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Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2563, 13 December 1888, Page 2

Fergus Hume's dramatised version of "Madame Midas,'' in a great success. The Piako County Council meets at Cambridge at H a.m. oil Thursday, the L'Oth inst, Mr Goschen lias been asked to provide for a census of tho Empire being taken every five yearn. Henry George has returned to America. Ho returns to England next March to organise an activo propoganda of his teachings. During the past eleyen months the imports of the United Kingdom show an increase of i!»),000,000. and tho exports an increase of £11,000,000, foinijared with the previous year.

The Governor is to visit Auckland at New Year's time. The Te Awamutu Wesleyan Bazaar, which is in every way an attraction, will be re-opened to-day. The County Cricket Council has refusod to allow Spotforth to play for Derbyshire until he has resided in the county two years. The Hon- Mr G- F. Eichardson, Minister of Lands, will probably pass through Hamilton on Saturday next, on hia way from Te Aroha. We have received from Mr W. Dey, local agent of the New Zealand Insurance Company, several copies of that company's almanacs for ISB9. The carp liberated some years ago by Dr. Carey in the lake on his property, appear t:> be increasing, as some fine fish have been seen in the water. We are requested to state that if the weather to-night is decidedly unfavourable the Kirikiriroa concert will be postponed to the following Monday. The Timaru Herald, in a leading article, approves of the caution conveyed to the Imperial Government by the (Government of New Zealand, with rofcrence to Mr W. L. Kees' scheme. The third of the series of special addresses, in connection with S. Peters Church, Hamilton, will be given by the Rev. J. S. Hill in the Volunteer Hall, on Sunday evening next at 8.15. A number of sections of land in the Waitoa and Waipa Survey districts have been withdrawn from the village-homestead and special-settlement system, but are offered for sale at the upset prices of £1 and 10s per acre. The Waikato Archidiaconal quarterly meeting will be held in St. Andrew's School, Cambridge, this afternoon, at 3.30 p.m. Members of the congregation are invited to attend. A short service will bo held in the Church at 7 p.m. Mr G-uorge Reed, of Hamilton. left with us a day or two ago, varieties of two kinds of apples, both in a very good state of preservation. One was evidently of the Stone Pippin variety, but the other Mr lteed (lid not know the name of. A number of Hamilton East residents are not pleased with the decision to hold the Boxing Day Sports on the Claudelands racecourse, instead of Sydney Square. A counter attraction on the latter ground is talked of, and is receiving a considerable amount of support. We hear that Mr E. Hope, so long and favourably known in the Commercial Hotel, Hamilton, is about to proceed to Cambridge, as manager of the Masonic Hotel for Mr Clements. His many friends will bo glad to know that he is not leaving Waikato. Mr R- C- Marsh, agent for the Historical Publishing Company, of Fhiladelphia, is travelling the Waikato, pushing the' sale of two works on natural history and modern discoveries, called "Sea and Land," and "The World's Wonders." Through forgetfulness on the part of the one to whom it was entrusted, the advertisement from Reynolds and Co., announcinganincrea.se in the price to be given for milk, did not appear last issue. We are much pleased to lind both of the dairy companies coming forward at the same time to encourage the farmers by offering improved prices, and for which action they deserve every credit. The Cambridge Borough Council have decided to lower the price of the collars for sporting dogs, and next year the fee will be os each for all description of the canine race. They have followed the lead of Auckland, and are going to impound all collarless dogs, and what is more, the registrar will have to do the catching. Perhaps " William Garge," the celebrated Auckland lassooist, has an apprentice that he can recommend for the situation. If so the Cantabs had better bewaie, for it is well-known that Mr Garrard is "rough on dogs."

A telegram in Tuesday's Herald states that the Russian Press are enraged at Sir Henry Dnuiuncmd Wolff's success in opening the Tarim river of Persia to the navigation of the world, nn<! that they warn England not to meddle with Persia. The telegram is evidently a triflo mixed. Tariui is a river in Central Asia, within the Chinese Empire. It rises in Kashgar and empties itself in a lake in the centre of thfl desert of Gobi. Persia can have nothing to say about a river in the interior of Asia, neither can that river be of use to the navigation of the world. Probably the Tigris, or an important branch of the Euphrates, was meant.

The following extract from a letter by an ex- Dunedinite, now resident in England, speaks for itself: — 11 It might interest Dnnedin people to know that their splendid mutton and lamb is sold here as English. The rubbish sold as New Zealand is River Plate mutton, etc. Is it not time New Zealand people were aware how their interests are sacrificed ? River Plate mutton is never offered. The writer has tried in vain to get some, yet thousands of carcasses are landed weekly, with an ever increasing importation. A leading butcher here told the writer the other day : '' Your New Zealand mutton and lamb is as good or better than the primest English; its toughness is caused by the carcasses being frozen too soon, sometimes before cold." This suggestion, coming from a practical man, may be of value. New Zealand mutton would realise sjd to Gd por lb, if it had fair play, in wholesale quantities."

The Wellington correspondent of the Otago Daily Times telegraphs as follows :—Nothing is finally settled as to the judgeship, but an impression seems to be gaining in legal circles that Judge Ward will not be the man. I was positively told la<t night that the judgeship had been ottered to Mr Maggitt, but had been declined by him, and Mr Connolly's name had been a good deal mentioned. It is suspected that Ministers find a good deal of difficulty in coming to a decision for various reason.-! which need not be explicitly stated, but can readily be conjectured. It is still asserted with great circumstantiality that the judges lip was offered to Sir R. Stout, notwithstanding the Government's denial, but that the offer was made in such a way as to enable the Government to say with truth that it had not been done " officially "—that is to say, it is alleged that although the Premier may not have made the offer to Sir R. Stout, an intimation was made by a Minister that if he would take the position it was at his service; but he did not see his way to take it just now. All this may be mere gossip, but I send it for what it is worth.