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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2928, 21 April 1891, Page 2

The Native Land Court re-opened at Cambridge yesterday, at 10 a.m. Thursday next, being St George's Day, will be observed as a general holiday by the banks throughout Waikato. At the meeting of the Board of Education on Friday last, UlO was granted for repairs to the Kirikiriroa school. Stanley's share of the profits of his American lecturing tour i5i;22,000. He denies that he will return to Atnca on an exploring tour after his visit to Australia in September. The annual election of three members for tho Rangianhia Koad Board takes plioo 011 Wednesday, May fjth. Nominations are to be made by Tuesday, April 2Nth, at noon.

The Hamilton Football Club held its first practice on Sydney Square on Saturday afternoon last. Next Saturday a scratch match will be played and it is hoped that all the members will roll up. The London Daily Telegraph, referring to the importation of fruit from tho colonies, states it is only the beginning of a trade, but if developed it will effect good to English and colonial shipping. Sir Walter Buller, who has been mentioned as a likely candidate for the Te Aroha seat, camo up by train yesterday to Hamilton, whero ho was met by Major Wilson, who drove him on to Cambridge. - The long drawn-out cases in connection with the mining accident at Huntly on 22nd December last, were resumed again yesterday before Captain Jackson, R.M., at Huntly. It is expected they will be brought to a conclusion this week. During the past week the railway hands have been employed in clearing the acacias, &c, off the reserve adjoining the railway bridge at Hamilton. Since being completed this is a great improvement to tho appearance of tho place. Painters aio busily engaged in ie-painting the bridge. His Lordship the Bishoo of Auckland held a confirmation service at St. Andrew's Cambridge, on Sunday morning, at which a number of young people were confirmed. The church was crowded. The Bishop preached both morning and evening and in the afternoon addressed the Sundayschool children.

The number of persons who have u-itud the Waitoino Caves since a record of the visitors has boon kept was on Saturday last 3(i3. As the caves become hotter known, they will be much more visited by tourists, and scon". b«tter arrangements will liavij to be made by the railway authorities than at present. His Lordship Bishop and Mrs Cowio arrived in Waikato on Saturday. Tho Bishop preached a' Cambridge on Sunday, and at T.unahere yesterday consecrated the church and cemeteiy. During the week he will visit, the various parts of the district, and on Sunday morning next will formally re-open tho Oliaupo Church, which has been enlarged, and in tho evening will administer thp holy rite of confirmation at S. Peter's, Hamilton. When the Ohaupo Cricket Club arranged for their g.and concert and danee, which is to take place to-mnnow night, it was thought that their matches for this season had all been played. Since the concert date was fixed a challenge has been received from the Taupiri Club, with the result that a match is arranged to be played at Hamilton on Saturday next. Play is to commence at half-past eleven, and as this will be tho Hrst match between these clubs, a good game is anticipated. During the past fruit season a good deal has been written concerning "twin" fruit or two fruit erowing into one another. On Saturday last Mr K. T. ])odd of Tauwhare left at this office a potat) which we think heats all previous records of this growth, as there appears to be at least a dozen potatoes growing one into tho other. Tho potato was grown in a yard where Mr Dodd, while carrying on dairying, used to keep his cows, aud was planted in the second week in December. Some fortnight or so ago a roll of linolMim, valued at about £4, was stolen from Mr T. Cassidy's butcher-shop, at Hamilton Kist. The matter was put in tho hands of tho police, but no trace of the missing goods was found until Sunday last, whon Mr S. McGuire, who now occupies tho stables in the grounds whero Mr Searancke formally livud, had his attention called to the fact that the ground in one of the stalls, which was covered oyer with sacks, seemed to have beon lately disturbed. On closer examination, this proved to be case, and on digging down tho roll of linoleum was found at a dopth of four feet. The matter is still in the hands of the police, and it is hoped they will lie able to drop on the guilty party.

