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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2661, 1 August 1889, Page 2

Services by the Baptist minister will be resumed next; Sunday, in the Cambridge "West School, and on every alternate Sunday by the Waikato Baptist Home Missionary. Lieut.-Col. Shepherd, officer commanding the district, is on a visit to Hamilton to conduct the. examination of Captain I'.ruce, of the Te Awauuitu Cavalry, for his commission. The state of Lord Cranley, who is ill with fever in Nelson, causes much anxiety to His Excellency the Governor. Capt Saville, in Wellington, the Governor's A.D.C., is slightly better. The Kermadec Association, consisting of about a do/.eu families, chiefly from llawkos I'ay, who proceed to settle on the Kermadcc Island", have purchased the topsail schooner Dunedin. Mr (leiling goes to Napier to join the other settlers. We regret to learn that Dr. Waddington is seriously indisposed. He was out driving on Saturday in the sun, and after he returned home he felt unwell and on Sunday he was vory much worse and it was feared that it might prove dangerous. Last evening the doctor was a little better, although still very unwell and confined to his bed. Much anxiety is felt for him. A correspondent writes to us as follows: —"The few remarks in a late issue of Tub Waikato Times re flax refuse, I quite agree with. My' attention has been given to the subject for some time past. [ am certain that a large quantity of waste product is bjing lost, arid that by proper means used a valuable feed for hor--.es and cows could be produced, in other words why not made flax cakes for sale? If the waste was mixed with a cheap flour, maize or other material and baked in a slow oven into sh.ipe like cotton or oil-cakes, [ fancy it would find ready sale ; on the other hand for manure alone it must have some value. Why not drill it into the land the same as green crops (mustard) or turn it under with a top dressing of lime plentifully supplied, I fancy good results must follow."

The Pdkuranga hounds will arrive in Waikato next week, and the first meet of the season will take place at Gwynne's Hotel, Hamilton, on Wednesday next. A ineetingr of the Hunt Club will bo held on Siturday afternoon next at the Masonic Hotel, Cambiidge.

The sneak thief has made his appearance in Hamilton, and has invaded the back yaids of its peaceful inhabitants. On Tuesday night he helped himself without stint to a bag of coals and some firewood from the shed of an ex-Mayor. This was the second visit to the same locality, out ho was modest on the first occasion, ami did not presume too largely on the well-known good nature of his unsuspecting neighbour. The good people of Hamilton must prepare themselves for similar nocturnal attentions.

We have received a pamphlet containing a review ot the laws afftcting the natives, which lias been written in the form of a letter addressed to Mr Jas. Carroll, member for the Eastern Maori electorate. The author is Mr E. F. Harris, of Gisborne, also a half-caste and a man of exceptional intelligence and ability. He states his views of the evil results of the present native legislation, and points out where much needed and important reforms could be made. The paper is cleverly written and clearly expresses the feelings of the Maori people. Had the Waikato listened to Mr \V. A. Graham when he so persistently adjured them for years to enter upon the cultivation of sugar-beet, and encourage the establishment of a sugar manufactory in the district, they would have been reaping the greatest lesults from the enterprise at this moment, The rise in the prices of sugar would have givftii the local avticlea complete hold of the colonial ma ket and the profits on their produce would have compensated the growers and investors for manj* years of misfortune. Is it too late to think of it, even now ? We have to acknowledge the receipt of a new work published in the interests of the dairy industry, entitled The Science and Practice of Butter-making in Australasia, and is by l'rofcssor Brown, author of British Sheep Vanning, late Professor of Agriculture at the Ontario Agricultural College, Commissioner for Ontario at the Melbourne Exhibition, and now Director of tho Longereuong Experimental Farm at 1 >ooen, in Victoria. The work is intruded to serve as a hand-book to guide those engaged in the practical life of dairying, and enters into erery detail in the science and art of all branches of the industry. The book boars evidence of careful thought, study and investigation, as well as of technical experience. There are over two hundred and fifty pages devoted to the whole range of the subject, including conditions most snitablo for butter production, a critical examination of the breed of cows and their fond, pasture and fodder and their m inagement, buildings, the manipulation of cream and milk, butter making, the factory systems and management, irrigation, storing and marketing of butter with cost of production, utensils for use, systems in other countries and dairy education. There aro some excellent coloured plates and numerous illustrations to aid the student. Speaking of the encouragement given in Victoria by means of the travelling dairy, the author says, "All this is grand work and highly creditable. Farmers everywhere are naturally independent, self-reliant and retiring, very much by reason of comparative isolation ; but they are willing to respond to any wellorganised and thoroughly practical elforts undertaken for their benelit, and no doubt whatever a few years more will lind Australasia as eminent in cheese and butter as any American or European nation." The book is worth procuring and can be obtained from Messis McCarron, Bird and Co., publishers, 179 Collins-stieet, Melbourne. Price, tis in paper :and 7s (iJ in cloth covers, with lid added for postage.