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A flour ring with a capital of two millions is projected in the north of England.

The will of the late Countess of Rosebery has boen sworn at three-quarters of a million.

The monthly meetings of the Waipa County Council and the Hamilton and Cambridge Borough Councils will be held to-day.

Tne Berlin correspondent of the Standard denies the statement that Germany intends to extend her protection to tho Gilbert Group.

A young man named Henry Weal broke ins uoliar-boiie at Cambridge on Saturday. He was Induing Haricot over hurdles, when the horse feb. The programme of the Otorohanga animal races to bo held on Thursday, January 2!) th., appears in this issue. Full particulars will be given in this issue. The recorder at Plymouth has decided that strikes are illegal if they arc conducted with a view to compelling employers not to give employment to nonunionists. Wm. Moroney, one of those who pleaded guilty to participation in the Phoenix Park murders, and was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude, has been re leased from custody. Mr T. Fleming, the courteous and obliging station-master, at Hamilton West station, leaves this morning for a fornieht's holiday. Mr Mellor will be in charge of the Hamilton station in the meantime. Members ef the committee of the Hamilton Annual Swimming (Jala are requested to attend a meeting to-morrow evening in Thk Waikato Timks l.uildings, and also to bring their subscription lists, which it is hoped arc full, with them.

The New Zealand Shipping Company's s.s. Duke of Sutherland will make Auckland her first port of call about the 24th inst. She is provided with a large cool chamber for dairy produce and fruit. Early application must bo inadu to ensure space.

We are pleased to see the splendid entries that have been received for the various events at the coining Pony and Trotting meeting at Cambridge. No doubt when ths Auckland entries are received tho already large number will bo greatly augmented.

The Cambridge Borough Council will do well to have the fencing near tho Waikato bridge repaired. On Saturday Mr Dunn, of Cambridge West, nearly met with a fatal accident through this defect. His horse backed the trap through the broken panel and was very nearly precipitated into the Waikato together with the driver.

We were slightly in error in Saturday's issue, when referring to the accident to Air C. Cox. We find that he was brought into Hamilton by Messrs Gribble and Salmon, who had been apprised of his whereabouts by Mr Melville, who bad ridden out to make a search for him early in the morning, and finding him in the care of Air Rothwell, returned to Hamilton at once, to relieve the anxiety of his friends.

The month of January is so named from the Roman deity Janus, who was supposed to preside over doors. He was represented with two faces, one of which looked back over the old year; the other forward to the new. The Roman year was originally commenced in March; it first had but ten months, till Nutna Pompilius, who died 072 8.C., added January and February. The Maori month, Te Warn (eight moon), commences in January. They have 13 months, or moons, reckoning the first after the rising of the Pleiades at sunset, about June 15.

A Tahitian gentleman latelyreturned from La belle France, where he has just completed his studies in one of the military schools at Toulon, has been on a visit to Te Aroha during the last few days. In conversation with a gentleman there, he expressed himself as being by no means pleased with our English manners. Our style of cooking and taking our meals was shocking, and the want of respect shown to ladies generally, was one of those matters he could not understand at all. The idea of men pushing roughly pajt. ladiusi in the tramcars, I'nd .sitting down to table before all the ladie.-i had taken Uinir seals, just confirmed what he had re;.d ,-f the uncouth behaviour of the English people.

The annual examination of teachers under the Board of Education will commence to-day. In the Auckland district there are three centres where the examinations are held, Auckland, Thames, und Hamilton. Mr Airey arrived in Hamilton yesterday afternoon, and will act as supervisor there. Eight candidates will present themselves for class E—two for examination in all the subjects, and six to complete in subjects in which they failed at previous examinations —and one to cotnpleto in class D. The candidates for class E come from the following places :—Drury, 1 ; Cambridge, 3 ; Te Awamutu, 1; Ngaruawahia, 1: and Hamilton, 2, while the ono in class I) comes from Waitoa. The examination will commence at 10 a.m. to-day, concluding si 1 p.m. ou Saturday.

Dr, Waddington, who has lately taken up his residence at Te Aroha, is sure to become as popular in that locality as he was in Waikato, where he still onjoys th i contidenceof a very liir«e number of friends. Tho doctor contemplates making a number of improvements and alterations in the internal economy of the fine commodious establishment he has lately purchased, known as Wavorley House, and built and occupied for many years by Mr O. Dobson. When the various chances have been effected the doctor will have a well appointed hospital, on a small scale in which to rcceisn and tend his patients. The advantaccs of such an establishment in a health seeking resort such as Te Aroha will certainly make the place morn attractive to the public. The inhabitants of Te Aroha a.e fortunate in having so skilful and popular a medical man as Dr. W.tddington in their district. Already wo have heard of some important cures having been a fleeted by him in v«ry tryiiiß and obstinate cases." The curative properties of thfi different waters, used under the direction of a physician, and in conjunction with other means, must under such circumstances, produce results that could not be looked for under the ordinary nap-hazard use of the baths.

At the Waeranga-a-hika races on Uoxiuß-Uay, Mr A. Karaitiana (wellknown in Napier) entered an old hack named P.ustle for the Hurry Scurry race, of half a mile. Thero were somewhere about thirteen starters, and the owner of Bustle, noticing his own horse \va« not bicked, put a pound mi the machine. Four other natives cluhhed together, putting in five shillings each, and one of the number w .s entrusted to lhe ticket uu Bustle. The race was about to start, so he ran in, put down his pound in front of the totalisator man, called the number, which was duly rejpsteied, and ran out again to see the horses despatched on their journey without getting the ticket. Bustle got away at the start and was never and paid the modest little amount of £89 lis. Karaitiana got his dividend, but the other natives did not have a ticket to show when applying for theirs, and they were refused the money. Then arose the question as to what should become of the remaining K8!) lis. The proprietors of the machine thought they should stick to it, the club thought it should beco.no its property, and others thought Karaitiana should receive this amount also. A meeting was held in conned ion with the matter, but what transpired I have not be«n ;'hl- to ascertain.

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Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2886, 13 January 1891, Page 2

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Tapeke kupu
1,230

Untitled Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2886, 13 January 1891, Page 2

Untitled Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2886, 13 January 1891, Page 2

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