We have received the following letter from Mr Henry Taylor of the Thames: " I desire to return my moat heartfelt thanks to Dr Kenny and the nurses of the Waikato Hospital for their kindness and attention to me while in the Hospital with my broken leg," Mr Taylor it will be remembered was in the Hospital for some four months, having received a very severe componnd fracture of the leg, and the case was one of the most successful that has yet been treated in the Waikato Hospital, and reflected great credit on Dr Kenny and his skilful nurses, The leg is bo well now that Taylor is able to walk without crutches, and he is naturally very grateful towards the institution from which he derived so much benefit. As congregations, as a rule, take a great interest in the welfare of their previous ministers, the Wesleyans of Hamilton will no doubt be interested to know that the Rev. J. Dukes, (a previous minister of this circuit) has been transferred from the jiorth Shore district to Masterton, in whiuh ptwe be has been greatly respected, as ho and Mrs Dukes were m Hamilton, and other nirculfs that fhey have been to. Prior to his leaving for his new sphere of labour, ho was on Thursday evening pra*ented by tho congregation with a purse of wivorttigns and a beautifully illuminated address as a slight recognition of their feelings of kiudly regard towards him. Mrs Dukes was presented with a cabinet photographic group of the Sundayschool classes, with their teachers in the centre, and Miss X. Dukes was presented with a volume of the " Girls Own Annual."

A- teiftj consignment of eggs has bean made from Canada to London. The Mclvinley tariff v.jll erjpijle or crush the trade hitherto carried oi» in thjs product with the United Ktate-, and invdutigati'in has shown that frntn September to March the Knglish market nan take all the eggs Canada can send. The demand is always increasing, and although supplies from J'rance, Italy, and Austria have also inf.ieased of late, prices have not fallen. Tho tendency ?*? sjtill upward. The result of tho trial hau ueas $s per /.'Qeggs. The top price for the finest a«ffs );n oji'er the same day was lis and lis Hd. ths Oinadjan consignment reached the market well packed, and in aa good condition as many consignments from Normandy. In the summer prices range down to 8s Od, but in |ih/3 winter thoy attain to a vory substantial .figure, flfnl ;-.torage and good packing are the no'.tftf-'

Owners of traction engines will do well to look up the Act pnssed last session dealing with the regulations to bo lie enforced when travelling on roads. It is now incumbent, on every owner to ha\e liis namo appear lepibly upon the engine, and a red flag is to bo displayed n certain distance in front, and wo believenlso in the rear. Local bodies might with propriety have these regulations posted up in a conspicuous place, for unless copies of tho Act are furnished to each owner, there is very little chance of their becoming aware of what is an offence or not. As a matter of fact, plenty are not even aware of the passing of the Act

Most heads of households have no doubt voted the filling up of the census papers, with their rattier involved directions, a nuisance, but it probably never occurred to them to view tho matter in a more serious light as irreligious or unpatriotic. < )ur forefathers however viewed the taking of a census in a different way. It will be remembered that tho Hist census taken nf the Israelites is recorded as having provoked the wrath of the Almighty, as He had forbidden the numbering of the peoole. On this precedent superstition seized to represent all census taking as an impijus act. When the first English census was proposed a little less than loOyeaisago, in 1703, a member of the House of Commons, Mr M.athow Ridley, whoso lineal descent of the present generation still occupies :i seat in that Chamber, opposed the proposal, which he declarod hn i inked on as ominous, "fearing lest some public misfortune, or epidemical distemper will follow tho numbering.'' Another member, Mr Thornton, who represented the City of York, still more strongly opposed the dread proposal, declaring ho "did not believe that there was any set of men, or indeed any individual of the human species so presumptuous or so abandoned as to make such a proposal—one totally subversive of the laht remains of Knglish liberty, as a register of the people would acquaint our oneiniea abroad with our weakness." Times have changed since then, and raon'a opinions with thorn.—Post.