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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2966, 18 July 1891, Page 2

The New Zealand Trust and Loan Company has declared a dividend of 10 per cent. The Kev. J. Haselden will conduct Kemci> and holy communion at St. .11ilin's, Tt! Awairutu, to-morrow (Sunday) at 11 a.m. On Monday 20th, the Rev. J, lla-'ddpti will give one of his interesting le.tnres and will also exhibit Phantasmajr,ii in lantern views together with comic and other slides for llie juveniles. At a meeting of the New Zealand Antimmy Company, the directors were authorised to arrange with the New Zealand shareholders for the carrying on of work at the mine at Kndeavour Inlet. A meeting- of the committee of the WaiUatn Hunt Club will be held at Ohaupo on Tuesday afternoon, in order to tnalce arrangements in connection with the visit of the hounds at the end of this month. A full attendance is particularly requester!.

To morrow the Hev. C. H. Gar land preaches Foreign Missionary aermons in St. Paul's, Cambridge, and the public meeting will bo held on the Thursday following to he addressed by two missionaries, the Rev. J. Thomas (fonrerly of Tonga), and Rev. Dr. Hooper (of India).

Mr Jas. Harris had the misfortune to dislocate his elbow on Saturday last while playing in a football practice at Huutly. This is rather unfortunate, as the Huntly club are to play a return match with the Pokeno club on Saturday next, and Jim was one of the host forwards they had.

We hear that a large number are going in lor 1). Salmon's word competition,' the prize to bo a pair of boots value £1. A certain old hachelor of our acquaintance says that a married lady is sure to win. On enquiring he gives as his reason that he has heard that they " always will have the last word."

At the sale of trees held on Friday last at Whatawlvjta bidding was ..low, and a considerable quantity remained unsold. The nursery stock offered was of splendid quality, but the uncertain markets and low prices obtained of lato for fruit hirgi'ly militate against anything like the good demand once experienced for orchard

Wo see by advertisement that Mr Garland is to lecture at Pukurimu on Monday, on "Marriage and its necessary preliminaries." If this lecture is equal to

the others that Mr Garland has given, there will be plenty of humour with solid instruction, and of the latter we are always in need, even concerning " the holy estate of matrimony."

The Auckland Agricultural Company are calling for tenders for drainage works at Waitoa of an extensive character. A new main drain comprises part of the work, and as this extends a distaneo of three miles, averaging about nine feet in depth, it will give some idea of the magnitude of the improvements contemplated on this estate.

A draft of turnip steers, from Lichfield, were sold on Thursday in Cambridge by Mr J. McXicol, who tells us th.jy were tho nicest lot of steers he has sold for years, and he never sold so many cattle in so short a time by auction, the bidding being most spirited, and the lot (125 head) being cleared at an average of £4 12a Bd—a very satisfactory average for three-year-old steers. In this issue the committee of the Huntly disaster fund publish a full statement of accounts. It must be particularly gratifying to the promoters that their appeal to tho general public was so generously responded to, and the recipients are under a deep obligation to those gentlemen who took the matter in hand, and who have succeeded in handing them such substantial help in their time of need. At the meeting of the committee of the South Auckland Racing Club held last night, the Secretary, Mr G. H. Carter, submitted tho balancs-sheet for the past year. This sho.ved a very satisfactory ttate of affairs. Amongst other items diseased was the proposal to hold a two day's meeting at Christmas. • This met with general approval, and it will no doubt be carried at the ensuing annual meeting of members.

At a meeting of those interested in erecting a public hall at Whatawbata, held on Monday last, it was decided to purchase one of the township lots for a site. The following were appointed trustees : Messrs A. Calder, P. Iwersen, Geo. Swanson, Kobt. Bruce, W. Fawkes, W. McCntcheon, and J. Charlston, Messrs Calder and Iwersen being appointed chairman and secretary respectively. The dimensions of the proposed hall are -iSft. by 2-lft., with lift, studs.

We publish the following account sales in proof of some of the happy experiences fruit growers have to submit to :—Auckland, New Zealand, Kith June, 1801. Mr CI. Reed, Hamilton : Account sales, G cases apples received 31st January, 18111 :--January, 31st, to railage, 3s 3d; cartage, Is; ex wharfage, Gd.—4s lid; January 3lst. to freights to Fiji, 2s per cise —12s; To Fiji charges, duty etc., lis. —To Total, £l 7s lid. Contra : May 31st, by 0 cases apples at 4s, £1 4*. To Dr. balance, 3s lid. The master of the hounds for Waikato (Mr A. J. Storey) informs us that Mr T. Brown will arrive in the Waikato on tho 27th inst., and the hunting season will be opened in Hamilton on the day following (Tuesday, the 2Sth). The hounds have been in Rood form in Auckland this season, and sportsmen may look forward to a good time in Waikato. Horses, in order to compete in tho Hunt Cluh races, must qualify in the opinion of the master, and owner:-, would do well to bear this in mind. The Waikato Club having to provide tho huntsman with a horse, we understand the popular sport Mr J. McNicol has kindly placed his well-known hunter Laverock at the club's disposal for the seasou.

