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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2452, 29 March 1888, Page 2

The hanks and post-offices will be closed to-moirow. The Queen received a warm reception ou her arrival at Florence. A violent hailstorm with bitter cold winds passed over the district yesterday. The Manawatu Railway Company show very satisfactory returns of their lines. " A Hamilton fruit-grower has forwarded twelve cases of apples for shipment to England. The late Emperor Wilheim left a fortune of 50,000,000 marks, nearly £3.3,000,000. The contractor for the Hamilton sale yards is making very steady progress with his work. The population of Victoria is given as 1,11117,110 (?) and of New South Wales as 1,042,019. A tennis match between the Kihikihi and Cambridge Clubs will be held at Cambridge on Saturday. Special services will be held in the churches to morrow (Good Friday). The Hamilton Light Infantry parade for Church on Easter Day, at 10,30 a.m., on Sydney Square. Next English mail by direct service will close at the Hamilton Post-office on Monday next at 'J. 30 a.m. MrD- R. Salmon, Whilst botanising in the To Aroha bush, lost his way, and fell over a precipice, but fortunately sus: tained r.o cerious injury, A proposal to alter the times of service at Christ Church, Ohaupo, is advertised to be submitted to the parishioners after service on Sunday night. The inward mail via 'Frisco, which left London on 22nd February, is due in Auckland to-day. The Waikato portion should reach its destination this evening. Eight Thamesites left Port Chalmers on Tuesday by tjie s.s. Rotomahans en route for Broken Hiils silver inines ; A similar number intend to leave next foesday. We are glad to hear that Capt. Powoll, of A'garuawliin, has recovered from his late illness, and will soon be about again. He has been under the qarqful treatment of Dr. Murch. We have to acknowledge the receipt of an interesting little pamplet on the hot springs of Rotorua, by Dr. Ginders, M.D., medical superintendent of tho sanatorium at that health resort. The New Zealand Country Journal for March contains articles on sheep husbandly, th,3 rabbit pest, hessiau fly, the Centennial Inhibition, fowl cholera, etc. Altogether it is a capital ru.ii.oet'. Lungworm is making havoc amongst some of the flocks on the east coast of the North Island. The Wairarapa Star says tjiafc ou one run about 7000 sheep have died during the last fe\y rijonths. Serious rioting occurred at Yonghal, in Ireland, when Mr W. O'Briei), M.P., attempted to address a proclaimed meeting. The Scottish Kitiss und poliye charged tho mob, and severely injured several persons. At a meeting of the Cambridge Library Committee, held on Tuesday aftern'oiii:, ;t decided to purchase £1! worth of i>c*' books. 'A- was appointed to draw up rules wl)|c() vill submitted at a future meeting. At the local option poll, taken at Morrinsville oil Saturday last, to determine whether the number of licenses in the Waitoa licensing District may or may not be increased, ,i'ifp r "y ratepayers voted, of whom fourteen were in »:".»'./t;r of an increase, and one against. At the ordinary drill of the llamiKoii light Infantry on Tuesday evening there was a 'good muster, and tho various evolutions practised word fairly gono through. After drill, Private T. Alexander was elected lance-corporal, vice H, (Coop, reduced for non-att^ndancei

A very fine lunar rainbow was visible at Cambridge about 7.25 p.m. on Tuesday. At the show of the Waikato Horticultural Society, Mr Georgo S. Pearson, of Hamilton, exhibited a splendid sample of extracted honey, for which ho was deservedly awarded a first prize. The honey is put up in tins of a handy size, and neatly labelled, and Mr Pearson should meet witli nn difficulty in disposing of the product of his hives. The Wellington Post on the subject of tho proposal to ask that Sir George Grey mav be appointed Governor of New Zealand, says We could scarcely conceive a worse misfortune befalling the colony than placing a man of Sir (iec'ge Grey's age and character, fresh from the political arena and full of the prejudices and animosities engendered by political conflict, in tha position of Governor. The hail that fell yesterday afternoon was very thick and as largo as peas ; and at some spots it fell in the shape of frozen snow-Hakea. Severe .storms have been experienced throughout tho colony. The telegraph lines were tirst reported down in Southland, then in Canterbury, and later on in Napier. We arc consequently deprived of our late telegraphic news. The glass in the Waikato fell yesterday to 10 degrees. The Spectatorsays that in Austria, the policy of fostering the sugar industry by bounties has reached such a pass that more is actually paid away in bounties on tho export of sugar