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Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2548, 8 November 1888, Page 2

Letters from several correspondents are unavoidably held over. A new scale of Native Land Court fees, signed by all the judges, appears in the Gazette of Ist November. In our last issue our Te Aroha correspondent chronicled a sale in Bradleys' Bazaar by Mr McNicol. This was an inadvertent error, as the sale wad held by Mr Buckland. Our correspondent telegraphs from Waiorongomai that all hands at the Tui and Champion Lode Mining Companies are to be paid off on Saturday, and the work to be let by contract. Mr J. C- Booth, the Hamilton local sportsman, leaves for Auckland this morning with Earnest. This horse is entered to be run in the Prince of Wales Handicap, to be decided at Ellerslie to-morrow. The snags which have for some time past caused anxiety to strangers bathing in the Hamilton We.-fc Public Baths have at last been removed by Mr John Wright, who took out no less than six different ones. No doubt now that this danger has been removed, the baths will be well patronised during the coming summer. To-morrow, Prince of Wales' Birthday, will be observed as a general holiday in the usual manner, all business places and public offices being closed. The volunteers leave this morning to take part in the review at Mangere. If the weather is tine there will be picnics and excursions in a small way. The Salvation Army officers and soldiers intend visiting Cambridge tomorrow (Friday), weather permitting. A good muster is expected, and thero will probably be open-air meetings held. The Brass Band Fund is progressing, and Capt. Cutler makes a further appeal in our advertising columns. There is no meeting tonight, as the Army is going to Pukete.

The lecture on "The Siege of Lucknow," to be delivered by Col. Forbes oil the 2Ut tnst., will be full of thrilling interest. Though wall acquainted with all the incidents of that great episode, Col. Forbes, will describe them, as far as possible, in the eloquent language of our best historians and eye-witnesses in preference to his own. The facts to bo narrated have been carefully collated from unimpeachable authorities.

The local in our Tuesday's issue about a writ for £1100 having been served by tho Colonial Bank upon a Cambridge director of the Cheeso Factory, is correct. The person upon whom it was served is Mr J. Ft. S. Richardson, and we learn that he has served as many of his brother directors as are in the colony, with notices that he shall make them parties to tho action. One (Mr T. B. Lewis), if not more, has left the country.

During his tour in the Australian colonies, Mr Devore, Mayor of Auckland, says he observed that though Protection in Victoria was giving employment to the various trades, the articles manufactured were dearer in price and rougher in finish than those manufactured by New South Wales. Referring to the "land boom' in Victoria, Mr Devore said the whole people seemed possessed with a gambling mania, and dreaded to see the same spirit spreading again to New Zealand.

We understand considerable inducements have been offered to the Hamilton 15oxing-l>ay Sports Committee, by local sportsmen, to add to their programme a Pony Race and a Hack Race, to bo run at Claudelands, on Boxing day, and to carry out the trotting race also over the same course. A special meeting of the committee has been called to consider the matter, and there appears fa* be every likelihood of the programme being amended to include the two races referred to. We call the attention of milk suppliers to Messrs Reynold's and Co'b adtisement in this issue, in which the Company state that they are prepared to give threepence per gallon during the months of June, July, August, and September, for milk yielding 6 per cent of cream, and one farthing per gallon extra for every additional one per cent of cream. The object in view in thus early notifying this offer is to encourage the growth of crops of green oats and roots suitable for dairy cattle during the winter season. We hear that the members of the Claudelands syndicate contemplate establishing a Waikato Foal Stakes, to be run under the supervision of the South Auckland Racing Club. This action of the syndicate is taken to further the main object they had in view when securing the Claudelands property for a racecourse, namely, to foster and encourage the breeding of a good stamp of horses in Waikato, and by this encouragement to induce owners of highly bred stallions to send them to the Waikato district.

The wretched state of the Courthouse, at Hamilton, was made very apparent yesterday, when the rain came pouring through the ceiling, over tables and pa pern, and saturating a considerable portion of the floor. The bailiff placed a bucket under one bad place near tlie bench to catch the dripping element, and stuffed some paper in the buckct to deaden the lively sounds of the falling fluid, in order not to distract the attention of the magistrate. The cranky building is worthy of a broken - down, spendthrift Government which has over-run the constable, and has now to expose its tatters to public gaze.

" It- will be seen by the report of the meeting of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board that Mr U. T. Wilkinson, Native Agent, visited the sick natives at Whatawhata *n Sunday last, and was also in attendance at the Board yesterday on beiialf of the GoTdrnmen'. The chairman of the Board has arranged for the temporary use of Mr Crawford's house, Hamilton Kast, at 3s per week, for the reception of the lever patients, who will be treated by Dr. Kenny. The complaint is stated by Dr. Murch to be typhoid fever. Tha Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge has taken a stop \vhich_is calculated t» keep them abreast wifj

modern ideai. Books of the Sandford and Merton type do not, now-a-days, attract many readers compared with the •3nsational novel with its flaring illustrated cover, the "shilline shocker" as it is aptly termed ; and the S.P.C.K., recognising the fact, have boldly facod the situation. On Mr Bond's counter, at Cambridge, last Saturday, were to be seen a large number of well got up books headed 41 The Penny Library of Fictonthe most startling sceneß depicted on the covers, assassinations, heroic rescues, all the emotional business that appeals to the ordinary novel buyers were set out in vivid colours. Swcing among the authors such well-known names as Grant Allen, B. L. Fargeon, M. Riddel and George Manville Penn, one was induced to buy, and for a modest shilling secured half-a-dozen books. The legend S.I'.C.K. on the cover, and on the title pago at first excited ridicule, and it was hastily considered a rude skit on the publication of that society, but further examination proved that the works really emanated from Northumberland Avenue, and that they were wholesome and amusing reading for either young or old.