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Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2566, 20 December 1888, Page 2

Great fires have occurred at Tien Tsin, and Hongkong, doing much damage. The Maori footballers defeated the Wigan Club, Lancashire, by a goal and two tries to a try. Three hundred and sixty deaths out of 800 cases of cholera have occurred at Manilla iu rive weeks. The entry was omitted in the Maiden Plate. South Auckland Racing Club, of Mr J.'Rae's b in Fragrance. Mr J. McNicol had a very good sale of horses at Cambridge yesterday. We hold over our report of it until next issue. Fierce fighting has taken place in Samoa with loss of many lives on both sides. Mataafa has captured one of Tamasese's positions. The Secretary of the Cambridge Lawn Tennis Club has received a communication from the Mount Eden Clwb, stating that the latter will send a team consisting of two ladies and five gentlemen to play the former at, Cambridge on New Year's Day.

The Sisters of S. Mary's Convent will have a bazaar and gift auction on Boxing Day in the Oddfellow's Hall, Hamilton East, for which they have a large quantity of fancy work and goods () f all kinds. We have no doubt it will be a very successful ait'air.

The foreign parcel post has been established between this colony and the United Kingdom. Parcels, not exceeding lllbs in weight, 3ft. (iin. in length or Gft. in length and girth combined, will be received for tiansmission from andnfterthe 27>,h Decembei. Further particulars of the rules and regulations of the system can be obtained at the Post-office.

Notwithstanding the decidedly unpropitions weather during the Wesleyan Bazaar at Te Awamutu, the takings for the twci dnys were £42. The expenses are about £10. Had it not been for the wretched weather, the receipts would probably have reached the sum of £100. The building of the proposed new parsonage will now be indefinitely postponed.

There should be an excellent future for the fruit industry of the Waikato which, as it expands, will give rise to the establishment of wine-making. We lately referred to some grape and other fruit wines made by Messrs vim Stunner and Son. We have now a sample of grape wine manufactured by Mr LeQuesne, of Hamilton East, which is rich in flavour and tone, and makes a capital table wine. We shall yot Bee Waikato famous for its vintnge.

The fourth and last of the present course of Sunday evening addresses in the Public: Hall, Hamilton West, will be given on Sunday next, at 8.15 p.m., by Mr Wood, a gentleman lately arrived from England, and who has been for some years a teacher under Archdeacon Farrar. Being well versed in the subject and a good speaker, it is but reasonable to expect an interesting and instructive address.

The anniversary services in connection with the Hamilton Wosleyan Sunday-School will be held on Sunday next, when the Rev. G. Stephenson, of Raglan, will officiate. The music, which will include a nnmber of Christmas carols will he supplied by the children of the Sunday-School, who have been rehearsing for some time, and will be under the loadership of Mr Meachom, assisted by the Church choir.

The Native Land Court has adjourned from Otnrohanga, and will reopen at Kawhia on the 24th January, for the work nf sub-dividing the Kawhiiv and Awaroa Block?, and settling a disputed bounc'ary between the Ngatimaniapoto and Ngatibikairo tribes. The work is expected to occupy about two months, after which the court will return to Otorohanga to enntimiß the parcelling out of the King Mr' John Knox has given notice of the following motions to be moved in the Hamilton Borsngh Council :—That resolution, No. 19 nf the Gth December, 188G, appointing Mr D. Lees poundkeepor, ranger, and dog registrar for the Borough of Hamilton be rescinded, and that the Council call for applications for the office of poundkeeper. And that lurchors and greyhounds be charged a registration feo of £1 each, after Jauu.irv Ist, 1SS!).

A large quantity of goods having been left over from thn Te Awauintu "\Vcslnyaii bazaar, owing to the wet weather expeiionced, it has been decided to give a further opportunity for inspection and purchase to those who were unable to visit the bazaar last week. The goods will be displayed for sale to-day, and on Friday and Saturday, from 2 to (» p.m., in the shop lately occupied by Mr Ford, tailor. No doubt many will avail themselves nf this opportunity, as the articles are all of good value and offered at extremely low prices.

