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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2450, 24 March 1888, Page 2

0 - " Our leading article is held over. 1 In to-days Supplement "Ms House in Oxford Terrace " is continued, There will also be found "Pauline," a'com plete tale; Cardinal Manning on outdooi ru lief; article on Western Australia; storj of General Gordon's death ; the British in Afncia, aud other interesting subjects; also ' the socond of Major SVilson's "Old j New Zealand Maori. b The English mail, via San Francisco, clones at the Hamilton this t afternoon at 3.1f) o'clock. The third and final rifle match " between H.M.s. Nelson and Gordon Rifles ' was won by the latter by 60 points. The band of the Russian man-o'-war Kynda has been delighting the Aucklanders with its splendid performances in the Albeit Park. A general poll throughout the " several licensing districts will be taken next month, to decide whether additional licenses may be granted or not. A rare intellectual treat is in t store for the Waikato public. Major H. : C. Dane, the brilliant American lecturer ; will deliver one of his splendid lectures in the Public Hall, Hamilton, at a date early , in the next month, particulars of which , will duly appear. We had lefcat our office yesterday 1 by a gentleman, who has lately visited Raglan, some splendid samples of onions and eschalots. The latter are especially fine, 1 going about four to the pound. They were grown by Mr G. Moon. It is a pity they 1 were not entered for competition at the late Horticultural Show. The fete at Tamahere on Easter Monday promises t» be a great success. A variety of amusements has been provided, including the erickec match between Hamilton and Cambridge. The residents of Tamahere are working energetically to make the event in every respect attractive. The train arrangements for the Easter holidays are published in this issue. Excursions will run on Good Friday and on the 2nd and 3rd April. Return tickets will be issued from 28lh March to 2nd April and will be available to 10th April. Wo are glad to see that on this occasion the Department has given the public more timely notice. We understand that the police contemplate prosecuting a well-known Cambridge farmer, under a chargo of cruelty to animals, for exposing a numbjr of very young calves in a bare paddock, without mod or nourishment of any kind, and where they were allowed to die off, one by one. If the facts are as thoy have b:en told us, the case exhibits callous inhumanity that deserves severe punishment. We are pleased to note that the Cambridge School Committee have made the amende honorablo by rescinding the resolution passed at a former meeting, requesting the Borough Council to apply for the old officers' quarters. The committee say they had not the slightest desire to suppress the Catholic school, but were anxious for the town to reap the benefit of any income that might be derived from the buildings. The fee for honorary membership in the Hamilton Light Infantry Band has been fixed at 2s lid per annum. Already several gentlemen have handed in their names and subscriptions, and no doubt, considering the small amount required, their good example will bo followed by the majority of our townspeople, such an institution as a t«wn band being really deserving of support. Following on the absurd canard about the conspiracy to deprive the Emperor Frederick of his throne by the removal of his larynx, wa have the equally ridiculous cablegram that t.he Prince of Wales has stated his brother-in-law cannot possibly recover. The impossibility is, of course, that the Prince should have made any such statement. But leaving out of account idiocies such as these, the Press Association favours us with such a hotch-potch of meagre, misleading and uninteresting items that we fervently pray for a now departure in its London agency. At a speoial meeting of the Waikato County Council held at 2 p.m. yesterday, there were present Crs. Primrose (chairman), Smith, Forrest, Seddon, Johnson and Barugh. The Chairman moved, in accordance with noticc given, that a special order be made, and delegating to road boards within the county the power to make and levy rates far payment of the Hospital and Charitable Aid contribution other county purposes as provided for by Sections 157 and 138 of the Counties Act, 1889.— Seconded by Cr. Forrest and carried. The yield for the Broken Hill Proprietary for the week ending 12th inst. was exceptionally large even for them, though in the future, when all the smelters are in full work, we may look for much larger returns. The ore treated was 10G0 tons, yielding 272 tons of bullion, or of silver 75,8070z5. We shall perhaps make its importance still more plain by comparing it to a gold mine. The above yield is equal to about 371)00zs of gold, but where is there a gold mine turning out such a yield per week 2 At the last sitting of tha Resident Magistrate's Court in Hamilton, there was a witness in a case, an old pakeha Maori namud Douglas, who is something of a curiosity. He is about 75 years of age, and served in hiß youth in the Royal Navy, and waß present, under Lord Codrington, at the battle of Navarino. He has been in the Raglan district for over fifty years, where he has a half-caste family, and until he came to Hamilton a few days ago had never seen a railway engine or railway carriage, and asked what they were. Now that winter will soon be here again, the farmers of Taotaoroa are anxious to know if the acclimatisation society intend protecting deer. Last winter their turnip crops were destroyed by a flock of deer that used to come down from Maungakawa, and as they can jump or slip through any ordinary wire fence, it becomes a difficult matter to know how to keep them out. If they were shot at a few times it would doubtless prevent, at any rate u portion, of the depredations ; but if strictly preserved the Taotaoroa farmers will have to give up growing root crops altogether. A number of prospectors in three or four different parties are at present out in the country beyond Lake Waikari, and in the Wairaugi district, where stone containing silver has been found. Tests have been made in four different places with encouraging results, and several of the prospectors are very sanguine. It will be remembered that some eighteen years ago there was a small rush to this place, when a number of miners came over from the Thames, and other places, seeking for gold, but iu a short time the field was abandoned. The late finds of silver ore at Te Aroha and Hikutaia have again drawn attention to this locality, and a thorough trial will now be given to tha various reefs in hand. The latest thing In American railroad enterprise is the " bridegroom tickets " of the Canadian Pacific. The north-west is full of young men who have gone to take up land ; but young women are scarce, and the cost of going back to the old provinces, getting married, and bringing back a wife keeps many of them single, and retards the growth of population. So the C.P.R.R. is holding out an encouragement to matrimony by granting return tickets to young man, good for six months. It thejr come back with a bride, accompanied with marriage certificates, the bride's fare is refunded. But the bride must be this season's crop—and the railway officials are supposed to be able to tell a nice fresh bride at Bight from an old cne of last year. Mr W. R. Wilson, the purchaser of the New Find mine and battery, is an old New Zealander. He spent several years on the West Coast during the early and palmy days of that locality. He paid a visit to this province some years ago. He had then been very ill, but was greatly improved by the use of the baths at Rotorua, especially by one at Whskarewarewa. When Mr Wilson left for New Zealand this time, he was so disabled by rheumatism that he had to get down to the steamer on crutches. Ho spent three weeks at Rotorua, patronising chiefly the baths at Whakarewarewa. He has now throjvn his crutches away, and walks as frec'y as any man. —Herald.