Untitled

Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2582, 29 January 1889, Page 2

No. 1 Bridge, Hamilton West, has licen put in good repair and is again safe for traffic. The remains of Mr William Cummines, who was Inst in the bush in tho Mahikirau Creek, was buried on Saturday with Masonic honours. The annual meeting of the corlioratiiin of the Cambridge Library was held last evening, too la,te, however, for the tepurt to appear in this iisne. A convict named McManus assunlted another named (Judy mi Kipa Tsland, Lvttr.lton, with a stone-brealce.r's hiinimor and fatally injured him, on Saturday W. The skull of a human being was found in the Hamilton Wust jjr;ivel-pit a few dnys ajro. It is supposed to be that o: a male. Thu tueth were complete, none liavinsr fallen out. The murder of the Government agent named Ariastroncr by tho natives at Malayta is confirmed. The body was cut to |-ii'?ce>s with a tomahawk, and distributed among various chiefs of tho island. Mr Parr, of Hamilton, has been appointed local for the now scrubdustrciyer. to which we referred in a recent issue, and which i.s said to be very effective in its work on gorsc, etc. It is likely that Mrs Hutchinson, so well known in connection with the Rescue work in Auckland, will leavj that city for Melbourne, where, shu will take up the same kind of work as she is now connected with in Auckland. A working exhibition of the Toronto steel sheaf-binder, will take place at Mr Patnifs paddock, Hautapu, tomorrow morning. The machine will be in the hands of A Massey expert. Farmers and others interested are invited to attend. Mrs Anderson, the wife ol a labourer, was drowned at Tuupo on Saturday, whilst bathing near the bridge over the Waikato river. The plac-j where the accident occurred is a dangerous one, with whirlpools and strong under-currents. The deceased was n daughter of the lato H. P. McPherson, of Hamilton, and leaves a husband with an adopted child. A servant girl at the Hutt, on Friday night, whilst her employers were out at a lull, cut her hair off ami adroitly tied her feet and hands to her bed. On their return she began to scream, and told a tale of outrage by two masked men, one tall and the other short. On the arrival of detectives from Wellington who questioned her, she confessed tho whole affair was a hoax.

The services of an interpreter being wanted in a miniii!? c;isu hoard at Hii-erton tlic other day, ii bright lookiriß Celestial, who said lie came from Wnikawa, was called upon tii act. Liku any other Chii.-ti in (n;iy.s the Star), he was sworn en the Bil)lft, and on being nskefl by the Warden if he knew the nature of an wath, replied fpiite jocundly—"lf I no tell truth, so help me, God."

Our Cambridge correspondent says : The tennis team who visited Hamilton mi Sitiirday and suffered an ignominious dofi'at. speak in high terms of the play of the Hamilton junior team, ami also of the very eniirfeous manner in which they were entertained. They thoroughly enjoyed the vi.-,it, and although beaten, thev acknowledge that it was not because they did not phiy thoir average game, but because their opponents played much better.

Aided by the magnificent weather we are being favoured with, harvest operaUrns :ire being vigorously pushed forward. We he:ir of the starting to cut wheat in most parts of the district. Owing to the very large incieaie in the number of machines imported into the Waikato this year, there is far greater expedition in harvesting than formerly and very little, if any, time lost. This should provo a highly satisfactory year to the agricultural community generally.

A very large gathering of people, many coining from a long distance, congregated at the Salvation Army Barracks on Sunday evening last to hear the new oftieers of the " Army "— Lieutenant Dujfgan and Cadet Arnold. Although a letter appeared in our Thursday's issue condemning the Imodium? for misbehaving themselves the previous Sunday night, they were not as quiet, by any means, as they might luu'u been last Sunday uiglit,

The adjourned annual meeting 01 the parishioners of S. Peti-rs, Hamilton, will be held to-morrow night. The report to be presented has been drawn up by a subcommittee of the veslry. am! ii is necessary for the credit of the parish that there will be a good attendance of m.-inbers of Ihe. congregation. Owing to tin: critical position of alfaiis the Bishop was telegraphed for to be present, but a reply has been received that he is unable attend.

The Catholics of Cambridge were disappointed on Sunday as Father Kox did not turn up to mass, and a report soon spread that he hud met with an accident on the mad. Several members of the congregation started for Hamilton, to learn what was the matter, soon after noon ; but had returned when it was time fmvespers at 1 p.m., and many were anxiously waiting to hear what was really the matter, it turned out that Father Fox was too indisposed to undertake the duties.

