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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2444, 10 March 1888, Page 2

Our supplement contains the continuation of My House, in Oxford Terrace ; a complete tale, What Somebody Said ; Experiences on the Congo, Our Paris Latter, The Massacre in MatabelelaiuJ, and other articles of interest. New Zealand 7 ner cents are 10i and inscribed stock 10CH-. Several ladies are in the field for the office of librarian at Cambridge. Very genial and acceptable showers of rain fell during the night on Thursday. A meeting of the Cambridge Domain R-wrd was culled for Thursday, but lapsed for want of a quorum. We remind intending exhibitors that entries for the forthcoming Horticultural Show at Hamilton, closa on Monday. A Brisbane dentisb, namsd White, shot his wife on the !Jth inst., and then shot himself dead. He was in a drunken frenzy. The Jubilee Company's s.s. Bellinger has been seized for a saWai'e chum of £2000 made by the owners of the tug Waitara. We are requested to inform contractors that the tenders for the erection of six workmen's cottages at Taupiri are to b>) for labour and material. A Press Association telegram states that the butter by the Kiikmira i< roalising from liO-i to 100-s per cwt.. and cheese 45s to ">S.s per cwt. The assault case, Loane v. John stun, heird before Messrs Graham and Knn.v, .J. P.m., mi Tliiirs'l.-iy, was diimis.wd, each party to pay their own costs. The valuation roll for the Borough of Cambridge as arranged by Mr J. P. Thomson, was signed by Capt. Jackson, the R.M., yesterday, Friday, there not being any appeal ag.iinst it. The Chinese residents of Greymouth gave a vocal and instrumental concert the other night in aid of tho funds of the local hospital, and handed over to the trustees the sum of £34. The civil case, Hay v. Barlow, set down fur rehearing at the Resident Magistrate's Court, Hamilton, was ac.iin brought before the bench on Thursday, and adjourned to this day at II o'clock. The Ngaruawahia Jockey Club, as will be saen by their programme, have reduced the fees payable by competitors. This should be the means of attracting a good number of horses to the races at the pretty little riverside township. We are informed that Mr Carr is starting a through line of coaches from Oxford, via Tanpo, to Napier, thus facilitating the tourist's traffic. As he is the first to take up this route, we wish Mr Carr every success in his undertaking. The match between the Paterangi and Hamilton Cricket Clubs will be played to-day on Sydney Square, beginning at 12. Hamilton players are requested to attend early. The match will be an interesting oii'J as tha Paterangi Club has not lost a match this season.

The postal authorities of Cambridge should take care that the letter-box at the corner of Victoria and Queen-streets is cleared at the times stated upon it. Complaints havobeen made thatthis is not always done, and several persons have been greatly inconvenienced in consequence. Ib is reported in Nelson that a deposit of marble has been found in the Riwaka Valley. Some samples have be-)n .sent to Wellington for an olh'cial report upon them. Those who have seen the marble pronounce it to be of first-class quality. Tho deposit is said to bj a very large one. The following corrections are made in the first part of Major Wilson's "The Old New Zealand Maori," which appears in to-day's supplement:—For Japanese read Javanese, for pataka read potnku. and in the sentence "for, of course, these people, did not arrive there," read " arrive here." We regret to hear that the injuries received by Miss Coop in the boggy accident on tho Raglan road were more severe than was at fir.vt reported. She was unable to proceed on her journey, and was left at the Waitetuna Hotel. Tho cause of tiie buggy upsetting was that the brake failed to act when it was going down a steep incline The Theatre Royal Company, of Te Awamutu, are practising the " Pirates of Penzance" moat assiduously for the performance at Alexandra, and are progressing exceedingly well. The performance bids fair to be a urea t success. The first undress rehearsal takes place at the Parsonage, on Monday evening, when a full attendance is expected. The Taranaki Butter Packing Company's latest advices from London, (the Herald Reports) ro consignment of butter sent home by them, state that the articlo realised 102s per cwt. being the highest price so far obtained in London for Taranaki butter A small portion of the consignment realised 100s per cwt. Councillor von Sturmer is to move at tho next sitting of the Borough Council, " That no yard fees be charged to auctioneers selling cattle and sheep in the Hamilton public ealeyards, and that auctioneers using eucii yards do so on condition of charging no yard feos to owners sending their cattle and sheep to tho:n tr sale." Mr Charles J. Powell, of Wellington, ha* issued a leaflet on the rabbit pest, for the cure of which he proposes the erection of enclosures, that would be the means of trapping the rabbits, and thus facilitate their destruction. He criticises M Pasteur's and other means by use of poisons as costly and danger >us to the country. By announcement in another column, Mr J. G. Panuell notilies that he is opening a stationer and bookseller's business in Mr Flliott's late premises. Mr Pannell is experienced in the business, and as we believe he contemplates adding a circulating library and reading and smoking room, we have no doubt he will be well supported. It is stated by the Bristol Times and Mirror that Mr Biifour has proved himself, without question, tho most able and the most successful Irish Secretary of our time. The .son ices lie has rendered to tin , , causa of law and order can hardly be over-estimated. His popularity is daily increasing, and tho very bitterness of the attacks made upon him by the agitators is a strong tribute of his work. Mrs Cecilia Wyndham Hill, who lately went the round of the colony representing herself as correspondent of the Morning Post, and obtained "free passes," &0., has been declared by the editor of that

