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Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2549, 10 November 1888, Page 2

"Rolling Stone" and "Settler's" letters will appear in next issue. A tableaux concert, fairy play and dance will take place at Alexandra, on Friday, November lUth. The Hamilton Light Infantry Band played at the Columbia Skating Rink, Auckland, last night. The list of the horses entered to date for Mr J. McNicol's Waikato Horse Fair is published in another column. A concert and dance, in aid of the library funds will be take place at Ohaupo, on Monday, November lilth. A sperial programme has been prepared, and a full house is expected. The ales of Messrs Brown. Campbell and Co. of Auckland secured first prize at the Melbourne Exhibition. As these liquors are manufactured from New Zealand made malt and grown hops, that fact is another proof of the superiority of the productions of this colony and its equitable climate. The next English mail by direct steamer will close on Monday uext, 12th inst., at 0.45 a.m. The English mail by direct steamer " Arawa," which leaves Wellington on the 15th inst., also closes in Waikato on Monday, the 12th. This mail is due at Plymouth on 27th December. It is always pleasing to chronicle the success of any locally-manufactured article. For some years past Mr E. J. Pearson, of Hamilton, has been engaged in the production of carbolic sand soap, as a cleansing and salutary agent for floors, thereby checking and destroying miasma arising from the soil, the germs of disease and insect life. It is also useful for scouring e>ll kinds of brass, iron and tinware. The merit of tho soap has won for itself a large sale in the past, and Mr Pearson has perfected arrangements by which he is now iii a position to meet the increased demand for the soap throughout New Zealand. Now that the summer weather is approaching (and the Maoris predict a very hot and dry season) householders would do well to have this simple, sure and cheap remedy always in their homes, as a preventive againet bad smells, and the consequent evils attendant upon ouch.—Sta».

A mob of about seventeen horses obstructed the line between Hamilton and Morrinsrille on Wednesday, and the train had to stop before they were driven otf. The total shipments of wool from Australia and New Zealand since Ist July last amount to 105,013 bales, being an increase over the same period of last year of 2,051 bales. Owing to the strong objection oi the people in Hamilton East to the location of the proposed Fever Hospital for Maoris at Mr Crawford's cottage, the Hospital Board altored their intentions, and have secured Mr McPherson's house at Frankton for that purpose, and the necessary alterations are now being made. The Cambridge General Gordon Lodge of Good Templars held their annual picnic in Mr Sharp's paddock yesterday, when the usual sportive names were indulged in. There were also a number of races, etc., for the members of the juvenile Temple who mustered in great force. Tho Cambridge Brass Band performed at intervals throughout the day. The cricket match between the Cambridge and Taupiri teams that was to have been played at Hamilton today, has been postponed until December 22nd in consequence of a misconception on the part of the Taupiri secretary, who, it appears, thought that when they withdrew from the Cup contests the then existing match arrangements would be declared off. An individual named Spear has lately been through Waikato styling himself an optician, and trading spectacles of retuted superior quality. But since it has come to our know egde that he has been purchasing spectacles from local tradespeople at something like three shillings a pair, and passing them off as genuine pebbles at half-a-guinea a pair, we consider it a matter of duty to put the public on their guard. Dr. Drummond, the levanter from Ashfield, New South Wales, was arrested at Colombo on board the North German Co's steamer Hohenstaufen. The prisoner seeing that all means of escape were hopeless, took a heavy dose of poison, and within five minutes death resulted. The pseud(»meiiico was wanted on a charge of hii* ceny (.f £0500 belonging to his wife. A large sum of money, more than sufficient to cover the wife's loss, was discovered among the effects of the diseased.

The following letter, of interest to old soldiers, appears in the Hawke'sßay Herald :—" Sir,—An old soldier being informed that he was entitled to his pension at the age of 50 ins'e d of (50, wrote to the Pension Office in London, and received an answer that all soldiers who enlisted before tho 23rd July, 18(14, and who have been discharged for reductions, or as invalids, without permanent pensions, or with froe discharges as an indulgence after fourteen years' services, and have in all cases badges (if good conduct during fourteen years in the army, are entitled to receive pensions at 50 years instead of GO, the usual period, and should send in their claims at once. If the Press of New Zealand and elsewhere will kindly give publicity to the above, it will be of great service to certain deserving old defenders of the British Empire." The great and wdely-famed firm of tourist agents, T. Cook and Son, of Ludgate Circus, London, have extended their operations to the Australian colonies and New Zealand, and a branch of their business has keen established in Auckland, at the Victoria Arcade. The history of this remarkable firm is unique, and atfnids a bright example of push, energy and business capacities. They have by their perfect Agency system reduced modern travelling to a sciencP, having made complete arrangements with steam-ship companies, railways, hotels, coaches, etc., etc., in almost every part of the world, and their through tickets can convey p.vsengers to any destination without trouble or anxiety, every provision and c ire being undertaken by t.he Agency through their ramifications. Few people are awaro that Cook and Son having possession of the whole steamboat traffic on tho Nile, and were entrusted by the Imperial Government, with this entire transport of the Gordon Relief Expedition, which was an undertaking of enormons magnitude for a private firm, and quite unexampled in the history of military operations. Mrs Gwynne's Hotel, Hamilton, and Mr Gillfitt's National Hotel, Cambridge, are

included in Messrs Conk and Son's arrangements for tourists visiting Waikato.