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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2902, 19 February 1891, Page 2

Mr W. S. Allen and family were passenger.; by train yesterday to Annandale.

The next English mail via San Francisco closes at the Waikato otlices tomorrow morning.

A meeting of the committee of the South Auckl and Racing Club is convened for S.iturd.iy evening next at eight o'clock.

The time-table, according to which the special train in connection with Messrs .7. MeXieol and Co's sheep fair will run on Wednesday next, is published in this issuo.

Miss Land, who has been acting as pupil teacher at the Hamilton West School, has been transferred to the Te A roll a School. Miss Land left for To Aroha on Tuesday.

The bridge over the Firewood Creek on the. road to the Akatea Valley settlement is in a dangerous state, and requires attention as the trallic along this road now is considerable.

The Resident Magistrate, Capt. Jackson, will sit at Hamilton on Fiiday next, when, in addition to a number of new cases to be dealt with, judgment will be given in the case LeQ.iesne v. .Fielder.

Ma- W. Wood, one of the councillors for the lioroiiKh of Hamilton, has been summoned by the police for wheeling his barrow along the footpath, an offence under the by-laws recently passed by the Borough Council.

The programme of the annual meeting of the Xgaruawaliia Racing Club, which h to be held on Saturday, 11 th March next, appears in this issue, tt comprises six events, viz Handicap Hurdles of losovs. ; Maiden Plate of lOsovs. ; Xgaruawahia Cup of 25sovs. ; Settlers' Race of 7sovs. ; Ngaruawalna Plate of 12sovs. ; and Forced Handicap of .Ssovs.

At a meeting 1 of the Hamilton West School Committee, held last night, Messrs -T. Hume. *F. P.m\ K. 13radley, U. K. Siintlos, and J. Knox were present. The only business brought up wan the voting for members of tho lioard of Ivlucation, the result being in favour of Messrs Mnir, Motion, nii' 1 U'pt'in. The C-'UMsiittiH: voted tor Messrs Mair, Upton, and Grant.

The Alexandra Amateur Opera Clou will peform Wallace's celebrated oimra "M iritana 'in tin Alexandra Public Hall on Friday eveniucr, "i7th inst. The caste is a very powerful one, including among its members many Waikato favourites, and special scenery and drosses have been prepared for this piece. The prices are only L's anil Is for front and back

seats respectively, and family tickets can bo procured for ss.

A sale of Crown Lands in the Waipa County is advertised for Thursday, the LDth March, at the Court-house, Hamilton. Wo am glad to the Crown Lands Board have adopted the suggestions so frequently urged upon them through our eoluinus, to hold the sales of Waikato lands in the district, instead of at Auckland, as heretofore. This will be a saving of lioth time and money to intending buyers from this district, who are likely to prove, as at tin: last sale of Waikato land in Auckland, the majority of the purchasers.

We trust there will ba a full attendance at the Waikato Farmers' Club at Cambridge on Monday next. Mr Robt. Dick, agricultural chemist to Kempthorne, Prosstir and Co., will be uresent, and will tjivo the analyses of soils that he took from lMkerimu some little time since. He will alio take part in a discission on soils, their composition and difference?. The discussion will doubtless elicit facts of considerable interests to farmers, but at the present time it is the differences of weather that are the trouble, sin.l if the atmosphere does not return to its normal condition, we shall be having the Farmers' Club sending for Commander Kdwin to explain the why and wheiefore. Mr Caverhi'.l, im nacter of the Auckland Freezing Company, will be present, and will be liappv to afford any information regarding the freezing trade. The public are cordially invited to attend this meeting:.

We regret to learn that Mr De Bl'iis is no longer captain of the Cambridge Salvation Army, he having sent in his resignation, and we learn that another captain will airivoat the end of the prosent week. This is much to bo regretted as Mr Do Blois managed the Army in a much better manner than his predecessors and was well liked by all the townspeople, but lie has felt compelled to take this step in consequence of his wife's ill-health, the doctors insisting that she shall have complete rest. In the Army there is much parading about tliu streets and travelling to other townships, and r.s Mrs De Blois cannut do that her husband lias resigned and intends going into business as hairdresser in I >oke-?troet, and his wife will conduct a trade in fancy goods. The late captain will still continue to interest himself in the Armv, but as lie is now only a "full pii vate " and will hav j his business to attend to he cannot be expected to do as much as [oimerly. "Aulus," in one of his latest "Talks on 'Change," writes 'There was a great ram sale oil, and as Meiiunsuy intended to start a stud Hocks at Woolywoola he was presents and as a commencement bought two well bred nuns, one fur -100 g -tineas and on 3 for W0 guineas. Very well contented with his bargain, lie handed over the charge of the costly animals ci his son .f im, with instructions to take them hon.e in a spring cart. Jim .started olf accordingly, but unfortunately he had to stop so often to explain about the purchases, and drink tl.e rams' health, that he finally got a little mixed, and not a little jolly. Then a brilliant idea struck liini—lie would have a rain tight. So he took the two rams out of the cart, set them at each other, and sitting oil tin; fence enjoyed the spectacle, yelling in his clee, 'tJo it. 100 guineas!' ' Well done, 300 !' till the 000-gninea ram dropped the •100-guinea one stone dead. Then he went home sober and sad. And the relation' between him and the old man are considerably strained."

