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Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2581, 26 January 1889, Page 2

The junior tennis matches, Cambridge v 1 [nmilton, will Ijo played on the Hamilton Court this afternoon. We hold over the annual report of the Trinity Picsbyterian Churcl>, Cam bridge, and a quantity of other matter. The racehorses Signess and Wilfred were shipped to town yesterday morning, to take part in the Takapuna meeting, to be held to-day. The verdict of the coroner's jury upon the two old people who were burnt 1.0 ilunth at Cambridge, was to the effect that there was no evidence to show how the tire originated. They were both buried in one cofli n. A meeting of the Executive Committee of the Railway .Reform League in, we understand, called for Monday next, ;it noon, in tho Borough Council Chambers, Hamilton, to consider the appointment of the Railway Commissioners. The American Senate has passed the new tariff by 33 to 30, and has increased tho duties on wool. The Bill removes half the sugar duties and giants heavy bounties on locally-made sugar. It is considered certain the Mouse of Representatives will reject the tariff. The Sheep Inspector's Office is now at the WaikatoTimes Building. The Brands and Branding Act, 1880, is to be enforced; therefore, persons wishing to register brands may obtain information and tonus at the office named above by calling on Mr J. S. Edgecumbe. A challenge from eight members of the Hamilton Light Infantry to tire a match against the team representing that company in the recent match against the Te Awamutu Cavalry has been placed in the hand* of Captain Reid, and will be considered at the next parade. Two ladies went to the Cambridge bathing ground the other afternoon, about 3.35 p.m., and ordered the bathers to clear, saying they would give them 20 minutes to do so. They had evidently mistaken the time, which is that set apart for men, but would not retire until they had argued the matter. The Hamilton Light Infantry Band invite tho public to attend their picnic, which will be held on Tuesday next, in a paddock kindly placed at their disposal by Captain Steele. Vehicles will be provided for ladies and children. Sports of various kinds will take place, and not tho least attraction will be dancing on the green to the music of the band. Tea will be provided for all gratis. At the Cambridge Police Court yesterday before Mr Russell, J. P., John Dillon was Bned 20s and costs for being drunk in Duke-street on January 9th, and £2 and costs for being disorderly ; in all £(5 13s. Defendaut did not appear but his father pleaded guilty for liini, as ho i.> working in tho King Country. A month was allowed for the money to be paid in. A lad named William Colvill met with a nasty accident at Boycn's biscuit factory, Cambridge, on Wednesday evening. He got his hand into the cutter which nearly severed the three middle fingers of his right hand. Dr. Ciislmey stitched them on again, and hopes to effect a cure. It is, however, doubtful, as the bones were badly broken. Several ladies who are in the habit of bathing in tho Waikato river below the railway bridge, have several times lately been annoyed by a young fellow who pulls a boat across the river, and approaches much nearer to the bathers than there is any necessity for. The young man is well known, but the name was not supplied to us. We trust this notice will be sufficient to put a stop to this very unmannerly conduct. A very smart young man bustled up to a railway station not one hundred miles from Lawrence, a day or two since, and in a free and easy style, inquired of the ticket-clerk as to tho lowest sum ho could be carted to Dunediti for. " Eighteenpenca in the dog-box," replied the ready official, " and supply your own collar and chain." It is needless to say that the young man vamoosed pretty quickly.—Tuapeka Times. At a farewell Masonic banquet, tendered to Lord Onslow, tho chair was occupied by tho Karl of JOuston. The guest, responding to tho toast of iiis health, said he was going to a young but great and prosperous country, which, notwithstanding divers conflicting elements, was loyal to the backbone—a, country which honoured Freemasonrv, but abhorred tho great principles of freetrade, and was even more democratic than England. Mr W. J. Hunter has added his name to the advisement in Mr McNicol's column, regarding the adoption of the cash system in connection with the auctioneering business. We are much pleased to see this, and should like to seo traders of all classes adopt a similar course, believing that the demoralising credit system, which has permeated business of every description has been no mean factor in intensifying the depression from trie effects of which the colony is now happily recovering. In our issue of the 15th December last, an advertisement appeared announcing that a big treat would be