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Mr Missen has resigned his seat in the Hamilton Borough Council. A large proportion of the grain in the Te Awaniutu and Rangiaohia districts, has been threshed out, and each day's train ennveys several truckloads .to Auckland •or shipment to Sydney. We call attention to an addition madu to the Claudelands Gyinkana programme as per advertisement in another column. The committee, in the interest of the popular game at this season of the year, have added a Footballers' Race to be run in club colours, which, in all probability, will bring a good Held to the post.

A special meeting of the Cambridge Borough Council will be held this afternoon, to consider the report of the financial committee.

The Duke of Cambridge Lodge of Oddfellows, hold their annual dinner and ball at Cambridge, this evoning. Tho dinner will be at Gillot's Hotel.

Maihi Paraone Kawiti (Marsh Browti), a distinguished Ngapuhi Chief, died at tho Bay of Islands on Tuesday. He was a man of high rank, illustrious descent and rare intelligence.

To morrow will be observed as a close holiday at the Post and Telegraphoffices in the Waikato. All mails usually closing on that day will be closed at 7 p.m. this evening.

From Ist June next, the stationmaster at Te Kuiti railway station will be withdrawn, and Te Kuiti will thenceforth rank as a flag station. The train will run to Te Kuiti on Mondays only, and will return on tha following day.

A general meeting of footballers will be held in The Waikato Timks Buildings this evening, for the purpose of discussing the new rules. Those who have copies of the new rules are requested to bring them, and all are requested to roll up early.

A football match will be played at Cambridge to-morrow between the Ohaupo and thu local clubs. As Cambridge is, we understand, to be strengthened by members of the nowly-formed Tauwhare Club, there is every probability of a close eairie.

Mr Isaac Coates left for Palmerston North by train yesterday morning on business, we believe, connected with the strik'e among his men at that place. Mr Coates will be absent for about two months, and during that time Cr. Knox will carry on tho Mayoral duties.

There was quite an audience at the meeting of the Hamilton Borough Council on Tuesday evening, assembled no doubt at the invitation of Mr Joues in a letter published in our issue of the ISth, and a good deal of disappointment was manifested by the turn affairs took.

Mr J. McNicol has decided to remove his ollice from Cambridge to Hamilton as being more central and convenient for his business, lie has taken the premises in Heaphy Terrace, lately occupied by Mr Bettley. the butcher. MrMcNiools' clerk, Mr Bradley, will reside in Hamilton and will shortly remove there with his family.

A return from the Rabbit Inspector shows that during the year ended ."Ist. March last, the natives in the King C iimtry have destroyed H7,021 rabbits at a cost of 41835 !)s lid, or about twopence three farthings per skin. Had these rabbits been allowed to roam undisturbed, they would have increased during the year to .something like a million and a-lialf.

During the month of April the following shipments of wool were matle from the Australasian colonies : —Victoria, 7,351 bales; decrease to date, 12,322: New South Wales 8,1*2; increase, 57,172; South Avstralia, 2,53'); decrease, 2(5,4(14 ; (Queen-land, 7.851; increase, (>,42(i; West Australia, 1.135; increase, 5,-113; Tasmania. nil ; decrease, 3,0i)2; New Zealand, 12,833; increase, 13,D05. Total shipments since Ist July last to date, 1,21i!),420 bales, baing au increase of 41,071 bales.

Copies of Cape papers containing vetbatim reports of the speech delivered hy Sir Hercules Robinson, at til", farewell banquet tendered to him prior to his <lo parture from the Cape, show that the extracts of the speech cabled from Capo weie greatly exaggerated, and that the remarks by Sir Hercules as to the necessity of the federation of the South African States, mid the ultimate declaration of independence, which cause") considerable consternation in political circles in London, were much magnified.

At the adjourned meeting of the Hamilton B "rough Council, a detailed report of which appears in another column, it was decided to call for applicants for tho office of town clerk, treasurer, rate collector, and valuer at a salary of £110 per annum. In former years tho work of vain.-, tion was done by a separate officer at a remuneration of from £10 to 115, so that in reality tIOO will be paid for the work at pro-ont costing t'lso. In addition to the above, tho officer appointed will bo secretary to the Domain Board at a remuneration to bo fixed by that body.

The Hawke's Bay Herald says : - Mr Henry (reorge is lecturing in England, lie claims that his land nationalisation scheme has taken permanent root in New Zealand, and is winning over the Protectionists of Australia. Mr George is quite mistaken. Land nationalisation as a serious factor in New Zetland politics is as dead as Queen Anne. Moreover, the few who still pieach it are ardent Protectionists—a monstrous inconsistency we do not attempt to explain, for the two things are as opposed as the pules. It. simply shows how little the true principles underlying polil ic< ;ire on le.rstuoil by the land-n itionalist Pmtectioni.-t " Liberals : ' of these colonies.

