! We have been compelled to hold over our report of Professor Thomas' lec-' turcs, letters from correspondents, and : other items. , 5 A London cablegram received last ■ night states that the bank rate of discount is at 4iJ jwr cent, , The harvest thanksgiving service ' will be huld.iu S. Saviour's Church, ■ Alexi andra, to-morrow (Sunday) evening, at r < o'clock. A number of Waipa natives, of the Ngatihorua hnpu, passed through Hamilton yesterday on their way to a tangi, which is being held at Te Hoe a Tainui, Willi Kerei's settlement. We would cail attention to an ' advertisement that a dramatic entertaini mont and concert will be given in ,aid of • the Cambridge library, oil the 17th - inst., , when Mr Chas. Tuck will take the leadiug character. A meeting of those interested in the formation of a branch of the Witikato Fanner's Club is called for Saturday next at 3 p.m. It is to be hoped there will be a good attendance, and that the farmers will enter into the matter with some spirit. The medals and trophies won at the late Hamilton Swimming Gala are on view in Mr Howden's window, Victoria St. ' Hamilton, they will be presented on Monday evening during ..the entertainment which has been piovided to do honor to the fortunate competitors. Tne friends of Miss Maggie Parsons, who some time ago resided with her mother at Cambridge, will be pleased to learn she is now taking a loading character at one of the Old Country theatres, ller stage name is Violet El licott. •' The March Quarterly meeting of ■ the Hamilton Licensing Committee will bo , held to-day, in the Court House,_ amongst othir b'nsinesi to consider the. police report that the Royal Hotel is in a dilapidated condition, and the flooring on tho upper part of the building is rotten. Mr George Mayes, of Hamilton, , like Mr George Neal, of Cambridge, must ' have some secret method of graving onions. We inspected his garden the other day, and his crop of onions is a heavy onf, and every year it is the same. Hie pre-ent crop would yielu ac the rate of at least twonty-five tons to the acre, r The annual meeting of the Kirikiiiroa Licensing Committee was .held in i rue Waikato County Council Chambers at 2 p.m. yesterday. Tho whole of the inemwere present, and on the motion of Mr Gdtett. seconded by Mr White, Mr A. was re-appointed chairman for the ensuing year. f After the Cambridge R.M. Court had risen yesterday, the clerk found that 3 several nenciis that should have been upon 8 the solicitors' tables were missing. As drastic retrenchment is the order of the 1 day, those who were troubled with forgetl fulness will oblige by returning the pencils 3 at once. We may remark this is not the first time that pencils, pens, etc., have been . missing.. We are pleased to hear;that the entries for the forthcoming Horticultural t Show at Te Awamutu are very numerous, there being very fevy items, which are not : , competed'" for. f The. prize for • parnips, • hitherto neglected, will be keenly contested. As a display of apples the bliow will probably be unsurpassed in Waikato, the j j number.? of special prizes offered having r called forth tremendous competition. Exhibitors are again reminded that entries ■ will be accepted up to 4 p.m.-on Monday, I the 10th instant. Talking about local industries)/ [ we were lately the recepientu of two loaves of bread, made by a lady in \Yhatawbata, from Mr Chambers' flour, the produce of last year's wheat. The bread was simply faultless, and it not only reflected great credit on,,the manufacture, but the , flour must have; ho'en of the finest qirality. If last year's Waikato wheat, tho whole of which was, to some extent, damaged by the unsettled weather at harvest time, produced such results, what may we look forward to when this season's fine quality grain gets into general consumption ? We find there is some misunderstanding amongst intending competitors at ' the furthcoming Horticultural Show at Te Vwamutu in reforenco to the classes.' Th 6; Te Awamutu Show Committee have dia- ' carded tho Cottagers' Cla-s the same as was : done at the last show the Ail-Comers and Amateurs Class as before. The experiences at all previous ' shows has gone to show that so few entries were received in thu Cottagers' Glass that, it was not desirable or necessary to continue ' it, especially as that class of exhibitors aire sufficiently protected by the Amateur Class. On Monday laat Constable Lowther, of Te Awamutu, received a wire from Paeroa that a man named Angus was , i wanted there for horse-stealing. Knowing that a man answering to the description waa working iti tho'district, he at once set to work, and fiuding Angus at tho Mangahoe flax-mill, .arrested: him. Augus was brought up before Mr Mandeno, J.P., on Tuesday evening, and remanded to Paeroa. Groat credit is duo to Constable Lowther for the promptitude with which he actqd and secured his man. . - - The Assessment Court for the Borough of, Cambridge was held yesterday ;; 'at: nbbri,.; before? Captain tTijicks6ti,i?R.M. ' The following objections were heard Jad. S. Masterk, lot 304,' reduced from £7 to £2, in consequence of the houso having been burnod down ; George Henson, lot 342, £6 ; lot 343, £4; lots 577, 589, 550, £12. The last lots were reduced to £10, the others 1 were sustained. There were only these two cases, and the valuer, Mr J. P. Thompson is to be congratulated upon so successful an? !; ' We call attention to an advertisement in another column of a very ingenious but simple,machino of local invention and production, for which a, patent has been granted, by tho use of which any child of ■ ordinary intelligence may darn or mend stockings or other clothing in a manner far superior, to any work done bv hand. It ■ will be found particularly useful to settlers ; and others who have not female assistance available. There is already a [treat and increasing demand for these machines, and no » doubt when more fully known they will bo in general use, as the low price at which thov are sold places theui within the reach ' of the humblest settler. Capt Jackson, R.M., sat as judge of the Atses'iinent Court for the Borough of Hamilton, to hear objections against the valuation list for tho Borough for the ensuing year. There were only five objections made which shows that the valuations a* made by Mr Barton were equitable. The appeals were: Priscilla J. Bright reduced by consent to £136; W. C. Bunting, Lot 213 Hamilton East £10, reduced to £8; Same, Lot 304, Hamilton West, "or •wuor" inserted ou roll, W. no anpearance; J. Knox, for trustee# of drill ihed £40, variation sustained ; J. S, E lifecumb>', for Union Bank of Australia, £52 fpjofed to £40,
The New Zealand Loan add Mercantile Agency (Doinpany, at their twenl*.* fifth annual genial meeting held on the' 7th February last, declared a dividend 'of 10 pe|, cent., adding to thoir re,sorvo,_fund. and carryinf^jforward to' new account £12;93G, is Ratifying to- note that ift the chairiiian's remarks he refers jt'o the remarkable tand continued expansion of trade generally, in Australia' and- New, Zealabdi due mamly to'the enhanced value' of wool. The New Plymouth Harbour Board (says the London correspondent of the Press) will make a njjee little thine oiit ; of Sir J. company—presumably it is his—if it is successfully floated. 'In theprospectus of the New Z-nland Petroleum and Iron Syndicate, with a capital of £35.000, in 35,000 shares of £1 each. Subscriptions are invited for 19,000 shares. J This syndicate has Ipepn ierrtied to ; acfluire ) »«Wafo*'liraiited' t»jr J '>the*-:*'®R*W Plymobth Ifarbour, Board to ,work the, petroleum deposits ing over several miles of heach atTatanaki, * "New>Zeaiand,'and to provide fundssfor the preliminary development of the same. The price to :be paid ?for ;tlie lease,'of 21 ' years from May, 1888, is £20,000,* £400 r an.d the,balance in rally'pti9 'iip' ■h«roii.*^"*^
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2754, 8 March 1890, Page 2
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