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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2774, 24 April 1890, Page 2

The special meeting of the Borougli Council called for last night lapsed for want of a quorum. It was adjourned till Friday night.

We would call the Inspector of Nuisance's attention t« a dead sheep which has been thrown over the gates leading into the Park Reserve completely blocking up the way.

Our local sport, Mr J. C. Booth, took the racehorses Lottery and Leila down by train yesterday to take part in the inaugural meeting of the Avondale Jockey Club on Saturday next.

The Nottingham Castle Hotel, Morrinsville, has lately changed hands, Mr Grange, late road inspector in the Public Works Department having purchased the property from Mr J. Smith.

Meetings of householders for the purpose of electing the school committees for the ensuing twelve months will be held at the places and times advertised in another column on Monday.

It will be seen by an advertisement that the annual meeting of the Hamilton Presbyterian Church will commence at 6.30 p.m. instead of 7.30 p.m., as previously announced to the congregation.

The programme of the Eimihia races, to be held on Saturday, May 17th, is published in this issue. The races are to be held on the Huntly racecourse. Nominations close at Huntly on Saturday next.

We are pleased to hear that our fellow-townsman, Mr Quick, the inventor and patentee of the revolving disc scissors received a telegram last night, that patent rights had been granted him by both the French and Belgian authorities.

The Rev. J. Haselden will deliver a lecture on "The History of Christianity in England," in the Public Hall, Hamilton, on Wednesday evening next. The lecture will be illustrated by sixty magic lantern views.

Mr W. A. Murray, of Mount Pleasant, Morrinsville, is a probable candidate, we hear, fur the new electoral district of Te Aroha. Mr Murray has received many pressing invitations to contest tho seat, but. lie has not yet decided whether he will accede to the wishes of his triends or not.

At the ordinary meeting of the Ha milton Domain Board, held in the Borough Council, last night, there were present: Messrs Isaac Coates (in the chair). Parr, Wood, and Bell. The only business of importance was the passing of Mr Dixon's account for eight days at 5s per day, for work done at the domain drain, Hamilton West.

During the last few days Mr J. D. Hill, (>f Alexandra, has opened a branch store at Mercer, the number of Maoris who will visit this place now that Tawhiao has tixed his residence near Mercer, will very much increase the business of the place, and as Mr Hill has traded with the King natives for so many years past, a large share of the business will fall to his share.

Large numbers of natives are congregating in the vicinity of Mercer. The train from Auckland yesterday brought up a lot of Ngapuhis, and Paul of Orakei and a number of his tribe were also passengers. The Waikato train had fully a hundred Maoris on board. The object of the gathering has not transpired so far as we gather, but the meeting has been called »t the instance of Tawhiao.

An extraordinary instance of lonst hours of labour was related lately before the Sweating Committee of the British House of Lords. A Roumanian Jew stated that at Manchester lie works from "> o'clock in the morning until 12 at night, and sometimes until one or two in the morning, making an average of twenty hours a day for six days in the weak, leaving only four hours for sleep. He earned 3s a day in the busy time lasting about ten weeks, and from (is to 8s per week in the slack season, and on this ho had to support a wife and six children.

A negro entertainment, tableaux and farce, in aid of the funds of the Hamilton Football Club, will be held in the Public Hall, Ngaruawnhia, on Saturday evening. This entertainment is a repetition of the one which was given so successfully in Hamilton in Easter week. The chair business is exceedingly good, and the tableaux are some of the most striking ever presented to a Waikato audience, representing, as they do, different parts of the grand old Rugby game. It is unnecessary to say anything about the farce, except that it is one of the best of negro farces, and will be staged in excellent manner. A bumper house is expected.

The Dunedin Herald gives the following "yarn," told by Mr Joubert, of the time when he was running the Sydney Agricultural and Pastoral Society. At one of his most successful .shows an enormously fat pig got put by mistake in the three-year-old boars' pen. The judges coming round and seeing only a mass of porker, without taking the trouble to ascertain the sex, gave it first prize. Throughout that day no oue detected the mistake. Next morning Mr Joubert was greeted, on arriving at his office, by the man who had charge of the pigs with hair on end with fright. "Sir," said he, "the three-year-old prize boar has just had a litter of nine little pigs!"

