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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2794, 10 June 1890, Page 2

The Waipa County Council meets at Ohaupo at 10.30 a.m. to-day. The Hamilton Borough, Council will hold its usual monthly meeting at 7.30 o'clock this evening. Mr Speight, of the Government Life Insurance Department, was in Hamilton yesterday on business connected with his department. Mr Airey, Inspector of Schools, is at present in the district on a tour of inspection, and will visit the Hamilton East and Tamahere schools in turn. A contractor named Henry Cooksley was killed in a quarry on the Summer road,; Christchurch, by a fall of earth on Saturday afternoon. He was a married rain, about 30 years old. The body of an elderly man named Garden Watson was found in the harbour on Saturday. He left his house saying he was going to Dunedin by the steamer. Last month he was examined as to his sanity, and was afterwards liberated. Nominations of candidates to fill an extraordinary vacancy in the Kirikiriroa Road Board will be received up to noon on Wednesday, the 18th June, at the office of the Board. Should a poll he necessary, it will take place on Monday, the 30th inst. It is said that Sir Julius Vogel will stand for New Plymouth at the next general election. The Post says, a private letter from him to an elector of that constituency announces the fact. Mr John Elliott is spoken of as likely to contest the seat. There was considerable disappointment expressed by the members of the Hamilton branch of the Waikato Farmers' Club on Saturday, when Mr W. A, Murray decided to postpone the reading of his paper on "Some Causes of the Depression Considered." The disappearance of a man named Peach, who has been travelling in the Hutt district for a drapery firm, was reported to the Wellington police on Saturday. He was last seen on the 29tli May, when he left the Railway Hotel, Upper Hutt, to take the train to Wellington. Captain Olive, late Secretary to the Auckland Club, was entertained on Saturday night at a dinner given by the members of the Club, on the occassion of his departure to assume the duties of Secretary of the Australian Club, Sydney. There was a large attendance, the Mayor of Auckland presiding. At the close of his speech the Mayor presented Captain Olive with a purse of soveteigns, as a slight token of the reerard he was held in by the members of the Club. At the adjourned meeting of the Wanganui Meat Preserving Company, held on Tuesday last, the experts appointed to examine the accr.unts reported that the bulk of the losses had taken place during the last twelve months, and that Mr F. R. Jackson's figures produced last ineeeing were absolutely correct. The report and balance-sheet for the past year were adopted, the future of the company being left in the hands of the directors. A public meeting was held on Tuesday last at Kawakawa, to discuss the question of the railway extension between Whangarei and the Bay of Islands. A resolution was carried to the etfect that steps should be taken to induce the Government to develop the resources of the country by the construction of a railway from Kawakawa to Kamo. Great nnanmity prevailed, and the several resolutions were carried by acclamation. Mr 11, Hobbs, member for the district attended, and cordially supported the movement. The following is the second list of subscriptions collected in Cambridge by Mr Geo. Dickenson for the Auckland blind institution :—C. Frodsham, £1 Is; S. Seddon, 10s lid; H. R. Hyatt, 10s (id ; W. Reynolds, 10s; S. L. (a friend), 10s; J. Webber, 10s; T. I. Collins, 10s ; M. H. Pickering, 10s; J. Robertson, os; R. McVeigh, ss; C. Roberts, 5s ;J. Gane, 5s ; a friend, ss; W. C. lireakell, ss; Mrs Brown, 5s ; a friend, os ; a stranger, 3s ; a friend, 2s (id; H. F. G., 2s 0J; Mr McMillan, 2s (id; Jas. Shaw, 2s (id; a friend, 2s (id ; a friend, 2s ; D. H., 2s ; A. Pallantt, 2s (k) ; M. Butler, 2s (id ; J. S. Boud, 2s Gd ; Jas. Hill, 2s (id ; W. B. 2s Gd; E. H., 2s Gd. Total, £8 ils. This brings the total amount collected in Cambridge to £18 Gs (id. Mrs Cranmer, of the Star Hotel, Masterton, is suffering at present from a new and serious phase of the absentee blight. A Wellington proprietor of an adjacent lot- has caused the windows of her sitting room, dining room, and three other rooms to be walled against, in front with iron, so as to exclude the light, and it is said that he threatens to do the same with the upper bedrooms, if the proprietor does not capitulate and come to terms about the purchase at a fancy price, of the adjacent land. In the meantime the boarders take their meals under gaslight and devoutly offer up graces in which they profoundly pray that the excluder of daylight may be cast into utter darkness where there shall be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth of a worse nature than what goes on at the Star Hotel.—Star. In the course of a recent debate in Melbourne on "Land Nationalisation v. Trade Unionism," a flagrant case of sweating in one of the suburbs of Melbourne was brought under the notice of the meeting by a Mr Robert Jones, who is reported by the Age to have said : —" Some twenty girls, the children of respectable parents, had been lately working for an employer at Cliuton Hill, making stockings like those worn by footballers, and they were paid lid per dozen for their labour. But that was not the worst fact of the case. Of course, in making the i stockings the gills could not help occasion- : ally dropping a stitch or two, but instead of allowing the girls themselves to repaii l them, the employer engaged different : hands, and actually deducted from the girls' wages is per dozen. Thus in many 1 cases the girls found that they were not i only making the stockings for nothing, bul , were paying Id per dozen for the privilege ' of making the article. The natural consequences was that the girls struck work, ! and having done so the employer orderec them off the premises, threatening to kicl ' them off if they were not soon gone.' i Prices have been cut precious fine in sonii lines in this colony, but we cannot conn anything near to the Clinton Hill '"log."