According to the London Daily Telegraph a general wail is reaching the ears of Lord Knutsford from the Governors of the colonies that the salaries paid are insufficient t.o maintain the duties and dignities of their position. Many apparently rich posts make Miem poorer men than when they were first appointed, and even splendid governorships and viceroyalities might be. mimed which go nearer to ruin than to enrich their envied occupants. This, it is represented to the Colonial Secietary, largely results from the forced increase of gubernatorial hospitality, due to the ever-augmenting number of distinguished " globe-trotters."

It is understood th<! police authorities are enquiring into the allegations as to gambling being rife in the city, in certain quaiters. The Dunedin police are also moving in the same direction. They have, it is stated, hitherto felt themselves almost powerless to crrapple with the evil because of the difficulty of getting access to the secluded rooms in which the gamblers meet and carry on operations. It is quite well known that all sorts of precautions are taken to prevent a suiprise, and in the event of unwelcome visitors appearing, their advent is made known to the inner circle before the scene of operations can be reached, with the result that all incriminating evidences are speedily disposed of. — Herald.

In the coarse of a recent argument a question was put to Sir 11. James as to the legality of the trusts and syndicates being formed in England. He said, "I have looked at some of them —the salt trust, for instance—but I do not know enough of them. All I can say is, if these syndicates carried on their business in Amorica they would have very sharp justice shown to them there." The Master of the Rolls: "It does not strike me as clear, if there is a combination to buy all the salt in the kingdom for the purpose of raising the price TO por cent, beyond what it would be, Ido not feel at all clear that that is not an illegal combination." Sir H. James : "According to the common law of America and our common law it is illegal."—Law Times.

A Te Awamutu correspondent semis us the following: —A meteorite or falling star of exceeding brilliancy was observed here about eight o'clock on Monday night. The nucleus appeared to be about the size of a man's head, and the light which emanated from it was of such a da/.nling .nature that the lamps of the township paled before it. It was visible for quite an appreciable time, and caused some cxcitement amongst the populace. These visitants from outer space are being much discussed at the present time by physicists and astronomers, and they are always objects of interest and wonder to the hoi polloi. One which recently fell on the c intinent of J'hirope was found to contain diamonds, thus corroborating the poet's fancy expressed in the well-known hymn, " Twinkle, twinkle little star."

Says the London correspondent of the Melbourne Age:—There is a hitch over the formation of the great Imperial Produce Company, which is to double at one bound the frozen meat export from New Zealand, and to enable the inhabitants of Lancashire and the west of Scotland to revel in unwonted supplies of cheap mutton. There is a chance for tho Messrs Nelson even yet, the Messrs MM ver, of Liverpool, having of lato demandod terms in regard to the shipping management with which the other promoters are not disposed to comply. Acting on the analogy of the Orient Company, they want to bind the company to retain them as agents for ton years, whilst, as I understand, they demand for themselves the option of terminating the agreement at any time on giving three months' notice. This i-i rather strong, but at present, I understand, thero is no sitrn of tlieir giving way, whilst the promoters too are obstinate. Matters are therefore decidedly at a deadlock. This is all the more to be regretted, as J leij,rn that the company has been promised very influential support in Glasgow,

One has often heard of the rodent called the " incendiary rat" in this country, but this clever animal has developed another phase of character in this district (says tho Taranaki Herald), being no other than having the power of committing felony. Mr Bleasdale has tho honour of making the discovery, but at a cost of £3 10s. Itseetris that on Wednesday afternoon (Bth inst.), Mrs Bleasdale was in a room in her house, adjoining the shop, when a lady friend who was with her observed a rat jump out of an open drawer with a purse in its mouth. Pursuit was at once given, but tho wily rat had the lead through the door of tho room, and maintained it to its hole underneath tho house, carrying the purse, containing £3 10s with him. Efforts have been made to unearth him, but without result, as his shelter is quite a labyrinth of passages. Tho only explanation given for this truly wonderful act is that tho purse was taken with a view of sustenance and not from any financial standpoint. There appears to be no hope of recovering the purse.

To the tables of agricultural statistics published in the (Jazetto tho Registrar-* Jenera I attaches some general remarks. He says that the extent of laud in cultivation--including grass-sown land and land broken up though not in crop, but exclusive of gardens and orchards—in February, 188!), amounted to 7,(>70, [07 acres, against 7,284,752 in 188S, an increase of 385,415 acres ; 81*87 per cent, of land ivas in artificial grass against 81 '50 in 1888, and 1035 per cent, was in grain crops against 1011 per cent, in the previous year. Tho total area in grain crops amounted to 793,8(50 acres, of which 402,307 acres were in the Canterbury district and 254,31>3 in Otago. The average consumption of wheat in New Zealand for a poriod of eleven years, from 1877 to ISB7, amounted to 8'45 bushels per head of the population, including Maoris. This includes the requirement for seed pnrp ises, estimated at two bushels p;n' acre. Assuming that the area under wheat for the next harvest is about the same as at the last harvest the wheat crop of I.SS'.I, viz., 8,770.24(1 bushels, should give a surplus of 3,200,000 bushels for export after supplying all the requirements of the colony.

