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Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2645, 25 June 1889, Page 2

There was a very heavy downpour of rain on Saturday_ night, The Waikatc lliver is now very high.

The Salvation Army is increasing very rapidly at Cambridge. On Sunday there were a number of fresh converts.

The mail steamer Mariposa arrived in Auckland harbour on Saturday morning, and brought full details of all important news previously supplied by ' Mr Gelling will, perhaps, be sorry to hear that Lord W. Ham lton docs not intend to compensate the passenger who was taken oft" the steamer Richmond at Samoa, by German officials.

The usual fortnightly parade of the Hamilton Licht Infantry will take place this evening. After drill an election of a lieutenant will take place and Mr Howden's medals presented to the winners.

" The Vagabond," (Julian Thomas) will deliver a lecture in Auckland next Monday on " French and German aggressions in the Pacific." He was a passenger yesterday by the train en route for Kotorua.

The fancy dress ball to be held at Cambridge on the 4lh proximo promises to be a great success, and is causing the fair sex great anxiety, as they are all anxious to find out what characters are going to t.e represented before choosing their own,

From the Worcestershire Advertiser of 20th April, we note' that Mr Bullock-Webster, late of Lake House, Hamilton, ran a horse at the Croomo and Ledbury Hunt steeplechases. In one event his horse Kitty came fourth, but won in another race. lii both events the owner rode.

Mr F. J. Sanders has taken the well-known premises ->f Mr J. W. Morriek, Victoria-strnei, Cambridge, where ho will have much better accommodation, and will b« able to show the sample i>l Gurliok and CranwL'll's Roods to greater advantage Mr Sanders is very energetic, and deserve* to succeed.

The Farmers' Club was successfully inaugurated at Cambridge on S.iturdiiy, and we trust it will prove a boon to the farming c immunity at U.rgi-.. At tho present time many of them are in a sorry plight, for now that the local mills are noaily all stopped, the Auckland millers will not look at Waikato wheat, and it is a perfect drug on t'ie m-irket. A full report of the meeting will V».j found in this issue, to which we direct the attention of farmers in the outlying districts. Yesterday being St. John's Day, the usual installation of officers of Lodge Isota -TiO T.C. took place m tho evening. The following are the nainus of tho officers for the ensuing term :—Brother P.M. A Primrose, W.M.; Brother W. I' , . B-.ill, S.W, ; Brother E. Rithborne, .r.W. ; Brother P.M. G. Edgecumbe, seen tary and treasurer; Brother J. Primrose, S.U. ; Brother A. G. Bright, J. D. ; Brother G. W. Sare, I.G. In addition to a good muster of members of tho Lodge, Brother R. W. Sargent of Lodge Alpha and Br.it! e: T. Kirk of Lodge Alexandra, be.-ides oth-r visiting brethren were present. Bro. P.M. Dey officiated as installing master.

Owinoc to the increase in the worK of the Hamilton 1.-legraph and Post-olfice, Mr Logie's staff has received an additional cadet, who arrived from Auckland yesterday. Mr Logie, prepared a detailed statement of all the inward and outward correspondence, telegraph work, and other business got through with at his office, which convinced the authorities that he was insufficiently supplied with clerical assistance We arc glad Mr Logie has obtained this consideration fr:mi hi!jul-!|iitirtors. He is one of the most painstaking officers of the many we know in tho service, audio completely and unselfishly applies himself to his duties that his health often suffers for the want of necessary exercise.

The anniversary services of ths Trinity Presbyterian Sunday-school, Cambrid"e, wore held on Sunday bv,t. In the morning the Rov. C. H. Garland delivered an earnest, practical discourse from the text, " Feed My Limbs," and in this evening the R.jv. G. (). Grilh'ths preached an impressive sermon from our Saviour's invitation, "Suffer little children to come unto Me, &c. : ' The afternoon gathering of Sunlay scholars was addiessod by the Rev. W.

Kvans, and appropriate hymns were sung by the children in a. suitable manner, lhc anniversary celebration will be continued to-morrow evening, when a musical and literary entertainment will be given, in which Professor Lio Medo and several other friends will take part.

