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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2680, 14 September 1889, Page 2

O'Connor has challenged Searle to row him in America for £500 a-side.

A man in Dunedin, named Arthur Kmpon, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a broad-knife and then a saw. He formerly had a station at Rungitata, and came from Australia a few weeks ago. He had showed signs of insanity.

The arrivals in the colony during August were and the departures of the latter 787 were to New South Wales, and 27H to Victoria. New South Wales is also credited with 310 arrivals, and Victoria with I'7o.

We understand that Mr. Dey has consented to allow himself to be be nominated for the vacancy in the Hamilton I'ornugh Council caused by tho resignation of .Mr. Knox. In Mr. Dey the Borough would have an o.vcellent o iiincillor, as ho is one of its most respected citizens.

There is one great lesson that the people seem to have taken to heart, says the Oamaru Mail, that is, that it is dangerous to purchase land at speculative values. They have learned, too, that the actual value of land is its value for cultivation, anil that to fjive more out of pure ambition to be one'* own landlord is to court misery. It is bettor for a man to hang about the stroets of our towns, or travel the country roads, picking up the few crmnbs that ho can, than to burthen himself with laud bought, at such a price that ho cannot make more than the interest on tho purchase money by working it.

The Hamilton Lawn Tennis Club s annual general meeting, which was adjourned hist Saturday, owing to the weather, will bo held on Saturday next, the 2let ill st.

A coursing meeting will be held at Gorton 011 Tuesday for an unlimited sweepstake, of which the entries close this afternoon. They must be lodged with Mr Burgess, Cambridge.

The many friends of Mr R. W. Sargent, of Cambridge, will be pleased to learn that 110 has recovered from the cffects of his late accident, and that he will return home by to-day's train. Ho will resume charge of his business on Monday.

The Auckland Baths Committee have intimated to Professor Pannell that they are prepared to recommend the City Council to grant him tho exclusive use of the Baths for one hour daily during January next, so that he may conduct a swimming class for ladies.

In our last issue we inadvertently attributed an address on Church Unity, given at the lato Archidiaconal Conference, to the Rev. Mr Garland. The address was given by the Rev. Mr Boler, of Te Awamutu, Mr Uarland taking part in tho discussion that ensued. A full report, of the Conference will appear in next week's Supplement.

The Rev. Thomas Spurgeon, who will bo leaving his charge in Auckland in November, will pay a farewell visit to tho Baptist Tabernacle, Cambridge, at the end of this month. He has promised to preach two sermons on Sunday, the 29th mst., in connection with the eight anniversary of the church, and on Monday, the 30th •51st., will deliver a farewell lecture on 'Tact." We would remind the cricketers of Cambridge that the annual meeting of the Club will be held at Fawcett's Hotel on Monday next at 7.30 p.m. sharp. All those interested in the grand old game are earnestly requested to attend, for if cricket is neglected as football has been, Cambridge will earn the unenviable notoriety of being the most apathetic place in tho W aikato as regards sporting games.

" Better late than never" is an adage that is applicable to the Hamiltonian cricketers, for they have at last paid the 10s due to tho Waikato Cricket Association, that being their contribution towards the Cup that was played for and won by the Paterangi Club during the past season. This matter had hung fire so long that we were afraid they intended repudiating ; we are pleased to find such is not the case.

We are pleased to learn that Mr All will has leased the grand thoroughbred entire Billingsgatr, by Isaac Walton, out of Slander. He will be on view in Cambridge this afternoon, and will stand at Redwood and will travel where inducement offers. This horse has been a grand success at the stud in Auckland, and has left some first-elans stock. His visit to Waikato ought to bo a boon to the farmors. His pedigree will appear in Tuesday's issue, the advertisement having been handed in too late lor this issue.

No trace has yet been found of James Linnet, tho missing railway porter. Yesterday Constablo Brennan and Mr Dickenson went from Cambridge to Hamilton in a boat, but could not find the body. They had the satisfaction of being rewarded for their pains, by having to walk back, for although the constable sent a request to the railway authorities at Hamilton, that they would provide a jigger 011 which he could return, ono was not forthcoming. If this is the way the Railway authorities repay anyone for looking for their employees, they had better not lose any more, as they will find people very chary of putting themselves to much trouble.

Mr D. Lees, of Hamilton East, met with a very painful accident on Thursday afternoon last, whilst engaged roping a load of straw 011 a dray at Mr Crosby's farm, on tho Hukanui road. The man on top of tho load had thrust his hay fork into the straw, and Mr Lees, in pulling the rope tight, must liavo jerked it out and it fell olf the dray, and entered Mr Lees' knee to a depth of about four inches, requiring quite a strong pull to draw it ont. Mr Lees is confined to his bed, and is likely to remain there for a week or two. Dr. Murch is attending him.

