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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2947, 4 June 1891, Page 2

Mr W. H. Skeet's assistant will be in Cambridge to-day and to-morrow, and Hamilton on Monday and Tuesday next week. On Monday last a consignment of English brown trout went up by tho train to Otorohanga, to be liberated in the various streams in that neighbourhood. There was no business of import, ance at the Resident Magistrate's Court, Hamilton, yesterday, before Capt. Jackson, R. M., and the Court adjourned till the H)th inst. The second parish evening in connection with St. Peter's Church, Cam" bridge, will take place in Wednesday evening next. The programme will consist of tableaux, songs, and comic readings. Great sympathy is felt in Cambridge with Mr ft. C. Dyei, whose wif» expired suddonly on Saturday. The doceased lady had been a great invalid for years. The funeral cortege was followed by nearly all the inhabitants of the town. Messrs Reynolds and Co., of Auckland, have Butered into definite arrangements with thelnglewood Milk supply Committee to erect a factory, and to open the same by September Ist, at satisfactory prices to the settlers for the milk of about 800 cows.—Hawera Star. The Wellington Press says that certain English investors have instructed their agents in the colony to return Home money sent out for investment, the reason being that they are afraid of the bursting up policy of tho Government. The Pross mentions Messrs Balfour and Dixon as men who have done this. More than the usually largo number of horses of all classes are entered fwr sale by Mr \V. J. Hunter at his Cambridge sale on Saturday next, and we would draw attention to tho list advertised in this issue. In c"i]sequence of tho number of horses to be offered, produce will be sold immediately after the cattle have been disposed of. Owing to the wet weather yesterday the winter meeting of the Auckland Racing Club had to be postponed, and will now be held 011 Saturday next. As there are a number of Waikato sportsmen in Auckland to attend the races, the club has miide arrangements with tho Railway Department, by which a special train will be run up to Waikato after the races. This will enable anyone from Waikato desirous of so doing, to go down by the ordinary train which arrives at Ellerslio about i o'clock-, and seo tho Great Northern Steeplechnse and tho last throo or four races, rotorning home tho same night. At the meeting held at Ohaupo on Tuesday afternoon in connection with the Wailcato Hunt G'ltib there was a good attendance. Tho balanfio sheet of last, season was read showing a credit balaneo of £11 os (M. The following officers were elected for tho present year Master, Mr A. ,r. Storey: Deputy Masters, Mr M. 11. Pickering, Cambridge : and Mr .f, Weatherill, Te Awamutu : Committee ; Messrs Thornton, Douglas, Webster, Pickering. Parle, Weatherill, Lake, Luvson, MsXicol, Rathborne, and A. J. Storey ; Hon. Secretary, Mr A. J. Storey. Arrangements will bo made for the hounds visiting tho district at as early n (jate us (Jo-iiible,

The hour of service at tho Anglican Church, Ohaupo, on Sunday next and during tho winter will bo 3 o'clock. Those who desire to obtain the best value in quality at tho lowest pricjs should not fail to call when in Auckland at Mr J. Mulligan's drapery establishment in Queen-street, near tho Alhort Hotel. Mr Mulligan is a thorough master of every branch of his business, and is thereforo in a position to know how to conduct it properly. Being an excellent buyer, he is able to offer goods in evory dopartinont of his trade to the public at most advantageous prices and of undoubted excellence. His choery and courteous manner, and the great paitu that both he and his obliging staff take to plnaso customers, give general satisfaction. We specially direct our readers' attontim to tho advertisement appearing elsowhoro. Elsewhere in this issue will be found tho advertisement of Mr Mathews, of tho Auckland Bazaar, 120 Queen-street. The stock at this bazaar and at the branch establishment of the satno proprietor at Karangahape Road, Newton, is most extensive, cheap, valuable and beautiful The beautiful selection and arrangement of the goods on salo display great taste and sound judgment. Amongst the leading lines of fancy goods, stationery objects of vertu and nick nacks on salo at both places are fans, purses, wallets, note, letter and card cases, pocket books, ladies' bags, satchels, straps, cigar and cigarotte cases, ladies' dressing, jewel, perfumery and glove cases, &c. The utmost attention and courtesy are shown to all visitors by the proprietor, his wife and their staff. The following resolution, taken from an official proclamation issued at Barcaldine, in February last, by the Strike Committee, to the members of tho Queensland Shearers' Union, and the Queensland Labourers' Union will give some idea as to how that august body lays down the law:—"Tho Central District Council has therefore unanimously resolved that any employer, or member of the Pastnralists' Association in the colony of Queensland, who does not, before the first of March, accept through this office, the agreements of the Queensland Shearers' Union, and thn scale of wages of tho Queensland Labourers' Union, shall pay for every week or portion of a week after that date, an additional fid I per hundred for shearing. Wages of members of the Queensland Labourers' Union to be increase! pro rata." The proclamation winds up with the following peroration :— " Fellow unionists, from time to time, it may he again necessary to address you, but for the present there is ouly this to add. If the worst comes to the worst, wo can always rido down to Brisbane, and ask the Government, that swamps in surplus labour to help capitalism to degrade wage-earners, what it is going to do with 10,000 ablebodied bushmen, unemployed because thoy hang out for the fair thintr.