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Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2498, 14 July 1888, Page 2

The Government appears to be willing to go as far in the direction of retrenchment as the House and country require them, but they do not think the responsibility of defining the extent should be left to them. The proposals of Mr Theo. Cooper for effecting economy in the Education Department has attracted the attention of Ministers and members in Wellington. The Wellington correspondent of the Herald telegraphs as follows on the subject:—The Auckland members of the retrenchment party are greatly pleased with the leading article in the New Zealand Herald of Monday last on educational retrenchment, and Mr Theo. Cooper's letter outlining his scheme in connection therewith. Mr Goldie thoroughly endorses what is therein stated, and is bringing Mr Cooper's scheme under the notice of the Premier and the Minister for Education.

on the agricultural outlook and dairy factories, verses on tho heathen Chinee, I and an original story by a little child of nine years. The Premier is again indisposed. Porter, the bank clerk, will be brought before Capt. Jackson, R.M., at Cambridge, on Monday. The ladies of Cambridge gave a dance last evening, which was well attended, and proved very enjoyable. After a lively debate the proposal to establish a daily Hansard has been negatived in the Victorian Assembly. The English mail, via San Francisco, closes at the Hamilton Post-office this afternoon at 3.15 p.m. This mail is due at London on 20th August. Mr C- Tisdall, formerly of Alexandra, and now a student of St. John's College, Auckland, will take the services both morning and evening at St. Saviour's, Alexandra, to-morrow. We learn that the Cambridge rinking class intend petitioning the Borough Council to reconsider their decision re the Public Hall floor. They suggest that kauri or heart of r'nnu should be used. A man named Michael Ryan was sent from Cambridge to Mount E>!en yesterday to do three months' hard labour for using obscene laoguasre in Duke-street on Tuesday. Mr G. W. Russell was the committing justice. The necessity for cutting down the system of over-government is forcing itself on the people. The Alexandra residents are moving for their own extinction as a Town Board, and petition the Waipa County Council to take them under their control. The Rev. Mr Or. Brown's lecture at Cambridge, on Wednesday, was well attended, but those who were present thoroughly appreciated the subject handled by him. The address was similar to the one delivered in Hamilton, of which a report appears in another column. A Whatawhata subscriber wishes to know what effect the maize ensilage, as food for dairy cows, has on the flavour of the butter; does it improve its taste and quality ? Perhaps some of our readers who may have had experience in the matter will supply the information desired.

During the present season there have been a number of cattle fattened on the Okoroire station on turnips, of which there are 800 acres on the estate, averaging a very fair crop all round. The cattle are mostly half-bred Herefords, and have been bred and reaied on the station. In today's Supplement we reprint the introductory article of Dr. Laishley's series of political papers which he is publishing in the Herald under the title of "The New Evangel." These papers we will insert in our weekly edition, and probably comment upon them as they appear.'

We have in our office samples of the quartz procured at Tuhua by Mr Bond and party, of Kill kihi, in their late prospecting tour in that locality. In their search, tho prospectors, after passing over a sandstone and slate country, came on the quartz, and then again beyond that on another strata of sandstone and slate. The Cambridge Kink was again crowded to witness the final heat in the handicap race which resulted as follows :— A. Armer, H- rounds, 1; W. T. Gut, scratch, 2; T. Richardson, 3. The race was a most exciting one all through, but the scratch man could not catch Armer, who has been practising regularly since the handicap was declared. Another race will shortly be put in hand. One of our leading settlers lately received a letter from a friend in England, consulting him as to the advisability of coming to New Zealand with capital, to engage in farming. The settler wrote back strongly advising him to remain where he is, and described the state of the country and government. This is probably only one of hundreds of similar cases to be found at the present time. There was some very close tendering for the contracts let by the Piako

