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Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2644, 22 June 1889, Page 2

A potato race will take place at the Acme Skating Rink on Monday evening.

The football match, Ohaupo v. Rover, arranged for to-day (Saturday), has been postponed.

The officers of Lodge Beta, Wai kato, 450, 1.C., for the ensuing term will be installed at the Masonic Hall, Hamilton, on Monday evening next. Visiting brethren are invited to attend.

Farmers, we suppose, will need no reminder of the adjourned meeting re the formation of a Farmers' Club, to be held at Cambridge this afternoon. We hope to see a large and enthusiastic meeting.

Mr Davey, Hamilton, has some very fine Savoy cabbages for sale at his shop. We find they were grown bv Mr Beet, of Kaniwhaniwha, and speak forcibly for the fertility of that part of the district.

In answer to a question in the House of Commons, Mr Stanhope, Secretary for War, said he hoped the guns for the forts at Singapore would be forwarded in a tew weeks, and all the big guns for import ant coaling stations during the current year. The six guns for minor stations were nearly finished.

The Sunday-School anniversary services in connection with Trinity Church, Cambridge, will be held on Sunday next. The Rev. C. 11. Garland will be the preacher in the morning and the Rev. J. C. Griffiths in the evening. In the afternoon a children's service will be held at 3 o'clock when an address will bo given by the Rev. W. Evans.

Sheep-owners are reminded that they must send in their returns to the Inspector before the 30th inst. In all probability the House will require information respecting the Sheep Department, and theso returns will need to be in tho possession of the officials as earlv as possible. Those who are without the schedule forms should apply for them to Mr Oldham.

The Hamilton Choral Society, at their meeting on Wednesday, decided to have a recess until the middle of August, when the Society proposes to put in practice for their annual Christmas concert Mendellshon's oratorio of St. Paul. MiKent attended the above meeting as representing the Hamilton Orchestral Society recently formed, placing their services at the disposal of the Choral Society.

There is a gOOd deal of competition between Messrs Coleman and Biidguinii, rival flax mill proprietors at Otorohanga, for the raw material growing in the district. The quantity of flax available is said to be only limited and not sullicieut to keep the two mills going for any great length of time. The natives will profit by the competition, and from all accounts have not been slow to take advantage of it.

The Insurance and Finance Journal says the estimated annual output «f cheese for the 31 factories in New Zealand am.)imts to 1.i>!17 tons, which at £-10 a ton produces £07,080—certainly a fair fross return on the paid-up capital of £31,!Io7, to which sum, however, must be added some £9500 estimated capital invested in eight companies who give their outputs but not their capital. We shall not be going very far wrong if we say that the capital invested in the dairying industry amounts to nearly £40,000. The estimated annual output of butter is only 131 tons, a fact which will probably surprise most of our readers. Careful examination on our part has, however, shown that the small output of butter as compared with cheese is a natural enough result from the unstable market elsewhere. It pays much better to ship cheese than butter to London, while the colonial market, as represented by Sydney, has hitherto proved so erratic and; unsatisfactory as regards price as to disappoint shippers. Still the output of butter would be as great if not greater, than that of cheese, if the factory system were everywhere adopted.

In p, letter published in the Christclmrch Press advocating the establishment of Reformatory Farms as a good means of reclaiming vicious and neglected boys, Mr Murphy (secretary of the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association) makes the following graphic analysis of the larrikin species :—The Colonial larrikin and the British larrikin arc very different animals, each requiring special treatment. The former becomes what he is as the result of a too liberal animal diet from his youth upwards, and from a want of proper parental attention. The latter is what he is per force of circumstances—from the want of home training, coupled with gross ignorance. The Colonial larrikin, being well fed and well housed, is naturally full of energy, for which an outlet must be found, lacking which, and without guidance, it takes the form of lawless rowdism. He is not usually a thief, but ho is none the less dangerous on that account. He may, in fact, be likened to a locomotive under high pressure of steam, without a skilled driver to control its movements.

Messrs J. T. Matson and Co., of Christchnreh, in their commercial report says :—Our prognostication for the last five years are surely being verified. Let us repeat what we then said —"The demand for well-bred draught stock will in the near future become active, and those who now in despondence give up breeding will ere long regret the folly of their discontent, for most assuredly the plains of Canterbury, Otago, and, in fact, the arable kiwis- of New Zealand, were given to mankind to produce food for the people. Have we not now an instance of the necessity ? and so sure as prices for produce rule high so will the demand for the sinews of production become valuable" On Saturday last we had 120 horses of all classes, and as is the usual way good descriptions sold we!!, to the neglect of the useless nondescipts which crowd the markets. We have only to refer our readers to the fact of the sale lately made by our confreres of the Cheviot Hills' Clydesdales. No surer or more certain sign of values for real good cattle was ever presented to the public. Facts and real truth aro two uncontrovertible assets. We have always cautioned the breeders of horses of all classes not to produce weeds, and thereby countenance disappointment, and fill the country with useless rubbish, The demand for all classes of good horse stock is very keen.

Some little time ago an English nobleman, who shall be nameloss. passed through Kotorua. When lie arrived at the principal bntol there the verandah and door were crowded by natives. The waiter, who spoke Maori very little and very badly, called upon them to make way tor "the lord." Thoy watched him with wide open eyes as he alighted from the coach, and then went to an interpreter and iisked him if it were true that "the Lord" had arrived, evidently referring to the Second Advent. The interpreter, scenting some fun, solemnly assured them in the affirmative. Away went the natives to tell the news to others, and before long a crowd of wondering Maoris appeared and forced their way to " the Lord.'' Then a deputation of old chiefs went to him, and inspected him curiously. At first they kept a respectful distance, but gradually came closer, and at last ventured to touch his garments and then his tlesh, he being much perplexed at their mysterious proceedings. Then tlio deputation retired to discuss matters, and apparently came to the conclusion that he was a very mundane sort of Lord after all, for they returned and solemnly propounded the query, " Will the Lord shout long beers?" He "shouted."— Bay of Plenty Times.