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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2701, 2 November 1889, Page 2

We are compelled to hold over our report of the Presbyterian concert at Cambridge. The sermon at S- Andrew's, Cambridge, to-morrow evening will be Canon Vansa'a on the Salvation Army. It is publicly notified in the Gazette that the Prince of Wales' Birthday will, this year, bo observed on Monday, the 11th November, at all offices of the public service.

Sir Maurice O'Rorke was a passenger yesterday, on route for Rotorua. The banks in Waikato will be closed on .Saturday next (Prince of Wales Birthday.) The full programme of the South Auckland Kacing Club's Summer Meeting is advertised in this issue, The average of lambs, so far as the season has gone, is reckoned at 00 per cent, in the Oamaru district. The Chief Postmaster, Mr Biss, was in Hamilton yesterday on business in connection with the Post and Telegraph Department. The Herald, of yesterday, has an excellent article on the state of Ireland, and the mission of the Home Rule delegates to the colony. The Tamahere fete has been postponed from Saturday next to the following Monday, as the latter will be observed as a general holiday, instead of Saturday. A Native Lands Court will be held at Cambridge on the 29th inst., when the cases for the sub-division of Maungatantari will bo heard, and several Pukekura and Mauugakawa disputes will also bo settled. The National Mutual Life Association of Australasia, one of the most liberal life insurance associations, has an advertisement elsewhere, drawing attention to the inducements held out by that company to intending insurers. Mr A. J. L. Coates has been appointed Waikato agent. \ Mr Harwood's horse is progressing slowly. It is still in the sling, and is likely to remain so for a weok longer at least. Had the horse been left alone and not cut down, it would have been nearly all right now, but the injury it received then threw it as far back as before. It will be three months, if not more, before the horse will be able to work again. Mr (J- Alderton, a gentleman wellknown of late in Waikato us canvasser for the New Zealand Government Life Assurance Department, has, wo hear, resumed the proprietorship of the Northern Advocate, published in Whangarei. Mr Aiderton conducted this paper some years ago, and, from his capabilities as a journalist, the change will be a favourable one for the district. Wa have to acknowledge the receipt of the official pocket time-table for November, published by the Railway Commissioners. It contains information respecting all the public lines in the colony and the private lines from Wellington to Manawatu, and the Midland Railway in Canterbury, as well as of the various coastal services and lines of coaches. It will be found a very useful vade mecmn for travellers. Mr Maunder seems to be very unlucky with his flax-mill at Krankton. Nγ. sooner had he come to terms with tho flaxcutters (who went out on strike) than his mill hands also struck for more wages, and when he made fresh arrangements with them, and all settled down to work again, the engine broke down on Wednesday, and therefore work was again .suspended for that day, but things are attain moving all right for the presunt, ot any rate. A meeting of those interested in (retting up the Hamilton Annual Sports on Boxing Dnv on Sydney Square was held at the Royal Hotel on Thursday evening. Mr T. C. Hammond was voted to the chair, and the following resolution proposed by Mr Downing and seconded by Mr Lβ (Juesne was carried unanimously, "That the Hamilton Annuiil Spurts be held tin Sydney Square as usual, and Unit subscription lists be issued forthwith." Between £i> and .Wi was subscribed in the room, and tho meeting adjourned till Saturday evening at the same time (S p.m.), and place, for the purpose of electing a committee, etc.