otfered to the public at Te Awamutu, on race night, the 29th inst. By the advertisement of to-day, to which we direct the attention of our mirth-loving readers, we see that the promoters of the fancy dress ball have taken steps to ensure success. The proceeds are to be devoted to the ceiling and lining of the hall. Should the weather be propitious we understand that the ball will be one of the grandest affairs which have been witnessed in Te Awamutu. A new industry has lately been established amongst us. This is a Preserved Milk .Factory at Waitoa, by Mr Larney, who calls the article the Lorreston condensed milk. It is put up in neat tins to which are affixed a very presentable label turned out by the Herald. The milk is of superior quality, highly concentrated, contains all tho original creams with a proportion of sugar, and is as palatable as any similar article procured elsewhere. There is no reason why Mr Larney's new industry should not turn out a great success ; it only requires to become well-known to win popularity. One of the prominent speculators in the late laud boom in Melbourne, whose wealth was reported as fabulous, at the annual meeting soma time aero of one of the Victorian religious bodies, when it was proposed to get up a jubilee fund to wipe off the dobts existing on the churches, promised to contribute i!50,000—or some such big figure—in five yearly instalments. Since then the boom has burst, and the speculator, so it is said, has gone with it, so it is to be hoped the first instalment was not a promise to pay, but a substantial deposit. The Railway Department have again altered the time-table ; a copy of the new one, to come into operation on the Ist prox., has been supplied u«. In future the 8 a.m. train from Auckland will reach Waikato stations later than at present, namely, Frankton at 2 p.m. instead of l. lo p.m. ; Hamilton West, 2.10 iustead of 1.-18; Cambridge, 3.15 in place of 2.50; Te Awamutu, 3 p.m. in place of 2.40. The trains from Lichfield will leave at an earlier hour than at present by 30 minutes, from Te Aroha by 25 minutes, Cambridge 20 minutes, Hamilton West 18 minutes, and from Te Awamutu 15 minutes. A splendid mob of sheep numbering 2,500, passed through Cambridge on Wednesday evening; looking, as many people remarked, as fresh as if they had only just left some adjacent paddock. The sheep wero brought by Mr Robert Ross from Motutaraea, sixty miles south of Hawkos' Bay, anil tho bulk of them are to be sold in Auckland at the sheep fair on the seventh of next month. Eight hundred aro ts order of various settlers north of Kaipara. The sheep started on the second stage of thtir lung journey early on Thursday morning. Mr Ross reports feed plentiful all along the road, and confidently expects to deliver his sheep in the far north in excellent condition. Several enquiries have been made with reference to the management of the Hall, Hamilton West. There appears to be no legally constituted body in charge of the property. An Act of last session vosted the building and site in tho volunteers as a drill-shed. In accordance with tho provisions of the Act, Captain Reid, as commanding officer of tho local volunteer corps and acting by instructions, submitted to the Government the names of those gentlemen, together with the officers of tho company, who were recommended as the new Board .-•£ Trui.trbs. This was a c.x;;.la of months ago. but for some unexplained reason, nothing further has been heard of tho matter, *>>d the interregnum continues. Tho Government are certainly reinarkab!" for procrastination in smalt things as well as great, even when they are armed v. ith full i (lower by Act of the Legislative. But, in the meantime, it is all very unsatisfactory to those immediately concerned

A strong feeling has been evoked in Auckland on account of what are con nidnred to be the excessive damages awarded to .Mr Lirnacli in iiis action against the New Zealand Herald, heard at Wellington, liefi-re Mr Justice. Richmond, on Mnnd*y last. The proprietors of the Herald have been watted on with the view of having the amount of line and costs collected from the public, as it is considered the paper was contending for public interests. While fully appreciating the kindly feeling which luts prompted this action, the proprietors desire to state that they decline, to accept the generous offers which h-ivo been made to them. — Herald. The appointment of the Railway Cou.missioners h;is no doubt struck dilfeivnt members of l'arliament in dilferent ways. The way it struck Mr Vincent l.'yke was peculiar. That gentleman despatched a telegram to the Premier on Saturday which, if not in precisely in the following words, was to this effect: —" A ridiculous hoax lias been pahnod off upon the Dunedin papers to the effect that the Government have appointed Mr J. M'Kerrow Ohief Commissioner of Railways, and Messrs Maxwell and Haenay Assistant Commissioners. .Please authorise me to give the .statement an unqualified denial." The necessary authorisation Ims tint yet been received by Mr Pyke.