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Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2607, 28 March 1889, Page 2

Several town, suburban and rural (tactions in the township of Rotorua, will be offered for Isaac at the Crown Lands Office, Auckland, on 29th inst. We remind our readers of the concert to bo given to-morrow night, at Hamilton, by the Fisk Jubilee Singers, on which occasion wo expect to see a crowded house. Dr. McGregor, the Inspector ot Hospitals, paid an official visit to the Waikate District Hospital on Monday and expressed himself satisfied with the condition of the institution. The skeleton programme of the Nearuawahia races, to be held on baster Monday, will be found among our advertisements. There are six events, and too will be distributed in pmo money. Threshing operations have already started in tins district. We saw yesterday sumo very fine samples of wheat lately threshed for Mr J- R'chardson, of Cambridge, by Mr .Tared Allwill s plant. Tiio sample shown us was in tirst-rate condition, dry u-ud us hard as shot. Wheat buyers in the face of the depressed London market, do not appear anxious to operate. The only price we have yet heard of as ottered was -Is 2d per bmhcl in Auckland for a lot of Velvet I'oarl, which, by the way, was not accuutaii. Mr J. L. Kelly, for many years sub-editor of the Star, was piesented by the stall'of that journal with a handsome souvenir on the occasion of his leaving to take over the Observer, of which paper he has bee mie proprietor conjointly with Mr ' The annual meeting ot the Huntly Football Club will be held at the Huntly Hotel to-morrow evening at 8 p.m. addition to the usual routine business, the proposals recently advocated in these columns, with reference to establishing a loc.l Union and Club Cup, will be disLU For some weeks past the influx of outsiders looking for investments in land has been more marked than for some years. Wo hear that Mr Sorby has sold his hue far n at Te Awainutu to Mr D. Thompson, of Otahuhu. The price has not transpired, but it is good value at any price below hi an acre even in these times.

The New Zealand Shipping Company's Rimutaka is being fitted with a cool chamber for the conveyance of dairy produce and fruit. Application for space should be made to the Auckland manager by 2nd April. The Rimutaku leaves the colony finally on 10th May, arriving in London on 27th Juno. Our telegrams convey the intelligence that Messrs Friedlander, of Ashburton, have concluded a single Rrain transaction on a very large scale. They have bought from Mr J. Origg, a leading andowner in the district, 30,000 sacks of wheat, and 10,000 sacks of barley. This will give Waikato farmers an idea of the extent of grain-growing in the South Island. Mr Meadows, the dairy expert, in ■m interview with the Minister of Lands with reference to the dairy industry, is reported to have stated, " that the finest butter ho over tasted, probably the finest butter that couhl be produced in any part of the world, ho had got in Auckland. This unqualified praise was not meant to apply to all tho producing people in Auckland, it applies only to one. Which is that 0110 ? Several deserters from the Navy were sunt to Kngland with the time expired men of the Australian Squadron by the Tongariro. One man's case caused some sympathy, lie left H.M.S. Nelson six years ago in Auckland, and being a carpenter by trade, started business in tno orn district, whero he has done remarkably well. A short time ago he marriod a moat respectable young lady, and within a few hours afterwards was arrested as a deserter, and is now on his way to England, leaving a young weeping bride behind him.— JN.z.. Says the Taranaki News ;-By the death of Te Wetere another name has been removed from the pensions list of the colony, Te Wotere being, at his death, in receipt of £100 per annum. This is the third native chief that has died within the last sis months in this district who were in receipt of pensions. One drew a pension of £50 per annum and the other There is only one chief left in this district from WaitoUra to White Cliffs, who ism roceipt of a pension, tho amount being £50 a year. At tins rale the Tensions liat will aoun be wiped out,

