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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2786, 22 May 1890, Page 2

One of the best bags we have heard of this season aa being got round Hamilton was obtained yesterday by an "old sport," who bagged four brace of " long tails" to his own gun. Major Gudgeon, Commissioner of Police, inspected the Cambridge station on Tuesday afternoon, and returning to Hamilton yesterday, he proceeded to To Aroha by train en route to Tauranga. We understand that Mr Vaile has received a second communication, through the German Consul-General at Sydney, asking him for full particulars regarding his scheire for railway working. It is possible that some day we may hear that the German Emperor has ordered a trial of the system.—Herald. At the Police Court, Hamilton, yesterday, before Captaiu Steele and J. Knox, Esq., J.P'h., Joseph Clarke, charged with falsely representing himself as a traveller, and thereby obtaining liquor (a bottle of beer) at the Waikato Hotel, on Sunday. 11th inst., was fined £1, and £1 Is costs. Mr John Mahon, one of Hamilton's oldest identities, being a member of the 4th Waikato Regiment, and who with his family has been living for a number of years at No. 1, yesterday had a paralytic stroke and was taken to the Waikato Hospital for treatment. Mr Mahon has had a severe attack of the fashionable complaint, La Grippe, and it is likely that his present stroke is attributable to this." Mr F. Trewheellar (formerly of Hamilton, and well-known in all the Wnikato districts, being the son of the lato Mr Thoß. Trewhoollar), who has been on a visit to this town during the last three or fur weeks, left Hamilton on Tuesday morning to return to Sydney, via Auckland. We understand that Air Trewheellar is in the confectionery business in Sydney, and has a large establishment in that city. According to a Dunedin contemporary, rather a cruel hoax was perpetrated upon tho jurors in the put plant class in the flower show held at the Exhibition. Someone placed one of Madame Peeze's artifical plants among the real plants to be The jury promptly awarded it first prize, but could find neither name nor number on the pot, and were naturally somewhat staggered when they were tald how they had been had. A meeting of the stewards of the South Auckland Racing Club will be held in Thk Waikato Times Buildings on Tuesday afternooa next. Tho only business that will be brought before them will be the protest in connection with the Flying Stakes, as Mr Walters has withdrawn Ins protest against St. Michael in the Autumn Handicap. This action taken is probably as Mr Walters would be unable to run Pinfire in the Maiden at Takapuna while the protest remained undecided. The New Zealand Times publishes an article on gambling houses in Wellington, and declares that at "hazard" alone over £100 a day changes hands in that city, and at cards, among what are known as the upper classes, over double that amount is daily at stake. Tliis usual charge made by keepei-3 of gambling houses, it is said, is Is per player per hour, and the keeper of one particular room will think he has made a bad day's work if he does not clear £4 to £G, besides what he may win from a throw in now and again. A correspondent of the Southland Times says :—The Merrivale Kstate is selling a draft of 1000 lambs for freezing. Many of these have attained very remarkable weights. Lambed about the middle of September, some have had to be rejected on account of their great weight. One scaled 721bs. It is a Down cross. The first batch averaged after the too heavy weights had been culled between 4G and 471bs. Great credit is due to the management for this extraordinary result. Some of the credit is also due to the soil, and some to the glorious season which has been particularly favourable to all kinds of stock. The Christchurch Telegraph says of Houry Georgo :—When he has delivered his lectures at so much per head, and gone off with the money in his pocket he will caro but little for us. Whatever reforms we want to effect in this colony can be very well worked out by ourselves without the aid of gentlemen who care nothing for our future destinies or present means except to mako money out of .is. When Mr George again comes our way wo should be slow to believo all that he may say, remembering that it is his own interest and not ours which has brought him to our shores. The Mataura Ensign publishes some remarks by farmers down South as to oats, and what they intend to do with them, and from the utterances of one gentleman who is said to have " considerable experienco and great business capacity," wo extract the following:—" I shall sell no oats under Is Od, though I have 300 acres. I will thresh it and crush it, and when my sheep are on the turnips I will give thorn four or fve ounces a day each. It will not be a penny a week each, and I have proved that it is a very profitable) outlay. There is no break in the wool—no streak of lean, as it were, for tha time the sheep is badly fed or starved. Oats keep a sheep warm. Besides they keep him in firm condition, and when spring comes, instead oi taking ;i month to pull himself together, he grows right away,"

Owing to dissension among members of the Ohanpo Football Club, wo understand that their match against Patexangi for the 24th instant has fallen through. It appears that the trouble has arisen through some former members of the club this year electing to join the Paterangi Club. Should the match come off, tho following will represent Paterangi : — Full-back, W. Goble ; three-quarter backs, Gilford. Corboy, and E, H. Aubin ; half-backs, Bowden, E. Gobla, and Ratema ; forwards, Ryburn (2), Macky, K. Aubin, Reid, Holman, and Graham. Emergencies, Ewen, Hunter, Ness, and May. A young man named Robert Petty, residing at Hamilton West, met with a nasty accident on Monday afternoon last through a fall from a horse. It appears that he was out riding at Blackwater Creek, near Whatawhata, when his horse became startled, and, rearing, unseated Petty, who fell heavily to tho ground on his head, rendering him insensible. The horse was a quiot one, and stood grazing around. After some little time the unfortunate young man came to his senses, when he caught his horse and managed to get home. He has since been confined to his bed, but is, we are glad to state, making good progress towards recovery, although he suffers a deal of pain about the back from the effects of the fall. Mrs Partington, of Sawyer's Bay, in a letter to a contemporary on servant girls, asking that their labours may be regulated, says: I think, Sir, that we—the married women—should be considered as well. I have to rise at five o'clock and get my husband's breakfast before he goes to work in the morning, and even "in this enlightened asre," to be on foot all day, as I have a, large family, and then at night up till eleven o'clock mending, etc., for the children, after which the baby generally keeps me awake most of the other part of the night; bo I hope the Commission won't stop at servants. I don't exactly know where they mean to stop, but I hope that "some person more able than myself will take this matter into consideration," and that we —the married women —will be included in the enquiry. Australasian Banking.—The VicePresident of the Bankers' Institute of Australasia presented some startling figures in the address he delivered at the resent meeting of the Institute. According to him the paid-up capital of the Australasian banks amounts to £17,500,000, giving a gross dividend return per annum of £2,000,000, equal to Hi por cent. Deposits amounted to £105,000,000 aud £20,000,000 worth of coin, while the advances made wore equal to the deposits and coin together, £135,000,000. Thus, according to the VicePresident, every penny the banks were entrusted with was in circulation. £1,000,000 in the shape of cheques, bills, and noces, passed through the Melbourne clearing house, and were daily reduced to order and accounted for. Of the Institute itself, 1750 branches had federated to form it, and its united Australasian staffs numbered 5000. Tho Vice-President was pleasantly chatty in his address, and talked of the early "fifties," when the President of the Institute, Mr Dibbs, and himself were juniors in Sydney, and ran the exchanges of their respective establishments, which, with all the other bunking concerns of those "good old days," bought gold pretty much at their own valuation for a time, and paid their shareholders as much as 10 per cent, in dividends. To use his awn words, '"Those were indeed good old days." No such thing as interest on fixed deposits, and when serious thoughts wero entertained as to the propriety of keeping current accounts at all, especially those with large credit balances, without charging the unhappy customer a commission fordoing si>. What a chango has passed over tho spirit of this dream! ________^^^__