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Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2602, 16 March 1889, Page 2

We would remind our readers that the Horticultural Show opens at Cambridge this morning. On Monday there will bo athletic Sports in the paddock opposite the English Church ; and the scene of the fire is well worthy of a visit to those who knew ths town before the calamity occurred. It is proposed in New Plymouth to start the manufacture of condensed milk. The plant, it is said would cost £'2000, and a company with a capital of t'lo,ooo is talked of. The price proposed to be given to farmers for milk is from 3id to 4d per trillion. The crops on the Waimate Plains have yiolded remarkably well this season. Thus on the first four farms where Mr Well's threshing machine went to work, tho lowest yield wns (it! bushels, and the highest ,S8 bushels per acre. This is a record which few agricultural districts in Canterbury could beat. Subsequent threshings average from 00 to 70 bushels per acre. We remind the public of the entertainment to-night in tho Public Hall, Hamilton, by the Lawton Sensation Company, the members of which are spoken of in high terms as character artists, their Dutch-English being particularly good. Mr Lawton is also very entertaining in his German, ne?ro and Irish productions. Mr Clarke has a reputation as a baritone and should bo worth hearing.

The Fisk Jubilee Singers intend visiting Cambridge about the 2Sth of the month. The meeting called to form a volunteer corps will be held in tho Oddfellow's Hall, Cambridge, at 7.30 this evening. We understand that steps are being taken to put a stop to the continua fast driving across the Hamilton traffic bridge. The young man Power, who was brought to tho Hospital from the Tunnel, a few days ago, suffering from a severe strain, returned to his work yesterday. We are glad to hear that Mr J. Greenwood, of Hamilton, was better last night. The other cases of typhoid fever are, we learn, doing fairly well. A very heavy yield of wheat is reported from North Road, between Kaiapoi and Woodenrf. where a seven-acre paddock yielded 051 bushels, or 03 bushels per acre. The Rev. W. Hooper, D.D., will proach in S. Peter's Church, Hamilton, tomorrow, both morning and evening. He is also expected to preach at S. Stephen's, Tamahere, in the afternoon. The team of Hamilton Light Infantry, under the Command of Capt. Reid, left by yesterday morning's tram for Auckland to fire a match with the City Guards. Shots were heard at midnight on Eriday on the Waikato River, below Hamilton. These proceeded from unsportsmanlike persons who are breaking the law in thus attacking the ducks before the open season. Attention is called to the alteration in the weights for the South Auckland Racing Club's Settlor Race from weight-for-age to welter weight, to enable owners to ride their own horses. A Victorian advertising firm have offored the Government £'4,000, £5,000 and £0,000 for the right of advertising on the back of postage stamps for three successive years. Similar offers have been made to the other colonial governments. At the adjourned Compensation Court at Morrinsville, the award was for £1)0 and the respondents to pay costs. The claim was for £110, but with the expenses in resisting it the Government will probably find thoy will be on the losing side. By a fire on Sunday last a hut occupied hy a man named Holmes at Tuhikaramea was burned, and all its contents, tools, clothing, etc., destroyed. Constable Murray was out making enquiries, but finds it was a pure accident. The following tenders were received for alterations and additions to Mr D. Lees' house, Firth-street, Hamilton : — Chappell and Son. £110 5s (accepted); Frear and McPherson, £125 ; T. Evans, £143; W. J. Pearson, £147 13s Gd ; R. Dillicar, junr., £148 10s. A large number of exhibits were delivered at the Cambridge show rooms last evening. The show will be the largest ever held in Waikato. For one prize alono there will bo 750 exhibits, containing over 3000 apples. Judging will Kommenco at ten o'clock this morning, and the show will be opened to the public as soon as it is finished. The demand which exists for real good butter, both in the colonics and in Great Britain, is well shown in the report of Mr I). Wilson, who was in charge of tho butter-making apparatus at the Melbourne Exhibition. The price realised in Melbourne for the butter produced was 2s (id per lb. and the butter he shipped from tho exhibition to Great Britain realised £0 per cwt in the London market. Professor Lio Medo, the wellknown phrenologist and elocutionist, will give an entertainment in the