County Council yesterday. The successful tender fur No. 1 'contract was £300, while the second and third were £31-~> and £31") 3s 4d, but between these and the fourth and fifth there was a large jump, and on which the contractors must have wished to make a Rood thin!?, being £347 iis 8d and £487 Ss 4d each. For contract No. 2, the successful tender was £257, while the second, third, fourth and tifth were within £45 of it. Mr Pearson, manufacturer of the Hamilton Gurbnlic Sand Soap, baa added to his business the manufacture of common household soap, also qualified with carbolic, a sample of which we have obtained. It is quite equal to any of the Auckland brand, iu fact some of the latter is so inferior and impregnated with deleterious colouring matter that we know of great injury done to clothes through its use. We have no doubt Mr Pearson will succeed as well in this branch of his local industry as he has with the sand soap. As some alterations have been made in the teams, we have been requested to again publish the names of those selected to fire in the match, Band v. Company, at the range to-day, in order that the new members may receive intimation of their selection :—Band : Bandmaster Mettam, Bugler McKenzie, Bandsmen H. Tristram, C. Davis, Parr, Barker, Pritchard and King. Company: Colour-Sergeant Pearson, Sergeants Connolly and Hooper, Corporals J. E. Tristram and Alexander, Privates Bent, Hayes and Allan. Firing will begin at 1 o'clock. Mr Isaac Coates, the contractor for threshing on the Lockerbie Estate, finished operations yesterday, having put 20,000 bushels of wheat through his machine. The yield has been a fairly good one, and Mr Harrison is now busy getting the land ready for crops for next season. Mr Coates took his machines out to Lockerbie by road, and we understand that he intends to hring them back by the same way instead of by rail. The roads are not ?oo'd, and some of the bridees not very safe, and would be in danger of giving way under the engines, which will also do a lot of dam age to the roads, making them almost impassable for other traffic. The authorities of Cambridge seem to have suddenly awakened to the fact that furze is a noxious plant, and " with one consent" are taking the necessary steps to have it eradicated. The Borough Council and the Domain Board are serving notices upon their tenants to clear the ground, and also streets adjoining; the former body likewise intend making an effort to let the reserves now on their hands, even if they let them at Is per year, so that they may be fenced and cleared. This is a step in the right direction, but until some method can be adopted for dealing with absentees' acres, many of which are a per- • feet forest of furze, it will be a continual source of trouble. To the Editor : Sir,—lt was with great surprise that I read in your issue of the 3rd inst, the severe and uncalled for remarks made on the singing of the ladies who so kindly gave their services at the Tauwhare concert. I think your correspondent must have been in a very snarling mood, and perhaps his own ear may have been a little at fault, for the entertainment was in every way a creditable one, both as regards music and arrangements, and I can only hope that at some future concert we may have the pleasure of hearing those singers again, and that your correspondent will absent himself, for he can be no friend of our little township, or lie never would have written such an article. — I am, Sir, yours truly, li'bancis \V. Buowning. Tauwhare, 13th July, ISBB.

The appointment of officers for the local corps of the Salvation Army took place on Thursday evening last, when Capt. Cutler appointed the following :—SergeantMajor, Mr William Kelly; Sergeant, Mr Grove Vowless; Colour-Sergeant, Mr Geo. Mayes; Door-Sergeant, Mr William Wyatt; Corporals, Messrs Geo. Keep and Robt. Petty ; Treasurer, Mr John Andrew; Secretary, Mr Geo. Hall; Trade-Sergeant, Mr William Andrew ; Trade-Corporal, Mr Chas. Cox ; which are to be confirmed by the Major when he pays his visit to Hamilson, which will be in about three weeks. Mrs. Hutchinson and Mrs Andrew, from Auckland and Otahuhu, respectively, are expected to arrive in Hamilton by the 1.45 train to-day, and will assist in the work here for about a fortnight. Mrs Hutchinson is well-known in Auckland and elsewhere, having been connected with the Rescue Home in Auckland, and has taken a great interest in Salvation Army work generally for a considerable length of time.