A budget with a surplus ; well done New Zealand. And what if it is only £20,000. how much better is that than a deficit of any kind, and coming right on top of poor New South Wales' terrible balance to the bad of getting on for two millions? We may be congratulated; we have reason to pat each other on the back. For tliis little surplus, small though it is, presents another attraction to outsiders. A country that, under the pressure of depression. resolutely puts its shoulder to the wheel, denies itself; taxes itself, retrenches and is willing to do anything but go further into debt, and with such a climate and resources as it undoubtedly is endowed with, is w irth living in—and what's more, people from afar are coming to live ill it. People wit!) means who want pieces of the country aud'will have them to live oil, and stand by for over and aye the most comfortable corner in creation. Not for miny a year has there been such a stir in land settlement as is now going on—and folks who have gone away are coming back. Met a party (lie other morning just returned from Melbourne. '■ l'lenty of my work there, you know, but the heat is killing ; could not stand it; had to give in and here I am." And there are lots who can't tind work there and have to bear the heat bisides. I'onr creatures!--" Asmodeus,'' in New Zealand Times.

A contributor to the Australian, who has been taking a trip to New Z-aliud, sends an article, in which the following passages occur:—"Oil getting cleir of bricks, stones, and carved wood, tho uhole grandeur of the country becomes apparent—tho immense, almost inexhaustible, productive power of this beautiful land surpasses all imagination —■ the romantic scenery from the densely covered hills intersected with vast plains of lands, the marvellous richue.-s of which is beyond da.-cription. These shaggy hiils, llie.se fertile vales, seem only to want development, and are waiting only for labour and capital to make this country of unexampled wealth and greatness. Look which way you will, and the surrounding country seems to say " come, love, come." It calls to thi struggling, half-starving liritish farmer to leave while there is yet time and some of his capital is left — •' To come where Nature's £itts shall smile, To street him in tho glorious isle. *' I said tho towns wore very Knglish in style, but the country i.s even mori; so, and nature appears to have formed this land especially for the inhabitants of that little island, the name of which makes the be nt of an Knirlisliman beatwilh ptide. Knglish lisli of nearly every kind thrive well in I lie splendid shingly-bottomed rivers, and in a few years it will be the sportsm in's c ami t y par excellence. This is my first visit to New Zealand, but if health and opportunity permit it will not be my last."

A correspondent of tlis Tuapeka Times, writing from Melbourne, comparing the prices of various articles ill Victoria ami in New Zealand, writes as follows : — "As a matter of fact, there is very little difference in the. prices. The elfect of Protection hero, as far as I can see, has boon to create and footer industries, and in such number as to excite competition ; and whore this is the c ise you need never be afraid of having to pay exorbitant prices. If what I see around uie here oil all hands are the b.ineful fruits of Protection, thou I only wish to goodness you in Now Zealand hail a little of it. YVords such as these may sound strange coming from an avowed Freetrader, but they are none the less heartfelt. The idea prevails in New Zealand that because Victoria is Protectionist and New Zealand Kroetrade (comparatively so) that prices are higher here than they are there. A more erroneous impression it is impossible to c/mceive. There is in fact a great difference between them, but that difference is entirely in favour of this colony. I think I cannot do better than give you a few illustrations which came under my own personal observation. Just before 1 left Dunedin I paid to 15s for a suit of clothes to a well-known tailor. When I came here I went cut of curiosity into a tailor's shop in Boiirke-street and ascertained that I could get a suit wf exactly the same material and of equally good workmanship for £1 10s. I got a pair of trousers made to order wf really good stuff by a tailor in the same street for how much do you tliinlc? Twelve shillings and sixpence! I" paid 2ih in Liwrence tor an inferior article. A coat and vest that I paid £1 for here, I could not got in Dunediu for £5 10-. I got a pair of splendidlymade boots, for which I was only called upon to pay 17s lid, and I can safely say that 1 never wore anything so good in New Zealand for less than 225. In Lawronce it is impossible to get your boots soled and heeled for anything under us, with Gd extra for new laces; while, here, the other day I had a pair of old friends most beautifully renovated for the reasonable sum of 3s ! A pair of slippers I paid i)s for in Duuedin I see marked in the windows here for -Is Gd. In hats, shirts, and other articles of wearing apparel prices are proportionately low."

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Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2631, 23 May 1889, Page 2

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Untitled Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2631, 23 May 1889, Page 2

Untitled Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2631, 23 May 1889, Page 2

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