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Waikato Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 2873, 11 December 1890, Page 2

The trouble with, the Firemen's Uniou in London is fizzlimr cut.

The Grand Duke Nicholas, uncle of the Czar, is incurably insane.

The Hamilton West School entertainment takes place to-morrow eveninK in the Public Hall.

Beuter's Telegram Company has increased its capital, and intends to start an advertising agency.

Capt. Jackson, R.M., went over to Kaplan, by coach, yesterday morning, aud will hold n Court theie to-day.

Major-General Edwards will read a paper on Australian defences before the Colonial Institute, in April next.

By coach yesterday Major Tisdall, Audit-Inspector, went oyer to Raglan, for the puipose of inspecting the halfyearly accounts of the Raptor County Council.

In our list of elected Members lae tissue Mr Arkright appears as elected for the Rangitikei seat, it should have been Mr Mc Arthur; subsequent returns reversed tho position. Constable Wild, of Hamilton, who has been in Auckland, for more than a week past, attending the Supreme Court, as a witne.-s in the Mahnki disturbance case returned to his duties yesterday.

Mr W. Manktelow has again been appointed dog registrar for the Borough ot Hamilton, and owners of dogs who are not prompt ii> supplying them with collars may expect a lively time after the New Year.

At the Cambridge Brewery, Mr E. Cussen has already prepared a special brew of his well-known ale, for the Christmas season. All those who wish to enjoy their Christmas should not fail to give Air Cussen a turn.

The inhabitants of Cambridge will be pleased to learn that Mr J. H. Priestly has been re-elected Mayor of the Borough. He will be duly installed at a meeting of the C mncil to be held at noon iiu Wednesday next.

The official declaration of the poll taken in the Te Aroha Electoral 'dis' trict appears in our advertising columns this morning. By it Mr Allen is returned as the representative of the district, having a majority of 177 over Col. Eraser.

We learn the concert held at Pukenmn last Friday evening, to put the Church " on its legs" again, was a great success, and furnished sufficient funds to reinstat.l it and provide an extra " timber toe" or two if necessary. Lit us hope that it may not. rcouivo such a nothcr " knock down blow."

Messrs Cox and Buttle in this issue, on b.ihalf of Mr W. S. Allen, publicly thank those electors of the Te Aroha Electorate who placed Mr Allen at the head of the poll. Mr Allen is expected to arrive from Home shortly, when ho will take the earliest opportunity of personally thanking the electors for the honeur they have conferred on him.

Zudkiel's Almanac for 1891 predicts all sorts of trouble in America. Among other things Congress will have a hard time, politics will be disturbed, troops will be called out, taxation increased, the revenue decreased, and murder, rapine, and epidemics will be rampant. Zadkiel predicts the defeat of the British Government in tho next election.

A meeting of the committee of the South Auckland Racine Ciub will bo held in The Waikato Times Buildings at 7.30 o'clock on Saturday evening, at which all members are requested to attend. The business to bo brought up is the fixing of bookmakers' licenses and the striking off of those members who have not paid their subscriptions prior to tho meeting.

The two tenders for the supply of gravel in the Borough of Hamilton, opened on Tuesday night, were very close, there only being a difference, as will be seen by our report of the Council's proceedings, of id per cubic The successful tenderer's price was. East: Is 3d per cubic yard. West: Is 2£d, the other tender beiug Is 3d per cubic yard on either side.

An astonishing number of store cattle are coining from the Raglan and West Coast districts this seison ; up* waids of a thousand head have passed through Whatawhata on their way to the Ohaupo markets and there seems to be no falling off in the supply. There is also a marked improvement'in tho class of cattle brought over, Raglan breeders evidently realising that the better a beast is bred, the better it pays.

A meeting of the Hamilton Cemetery Trustees was hold in the Council Chambers on Tuesday ovening. The Clerk reported that in consequence of pegs being removed in the Hamilton East Cemetorv, he could not keep a proper record of burials, as required by tho Act. It was resolved that the clerk make the best arrangements with Mr Sarnies, and engage the sexton to carry out the work. Tho followin? accounts wero passed for payment :— Maunder, lis ; Frear, Ds.

The Hamilton Borough Council have resolved to do a piece of work which is greatly needed, viz.. the fencing in of the furze on the vacant allotment'in front of tho saleyards. Cattle and horses got in here when being driven to the sale, and are not without difficulty driven out again. The Council aro also making arrangements for a good supply of water at the saleyards. Formerly the animals had to wait some time before they got any water and we believe the attention of the police has been directed to the matter.

The Christmas season is close upon by, and in order that everyone may be able to get or give presents, Messis Sandes and Co., of Hamilton, have laid in a large and varied stock, consisting of Christmas and New Year's cards, fans, photo frames, toys, and numerous other articles, from which even the most fastidious can be suited. The Christmas Number of the New Zealand Graphic, which will be specially illustrated, and should prove an interesting present to send to the Old Country, will be on hand, and a big assortment of Lett's dairies has just arrived.

At the Claudelands course yesterday morning there wero a good many horses at work. Kathleen was sent a mile, being brought home tho last half by Titbits in rattling time. lima, and Helen McGregor performed ovor a mile and a-quarter, the former having tho best of the journey. Lidy Marion and a colt of Mr Bertrand's were treated to light work. Pirate was on the course but was not sent round. It is expected that Loch Ness and Scott Free will be up in Hamilton in the early part of next week to put the finishing touches on their preparation.

