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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2492, 30 June 1888, Page 2

St- John's Cathedral, Napier, is to be lighted by electricity. A syndicate in Paris will take up the bidance of the Panama Canal loan. The crops in Northern India are seriously affected by the long drought. The English footballers were defeated by Maryborough by four goals to three.

The Russian wheat harvest is unprecedently large, and a commercial treaty with England is talked of. A very successful concert and dance was hold at Tauwhare on Wednesday evening, in aid of the school fund. In the match with North of England, the home team made !)3 in the first innings, and the Australians lost five wickets for 55. Dr- J. E- Elam, of West Tamaki, died on Monday, and has bequeathed the bulk of his estate (about £10,000) to found a School of Art and Design in Auckland. The total number ot immigrants brought to the colony since the commencement of the Government scheme is 114,308, of whom 30,272 were nominated. A petition is being numerously signed in Cambridge, requesting the mayor to call a public meeting so that the inhabitants may express their views on the retrenchment question. Sir Saul Samuels was a passenger by train yesterday, en route for the Lake Country. Sir Saul Samuel will return to London for a fuithertenu as Agent-General for New South Wales. Mr Howell, the mining expert from America, arrived by the Alameda and has proceeded to Te Aroha, where he will give his attention to the Te Aroha Goldmining Company's works. Contrary to expectations, the Emperor William of Germany is displaying a most pacific attitude, and he expresses his intention of following in his grandfather's footsteps. General Gourko predicts a two year's peace. Major Jackson has introduced the Ngaru.iwahia Cemetery Bill. It appears that the railway goes through the cemetery endowments. As one portion is sufficient foi burial purposes, the Ijill is to empower the trustees to lease the other portion. It is said that a German company have offered to send out a full plant for the manufacture of beet sugar, valued at £20,000, and to take half the payment in fully paid-up shares in any company which might be started to inaugurate the industry. -Herald.

Messrs Knox and Ssddon, J.P.'s, occupied the bench, at the li. M. Court, yesterday, to hoar several summonses for arrears of rates issued by the Waikato County Council. In no instanco did the defendants put in all appearance.

We remind the public of the important meeting to be held in Hamilton this afternoon to consider the question of retrenchment. Resolutions will no doubt be prepared for presentation to the meeting. A similar meeting' is to be held in Cambridge on Monday. Dr. H. Moon is to be the lecturer on Tuesday next, at S. Andrew's Schoolroom, Cambridge. It is current gossip that he is about to demolish some of the pretensions or assertions of Major Dane, who lately lectured at Cambridge on "The Heroic in Womanhood." Applications for several sections of land up Firewood Creek, the site of the special villages settlement, were sent in on the 27th inst. This is proof of the value of the land in the estimation of those who are acquainted with it. There is ample room here for the settlement of a large population. The Committee of the Legislative Council on the Chinese Immigration Bill statu in their report, "that, the chief characteristics of a desirable citizen in any community are : obedience to law, peacefulness, industry, and thrift. The Chinese residents in this colony have exhibited these virtues m the highest degree. We understand that Mr Esh, of Whatawhata, has been offered £7 10s an acre for his farm of ISO acres, and refused it. This property originally belonged to .Mr I). Hindle, the dwelling-house and farm offices thereon are of a very substantial am] extensive scale. Mr Esh will not sell under £8 per acre. Henry Morse, son of Robert Morse, contractor, of Cambridge, met with an accident on Thursday morning while helping to shift one of Mr Taylor's houses. The side of the house, fell on him. It was thought ut first that his spine was injured, but we are glad to report that the injuries are not so had as was expected, and that ho is progressing favourably. One of the natural outlets for Waikato produce should be the Te Aroha and Thames districts. Mr F. Fdwards, of Paeroa, has long thought so, and with commendable enterprise he intends to tost the trade. As will be seen by advertisement, he wishes farmers and others to arrange with him for consignments of farm and dairy produce. We wish his efforts every success. Mr Lawry has asked the Minister of Lands if he w ill lay on the table of the House any papers or letters relative to the breeding of suitable horses for the Indian market. If so. will he allow such papers to be submitted to the Stock Committee with the view of obtaining fuller information, and, if deemed necessary, a more detailed report on the breeding of light active horses.

