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Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2534, 6 October 1888, Page 2

The San Francisco mail closes at the various Waikato offices this morning.

The Piako County Council meets at II a.tn. 011 Thursday, tin 11th inst., at Morrinsville. The concluding part of our " Special's" report on Te Arolia, etc., is held over till next issue. Mr J. P, Vause, postmaster at Te Awamutu, is appointed Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages. At S. Andrew's literary next Tuesday, Mr Ward is to be the lecturer, and the subject "The Great Pyramid." A piece of land, containing 410 acres, in the parish of Waipa, is gazetted as open for sale or selection at 10-s per acre. The meeting of the Kirikiriroa Road Board yesterday lapsed for want of a quorum. Messrs Primrose and McLean were the only members present. Waikato cricketers are going to have a good time. A regular programme for the season has been drawn up. We hope to .see a little more interest in the game shown by Hamilton players. On Thursday evening last, Lieut. Ellis, of Hamilton, accompanied with three or four soldiers, proceeded to Pulceto to hold a Salvation Army meeting. Thorn was a v>;ry fair attendance in the schoolroom, which was kindly lent for the occasion. Mr J. Parr informs us that he has received very fair support since he induced Mr Cannell to reduce the price ot lime to £2 per ton. Mr Isaac Coates, amongst others, has had two tons of it. He says that is of very great value for reclaiming swamps and heavy clay lands. We are pleased to see that Mr H. Council advertises his second popular concert for Thursday, the 18th October. Capt. Raid has kindly consented that the volunteer parade should lake place on Friday, the liltli, instead of Thursday, in ordtr to make way for the concert. Petty thieving seems to be very rife in llamilti-ll just at present, in some casps have shops been entered and the offei dors caught redhanded, but owing to their tender ages no action has been taken. Not only are tills sought after, but (irewood and such things from back yards are stolen. Mr John Runciman, of Cambridge, has lately had several letters from fiuit growers in California, and they all speak in commendatory terms of tlio fruit pickers he sent there on trial. One firm want him to patent the instrument, and let them work the agency for him. He has, however, not yet decided what to do regarding it, A Government daylight parade of the Hamilton Light Infantry will bo held on Saturday next, members to fall in at the Volunteer Hall at ;j o'clock sharp. According to the Volunteer Regulations, each yolunteer has to put in six daylight drills during tho volunteer year to make himself efficient, and ontitle him to capitation. The usual quarterly Church parade will be held oil tlic Sunday following,

We are in receipt of a prospectus from t!ie Equitable Life Assurance Society of New York, the largest institution of the kind in existence. Its business is of vast magnitude, as is seen from its position on 31st December, 1887. The new assurances were U25.754.514 ; tho total assurances in foice, £l00,t>31,lo|); premium income, £1,001,181; and the surplus, £3,750,881!. Mr C- Gordon-Glassford has not been chary in introducing his clever little hunting maro " Nora " to an Australian public, for by The Ballarat Star of the 21th ultimo, we «ee he had her out after the Ha Ma rat hounds on the 22nd and was well up at the finish. That was rather quick work, for it could have been only a little over a week after the mare had been landed in Sydney. If we are l.ot well represented at the Exhibition, Waikato, at ail events' has sent a good rep. of horseflesh. The two great concerns of Rtioldsborough and Co. and Mort and Co. of Melbourne and Sydney, have been amalgamated. The capital lias been increased by the issue of 300,000 new shares of £10 each (50,000 shares to go to Mort and C*.), thus increasing the subscribed capital to £0,000,000. Last season the two companies sold 137,800 bales out of a total of 374,000 sold in Australia. Besides these the two firms shipped 30,000 bales, thus making nearly 170,000 bales that passed through their hands. The Argus referring to the two firms says:—The combination of the names of the two great founders of the Australian wool and produce sales was happily made in the name which they had agreed to adopt—viz., Goldsborough, Mort and Co. Limited —and the success of their efforts was already evidenced by the rapid and colossal growth of the business transacted in tho colonies, the total sales made last season representing about £8,800,000. " Ango Australian" in the European Mail sayslt is highly gratifying to note the remarkable manner ill which Australasian milling is now advancing on its new scientific basis. I notice that the American Miller gives a really capital portrait and sketch of Mr J. C. Firth, the builder of the first American flour mill in New Zealand, and a very good and characteristic likene-s it is. It is high time that these Antipodean (lour mills were put on the new and scientific basis, now a sine qua noil for really successful milling, seeing that the day is not. far distant when the United States will have little or no flour to export to Europe. I may observe, in this connection that quite recently I. had the privilege, of seeing the greatest of all millers, Mr Pillsbury, of Minneapolis, who made a short stay in London, on his way to Paris. He had some highly pithy things to say on the subject of American Hour milling, and, for one thing, remarked that the time was not so very distant when the American people will consume all the Hour made in the States themselves! [ do not wish to take too much to myself, but this is but another instance of the very emphatic way ia which .successive events are confirming my own observations, made some two years or more ago, that, if Australasia bestirred herself, she could secure the rich reversion of the American trade with the United Kingdom in breadstuff*."