We were in error in stating in our last issue that the captain of the Salvation Army had been withdrawn from Hamilton. It appears that Captain Thomas' term expired last week ind that he was removed from this station. Captain Gooch succeeds Captain ThomaH, and he has since arnvn.d and taken charge of the Hamilton station. We hear that although tho Army's open-air meetings are rather scantily attended, they always have very fair congregations at their meetings inside the barracks, and on Sunday nights especially the barracks aro filled to the doors. Taking into consideration how frequently the Army holdfcmeetings—nine every week —it is attoiiislsing to see tho good congregations that patronise thorn, especially when anything special is on the board, aud that is very frequently.

When young men are undertaking the serious business of takinß to themselves a "better half," they should not be dilatory or they may perhaps find their "claim jumped •* by another. Such an accident nearly happened nt tho Catholic Church at Cambridge on Tuesday, when Father Luck was proceeding to marry a youug lady to ttio chief groomsman of the wedding party, but fortunately ijfp bridegroom arrived sulliciently early to rc;c;;o his bride from the awkvvaid dilemma, the poling lady did not appear to know that anything yyas wrong, but tho groomsman evidently thought he was in the wrong box when the priest told him to stand alongside the bride inside the altar rail, for he looked very uncomfortable and appeared much relieved when he saw the bridegrogm come into the church, and wildly peoticufitod for him to hurry up.

Dr. J. E. Taylor, of Ipswich, a weM-knoivn writer on popular science, remarks :—" I have a vivid remembrance of the, tine strapping youths I saw in Australia. They looked as if they ate and digested thrcu good meals a day, and as if th=v played football or cricket four hours daily all the year round. It is a good thing for young nations that their youth should lay the foundations of strong men. A hundred years hence these Australian lads will be looked back to as the stalwart ancestors of vast populations. On their original powerful physiques it may be that millions of people will have to fall back, just as unearning poople do on the accumulate' wealth of their grandfathers. 1 mention this because I have recently noted the authoritative statement mude by the National Physical Recreation Society that the average height of our British artisans in our most populous districts, at the age of 30 years, is 2£ inches less than the stature of their brethren in the country."

Mr G. D. Carter has developed into the raciest speaker in the Victorian Parliament. He took it out of Mr Treuwith, an hon. member who is disposed to accord the strikers very great latitude, and who is so cbaritably-mhided that he can suppose that the men assembled in their thousands merely for the purpose of putting a little " moral suasion " on non-unionists by tackling him in the following witty and trenchant style:—"lf the hon. member believes in n future state, as I have no doubt ho does, he will at some time have to pass to the world beyond. If he goes to Heaven, St. Peter, or whatever gentleman stands at the gate, will say, ' You cannot come in hero, because you will be objecting to any but trade unionists being admitted. Then the hon. member will have to go to 'another place,' but the devil will certainly say, ' For Heaven's sake don't let him in hero ; he will be calling nut the stokers.'" The House was convulsed, for the joke lost none of its force by tho fact that Mr Trenwith is a " local preacher "of a peculiarly different type.

At the Te Aroha B.M. Court on Tuesday, before Mr H. W. Northcroit, in the ctse J. R- McCall v. A. Comes, a claim for £10 ss, forloss of two calvej, and compensation for loss of time, Mr Dyer appeared far plaintiff, and Mr Meldrum for defendant. The plaintiff, in his evidence, claimed two calves, which defendant hi-d taken off the run, at Waihou, and had sold to Mr Hetherington, of Te Aroha.*The evidence clearly established the plaintiff's case, and in giving judgment, His Worship said there was no question as to the identification by the owner of the two calves in dispute. On the one side there were Cornes, the defendant, his mother, sister, and brother-in-law. On the other side the witnesses are all independent and positive as to the calves being the property of McCall. It was strange that a man could go to the pound, as the defendant had done, and release a beast, saying it was his when it was not. If he had been tiken up by the police while taking away tho animal, nothing could havn saved him from being sent to Mount Eden for cattle-stealing. Nothing ha could say was too severe in a case of this kind. Judgment was given for the return of tho beasts, also £3 10s for loss of time, and £6 12s costs.

The diamond drill was considered to be unsurpassable as a means of rapidly recovering the character of mining ground. If a "core" contained auriferous indications, it could bo decided with comparative certainty whether it was worth while to sink a shaft and where. We live, however, in an age of progress, and now the diamond drill appears to be superseded in some advanced gold-mining districts in Australia by the "electric physicopholist." This wonderful indicator of subterranean treasury gave a specimen of his ski!! the other day at the Sunny South Gold Mine, Creswick. He professed to ba able to tell by merely walking over tho ground whether it is gold-bearing, and, further, whether it is payable, and at what depth. The manager, who took tho " physicopholist " over different parts of the mine on the surface—parts where the ground is worked out, aud parts where ho knows there is solid payablo ground—describes the test as wonderfully successful. The "physicopholist'' felt no effects when walking over ground from which tho metal had been extracted, but when coming on to solid ground he was able to tell instantly, and as to whether it was payable or not.

The Wolseley sheep-shearing machine has been rocently in frequent competition in Australia against various rivals, but experienced no difficulty in demonstrating its superiority, except a3 against a machine which was worked by compressed air, and which was awarded the prize by the Council of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales in defiance of tho recommendation of the judges that it should be divided between the compressed air machine and thelWolseley machine, because in the absence of sufficient data to determine the economic working and durability of the coin press air system it was impossible to make a definite award. Mr F. York Wolseley, the inventor, >was naturally dissatisfied at such a peculiar decision, and promptly challenged his rival to a contest under conditions which would conclusively demonstrate the practical merits of each machine. So confident of the issuo was he that he offered to lay £1,000 to £500 that the trial would result in its being clearly proved that compressed air is not a suitable power for sheep-shearing machinery. This liberal challenge has been disregarded, but pascoralists and sheep-far-mers in tluj colonies are giving practical proof of their Opinion as to tho relative merits of the competitors by ordering thousands of the Wolseley machines.