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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2667, 15 August 1889, Page 2

We would remind our readers of the entertainment to be given by the Devere and Moore Minstrels, in the 1 üblic Hall, Hamilton, this evening. The Pakuranga Hounds meet at Delaney's Hotel, Ohawpo, to-morrow; Jit Hantapu on Monday, and will run a drag at Cambridge at 2 p.m. on Wednesday next. Mr J. Parr, of Hamilton, has purchased Mr Stackpoole's business in Cambridge, which will be managed in future by Mr Parr, jmir. Mr Stackpoole intends to leave fur Woodville, where he will begin business afresh. In the ordinary course of events the Cambridge Borough Council should have met at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, but as no one turned up the clerk adjourned the meeting until Friday evening. We noticed most of the councillors were at the Piiync's entertainment. Professor Lio Medo gave a lecture on -'Artificial Appetite" at Cambridge, ou Mondayevenine, for the benefit of the Good Templar's Lodge 1 but we are afraid the funds will not be greatly increased , as only 40 persons were present, Some of the junior members of the Lodge gave a pantomimic sketch in a creditablo manner.

We are glad to hear from Wellington that Mr W. M. Hay, of Hamilton,is progressing favourably. The variety entertainment in aid of S. Peter's Sunday-school will be given next Tuesday. A full programme will appear in our next issue. Special evangelistic services are to be held , next week in the Wesleyan Church, Hamilton, to bo conducted by the Rev. C. H. Garland, of Cambridge. We notice hy the Government Ga/.ette of July 25th that Mr W. F. Porter's flock of sheep at Miranda is the only one iu the North Island affectod with scab. We have had forwarded to us a sample of sheet iron made at the Iron Works at Onehungn. It is tho first of the kind manufactured in the colonies. The specimen is only in its rough state as tho iron has yet to go through several processes before it is ready for the market. Every success won in the trials made in this industry opens up immense possibilities for the colony, with its inexhaustible stores of native ore. The friends of Mr J. F. Edgar, who was for some years our representative at Cambridge, will be pleased to learn that he is doing well in Melbourne. He is upon the staff of the Herald, and has lately taken unto himself a wife, upon which, occasion he was presented with a very handsome clock by his fellow-workers, which shows that they have not been long in finding out his good qualities, as he has been but a short time in Australia. We notice that some of the local bodies are under the impression that the Railway Commissioners intend visiting the Waikato at an early date, and are appointing delegates to wait on them. The impression seems to be somewhat inaccurate, as there is no immediate prospect of the Commissioners visiting the North; nor, so far as we can learo, can they do so until some time after the session.

The saddlery business oi the late Mr Peat has been purchased by Mr Jones, of the Hamilton Borough Council, for his son, who is engaged in tho trade in Auckland. Mr Reid, saddler, of Hamilton East, opens a branch to-day in the shop near The Waikato Times Building, lately occupied by Mr Pannell, stationer. Mr Reid sees the progress made in the business quarter of Hamilton West, and is determined to march with the times, and keep himself well before the town and country residents. The production of onions is an agricultural detail of more importance than most people think (says the Marlborough Express). Farmers who neglect so reproductive a branch of industry are very shortsighted, if it be true, as we are informed, that well-planted onions yield eight or ten tons to the acre, and realise £10 to £10 per ton. Wo hear of one area of seven acres near Blenheim yielding eight tons per acre; and Mr Holmes informs us (apropos of this subject) that his firm wanted 100 tons of onions, and had to get them in Nels'-m. The arrangements for the plain and fancy dress ball to be held in tho Oddfellow's Had, Hamilton East, to-morrow evening aro well forward, tho committee having been most assiduous in their exertions to make the affair a success. The hall will be tastefully decorated, the floor in good order, and the music new. A good attendance is assured by the number of tickets already sold. will bo admitted on payment of one shilling, and doubtless many will avail themselves of the opportunity of viewing the masqueraders. The Rev. T. G. Carr, of Hamilton, has received advices from China accepting the offer of Mr P. Fortune, of Te Awamutu, for mission work in the interior of China. Mr Fortune proceeds to China in a few week's time. He preaches farewell sermons on Sunday next at Tuhikaramea, Whatawhata and Hamilton. Mr Fortune is a young man, born and educated in the colony, and of great promise as a minister. It is a rare thing to meet with young colonials willing to expatriate themselves and give themselves for mission work in strange lands. The following story is going the rounds When tho noted Agnew couple were in durance vile in tho Terrace Gaol, " William" was on one occasion told off to assist in kitchen work, peeling potatoes, etc. On his being presented to the kitchen, he naturally enough struck up close intimacy with tho regular cook. Now the latter had at one time been in the employ of Sir Harry Atkinson, and one day dining conversation he happens to refer to the Premier as being " a very decent old sort, to which Agnew, whose relations with the Premier are well known, so far from agreeing took violent exception—so violent indeed that had he not been promptly removed the cook's cranium would have been subject to rough usage throngh the medium of a soup ladle which Agnew wielded.—Wellington Press. The Lyttleton Times special correspondent thus writes of Mr Buxton, member for Geraldme :—Of all the country members the most undoubtedly and truly bucolic is the member tor Geraldine, for there is about Mr Buxton something which at once suggests hay, seed, mangold wurlzels and the price of fat sheep. He has had by order of his whips to keep silence for more than a week, and this has been grief and pain to him. Last night, however, he broke out and made a speech And it was a speech ! Shade of Charles Dickens ! Oh, that a master hand could reproduce Mr Buxton on paper, his words, his looks, his tones—those tones that remind one of the tolling of muffled cathedral bells, varied by the playing of the "Dead March in Saul." He explained that ho had been subjected to " vile persecution " in a way that had " made my heylids quiver beneath my sun-burned brow, and caused my British 'oart to rise in hindignation." He was severe on the dwellers in cities. Had

