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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3010, 29 October 1891, Page 2

In consequence of the advanced price of flour Mr W. F. Bell, of Hamilton, will charge 3jjd per loaf, cash, after the Ist prox. Mr J. McNicol will hold a special horsu sala at Hamilton on December 2nd, for which one hundred entries have already been received. Other entries are solicited.

Mr Campbell Johnstone's nomination being informal, Mr Cogswell has been duly returned as Councillor for the Karisi riding in tha Ragl.in County Council, vice Mr Sutton resigned.

At a meeting; of the Hamilton East School Committee, held on Tuesday evening, it was decided to recommend the Hoard of Education to appoint Miss Annerly to tha Marsh Meadows school.

On October 2nd (says the it'ingitikui Advocate) Mr Wheeler had a pan of five fat Romney wether hoggets shorn, which cut I2ilbs. of wool. They were grass fed only, and had been shorn as hoggets on January (ith, thus xveraging SJlbs. in less than nine months.

As an illustration of the fact that ferrets and weasels aro increasing, Mr Travers stated at the meeting of the Wellington Philosophical Society recently that six of thein had been killed in ono night lately at the Hutt. The animals were destroyed while in the act of killing hen 3 and ducks, Mr J. McNicol's annual sale of pedigroe and grade bulls will be held in the Hamilton borough yards on Wednesday, November 25th. A number of pure-bred bulls have been entered by Messrs (Jrice and Co., Waikato Land Association (to bo sold in conjunction with MrW. J. Hunter), C. .T. Storey and others. Further entries are solicited.

Mr Henry Reynolds, of butter factory fame, left Auckland by the s.s. Te Allan on Tuesday for Sydney, en route for London. Mr Reynolds has beon very busy during his tan weeks' visit to New Zealand. Amongst other matters, he haa in train is tho establishment of freezing works in Waikato, to which he referred at a lata meeting of the Wakato Farmers' Club at Cambridge. There are some nice administrators of justice in Victoria. In the month ot August last the two following sentences wero imposed At Brunswick Police Court the keeper of a small shop was fined "is and costs (alternative a month's hard labour), for selling 31b of potatoes on a Sunday morning, and at Ballarat a woman, the mother of four children (one of thorn at the breast), was sentenced to a year's hard labour for obtaining a pound of butter under false pretences.

As will be seen in another column a meeting of tha Hamilton Cricket Club will he held in the Waikato Times Buildings to-morrow evoning, when the election of a captain, and deputy-captain will bo proceeded with, and other business of importance will also be brought up. It will be noted that only members who have paid their subscriptions will be allowed to vote, members will no doubt see tho necessity of thii step, and roll up and pay, and give the Club a thorough start. The Club roll now numbers 40.

MrP. It. Chapman, of Duns din, in a paper on Maori greenstone, says this famous stone is only found in New Zealand and Tartary, and in New Zealand itn sources aro very limited. Tho Teremakau and Greenstone rivers, and the beach betweon them, comprise the whole extent of country wheie the true greonstone is found in this colony. There is a spurious sort—a different mineral altogether—found at Milford sound. As showing the quantity of greenstone that must have been got on the Wont Coast, Mr Chapman says upwards of 1000 greenstone articles have, to his own knowledge, been found within 20 miles of Dunedin.

Special sittings of the Resident Magistrate's Court will be held by Capt. Jackson, nt Hamilton, to-day, and tomorrow. Tho whole of the cases to be dealt with are various broaches of the Bi;or l)uty Act, and are against Messrs Cussen and limes, brewers, at Cambridge and Hamilton, respectively, and Mr Lewis, publican. Te Awainutu. Mr Hudson Williamson, Crown Prosecutor, will conduct tho oases onjbelialf of the Customs Department, which will also bo represented by Mr Thomas Hill, Collector of Customs, at Auckland. The charges whioh have been laid by Mr Jackmanu, the Customs expert, aro numerous, but in many cases we uuderstaud are similar.

The following paragraph from tho Melbourne Herald of October 12, will be read with some amusement by the electors of Waitemata" The Premier had a visit thjs morning from the Hon. Jackson Palmer, Member of tha House of Representatives ot New Zealand, who ii. travelling with his private secretary. Mr Palmer was introduced by the Hon. Mr Butters, M.L.C, Tha object of Mr Palmer's visit is to enquire into tho working of the agricultural department uf this colony, for which, it is understood, ho is unudicially commissioned by the Cuvem nient of New Zealand. The Premier furnished Mr l'almer with the necessary facilities to pursue his inquiry,"

Christie Murray say? of Melbourue " Half the people are in the great cities, and the vast Melbourne, of which Victoria is so proud, holds half the population of the colony, and produces little or nothing. Melbourne is tha city of bra;s plates. There aro more brass plates to tho asro in tjio thoroughfares which diverge from Collins st-oel than can bo found in any other city in tho world, fhi) brass plato. as all tho world knows, is tha badge of tho non producers —tho parasite, thomiddlomon agont, call him what you will—tho irjan who woars n tall hat and a black coat, and who lives in a villa, and livns on and by tha produce of tho labour of others." On tho other s,ido of the .shield, howovor,,is tho Australian workman, who is describod as the ruler of Australian— •' the best fed, tha boat paid, the best housed, and tl>o loast worked of all tkn wwlf?™ in tlie inO|o world."

At the officers' council, *o be held at Christchtirch to-morrow by

"General" Booth, all the officers of thu Salvation Army in New Zealand will bo present, and it is expected tint about 140 ollicers will be t'.iere on that occasiou. At thu conclusion of tho " General V meetings in Christchurcli, the officers are to bo appointed to their different stations, nnst of them that have commanded Southern stations coming up North, and a number of the Northern office™ remaining in the South Island. " Captain " Wood, the late olficer of tho Hamilton corps, is to be stationed at Linwood, near Christciuuch, while Captain" Close and his " lieutenant '' aro coining to Hamilton. " Captain " and Mrs Turton are the officers appointed to Cambridge. It is expected that the Waikato officers will not arrive till tho end of next week, as they will nut leave Christchurcli till Monday next.

' 'General ' Booth received his first and—so far—only check at Ballarat. He is not to reach there until the end of November, and owing to 4 procession ' difficulties in the past, the local commanding officer of the army has alroady naked permission to march in welcome on his arrival. The mayor (Mr C. C. Shoppee) is evidently not disposed to join in the universal worship of the general whom some enthusiasts declare to be the most remarkablo man who has ever set foot in the colonies, for he has made the following aclicionaly official reply ' Dear sir,—ln reply to yours of their>th inst., asking permission to march in the atreatu of tho city of Ballarat on the li>th and 20th of November, on the occasion of one you style 1 Goneral 1 Booth visiting this city, I beg to inform you that no such name appears on the British army list that warrants the assumption of that title under the authority of her Ma jesty. I therefore decline to give the desired permission. At the Rame time, any distinguished visitors coming to Ballarat whose friends desire to do honour to them by marching in procession, if an application is made to me giving the true title or namo to which they aro legally entitled, I will with pleasure givo my consent, not otherwise. The Rev. William Booth will be Welcomed by me at the City Hall if I am asked to moot him in that capacity. That, I see, by the book ' Men of the Time,' is his title. I desire to inform you any procession must be only in conformity with the city byelaw. '