No .v that the penny postage is about to become the law of the land, we might do worse than adopt London's latest wrinkle with regard to selling stamps. This is in the form of machines that will sell stamps automatically to him that has the penny with neatness, accuracy, and despatch. This machine has been f issued to the red pillar-boxes in vosjuo there. Carefully adjus'.ed so as to respond only to the penny, the buyer finds, after dropping m his penny, that he can open a drawer in which has descended a small cardboard case holding out a penny stamp to his eager hand, lie takes it, posts his letter, closes thu little drawer, and tho automatic postmaster is ready for the next customer.

A. fashionable wedding was solemnised mi Thursday at St. Peter's Church, Hamilton, by the Ho v. K. O'C. Biggs, when Miss Carey, the eldest daughter of the late John Carey Esq., MU. of the fourth Waikato Kocrimont, was married to Mr Charles Henry Kelly, son of the late Mr John Kelly, ol Mt. Eden,

Auckland. The bride who was attended by her sisters as bridesmaids, was given away by Mr tieorge Edgecumbe, and Mr YV. von Stunner attended the bridegroom as best man. There was a large attend-

ance at the church, the bride's parents being well known and respected, having been connected with Hamilton from its earliest days. After the ceremony a number of guests were entertained at breakfast by Mrs Carey, and in the afternoon the happy couple drove to Ngaruawaliia. leaving for Auckland by train yesterday morning.

In reference to tile remarkable fungoid growth unearthed in :i sand cutting sit Tainaliero a short timo since, and winch wis sent tu Mr Chceseman, of the Auckland Museum, that gentleman reports as follows*—"1 liavo not. seen anything exactly matching it, hut I take it to be an instanco of what botanists call ' fasciatiou.' "You have, doubtless, noticed that occasionally the common dandelion will bear extraordinarily broad, thin, anil tlat flowerstalks, often more thin an inch wide, and bearing a distorted flower at the top. Tho flower-stalk is often longitudinally grooved, ami looks as if many stalks had been joined by their edges. Similar growths are not uiioiiiiuior., and the garden cockscomb is a well-known instance. Some years ago, when stopping at Hamilton, [ was shown an instance of fasciatiou in the .Scotch thistle. The stem was noarly a foot wide,

and yet not thicker than three-quarters of an inch. It was grooved longitudinally, and here and tlinro scale, like leaves, came out of notches in the stem. The flowers u-re in a mass nt tho. lop, and were much distorted. I take your specimen to tie an instance of fa«ciatmn in the roots of some plant. The growth is woody enough to belong to shrub or trro. Do you know whether any tree or shrub was growing near? but such growth-are often tinner in -tructcre than tho normal growth of the plant."

We would direct attention to an article on our fourth page on "Sulphur as a Cure for Consumption and Chest Ailments." It describes a course of treatment liv which Mr A H. Taylor, librarian of the Tasmanian Public Library, Hobart, was cured of consumption, and which he states ho has found to bo a specific for the disease. In the articlo in which hr> first published his discovery, which appeared in the Melbourne Argus, ho describes several of the cures effected by him—notably that of a man who was so far gone with tho disease that he had to bo placed near an open door or window to enable him to breathe. When Mr Taylor took him in hand ho had been given up by the doctors; but, under Mr Taylor's treatment, he recovered, and tw(. years afterwards that gentleman met him up country, where ho was engaged as a labourer at road work, completely restored to health and able to do a hard day's work.

Regarding; the statements frequently made by our Old Country fanners that while the fees charged for the services of stud horses at Home are no more, rind sometimes even less, than in the colunies, the horse stock prodnced is worth from twice to four times 3s much, we find, upon referring to the North British Agriculturist, that the foes charged in Scotland for good Clydesdales are no less than £10 each mare, the Scottish breeder, David Riddel!, having no less than three Clydesdales standing at that figure. In some cases a rebate of half tho fee is made if there is no foal; but taking the price of service at £10 and the increased cost of rearing a young horse on highly rented land, it becomes questionable whether horse-breeding in the colonies, where goud stallions are at low prices and grass is plentiful, is not a better paying business than it is in tho Old Country.