The London Daily Chronicle, in noticing Mr P. \V. Barlow's book, "Kniparn, or Experience of a Settler in North New Zealand," speaks of it as follows : _" A roiilistic nanr.tive, written with simple earnestness, and embodying n Wee aiwmnt of useful information. Besides passing through a period of depression, the colony (we are told) is suffering as well from too much government, both local and general. It, however, still possesses plenty of vitality, and only wants time, and men earnest for its Rood at the head of affairs, to nurse it into a vigorous and flourishing conThe following train arrangements fur the Christmas holidays have been fixed upon by the Railway Department. A fast train leaves Auckland on 2Rth, at 7 a.m., and arrives at Hamilton West at 11.-15, Cambridge at 12.30. and Te Aroha at 1.15. It leaves Te Aroha at 5.30 p.m., Cambridse at G. 5, Hamilton West at 7.3, and readies Auckland at midnight. Fares: Hamilton, 10s (id and 7s Gd ; Cambridge, 12s (id and 83 (id ; and Te Aroha, 13s Cd and fls. Return tickets are issued available to 15th January. On the 29th an excursion train leaves Auckland at 7 a.m., andarrises.it Hamilton East, (Claudelands Racecourse) at 11.50, and leaves the latter station for return at 0 p.m., arriving in Auckland at 11 pm. Fares are 10s (id and 7s (id. On both dates the Irain3 will stop at intermediate stations where required.

The following extract irom a private letter from an auctioneer in Auckland will proVβ of interest and utility to fruit-growers :—" Growers make a big mistake in sending their fruit, ots., in the indiscriminate manner they do to auction marts. They spoil other people's chances c,i gptting a decent price, and don't get a payable return themselves. Buyers come into our stotei' and ask the price of goods (gooseberries, for insiauGu), We quote and they immediately say " Oh, we can get it for half that price at auction." Until the producers see it in this light, tip top prieas fur fruits, etc., are difficult to obtain. Howovep, wo trust you will be satisfied with our endeavours. If we may make f> suggestion, wo would advise you putting your fruit in cases haif the si2e you eont us, and uail two togethei. They would then come at the same or lesa freight and would, sell much more readily."

We understand that the Hamilton Light Infantry Baud will play at the Sydney Square sports on Boxing-diiv, havine accepted tho oiler of the committee of £5 lb's.

Mr Harwood passed through Hamilton on Tuesday with Mr G. F. Millar's large engine, en route for Timpiri; where everything is in a forward condition for starting his new sawmills. The Christmas number of the Graphic is a remarkably fine one. There are several pictures that nre real works of art, the subjects being Shaksperian beauties. Especially good is the one of Juliot and Sweet Ann Puga. Mr Teas, of Kirikiriroa, took delivery on Tuesday last of one of the latest improved reapers and binders, "The Lowdown." Some time ago we gave an account of the advantages claimed for this machine, and reported upon it generally, when it was on view at Ohanpo. Mr C J- Storey had a very choice pen of Devon cattle at Mr McNicol'ssale at Ohaupo on Tuesday. They were spayed heifers, bred on Mr Thornton's estate, Maungakawa. Mr Lamb, of Ngaruawahia, who will have the best quality, purchased them at £4 os each, a price, we believe, satisfactory to the vendor. "Atticus," in the Melbourne Leader, says :—" Suppose that ton men, each worth in ready cash, say, £500, join together in a syndicate to purchase a block of land wortli £20,000. Suppose that each of the ten pays in his £500 to tho joint stock, and that the vendor consents to accept £5000 cash, and the remainder in bills of six, twelve and eighteen months Suppose that the vendees fondly imagine that before the first bills are due they shall have at least sold the block for at least. £30,000, and thereby have secured a profit of 100 per cent, in six months ; and then suppose they don't. If you can suppose all these things you will have a very fair estimate of the financial condition of a considerable proportion of the people of Melbourne. Some of tho syndicates are on a Rinnll scale, and some on a larger, but the proportions are about the same. If land was to have gone on for ever increasing in value there was mf course no limit to the fortunes that the syndicate men would have made. But it would appear as though top prices had been reached at least tor suburban properties, and the ugly question of meeting the bills has now to be faced. If one syndicate had exhausted its reserve of available cash in paying down £5000, and had next door to nothing to meet the £15,000 worth of bills, it would be awkward for them ; but when this sort of transaction is multiplied many scores of times the community will bo made to feel the awkwardness. If the officials in the Insolvency Court want a holiday they should take it at once. Tn a very short time they will be the hardest worked men in tho country."