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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2453, 31 March 1888, Page 2

Broken Hill shares are declining. The Emperor Frederick's throat shows signs of improvement. Mr H- G. Seth-Smith. District Judge, leaves on a visit to England. The Marylebone Club have decided not to alter the rule relating to leg-bafore-wicket. The Prohibitionists have been defeated at l'onsonby, all the Moderates being returned..' The reduction of the railway fares on the Whangarei line lias doubled the passenger traffic. Mr Wallnutt is now making very satisfactory progress towards recovery. Mr Flood will be about again in a few days. There will be a meeting of the Hamilton C. C. to-night at 7.80 at the Commercial Hotel, to take into consideration the financial position of the club. An appalling loss of life is reported to have occurred through an overflow of the Elbe and Oder. Forty villages were submerged, and 10,000 people mined. The excursion train from Auckland yesterday brought a large number of visitors, the majority of whom proceeded to Te Aroha. There was a fair sprinkling landed at Hamilton. The K'ove-iight between Laing and Matthews, for £50 aside, took place on Thursday at Otahuhu, but was put a stop to by the police. Laing had much the best of it. but the affair is described as a wretched fiasco. We have received complaints of the coach-drivers plying between the railway stations and Hamilton, stubbornly keeping to the centre of the road, and not allowing other vehicles to pass by, by moving to their own side of the way. The shooting season opened yesterday and we have heard that several good bags have been already made. Sportsmen with guns and dogs have arrived from Auckland, and hope to have a good time of it. Ducks are plentiful on the river between Cambridge and Hamilton, and atßangiriri. Two expeditions are about to be sent by Germany to the Togo country, whore a goldruining company has been formed under the auspices of the German Colonial Society of Southern Africa. More important still, that society is, according to the Vossiehe Zeitung, about to raise a corps of colonial troops. Mr Pannell, has opened a smoking and reading-room in connection with his bookselling and stationery business in Hamilton. All the leading London and colonial papers and periodicals will be found upon the table ; and chess and draught boards will also be provided. A list of papers, and hours during which the readingroom is open, will be advertised in next issue. The clerk of the Waikato County Council, by advertisement in this issue, invites the chairmen and members of all local bodies in the Waikato Hospital District to attend a meeting at Hamilton on -Uh April, to consider the advisability of creating an Agricultural Board. This action is the outcome of the letter on the subject addressed to the Waikato County Council by Mr W. A. Graham, which we fully reviewed in Thursday's issue. Mr Richard Edwards, who has been connected with this journal, as foreman in the typographical department, for many years, leaves Hamilton on Monday with his family for Melbourne. Mr Edwards has been a familiar figure in this township, where he has made a host of friends by his genial and warm-hearted disposition. When he severed his connection with Thk Waikato Timks, Mr Edwards thought of starting another paper here, Vnt owing to the depressed state of things, he thought better of the idea, and determined to return to Victoria, where he has relatives and friends, who have advised him to come to the other side, and wherewith his experience and practical abilities, he is suru of obtaining a good position in the profession. We wish Mr Edwards and his family a safe voyage and every success. The following telegram from St. Petersburg!) was stopped by the Russian censor, and the correspondent was therefore obliged to despatch it by "an indirect way":—"'lt is known that the Russian military forco in the Pacific for several years has been rather weak in comparison with the great interests which have to be guarded there. Russia has accordingly commenced to make great efforts to strengthen her position in that quarter, and the garrisons have been considerably reinforced. It is intended to proceed as soon as possible with the construction of a strategical railway from Vladivostock to the interior of Siberia, and this spring the Russian l"acific squadron will receive important reinforcements, which will bring its strength above that of the British Pacific squad run. The Melbourne "Table Talk" has the following interesting particulars about the famous Mrs Gordon Baillie :—Mrs Gordon B.iillie gave it out that she was the only child of the Karl of Moray,"who disowned her because she married Mr Knight-Aston, the operatic singer. She had by that gentleman four children, who, when they sang at the Exhibition at a bazaar last year, were much admired. Mrs Baillie also stated that she was a divorced woman, and that her present husband was Mr Bromby Frost, a connection by marriage of Ur. Bromby. The latter statement, we have it on the authority of Dr. Bromby, is correct. Mr Bromby Frost, who looks like an octoroon, is a nephew of Mrs Bromby, the wife of the late Bishop of Tasmania. Whilst in Melbourne Mrs Baillie resided in Toorak Road, in a furnished house, for which she paid £7 rent a week. She also hired a carriage at £2 a day. Her expenditure for rent and carriage alone thus amounted to £21 weekly. She kept six servants and "a private secretary." Her grocer's bill was tho largest of any family in the fashionable suburb of South Yarra, as it generally included dozens of botLlus of all sorts <.f strong drink. Her most favourite refreshment, however, was "brandy and soda,"