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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2466, 1 May 1888, Page 2

Pheasant shooting commences to day.

The nights and early hours of the morning continue very cold and frosty.

Our Paeroa correspondent telegraphed that a case of typhoid fever is reported at that place.

Not the slightest trace has yet been discovered of the missing storekeeper Brown, who disappeared a fortnight ago. The river has been well searched by Const *ble Wild and Mr Brown's son.

We direct the particular attention cif our readers to an important notice from the Auckland Roller Mills which has imported some new patent grinding machinery, and is now offering superior flo u- of new brands.

The English football team won their first match in the Antipodes against an Otago fifteen on Saturday, by 8 points to

3. The perfect discipline, passing, running and scrum of the visitors were greatly admired. The Ohaupo Football Club held their second practice of the season on Saturday last, and seme good work was put in by the members. There are now about eighteen members joined. This club is now prepared to accept a challenge f<om any of the local clubs.

No fewer than 71 applications were received for the situation of clerk to the Mount Kden Highway Board at a salary of £100 a year. Included in the list were men of high standing and position. There were several barristers in the number. Mr Wobbley has bean appointed.

Mrs W. L. C Williams, of Cambridge, met with a painful accident on Saturday.' She was going for a drive with her husband, and they had not proceeded more than a hundred yards from their gate, when one of their buggy wheels came off, Mrs Williams immediately jumped out, and in doing so sprained her ancle very severely. It was found that a boy who had taken the buggy wheels off to oil them, had neglected t-> put tho nut on again.

A Canterbury jockey, who recently had occasion to visit a small race meeting.down south, is, says the Lyttelton Times, entertaining his Riccarton friends with some amusing accounts of the vagaries of a Gaelic judge. After the race for the principal event, th-j voungster asserts, tho clerk of the course rode up to the judge and asked which horse had won. The occupant of the 'chair' hesitated for a few moments, and then, removing his clay from between his lips, and pointing with its stem to a mutual acquaintance on opposite side of the course, exclaimed, ' I'm d -d if I know ; ask Bill M'Cormick.'

Some of the Aucklanders think they can came to Waikato and do as they please with tho quiet country settlers, but"two who visited Cambridge West on Sunday last will tind themselves mistaken. They went shooting, wo believe, along with a Cambridge resident over several farms without even asking permission and ono of the owners is going to summons them for so doing, and we think very rightly. If it had been a weak day they could not havo done loss than obtain permission before going on the land but to go and shoot over a man's farm on a Sunday without saying a word is decidedly cool and deserves severe reprobation.

The American correspondent ot the Dunodin Star writes :—" The railway problem in this country is in a curious muddle. They form combinations, cut rates, water their stock, go into pools, make discriminations, and pay starvation wages to their most useful employes. On the other hand State Governments and the United States Congress create commissions to control railway traffic, make rates, and otherwise diminish earnings. lam beßinnitiß to think that the only way out of tha difficulty is for the Government to own the railways, and run them as it does the postal business. In that case there would be no strikes, no stoppage of business, no £10,000 a year salaries, no swindling of stockholders, no cut-rate wars, no pools, no starvation wages to faithful competent men—but fair play all round. The Ameriem people lhust make up their minds to own the railways.

We hav3 received by the English mail two sots of pamphlet* end printed letters which :mj the antithsis of each other. One, from the Scotch Homo "Rule Association, declaims on tho terrible troubles and injustice the Act of Union has brought upon Scotland, and, as was to he expected, solicits the contributions of the simple minded colonials to aid the Scotch people to gain their political freedom. It has been a popular belief that the people of Scotland showed the most wonderful example of progress in commerce and industrial wealth of any country in modern times, hut it appears to In a delusion from the story told us in these papers. The other set is from the Society of St. (leorge, which dates back prior to the •Vmerican War of Independance, and whoso object is the unity and preservation of the Ftnpire. branches of the s-.ciety are still in existence in the United Stated and Canada, and number thousands of members, who do much good in cherishing good feeling with the kindred people. The effort is now made to create branches in these colonies, for the purpose of " bringing together all loyal and patriotic citizens, pledged to principles of law, order, and the maintenance of the Empire. Tho rules ftn* tho guidance of a brunch of tho order have also bean forwa)-c[pc} to us. Another old colonist has passed over to the great majority. We allude to the late Dr. John Woods, wlo expired at his residence in Symonds-street, on Sunday evening, at the ripe a?e of 81 years. Dr. Woods was born in ISOti, at Jedburgh, in the South of Scotland, and at first studied for the law, but subsequently passed as a doctor, and joined tho service of the Kast India Company, where he attained this rank of surgeon-major. He had loll l ' .-jerviec in India, and tojjk pait in the second Sikh War, and in the Indian Mutiny, at Delhi, he had his jaw shot away by one of the men in tho regiment with which he was connected. After that he endured great suffering for tho next twelve davs while his party worn making their escape. For twenty-five years rhe served in Tndia, and on his arrival in Tsew Zealand in ISO 2 he was appointed in charges of the Imperial Hospital at Ngaruawahia, and was there till the troops left the Waikato district. On leaving the service in India he obtained a good pension, and after tljo troops left Waikato he came to the neighbourhood of Auckland, and engaged in farming operations. For many years he has been a ro,<idy correspondent 111 the newspaper* 011 topics exciting public interest, He died of old age, and was buried on Wednesday last ii> the Sy monds-street, Cemetery alongside one of his sons. HlM'uld.