he not heard " sutty-faced townsmen rise hand denounce my constituents as country bumpkins !" Suppose, says the Ofcago Daily Times, a father bestows £500 in giving ins daughter a training in medicine. Is not the money, considered oven as a marriage portion, better so bestowed than if it were invested for her in the funds ? She can double her husband's income ; and if by anv chance he is taken from her or set aside, she is able to step into his place and earn bread for her family, not by the sorry shift of keeping a boarding house, but by the practice of au honourable and lucrative profession. A good training in medicine can be got in this city for little more than the price of a handsome grand piano ; whilst many girls of ability are dawdling away the best years of their existence in planning tennis costumes, or in wheeling round a fixed point after nothing on roller skates. If some of the energy thus expended by girls in killing time were wisely guided by parents towards fitting them for the practice of an honourable profession, there would really bo an incalculable saving of time, money, and character —whether such girls get married or not.

The twenty-fifth anniversary of the occupation of Hamilton by_ English settlers will fall on Sunday, the 25th inst., and it is the wish of the surrounding representatives of tho Fourth Waikato regiment which encamped there on that date, 25 years ago, to celebrate the occasion in a fittine manner. As will be seen in our repott of the Hamilton Borough Council, a letter was read from Mr John Knox, formerly Colour-Sergeant of the regiment, asking the Mayor to take steps in the matter. It is proposed to proclaim Monday, the 25th, a public holiday, and to invite all the members of the old corps to a dinner, to b8 given in the Volunteer Hall, Hamilton West. Captain Reid and the Hamilton Light Infantry would probably turn out on tho occasion. It is thought that thirty or forty old YVaikatos, besides first civilian settlers, would muster to do honour to the day. As Auckland is thinking of celeorating its iubilee, Hamilton shtiuld, in like manner, keep up its first quarter-century.

The Rev. C. H. Garland gave his lecture on " Character" in the Public Hall, Cambridge, last Friday. The room was fairly tilled, about 150 being present. As we have noticed this lecture in our To Awamutu reports, we need not again dilate upon its exccllency ; suHice to say that it was well delivered, and made a very favourable impression npon the audience. During tho evenintr the following musical selections were given : —Piano solo, "Tutto El Sciolto," Mr i\[. McDevmott; prices, "In this rjowly Vale." and "The lied Cross Knight," Misses Priestly, M. Nixon, Caley, and Mrs C. Hunter, Messrs Caley, Hunter, Cane, Brooks, and Rev. Carland. Mr Risden also played tho "Fairy Bells" upon a peculiar instrument, that certainly sounded very much- like bells. The piano solo and tho first glob wore both well rendered, but the Red Cioss Knight was rather defective. Miss Nixon officiated as accoinpanist.