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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2801, 26 June 1890, Page 2

The regular monthly live stock sales will be held in the Hamilton Borough Yards to-day. There was no meeting of the Hamilton Domain Board on Tuesday night, owing to the illness of the Clerk, Mr Barton. Mrs and Miss Forrest were thrown out of their buggy in Cambridge on Tuesday, but fortunately they escaped with slight injuries. The adjourned annual meeting of ratepayers of the Mangapiko Road District will be held to-morrow, at 2 p.m., in the Paterangi old school-room. On Wednesday evening next the adjourned annual meeting of ratepayers of the Tuhikaramea Read District will be held in the Ngahinepouri school-room. Mr Jno. Gwynneth, formerly of Cambridge, arrived in Auckland yesterday from Sydney by the Monowai, and wi'l proceed to Cambridge by train to-day. Farmers desirous of obtaining a first-class sample of White Tuscan seed wheat can do so by applying to 1 Mr Storey, Te Awamutu, who is now threshing out 188'J season's wheat. By an advertisement in snother column the members of S. Peter's Church choir are requested to muster up to-morrow evening, to practtce for the special Anniversary service on Sunday. By a printer's error in our last issue the name of Mr J. McCrea was distorted into J. McCabe. It was in a paragraph relating to his having been transferred from the Cambridge Post Office to tho one at Wangarei. Mr James Taylor, of Cambridge, was the owner of the highest priced draught horse disposed of at Mr McNicol's sale yesterday, realising £24 10s. The same gentleman also ottered a very handsome pair of chestnuts, but these were withdrawn, the price offered not reaching the reserve of ±!40 placed upon them.

An inquest was held at Ohaupo on Tuesday last on the holy of James Channing (not Shanaghau as it appeared in outreport of the accident in Tuesday's paper), before Mr Gresham, coroner, and a jury, consisting of Messrs Edwards (foreman), Karl, Kusabs, Kripner, Gluye and Prince. A verdict of "Accidental Death" was recorded.

On Wednesday next, 2nd July, a grand fancy dress rink and dance, is to be field in the Uhaupo Public Hall. Those who remember the very successful carnivals that were held there last year, will be all glad to hear of this opportunity of enjoying themselves, and as Mr Cassidy is in charge and the Te Awamutu Band will supply the music, there is no doubt that with a fine night it will bo a great success.

A meeting of those interested in getting the Pakuranga Hound* to Waikato this season will be held at Delaney's Hotel, Ohaupo, on Tuesday next immediately after the cattle sale. In order to popularise the hunting this year, we understand that it is intended to have a stag hunt. The stac will be taken from Maungakawa and liberated at Hautapu, where, as the country is very open, some good sport should ensue.

The date for the performance of "Rob Roy" has been postponed till the Bth inst. This change of date has been rendered necessary, as several of the leading characters are taken by members of the craft, and the 3rd July, the date previously notified for the performance, has been fixed upon by the Grand Lodge officers for the installation ceremony at Lodge Beta, at which the presence of the afore-mentioned ir.embers would be required.

We remind our readers of the lecture to be delivered this evening at the Public Hall, Cambridge, by the Rev. R. Scott West, the popular minister of St. David's Auckland. The subject of the lecture is " Scottish Balladsand from the known ability of the lecturer, wo anticipate the subject will bo dealt with in an able, instructive, and entertaining manner. Vocal and instrumental selections will be given duriug the evening, and we expect to see a crowded house.

Mr J S. Bond's Waikato and Te Aroha Almanac for next year wilt be greatly enlarged and will contain articles on Cambridge, Hamilton and To Aroha. It goes without saying that these will bo worth perusing, for the proprietor is offering a prize for the best essay on each of the before-mentioned towns, and there will doubtless be keen competition. Mr Bond has secured the services of gentlemen wf well-known ability and integrity in each town to act as judges. Competitors therefore can be sure that no partiality will be displayed in the awarding of prizes. In addition to the above, two well-known writers have been engaged to prepare articles on the counties of Waikato and Ohinetnuri, in which the lesser townships will receive attention. This is only a foretaste of a great number of improvements that will be found in the almanac for 1891.

At a soiree held at G-eraldine the other evening, the Rev. Win. Gillies made some happy references to bis early experiences in the Tokomairiro district, where he said he received the earliest part of his training in public speaking as a "bullock puncher" in the district where the new pastor was born. "Bullocks." he said, " required some very firm and very plain speaking sometimes, and if some of their ministers had a similar training they might possibly be able to speak out plainer from the pulpit than they did. Although he could not boast of academical honours like Mr Todd as B.A.,yet ho kept in his pocket a certificate which he considered to be quifo equal to it or any other such hrmour--namely, a certificate as secondprize ploughman at the first ploughing match h.jld in the colony, in 1858 or thereabouts." — (Tremendous applause and laughter.

Some splendid pulling was done by a horse offered at Messrs McNiool and Co.'s sale yesterday. The horse when offered stuck at £11 for some time, and to show the Htaunnhness of the horse he was hitched to one of the yard posts, and so proved himself to be storling stuff that tlm bidding advanced to £1510s, the purchaser being Mr Casey.