We have received further letters from the hostile correspondents of Harapipi, which are wholly devoted to accusations of a personal and irritating nature. They have wandered away altogether from the original contention in rogard to the schools at To Roro aud Harapipi. The columns of a newspaper is not tho place through which to indulge in a neighbours' quarrel, no public good can be done by publishing the letters, but would tend to widen the breach bctwoeu old settlers in a small community, when good fellowship and harmony should exist, as well as forbearance with individual differences ot opinion. The Waikato-bred pony Signess, who was recently taken over to Australia along with several other horses by Mv Halcrow, distinguished himself last week by carrying the heavy impost of !)st. 71b. to victory at the Canterbury Park Meeting, and beat a large field of thirteou horsjs for a handicap of GOsovs. Later on he won another race with the same weight for 50so\s. and again boat a good (inld. Signess was bred by Mr Livingstone, of Hamilton, and is by Cap-a-pie, out ot fishplate. While running in different parts of Waikato and Auckland he proved himseif to be a clinker, and he is now voted on all sides as being the best pony ever bred in the Southern Hemisphere. A serious accident occurred at the Hamilton flax-mill on Thursday. A farmer, named Hasty, rode to the mill, and after tying his horse to the fence, went to the bank beside the mill near where the fax is rolled down, to watch the mill in operation. He stood there for a few minutes, when all at once ho was missed by Mr Nickesson who was working a few yards off, he immediately went to the bank and found Mint the unfortunate man had fallen over, a distance of 1"> or 20 feet, and li.id crashed head foremost against the shed. He was picked up unconscious, and at once taken to the hospital in MrCoates , waggon, He received a very ugly cut across his cranium, and was very much bruised, but is recovering slowly. . - • The fortnightly Band of Hope in connection with the Hamilton Weslevan Church, was held in the school-room. The attendance was largo, many not being able to obtain sitting accommodation. The most interesting items were the solos by girls under 15 for prizes, for which Edith Chappell secured the Ist, Ada Cross 2nd, and Jennie Mettam 3rd. Mr _ Meachem sang with great expression, "There is a Flower that Blnomoth," and Mr C. Cox was also successful in an Irish melody, as was Richard Land aud Maggie Ulliottin their recitations. Miss Thompson occupied the chair. Rev. T. G. Carr proposed votes of thanks to the chair and the Programme Committee, after which this interesting meeting was concluded by the 125 th Hoyle's melody and the Benediction. By train on Thursday three bullocks went through Hamilton, en route for Christchurch, to compete as bier bullocks at the Agricultural Show to be held there next week. As these bullocks are good specimens of the class they represent, the following will perhaps bo of interest :— They were bred at Gorton by Mr N. I. Hunt and were exhibited in Cambridge at tho last sale hel«l there by Mr J. S. Bucklaud. At that timo the largest of tho trio, a gtuy-faced Hereford, a breed introduced into the district by Mr Alfred Oox, was estimated to weigh about ISOOlbs, but since then the cattle have grown considerably, and this beast now i> reckoned by various judges to weigh at from 2000 to 2,200 lbs, his two mates being slightly smaller. They havo only been grass-fed and are good samples of tho fattening capabilities of Waikato grass. Mr A. J. Storey has gone down in charge of the cattle, which will not be brought back to Waikato but sold in Christchurch. We understand that there are some competitors for the same class being sent down from the Waiiarapa Valley and also that Mr A. A. .h'antham, so well-known in this district in connection with cattle, is going to try for the honour of having the biggest bullock at the show. A correspondent writes approving of the letter which appeared in our last issue regarding the present condition of the Hamilton baths. The baths cost a respect-

able, amount, and tho apathetic attitude of the Council in regard to the ratepayers property is considered to be censurable. Another disgrace to the Council and to the burgesses, he adds, is the Jubilee reserve. This was fenced, and planted with choice trees and shrubs, the cost of which was borne by the Council. At the time this work was taken in hand there were some unaesthetic burgesses who objected to the work on the score of cost. Those in favour of the scheme, however, carried their point, and the work was finished and when kept in decent order the ground looked pleasing. The reserve is now in a disgraceful condition, having received no attention for about twelve months, and the shrubs, many of which aro now in full bloom, have their beauty marred and hidden in a wilderness of high weeds. Tho first cost having been borne, the most cheese-paring burgess must admit that it is a great pity, for the sake of the few shillings required to mow the grass and dig round the plants, that the reserve should be allowed to continue in its present state—an eyesore to the residents, and one that is likely to give visitors to tho town a most unflattering opinion of the taste of the Hamiltoniaps.

On Monday evening next, the Rev. 0. H. Garland will deliver liis interesting and popular lecture in the Wesleyim Church, Hamilton. Subject: " Character." The subject is an important one , , the lecturer is a clover speaker and tho pi ices of iiiimission are small; tho object, one which .should commend itself to the Hamilton public. The Star says:-" Mr and Mrs Gelling and family, bite uf Hamilton, Waikato, who proceeded to Rarotonga (Harvey Group) lately by the island schooner Torea, are at present staying at a locality called l'ni on the island, whuru they will remain until they obtain a piece of land to settle on. They were said to bo very well pleased with the island, its climate and its productiveness." Another painful case of a constable having been shot while- in the execution of his duty has occurred near Nornianton, Qiieensalnd. A prisoner named Klick, who had succeeded in making his escape from custody, was overtaken by the police, but resisted the attompt to capture him. Vlick, who was armed, shot Constable Wo-.ill and a hoy dead, and succeeded in making his escape. A teller of the Sydney branch of tho Bank of New Zealand has suddenly disappeared, and an investigation of his accounts has revealed that he has embezzled the sum of ±113,434. The defalcations are attributed to .speculating in mining stock, but the bank authorities hove succeeded in recovering scrip from the defaulter's broker, representing between ,17000 and £8000, and they expect to get more. At present there is no traco of the absconder. A correspondent writing to us on Home Rule, says :—1 have been reading some Irish papers lately, and from the information gained from them they prove to me very clearly that the majority of the Irish people are against Home Rule. They say that should Home Rule ever become the law of the land, good-bye to liberty of speech and conscience. The general opinion of the G. O. M., or, as they call him, the ( Ireat Old Hypocrite, is a very poor one. Bulfour is held up as the best and greatest man ever sent to Ireland by the English Government. The papers further go on to siy that Home Rule is not wanted by the Irish people generally, but by the priests and tho poor ignorant Irish whom they frightened into it. There are Irish delegates who are about paying Auckland a visit for the purpose of telling us what a good thing Home Rule will be for Ireland, and a lot of other bosh. It is all nonsense, for if they be wise and honest they will tell us that they came to collect money to lill their empty pockets, so as to keep them from starvation and beggary. Ireland was never in a more prosperous state than she is at the present time, happy and contented to be ruled by England, and the Irish never will have Home Rule because they do not wish it.