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Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2575, 12 January 1889, Page 2

The sitting of the Native Land Court at Raglan has been fixed for the oth February next.

John Valentine, a ploughman in Otago, has been acquitted of the charge of murdering his illegitimate child.

It is announced that the Ngaruawahia branch of the Bank of New Zealand, after the end of the present month, will be open tor business on Tuesday only.

The wile of Sydney Taiwhanga. il. H.R., applied tn the Auckland Charitable Aid Board for support, but was re fused. She now threatens to sue for a divorce on the grounds of neglect and cruelty.

Cr. Knox has given notice that at the next meeting of the Hamilton Borough Council he will move a resolution to rescind the resolution passed at the last meeting, which fixed the registration fee for greyhounds and lurchers at £1.

The Rev. Mr Robjohns, representative of the British and Foreign Bible Society, will deliver an address to the children and teachers of tho various Sun-day-schools in Hamilton, in the Hall on Sunday afternoon, 20th instant.

There is a large daily attendance at the Hamilton West baths. l).-iring the hours set apart for them, the baths are well patronised by ladies and children, and the benelit. of Professor Pannell's tuition is fully taken advantage of.

Colonel Forbes will deliver his lecture on "The Siege of Luckiiow" on Thursday evening next, in the Public Hail, Cambridge. The lecture will be illustrated by diagrams, and limelight views of Lucknow will be exhibited by Captain Ileid at its conclusion. The Hamilton Light Infantry band will be present, and play selections during the evening.

The Salvation Army has issued from its printing works in Melbourne a very handsome lithograph almanack for 1889, which is very creditabie to the printer's art. There are photographs of Commissioner Howard and Mrs Howard, with a central representation of Commandant Herbert Booth and Miss Eva Booth, and some illustrations of Army work.

The first parade of the Hamilton Light Infantry for the current year will take place on Tuesday evening next at the hall. After inspection, the corps, headed by their band, will march to Sydney Square, where the New Zealand Clothing Company's trophy, won at the late shooting competition, will be by Col. Forbes. Firing for Marksmen's badges will take place to-day at the ranges.

An unusally attractive programme has been arranged for the Waikato anniversary swimming races on the 2',)th inst. It includes eighteen events, besides a duck hunt and sensational feats by Professor Pannell and pupils. A brass band will be in attendance, and given fine weather the meeting should be a highly successful one. The programme will be found m our advertising columns.

Complaints are made of young men with guns and dogs trespassing on the Lake Reserve, Hamilton West, and scaring away the wild-fowl. It may not be generally known that a by-law exists dealing with this sort of c induct, and that, probably, it will be found necessary to make an example to check those who disregard the law. effort should be made to encourage wild ducks, &c., to make the lake their habitat.

Yesterday afternoon a serious ac cident happened to Reggie, the second son of Mr H. Lugie, Hamilton. The boy, who was bird nesting at Mr .1. Deeg-au's, overbalanced himself and fell a distance of about 15 feet, breaking his collar bone. Mr von Stunner kindly drove the injured lad home, where lie was attended by Dr. Kenny, who set the bone, and hopes to have his patient aboAt again in about three weeks.

Mr George R. West (says the Stars correspondent} returns to Dunedin by the Ruapehu. He has made very satisfactory arrangements for the sale of New Zealand butter in England. There is, he says, practically an illimitable market for good butter at rid per lb. The carriage in cooling chambers will cost Id a pound, which leaves 7d for the exporter. This, Mr West says, will pay. Mr West takes back large orders for New Zealand cheese. So extensive is the cheese trade expected to become that a special cool chamber capable of holding seventy tons has been constructed on the Fifeshire.

In Mr Teas' late advertisement referring to his Lowdown Buckeye it should have read "The World's Victor," not "The World's Wonder." It appears this title has been claimed by the patentees, Messro Aultman, Miller and Co., as the challenge they threw down to all makers of binders that their machine was the lightest draught machine in the world, requiring less horse power than any other, has not yet been taken up. Mr Teas also desires it to be understood that although he has crops of his own to cut he will not disappoint those, settlers who have engaged his machine, but will attend to them even if it necessitates his using the old back delivery machine if the Star Spangled Buckeye is engaged elsewhere.

Mr C. Harwell, of Tamahere, has returned to the Waikato after a stay of some months in the United States. He says the New Zealauders are better oil' than they are aware of. Although the cost of living and wages are about the same in both countries, the climate in this colony is vastly superior. In the American winter farming, factories and business generally, are completely closed down, and of course there is an immense amount of labour unemployed. The people in America, however, are a busy people and work very hard, and have a wide scope before them. Mr Harwell has gained a lot of information on the fruit industry, and the process of preserving fruit by evaporation, lie has brought some apparatus with him for the purpose of entering into the industry if the encouragement is sufficient. .Fruit is grown in the States on a large scale, and apples averaging less than £d per lb., and other fruit in proportion, pay the growers handsomely. Hero the fanners expect too much, con-

sequently everything is backward. He found few peoph; in America knew of New Zealand, and it is a fact the colonists must realise that they are in a land hardly known, at the end of the world. The colony has tried too much and must simplify its domestic system considerably to become really prosperous.

The number of accidents which have occurred lately to railway porters, lias snrfiresteil an enquiry into their cause. It is found that since Mr Jackson superseded Mr Elliot, in the Newnnrket, workshops, the fi.rni T has been roplncins the breaks on the rolling stock with .some of his design or selection, which he considers an improvement on tiio other. These are consl rucLrd in such a manner that the porters ami guards have a dilliculty in making them act with the amount of c.de.riLy absolutely necessary for their own safety, and the consequence is the feel often slip from the lever, and the men are thrown into dauber. We are assured this was the real cause of (Juaid Such, an experienced and careful ollicial, being maiued for life; ami, it is possible, is the cause of other .similar casualties on the Auckland line. Another of Mr .lacksons improvements is that the border of raised iron that has hitherto lined the base of the cow catchers, and against which l.heshunters could place their fevt when ridiugon t.bem. is being removed, and also the rope and hook which enabled them to hold on by. I f our information is correct, anil we have it from a reliable some-', the duty of shunting wiil be tenfold m"ie. perilous than it has boeu and the liibilitv to serious accidents and loss i.f life greatly increased. Public opinion did not altogether view with complacency the dismissal of a practical man like Mr Elliot and his pluce filieel by n yonnsr man nf considerably less experience and knowledge like Mr Jackson, whilst tlio economy claimed tor the change has been openly doubted. If, however. the change is to result in the introduction of " impro' cments " accom- [ anied by the maiming and di-nicniberiug of employees, then the public will begin to got roused and seek the protection of its servants.