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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2941, 21 May 1891, Page 2

Mr Gladstone has recovered from the attack of influenza. The Duchess of Fife gave birth to a daughter on May ltlth. A dance will take place in the Kihikihi Town Hall on Monday evening next. Malachi .Feehan's body was interred yesterday afternoon in the Cambridge cemetery. The sale of work and entertainin aid of the funds for repairing S. Peter'a Parsonage hag baen postponed. The monthly meeting of the Waikato County Council will be held at half-past two to-morrow afternoon. The estrangement between Mr Blaine and the President hag become more open. The former is aiming at the Presidency. There has been a heavy fall of 6now in Southern Europe. At Lyons, in the South of France, the thermometor was at zero. The Australian cruisers, Mildura, Karakatta. and Wallaroo, are to be placed on the reserve on arrival at their destinations. It is reported that the Bight Rev. Wm. 1). Maclagan, Bishop of Lichfield, succeeds the late Dr. Magee as Archbishop of York. Dr. Canaris' Combination will appear in Te Awamutu ou Friday, Saturday, and Monday evenings next. A dance wiil take place after the performance on Monday. Acceptances for the Maiden Handicap, to be run at the Autumn Meeting of the VVaipa Racing Club on Monday next, must be sent in by Saturday next, to the Secretary. Monday next, 25th inst., will be observed as Her Majesty the Queen's birthday, and in consequence the banks and post and telegraph offices throughout the Waikato will be closed. We understand that Mr Oldham, Sheep Inspector for the Waikato district, has received notice that he has been ap pointed to the Spit district (Napier). Mr Sutton, who has been at Invercargill, will succeed Mr Oldham. On Monday next the Juvenile Good Templars intend enlivening Cambridge. The drum and fife band will play, and sports will be hold upon the green near Major Wilson's. In the evening a dance will be held in the hall to commemorate the Queen's Birthday. Any one wishing to join the Cambridge Chrysanthemum Seciety should give in their names to Mr T. Wells, at once, as the annual meeting of the parent society at Auckland will be held at an early date, when the names of Waikato members will be presented. An unfortunate man named Reginald Fitzpatrick was sent down to Hamilton from Cambridge yesterday, in a destitute condition. Fitzpatrick is very deaf, and lost an arm some years ago from an accident in a flax-mill, which goes very much against him in following his trade as a shoemaker. It was intended to admit him into the Refuge, but on the doctor examining him, it was found necessary to place him in the Hospital. An elderly man named McKenzie was taken in charge by Constable Murray yesterday, suffering from delirium tremens. Constable Berriman came across him lying m a ditch somewhere in Hamilton Kast, and on examining him thought he was in a moribund condition, and proceeded at once to report tho matter at the police station. On returning with Constable Murray they met the man m the middle of the bridge, and from his behaviour they decided to lock him up for Ilia own safety. One cannot help seeing a sort of poetical justice (says a Melbourne paper) in Mr Muuro's difficulties in the matter of the loan. For they are his own chickens coming home to roost. He exposed the weakness of the Victorian finances, wholely and solely with tho object of overthrowing the Uillies-Doakin Government, and now he is rather taken aback because tho British investor has swallowed every one of his statements as gospel truth. The worst of it all is that the public will have to suffer as well. The £3,000,000 lent will have to go to satisfy creditors. Not a pound of it is available for anything else, unless, as is most likely, the money will be borrowed back again. Unionism is not dead. The feeling is still hot against free labor, as the following story will show Somewhere in Hawke's Hay there is a sheepfarmor who has insured his buildings in the Norwich Union office, and on each building so insured thero is a tin plate affixed bearing the name and arms of tho office. There was work going on in the woolshed, and a couple of swaggers called in to see if there was a job. Observing the tin plate on the side of the wall, one said to tho other, " By Jovo, Bill, we liavo como to tho right shop ; this horo is a union shed. Soe, they've even got the balance and scale; s ." " Tell you what it is mate," said the other. "the -union has got the balance of power, and by —- we'll keep it." The mere word " union" wa» quite enough for those two idiots; tliey never saw the word "Norwich " above it, — Napier Telegraph,

Inspector Emerson, who left Hamilton 011 Thursday last 011 an official visit to Xapior, reached his destination on .Monday, after a vory rough passago down tho coast.

