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Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2515, 23 August 1888, Page 2

Pressure on our space compels us ti» hold over several letters to the Editor, and other matter. Major Gascoigne has been appointed sheriff at Auckland, vice Mr Baddelcy. It is stated that the report of the Mokau-.Tones Commission is not approved by the Premier. Mrs Hutchinson, well-known in connection with the Salvation Army, remains in Hamilton till next week. Mr W. Robinson, drawing master under the Board of Education, is visiting the Waikato schools and organising his classes. A case heard in Auckland against a Wnllesley-street school boy for gross obscenity reveals a sad state of morals amongst boys attending the public schools. Public feeling at the Thames is directed against the Government for making no provision in the Jfnblic Works Statement, for works on the Thames-Te Aroha railway. A meeting of the Pukekura Road Board was held in Cambridge, on Saturday, when the only business done, was the passing ot a few accounts, and some minor repairs authorised. The weather in the Mackenzie Country, in the south, has been terribly severe. The glass was six degrees above

Fahrenheit's greatest possible cold. There has been great destruction of sheep. The Auckland train on Tuesday was over an hour late in arriving at Hamilton. The train was an e.\ceedingly long one, and too heavy tor the engine power to pull. On a previous occasion last week there was also great delay from a 6imilar cause. At the boxing exhibition given the other night by the three Auckland professionals, Coyle, Bird and Donovan, they were successfully knocked out of time by the Hamilton amateurs, Dennis Lees, brother of the prize-fighter, and Donald and Duncan Mclntyre. Mr H. H. Adams, the manager of the Te Aroha Gold Mining Company, has been having rather a severe bout of illness lately. The complaint is inflammation of the bowels. He has been confined to his bod for the last five days. Feeling a little better on Sunday, he ventured to pet up, but a slight relapse set in, which compelled him to take to his bed again. His medical attendance is Dr. Cooper,

The Wesleyan soiree and conversazione at the Public Hall, Hamilton, last night, passed otf very successfully. Soveral capital songs were rendered, the members of S3. Peter's choir being the chief performers. A correspondent makes the suggestion that the Saturday train for Auckland should leave Waikato at any early hour so as to enable holders of return tickets to have a few hours in town during the business part of the day. The cultivation of tobacco iu this district has been a subject of much interest for some years. In many parts of the Waikato the soil has been proved well suited for its growth and splendid leaf has been produced by many local growers. Attention is again directed to this rising industry, and in another column will be found an advertisement from tho manager of the Atlas Tobacco Company, of Auckland, who offers the best seed to farmers, and guarantees to purchase their crops at good prices. The late telegram to the H3rald referring to the inadequate display of our mineral resources in the New Zealand court at tho Melbourne Exhibition, which has caused such a sensation throughout the colony, we are pleased to see, was forwarded by their special correspondent, Mr Oreville Smith, formerly editor of this journai. We notice by the full report in yesterday's Herald that he had met Mr Kennedy Hill, an old Waikato resident, and together had been doing the exhibition. Mr Kennedy Hill was a very general favourite in this district, and had many friends who will bq glad to hear of his being still to the fore.