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Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2590, 16 February 1889, Page 2

The Waikato Archidiaconal Conference will meet at To Aroha on Thursday, 7th March. Lieut-Colonel Shepherd is gazetted an additional trustee of the Hamilton drillshed under the Act of 1888. Mr J„ P- Maxwell, Railway Commissioner, and suite returned to Auckland by the ordinary train from Hamilton yesterday morning. We are pleased to hear that Col. Forbes, of Lake House, Hamilton, is [recovering from the prostration produced by the severe attack of syncope he had a few days ago. The Harvest Festival at S- Peter's Church, Hamilton, is to be hold on Thursday, 28th inst. The assistance of members of the congregation are solicited for the occasion. Two young ladies, Agnes and Annie Storer, aged 21 and 20, were drowned at the Peninsula, Dunodin, on Thursday, whilst bathing. The father going to their rescue was nearly carried away also. Mr W. J. Hunter's sheep fair at Ohaupo on Wednesday last was very successful, all lots entered being disposed of, with the exception of two. The prices were satisfactory, and a list of these will be found in our commercial columns. In consequence of the untimely death of Mr Arthur Selby. the garden fete and Harvest Thauksgiving Services in connection with S. Andrew's Church, Cambridge, have been postponed for a week. Mr Selby was a member of the Church choir and was universally liked. We have received the first copy of the Kaipara Times, a new weekly paper started at Helensvillo, by Mr F. Sinithyman, late of the Gazette at Te Aroha. There is a progressive district before the paper and unopposed ; the first issue needs more substantial filling up, but we hope to see it secure a satisfactory future. We would draw the attention of intending purchasers of sheep to the large number to be submitted by Mr J. McNicol at his Waikato Sheep Fair, which takes place at Ohaupo on Wednesday next. Thirteen thousand head have been catalogued, and those includo stores, breeding ewes and lambs, besides a number of well-bred rams of various breeds. The fair will begin at 1 o'clock. Mrs Morrison, of Ohaupo, has been interesting herself on behalf of the Widow Abbot fund, and has succeeded in collecting subscriptions as follows :—Mr Prince, ss; Farmer, 5s ; Mr G. Coggins, 2s (id ; K, Burke, 2s od ; J. Eeyburn, 2s (id ; Mrs Bush, 2s; Mrs Cowley, 2s; J. Brien, 2s Gd ; J. Peel, 2s (id ; A Friend, 2s (id ; Hard Times, Is; A Friend, Is ; M. Edwards, 2s 6d ; A Friend, Is ; Soft Heart, 2s Od: Another Friend, 2s Gd. Total, ±119s Gd. The man who met with the severe injury to his eye in a fracas with Mr J. Wood, at Te Aroha, was brought to the Waikato Hospital yesterday, accompanied by Dr. Cooper and Mr T. Wood, the brother of the assailant. His name is Fred Hyde, a bushman, late of Kaiapoi. His case is considered a serious one as blood-poisoning is feared. The unfortunate man is in great pain.

