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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2695, 19 October 1889, Page 2

Mr Maunder's flax mill at Frankton startod operations 011 Thursday. The Government intend introducing facilities for promoting agricultural education in the colony. The proposal to raise a loan for special works in the Patotere riding, Piako County, has been rejected. General Edwards proceeded to Lichfield, by special train, on Thursday, en route for Rotorua and the South. A performance will he given by the Te Awanmtu Musical Society, 011 Thursday evening, November 7th. A passenger from Auckland informs us that private Popcorn of the Naval Brigade, kept the Hamilton Light Infantry in fits of laughter and good humour all the way from Auckland. A middle-aged man, named Davis, who was thrown from his horse at Te Aioha on Tuesday last, was brought to the Waikato Hospital yesterday morning. He is still in an unconscious state. A Fielding dairyman has paid the patentee of the cold vacuum process for preserving food an advance 011 .1 royalty on £3000, and will ship lOOOlbs. of fresh butter per week to tho London market regularly. A meeting to consider the steps necessary to float Mr Ji. J. Pearson's carbolic sand soap business into a company, will beheld at Tun Waikato Times P.uildings, on Monday evening, at half-past seven, A special sale of Raglan cattle will be held at Ohaupo, on Monday, November llth, by Mr W. J. Hunter. Four hundred hoad of store cattle are already entered, and further entries are expected. Only cattle from the Raglan district will be offered at this sale. The conference of delegates from the various local bodies on the question of Railway Reform, and to crcato a Railway Reform League will bo held in Le Quesne Hall, Hamilton Kast, on Wednesday next. Mr Vaile and other Auckland visitors are expected to bo present and addreess the meeting. We understand (says the Post) that owing to the increased facilities recently afforded by tho direct steamers, the export of butter increases very largely. The Rimut'ika, which left Lyttelton on Thursday last, had nn board several hundred kegs shipped in Wellington in addition to a large quantityshippod from Southern ports. In all the steamers of both lines, in future, space v/ill be specially reserved for cheese and butter.

The Maoris did not appear to support their application for a re-hearing of the Pukekura-Pnahoe cases, at the Native Lmd Court at Cambridge on Thursday, consequently the applications wero dismissed. No further application reg.ardinpr these cases can now be made, which is a comfort, for native business appears to havo so little finality about it, that it must be a relief to those interested to know that the end of even a stage of the proceedings has been reached.

Mr P. Moran, of Rangiriri, who has bc.m working a flax-mill at that place for some time past, was in Whatawhata a few days ago, arranging preliminaries for the erection of a flax-mill in that d'sti ict, and interviewing settlcis for the purpose, of purchasing all available standing flax tit for the mill. The sit'j chosen is at the Ohoete creek, opposite Mr Moor's farm. The orection of the mill will be proceeded with at once, and is expected to be in working order in a few weeks. Plenty of flax is now seemed to keep the mill going steadily.

Hakariwi te Purewa (Hargreaves), the Tamahere rangatira, has received a grandly-illuminated invitation to visit the Dmiedin Exhibition. The c mimissioners ask for a reply, in order that they may reserve a seat at the opening ceremony, should he favour them with his presence. If Hargreaves should go to the Exhibition, he will undoubtedly be one of the best specimens—both mentally and physically— of tho remaining portion of the now fast disappearing New Zealand native race.

The Hamilton Light Infantry was the largest rifle company on parade at the inspection held by Major-General Edwards on Wednesday evening last, the parade state showing the respectable muster of 57 of all ranks. This is highly ci editable, considering the circumstances, as to attend thin parade members of the Hamilton corps had to lose two days' work. An Auckland gentleman, at present on a visit to Waikato, informs us that the Hamilton corps was undoubtedly the finest cn parade; with perhaps the single exception of the O Battery.

The Ohaupo Library Committee are desirous of sending direct to England for a fresh supply of books*. To enable them to do so it was proposed to get up a concert to provide the necassary funds. The past entertainments connected with the library have always been well supported, and we sincerely hope that the concert committee will be rewarded for their pains. An entertainment is to taka placa on Wednesday, the 6th of November, and a number of the loading amateurs from Hamilton, Cambridge, and Te Awamutu, have kindly promised to assist.

The Railway Commissioners have taken a grand departure. Knowing that tlwre are great deposits of lima in particular places, they have lowered the carriage of the fertiliser on the railways in order that it may be distributed on the lands which require it. They hope thereby to increase tlio railway revenue by increasing the prosperity of the colony. More lime will be carried by many thousands of tons, and in consequence more grain will be grown, more stock, more roots, more everything. Farmers in the South Island have agreed to take thousands of tons, and the lime-burners, on a hint of the Railway Commissioners, have promised to reduce their prices. We hear the Commissioneis, are revolving other schemes in their minds for the encouragement of other lines of industry. "The mora the merrier" k the best we liavo to say to that, and nope the privilege may bo extended our way,—Tu.v peka Times.

