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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2967, 21 July 1891, Page 2

The Russian Government pro poses to increase the sugar tax.

The weather in England has im proved during the past fcrtnight.

The spring crou of wheat in Russia promises to bo of a fair average yiolcl. Famine is threatened at Patilla and K;«pareliala, in India, owing to the drought.

Through nti inadvortence for which wo aro not responsible, the lecluro on •' Marriage," etc, at I'ukcriiim, was announced for Monday night. It is to be in the soho >l-ioom to-nieht at 8 o'clock.

Instead of their usual open-air meeting on Sunday afternoon, the Salvation Army, with their band, inarched to the Waikato Hospital, and held service in the grounds for the benefit of the patients in thai institution.

Inquiries prove that Wilkinson's confe-sion to participation in th-: rubbery of the Counti ss of Dudley's jewels is not We havo been requested to menion that our hut letter from Whatawhata

■'■■as penned by an occ isional, and not by our regular coiicspondent.

A half-caste lamed Ivlnry Philips from Te Mati died in the Waikato District Hnsi'ital yesterday afternoon about half-past live fiom consumption.

Tho Samoan appeul case of McArthur v. Cornwall, in which Mr J. P. Campbell, formeily of Cambridge, is engaged, and the ci os-: appeal are now being argued before the Privy Council.

The road and footpath in Angle-sea-street where Vincent's drain has lately linen filled ill has been in a very bad state during the past week, owing to the recent rains, the mud being ankle deep, rendeiaig it very unpleasant to passers-by. _ A few loads of gravel would make a vast improvement.

A ganeral meeting of the members of the Hamilton Eootball Club will be held in the Waikato Times Buildings at eight o'clock on Thursday evening. A full attendance is requested as business of importance with reference to at ranging a match with an Auckland club will be brought up.

The Broad Bay correspondent I f the Otago Witness writes as follows:— "Of pests we have our share—rabbits and small birds of course ; and tho next thing will be a plague of ferrets, which are now quite numerous in thn bush between the Camp and the Bay. It will soon be necessary to import a "natural enemy" for them, and the parties who turned them out should not be forgotten either."

By the late English mail we received a copy of the Indian and Colonial Importers Guide and Storekeepers Price Current, designated a medium of communication between British manufacturers and colonial buyers, compiled by Messrs \dams Bros., export stationers, London. It contains a largo amount of general information, more particxl irly in connection with stationers' and printers' requisites.

The remains of the late Mrs Cutler (Mrs T. M. Hill's eldest (laughter), which were brought, to Hamilton from Auckland by Saturday's train, were interred in the Hamilton West Cemetery on Sunday afternoon. There was a very large attendance of tho general public at tho funeral, the Rev K.. OC. Biggs, of S. Peter's, Hamilton, conducting the beautiful service of the Church of England in a most solemn manner.

The spring horse fair, to be held by Mr J. McNicol at Cambitdge in connection with the stallion parade and horse show (under the auspices of the Cambridge branch of the Waikato Earmers's Club), on Friday and Saturday, 18th and lUth September, is already attracting attention, and Mr McNicol advertises in this issue the names of those breeders who have thus oarlv entered holies for sale. The sale will begin at 3 p.m. on Friday with show stock and unbroken horses, and on the following morning the sale will be resumed at !),30 o'clock. , , The unfortunate man Richard E>h who it will bo remembered was committed to the Wli ui Asylum on Juno 3rd and was rulea-ed about a week ago, was again arrested in Hamilton yesterday where he caused considerable excitement by his ravings in tho main street. He was brought up before Messrs von Stunner and Coates, J.p.'s and on the testimony of DrsKeony and Mui'ch was recommitted to the Asylum. Esh will be taken down in charge of Constable Berriman by train to-day. Mrs Esh is at, present in the Hospital, and the children are being cared for by Mrs Dawson a neighbour.

The irony of fate could not much further go than that which overt iok a Queensland unionist shearer. He was tho leader of the gang which insited on a hotelkeeper discharging his Chinese cook. Tho cook was an uncommonly good one, and the Barcaldine police had their eye on his services. As soon as John found himself without a billet thn police engaged him. In the meantime tho unionist had delivered an harangue of a seditious character, for which tho police arrested him. And the first thing that unionist knew when be got into gaol was that ho had to chop firewood for that Chinese cook.

A petition favouring the Shop Hours Bill, now before the House, has been signed by 23 out of the 2li business people in Hamilton. Telegrams, intimating the fact, was sent to tho Premier and Hon. J. Bryco yesterday, and the petition itself will be forwarded by mail to-day. Should the Hill pass, its main features_ are, that all shops coming under its provision must close on four days a week at (i o'clock, on tho evening of one day at the hour of 1) o clock, and on the afternoon of one day at 2 o'clock. Any infringement of the foregoing renders the delinquent liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five pounds.

Mr J. A. Robertson, (says the Jlanawatu Standard), who has just come over from Queensland, informs us that workingir.en who go to Queensland in the hope of bettering their condition will be sadly mistaken. They might get a month or two's work at shearing at a fair rate, but after that is over it will be a sad look out. Labour is remunerated on a very low scale, and people would hardly credit the price able-bodied men have been compelled to work for, the rate reaching as low as four shillings a week and tucker for farm hands. 111 reply to a question from us as to the truth of the tali-s told of the horrible treatment of the black " gins" (females) by the squatters, Mr Robertson, whose experience as a surveyor in the hack country enables him to speak with authority, says the depths to which the men in question go in their treatment of the black race is indescribable. Nothing worso has been recorded in tho world's history.