We understand from Mr Carter, the energetic Secretary, that tho South Auckland Racing Club has arranged a very attractive programme for their Autumn meeting to be held on Saturday. 27th April. Tho amount to be offered in stakes readies the respectable sum of £200. The working committee shonld not relax their energy aud interest in the affairs of tho Club, but pull well together if they desire to make the next meeting as successful as the last. The pairs drawn for the gentlemen's handicap tournament of the Hamilton Lawn Tennis Club, which will be commenced today, at 3 p.m., are as follows : Brookfield plays Logie, the latter to receive 30 aud 40, Edgecombe and H. Hume, the latter to receive half fifteen. Forbes, \V. T. C.'aud I'. Stevens, the latter to get fifteen; Flood aud Oakes play level, E. Forbes and M. Hume, the latter to got half fifteen ; Gwynne and Sandes, the latter to get half fifteen. The following tenders were received yesterday by Mr T. G. Sandes, Engineer to the Raglan County Council, for contract No. 0, at Whangape. The work consists of making a road from the Waikato River to Lake Whangape :--K. Warn and A. Met till, £38!); J. Wiseman, £211; J, C. B.oth, £235; F- W. Littlewood, £'233; (Crosby Brothers £225 ; I>. McGill, £11*5 Is; J. and E. Brogmen, £l ( .)-i 3s 4d (accepted). For contract No. 10, only one tender was received, that of A. Bregmen, for £15 (accepted). Work will be commenced at once. A correspondent from Whatawhata sends us tho following :—On Wednesday evening last a detachment of tho Salvation Army from Hamilton, consisting of Hallelujah lasses and lads, under Lieut. Dnggan and Cadet Arnold, arrived here and held a meeting in their usual style. The brass band performed with their usual expression, and quite enlivened our little township during their " parade," and attracted a good number to the schoolroom, which was, for the evening, the meetinghouse. Hymns were sung and addresses given by tho «fficera and soldiers in their usual happy style. This is the first time the new officers have been to this locality, and tho people were greatly taken up with them, and all seemed to enjoy the meeting very much. The people present were highly delighted when it was announced that the "Army" intended giving us fortnightly instead of monthly visits. MrG. W. Neal's pea show has been the source of much emulation amongst the farmers and gardeners of tho district, and the new numerous exhibits sent in show, by their quality and weight, that Waikato can grow peas, anyhow. The peas, according to the conditions of the show, wore weighed in the pod when received ; then carefully shelled, andthenett weight recorded. Mr W. Russell, farmer of Hamilton road, takes the first pnzo with half a peck of Webb's Wordsley; Wonder peas, gross weight 5 lbs, nett weight of shelled peas 2lbs I.U oz. Another exhibitor ran pretty close with a half peck of Yorkshire Heros, weighing gross ~>\ lbs, with a nett result of 2 lbs 10. ! , oz-. Both samples were first-class and tile pods wore well filled, the Wordsley Wonder, however showing a marked superiority in the piu portion of shelled pea to pod. Mr Russell also took tho next prize for best 1.2 pod< of Wordsley Wonder. The 12 pods contained 122 peas. Mr James Webber secured two prizes ; one for 12 pods of Walker's Perpetual Bearer, and the other for 12 pods of Webb's Chancellor. Mr George Lamb

took the prize for best Vi pods of Webb's •Stourbridge Marrow pons, and Mr Archibald Wallace, junior, succeeded in exhibiting tho best 12 pods of CulvcrwcU's Telegraph pens. Mr Noal is of opinion thai the Wordsley "»V"ndor in the best pea, going, but it rnquiios good cultivation and a liberal aupj4y «f mm^i

We are pleased to inform the friendslof Mr Waltonof Te Awamutu that tho surgical operation performed by Or. Wllkins for catan c i i the eye has been very successful. Mr Walton will probably return from Auckland iu about a week. Hamilton possesses a town clock! We do not refer to Mr Howden's. No ! the clock we mean can give Howden's a start of an hour in a seven-days' contest, and breast the tape half-an-honr before it any time, without turning a hair, and we are willing to back it against Time for anything from a button to £5,000,000 (all we possess). The clock wo refer to is the ratepayers' own clock ; it has been paid for with Borough money, and it is wound up weekly by a Borough workman. It is with feelings akin to pride (for we are ratepayers, and consequently part owners of this wonderful piece of 'horological mechanism) that we watch the unabated improvement in its ■'oing capabilities, and the extraordinary speed with which it disposes of a week. Coleridge, when he wrote — Oft do tlio spirits Of ffreat'events stride on before the events, And in to-day already walks to-morrow, was perhaps inspired by our town clock, the last lino of the above couplet being so very apt; and if our clock were left alone, and its progress unchecked, not only would we live "to-morrow to-day," but we would soon be having "next week this week.' Although placed on the walls of a public building (the Hamilton Public Library, of the architectural beauties of which we need not here speak), it is withal a modest and an unpretentious clock, and were it not for its speed, wedonotsupposo it would receivemore than a passing notice from anyone. As it is, however, it is a noteworthy fact that those passers-by who do not carry watches and are unaware of its reputation as a

"speeler," generally accelerate their pace after consulting it, the clock evidently communicating its spirit of "go" to thoso folks. Wo do not wish to say anything concerning its reliability as a time-keeper. Oh, no ! of this the least said the better ; it is only to its " progressiveness " we wish todraw'attention, and more particularly the attention of thoso whose duty it is to keep it in repair.