—Exchange. A visitor to Australia just returned writes 'Truly delightful it was to me, after the glare, natural and artificial, or Australia, to tiud myself once more travelling, nlbeit on a very homely railway, over the soft green of our peaceful valleys and skirting tho lovely tangle of our New Zialaod bush. 1 have never bef >re thought much of southern Otago, but it now seemed bke Paradise. Let. those who are dissatisfied with New Z.-aland go and v 9 t the other ccl inies. They may bo dazzled for the moment with the wealth of Sydney ot Melbourne, but an exploration of the interior of Australia will teach them, as it taught me, that their lines have not been in unpleasant places. There is one mist-vke the defjuriiiuts in the late libel action L:inuich v. Now Zealand Herald, made. They should have procured a change of venue, U possible. In any other town but Wellington the verdict, whk-h doubtless was unavoidable, would not have carried such unwarrantably heavy damages as those giwn by the Cook Straits' jury, who like all Wellintjt'onians breathe, move and have their whole being in the strong atmosphere of otti.:ialdom. They are .saturated to the tips of their ears with the sanctity of the Civil Service and resent any invasion of the rights of their fetich. And the Herald does not worship at the shrine of the all-powerful guild, so it was punished as one of u reprobate press. Advices received by the mail from England state that the freezing companies in the Argentine Republic are shipping very large quantities of frozen meat to England, principally to Liverpool, at which port the stocks at the end of November amounted to 100,000 carcases. The freezing companies, we (Ciiristchurcli Press) learn, state tluit the present prices, say about 3£d per lb., pay them handsomely, as in addition to the (iovernment expoit bounty, which amounts to a con-ideraii!e sum, the meat is pai.i for in e;oIi! in England, while in the Republic it is purchased in silver, that metal being the enncncy. As; the premium on gold ranges from -10 to (i 0 per cent., this means an addition of the gold premium to the price, which thus stands at from 4.', I to fid to the exporting companies. We further learn that very heavy Hoods in the Argentine Republic have this year delayed tho transport of wool to the sea coast, and have also caused serious losses, especially in lambs, to many of the up-couutry flockowncrs. A correspondent engaged in the trade writes to the Evening Post as follows : —" Recent advices from the South quote best brands of flour at i!ll 10s and of oatmeal at £115 f.0.b., showing the rather sharp advance made in values cannot bo maintained ; but at the same time there is no doubt that the farmers of New Zealand will obtain far and away better prices fidall kinds of produce than have, been realised during tho past decade. Oats are certain to bo in large demand for Australia, the rain coming all too late to benefit that crop ; in Victoria potatoes planted in November may yield well, but meanwhile there must be a great demand for the tuber in the big island at good prices also; and, though wheat has beon pouring into Kngland in enormous quantities for the past three months, it is more than probable the stream will now lessen, and prices in London again rally, at all events until next harvest, in July. In any case, though fancy and famine prices will not likely be obtained, growers should have no difficulty in getting quite double the price this year for all produce, compared with any recent year, a result which cannot fail to do an immense amount of good to the country at large." The Southland News of Monday says: —An unpleasant scene occurred in the Police Court this morning at the close of the hearing of the vagrancy clnrge preferred against Patrick Murray. Just after the. sentence of three months' imprisonment was announced, accused made one sprinjr trom the dock, and, bringing his clenched fist round with a powerful swing, struck Sergeant-Major Ramsay a violent blow on the bridge of tho nose. Before he had time to repeat the performance, Inspector Moore, and Constables McDonough, Melntyre, and Ferguson, laid him safely on his back on the floor, Murray meanwhile applying some vile epithets tn the SergeantMajor. Murray, who is an old soldier, is a powerfully-built man, standing about six feet high, and the force of a blow from his fist will be fully understood without actual demonstration. Sergeant-Major Ramsay was standing by the witness-box looking toward the bench at the time of the assault and, although ho is no lightweight, the collision was violent enough to eauso him to swerve right round, and his nose bled so copiously that he had to retire from court. Murray was removed to the lock-up.