Mr It. Crowf. X ic.p etoroi'PiVbiic Seii'io:.-, vi. 1...1 ti, • ill,!; mill .IM.iij' i 1,..,,. » inch t 0.-re IM . Ii! i'ii mi .11.i. lii: it-ii t.i : iil; -11,1 ..f 1v!.|..,1i '11 f .1- ■' Ii nil T i.-s 'I.iv, will. I in- 01.j.-cf of l-epoiiini; to tho I', 'aid a- to the tl.'-irahleiiens or ot.hi rwi-e .'! -,i'..ntiiiii the n|iphi:ati m. "his evening- the lianiiltou A nial .Mi r Dnimitio ttlnli perfollil the Milium] ilratna '' R"h Roy, 1 ' in the Public Hall, II a mil Lon, th : proceeds of the ent.eitalliiuen'. in all of tile Huiltly 1 lis ist.o- I-'uiiii. Tho Hamiitoii I'.ra-s liio.l will pi ly a programme of music o'llside the hall prim to the entert iiii'iient, commeiK'iug at 7 I"> o'clock.

Mr H. Howden, watchmaker, t'i'e., Hamilton, is having a large demand lor the linn of Miperi'.r nickel w.tlch'--, which he lias liten lat.'ly mlvrrt.i-.ing in these columns, no I ss than 100 hiving passed through his hands since hi) introduced them, a few month-, since. They are ..It','red at a very low figure ami as time-keepers are as reliable as watches of a more expensive, kind. .Mr lloivilnii has just received a fresh stock of watches and jewellery of all de-criplion-., and we would draw our rciders' attention to the new advertisem'nt in this issue.

As an illustration of how wages l'ii down as Protection froe.s up the New Vork Times publishes the followini; iiistnietive statement: — " fhnrp. is in New York an importer and nil mi s~l ~n merchant who impi.rts the cloth made ny a dozen English mill.--, of which he is the acrent. One of his custi.iiiei's is a I it'fco mannfactnrint,' firm in l.uffalo, which huvs of him n c-'rta.n f-ihric oxtensivuly used in hi.i factory. The Imiklish manufacturer's price for this lab,ic is about 130 conts a yard. The present duly i--11U per cent, ad valorem, and the price her.', has heen cents u ytii.l. The new l irilf bill imposes a duty of 110 per cent. The. New York commission merchant informed his Buffalo customer that to meet his in creased Customs charge ho had been compelled to add 0 cents a yanl to the price, of £ood*. We are permitted to m ike the following extracts from a letter he has received from the manager of the MulFalo lirm : — 'You were somewhat surprised tint we could afford to pay the additional '.1 cent- a yard for cloth; but. [ prnpaied our workpeople for it, and to-day, by making a cut equal to 10 per cent, on their w.iges all round, I have covered the amount and turned them all into good, sound Democrats. That, I take it, is as g.iod as a Yankee could do.'"

Some light is thrown upon tho recent cable message as to tho exclusion i>f frozen meat from Impel i ll army contracts by tho following extract from a llohh correspondent's letter :—"A deputation, upon which Mu.«srs Xolson and M'llwraith represented the Australian pastoral in!e:o<l.s, and Mr Uirkutt the meat industryof,Smithfield, waitod on Mr I'M. Stanhope, Minister for War, to enlist his support m the removal of Mm departmental order excluding frozen beef from acceptance in army contract". A private circular from the War Office, had asserted that the meat lost its juices m the process of cooking, and that it had a flavor of tallow. Messrs Xelson and M l llwr:iit.h. who were introduced by Mr Archer, AgentGenetv.l for (Queensland, slated, in reply to the objections, that the beef was perfectly good, and of excellent flavour, it cooked in the frozen stite. The matters of which complaint was made were due to thawing out the innat before cooking. Liesidos. the deputation urged, it was unfair to the colony to give preference to Anieiienn chilled beef over its frozen product, tin; frozen beef being of equal merit. Mr Stanhope declined to give any plod-jo to the deputation, but said he would give the most careful attention to the representations made to liini. The light lion, gentleman referred to the question later on in addressing a meeting of farmer* at Spilsby, Lincolnshire, lie told his audience that with regard to beef, they had to look for a strong competition from the largo quantity of frozen meat brought into .England. As: a means of helping the English farmer, he declared himself to be in a favour of discriminating the (Queensland •article from the English product by labelling it."