No cash, betting except by members of Tattersall's who have paid their fee to tho Waipa Racing Club, will be allowed in tho Te Awamutu course on Monday next, (iames of chance are also prohibited.

The Rev. C. H. Garland preached an excellent sermon on " Christianity v. Secularism " in tho Cambridge Wesleyan Church 011 Sunday evening. Atthorequost of numerous friends, he is going to have it printed and circulated in the district.

Mr J. M. Hume, who has been stationed at Hamilton in tho Loan and Mercantile Offico for some timo past, has, wo understand, been transferred to tho Dunedin office of that institution, and leases Hamilton on Thursday next. Mr Humo was deputy-captain of the Hamilton Football Club, in which his loss will be keenly felt.

The foundation block of the new Academy of Musi:, Pacroa, now being built for Mr Edwin Edwards, was well and truly laid by Mr C. F. Mitchell 011 Monday last, in the presence of a large party. Tho hall will be a large one, 7oft. by 35ft., and the scenery and accessories all that can be desired. There will be sitting accommodation for 400 peoplo.

A correspondent of the Hawke's Bay Herald is moved with indignation at a rumour of removing the railway workshops from Napier to Palmerston. He asks—" Is it not time that the Chamber of Commerce roused into action to prevent Napier being reduced to the status of a mere fishing village?"

It is said that Mr G. Q. Stead intends having a cut in for the next Melbourne Cup with Maxnn, tho son of Musket—Realisation, who has been in retirement for some time. Mr Stead was made uu offer from an Australian sportsman the other day for the Hawke's Bvy Guineas winner, but he replied that the animal was nod for salo.

The following are the names of the teams chosen to play in the football match Hamilton East v. West 011 Saturday next:—East: (lillett (2), Peacock, Clarkin, Hammond, Kelly, Craig. Wright, Ryan, O'Neill. Cassidy, Bayly, Quinn and Hobbs (2). West: Hume (2), Jolly, Hopkins, Mayes, Bright, Mclntyre, Odium, Thomas, Scorgie, Scott, Harvey, Green ana Drury.

We hear periodically (says the Napier Evening Telegraph) of a laige number of men being oat of employment in various parts of the colony, and on such occasions there is always a fuss made about their indigent state and the desirableness of atonca procuring work for them. Yesterday a bankrupt, during his examination, stated that one of the causee of his financial failure was inability to procure etiough labour to fell bush 1

Miss Barry, who has been for some three years teaching at the Hamilton West school, having been transferred to the Ponsonby school, left by train yesterday morning. Her late pupils, being desirous of showing the esteem in which she was held, presented hor with a gold ring and silver thimble. Miss Barry thanked the children for their kind present, and, in wishing them good-bye, said she would always look back happily on the time she spent at tho Hamilton school. Miss E. K. Sandes, who succeeds Miss Barry, entered on her duties yesterday morning. If there have been some poor yields of wheat in tho Oamaru district this year, there have certainly been some very good ones. The North Otago Times has heard of one man who, after paying his rent and all expenses, cleared between £500 and £lioo. This is not a bad year's work. In another instance a farmer had ordered 1000 sacks to hold what he estimated his crop would amouut to. He required another 700 before the wheat was all bagged. A cropper who had leased 50 acres of land gave his crop up to the landlord at the timo whan everything appeared ruined. A few showers of ram afterwards fell, and the landlord threshed 41 bushels to the acre off the area. Of course, thero ate numerous instances where the experience was in the opposite direction, but we give the foregoing to show that some good crops were grown in the district.

Parish social evenings are quite fcho rage in Cambridge at the present. Yesterday one was held in St. Andrew's school-room, and last week a most successful one was given in the Catholic school, at which the performers were Mrs C. Hunter, Misses Nixon, Wilson, Chambers and Archer (2), Rev. Father O'Gara, Major Wilson, Messrs Puckey and Garland (2), and a number of the school children gave a little comedietta in an excellent manner. In his introductory remarks, Father O'Gara referred to the lack of home influence under which colonial children suffer, and strongly advised parents to endeavour to implant in their progeny a love for music and horticulture, which would help to create a home influence that would prove of great benefit to the little ones, not only in their juvenile stage, bnt also in after life.