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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2475, 22 May 1888, Page 2

Turkey has approved of the Suez Canal Convention. The contest for the Presidency of the United States will probably be confined to President Cleveland and Mr J. G. Blaine. A Frenchman has completed a scheme for bridging the English Channel between Dover and Calais, at a cost of .9-10,000,000. The structure is to carry four lines of railways. Mr Knox has given notice of motion for the next meeting of the Hamilton Borough Council "That a bye-law be Hissed compelling the various public halls in the borough to have their doors opening outwards,"

The House of Commons have adjourned for the Whitsuntide holidays. The P. and 0. Company have declared an interim dividond of five per cent per annum. In our report of the rabbit cases at the R.M. Court, Te Awarnutu, a misprint occurred. The date of the next court should have read 15th June, not 16th. The settlers in the Waipa district ate much incensed against tho Government over the recant rabbit prosecutions at Te Awarnutu. An article on the subject appears in this issue. The Duke of Cambridge has ordered 25,000 volunteers into camp for special training. Other camps will bo formed in succession, until the wholo volunteer force has undergone a course of continuous drill. Two workmen on the Te Kuiti contract, named Olymants and John Bruoe, received some rather severe injuries last week by a fall of earth in a cutting in which they were engaged. In the United States a general order of the Salvation Army prohibits the " use of those vain and wicked appliances, known as dress improvers." There is great excitement among the lasses in consequence and a schism is threatened. Something ought to be done to the decking of the Hamilton traffic bridge, so as to allow the water to run off freely. In wet weather the whole bridge is covered with large pools of water and slush, through which pedestrians have to wade, which is exceedingly unpleasant. Mr M- Murphy, F.LL., Secretary of the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association, has published in pamphlet form an article on Dairy Factories ; a necessity ; their influence on farm economy. We commend it to the notice of our readers. We have received a copy of " The Heathen Chinee," a satire in verse by the Rev. E. H. Gulliver, M.A., on the present agitation against the Chinese, in which he makes unfavourable comments on the professions of superiority in morals and manners made by colonials. The May number of the New Zealand Country Journal is an excellent one. It contains articles on Sheep Husbandry, Mining Plantations, and very instructive ones on Dairy Factories, and the Lincoln Agricultural College. There is a great deal of valuable information in the volume. A meeting of thoss interested in getting the Pakuranga hounds to visit Waikato, was held in Bach's Hotel, Cambridge, at 4 p.m. on Saturday, about fifteen were present, and Messrs J. S. Buckland, J. McNicol, N. I, Hunt, and A Bach were appointed a provisional committee to make arrangements, and it is probable that the hounds will come up in June. The musical inhabitants of Cambridge are about to sustain a heavy loss by the removal to Auckland of Mr Wa]ter Chambers, who has received ail appointment under the Kducation Board. Mr Chambers has a fine baritone voice, and has been a very willing assistant at many of the local concerts, and he will be greatly missed. We wish him every success in his new sphere of life.

The Gore Dairy Factory, says the Wellington Times, would appear to be in a very prosperous condition. A letter received in Wellington states that the Factory Company have disposed of the balance of their season's make of cheese, about twelve tons, to a Brisbane buyer at 5Jd per lb. f.o.b. at the Bluff, and that another ten tons could have been sold at this very satisfactory figure. The Company will pay a handsome dividend this year, and will also make a return of oue penny per gallon on the milk supplied to them during the season. The success of these ventures is of the greatest importance to the colony, and we are glad to note the flourishing condition of the Gore Factory.