than is raised by the tax on sugar itself. That is, the consumer of sugar in Austria is taxed, and the whole proceeds of the tax are applied, not to the administration of the country or to its defence, but to the cheapening of sugar for the Knglish consumer. The Tamahere Fete, in aid of the Church, promises to be the chief attraction in tho Waikato during Easter. A sale of work will be conducted during the day, as well as a variety of sports and the cricket match. In the evening there will be a capital farce and concert, finishing up with a dance. We understand the Hamilton Brass Band will be in attendance on the ground. Beer was at a discount in Chrisbehiucli on Tuesday. An auctioneer was instructed to sell 58 hogsheads of beer in an insolvent estate. Many of the hotels are in the hands of the brewers, and the result was that the highest bid for the beer was 121 per cask. The excise duty being 13s on each cask, the auctioned' refused this bid, aud then offered the lot as empty casks. In this form he received :i bid of 17s (id for each cask. This was accepted, and the beer was poured out into tho street channels. A few persons who did not like to see such waste, obtained some bueketsful of beer cheap. The Sydney Morning Herald of March 17, lias the following " Some extremely rich auriferous quartz from tho Auckland goldfields are at present on view in the window of M.-.ssrs Flavelle Brothers and Roberts, George-street. The specimens belong to Mr J. H. Whiteford, of Auckland, who is visiting the mining districts of Australia. The samples evidence the richness of the quartz of the Thames and the Coromandel districts. Several of the specimens in question are very rich. One small piece of lSdwts. contain over half an ounce of gold. Another stone holds A! 25 worth. The gold is said to be worth from sljs to IJOs per ounce. The locale from which the specimens have been obtained is a very promising one, and in times past very large and valuable pockets and bunches of ore have been obtained from it. The Government (says . the Wanganni Herald) has received a communication from the Indian Government respecting the supply of horses suitable for military purposes, and Mr Monro, sheep inspector, has received, along with others, instructions to make enquiries on tho subject. The kind of horses in demand are, tirst of all, large horses for heavy artillery, commissariat, etc. ; next, horses of a shade lighter stamp, but strong and active, for field artillery; next the cavalry horse, which is a shade lighter still. There is, further, a demand in India for carriage horses, ladies' hacks, and hunters. It has been intimated, wc understand, that the Indian Government could, take from New Zealand alone 2000 horses a year for ten years, which at £20 a horse, would moan a nice little sum of i'lo,ooo a year coming into tho colony. The Canterbury Press lias the following :—For some time past prospecting for minerals has been quietly going on about the Mount Torlesse range of mountains by a party of men, who at present do not wish their names divulged. They last week came on a large deposit bearing the appearance of .antimony, and also » quartz reef, which contains some metal, and is traceable by the outcrop for nearly a mile. Samples of both the deposit and quartz have been forwarded to Professor Biokerton for analysis. A nice specimen of gold-bearing quartz was found in the Kowai river. If the parent reef could be located, it should prove rich, as the specimen shows fine quality gold as large as a pin's head. Naturally the exact localities of these discoveries are at present known only to a few, but if the analysis are favourable more will soon be heard. We take the following from a letter written at Melbourne to the Dunedin Evening Star by a former well known resident in the latter city" There has been such a rush here of people from Sydney and Adelaide, that there are now more people walking about the, streets of Melbourne waiting employment than there are people in Dunedin_ altogether. I nut sure that this coming winter will see things worse here than they are in Dunedin. I know that there is a lot of work going on liere just now, but where a man is wanted there are three hundred to take the billet. I advise all tradesmen and labourers to stay in New Zealand, if they can get a crust of bread where they are. This place js right enough, but people have been coming here at the rate of a thousand per week, during the past eight months, from all parts, and the.y will take any wage that is offered to them. There are painters here who are working for (is (id per day. A first-class painter and grainer is lucky to get Ss per day, and then he is likely to be two weeks in work and three weeks idle. When tho exhibition is done we can see what is coming —starvation for hundreds."