The Salvation Army at Hamilton held the third of their weekly " Holiness " meetings on Thursday evening last. The admission, as usual, was by ticket, and a very large number -between 70 and 80— took the opportunity to bo present. About a dozen of the Army contingent from Ngaruawahia rodo up, and all present had a real good time together. The nights for holding these meetings have been changed, and they will, in future, be held on Friday nights.

According to the commercial report appearing in the Argus cf the 12th instant, Melbourne millers, in seeking for outsido markets for their surplus stock of flour, have hit upou New Zealand as one of the outlets. Strange as this may appear, the report states that 1380 bags were shipped during tho week previous. The fact is all the more extraordinary when it is remembered that while first-class wheat is quoted in Melbourne at 3s sd, it is selling here at 2s ( Jd.

A return furnished gives the number of settlers under the Village Settlement system in the various settlements. The, sections abandoned and the number transferred in the Auckland district are as follows: — Selected since the commencement, (i.'HI sections : area, 27,343 acres. Forfeited, 133 sections ; area, 550S acres, Transfers, 32; area, 143H acres. Abandoned, 10; area, 404 acres. Selectors still holding, 4!)(i, area, 21,430 acres. Arrears on 31st March last, HilS; amount, ±!KiO. The return was made on a motion of Mr JLialiance. late Minister of Lands.

A correspondent of the Sheep Breeder relates a remarkable instance of early maturity, or rather rapidity of develop ment ill a ram lamb, out of a Cotswold ewe, and sired by a registered Shropshire ram. The lamb, drooped Match 2, ISSO, measured when 2-1 hours old, two feet from top of head to root of tail, stood eighteen inches high, and weighed 15 lbs; when three months and cloven days old, it weighed 120 pounds ; when six months and seven days old, it weighed 150 pounds. When last weighed it tipped 210 pounds. It has received no more cars than the rest of the flock since being turned on the grass in spring.

Mr Bradlaugh brought forward in the House of Commons the question of waste and vacant lands, urging that local authorities should be empowered to compulsorily acquire such lands by payment to the owner of the capital agricultural value and let them to tenant cultivators. This he embodied in a resolution, which he moved with much emphasis and laying stress upon the fact that 12 000,000 acres in the United Kingdom were now lying waste, and utterly denying the right of landowners to prevent the development of their property or its ntiliaatiou fur the benelit of Mia couuuuuity,

Capt. John Ross, of Auckland, died at the hospital on Thursday. He had been using the "Canadian Perfume,' and though he had been ailing for some time, his death iva» rather sudden. An enquiry will bo held.

The Bay of Plenty Times, in the course of a leading article, says The special remedy of the Aueklanders for the ills that colonial flesh is heir to is supposed to be Hummed up in their well known advice, "go to the country." With this cry ever echoing in our ears, we can scarcely believe them when a contemporary taken them to task for furthering this, its own well worn wish and advice. Wo presume that in the opinion of Auckland Tauranga is very much the country. And yet when thu necessities of the colony perforce require retrenchment and reform in the railway running, which has beeu found extravagant and superfluous in respect to the Waikato aii'.l Hot Lakes service :— " Oh 1" says in effect a contemporary, "it will never do to meddle with that, for if you do people will go to the country by Tauranga, instead of coming to Auck'and ; as by going via Tauranga they are certain to save, both time and money." This may show how little value is to be attached to Auckland's professions of patriotic desire to uphold the credit of the Colony, To do so at this time it is essential that retrenchment should be carried out to the utmost. But if retrenchment in the slightest degree curtails Auckland's power to help herself at the oxpense of others, then Auckland's patriotism flies to the winds, revealing her essentially selfish nature. To take her own word and act for it, Auckland has a vested interest in everything, and every person, going to, or coining from Tauranga. Railways must be made, and Government pay for thsm, to spoil Tauranga's Tourist traffic, for the benefit of Auckland. The said railway, for the same selfish reason, must, not be included in the Government retrenchment policy.