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Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2559, 4 December 1888, Page 2

Parliament has been farther prorogued to February Oth. We remind our readers that the j concert in aid of the Hamilton West School j Sports takes pjace this evening at S o'clock sharp. At the London 'wool sales on Saturday, croasbreds were scarce. Good | quality show an advance of Id per lb, and coarse Ad. Mr Henry George has been enthusiastically received in England. He expresses surprise at the growth of laud nationalisation in England. The adjourned meeting of the Hamilton Domain Board, which was to have been held this afternoon, has been postponed till Thursday evening, at 7.30. At the football match between the New Zealanders and Irish representative fifteen played at Dublin, the visitors won by four goals and one try against one goal and one try. A serious loss to the colony has occurred. The Belfast Freezing Works, near Christchurcl"., have been destroyed by (ire, together with seven thousand carcases. The total insurances were £13,550. The supply of milk at the Tauwhare Factory has been steadily increasing so that at the present time about 800 gallons are received daily. Mr Dodd sends in 280 gallons, and will, I believe, supply 300 gallons before the end of the season. The Secretary asks us to remind members of the Hamilton Library Committee that the usual monthly meeting will be held in the Council Chambers this evenin? at 8 o'clock p.m. Important business will be submitted fur consideration. Friday being S Andrew's Day, full choral service —without the intoning— was held in S. Andrew's Church, Cambridge. An excellent sermon was preached by l)r. Hooper, from the Gospel of St. John, sth chapter, 20th, 21st, and 22nd verses. A collection was made in aid of the Melanesian Mission. We have to acknowledge the receipt of a circular from Count L. de Jouffroy D'Abbans, French vice-Consal in Wellington, containing a reprint of a letter he addressed to the Lyttleton Times on the subject of forwarding exhibits to the Paris Exhibition, together with an article which appeared in that journal supporting the Count's suggestions. The Customs revenue collected in New Zealand during the past month was £178,008 4s 3d. The estimate for the month

was ±1128,250, so the amount collected exceeds it by about i' 50,000, principally due to heavy clearances in c.ise spirits. The amount received during the eight months of financial year id or £'23,052 less than the estimate. Butter, which, until recently, was declining in price, is now likely to go up with a bound. \Ve were informed yesterday (says the Rangitikei Advocate), that a gentleman from up-country had purchased fifty kegs at !,U per lb., and is desirous of buying as much more as he can get at the same price. We do not know where his market is, but we are assured that he has one better even than the English market. A cricket match will be played on Saturday, Bth mst., in Mr A. Scott's paddock, at 1 o'clock, between the Te Rwre and Paterangi boys. The Te Bore team will consist of the followingßichdale, (captain), McLeod, Hodgson (2), W. Chester, Kav (3). James (2), and S. Clements. Tne Paterangi team: R, Ryburn, (captain), Hodgson, Munro (2), Macky, Ling, Ramsay (2), Higginson, Pollan, and Millar. During class firing by a squad of [ the Hamilton Light Infantry on Saturday, Private O'Neill had a narrow escape. The rifle, a snider, of one of his comrades had

become choked with a rag in cleaning the barrel, which could not.be extracted. O'Neill inadvertently took up this rifle, loaded it and fired at the target. The shot Jell away, but the wonder is the rifle did nut burst, which would have been the result in perhaps nine cases out of ten similar ones. St. Peter's Catholic Church Cambridge, was crowded on Sunday evening to hear the concluding mission senium delivered by the Rev. Father O'Gara. The stibiect of his discourse was "Hell," and the preacher dealt with it in three parts. First, the proof of its existence ; secondly, what it is ; and thirdly, those who go there. We have never seen so mixed a congregation in any place of worship in Cambridge before, as the whole of the other denominations were largely represented, and all of thrill appeared to be greatly edified. The Waikato branch of the New Educational Institute met at Cambridge oj) Saturday, the President, Mr \V. H. Stewart in tho chair. This Society now numbers upwards of twenty bona fide members. A large amount of business of purely scholastic importance was gone through with, and various resolutions were passed to be forwarded to the General Committee that meets in Wellington in January. Mr Murray, of the the Hamilton West He])"."!, was appointed the delegate to represent t(|B branch at the general meeting. xVftertlia meeting ttis Members were treated to a sumptuous repast by the Presir deat and Mrs Stewurt.