Mr A- Issacs, of the Okoroire Hot Springs Hotel, is indefatigable in his endeavours to render his establishment attractive to visitors. He has lately planted between three and four thousand fruit and ornamental trees and shrubs, and in order to have the grounds properly laid out and the planting done in a workmanlike manner, he secured the services of Mr C. T. Wren, the well-known landscape gardener of Auckland, who superintended the whole of the work. The hotel is replete with every convenience, and with hot springs second to none, Okoroire bids fair to become a favourite sanatorium of the North Island.

Writing of the stock tax the '■ Australasian " says :—"Beeves will, no doubt, fetch high prices in the market, but clothing will become so dear that the farmors will bo driven to revert to the custom of tho ancient Briton, and the only persons who will be seen wearing black silk hats will be the manufacturers aud the membeis of the Trades Council. The pi ice of cattle is not really paid in gild but in the manufactures which tho settlers require for their farms aud stations. Neither are our loans paid in gold. They come to us in the shape of such goods as wo require for the development of the colony. Tax ourselves, therefore, as we will ; let us send the duties up to 100 per cent ; we must still import as long as we continue to borrow. The Protectionist thermometer is rising, and its boiling point will evidently be reached much sooner than was ever dreamt of.

In this issue appears the initiative advertisement of Reynold's Australian Amazons and Burlesque Company, who are at present performing in Auckland to large and appreciative audiences, and who intend giving two performances in the Volunteer Hall, Hamilton, on Saturday aud Monday evenings, the 2lst and 23rd inst. This company comprises some of the best dramatic and music hall talent of the sister colonies of Victoria and New South Wales, and it is some time since tho district, has been favoured with a visit from so large and versatile a company of performers. Mr Claphain, tho manager, advertises in another column for tenders for alterations to the stage, erection of scenery, and carting the company's effects. The company, which leaves Auckland for Waikato next week, lias been specially engaged for the opening of the new hall at Mercer.

Remarking on the beneficial effects of lime on land, the Bruce Herald has the following "Mr 1). M'Donald, whose farm is near Milburn, says that a few years ago ho had a bit of ryegrass seed from Home, which he sowed, and saved the seed. Last year ho sowed that seed on four acres of well-limed land, and the crop threshed out loi'.V bushels of clean seed— 3S bushels to tho acre ; without the lime ho believes the yield would have been 20 at the outside. He also harvested 124 fourbushel bags of wheat off ten acres, while a neighbour Mr France, got fifty-five bushels of first-class wheat with lime, from land which only yielded twenty-five without." Results similar to these, says the Waimato Times, can be gathered in this district by the score. In fact, it would scarcely be an exaggeration to say that the facility with which lime can here be procured, its cheapness, and the fact that farmers havo discovered its real value, lias doubled the yielding capacity of the district. Or, if it is thought that is saying rather too much, then what amounts to about the same thing, the yields are now something like double what they would be, were it not that the land has been periodically sweetened.

A very pleasant evening was spent at the Cambridge West School on Monday last, whon Mr Hyatt gave a most interesting and instructive lecture on " Elementary Agricultural Chemistry." Tho audience was unusually large, and seemed to thoroughly appreciate the lecture. The Rev. C. 11. (1 iirland occupied the chair in the absence of tho committee. Mr Hyatt commenced by stating the different constituents of the soil, and contrasting cultivated with uncultivated land. I lis remarked on tho enormous amount of waste occasioned by burning refuse, and stated that itshould be allowed to decompose and then be returned to the land as manure, instead of passing into the atmosphere. He maintained that the farmers might save many a pound now spent in manure oy thus using the surplus rubbish. The loss of lime to the land, occasioned by the exportation of bone.", was pointed out, and tho people warned lest New Zealand, instead of being "a land flowing with triilk and honey," should become, like modern Palestine, a dreary desert waste. At tho conclusion of the lecture, songs were sung by Misses P. (larland and A. Miller, after which Mr Hyatt made several experiments, illustrating tho power of heat.

Mammoth is a term that is frequently tn be met with in seedmen s catalogues, but it is usually applied to Swedes, turnips, or mangold wur/.els, anil we fancy that in one solitary instance we have seen it applied to cabbages. We have never seen it prefixed to broccoli, but if the Waikato continues to grow such gigantic specimens of this genus as we saw at Cambridge early this week, it will doubtless soon be attached thereto. The plants wore grown by Mr .rames Meredith, and, at the time we viewed them, were in the possession of Mr J. P. Thomson. They were most perfect specimens, and both measured exactly the same, being forty-three inches round the head or flower. The measurement was taken round the flowers only, and does not include any of tho leaves. Does not tins break the record ?