journal to have- no connection with it, and ii:is no authority to net in any capacity for the piipur. Mrs Hill did in tho distinguished li'iii'inr of calling iipmi us in search of information regarding the country. The Freeman's Journal publishes the text of a Roman Catholic address to Monnißiior Per.sico, which it recently mentioned :\* lißinpr secretly prepared by a limited class. The address refers in the past tens.; to the persecution of Ireland, and in the present to the possession of absolute religious freed , un. The. first of these statements, the liYeeimm's J.-.urmil says, makes a f.-dse suggestion and the second is absolutely untrue. Wβ regret; to learn tlut Mr J. B. Whyte linds it advisable, owing to very important business responsibilities, to lire.ak up his hom« here for a time. We understand that Mr Whytuß'WS to Gisborne fi-.r a few weeks, where Mrs Whyte will shortly join him on route fur Wellington, tint family going to a boarding school. Under the ci'rciimstancsM we can only express our regret, and wish them a pleasant sojourn down South and a speedy return to our midst. The Committee of the Cambridge District School evidently do not relish the idea of another school being started in the borough. At their last meeting they resolved, " That tho Borough Council be requested to ask the Government to make over to them the old officers' quarters, adjoining the Court-house reserve." This is the building in which the Misses Grey and Cussen are alvmt to start a Roman Catholic School. This action of the School Committee is tn bad taste, and they would have dune well to let the matter rest, as the proposed school is now about to bo opened. If they adopt such an ill-judged attitude it will bear the interpretation of an unfriendly attempt to suppress a rival establishment, and an interference) with tho liberty of a section of tho people. Mr G. J. Neal, seedsman of Cambridge, has in his store a sample of onions, nrown from Webb's seed, and known as "Webb's Red Globe Tripoli" that lime been grown on 21 square feet of ground. They are 55 in number, and weigh h'3lbs., the iaivest being 31 bs., and ineasurinir 1!) inches in circumference; the six largest weigh 1 libs. This would give n return of upwards of fiO tons to the acre, which, at the retail price of 2d per lb., would realise over £1000, and even at per lb. the amount would be £125. This would pay a large amount of labour and manure. Mr Xeal intends showing the onions—b-ith large and small, just as they grew—at th". forthcoming horicultural show at Hamilton on the 17th inst., so our readers will have an opportunity of viewing this astonishing crop. The onions were sown in a bed last autumn, and were transplanted out in the spring.

We are indebted to a correspondent for th« following information : —An inquest was held at Mangawai Hotel, on Friday, the 2nd inst., before Mr Farraml, J. P., acting coroner and a jury of six, Mr Giffney forinan, on the body of Mr Thos. Jenkins, formerly of Waikato, where he resided for many years. From the vvidence it appears that he left Mr Dean's Hotel, where he was employed, .just after breakfast, on the ilth February, for the pirpose tif going to the Heads for a day's fishing, and nothing more was seen of him until his body was found on the ocean beach, outside the harbour. There was no evidence to show how he got into the witer, but the body had every appearance of having been drowned, as there was no mark of violence on it. Bv the kindness of his former employer, Mr Miller, a respectable coffin was procured. His body was buried in the ITakara Church-yard, Mr S. Tntin reading the service. Mr Jenkins was formerly employed in Mr Kincaid's store, Cambridge. Our Cimb ridge correspondent, says the I lei aid, in a paragraph in Wednesday's issue on the price of wheat, Raid that " a fear prevails that a determined organised ring to bring farmers to buyers' terms is being form-.d." We are informed that the market here has opened nt. 3s Id at Uie Auckland Railway Station. We have heard of one miller who lias bought three parcels from Cambridge district and others from about Auckland at this rate. Newwheat is also coming from the South at 2s fli f.o.b. at Lyttleton. The Canterbury farmer certainly gets no more than 2s 7d for this, with charges and grain merchants' commission off the 2s !)d, and cost of carnage from the South added, leaving local millers to compote with Southern millers purchasing their grain direct from the farmers at about 2s 7d, whilst Auckland millers have to pay the extreme price of 3s Id. If Auckland farmers grow enough wheat to export it, our local millers could carry the war into the enemy's country by sending flour South ; but to do this tho farmers would have to sell thvir wheat at 2s 7d, which they would not like to do. But titl it comes to'this, Southern flour must find its way into this market The Post says: -" That was a very amusing statement made by Mr Scott at the local locomotive luncheon in Christchurch the other day. He complained that local industry had been carried too far in his recently-completed contract, and that " steel castings had cost a dozen times as much as they would if they had been procured from a firm making them a special business." This is exactly the point at issue between Protection and Freetrado. According to Protectionist doctrines, what Mr Scott complains of as a fault is really a merit, This money was kept in the country, and employment was afforded to a certain number of men and boys. That the colony had to pay a dozen times more than it need have done had the castings been imported is no cause of complaint. The majority have simply been taxed for the benefit of the minority. So it must be with all cases of protection. Mr Scott would but have carried out his argument to its legitimate and logical conclusion, had he told his audience that the locomotives he has just been building would have cost five-and-twenty or fifty per cent, less had they been imported ''from a firm making them a special business," instead of their being constructed in the colony by a firm quite unused to such a business."