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Waikato Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 2848, 14 October 1890, Page 2

The last of S- Andrew's parish evenings, Cambridge, to-morrow.

The grain porters at Allen and Wilson's at the Albert Dock, have resumed work.

His Excellency Sir H- Norman, proceeds to England in November and returns in May.

The Waipa County Council, Cambridge Borough Council, and the Hamilton Borough Couucil meet to-day.

Fifty thousand people, from all parts of the United Kingdom, viewed the body of Mrs Booth, of tho Salvation Army. The butter churn, exhibited by Mr Walter Cole, of Wellington, at tho Islington Dairy Show has been awarded the gold medal.

The committee of the South Auckland Racing Club will meet on Thursday evening next in Thk Waikato Tijiks Buildings.

Those interested in holding the annual race meeting at Ngaruawahia are invited to attend a meeting at the Waipa Hotel on Monday next.

Members of the various County Councils are reminded that the triennual generals election will be held this year on the second Wednesday in November.

A meeting of members of the Cambridge Jockey Club and others interested will be held on Saturday, October 25th, at the National Hotel, Cambridge.

A meeting in connection with the Cambridge Athletic Sports was held on Saturday at the Criterion Hotel. A programme very similar to last year's was adopted, which will appear in due course.

According to the Marlborough " Express" rabbiting in that district pans out pretty well. Two brothers drew from the Boga Factory no le s Ills 3d for about two and a half months' work, representing 0,145 bunnies.

Acting on the suggestion of the vestry of St. Peter's Church, Hamilton, a meeting of the lady members of the congregation was held at the Parsonage yesterday afternoon. It was decided to hold a soiree, followed by a concert, in the Public and Volunteer Hall, Hamilton, on the litth of November.

We wish to call attention to the alteration in W. Souter and Co.'sadvertisement ; they have just received a large shipment of clover, turnip, carrot and mangold seeds from the celebrated seedsman Sutton and Sons, whose seeds take the highest rank, not only in Britain, but in India, and every part of the colonies. Those wishing for good crops cannot do better th in give these aoeds a trial.

At the meeting of the Auckland Racine Club Committee, hold on Friday last, tho disqualification of Lonely and Muscatelle, for running at unregistered meetings, was removed. The Committee also decided that the secretary, Mr l'ercival, should not act as handicapper for any of the outside meetings. Under this decision, the South Auckland Racing Club will have to make a fresh appointment.

We have been permitted (says the Evening Star) to make the following extract from a letter received by a Dtinedin merchant from a correspondent in one of the Northeni towns :—" It would be a good thing for the country if some of your socialistic would-be menders of all our ills were to be banished to sums place where they could work out their ideas to their hearts' content, without molesting those who hold common sense views ;or if they could be persuaded to take up land under some of the absurd conditions on which settlement has been going on for some time. Tho life of a deferred-payment settler with compulsory residential clauses would give them time to ponder over the realities of the situation."

If one half of what is claimed for the new process of smelting discovered by Dr. J. Braxeres, of Oporto—an invention which has been taken in hand by the Spanish Chamber of Commerce in London —turns out to be well founded, the whole sy.-tem of metallurgy is on the eve of revolution. It is asserted that by means of the " Braxeres Universal Furnace," in olio operation and in less time than an hour, any metal can be extracted in a chemically pure state from its native ore, and a much higher percentage of metal obtained, with a saving of from 30 to 50 per cent, in labour and fuel. The system is said to be equally adapted for the production of iron, zinc, lead, copper, tin, and tho precious metals, every unit of the latter being extracted by the one single process, in which no preliminary pulverisation, roasting, or fluxing is needed.

The annual meeting of the Cambridge Cricket Club was held at Bach's Hotel, on Saturday, at S p.m. There was a good attendance, Mr T. H. Wilson in the chair. Tho balance-sheet showed that the finances are in a healtliv state, there beinsr a credit balance of t! lis Id. Several new meinbe.rs were elected, and tho officers were appointed as follows President, Dr. Moon ; vice-president, H. Stewart, Esq. ; lion. sec. aud treasurer, Mr T. If. Wilson ; Committee, Messrs Stubbing, McDermott, Douglas, Longbottom, and d. andU. McCann; captain, MrT. 11. Wilson. The subscription was. fixed at, men "><, boys 2s (id, and the practice days for Wednesdays and Satmdays. Mr Bach gives a bat for the highest scoro in a match, and a friend also gives a ball for tile best bowling performance. The dinners will be held alternatively at tho National and Masonic Hotels. The usual voles of thanks closed the proceedings.

It is with regret that we have to refer to the death of two young inen in Hamilton, on Saturday, one being Mr A. F. Sage, of Hamilton, and the other Mr T. H. White, jun., of Tanpiri. The latter died at the Waikato Hospital. Mr Sage was a young tnan, IS years of age, who was well known and liked throughout the district, and was one of Hamilton's best all round athletes. During the past twelve months' he has been in Auckland in the Bank of New South Wales, and it was there that he caught a cold which being neglected led on to inflammation ot lungs and pneumonia to which he succumbed on Saturday night. Mr Sage was a prominent uiemoer of the Hamilton Football Club during Ins residence in Hamilton, and the members of the club will attend tho funeral to-day in a body to pay a last tributo of respect to their deceased comrade. Mr White was tlie second son of Mr T. H. White, of Taupiri, and had just attained the age »t l'J. He was a young man univeisally liked in the surrounding district. The remains were conveyed to Taupiri on Sunday, and interred in the cemetery there.