of the Waikato Horticultural Society are reminded that a irioetiiifj „f tiie chief committee will be held during this month for the election of officers for the current year. Under rule 6, provision is made for the due representation of local districts. Great satisfaction is expressed in cricketing circles at tho resolution passed by the Cricket Conference with reference to a batsman bring "out" should a ball which would strike the wicket be stopped by any part of his body. Serious bush fires are reported from dilferent parts of the colony. The most deplorable one is that, of the Puhipuhi kauri forest in the North, where, it is stated, 100 square miles of valuable timber have been destroyed. There are complaints made about a dead horse in the ditch on the old Hukunui road, near Mr Reid's gate, which has been lying there since last Saturday. _ This is a dangerous object to people riding or driving past, and should be at once removed. The visible supply of American wheat is -11,000,000 bushels. Official statistics show the total wheat produce of Great Britain to ba over 70,000,000 quarters, being an increase of 13,000,000 for the year. The average per acre has been 32 bushels. The Lynch family of Beilringers have just left tho colony. They report that they are very pleased with their tour in this colony, and purpose returning in about eight month's time, and re-visiting the principal towns en route to San Francisco. Mr Marry Lynch estimates the profits of the New Zealand tour at over £3000. Still, times are very hard ! We have been shown some account sales of fruit sent to Messrs Arthur and Buddie, auctioneers, Auckland, and we could not but remark their very reasonable charges. The gross sale »f the lot reached £2 7s 3d. Out of this they only took for handling and commission 3s Sd, and the railway charges totted up to 7s 8d ; just about a sixth of the whole for carriage. The Eltham butter factory in Taranaki, is the property of Mr Chen Chong, a most enterprising Chinaman, who gives the farmer 2½d per gallon for their milk. Between 600 and 700 gallons of milk are received every morning. The butter is made entirely by machinery, and is packed in 100 lb kegs for export. The factory is managed by Mr Sydney Morris, an experienced man. Dr. Barnardo states that he has over 2,100 boys and girls iu his Homes for destitute children in London, being fed, clothed, taught and Christianised. Of 2.043 whom he has placed out on Canadian farms only l!) have failed, or equal to per cent. Since the opening of the Homes 11,210 altogether have been rescued and placed iu service at home and iu the colonies. Mr Cannell's unassuming little industry on the Raglan ranges is gradually coming to the front. Mr Cannell has already burnt and disposed of two or three kilns of lime the quality of which is excellent, and the price of 4s to 5s per bag should ensure an extensive demand from our fruit growers as it is well known that a good top dressing of unslacked lime destroys a large proportion of insect life so destructive to our fruit. A very painful accident happened to Miss Cox, eldest daughter of Mr N. R. Cox, draper, Hamilton West, on Saturday afternoou last. By some means or other she trod on a needle, which penetrated into the sole of her foot, and broke otf, leaving half the needle in. The young lady was taken to Dr. Kenny, but although he made a long search for it lie could not find any trace of the needle, which still remains in her foot. There appears to he a good deal of orchard pilfering just now in Hamilton, as we have heard of several depredations lately. Mr John Knox informed us last night, that his fruit trees were attacked at about eight o'clock by tho juvenile pest, which is as bad if not worse than thccodjin. He has a fair suspicion of the guilty parties, and if he receives any further nocturnal visits from them, will call in the aid of the police to stop them. It has been suggested that one of our local shoemakers might take young Heenan, at present in tho hospital, as an apprentice, so that he may have ail opportunity of learning a useful trade suitable to his crippled condition. Tho handsome sum of £19 l'Js Od has been subscribed amongst the contractors and men working at Waiteti and the tunnel, as a donation to the hospital to be expended towards providing Heenan with an artificial log. The Cambridge cricketers have been having a very idle time of it lately, but it is not to continue, for we loam that four matches are on the tapis, and if players wish to be victorious they must roll up to practice in a much better manner than they liave lately been doing. The secretary is most energetic in his endeavours to forward tho interests of the club, and the playing members should support him by giving a good account of themselves in the forthcoming matches. It is looked upon as highly probable in well-informed circles in Wellington that Sir Julius Vogel is about take his departure from tho colony for England, where, it is said, he has some important commercial undertaking in view. The exTreasurer has, no doubt, come to the conclusion that his political prospects in this colony are not enticing enough to induce him to waste his valuable time and exercise his fertile brain by remaining here longer than he can help. He finds the game is not worth the candle. His absence will certainly help to clear the atmosphere for next session. Referring to the silver hoom, the South Australian Register gives the fallowing warning to mining speculators : —" During a mining mania while shares are advancing, all goes well. Everybody is making a profit, and everybody is satisfied. But the reaction is bound to come. When buyers have a little time to think, and when the fever has worked itself out, the difference between a mine that is developed and is yielding a profit, and one that is not developed and whoso profits exist only in the sanguine prognostications of speculators md their dupes will be appreciated, and much stock will be rejected as worthless. It is to be hoped that the present spirit of reckless speculation will speedily give way to a more common sense method of dealing in silver mining shares."