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Sir George Grey's Land Bill will probably be shelved. Some contributed matter and reports are held over till next issue. Severe gales on the Irish Coast are reported, and four hundred fishermen lost. Ths weather in Australia has been extremely cold, and snow has fallen at Adelaide. The total strength of the volunteer force in New Zealand is 5,0131, comprising 117 corps. The total damages paid by the Victorian Government over the Windsor railw&y accident are £125,000. The sentence passed on Mr Dillon, M.P. for Mayo East, for criminal conspiracy, has been confirmed by the higher Court. Mr R J. Parry, the second master of the Cambridge school, has received notice that he has been appointed head master to a district north of Auckland. The rinking season opens in the Public Hall, Hamilton, on Monday evening, and should the weither hold up as at present, it will be admirably suited for the pastime. Captain Hume has been appointed to a liieut-Colonelcy in the New Zealand Militia, and to bo an Inspecting Officer, with the rank of Assistant Adjutant General. A Maori woman in the North has given birth to triplets. The circumstance is so unusual to her people that it was the subject of a communication to the Native Minister. At a meeting of members of the legal profession in Christchurch yesterday, a resolntion was passed favourable to the appointment ot Judge Ward to the vacant judgeship.

Mr J. Parr, Hamilton, has in his shop window a perfect wonder in the shape of a drum-head cabbage, grown by Capt. Runciman, of Tainahere, which weighs 271bs. It is a monster.

A slight error crept into our letter from " Hautapu," 111 Thursday's issue, where it stated that the resolution " was rescinded," the proper wording should be "was not rescinded."

Several inhabitants of Cambridge have been losing cattle lately, all of which are young stock and have disappeared in a most unaccountable manner. Some of the owners think they havo been slaughtered.

The police are taking active steps to secure a conviction against the persons who have been removing and defacing the by-law boards oil the bridges in the Rangiriri district, especially along the Wairangi Road.

Whilst Mr Fish was addressing the House on Thursday night on Mr Samuel's Divorce Bill all the single ladies left the gallery, followed by the matrons. Sydney Taiwhanga is in high gleo at the prospect of the Bill becoming law.

Mr J. Knox will sell at the Auction Mart to day, some valuablo and choice effects belonging to Mr Byng. amongst them a violin of great age, and which originally cost £150. Thero is quite a collection of those knick-knacks usually found in a gentleman's bachelor den.

An Order-in-council just issued approves of the " readers of Blackwood's Educational Series, the "Southern Cross" readers, Wilkins' " Australasia,'" and the "New Zealand Public School" copy books, as class books to bo used in any public school of the colony.

Twenty-five applications have been received for the Railway Comnnssionership of New South Wales. Some of them are from New Zealand. The appointment will not be made until October next, and the Government will endeavour to give one appointment to a public officer and the others to business men and accountants. _ Mr John William Jones, C E.,F. G.S., a mining expert of great experience in South Africa and Australia, who is at present on a visit to Auckland, considers that mining in this country is not carried on in a practical manner as in the other countries named, but that there are only schemers hero in connection with this industry. Elsewhere mining has been reduced to a science, but hero he tinds only a wild-cut system.

The officers of the Salvation Army have arranged for a building in Hoodstreet, Hamilton West, which is undergoing an alteration that will make it a barracks for week-night meetings, capable of holding some 200 persons. It was thought desirable to avoid the debt of putting up a new building, but for the seating and lighting of the present place friends and sympathisers are asked to help. The programme for the near future includes the opening of the new barracks, a tea, and cavalry attacks on the outlying settlements.

We publish in our advertising columns a notice (if an entertainment to bo heldatCambridge, on 18th July, in aid of the fund for the "Cambridge Museum.'' Our readers will doubtless recollect attention being drawn to the efforts made to establish this institution, and now, it is our pleasure to see that Waikato, at last, will have something substantial in the way of a "Maori Museum." Thecnteitaimuuntwill consist of a first-class concert and the grand trial scene in the breach of Promise case, "Bardell v. Pickwick." We understand extensive preparations are being made, and Waikato will see for the first time, a real live Judge and Sergeants, conducting one of the most romantic Breach of Promise cases in the annals of history.

At a time like the present, when there appears to be a general exodus of skilled labour from our colony, it is refreshing to find that we have yot some lirst-class artisans left amongst us. The other day in passing along Uuke-street, Cambridge, we were struck by the neat appearance of a buggy in Mr j'l. Davis's painting shop, and upon closely inspecting it wo came to the conclusion that we had at leant one man teft'who knew his trade. Tim buggy was painted a dark sage greon picked out with gold, »nd the whole " get up " was such as could not be excelled in Auckland. Wo were told it was an old one " rubbed down," but had we not been so informed we should have thought it anew one from tho excellence of its finish If wo are to " judge a man by his works" Mr Davis will certainly have an excellent advertisement parading the streets of Cambridge for the next month or two.

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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2489, 23 June 1888, Page 2

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Untitled Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2489, 23 June 1888, Page 2

Untitled Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2489, 23 June 1888, Page 2

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