Mr George K- West (writes the London correspondent of the Canterbury Times) returns to Dnneiiin by thn Rnapehu, sailing from Plymouth on November 18th. Mr West has made very satisfactory arrangements for the sale of New Zealand butter in England. There is, ho says, practically an unlimited market for good butter at eightpeuci: per pnund. The carriage in cooiing chambers will cost a penny a pound, which leaves seven pence for the exporter. This, Mr West save, will pay. He takes back large orders for New Zealand cheess. So extensive is tho cheese trade expected to become, that a special cool chamber capable of holding seventy tons has been constructed on the b'ifeshiic.

Settlers on the West Coast of the other island are making a groat outcry about the country boing locked up for the Midland Railway Company. It is stated that there was 0.000.000 acres locked up, and that the modus operandi of the Company is to wait till application has been made for any of this land by intending settlers, and the valuation put on, when they put thenprice upon it, gsnerally more than double the valuation. If a settler buys it they make a prolit of 100 per cent. If not, they do not select, so that it is probable the country will lie locked up this way for years. Settlement isalmos", at a standstill, and those wha do settle are compelled to pay exorbitant prices. Reservation has already been in force five years, and settlers cannot take up laud.

We have heard that Mr and Mrs William Graham, of Puketo, had a very narrow escape fiom death by lightning during the heavy thunderstorm on Wednesday afternoon last. MrCraham had just returned from a field whither he had gone to tell a lad to knock off ploughing, as he could see tho storm approaching, and was standing under a willow tree, whore Mrs (Jrahain was engaged washing, one of the children being with her, when the three of them were thrown prostrate on the ground by a flush of lightning, and rendered iniconscioiis. On regaining consciousness Mr Grabair, noticed that a large limb of the tree, that had been sawn off, an' 4 which was within a foot, ort.vo of the spot where he had been standing was shivered into splinters by the electric fluid, which had struck the lor; and thrown up the earth for some, distance around it.

A meeting of Scotchmen and others interested was held at Lr.fjuesne's Hall, Hamilton, on Kriday evening last. The attendance was n.it so large as was expected, as some misapprehension exista! in the minds of sumo as to the necessity of having a special invitation. Only those living at a distance were specially invited, it being taken for granted that tho.e. residing in Hamilton would not have required one. Mr Primrose was voted to the chair, and it was eventually resolved that it was desiiabla a Burns' Club should be f,,rmod. and that a canvass for members be made in each of the Waikato centres, in order that some idea of the amount of support likely to bo accorded to the club might be given. MrCrant of Ngarnavvhiii, played several selections on tin? b.igpioes during the evening in good style, and a series of views of Scottish scenery were exhibited by Capl. llt-id.

The Napier News says:-It is curious to note the desire that exists in the majority of people who hail from the Old Country, be they English, Irish, or Scotch, to erect monuments for the purpose of perpetuating the memory of any departed hero, whose name shines forth in history as having at some time or other done something great in the cause of the land of his birth. This characteristic is most notable in those who hail from the Laud 0' Cakes. In this colony the majority of the Scotchmen are located down Uunedin way, and some time ago they scraped together all the superfluous cash available for the purpose of erecting a memorial to the departed poet. Bobby Burns, and this work was at last executed, but whether it was paid for or not wo know not. A large sum was raised at the time, but there might bo a trifle which still remains to bs settled up by those who enstitutad themselves a committee of management. Some of the Scotchmen down there now want a monument erected to the. memory of Wallace, the Scottish hero, and a gentleman from Home named Napier (we wish he would circulate his coin in the town bearing his name) has promised a d'.nalion :.f itlOO if the residents raise from £2000 to JftfOOO for that purpose. This is decidedly iijl). To uxp, ct the residents of ono city "to tiud three thousand notes at a time when the colony is on the verge of Wmkruptev, and when one finds it live, is rather good in our opinion. Th'i luxury is too expensive. What Dauediuitßs want a monument of Wallace for we are nt a loss to imagine. It is only a waste of money, and does tho country no good. Jf they subscribed £3000 towards sanding Atkinson and his colleagues to Tiinbuetoo, and construct a small railway there for Maxwell to play with, they would do the culuuy a service.