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Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2551, 15 November 1888, Page 2

A Mrs Dawson, in Melbourne, cut tlio throats of tier two children and then her own. The Mosgiel Woollen Factory Company propose to declare a dividend ot S per cent. A house at Ngaruawahia, belonging to Mr O'Urady, was burned down on Tuesday night. A man named McJury lying drunk on the railway near Napier, was cut to pieces by a passing train. The appeal case in the Eeneta Will case began on Tuesday before the bench of judges in Wellington. It is said, that Sir H- A- Blabe, the Governor-elect of Queensland, was not popular in his previous appointments. The tennis matches between the Hamilton and Cambridge Clubs have been postponed till Saturday week, the 24th inst. Retrenchment in the Public Works Department is proceeding, but the changes will uot take full effect for two years. The weather last night was excessively close, and a hoavy thunderstorm with very vivid lightning passed over the district. The Cambridge Presbyterian Soiree was held last evening, and was a great success, we hold over oui report for the next issue. Lord Salisbury says the treatment of Sir L. Snckville-West was a piece of mere election tactics, and since annulled by the election of General Harrison. A private letter from Auckland says that the Hamilton Light Infantry have been cracked up" a great deal in town, where they were considered to be finer than any of the Auckland companies. The ship Langstone, lying at Napier, caught fire on Monday,- and was damaged to the extent £0000. One hundred and sixty bales of wool were destroyed, and 1200 injured with water. A printer's error occurred in Harapipi's letter on unearned increment. Referring to "Elector's" letter, it should read " when passed through the fanners," not "farmers " as printed. The Hamilton Public Hall seems to be very much neglected. We do not know who is responsible for looking after tho building, but it is in a filthy condition, never appears to be cleaned out, tho back scenery is in a disreputable state, and covered with improper and obscene writings. This is not a creditable state of things. Now the Hamilton Borough councillors have obtained legal opinion as to the powers they possess, as the local Board of Health, with reference to the rick natives, they will require another opinion to ascertain what constitutes a nuisance, on which point Mr Hay's opinion was not at all clear. Most people think a medical opinion, not a legal one, was the proper one to obtain on a question of a supposed contagious disorder. The warm weather having now fairly set in, numbers of bathers are beginning to frequent the Public Baths, Hamilton, which, without doubt, are a great convenience. As in the past two years, Professor Pannell has determined to open his swimming classes, particulars of which will be found in another column. These classes have done much to promote the art of swimming in Waikato, not only in improving the general style, but in teaching the very useful accomplishment to ladies and young children. With the prospect of the annual aquatic sports on the lake on Anniversary Day there is no doubt but that these classes will be well patronised during the coming season. A wild dog (a lurcher slut) is giving a good dual of trouble and annoyance to Mr J. C. Bnckland, of Taieri lake station. The brute has been chased by dogs and shot at, times out of number, but she seems to bear a charmed life, and deties the most subtle schemes conceived for her destruction. Her modus operandi is as follows She selects a sheep and chases it till it falls exhausted to the ground. She does not then suck the animal's blood, or make a meal off its body, but, having a dainty taste, tears away the piece of fat gut lying under the tail. The result is, of course, the oarly death of the sheep so treated. Mr Auckland estimates that he loses at the rate of 300 to 500 sheep per year by th» depredations of this brute, and during two years he reckons that this same animal cost him £500 inhaid cash. Parties are often out in search of her, but though she is frequently sighted, she has never yet received any injury. She is fleet as the wind, and being in excellent fettle, there are very few dogs in the district that can hold their owa with her in a straight IUII.

Members of the Hamilton Light Infantry Band are particularly requested to attend practice to-morrow night (Friday), as important business will bo brought before them.

The first shipment of this season's butter for the Home market (says the Taranaki News) left the port last week, by the s.s. Takapuna, for transhipment at Wellington. There were over (iOO kegs, made up from different dairies.

Chief Judge McDonald held a Frauds Commissioners Court, Cambridge, yesterday, and passed the signatures of a number of natives to deeds iti the Puahuu Block. The Maoris acted in a most straightforward mariner, not a single one but owned to his signature, which is quite a phenomenon in Native Land Court Business. The deeds are the first under the new Act that have been executed in the province of Auckland. A sum of £1200 was paid mer to the natives.

Canon Farrar the well-known author of the "Lifo of Christ," spoke out very plainly on the subject of Ecclesiastical Exclusivcness on the occasion of the recent Pan-Anglican Conference. On the day preceding the opening of the Conference "the Canon in tho course of a sermon used these words:—"Lotus remember that the majestic gathering of tomorrow is hut the gathering of the representatives of one communion of the groat church, of one household in the great family, of one fold amid the mighty flock. Far wider, and far far nioro majestic, and far more irresistible, is tho total unity of tho Universal Church. Perish the h.and that would circumscribe by one hair's breadth the limits or tho definition of the Church of Christ; perish the arm that would exclude from that one flock of tho Great Shepherd the "other sheep which are not of this fold." I, for one, even if I were to stand alone, would stilly repudiate and protest against the uncatholic teaching which would pretend to do what it cannot do by unchurching any who love the Lord Jesus Christ in spirit and in truth."

In an interview with a Press reporter at Christchnrch, recently, Mr (J. r. Booth, President of the Industrial Association, who had just returned from Melbourne, said. "Although large numbers of our population have been attracted to Victoria, I think the time is not far distant when we may expect to see many back again who have gone over there. So far as climate and natural advantages are concerned, New Zealand is far ahead, and every New Zealander is looking forward to the time when he can get back again. The great difference between New Zealand and Victoria that struck me was that f the Victorians arc intensely patriotic. They believe in themselves and their colony, and they make, every one who goes there do tho same. People who visit them are led by this to take them at their own estimate. This was the case with Mr Fronde, whose book I believe has had a good deal to do with the influx into Victoria. Whilst here we have the unhappy knack of running down our country, and of course people who visit us come to believe that we are in a desperate bad way." Speaking on the subject of intercolonial Free Trade he said : " I had an interview with the president and secretary of tho Manufacturers' Associations both in Melbourne and Sydney on this matter. I had doubts in my mind when I went over as to whether the Australians were really in earnest, and whether the feeling was strong enough to afford a reasonable hope of the ultimate success of the movement. After the interview I had, and the opportunities of ascertaining the state of feeling on the subject, I am very strongly impressed with the belief that intercolonial Free-trade will be an accomplished fact in the near future. In Victoria the manufacturing interest is very strong, and they are pressing it warmly on the attention of the Government. In Sydney they arc not so keen as in Melbourne, as a feeling in favour of Protection is growing up there, which, however, has the effect of making Victoria more anxious for intercolonial Free-trade. The Victorians seemed determined to pssli the matter through, and certainly it is to the interest of New Zealand to back them up by all possible means. We have nothing to be afraid of as it would mean tho throwing open of the country to our produce."