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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2781, 10 May 1890, Page 2

Mr Stanley has received a Royal command to attend at Windsor Castle.

As tho flood water recedes from Bourke, tho town is found to be in a most deplorable condition. The fund for the relief of the snfferers has now reached £5000.

Mr George Mason, of the Claudelands Nursery, Hamilton. East, issues a price-list as a- supplement to this issue. From this it will be seen his stock is, as usual, extensive and his prices moderate.

The Hamilton Light Infantry anniversary ball will be held on Friday evening next. Dancing will commence at 8 o'clock. The services of Mr Hartley, of Cambridge, have been engaged to provide the music.

A match for £10 a-side between Mr J. Brown's horse Snake and Mr F. Peter's Topsy is evoking a good deal of interest amongst the sporting fraternity in and around Hamilton. The race u to be run at Claudelands on Monday next at 3 o'clock. The distance is five furlongs.

Late letters give a very gloomy account of affairs in the Transvaal, where work is scarce, and the cost of living high. One of the burdens imposed on residents is the heavy taxation, which is described as iniquitous, and mines aro also greatly overrated. Troable, it is stated, is also looming ahead.

The Paterangi Football Club held their second practice in Mr Germann s paddock on Saturday. Messrs Macfarlane, Bowden, and Ityburn were elected a committee, and W. Maclcy secretary and treasurer. It was decided to challenge Ohaupo, the match to be played at Ohaupo on Saturday, 17th May.

The party given by Miss Newell to her pupils and young friends last night, and held in the Public Hall, Hamilton, was a perfect snecess, and voted by the youngsters as being the finest party they had ever attended. We know that everything provided for their pleasure was of the best, from the music by Mr Hartley to the bounteous spread of good things, to which ample justice was done in that most astonishing manner peculiar to children of all ages.

On his journey from Tauranga to Waikato, Inspector Emerson found _ that the approaches to the bridge on this side of Waterford, on the near road to Paeroa were washed awav, and he then had to go back to Waihi. Owing to the swollen state of the creeks here he was again stopped, and then returned to Katikati. After spending the night there he made another start, and managed to get over by the first-mentioned bridge, by jumping his horse over the part washed away.

The cantata " Britannia and Her Daughters'' was repeated at To Awamutuou Thursday evening, to a crowded house ; in fact there was hardly standing room. We have heard complaints that the performance was not given on a day on which the train arrives so that visitors from a distance could have attended, but it evidently was a good job that such was not the case or some would have had their journey for nothing. Tho members of the society may be congratulated both on their singing and on the manner in which the piece was staged.

The dryness of our last summer was rather disastrous to the pumpkin crop, but we have heard of one grown at Rukuhia, self-sown, never watered or manured, which turned the scale at 12Glbs. Mr W. Gardner, the manager at this station, has been a consistent exhibitor in this class at the Waikato Horticultural Shows until this season, but on the occassion of the late show he was away on a visit South, otherwise the above would have maintained his reputation in this particular slass. Can anyone in Waikato put up a better record ?

We are requested to notify that Mr W. A. Graham, in accordance with the request of the promoters of the Auckland flax-millers association, is sending circular letters to the flax-millers south of Auckland calling a meeting for Friday, May 23rd., at 10 a.m., in The Waikato Times Buildings, Hamilton, to meet the delegates Messrs Langley and Walli-s, from the Raglan meeting, and to discuss the question of the formation of the union. Mr Graham has also written to Mr Dean, of Pokeno, to ascertain the place and date most convenient for flax-millers in that locality to meet f r the same purpose. The Native Land Court that opens at Oliinemutu on 4th June will have plenty of business to attend to, for a correspondent informs us there are 70applications for certificates, 20 cases to be re-heard, 129 sub-division clain-s, and 309 succession claims. In addition to these there are 1-1 decisions on sub-division cases to be given, and also three fresh applications. Our correspondent states that the natives do tint relish the manner in which the Government manages Land Court matters, and contend that nearly the whole of the abovo business should have been settled long ago, which would have saved expense both to themselves and the Government. We hear that His Excellency the GoTernor had some very good sport at Lichfield on the opening day of the shooting season. Mr Charles Hitchman, the well-known sportsman ia those parts, coached Lord Onslow. The party started out at 11 a.m. and shot for three hours, and seven brace of birds fell to Lord Onslow's cwn gun ; the other members of the party, nnmbering four, only managed to bag four brace between them. After partaking of lunch at Mr Rich's tho party started for Wellington via, Taupo. Birds must be much more plentiful in the Patetere district than in other parts of Waikato as no one that we have heard of has made anything like such a good record. S. Paul's Wesleyan Church at Cambridge was crowded on Wednesday atternoon, to witness tho wedding nuptials of Miss Annie Clark and Mr Frank Gane. The bride was attired in a very pretty white lustre and moire dress, and, of course, with the usual veil and orange blossoms. She was attended by her sister (Miss Florrie Clark) and Miss Mary Gane. as bridesmaids; two pretty little girls (Misses Clark and Wells), acting as trainboarers. Messrs A. Gane and W. Clark wore groomsmen. The bride was given away by her father, Mr G. E. Clark, and the service was conducted by the Rev. C. H. Gailand. After the ceremony the happy pair departed amidst a shower of rice and the congratulations of the assembled multitude. We were yesterday privileged to inspect a number of delightful sketches in oil by Mr de Forest, a Canadian artist, >vho has visited a large number of interesting localities throughout New Zealand, and is now on his way to the Waitomo Caves. We do not pretend to be art critics, but we know when a picture pleases. In all the sketches, and over forty were placed before us, many of them representing some of the most wonderfully grand scenery in the South Island, nothing incongruous appeared or was in any way untrue to nature. The sketches, many of them highly finished, consisted mostly of lovely little viows of mountains, lakes and streams, with the ever varying colours, to be seen at early morn or dewy eve. It will be a long time before lovers of art in this district will have such a treat again. An advertisement in another column notifies that Mr IT. C. Sage has boen appointed the Waikato agent for the Oceanic Publishing Co. of Sydney, for their new work, " Herses of the Dark Continent, and how Emin Pasha was found by H. M. Stanley." In addition to tho full history of the wonderful expedition of how Stanley found Emin Pasha, it also contains particulars of the life of Emin Pasha and General Gordon, and also an insisjhtinto Stanley's early life. This is the only work that treats folly on Stanleys last expedition, and there is no doubt the i rescue of Emin Pasha has done more to ex-

cite an interest in the great dark continent beyond all other explorations of Africa combined. The book is beautifully got up and its cost brings it well within the means of fcho sjorwral public. The prospectus

which is to hand contains only » partial list of the 500 splendid illustrations that will be contained in tho completed volume ; enough arc, however, given to show the superior character of the work. Mr Sago will shortly canvass the district for subscribers, when the public will have an opportunity of judging of the value of the work fur themselves.