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Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2547, 6 November 1888, Page 2

The Governor and Miss Jervois left Wellington yesterday for Clinstchurch by the Wairarapa. ] A toad 20,000 years old has been i found imbedded in clay of the glacial I period m a new railway cutting in Ensland. ' The widow of one of the Maoris shot in the tight at Poroto committed sui- ■ cide by shooting herself in the head with a | revolver, I We are glad to see that our fellow-townsman, Mr W. A. Graham, has , returned from his visit South much im* proved in health. i The Customs revenue collected in the colony for the month just expired is £125,255, as against £124,20!) collected in October last year. la the unavoidable absence of the secretary, the monthly meeting of the Hamilton Public Library Committee will be postponed until a date to be hereafter notified. The train arrangements and fares for the oth and 10th November are published elsewhere. They are unsuitable, and the fn»as too high to induce many persons from the country to visit Auckland. During the first seven months of the present year the amount of Cnstoms revenue collected in New Zealand was £808,82S 4s Id, or £74,022 less than the estimate. The amount collected in each. Messrs Wi Pere and W. LRees have altered their great land settlement plans, and at present their scheme is in the hands of a committee before attempting to float the proposed company. If will be very gratifying news to the Waikato to learn that at the dairy produce Bhow at the Melbourne Exhibition the first prize for butter was awarded to Messrs Reynolds and Co., and the second prize to the New Zealand Dairy Company. \ / The next meeting of the Waikato 1 District Hospital and Charitable Aid Board will be the last of the present Board, all of whom retire. The election for the new Board takes place sometime this month. Mr S- T- Seddon, the Returning OlHcer, notified Mr Thomas Wells yesterday that he had been duly elected to represent the electoral district of Waikato in the general synod of tin Church of England in New Zoaland. It is stated in official circles in Wellington that should the revenno fail to realise the Colonial Treasurer's expectations, it will be proposed that the Customs duties will be increased, and the Propertytax raised to twopence in the pound. This would give the colony its coups-de-grace. The Cambridge Cheese Factory is now in full work, and the supply of milk is steadily increasing day by day. Yesterday the amount delivered was 5(0 gallons, the quality being good, a great quantity containing 14 por cent of cream. The manager states that the milk this season i 3 much better than last year. The examination standard of the children attendiug the Tainahere school, was held yesterday, by Mr Inspector Goodwin. The whole of the children attending | the school, with the exception of one primer child, were present. Twenty-six children in six classes were presented out of a total of thirty-eight on the roll, aud twenty-two of the children passed successfully. The deputation consisting of Messrs Hicks, Jarratt and Dillon, appointed to wait upon the Cambridge Domain Board, and learn what they intended to do re the domain hands in Cambridge West, met Messrs Wells, (chairman), Fisher, Hewitt and Kirkwood, in the Borough offices last evening at 7 p.m., but in consequence of two of the members being late in attending, we shall have to hold over our report until the next issue. The wet weather last night damped the spirit of frolic in the Hamilton

youth who had intended celebrating the time-honoured Fifth, Nevertheless a few hardened jokers from Hamilton !Last played sundry pranks with an effigy, in in which the nerves of the timid and the temper of the unappreciative were tried with more or less effect to the satisfaction of the jokers aforesaid. Mr Thompson, MHR. tor Marsden, addressed his constituents on Satuiday, and received a vote of thanks and confidence, Referring to the Property Tax, Mr Thompson said he thought an effort would be made next session to reduce exemption under the property tax. Before any addition was made to the property tax, or any reduction in the amount of exemption, the people should insist that those who had large incomes should be taxed on those incomes.

'The Secretary of the District Hospital has received the following letter:— "Waitete, November 2nd. Dear Sir,— Enclosed please find cheque for £3 16s on account of Victor JClee; also one for £10, as a, voluntary contribution to the Hospital funds from the workmen on the Waitete contract.—Yours truly, D. Robertson.' This is the fourth voluntary donation from the same source, making in all the handsome sum of £67. Such a generous spirit on the part of the men is highly to be commended.

Mr W. L. Bees' book "Poverty and Plenty" has been published. It contains 500 pages, and is dedicated to Sir George Grey. It deals with the labour question, and condemns political economy as " a huge collection of false principles, inhuman maxims and deplorable results." One of the fastest trips on record has been accomplished by Mr A. J. Storey, who last week was at Napier on business for J. S. Buckland. Mr Storey left Napier at 4 a.m. on Saturday, and arrivod in Cambridge at 8.30 p.m. on the following day, riding the one horse which finished the journey, about 130 miles in 40 hours, apparently fresh and fit to go further. A new chum who lately came through from Auckland by rail, and has since been visiting the upper Waikato, says that the inhabitants must be a very sleepy lot and dead to their own interests, or they would ere this have had the streams teeming with trout. He asserts that no country can boast a better trout stream, than the one he saw between Pukekohe and Tuakan, and he believes that the fish named and also grayling would thrive in it, and in scores of other streams that he has met with on his travels. Salmon he also'thinks would flourish in the Waikato. We agree with tho new chum regarding the trout, for if a well-organised attempt was made to stock the creeks—more especially those free from pumice sand—we believe it would succeed, and that it would be a great inducement to tourists to prolong their visits among us, for many " globe trotters" are enthusiasts in the gentle art to an extent that colonials would hardly believe credible ; but we do not think that salmon would thrive in the Waikato, as the periodical saturations of pipe clay to which it is subject, would, we think, clog their gills, and prevent their blood getting the necessary amount of oxygen, thereby causing their death. If trout succeeded, there is no reason to doubt but that grayling would do likewise.

Our Cambridge correspondent states that the Colonial Bank in that town is at present in very bad odour with many of the inhabitants, in consequence of the authorities in connection with that institution, having caused a writ of £1,100 to be served upon one of the late directorate of the Cambridge Cheese and Bacon Factory. As it is a matter that is being much discussed, we give the facts as they are commonly reported in Cambridge. Not lung after the factory had started, the directors wanted an overdraft of £1,100 ; but as they wero not sure whether they could mortgage the property, _ seven directors gave, severally and individually, P.N.'s for tho amount, on the understanding that if the mortgagee could ltgally be given, it should be done ; and on its completion (he P.N.'s were to be given back. Having ascertained that thoy could mortgage the property, the deed was duly executed and given over to the bank manager, who—it is stated—forgot to return the P.N.'s. Some time after the P.N.'s were applied for, but were refused, as matters were not looking so well with the Company, and now that they have gone even worse, the Bank has picked out the director who is supposed to have the most money, and has served him with a writ for the full amount. If this report is correct, it is very hard upon that director, as he would have but a poor chance of recovering from some of his confreres, upon whom tho hard times have told a sad tale, and one has left the colony. AH that has hitherto bjen mado by the factory has gone to the Bank for interest, which is stated to amount t.-> £700. This is perhaps only one side of the question, but as it is a matter of common report we give it bona fide ; and if the Bank authorities like to give the other side, we shall be pleased to publish as an act of justice. _______—.