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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2976, 11 August 1891, Page 2

The reports of the failure of the crops in South Russia are said to be exaggerated. The summer crops look promising.

An express train waß thrown off the rails at Coper, Michigan, on August Oth by miscreants, and a number of persons killed. Those interested in dairying should remembor that buster is 2< Gd a pound in Melbourne during the summer months. Mr Budyard Kipling, the wellknown author, ha 9 arranged a trip to New Zealand and Samoa for the benefit of his health. The McKinley tariff in vogue in the United States is having an almost mint '3 effect on the tin plato iniustry in Wales. A Christchurch correspondent writes that the fruit export business has ceased to interest, rocont prices being unprofitable. It is reported that Rear-Admiral Henry Frederick Stepbenaon, C.8., succeeds Lird Charles Scott in command of the Australian Squadron. A Canterbury farmer has arranged to supply a relative at homo who in a butcher with a direct weekly supply of mutton. This is the best of all ways of pushing the trahe. A mistake, not our own, was made in our last issuo in the number of words credited to Miss Cross in Mr Salmon's word competition. The correct nnmbur was 2994, not 2294 as printed. The Farmers' Club meets at Cam bridge on Monday next. There will not be any papor read as that night is to be devoted to "a farmers' talk." We give timely warning in order that the farmers may attend fully charged with information. Lord Sheffield has completed his cricket team for Australia, comprising thirteen players in all. Mr Phillipson has joined, and Chatterton, the Derbyshire professional, has withdrawn. The first match will be played at Adelaide on NoYember 20. The fine cargo steamer Morayshire left the port of Auckland on Saturday, bound direct for London, via Rio Jnniero. Her cargo mainly consists of frozen meat, which consists of between 00,000 and 70,000 carcases of frozen mutton. She has also on board 300,000 frozen rabbits, taken in at Southern port as a trial shipment in this line. The borough lamp-lighter must us complimented on the improved light now shown by the street lamps. Ho has had the lamps thoroughly overhauled and cleaned, and the result of the trouble he has taken to improve the light is much appreciated. The glass iu the frames of the landholders would however be tho bettor of i rub up. The election for the return of a member for the Waingaro Kidiug of the K-iglan County Council was held on Siturday, and resulted in tho return of Mr S. L. Wilson, of Waingar >. who defeated the other candidate (Mr J. K. McDonald) by 21 votes, the totals being :— Ngaruawahia: Wilson, 23; McDonald, 8. Waingaro: Wilson, 8; McDonald, 2. At the end of June there were bank notes in circulation in the colony to tho value of £965,95!) 4-* lid. Theso 6guves are from the official return. Where does the odd 4s lid come from in bank notes? At the same date the deposits in all the banks totalled nearly 14 millions, of which B.>jd millions were at call, or not bearing interest. Coin and bullion wore held to the valui of 2.V1 millions, and the advances to. tailed 13J' millions. The inquest on the body of Hiakai Patene, who, it will be lememtiered, was suff.-icated in tho forecastle of the steamer Freetrader at Ngaruawahia on tho night of the 31st ult., was resumed on Saturday lust, whon Te Okeron, the native who was with Pateno, was examined. His evidence was similar to the account given t> our representative, and published in last Tuesday's issue. The following verdict was returned by the jury :—"That Hiakai Patene was accidentally smothered by injudiciously taking an oil can into the forecastle of the steamer Freetrader, containing red hot cinders." It would appear rather early in the season for potato planting, and yet there is in the neighbourhood of Cambridge a farmer who has finished planting that crop. He planted his early ones more than a month ago and finished setting bis main crop last week. Tho land upon which the potatoes are planted is situated upon thn slopes of Maungakawa where the frost very seldom does any damage ; indeed we have heard of an individual who livod at Maungakawa for 1G years, and during that period he never knew the froats damage anything up there, not even when there were severe frosts iu the Waikato plain.

A letter from Mount Zeehan, received at. tjroviinmth, contains the following items: —"1 nrrived at Zeehnn three weeks agn, and have been working nn the railway sinco, at a day. There is a good deal ni navvy work hiiro .it present, but the weather is so bad ono can scarcely make half timn. Tho cost of living is high. Tlwro is » show for pood miners at the silver mines, and carpenters are in Kroitt demand. Jlen «rf flnckinij hern from all parts, and the place bids fair to be over-run. Kipht shillings a day in New Zealand is batter than ten hero, so I would not adviso Tmn, who aro fairly occupied, to enmn hero."

The late .severe frosts at Home have clearly proviid that for oarly greon fi.'i'd, barliy i< more reliable than oats, as itstinds tho froat much better. The usual monthly meetings of the Waipa Ciitmr.y C iiuicil, thn Hamilton and Cambridge Rnrmigh Councils and the Hamilton Domain Board will be held tod..y. Messrs Bayly and Son, fellmoiigors, ifec, appear to be quietly making good headway in the various departments of their business. S"in« time a?o wo drew attention to the excellent work done by this firm in wool scouring. Ytistarday wo saw Konie prepared y|iei>p skins, known in the trado .is "white leather," which had been examined by the local harnc-s-ni.ikers, of Hamilton (Messrs Reid and Jones), and pronounced by them as biMiii? perfection, and fully equal to anything of the kind imported. Thn industry is one of the most promising in Waikato, and as it opens a Hold for very considerable expansion, every encouragement should bo afforded to tho proprietors in their efforts to make it a profitable ovpfirimont.