The case of a death from an overdose of ehlorodyne a few days ago leads a Ohristolraruh doctor to publish a warning about the ufia of Mis compound of poisons. Hesays'lthero'iire in ghlorodypo prussio »jM, Indian horap, chforoform, and morphia, IU these P»>s<"> a the pru-sic acid is light and chloroform hpayy, and ,f the bottle has been allowed to »(,apd for agqod while and the contents are not "well shaken before taken," one may swallow a powerful dose of prussic acid off the top, apd ijsayfj other separated powons for the rieit comer." A yery inter estiag $S&HIZ m enSnesV Witli the <7ospel femp.eian.ce movement v/ashe).! at fuUe onjueaday ovening. Mr (J. Bvcroff occupied the chair, and addresses were given by Messrs Nettleship and Grice. The nmsioal partwas presided over and supplied by several ladies from Ngaruawahia. It being the last meet■m «t which Mr and Mrs Nettleship would be, w'esjsnt, Me children of the bunday school took Me ppj?w|t»nity of Presenting them with a beautiful « \ token of eatum. Mr Nettleship. jttafred thfff for their gift, sud the meeting closed, after which twenty-one signod tM pledge and donned tho blue ribbon.

Miss Clark and Miss Butler, when out driving (in Monday, near Hautapn, mot with a peculiar accident to their buggy. In order to take shelter from the heavy rain falling, they had driven under the trees of the avenue lending to Mr Cowling's house. Just at this time, a horse, which had got loose from a horse rake, came frantically rushing down the avenno, and the young ladies, dismounting from the trap, went, one to their own horses' heads, while the other tried to stop the runaway. The frightened horse, however, passed the lady, and made an effort to leap over the bugey, but became entangled in one of the wheels and foil. Fortunately but littlo harm was done, a smashed wheel and bent axle being tho only damage sustained. The commercial organ, Money, predicts a bad time for Australia, and says before long we shall see a universal smash

among colonial joint- atock bunks and discount houses. ' Especially,' it says, 'in danger are those institutions which have taken part in the reckless competition to lend money on the security of the land and house property in Australia and the Argentine Republic.' It is now thoroughly well realised that the land ' boom' in both countries had been worked up higher and higher with British gold, and being purelyartificial must collapse like a pricked bladder the moment this adventitious inflation is withdrawn. The danger to the Australian enterprise in spocial lies in the general insufficiency of liquid assets, rendering it absolutely impossible for all the banks to stand against a sudden falliu values, such as experience shows is the inevitable consequence of over-speculation ! Maxwell is walking round in the Waikato 1 He's shortened the train time from six hours to four hours and a-half! Ah, that's right ! He's going to have proper express trains, not stopping at every roadside station ! Why didn't he do it before ? Because the confounded political influence prevented it. Every member insisted on the express stopping at every station in his districts, and at last there wasn't a single express train running in New Zealand! The Commissioners will knock that on the head, and have expresses only stopping at one or two chief stations in 100 miles, with mixed trains running to meet them there ! Well, that alone is worth the Commissioners' salary! Yes, it will save their salary twice over, and the public will be much better accommodated ! Can thoy do anything to stop the procession of horses on the Hutt lino? No, but we're going to have the cemetery somewhere out there, and then all they'll have to do will be to paint the Hutt trains black, and put the driver and guard into seedy belltoppers and weepers.—Lake Wakatipu Mail. We have received the following from Alexandra It is considered hero that in commenting on the late unfortunate accident at the Kihikihi races, The Waikato Times has been rather rough on Alexandra and other small places which have their annual race meetings. Accidents have happened here during the twonty-four years the meetings have been regularly held but never, as yet, has anyone been seriously injured, two horses, or perhaps three have died, one of which was not racing at all. Now, where is there a course in the whole of New Zealand where no accidents occur ? The native, said by your Kihikihi correspondent to have been '' killed" hero at our last races was not only one of the jockeys who rode sinca at Otorohanga, but was actually preseiit also at the Kihikihi races. So much for general report! We do not mean to say that the Alexandra course is a good one, but we do say that for the clas of horses who run there they incur no more danger than at larger raceß, where all kinds of jockeying are indulged in to secure stakes or square bets. A Sydney telegram in the Melbourne Argus says Regarding the duties on dairy produce, which Mr J. ±\ Abbott suggested should be abolished m order to bring the tariff more into accord with the policy of the new Ministry, Mr John Lindsay, one of tho largest dairymen ■ of the south coast, speaking regarding the duty on butter, has stated that it does not i afTect him one way or the other, and he believes that the sam» thing will hold good regarding others in the same line. He can . always secure top price for moi'o butter . than he can produce. He thinks that he is • quite enough protected against TSew Aea- ; land and Victoria by the difference 111 freight, insurance, and other charges. He states that it would be a losing game for the farmer to have a duty 011 butter of even bd ! per lb. along with general protection, be- ■' cause he would have to pay duty on 20 to ! 30 articles required for daily consumption ■ As a further proof of the inutility of a duty 1 on butter, he snys that lie sent exhibits of butter to Melbourne, which realised 2d per lb. over the best Victorian brands."