We remind our Cambridge readers i f S. Andrew's literary this evening at S o'clock.

The Salvation Armv still continue to draw large gatierings of people of all denominations to their meetings, especially on Sunday". On Sunday evening last the barracks, which are capable of holding some 230 persons, were packed, when Mrs Hutchinson and Captniu Cutler gave very practical discourses. Up to the present the Army have been in the habit of holding their meetings on Sunday evenings in the Public Hall, through the courtesy of S. Peter's vestry ; but when it was intimated to them that it was intended to hold special services in thu hall after the usual service at the Church, they at once gave up the hall very contentedly, and with the best of good feeling,

Messrs Eeynolds and Company have entered into the butter business with spirit, and are about to erect two more factories, at Whangarata and Razorbaek, respectively. Mr Reynolds met the settlers at the above mentioned places last week, and from the very satisfactory manner in which they entered into the project, the firm have undertaken to have creameries erected within one month from the present date. Another separator was started yesterday morning at the Pukekura factory, as one was not competent to put through the aniHiint supplied in that district. The firm are now dealing with upwards of 2,500 gallons of milk daily, and the two new factories will mean at least another 1000 per diem.

There were large congregations yesterday at the morning and evening services at St. Peter's, Hamilton, when the Rov. Mr Sprott, of St B.irnatas, Auckland, was the preacher. After evensong in the Church, a meeting was held in the Hall, and was attended by a considerable number of people of all classes and opinions. Mr Sprott gave an address on "The Existence of God." taking for his text, Job xxiii, 3rd verse, "Oh ! that I knew where I might find Him ! That I might come even to His seat." The rev. gentleman gave an eloquent address which was distinguished for its breadth and liberality of thought, and was listened to very attentively. He told his hearers the world was in a transition state, and the great truths of the Bible were yet to be disentered, as had been the glories of the heavens by astronomy.

The Mount Cook Hermitage Company have taken what appears to be a good step in the direction of developing the resources of the dnirniu they have made their own. Last week there went up to the Hermitage a Swiss family of nine, who have been engaged by Mr Huddelstone, through the agency of tho Swiss consul at Wellington, the parents to assist in the domestic affairs of the establishment, and the young people to do what they can towards earning a livelihood under what are to them the familiar conditions nf mountain life. The family came to the colony some months ago and have since been trying to make a living in the bush in th 3 North Island. It is to be hoped that they will feel quite at home near the snow fields, and there is no doubt that their native ex-

perience will be very valuable. They are well educated, speak English, French, and German. Their experience in alpine gardening for instance, whether directed tti the utilitarian vegetable garden, or the preservation and cultivation of mountain

species should be of considerable value. The youths of the family may instinctively take to mountaineering, and become the fiist of a race of guides whoso everyday business shall be in season, to show

adventurous visitors the way to Green's Cairn on the summit of Aorangi. Should

this family prove contented and as useful as is expected, it is intended to induce other families to come out, and thus

form His nucleus of a Swiss village under Mount Cuolc—Timaru Herald.

Many shrewd and far-seeing persons confidently believe that the prosperous future o"f this colony may bo summed up in two words, " butter " and "cheese." The growing importance of the New Zealand dairy industry is not at all adequately recognised by the public generally. But it is nevertheless a great fact, and one fraught with vast possibilities. The European demand for dairy produce io almost illimitable. Hardly any country in the whole world, certainly no country south of the Equator, enjoys such remarkable advantages as a dairying country as does New Zealand. Soil, climate, natural features, everything is most favourable, and now that the difficulty of transit to

market has been overcome by the introduction of " cool chambers " in the vessels

plying between New Zealand and Great Britain, the trade is bound to develop ihelf to an extent only limited by the amount of New Zealand's supplies. When it is remembered that there are in the colony already no fewer than four European buvers of dairy produce, the magnitude of the trade's future potentialities can hardly fail to suggest itself. It behoves those who are engaged in pastoral or agricultural pursuits to recognise this plain fact—that dairying is to bo thu colony's great industry of the future, and to make their preparations accordingly, so that thoy may reap their due share of the prosperity which it will assuredly bring. — New Zealand Times.