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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2756, 13 March 1890, Page 2

The Piako County Council will meat on Saturday. We have been asked to state that the Anglican Berrice at Ohaupo on Sunday next will be in rhc afternoon instead of in the evening. A meeting of the committee of the South Auckland Kacide Club will be held in The Waikato Times Buildings at 7.30 on Saturday uvcaing. The Cambridge Observer man got into trouble again, yesterday, but this tune ho chose one of the fair sex as his opponent. However, he was almost as unsuccessful as in his previous engagement, for an onlooker states he was glad to flee after one encounter. A subscriber to this paper, Mr Oldham of Breton, Hamilton, has complained that his paper is purloined every morning The delinquent is probably not aware that he is liable to a charge of petty larceny being brought against him if caught. We trust this caution will bd sufficient. The sale of brpod mares and young horse stock, to ba held by Mr W, J Hunter on account of Mr VV. A. Graham, will take place at the Hamilton Borough Yards on Thursday, April 3rd, and not at Cambridge on Saturday next, as previously 6xed. This alteration has been rendered necessary on account of Mr Graham's absence from tho district. .'

We would remind horse owners that mi Monday next, March 17th, nominations fur tin? Autumn meeting nf the South Auckland RacinßClubclo.se. The Cairnfcoul sailed from Westpui t at noon on Tuesday for Port Chalmers, taking 2,225 tons of coal. Thi< is the largest cargo ever shipped from Wcstport. At Messrs McNicol and Oo's Ohanpo sheep fair, on Tuesday, although thero was a fair attendance, bidding was flat, and a fall in priee of protty well eigh teen pence per head, had to be submitted to. With the exception of one or two large lines from Napier, the balance were placed at the sale and privately. The committee appointed to lay off a steeplechase course, at Claudeland, wete bnsy yesterday, and aa this will be the first race of this description, held under the auspices. of the South Auckland Racing Club, the jumps will be made easy, as many of the horses likely to compete are as yet green to the business. The Post and Telegraph Office at Alexandra is about to be converted into a telephone station on the departure of Mr Roberts, who is proceeding to take charge of the Mercer office, a much more impost, that carries with it, we trust, for Mr Roberts' sake, an increase of pay. Towards the end of last week a spark from a passing railway encine, set on fire the pine trees round Mr Grant's house, at Waitoa. The fire soon spread among tho trees, to the groat danger of the house. AH tho furniture, etc., was removed out of the house, and it was only with the greatest difficulty that the house was saved. Mr Meredith, the present proprietor of the Royal Hotel, Hamilton, has, we hear, arranged with the National Bank to cancel his lease. This to some extent, has been necessary in view of the probability of new premise* being erected. j The main portion of the hotel having been in I occupation for the last twenty-five years, it is scarcely to be expected but that the timbers throughout are in an advanced state of decay* At a meeting of the Hamilton Rowing Club held last night in Le Quesno's Hotel, there were about 25 members present. Mr Bell- was voted to tho chair. Offers re boats were received from Mr Henderson, of Auckland, and Mr-Everett, "of Te Aroha, but nothing'was decided. It was resolved to call for tenders for the erection of a boatshed. The meeting was then adjourned till Wednesday, the 26th iust., at the same place, wbeu the oflicers of the Club will be elected, The following very pertinent remarks and good advice appears iu one of the Loan and Mercantile's late market reports. It has been stated that the great fall in flax is due quite as much to tho dishonest practices iu vogue as to tho fall in other like material or any over over-stock-ing of the market :—" Dairy produce : We regret to h.'ve received warnings from Home anent the quality of some recent shipments, and would impress on our friends the absolute necessity in shipping only a good standard quality. Their pockets and tho reputation of the whole colony suffer when an inferior article is exported. We are in receipt of a small consignment of preserved milk prepared by Messrs Larney and Co., Lauriston, MorrinsVille, sample tins of which we shall be glad to supply on application. The makers say that this milk is guaranteed to contain all the strength and nutritive properties of the purest new milk. It is not made on any foreign principles, "Swiss or otherwise," and claims only to be a genuine preparation of " pure sweet milk,'' direct from the cow, with the addition of a small percentage of pure, white sugar. As a ; local industry capable'of great expansion we should be glad to see public support accorded to it. At the meeting of the Waipa County Council on Tuesday, the clerk stated that in connection with the late rate summons cases carried out by the Council, he had seen a letter (which was meant for other eyes than hi"?, but which, nevertheless, he had seen) from a lawyer to one of the parties summoned, suggesting that if the persons aorainst whom actions were being taken would combine and guarantee him a certain sum he would fight the cases for them. No defence, however, was made in these cases, but it shows how careful the local bodies should be in following out the provisions of the Rating Act to provide against any legal quibbles being raised. : We very much regret to hear that the directors of the Civil Service Supply Association, established in Auckland a year or two ago, have called an extraordinary meeting for the purpose of winding up. This unfortunate position according to the directors' report has been brought about by errors of management, and the profit and loss account amply confirms this, as the working expenses, rent, and salaries for the six months ending February 1. last amounts to £203-1; and the profits on the general tradiug account for the* same period only reaches £1007. The association's assets are put down at £7608, and the amount due to sundry creditors, £6533. And by the time the assets are realised, the directors will be fortunate if they can get out of the business with the loss of their subscribed capital only. On Thursday last one of the employees on the Woodside property, near Hamilton, came across a pig tied up in the titree scrub, and as he recognised it as belonging to the place, he unadvisedly cut it adrift, and in the evening reported the circumstances to Mr J. Graham, the manager. Mr Graham at once took steps, so far as he could under the circumstances, to en deavour to -find out who the marauders were,'and proceeded to the spot, as nearly as it could be determined. He had not been long waiting when he hoard the voices of Maoris some distance away, and from their conversation ho learned that they had discovered that their plant had been sprung.and fhat they;were* making their way off agairi 1 : He fired a shot over their heads, and they wanted no further hint to clear, vvhich they did in quick time. This circumstance, Jno doubt; accounts for the sheep worrying that occurred upon, this property a few weeks ago, as in all proba bility, this was not the first visit these gentry had paid in quest of pork. A sharp look out is being kept up, and it will bo a disagreeable, sensation to the Maoris to have a charge of shot lodged in their lower extremities.