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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2964, 14 July 1891, Page 2

The Admiralty have ordered the mobilisation of the fleet. The Belgian miners, who went out on strike, have been defeated, and are returning to work. A sharp shock of earthquake was folt at Manaia on Friday lust at fourteen minutes to six in the afternoon. Tillett states that the London workmen are jubilant at tho success of the Labour party iu Xew South Wales. The Financial Times is of opinion that there is evidonce that the rise in colonial stocks will be substantial. The Statist asserts that the money markets of Western Europe are greatly improved, and it predicts that money will bo much choaper shortly. The monthly meetings of the Waipa County and tho Hamilton and Cambridge Borough Councils, and the Hamilton Domain Board will be held today. A section of land, containing nine acres, in the suburbs of Whatawhata, will bo offorod by auction at the Crown Lands Olh'ce, Auckland, on Friday August 7th.

A special sale of turnip steers (fat and nearly fat), from the Thames Valley Land Company, and 700 hoggets, will be held at Cambridge on Thursday next by Mr J. McKicol. It is said that one of the best Clydesdales ever brought to Waikato is the horse Lord Clyde, tho property of Mr 1 ,, r0d. Perkins, (if Whatawhata, now at Mr Limmer's on tho Ngaruawhia road. Ho was foaledat O.unuru and is now eight years old, and is a fine upstanding specimen of a horso, bay with black points. The horse has a grand temper and i»a sure foal getter. With much pleasure we draw the attention of our readers to Messrs Kempthorne, Prosper and Co.'s announcement in

our advertising oluinns. Tho manures manufactured by this firm, havo fr.im what wo can learn, always given tho greatest satisfaction wherever used —so that it is with confidence we recommend the use of their potato manure aud so support an industry which provides such excellent and reliable fertilizers.

A change in the weather has taken place sinew yesterday and a steady rain has sut in. We believe wo are correct in stating that tho tutu frosts are the ino.st sovero ever experienced in this district,. Oil Saturday and Sunday eight and ten degrees of froet woro registered, and so hard was tho frost on Siturday night that a tub of water btanding in an exposed place was mi Sund-iy morning so firmly fro/eu ovur that it would bear tho weight of a grown up person. In various places whore the water was standing in shallow pools, ieo fully three quarters of ail inch thick could bi 3 seen. .This tho elfect ot one night's frost, is certainly a most unusual occurrence iu this p.ivt of New Zealand.

Messrs Joseph Fison and Co.'s special titruiu feitilizer may bo olitaiued from thu local iißency of the New Zealand lioan and Mercantile Agency Company (Limited), or from Messrs \V. J. Hurst and and Co., Auckland. This manura is said to promote early and rapid gr.iwtii, and produces he.ivy yields of roots, leaving the land in good heart for sucuuediiif; crops. How Britannia's Empire is ex Lending may be gathered from a view of her no. |,ii :iti..iis dining the last hislrnm, from lssii nil now. Since the begiunini; of ISHIi the I'.ritish iMiipire has been increased by thu acquisition of Upper IJurmah, area IHO.OOO M|iiai« : by the fnrnial nnnexation of Jirilish New (hiinea, SS.OOO s,)iiare miles ; by tho taking over of about two thirds of Zululaud as a British col,my ; tho annexation of certuiu small islands in the Western Pacific ; also by tho assumption of a protectorate over extensive regions in Africa, haviii',' a total area, of perhaps sqnaro niilos. Against this has to ba set ott tho ciission to (renniuy of the island of ; aren, about twotiftlis of a solium mile. It is probably safe to say that thuro 11 r0 s.'iiui iiniiiibe s in our ll.nuo of lii'pu'sriiitiitivs uho have niiviir entered a gHntli'iiian's rosidencH pxcftpt to do a lit, ..f liln-iiliin- ..r glazing, ~r S..lH.'. j ■',) of that kind. A -ton- iMii.rs from WolliiiL'ton to the .IV C. tli .L cr'aiu m.iini i;i s f,:fl tnnibly l>.lll ..I 11.it h. 1 i:iir 1 cci\.id invitation- r> tint (J.iviini-ir". InII. Tli. v --.'Piii t.,, f..r !f ..r lint I

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The Irish Catholic has absorbed the National newspaper.

On Saturday afternoon Mr John (hviui, a gentleman well known to the business people of Waikato as the representative of Messrs T. and S. Morrin and Co., whose service ho. is leaving, was the recipient of a very handsoma gold chain, made to the order of the employes. Mr Henderson, the secretary to the company, in making the presentation, referred to tho lung and faithful service, extending over a period of twenty years, rendered to the linn by Mr Owen, and the cordial relations which had existed between linn and the other employes. Mr Owen, we understand, is about to ewngtj in an undertaking on his own account in connection with thi! manufacture of iron from the West Coast sand, having patented a process which, it is confidently believed, will overcome the difficulties hitherto experienced in connection with this industry.

In connection with the Labour Bureau, which tho Salvation Army havo opened at Christchurch, to do what they can to obtain work for tho unemployed, and to assist the working classes generally, the authorities have issued free passes on tho railways to persons travelling to the Bureau in search of employment. By this step, it seems that thoy thoroughly appreciate the movement the Army have taken up, and it will go a long way to make thn undertaking a siicces.''. The Bureau has only beou opened a few wcoks, and during that short space of time, wo learn that a gre;;t many persons of both sexes have beon found employment through its medium. Captain and Mrs Cutlor (who, it will be remembered, wero the first officers in charge of this station) are in charge of this social wing of Army work. A visitor to the Bureau writes as follows :—" [ was at tho Bureau the other day, and got my namo registered ; the rnsult is, I went to work fencing, etc., this morning. These people not only want to find food for our souls, but for out bodies also."

The shipping-trade is stagnant at Newcastle at present. There is an unUMiinl dearth <if tonnage in port, and rates of froif*ht are so low as to prusent no strung inducements to send ships there. Thorc aro no fixing in ordui.s in hand wertli mentioning. Various reasons aro assigned for this abnormal state of trade at the coal port, Tho most serious reason is that Cardiff mid the British coal ports are crowding New South Wales coal out of thu markets to which largs shipments have been hitherto sent from Newcastle, A grunt suiplus of steam tonnage is lying idlo in English ports and rather than continue to lay steamers up owners are accepting low freights to the east an well as South American ports. The low cost of Knglish coal enables the im« potters to lay down the English article in olio r;r two foreign markets at a less than thoy can the coal from NowoaatU , , though the markets in question ure thousands of milra nearer to this colony than thoy are to Cardiff. This new phase of the coal trade is regarded with a degree of npprehension in Newcasto business circles.