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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2674, 31 August 1889, Page 2

The annual meeting of the Hamilton Lawn Tennis Club will bo held on tho Court on Saturday next. A concert and dance, in aid of the prize fund of the Kirikirinia school, will tako placo in the schoulroom on Friday next. Much surprise was felt in Auckland on Thursday at the arrest of J). J3. Orchard, the money-lender, on a charge of forgery. There will be no parade of the Hamilton Light Infantry on Tuesday next, the next drill marked on the card being September 10th. We would draw the attention of the residents of Cambridge West to the service which will be held in the school tomorrow afternoon. Auckland grown wheat has been awarded the gold medal at the Paris Exhibition. Perhaps Mr Hunt will tell us where the wheat was grown ? The following tenders were received by the Raglan County Council for building the Ngaruawalmi punt: —D. Henderson, £(!o; J. C. Salmon, £07; Alex. Nicnl, £84; John Huquit, £03; James Lindsay, £112. The indications of the barometer have been very remarkable for the last day or two, being very high. Yesterday morning it registered 30 (i."> and was the highest reading over noticed in tho Waikato. At noon it began to tall, and registered last night 30.1)3. It will be seen on reference to our advertising columns that the Acme rink will be open on Monday evening. Tho manager desires -is to state that the qncs-, tion of keeping the rink open for tho present season will be decided by tho attendance on Monday evening;. During the debate in the Victorian Parliament on the import dues, one member suggested that a high tux should be placed on all pictures in order to encourage local artists. Absurd as the proposal seems to be, one still more so was raised by another member who suggested an import duty »n all University Professors. It is useless trying to make a good fire with bad coal. Householders, Ha.xlnillers and others .-hould purchase from tho Taupiri Extended Colliery Company, and thus encourage local industry, and, at the same time, obtain an excellent coal at a moderate price. The Company's advertisement will be found in another column. The association whose advertisement, headed " Practical Christianity," is printed in our Supplement, is bringing the views held by its members under notice of the general public in a very practical manner. A work, entitled "The Doctrine of Life," will be sent gratuitously and post free on application to Mr E. Braby, Temperance Hall, Sydney. We understand the Auckland Stud Company will be represented in Waikato this season with their thoroughbred horses Leulinus and Hotchkiss, a three-year-old son of Musket and Petroleuse. The latter will bo limited to forty mares. In Clydesdales they will have Robin Adair, by Loch Fergus, out of Nelly, both imported. Full particulars of terms and routes will appear in our advertising columns in a few days. Mr Gillies's statement (says the " Australasian ") is the budget of large embarrassments. He has tbo enormous surplus of £1,800,000 to dispose of, and in addition he has .£040,000 of city and suburban property to sell, and the proceeds will go to swell the unwieldy surplus. The revenue is for the present in excess of the expenditure, and yet tho Treasurer must propose new taxation because Protection has a beginning but no end. At the meeting of the Ragian County Council, on Wednesday, all the Councillors were present, and a very large amount of business was gone through, the meeting lasting up to 11.30 p.m. having started at noon. Wo am compelled to hold over the full report until next issue. Aftor hearing an explanation on Hospital matters from their representative, Mr T. G, Sandes, it was proposed and unaminously agreed to, that whilst being in favour of ojonomy of management, the Council had full confidence iu their representative and left tho matter entirely in his hfinds. Mr Sandes promised to do his duty for the interests of the district as a whole.

The R3V. C. H. Garland intends preaching at Cambridge to-morrow night on " Socialism : Is there not a cause for the Great Labor Rov«ltin Britain." Says a correspondent:—"We have frequently been asked " Is life worth living in this colony '!" I confess I hardly think it is, for with our enormous d«bt, heavy taxation, and legislators who do not care a rap as long as they can pocket the honorarium, we are becoming almost hopeless of cettinL' out of the mire. But, lv,d as we find things, too storekeepers of Cambridge must be in an even worse state, for in one of tho shop windows is the following announcement : " 15i marbles for Id." This looks like cutting profits tine with a vengeance. Can wo wonder at youngsters committing petty thefts when such tempting offers are hold out to them. One could almost wish ho was a boy atf.iin, if it was only to Hud out how that half marble is worked. Is the marble split, or does the vendor or purchaser hold it or how ?" The concert and dramatic entertainment in aid of the Catholic Church, Hamilton, will take place on Tuesday next, at the Oddfellow's Hall, Hamilton Besides tho well-knwwn comedy " Checkmate" by local and Auckland amateurs of proved ability, tho musical portion of the evening will receive most valuable assistance from tho R'U'p. Dr. Egan nnd Father Li-.iiihiiii. Dr. Ksran is one of the few Doctors of Music in the colony and his talents aro most versatile and of a high order. As a comic singer he is inimitable, possessing the Irish wit and drollery in their truest vnin. He is also an accomplished flautist; the flute he u«os is a rare ono and of a kind only made in Rome. Father Lenihan is also a- thorough musician, and conductor of the choir in St. Mary's, Ponsonby. When these two priests assisted at a recent concert at Kihikihi, many people were unable to gain admittance to the hall and the proceeds realised £17 clear, a handsome sum for such a small place. They have not been before a Hamilton audience at any time, therefore, we are sure there is a rare treat in store. The ownership of tha model of SAndrew's Church at C.itnbri'lsre, about which we have from time to time piibli-hed letters of enquiry, was finally settled on Thursday, when it was b.illoted for, and Dr. Moon drawing the lucky number, he was proclaimed the winner. It will bo remembered that the model was to have benn raffled oIF at the Garden FcHc held two years ago, for 200 tickets at Is each, but only 70 being sold, it was kept in reservo until tho remainder could bo disposed of. A dolls-house, several steel engravings, and an oil-painting were in liko manner reserved, but as they were unfortunately destroyed in the Duke-street fire, being then in Mr Ward's possession, thoss who had taken tickets for them hod their interests transferred, and wore given a chance to win the church model. This was not detrimentil to the original holders of tickets in it, as the whole number only amounted to 141. whereas it was intended to have been 2">o. Wo understand that Dr. Moon has presented tlii'. model to Archdeacon Willis, who will doubtless prize it, as it is a very correct reprcsantfitiun of the church. Typhoid infection does lurk about in a most utiacconntihlo manner. In what way di-.l th« recent outl.rwck in Government Mouse originate? Mrs Jervois, wife of Major Jervois, brought tvphoid from Auckland, and wus laid up three weeks with a slight attack. Nothing more was heard of the disease there till the place was renovated for tho reception of Lord Ouslow. Tho house cleaning was thorough, and before it was finished poor Mr Tinny, one of the. contractors, was stricken by typhoid and died. Then the present occupants took possession, and Captain Saville and Lord Cranley were taken ill of tho same fever soon alt ir. .Does not this point to perms lurking somewhere in Government House, and being freed when the house, colloquially, was turned inside out. They were freed, and absorbed by constitutions congenial to their development, with tho usual result. The truth is that typhoid is highly infectious under ceitain conditions, and to infallibly ensuro against those conditions is just one of the things average public carefulness in incapable of. But there is this soupcon of comfort on the other side of the account: Tho very groat majority of constitutions are not predisposed to the disease. Therein lies tho safety far more than in Iho non-infectious character of typhoid.—N.Z. Times. _^__^_________