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Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2503, 26 July 1888, Page 2

Messrs L D. Nathan have shipped to order 400 boxes of potatoes for transshipment to Calcutta. Mr W- McKinnon was the successful tenderer for clearing gorse and ploughing on the Woodlands Estate, Tainahere. The Hamilton Volunteer Hall Site Act, 1878, Amendment Bill was reported on Tuesday by the Local Bills Committee, who recommended that it be allowed to proceed. The belligerent natives in the North have suspended further action pending the visit of the Native Minister. Sydney Taiwhanga has given notice of questions relating to the affair. Mr John Knox will hold a special sale of household effects, linen, &c, at his mart on Saturday. Wβ have only to mention this fact to ensure the usual crowd of buyers at the popular mart. A delighted father wrote as follows to a Southern contemporary : " Dear Sir,—l am happy to inform you that my wife has been safely delivered of two girls and a bay. All are doing well." A number of the soldiers (both sexes) of the "Army" at Hamilton have received their uniforms, which give the marches a very different appearance. More uniforms are expected to arrive next week. The last meeting of the Hamilton Borough Council was quite a remarkable one. The whole business of the Council and Domain Board was expeditiously gone through within the short space of threequarters of an hour. Mr John Knox had a remarkably successful sale at Kangiriri yesterday. There was a large attendance, including a number of Maoris, and the bidding was spirited. The whole of the trees, about 3,000 in number, were cleared off realising from b'd to Is lid for plums, fid to Is Id for apples, and peaches an average of Is fid each. The natives were large buyers. There is an increasing demand for unoccupied borough lands in Hamilton. Several sections were put up to auction and leased last Saturday. Applications for two more sections, near the railway line at Frankton, of about seven acres each, were received on Tuesday night, and we hear

that other endowments are likely to be applied for by residents, who wish to obtain small holdings to turn to profitable account and assist their present means of livelihood. The Council seems very favourable to the utilisation of its waste lands ; it will not only add to the revenue, but will greatly enhance the appearance of the borough to have the many unsightly places improved and cultivated. Mr Withy's retrenchment resolution was lost uy 50 to 10. In the House at a late sitting yesterday morning, the vote for Industrial Schools, £13,G24, was transferred from the Education to the Colonial Secretary's Department, as it was said to properly belong to Charitable Aid and Hospitals. We are pleased to notice that steps are being taken to form a Chess Club in Hamilton. In former years both Hamilton and Cambridge had clubs and many a good tussle they had. We can heartily recommend our young men to form the club, as they will find it a most enticing game and one calculated to improve their concentrating faculties. Mr Alderton, travelling agent for the Government Life Insurance Department, is at present in Cambridge. He proposes to deliver a lecture on fruit culture, a subject that would be not only interesting, but also very seasonable at this time of the year when the settlers and orchardists are engaged in planting. Last year, about Jubilee time, it was suggested to hold a bee for the planting of the Hamilton Lake reserve. Now that the season is again at hand, we should like to see some steps taken to do something in this direction. It only requires one or two earnest workers to set the movement going. We have received a letter from Rev. Father Ginity, S.M. of Christchurch, onclosing a circular relating to the founding of the Mount Magdala Magdalen Asylum for the reformation of fallen women of that city. This institution was formally opened by His Lordship Dr. Grimes on Sunday last, and there are already 40 penitents under the care of the Littlo Sisters of the Good Shepherd, an order of the Catholic Church entirely devoted to this work, The penitents are trained to lead industrious lives, and they are received into the asylum from all parts of the colony, irrespective of creed. Ten thousand pounds have already been .expended an the buildings, but there still remains a large portion incomplete, for which further aid is solicited. Father Ginity has devoted his whole time of late to this cause, and gracefully acknowledges the assistance he has received from the Press of the colony. Since the introduction of railways, railway carriages have been the scenes of many strange occurrences, such as murders, marriages, deaths, quarrels and the thousand and one other matters that go to make up our daily lives. Perhaps the queerest of all we have yet had in Victoria occurred on Thursday on the North Eastern line, when shortly before the arrival of the afternoon train from Seymour, the stationmaster at Essendon was instructed to have a doctor in attendance. Visions of a terrific railway accident flitted through the stationmaster's brain, but he nevertheless obeyed instructions, and ran in a local doctor, who arrived on the platform breathless from haste, just as the train rushed into the station. On enquiry tor the wounded man, he found, however, it was a case of life, not death, a young woman having been delivered ot a bouncing boy. As the German say : Ertragen muss man was der Himinel sendet. —What heaven sends must be borne —in this case without the " e." —Melbourne Gossip.