The average juror at an inquest rarely attempts to interrogate skilled witnesses when they are giving expert evidence, but occasionally an incautious member ventures to do so, and finds himself beyond his depth. Such an instance (says the Argus) occurred at the inquest as to the circumstances attending the murder of George Thomas May, at St. Kilda. When the highly technical medical evidence as to the post mortem examination cf the body of the deceased had been concluded, the coroner asked the jury whether they wished to put any questions to the witness. One of the jurors rose and interrogated Dr. Neild, who had made the examination, as follows: —"After you had interviewed the dead body of Mr May, could vou indicate from the condition of the body the mental state of the deceased s assailant?" The question appeared to puzzle the doctor for a moment, but soon a burst of undignified laughter occurred, and the discomfited juror was recommended to advertise his query as a prize puzzle.

A correspondent writes as follows: —I have waited to see if some abler pen than mine would put on record the services rendered to Alexandra by the la to Mr Miles, but as no one has hitherto done so, possibly the following few lines may interest your readers, as I never like to see a man, who has served his generation faithfully and well, simply allowed to drop out of the ranks without that public notice which a widely-circulated paper alone can give. The late Mr Miles lived in Alexandra for upwards of eleven years, and for many years was a member of the Library Committee, Hall Committee, School Committee, etc., and generally took an active part in everything that had a tendency to advance tho moral wolfare of thoso with whom he was surrounded, but especially with the church choir and Sunday-school. lie was a great favourite and with tho children he was especially so; so much so that a largo number followed his romains from the church to the grave, and while there woro rangod in front of the peoplo and sang that beautiful hymn, "Shall Wo (lather at tlm River." Tho Rov. Mr Boler assisted tho Kov. Mr Griffith in tho fuuural service in tho Church aud at the grave. Mr Miles will bo long reiuombored as a quiot inoffensive man, and of a most genial disposition by all thoso who had the pleasure of hm acquaintance and friendship.

On Saturday evening last Mr E H. King, of the Junction Hotel, Rangiora, who has for months felt an annoyance caused by the Salvation Army assembling for worship in front of his hotel, proceeded to assault them with eggs. It seems that Mr King has a child subject to excitement when roused by noises from its sleep. The child had been awakened in one of these fits of alarm, which so exasperated the father that he purchased a box of eggs from a neighbour's store, and the Army, considering that discretion was the better part of valour, beat a retreat to the barracks, and will probably not attempt to repeat their annoying conduct near the Junction Hotel far some time.—Christchurch Press.

M. Pasteur is indignant with the good people of New South Wales for not sending him the €40,000 they offered for a complete method of eradicating the rabbit pest. M. Pasteur claims that he has shown them how to do it, and he claims the reward accordingly. It is true they have not done it; but then the great scientist says—that is not his fault. They advertised for a prescription ; he sent one, which he declares was of the right sort, and, if it was not given to " bunny." and in consequence " bunny" is still alire and kicking, well, that is their fault. What he wants is the money, and that is just what he has not got, nor is likely to get. He says:—They will no f . pay the cash because he is a foreigner.—Melbourne Correspondent.

Our Melbourne correspondent writes:—lt seems strange to read of two respectable women, walking in Melbourne kt noon-day, being first insulted, then aet upon by two ruffians, who dragged the hair from their heads by the handful. But it seems we have now come to this, and no man can feel quite comfortable when his wife or daughter are abroad without a protector. Our women-kind will have to carry revolvers —and learn how to use them in time of need—if this sort of thiug is not stamped jut by the iron heel of the law, assisted by a vigorous use of the " cat " with nine tails, lu the meanwhile, and until the guardians of public safety awake to a proper sense of their responsibilities, and as *' revolver practice " might lead to serious complications, I know of no better companion for an otherwise unprotected woman than a ferocious bull-dog with a set of sharp teeth. If I saw such an animal at the throat of one of these ruffians I should not be in a hurry to choke him off.