Mr R. C- Dyer, head master of the Cambridge I'nhlic School, previous to his departure from Ponsonby, where ho occupied the post of first assistant, was the recipient of an illummiated address and silver egg frame from the pupils of his class and fellow teachers. The text of the address was as follows:—" We, the teachers of the Punsunby District School, and the pupils of your class, desire to express our great regret at your removal from amongst us, and to thank you tor the interest you have always shown in our welfare. We shall remember with much pleasure the years you have spent in our midst, and as a token of our esteem and regard we beg your acceptance of the accompanying egg frame. There follows tlio signature of !!7 of MiDyer's pupils and ten fellow teachers. The Government of New South Wales have received a notification to the effect that the Indian (iovtniment are prepared to purchase about 21(>5 horses suitable for army purposes during the year ISSiMJO. The purchases will be made in Madras, Calcutta, and Bombay, and at the various horse fairs and horse, shows in India by tetnotint agents under the orders of the Director, Army Kemonnt Department. The Calcutta landing and remount depot will be open for the reception of horses from October Ist to the end of the purchasing season, and not from September 15th. Horses and mares of all breeds will be received, but they must be within the pre scribed age, four to six years, except as regards country-breds, and in the case of Australian horses, 14 hands 3 inches to 16 hands high. The average price for an Australian or Cape remount has been fixed at Ks. 1550, which will be paid at the Indian port of purchase. Dr. Laishley has received a personal invitation from the University of France to attend the International Congress concerning higher and secondary education, which is to be held during the Paris Exhibition. The Congress will be held in the Sorbonne, from the sth to the 12th August, and tho questions chosen by the committee of organisation to bo discussed are as follows :—(1) Limitation and approval of secondary duties. (2) International equivalent in respect to studies and grades. (3) Different forms of secondary teaching; what position it is proper that ancient language, modern language, and science should respectively hold. (1) Concerning the method to be followed in the secondary instruction of young girls in particular, for the teaching of living languages, and for the teaching i'of sciences. (5) What place ought to be assigned to the economic and social sciences in progress of higher teacher? Tho direct invitation from so distinguished a source is a very high compliment to Dr. Laishley, and is proof of estimation in which his published works on Education are held by the learned in France. An important step in the direction of developing the trade in frozen meat was recently taken by Messrs Nelson Bros., as will be seen from the following extract from the Cardiff Evening Express of March 22nd :—Wo announced a few days ago the expected adoption of Cardiff as a distributing centre by another frozen meat agency. Tins we are n >\v able to confirm. Messrs Nelson Bros., of New Zealand who are the largest importers of New Zealand and Australian mutton and beef in the United Kingdom, have just established an office at Cardiff', and the lirst consignment of 2000 sheep aimed on Thursday. Further large consignments will arrive today (Friday), and in a short time it is exported that cargoes will be shipped direct to Cardiff from tho colonies. At present London is tha only port to which New Zealand meat is shipped, but the adoption of Cardiff as a centre for tho storage of frozen meat places the town and district in a particularly favourable position, rendering it altogether independent of cither London or Liverpool for its supplies. In addition to other advantages offered, the opening up of a direct trade with our New Zealand colonies will bo a matter of no small importance to the port of Cardiff.

The Sydney Daily Telegraph has a very cheerful word to s.iy for this colony. In an article on May 20th, that journal states:—The prosperity of New Zealand is returning by leaps and bounds. The colonv of late has had many things happening to restore the confidence in itself and its resources, the loss of which is the worst effect in long continued depression. The import and export returns of 1888 have lately beeii published, and the progress they indicate is most satisfactory. . . . . The colony had hardly realised all the satisfaction and mioonragcmeiit which theso figures were well calculated to yield, when tlioy were thrown into the shade by tho more surprising fiaurcs of 188!). . . . Moreover, while the i;xp u'l.s

have increased in this remarkable way, there lias been a decrease _ almost equally gratifying in the imports. The 'effect of this was that during tho year ending 31st March the exports exceeded the imports by nearly two and a-half millions, ami during the first quarter of this year Ihey wero nearly double the imports. When we compare those figures with those of Victoria—those, for example, for ISS7, when the imports wen; valued at £111,022,1.51 and tho exports at £11,351,145, and the excess of imports over exports at JL'7,O7I,OOii —we see the difference between the position of a colony enjoying :i high state of fictitious 'prosperity' on tho expenditure of borrowed money and that of a colony winch, after being'plunged for years into difficulty and depression by indulgence in a similar policy, is now resolutely extricating itself by economy and industry, and is putting itself at length on a thoroughly sound foundatiou.