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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2923, 9 April 1891, Page 2

A coal trust is being formed in London to control tho output in the chief districts of tho north.

The Native Land Court, that his been sitting at Rotorua for some weeks now, has been adjourned till the :22nd inst. It is rumoured at the Thames that the completion of the Thames-Te Aroha railway will be included in the schedule of public works proposed to be carried out by the presont Minister for that department.

Captain Edwin forecasts heavy northerly gales, changing by west and sou'-west, between noon of the Bth and noon of the 12th. There are evidences of the approach of a period of unsettled and windy weather.

The wheat estimato, Dublished by Mr Hayter* has disorganised the Australian market, and there is a probability that millers will have to look to Now Zealand aud California for supplies, as tho surplus has either been exported or contracted for. The Thames County Council are preparing to levy a geueral rato of six farthings in the £, and a Hospital and Charitable Aid rate of three farthings. This is an increase of nO per cent, on last year's rates rendered necessary owing to the indebtedness of the Council to tlit< Hospital and Charitable Aid Board to the extent of £670 exclusive of the present assessment.

We understand Inspector Erneson has received official intimation that the head quarters of the police under hir charge will be removed from Tauranga to Hamilton. The new district will extend to Napier, and can bo much more easily worked from Hamilton as a centre. This change would have been brought about before, we believe, except for the difficulty of providing the necessary house and office accommodation.

O'Halloran, the defaulting postmaster of Whangarci, was raptured on Friday last by Constable Cordon, on the rivor about thrco miles above Xgungurn, where ho had lived for tho Inst six weeks under cover of a few nikan leaves. Ho had not apparently moved from the spot more than a few feet, and seemed to have led the life of a chained dog. A track only a few foot long shows where he had paced up and down during his confinement, and the torture of his hiding, the fear of arrest, and the want of proper nourishment aro all too well depicted in his face. Tho terror of those six weeks must have found a happy release in arrest. When he was caught he aaid, " Well, you have got mo at last, and ho did not appear to bo sorry to bo taken away. If appearancos go for anything, ho *iaht w»U wwj) for the change,

A shipment of Wow Zealand apples, pur K..M.S. Tongarirn, arrived in splendid condition. They wero put up to auction at Covunt (iarden, and brought from 1 "rs to :!0s per cam (containing a bushel).

During the winter months, commencing from next Sunday, the hour at which the early mass will be celebrated at the Hamilton ami Camhridgu Catholic churches will bo 8.30 instead of s a.m. as heretofore.

Henaro Kaihau, secretary to Tawhaio, united upon the Native. Minister on Monday, pieferriug a claim for moneys said to be due to Tawhiao, and for certain lands at Mangers promised to him by tho late Government. The Minister let Kuiliau clearly nuderstand that ho would only deal with Tawhiao as a subject of tho and if Tawhiao wished it, he would meet hi in at his settlement and discuss the matter in dispute. Kaiiiau was satisfied with this offer, and left, pmmising to report accordingly to Tawhiao.

At the meeting of the Auckland Hospital and Charitable Aid Board on Monday, Mr Kidd asked whether the report of tho Hospital Commission had been yet produced before the Hoard or agreed to in any shape. Mr Lennox thought tho report had been most effectively dealt with by tho action already taken by the chairman, and the chairman pretty plainly indicated that there was no intention of taking any official notice of the enquiry. This course of action is, we understand, adopted in view of the intenli >n of the Government to call upon the Board to pay the cost of the inquiry, and of the fact that the Board intend to repudiate all liability in respect thereof.

At Mr J. Nicol's special horse sale at Cambridge, yesterday, there was a good attendance of buyers, but the wretchedly wet weather put a damper on everything. About 300 horses were entered, but the whole of them could not be offered, and from GO to 100 remain, and will be put up this morning, commencing at 7 a.m. Selling was continued last night till G p.m. About 150 horses changed hands at prices that may be considered a trifle lower than those that have ruled of late. We are unable to give a full report until the sale is finished. We have heard it suggested, now that these horse salos have assumed such large proportions as to preclude getting through in one day, a second day should be arranged, classifying the stock into hacks and draughts, so that buyers requiring any particular class could attend without so much loss of time.

Sir John Macdonald, the Premier of Canada, in referring to the Opposition in a recent speech deals out the following: —" They have as many aliases for policy as a rogue has for wrong-doing. Their policy has been at times commercial union, unrestricted reciprocity, and latterly tariff reform. We are prepared for them. Their organs have declared that the policy of the Liberals jmt now is free trade. They are going to sweep away all the Custom houses along the lino, and at the same time surround us with a M'Kmley tariff. That is not your policy, and it is not tho policy of the Government. The Liberals are so afraid that they are going up and down the country saying that we intend to steal their thunder ; but thunder from bucli a quarter would not be worth stealing, and the policy we introduced in 1878 we are going to stand by.

The Rev. S. Lawry took his departure for Ashburton yesterday. The Kov. Mr Thomas, Mr Lawry's successor, is oxpectod to arrive in Hamilton this week. We understand that the Te Awamutu circuit is, for the present at any rate, to be affiliated to Hamilton. It will be rather a large district for one minister to attend to ; but tha Wesleyan Conference, at its lait sittings, thought it the best course to pursue under the present financial circumstances. The Te Awamutu people are naturally very much grioved at tho loss they will sustain through losing their resident minister, and hope that they will shortly be placed in the same position as before. It is a number of years now since tha To Awamutu Wesleyans received the privilege of having a minister of their own, aud, no doubt, they will feel the loss very keenly.

A discussion about the cost of living in the United States has reached its climax in a letter on clothes. An ingenious Briton (writes Mr G. W. Smalley from London to the New York Tribune) has made a calculation that for the price of three suits of clothes in New York the American may buy a first-class return ticket bet.veen New York and Liverpool, hive his three suits made by a good London tailot, pay the tailor a good profit, and have something left over for himself. Whether this ingenious Briton be a London tailor or a Liverpool shipowner in not clear. He might be either. He does not give the figures. If we take the price of a suit in New York at £20, his sum will work out very well. It is often lam told, £25. Here in London it varies from £6 to £12. Taking the average at £8, the traveller in search of English raiment would pay £24 for his three suits, and have £3(i left for passage money. And the British tailor would have made a profit of about £12 out of the transaction, the British Steamship Company taking their profit in their own manner, and to an extent which they can calculate better than an outsider. What one would like to know also is, how much of tho American tailor's £(J0 for three suits is profit. _