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Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2555, 24 November 1888, Page 2

Owing to pressure on our space we are obliged to hold over several letters and reports. The weather yesterday was very cold, and a fall of hail occurred during the day. The European beet sugar crop is expected to exceed that of last year by 420,000 tons. The land boom in Melbourne is collapsing, and there is great uneasiness in commercial circles. Fighting still continues at Samoa, but it is expected that Mataafa will become victorious in the end. The costs against the Times in the libel action brought against it by Sir J. Pope llennessy amounted to £8000. Gold is reported to have been discovered at Wataaianga Bay, Queen Charlotte's Sound, some miles eastward of Picton. Mr E. Harrington, M.P.. and Secretary of the National League has been charged with contempt of court for publishing an article accusing the Parnell Commission with partiality. Four sheep have been killed and about fifty injured by strange dogs on the Lake property. A notice from Mr Forbes to owners of dogs appears in our advertising columns. Some boys have discovered a human skeleton in tho creek near the railway bridge at Frankton, which had become exposed to view. There is no doubt it is the remains of some Maori long buried there. In Wellington, on Thursday, the Agnews were charged with insulting the Premier. The man broke out in a fearful torrent of abuse, and was ordered to be removed. Mrs Agnews defended her husband, screaming loudly. Both were removed by the police after great trouble. The bachelors' quadrille party to lie held in the Public Hall, Cambridge, on Wednesday, promises to be a success, as a largo number of tickets have been sold. This will be the first dance on tho new floor, and dancers will doubtless appreciate the improvement. A correspondent at Cambridge writes :—The whirligig of time brings about strange change*. On the nomination day for tho mayoralty of Cambridge, Mr Archibald Clements, who was returned unopposed, was unavoidably absent on business in Auckland ; and had deputed Mr Cr, W, Russell to return thanks for him, and to invite the ratepayers present to drink his health. Mr Clements' popularity to which he owes the walk-over is mainly due to the determined stand ho took some years ago to defeat tho proposed Borough loan of which Mr Russell was the most ardent supporter. But for Mr Clements' foresight on that occasion the Borough would have been saddled with a debt of which the disastrous consequenccs can hardly be estimated.