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Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2593, 23 February 1889, Page 2

The English mail via 'Frisco closes to-day, at '.1.30 a.m., at the Hamilton Post-office. We learn that Hyde, the victim of the Te A roha assault case, is progressing favourably at the Hospital. The Harvest Thanksgiving at St. John's, Tβ Awiiinulu, will bo held on Sunday. March 3rd. The evening service will be choral. In his speech at Napier, the Premier stated the Government intended to propose the establishment of pauper farms on tlio Goruiun aystuiu. The monthly meeting of the Waikato County Council lapsed yesterday for want of a quorum, Crs. Primrose, Seddon and Johnson beinf the only members present,

Messrs Jas. Rendell, S. Dando, R. Fhilp, J. N. Pegler, and Allan Gilmour have been elected as licensing commissioners for the Raglan district.

Messrs G-oldie, Luke, and Professor Thomas wero nominated last night by the Hamilton East School Committee for election as members of the Education Board.

We hear that Mr Knox has negotiated the sale of Mr Gaudin's coaching plant to Mr John Deegan, of Hamilton, who proposes to continue to run a coach in connection with tho train service as usual.

The body of poor young Selby, who was drowned at Cambridge, was was picked up at the Narrows yesterday afternoon, caught in a willow tree. Parties had been searching the river daily since the sad occurrence, with the result stated. An inquest will be held at the Tamahere store this morning.

The Waikato Sheep Fair, held by Mr J. McNicoi on Wednesday last, was highly successful, only about two lots being passed at vendor's reserves. He will hold a supplementary fair about the middle of next month, when over seven thousand sheep will be offered.

A Melbourne resident writes over: —I suppose you will be having a land mania in New Zealand shortly. Already Victorian buyers are going over, and largo estates are advertised. I notice the Riverslea, Arowhenua, aud Albury estates are advertised in the Argus for sale.

The prize medals to be given by the Hamilton Anniversary Swimming Committee to the successful competitors at the recent sports at the lake, can now be seen at Mr Howden's, jeweller, Hamilton. They have been manufactured by Messrs Howden and Sons, of Auckland, and are superior to tho prizes given last year. An estimate, after ths muster for shearing, of the loss of sheep in tho Mackenzie Country (South Canterbury), by the heavy snow of last winter, makes the total loss 83,000 sheep, which at the low average of half a crown a head, means a loss of £10,412 . and of wool at 2s 3d per head, £9371 more; or a total loss of £10,783. To thid loss must be added that due to deterioration of the clip of the surviving sheep.

A Home scientific journal in giving some hints to manufacturers, says there is a capital opening for paper mills in New Zealand, pointing out the fact that about worth of paper is annually imported into the Colony, and this present protective tariff will encourage the establishment of paper mills. It is rumoured that one of the large paper firms is coming to the Colony in a few week's time to look at the chance.

On reference to our advertisement columns it will be seen that a meeting has been called for Monday evening in the Waikato Times B-nldings for the purpose of forming a Swimming Club in Hamilton. A club of a similar sort has lately been formed in Auckland, and it has now a very extensive roll of members, and tho meeting held a few weeks back under its auspices was a great success. .Should the matter be taken up in Waikifco, in the proper spirit, we feel sure, from the members who are now becoming adepts in the natatory art, that such a club will flourish.

A list of attractions to be presented at the forthcoming garden fete in connection with S. Andrew's Church, Cambridge, appears in our advertising columns. The sports include tilting at the ling, shooting, cock-shying, dancing, etc. In the evening the grounds will bo illuminated with Chinese lanterns, aud two entertainments (tableau vivants and a minstrel cmcert) will take place in the marquee. Refreshments will be provided throughout the day at the stalls, and dinner will ba dispensed to the hungry public at a moderate prico. The Cambridge Band will be in attendance during the day, and, given line weather, we have no misgivings as to the success, financially and otherwise, of tho undertaking.

Up to the present it has bsen generally supposed (says tho North Otago Times) that potatoes could only be grown with their haulms showing above the giv.uml. This, however, U a mistake, and shows that we are apt to form conclusion* without proper and reasonable grounds for arriving at them. This season a resident of Oamaru planted early potatoes and put them at too great a depth in the ground. As nothing appeared above the gromid to indicate that tho potatoes were making tho ordinary progress, he concluded they had "gone off," and planted cabbages above tho spot where they were put in. In the course of time the cabbages went the way of all cabbages, and some of the ground was turned over. To the astonishment of the party a fine crop of early potatoes was lifted. The potatoes had grown without putting " shaws' , above the ground. If this can calculated upon to take place every time potatoes are planted deep it will hi belter to follow out this plan than run the risk of frosts and droughts by planting near the surface. The abuvo is a fact.

The Hawkes Bay " Herald, , ' in a recent issue, asserted that the House of Representatives contains in.iny men whose inferiority from both the intellectual and moral standpoint is beneath contempt. And, further, it says that there are men in the House whose word would m! be trusted on oath by tho.-e who know them best, and who could not burrow t'f) to save their lives, unless good security u-urts offered. These are grp.vo charges, plainly uttered, against a body of men whose lives, both public and private, slinuld be free from even the suspicion of dishonourable conduct or dishonesty in any degree. Yet these charges are deliberately made, and they evoke neither protest from our representatives, nor dissent, as far as we know, from a single elector in tho colony. Perhaps they require neither. The moo of blameless lives have no need to speak ; while the mon of dishonest reputations and vicious morals are, fortunately, too wellknown to attempt either denial or protest.

An exploit was performed in the harvest tiold on Monday which will be hard to beat (says a Cambridge correspondent). In course of conversation with Mr John Arnold the previous evening, relative to the amount of " pitching " that should be done by one man in tho day of nine hours, Mr Arnold reckoned that a- man who would " pitch " six acres of a good crop did a good day's work. Mr Charles Craig, well known bjth as tailor and athlete, said ha could pitch ten acres of the best crop in Waikato, if he had not tu wait for the drays. A wager resulted, Arnold betting two to one that Craig could'nt do it; so on Monday the. match came off. Arnold cultivates his ground, and the crop, wheat, will go well on to 45 bushels per acre and the straw is the height of a man. Craig buckled to his task, and Arnold, who being a Lancashire lad, naturally loves fair play, watched that he lost no time by being kept waiting for teams. One waggon and threo drays vvere employed, and Craig kept them going, in most cases leading the horses himself to the stook?. In eight hours and forty minutes Craig had pitched eleven acres, winning his wager with an acre and twenty minutes to spare. Ho was a. bit ''baked "of course, and his hands wero rather sore, but pluck and endurance had won the day, and no one was mwre pleased than the loser of the bet. Mr Craig is ktiown on the running track, and many readers will remember how his brother Dave defeated Nat. Lumsden in a mile race in the phenomenal time of 4miri. LTsec. There is an old saying that it takes nine tailors to make a man, but if the nine wero built on tho lines of the two Craig's, they would make a giant.