The Napier Evening News says: —What we have long prophesied would happen has happened at last-namely a very severe ■outbreak of typhoid fevor. There are, we understand, thirteen cases in the Hospital, ten of which are from Jxapier, and we hear that there are several cases which have not been reported to the authorities. One doctor has some fifteen to twenty cases of mild and incipient typhoid on his list, and there is a general opinion that if the hot weather continues a number of deaths will occur. Some of the cases now under treatment at the Hospital are of a very severe nature. One death has already occurred, a fine young fellow of only seventeen years of ago having succumbed to-day to the dread fever trend. Meanwhile the Council are doing nothing. They can authorise the expenditure of thousands of pounds on the Esplanade, they can sit for hmirs squabbling about private roads and about dust carts, they can grin like semi-idiots at any imbecile joke which is cracked, but as regards tho health of the town they are totally apathetic, and apparently absolutely inditfereut. We question whether there is another town in New Zealand—we certainly hope there is not—where such disgraceful lethargy would be exhibited by men who are chosen by the. ratepayers to manage their affairs.

A committee meeting for the purpose of winding up matters in connection with the Cambridge Athletic Sports was held at the Criterion Hotel on Saturday evening, Mr Arthur Bach in the chair. Mr Tom Davies, secretary, presented tho bal-ance-sheet, which showed the amount of £12 13s lid in hand, besides £2 17s Oct unpaid subscriptions, ft was unanimously decided to disqualify L. Harris, who came in first in the Maiden Raco, as it was proved that he won a hundred yards' race at Mercer on the Saturday previous to the sports. Tha second man will therefore tako the money, and the secretary was instructed to ; write to Mr Harris, informing him of his disqualification. On the motion of Mr O. Craig, seconded by Mr Geo. McCapn, it was resolved to pay sundry small acoounts, amounting to £118s, owing by the sports committee of 1887. Fifty per cent, of the prize money was awarded to C. Craig for his walk over in the four-part race. Tho managomeut of the sports has been highly creditable to the committee, most of whom have worked vory hard to ensure success, and their economical administration will be recognised when it is seen that after necessary printing, etc., tho total expenses for labour, gatekeepers, etc., was only throe guineas. __ _ '• Puff,'' in the Wellington Press: —Goschen has made his modest little proposals for increasing the British navy! Seventy new warships of 318,000 tons at a cost of I Bang goes sixpence ! Oh, dash the expenoe \ What a money, these times? Everything's on tho boom and Britannia's let her back hair down properly ! She's going out boating in fine style ! None of your cheap and nasty cut! eight battleships of 11,000 tons, two little ones of 0,000, 42 assorted cruisers, IS torpedo boumbangs ! Huw is that for high ? But how are they gqiiig to bo paid for? J'aidfor? Britannia doesn't get her wave rulers on tick, not she ! It's only Now Zealand that borrows the money to litre ships to defend her creditors' property with ! Goschon's going to put £11,500,000 on the Naval Estimates next year and spread the balance over seven years by additional taxation ! Won't that be a fearful heavy burden ? No, it'll only be a fleabite if trade revives and things go right! Besides, what witl) the diminished rate of interest by the ponvers}on of consols and t|ie reduction of expenditure i,V oth P r ways, a great part of the amount wjll be made HP without any extra burden ou tha pofipjp at all! It 11 take a long time, won't it? No! By the end of 1894 Britannia will bo able to mop tho bed of tho ocoan with the dilapitated carcases of any other two Powers that come along i Good ! I should like to see that! But von'|t |tho other Poweis put on a spurt ipo, and bui}d a nayy £<> matph, ours? There isn't'another country that's in a jiosiitoj) jo.4.Qft!