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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2484, 12 June 1888, Page 2

; Jonathan Roberts is still at large. The loan is considered a great success in financial circles in London. English starlings and Australian magpies are gazetted as protected birds. The match between the Australian Kloven and Cambridge University was drawn. The Piako County Council meets at Morrinsville at 11 o'clock on Friday, the loth inst. The English hop-growers are reported to be feeling the effects of foreign competition very severely. Mr Withy's speech on the Tariff is highly eulogised in political circles, and by the press in Wellington. Mr W. J. Smith, of Hukauui Road, left yesterday for .Sydney, where he has. obtained an appointment. The reduction in the salaries of Civil servants have boen made retrospective, from the beginning of the financial year. Mrs Harper, wife of the Right Kov. Dr. Harper, Primate of New Zealand, died yesterday morning at Ulmstchurch, aged 81. Auckland is again swarming with speelers, welshers and sharpen. AMr Thos. Hyan, of Herekino, had his pocket picked of a pocketbook with £71 in notes. We understand that Mr Bright, of the Waikato Hotel, is about to take possession of the Commercial Hotel, Hamilton, Mr 0. J. W. Barton boing about to retiro from tho business. In the return match with New South Wales tho Englishmen won by dashing play in the second spell, tho score being eighteen points to six. In the first spell Now South Wales playnd a good game, and secured six points to two,

We are informed that at his cattle sale at the Hamilton Yards, Mr J. S. Buckland had eleven halters stolen. This shows tho necessity for some of!ic«, or other place of safety being provided for the use of the auctioneers.

The Government have resolved to allow all machinery on route to the colony, prior to the coming into operation of the present Tariff, to bo admitted free of duty, and that in the case of what has already been paid a rebate thereof shall be made.

Barons Klamp, Hugo and Starck, the three German nobles, who are doing New Zealand,-arrived in Cambridge on Sunday, and stayed at the Criterion Hotel. They were driven through from Kotorua by Mr W. T. Carr. The former of the Barons is nephew to the Emperor of Germany, and is travelling incog.

In this issue appears a notice of the new roller mills at Te Awanmtu. to which we referred in a late issue, but which has been.-crowded, out by more pressing matter. Like n private member's notice on the OrderPnper,' articles and letters that are postponed just now require time to push themselves to the head of the list again.

More artisans are leaving Waikato. Yesterday morning Mr E. T. Hedgcock, of Cambridge, left by train en route for Sydnoy, where he intends following his business of cabinet-making. Ho is ■in excellent workman, and will doubtless soon, find employment. He leaves a large circle of friends, having in_ former years taken a great interest in musical matters.

The final rounds of both the tennis tournament, ladies and gentlemen, between members of the Hamilton Lawn Tennis Club were played on Saturday. The ladies tournament was for a pair of silver bungles presented by Colonel Forbes, and was won by Miss Newell who in the last round beat Miss X: K. S.indes by 12 gaineit to 3. Mr W. von Stunner presented a trophy to the club to be competed for by tho gentleman, and the winnnr was Mr W. Miilgan, who beat Mr A. K. Brooktield, the winner of the previous tournament by 15 to 1.2.

Mr Lam be, of the Auckland Freezing Work.--, accompanied by Messrs j. Si. Why te and F. Lα wry, have waited on the -Milliliter for Public- Works relative to the freights on manures;. Mr Lam be clearly and forcibly pointed out the advantage which will result not only to the agriculturists of the country, but also the Kailway Department, if the request were acceded to The Hon Mr Mitchelson entered fully into tho question with feelings of a sympathetic nature, but said it was with tho department entirely a question of revonue. After a good deal of discussion tho Minister promised to give the whole question his oarnest consideration, and to communicate the result to Mr Lambe.

The Papakura Fruit • growers Association, at a meeting held on June nth, 1888, to consider the Codlin Moth Act, as now before the Legislative Council, unanimously carried the following resolution:—"That in the opinion of this Association legislative action in respect to the codlin moth to bo effective should be confined to prevent the sale or importation of infected fruit or fruit trees, and the transport or use of fruit cases, etc., which have had infected fruit in them," A copy of the above was forwarded to the member for the district.

A large number of admirably stuffed birds are on view at Mr B. Hugo's hairdressing establishment, Duke-street, Cambridge, and it may be remarked as a coincidence that at the present season, when pheasants, ducks, etc., are daily undergoing the process of stuffing at thehands of tho cook, to render them more fit to minister to the evanescent joys of the table, many of their mates are stuffed by the skilful hands of tho taxidermist whereby as " things of beauty" they are made "joys for ever." Mr liuge is a master of his profession, and kiwis, kokakos, kakas, kingfishers, pheasants, pigeons, parrots, and pukekos, with every other specimen of the feathered or furry tribe which ha undertakes to manipulate are set up in a handsouio and natural manner, and tastefully arranged in glass cases form very pretty ornaments to a room.

A resident of Port Darwin in a letter to Svdncy says : —At Port Danvin there are 500 Europeans, and there are 10,000 Chinamen. Twenty to one is a big percentage, but to judge by appearance I believe if a census could be taken there would be found nearly fifty Chinamen to one European. Affairs are so bad there that the place might as well be handed over to the Chinamen at once, and to save the Europeans from further delusion in that they believe that the place belongs to Australians. The Chinamen monopolise everything. There is no line of business or trado into which they have not entered, thero is no work that a European will do but that a Chinaman will underbid him. The Chinamen defraud tho revenue by sly grog-selling, and they even underbid and outdo the poor widows who endeavour to keep body and soul together by washing. The Chinamen mean to have all their -own way here, for they have recently formed a society pledging themselves that, where a number of men are wanted and Europeans canuot be got they v/ill not work for a European for less than 7s a day, but if tho contract or job is handed over to the Chinese, each man is to be paid according to his worth. This cannot be gainsaid, the Chinese at I'ort D.uwin are driving the Europeans out and unless they are cleared out 'Port Darwin is doomed.