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Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2568, 25 December 1888, Page 2

The search for Professor Brown has been perfectly fruitless. Thomas Gleeson, the burglar, made his escape from the. Dunedin Gaol. Admiral Fairfax, with a portion of the squadron, has arrived in Auckland. The flagship Orlando is described as a splendid vessel. It is believed that the Melbourne Exhibition will show :i deficit of £200,000 when it closes. We are beginning to get the other side of the picture now. One Ohristchurch firm alone estimates its prolit out of the wheat rise as worth £15,000 for the season. Very little profit will go to the poor farmer. Tho lucky middleman scoops tho pool. There were large numbers of settlers in the streets of Hamilton last night, which were enlivened by the music of the Hamilton Light Infantry Band. Very fair business appeared tw be done in the various shops. Mr Le Quesne, ot Hamilton East, who has gone in largely for wine-making, has received a number ot orders for his grape wine, of which we gave a very favourable notice a few days ago. Mr Le Quesne has sent away over twenty-five cases of this wine. The Cambridge cricketers are going to have a lively time this week, for on Thursday they play Auckland. Friday Tiiakau, and Saturday Waiorongoinai. All tho matches will he piayod in the Government paddock at Cambridge. The Zealandia, with the New Zealand mails of December 3rd, arrived at 'Frisco on the 22nd, time-table date. The Mariposa, with the English mails, of the Ist inst, left 'Frisco for Auckland on December Kith, one day late. It was notified at S Andrew's Church, Cambridge, on Sunday that there would be no evening service to-day (Christinas Day). There will be foil service at 11 o'clock, when the choir will be assisted by a band of instruments. The Rev. Dr. Hooper will be the preacher. We hear that a professional has arrived from Auckland with all the necessary appliances for conducting the coeoanut game at the Hamilton Annual Boxing Day sports to be hold at Claudelands. The game is new to Waikato gatherings, and should afford a large amount of amusement during the day, The trains from Te Aroha and Cambridge yesterday were crowded with passengers bound for Auckland. The up train both on Saturday and yesterday was considerably over half-an-hour late in its arrival at the Hamilton station. This want of punctuality in the arrival of the trains is the cause of a great deal of inconvenience to farmers and others who have to meet them for goods or friends. Some of the shopkeepers in Hamilton decorated their windows and verandah posts with green foliage, and were making an extra display of their wares last night. Messrs Sandes and Co. have opened up a large astortinent of Japanese goods, including lunch baskets, work baskets, glove and other boxes, vases, jars, and a number of extremely pretty wall brackets. Some of the latter are particularly worth attention, the designs being artistic in the extreme. Abi T! a! 1, tho prices for these articles are most rea?onabie and they should meet a ready sale. Last Sunday, at the Baptist Tabernacle, Cambridge, advent sermons were preached by Pastor Griffiths. In the morning he selected for his text Luke II chapter, 13th ami 14th verses. In the evening the subject of his discourse was "The Great Mystery of Godliness." I Timothy, 111 chap. Hi verse. Christmas carols were rendered by the choir at both services in a manner which reflects great credit upon Mr McDermoth, considering the short time that he has had the choir under his care and management. The last of the series of special services in connection with S. Peter's, Hamilton, was held on Sunday night in the Volunteer Hall. The address on that occasion was given by Mr Wood, lately from England, who spoke oil the ordinances of prayer and worship instituted by God himself through the instrumentality of prophets and wise men by whom they had been transmitted from remote times to the Church of the present time. Ho explained the difference in tho two names Eloihiin and Jehovah, by which God is called in the Bible. There was a very fair attendance of the public. The Evening Post says The following well- vouched-for fact has been related to us as showing that it is not always easy to get false invoices to delude the customs :—An importer- recently sent Home a large order for a fabric, the price of which was fijd which rendered it dutiable, while at 5d it would be duty free. Tho importer accordingly requested that the stuff might be supplied at 5d in order to escape the doty. The reply came promptly " that in the ordinary course tho largeness of the order would have entitled it to a discount equal to tid per yard, but after the intimation that the manoeuvre was for the the purpose of evading the Customs duty the importer's reqnest could not now be complied with." We are glad to notice by English files (says a Wellington contemporary) that our enterprising fellow-townsman, Mr R. Lett, who went home in the interests of Mr Edward Barber, of this city, some time ago, to open a shop for tfie sale of New Zealand meat, has made a most satisfactory start. He reports that after six weeks' trial the good quality of the meat he is able to supply is making itself felt by a rapidly increasing business. He. has met with the usual amount of opposition from local butchers, but writes that he has beaten them by quality. They tried to undersell him with so called New Zealand meat, but failed, and he now states that he is confident of success, and proposes to further extend the business as opportunity offers. This result must be encouraging to Mr Barber, whose enterprise, as we pointed out more than twelve months ago, is to be highly commended. i

Referring to the Exhibition, our Melbourne correspondent says: And apropos of this reminds me of the switchback railway—that roaring side-show wlioh is making a fortune for its lucky proprietor. I notice, in one of the papers, an advertiser offers a reward of £2 "if the nervous young lady who clung to the gentleman on the switchback railway at the Exhibition will return his watch and chain." -j^bis' s yery good. One can imagino the timid little thing, with terror in her innocent eyes, clingiug to the brave stranger, astheeir swooped down the awful inclines, and he encouraging her with his brave, virile words. Perhaps, in his manly protection, he slipped his arm round her waUt; whilst she—timid darling—put her whole trust in him confidingly, and held on to him with all a woman's faith. Oh ! my dear readers, what an improssive moral lesson could I read to you all on this ; what a sgrmon on man's indiscretion and woman's venality. Bug all I will say is this—when you ride on swit.chback railways, always be careful of timid young things of doubtful principles, who chop: to you nervously, but confidingly.

The Hamilton Band will play a selection of sacred music suitable to the Christmas season on the Barrack Hill to-night, commencing at about half-past G o'clock.

We see by our latest Auckland telegrams that there is a probability of Admiral Fairfax and some of the officers of the squadron being present at the Claudelands races on Saturday. This will compensate Waikato for its disappointment of last year. We take the following from a recent issue of the Melbourne Table Talk : —" A rumour has reached me that tho proprietors of the Argus and Age, the two Melbourne daily papers, which have been receiving the lion's share of the advertisements during the land boom, and have consequently been coining money for a long time past, intend presenting a handsome bonus, to be regulated according to their terms of service and the importance of the dutie; they had to perform, to every member of their respective staffs. The compositors and others engaged upon the mechanical side of each of these establishments have already obtained a participation in the increased profits of these two journals by demanding and securing higher rates of wages; but, so far as I can learn, no addition has been made to the salaries of leader writers, reporters and contributors. On adding up the advertising columns of the Argus from Monday to Saturday last, inclusive, and estimating their cash returns, I find them to be upwards of £5000, without reckoning stock and share brokers' returns, and other incidental sources of income; and I daresay the takings of the Age during those six days does not fall far short of that amount; so that the two papers are earning at the rate of £500,000 per annum for advertisements alone. And wo have among us a gentleman, Mr William Westgarth, who remembers when the late Mr Edward Wilson, Mr J. S. Johnstone, who is still to the fore, and the late Mr William Kerr bought the Argus, stock, lock and barrel, for £300 ! Marvellous Melbourne !"