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Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2630, 21 May 1889, Page 2

The banks in Waikato will be closed on Friday next (the < Queen's Birthday). The annual meeting of ratepayers of the Uaugiaohia Road District will be hel -1 on Saturday next, at the residence of Mr 11. T. Sibley. The programme for the Te Kowhai races, to be held on Tuesday next, appears in another column. Nominations, for the various events are to bo in by Saturday next. A well-known horse dealer informs the Wiuvianiii Herald that there is likely to be a scarcity of draught horses on the coast, owinfr to breeding beinf? so largely discontinued. Money orders will be issued on and after the 24th proximo, payable in the United States for any sum not exceeding £20 ; and orders for any sum not exceeding 100 dollars (£2O 10s Sd) issued in the United States, may be made payable in New Zealand. The shooting season has not hitherto produced any phenomenal bags, the best that we have heard of has been made by Mr Clms. Hitchman, who, in three days, secured thirty-six brace of pheasants to his own sun at Tokahoa, _ a native settlement a few miles from Lichfield.

Mr Collier, assistant telegraphist in the Hamilton office, has returned from his trip Sooth, taken for the benefit ot his health, and resumed duty yesterday. Mr Forrest, the relinking officer, has returned to Auckland ; during his stay in Hamilton he showed himself to be a, careful and obliging officer.

In our local referring to Mr Kidd's bankruptcy proceedings, we inadvertently slated he had obtained his "discharge, whereas the proceedings having been annulled he was not placed in the position of :i bankrupt, and therefore, occupies his old comn.ercial position without a blot. Mr Kidd has the good wishes of a very numerous circle of friends. The Rev- Mr Sprott, of Mount Eden, who is on a visit to Hamilton, assisted at S. Peters Church on Sunday,

and preached a fine sermon in tlio evening, in which Iμ sketched the character of Balaam, pourtraying his selti.sh love of power and oovetoaaness. Wβ understand Mr Sprott will probably occupy the same pulpit next Sunday.

Professor Long has stated publicly that he regards New Zealand as a formidable antagonist of France and Denmark in the production of butter suitable tor the English market; but he doubts whether theliischer class of Cheddar cheese can be made in that colony. He recommends the opening of shops throughout England for the sale of New Zealand produce.

In reference to flax, the Taranaki News says that the bushes which were cut tivo months ago are growing so rapidly that it is estimated they will oo ready to cut n"ain in two years, n year less than the tiine estimated. It further says that the exports of the article from the breakwater amount to i'ooo worth a week, with every promise of a steady increase. The Wanganui "Yeoman" has heard of an instance of the value of properly tiHing the soil which may bo of interest to many of our reader*. A farmer in the Hrucwwiek district last season put two paddocks down in wheat. One of these he had time t« plough twice, the other only received the usual amount of attention. Both were sown with wheat of the same sample, but he has inarknd the result, and so may our readers, 71. buslmls on the twice ploughed land, 25 on tho other ! The wheat is red Tuscan, and is described by a milling expert as about the best ho has ever soon. On Friday evening, 17th inst, the ladies of Tamahere gave the Hist of the serins of winter dances. Tt was a most pronounced sucnoss, and dancing, which commenced about 8 pm., was kept up with great spirit until 2 a.m., there being fully fifty couples present. The refreshments were both excellent and abundant, ieilectin(? groat credit on the energetic committee. The floor was in very good order, the room brilliantly lighted, and last, but net by anyway least, the music was perfect, being supplied by Mr T. Hartly, of Oambridf-e. Sevoral friends from Cambridge and a few from Hamilton wore prosont.

The Hamilton Choral Society announce a grand concert for Wednesaay, June Tith, at which "The Wreck of the Hesperus" will be performed.

We have heard many complaints lately of the utterly disgraceful conduct of a number of people who follow the Salvation Aimy'marchc*, orattend their inoetingain tho banacka in Hamilton. On Sunday last this was carried to an exeesss wliijh can only be termod low ruffianism, and was an intolerable abomination. These wretched hoodlums pelted tho barracks with bricks and stones, and kept up such an incessant yelling as to b<; heard a long distance away. The same evening rotten eRRS were thrown at the Salvationists in their open-air mooting. This unseemly behaviour should he put a stop to with a strong hand, and a lew examples made by the police. If people object to the actions of tho Army, they have no rieht to display their objections in a manner that disturbs the peace of the whole town on a Sunday, or for that matter, iHiy other time, by their own acts of bkekmiardism.

A gentleman from Boston, U.S.A., wliti has just reached New Zealand on a tour, and came last from Japan where ho spent four months, told a Wellington Times man that he thinks that Japan will become a good customer of New Zealand before long. "Take mutton, for instance. It is next to impossible to raise sheep in Japan, owing to the prevalence of a noxious plant which is fatal to sheep. I believe there is a vast market there for your frozen mutton. Then with regard to wool Japan is erecting woollen mills in various parts, and will want to buy wool in the best and cneapett market, and where can she come to a better place than Nuw Zealand ''. 1 havo reasons for knowing that the Japanese Government will shortly send a Commissioner to New Zealand to consult your Government and your leading merchants on the wool ques tion, and it is probable that this commissioner will try to make arrangements to introduce your wool as early as possible into that populous country. Ttiore is an enormous trade to be done in wool, mutton, and other products in Japan. It is a thickly populated country, fast takm« up European ideas."