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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2765, 3 April 1890, Page 2

La Grippe is reported to have broken out in Cambridge, Dr. Waddirisjtbn and Major Wilson being the sufferers. We are compelled to hold over tlie report of the Hautapu school picnic, Cambridge School Committee, and other interesting mutter. Mr McNicol had a grand horse sale at Cambridge yesterday. There was alarge attendance from all parts of the district, and very fair prices were realised. Close on one thousand sheep, in addition to the. four thousand advertised last issue, have been entered for sale at Mr W. J, Hunter's Ohaupo sheep fair, on Tuesday, 15th inst. : We are duly in. receipt of the Gazette and map showing the alterations in the boundaries of the electoral districts as • proposed by the Represention Commission. ; The penny timetable issued by the New, .Zealand Government Railway Department for the month of April hasreached us. It contains the usual amount of information. Messrs James McGuirk and A. S. Sherett have been nominated to till the extraordinary vacancy in the representation of the Pirongia Riding in the Raglan County Council. A poll will be held on. Saturday, the 12th inst., at the Harapipi Schoolroom for the return of one of these candidates. A special meeting of the Waikato Farmers' Club will be held on Saturday next at Cambridge at 3 p.m., to take into further consideration the proposal of Messrs Nelson Bros, to carry on freezing works at Tauranga. An extraordinary meeting of the Hamilton branch of the Club will be held at 11 o'clock on Saturday morning. The annual meeting of the Tauwhare Football Club was held on Monday evening last, and judging from the large number present will have a good club. They are willing to join the union if a branch is formed in Waikato. Mr Courtayne has promised to give a football to the player who scores the most points during the season, and Mr Shaw will give a jersey to the best all-round footballer in the club. The Tβ Awamutu Cavalry troop is again to the fore in its shooting. Information has been rect-ived at head quarter* that the volley firing at the Raglan encampment was so good as to entitle the troop to a prize of £5, in addition to the usual capitation money. In 1889, the volley and independent tiring was such as would entitle the troop to head the list for carbine shooting, but owing to a few of the nierabeis absenting themselves from the drills, the entire capitation money and also some .£3O in Governmnnt pri/.o money was lost, and those men who did their duty were, in effect, punished by the neglect of the defaulters. When it was found that certain members again wilfully absented themselves from duty it was decided to inflict fines upon those so offending, '

Mr McKinnon, of lUngiriri, has been vory xuccessftil with his horse Loch Ness at the Autumn Meeting of the Taranaki Jockey Club. On -/Tuesday he won tho Plying Stakes, and yesterday appropriated the Autumn Handicap,' Loch v Ness winning a grand race by a nose.

At the Resident Magistrate's Court, held ?at Hamilton; yesterday, before Captain Jackson, . R.M., there were only two civil, case's viz., Jas. Miller v D. Bruce claim £20, which was adjourned to Cambridge, on next court day, and an adjourned case, Hinton v. ' which'' was further adjourned till nextcourt da'y. ;; : OWing to the' iarce number of copies of our last Saturday's Supplement, containing the wyll-wntten account of the canoeing trip down tho Wangunui River, disposed of, we wet a unable to supply all i>r(.'ers. .We'fbaiie been; requested to repuulish? the article in question, arid Will Lake an early,opportunity.o£ doing so. The concluding portion of the article will be printed in our Supplement of Saturday riexk'''''"' " : '" [ """"" '■'•'"'■';.

The Herald's Wellington correspondent writer under a recent date, in reference to the flax business, as follows:— " lain'infcffnied that the principal buyer in the South has arrived at Wellington. The local buyers, I believe, have received satisfactory assurances from home that the recent scare in the trade was not warranted. There has been a fall in price, but there has been nothing like a collapse. The Premier was interviewed yesterday on his way to Wellington by the Sax millers of Upper Wairarapa. He told them he would do all in his power to assist the industry, because he recognised its growing importance to the colony. ' ■'"-'■ • '

In reference to the vexed question of the establishment of a stock quarantine station for Auckland, brought about by the refusal.of the authorities.to allow a bull imported by Mr T. Morria to be landed, there is-every- probability of the matter, being speedily and satisfactory settled, the following telegram has been received by Mr l< , . Lawry, M.H.R., and Mr Clifton, the Chief Inspector in the North Island, has gone to Motuihi to report upon the suitability of the island for the purpose:— Auckland, 3L»t March, 1890. F. Lawry, Esq., M.H.R.; Auckland. Dear Mr Lawry,—Hon. Mr Mitchelson desires me to lot you know that he has received a telegram from Hon. Mr Richardson to say that he has ordered an estimate to be prepared of the cost of fitting up a quarantine station at Auckland, so that the matter can be considered when Ministers reassemble in Wellington. — Yours, &c, AkthubT. Batk, Private Secretary.