schoolroom, Tuhikaramea, on Monday next, and at Whatawhata on Tuesday. The Professor's eutertainmonts are of an instructive character, and at the same time richly abound in humour. His elocutionary powers are of a high order of merit, and wo can confidently recommend his entertainment to our country friends. The man Joseph McGee, who was fined at Cambridge the other day for being druuk, evidently was not satisfied ; for lie was run in again on Wednesday night. On Thursday lie was charged, before Mr Wells, J.P., with being drunk, and also with being found, by night, without lawful excuse upon the premises of Mr E. L. Hope. For the first offence he was fined 20s and costs or seven days this being the third time that lie lias been convicted within six months; and for the latter 14 days hard labour. We learn that Mr Bruce Suttor of Eureka has purchased through J. McNic il thirty of Mr S. T. Seddoii's twotooth Lincoln ranis, giving as high as five guineas each for some of them. Mr McNicol informs us that these sheep are really a magnificent lot, and sure to prove getters of good stock. We wish Mr Suttor success with his purchase and have no fear but he will bo rewarded for his pluck in buying the best rams procurable in tho district. The Wairarapa Observer understands that Mr C. A. Pownall has, after exhaustive and satisfactory tests, obtained a patent for his blight destroyer. The ingenious contiivance consists of a nail composed of zinc and copper which is driven into the trunk of the infected tree when the sap is rising. Tho result is that the sap becomes a galvanic Huiu fatal to the propo. gation of blight, and destroying all blight which has woikedits way out to the external bark. j The railway traffic returns for the four weeks endiug 2nd February, ISSU, and for the corresponding period last year, give the following information :—On the Auckand section : Passengers, 25,800 and 30,752 respectively; parcels, 3,054 and 3,!>5(J; live stock, 10,521 and 5,002; goods, S,sSli tons aud 7,701 tons ; revenue, £7,8(i8 and £8,040. The general revenue for the year up to 2nd February was £830,355, for ISBO, and £835,740 for 1888. Tho expenditure was £511,1i1il and £583,549, respectively. It is interesting to compare the returns from South Australia for grain grown in that country with some of the New Zealand statistics. The total area of crop in South Australia is set down at 2,000.000 acres, giving a total yield of 0,210,000 bushels, or 3 i-10th bushels to the acre. If we take the country of Ashburton, one of the least of the fertile grain growing districts of New Zealand, we find that the arerage yield per acre is about 20 bushels, and for the area under crop the total yield is nearly equal to 3,000,000 bushels, about half the gross return for the whole of South Australia. We regret to learn that Mr E. Ward, chemist, of Cambridge, who had his shop destroyed by fire last Saturday, has determined upon quitting the town, and will take his departure in a few days. Mr Ward has always been to the fore in taking part in any amusements that have been got up, and has spared neither time nor troublo to add to the pleasure of others. Though he is not by any means an obtrusive man, he is, nevertheless, one that will be greatly missed, and we are sure ho will take with him the good wishes of the community that he leaves behind. We are pleased to find that the owners of the property lately occupied by Mr Ward had an insurance of £200 upon it. The special commissioner of the Mark Lane Express writes:—A distant land, far remote from tho shores of England, isolated, as it were, in the mighty waste of water in the Southern Hemisphere, comparatively unknown, lie the beautiful and fertile islands of New Zealand, wanting nothing but the hand of man to develop her vast aud almost unlimited resources. Her only crime is the want of a population to counteract the disadvantage of distance from the large markets of tho world ; her wools are conspicuous for superiority, and are simply unrivalled. The abundant crops, the luxuriant verdure, the beautiful climate, the slumbpring mineral wealth, and the fertile land offer to all classes of industrious men advantages rarely to be found in any other countiy. There has been a wave of depression passing over the country, as elsewhere; it is only transient; as the cloud passing over the morning sun but huralds the brighter day, as the wave of emigration is flowing to the Southern Hemisphere from the over populated centres of the North, so will Now Zealand reap her full share of a bright and prosperous future, offering, as she does, a most desirable field for enterprise, capital, and labour.