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Waikato Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 2884, 8 January 1891, Page 2

Athletic sports will be held at Taupiri on Saturday neit. Mr Gladstone has issued a denial to the report that he is about to retire. The German Emperor will pay a visit to Her Majesty Queen Victoria in July next. The census shows the United. States birth rate to be 2,000,000 below the previous decade. The Czar has refused the request of the Duke of Orleans to be allowed to enter the Russian army. Murdoch, the cricketer, who -•tayed behind the rost of tho Australian team, has made up his mind to return to Australia. Millett, one of the Irish Invincibles convicted of taking part in the Phcenix l'ark murders, lias been released from gaol. _ During the quarter ending the Slst December, 181)0, the number of births i-ecistai-bd i" the Te Awamutu dutact was 10 deuiiis 3, and marriages -1. FuLtplay ."tutes that the strength ~f thd SliiwißS: alj.nei.revented an immense ivvur.-ida striUe ut .ill trades in London oil .)ui:w:" ICurious things ts. the Um'wl StaU*. It i« -tai,<l to? ■tu.fc-Kt!*? ,t Buffalo p:mdeiv,l '..• i'-hUcuu, :iuu ~,(c.)!ul TrWiiiM.' : by ..idermß the l"li(M t- --vl ticl.it- t.iv tl!-: Dilton-cnm- . I■ I'.rir.it rnrcpi-oii buyers may thereforo bo anticipated. We are pkasecl to note that the h:,;k;ofthec l n l ntr y seu! B tnwn. for tlw northern Hide of the di.tr Ct ,* ~„!,';.-,lovnirl ~f Liccotrim.wlatinn for v,'»r«.m? l ii>r 'is in'J J-ittlo-

Plans and specifications for the I'oro-n-tf.ran-Taiiinaraniii roarl contract nay bo inspected at the Post-oflice, Hamilton.

The principal business to be brouL'lit up at thfi meetinp of the committuc of the South Auckland K,acin« Clui> this ukKiiui);, will be a statement ol iWJiiW over the late siimmor meetintr, and tixinp the date for the Autumn meeting.

The special train advertised to run to Uclilield in connection with tho -pocial sale mi Thursday, Jannary 22nd, will leave Ohaupo, on the morning of rale, at 7 o'clock, machine Lichfield about 10.30., ■Hid leaving there for return about 4 p.m. The time table will be advertised in a future i^-iie.

When shall we read the follow imr resul's from .me of our I'ulliputii mines :—l.'ropriutaty mine, l.rokcu Hill: Week's run with 1H furnaces, ore troatod UC.IO tons, i.roduciiiß "10 tons of bullion ,;,ntaiui.iK lyi.fetf ounces of silver. Or taking tl.B three last mines at l.rokeu Hill, tor the week ending Uocetnber lltli, total orn treateil 7,o.">ti tons, <mnces of .iilver 227, t()!i. The young vines at Nathlia, Victoria, have been destroyed by the locusts i »ne vineyard, of -l"> acres, has beon ■irrhipßd bare, anil the vines will probably liic In one part, of the district, the flying lociW.s aro described as so thick, that they remind one ot a heavy snow storm, the Hikes however not falling to the ground. They have eaten oil the wheat in many districts.

A quantity of that essentially Mauri and decidedly aromatic luxury, dried shark, is advertised for sale by Mr \V. J. Hunter on Saturday next, at Iβ Awsimitu, on account ot whom it may concern. As the taste for this delicacy is, to Europeans, an acquired one (and but very few Europeans of our acquaintance have been ambitions enough to acquire it), we are afraid the bidding for the shark m not likely to bo as high as its aroma. In speaking with reference to the doctor's report at the Hospital Board yesterday, the chairman called attention to the number (l-"i) of patients admitted tj the Hospital during the past month. He said that a short time back when tho average was II per month it was thought the maximum had been attained for tins year, but for the last two months there had been !■>. The total admissions for the twelve months from January Ist were 1(>8, whereas in the corresponding period of tho previr.ua year there were only 104, an increase of 64 or over 6 per month. If the individual who stole the WllKVro Timim from the reading-room of the Cambridge library on Tuesday morning will communicate with us, and convince us that it was poverty that cauaed him or her to commit the theft, instead of quintessence of memuess as we suspect, we will supply him or her with a copy ot the paper gratis. To rob ,i public library is as bad as committing sacrilege, and anyone found with a current number of any paper bearing the stamp of the Cambridge Hbrary upon it, will be promptly " run in. A homeopathic doctor, whose authority is vouched for, recommends a very simple cure for cattle, when blown. Ye pours three to four drops ot the homoepathic dilution of colcliiciun into a table class of cold water or in a small bottle with a wide neck. The animal is to be seized by the horns, and when the head is in the air, pour the solution into the nostrils, when it must be jwallowed. Within ten minutes, and without recurring to a eecond dose, the ballooning will collapse. The medicament costs one sou. A young tramp who was passing through Cambridge on Tuesday evening, ran a muck, knocked a lad's teeth down his throat, threw a atone through Mr Souter's window, and otherwise misconducted himH"lf Hd was duly ruu in, and w.i? brought up yesterday morning, before Messrs Wells and Priestley, J. P., and was remanded till this morning, in consequent of mio of the witnesses not beint,' present, lie i* evidently an old hand, and will probably have the utmost punishmeut the law allows. Tuesday was an unlucky day for Mr fsouter, for in tho morning his horse ran away aud smashed up a new buggy.