Owing to the flax boom, the Rangitikei farmers fear they will be short of hands next harvest. We remind our readers that Lincoln, the inimitable American humourist, will appear in the Public Hall, Hamilton, 011 Monday evenine. The tinny changes of features which he is capable of to suit each character pourtrayed, or story told, are mnrvellnu*. His performances are simply side-splitting, and if anyone is in the dumps and needs a good specific, 1 rank Lincoln will let him have it in a dose that will last a life-time. The Presbyterians of Cambridge are looking forward tn an enthusiastic celebration of their Church's Anniversary. Special sermons are announced for Sunday 27th inst, when the Rev. John McDonald, lately from Scotland will preach. It was of Mr McDonald that Principal Rainey, when recently in Auckland spoke so favourably, and as he has already won the good opinion of several in the district, no doubt there will be many to welcotno him in his first visit to Cambridge. The afternoon service will be at Hautapu. The anniversary concert is announced for 31st inst, when we are pleased to notice Mrs Kilgour will take part.

The man who just now has earned my admiration for 'eateries* is my friend the Ashbnrton parish priest—Father Chastagnon. (Let the beat French scholar on tho staff give the proper pronunciation of the rev. gentleman's name. I cannot, and do not try. For short, and by way of apology for our poor French, we call hiin Father '•Shass." Ho does not object, and wo are satisfied.) The good old man has a church saddled with between two aud three thousand pounds cf debt. He did not incur that debt, but he, found it there when he became the parish priest of my Catholic friends and neighbors. Why it is there need not now be recounted; sufficient for my yarn is the fact that the congregation groans under its incubus. Well, the old man has got at a means of clearing it off in one season. He purposes leasing one thousand acres of fair laud for a crop of wheat. If I know anything at all about him, I rather f iney he will get tho thousand acres rent free. His " bhoys" will be only too happy to sand their plough, harrow, and roller teams to prepare tho soil and put in the seed, and when harvest comes the reaping, etc., will, of course, have to be dona by contract, the threshing being done at the ruling figures. Carting to store the boys will again havo to do. This speculation should bring in about £2000 to the Church, aad extinguish the debt. And this, if the old man has any luck at all, is bound to come olf. Where has the brains of all tho Canterbury churches with debt upon thorn been all this time that they never thought of such a scheme ? Ido not know. But it has been left to an old Catholic priest, and a Frenchman at that, to teach them a wrinkle.—(Ashbnrton correspondent Lyttelton Times.) The inquiry which meets one at every street comer here and in other towns of tlie colony is, " How is it that, with such splendid prices for all descriptions of proline •, business is so dull V The dullness is undeniable, amounting almost to .-tagnation, and yet money inu>t be literally pouring into t'le country, in return for the produce which we send away. Little or none lof t'lis money, howevet, seems to have found its way into circulation through ordinary channels of trade, and the complaint as 11 things being quiet is therefore univers 11. A glance at the latest Bank returns affords some explanation of the anomaly of a large and profitable demand for all descriptions of produce existing side hy side with a general dullness of trade. The fact is that the producers havo been working olf a "dead horse" so far. The money received for their stock and produce has not gone into their pockets for use and circulation in the ordinary manner. Nearly all of it has been absorbed by tho banks and other monetary institutions, in repayment of former advances, the recovery of which at one time looked very doubtful. The recent advances in valuo of all kinds of produce has enabled tho producers to meet their liabilities to soir.e extent at least, and the banks and the monetary institutions in question havo learned caution from the very narrow escape of losing their money altogether, are sweeping up every penny they can get, and are remarkably chary about setting it in circulation again in the shape of fresh advances, however promising or legitimate the security may appear. Why business is dull is sufficiently explained by tho fact that the banks alone have, within a very short period, reduced their advances by upward? of a million aud a half. This means that this sum, which in ordinary course should have passed into general circulation by having been spent on improvements or enlarging the aica of production, has been raked into tho bank coffers, and is retained there comparatively unproductive.—Wellington Post.

The following extraordinary letter was read at the last meeting of the Wai-

kato Farmers' Club, and caussd rounds of laughter. The intention of tho writer is doubtless good, and, although the execution is somewhat indifferent, we do not think he. should have been ashamed to append his name, instead of using a liotn de plume. However, as ho has thought fit to do so, we print tile letter in extenso, with the author's own ideas as to punctuation and the Use of capital letters. We would explain that Mr C. Tuck is tho Secretary to the Club. The following is an exact copy of the letter. "C. Tuck to the secretary of the Waikato farmers club Sir 1 see by your last meeting of the club Mr Anderson said He had to pay such a price to bring one ton of boildust from Auckland to Cambridge I forget the said price now But annyhow it is horrible to think of it A stop can be made to tli3 like of this if the Waikato farmers like to do so and this is how it can be done if tho Club were to purchase a small steamer Cambridge has a fine River for Navigation the club could start a seamer on the River for to carry the clubs produce to Auckland, if tho members of this club was to put their shoulders to this subject and carry it out it would bo a good thing for Cambridge and waikato. if the waikato farmers Club had a steamer of their own Running from Cambridge to Auckland tho steamer cotid carry Bondust at lost 12 nhillings a ton from Auckland to Cambridge if tho club would start a steamer on the River then the public

of Cambridge wonld soon see the good of steainor communication between Cambridge and Auckland the locial paper might give a few good words for this on this matter of groat importance those how own steamers in Auckland would soon see the benefit of the thing and at once start a steamer on the line what a fine fertile district this River runs through if it was in America it would soon bo made use of Now at your Meeting on Monday I hope you will do your best to start steainer Navagation from Cambridge to Auckland. I hop all the members of the club will take this on their Heads at once I am yours Patrick " Cambridge.