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Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2506, 2 August 1888, Page 2

The report of Major Wilson's lecture, correspondence and other items are held over for next issuo. Jonathan Roberts' prison shirt was found on Tuesday, but Jonathan hiui--telf is still at large. The account books of the late Mr l<\ A Whitaker, were sold yesterday by Mr J. Knox to Mr Ilidler, for tho sum of t;7. The native footballers defeated 'Hugo by one point to nil. The game \vus played in the presence ot 3,000 apectar.ors. Wereta, the native wounded in r he fight at Whangarei, died at th¥P Auckland hospital, after his arm had been m.putated. Mr W- Buttle has purchased [nnesfallen from Mr Gubbins. This property is situated at Ohaupo, and comprises tw > thousand acres. Thire will be a conference 9f representatives of various local bodies in the Waikato at Ohanpo on the 7th instant, to consider tho question of dual rating, See. Major Jackson has presented a petition from Hamilton volunteers, relative to the Hamilton Volunteer llall Bill, which they regard as unnecessary. A man named George Adams has been arrested for attempting to shoot tho stcnard of the s.s. lona during her passage from Auckland to Mercury Bay. The boy Smith who was injured by the fall of earth at the Poro-o-torau Tunnel on Saturday, was brought to tho Waikato Hospital on Tuesday. According to the Star, the New Zealand Frozen Meat and Storage Company have decided lo abandon the buttermanufacturing branch of their business. A notice has been issued by Mr E. W. Lowe, Resident Secretary at Wellington of the Australian Mutual Provident Society, that Mr D. J. McLeod, the well-known district agent of the Society in Auckland, has resigned his position, and that he is succeeded by Mr C. W. Heinery. In reply to Mr Goldie, the Minister for Public Works said that a brickmaker at Te Awamutu had a kiln suitable for burning lime, and it was deemed desirable to test the limestone from Te Kuiti. The amount brought down for testing was 25 tons, the Government to receive the cost of transport in returned lime. If the experiment was successful, it would prove of great benefit to the agricultural interest, and lead to an increase of trathc on the railway. The wife of Mr Collins, of Waihou, met with a distressing accident several days ago. She is subject to fits, and whilst preparing food at the fire for he baby, she was seized with an attack and fell towards the file, upsetting a kettle of boiling water over her face and neck, inflicting severe injuries. Her husband endeavoured to allay the pain as best he could, hut Mrs Collins' suffering being great, she was brought to the Waikato Hospital yesterday for proper surgical treatment. The following Kihikihi town acres were sold for unpaid rates yesterday, and the following were the purchasers:—No. 201, Mowbray, £7 2< Gd ; No. 32, Mowbray, £7 2s Gd ; No. 31), Mowbray, £5 2s fjd ; No. 311, H. Miller, £11 2s Gd ; No. 11, Isaac Bush, £12 10s ; No. 19S, Mowbray, £7 17s (id ; No. 133, H. Miller, £0. Mr John iicNicol was the auctioneer.

The announcement that Major Wilson would lccture on "Tlio Lost Atlantis of Plato," that appeared in our Tuesday's issno, sorely puzzled many of the Rood people of Cambridge, and miny times during the day wo were asked who or what Atlantis was, and we believe many attended the lecture to tind out. There was a large meeting of parishioners of S. Peter's Church last night, which was presided over by the Venerable Archileaconi Dudley, Bishop's Commissary. A considerable number of ladies were also present. A long and animated discussion took place nn the state of the finances, and the best means to be adopted to improve the position. The chairman, with great tact smoothed the course very much for the meeting, and said he saw his way to providing extra work fir the incumbent outside the parish, which would assist the revenue. Resolutions were passed which will, in a measure, reorganise the executive work of the parish, and reconcile existing differences. A subscription list was opened in the room towards liquidating the overdraft, and £28 was obtained, with many promises of more. Principal Grant, from Canada, who is visiting the colony, has declared that New Zealand's great want is settlement of the country, and pointed to what Canada is doing in that direction. We observe that certain city journals seize upon this statement of a stronger, and dilate upon it ;ib though it were some newly-discovered truth never before thought of. Nevertheless it has been incessantly dinned in the public ear, and put before the notice of successive Governments, both by public-spirited men and the provincial press of the colony. We are all well aware of the patent fact; we Know, or ought to know, that we cannot erect a building without material, from the foundation to the roof; that we cannot build up a nation without population. But what are we doing? Is it necessary for every passing stranger to dig us in the ribs and tell us what we are already fully conscious of? Will Principal Grant's remarks move our rulers to action any the quicker ? The Rev R- Coffey, incumbent of S. Mark's, Wellington, made two rather bold and sweeping assertions in the course of his sermon last Sunday. First, that some of the wives of artisans of New Zealand were the veriest domestic drudges he knew of—even worse than some of the poorest and most miserable people he had known in Ireland—the special drudgery in question being that tyranny on the part of their husbands which kept thern at household duties on Sundays and prevented their attendance at Church. The second statement was that th'ire was a sad and a serious deterioration in morals amongst the young people in Wellington, on account of which he had been obliged to suspend the parish Juvenile Temperance Society rather than bring the children out at night to attend its meetings. Mr Coffey sug-

gested the advisableness of forming in the parish a Mothers' Union, for the promotion of the better training of the young people.—Evening Post.