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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3017, 14 November 1891, Page 2

ThoWaikato Farmers' Cluls meets at Cambridge on Monday next at 7.30 p.m. A full attendance is requested as business of importance will coma up for discussion. Our Tauwhare friends will be pleased to learn that the Rev. \V. Evans, of Cambridgo, will conduct divino service in tho Tauwharo school at 11 a.m. on Sunday next. ! Mr Barwell, of cider fame, has ! just made a sensational trip to Auckland in a vessel of his own manufacture, vi 7.., a canvas canoe. He journeyed from Cambridge down the Waikato nearly to the heads, carried his canoe over to the Manukan, thence sailed by the nearest point to the Tamaki, carried his vessel over the land agiin mill si) tr lined tliP. Eistmn water tvli'eli anut'H h> 111 to re.ch «h-» p *». of An i-:ani. Wheie there's a will tli-re's .1 1 w.ir ! Mr B iweil has pr (ni->e.i to ... n 1. ... o! I.i- tiii> «w« li'.k • ••<> urni-ig -jjy furt her into the p-rt>cti- ' 1 nr« of it.

The Rev. J Haselden will con-. duct service .it St. .lohn'x Te Awainutu, with holy communion, on Sunday, loth inst., at 11 a.m.

Those wanting 1 iresh lime should apply to Mr John I'Yifcii.suri, of Cambridge. Ha has just obtained a supply of both Wilson's hydraulic and .shell lime.

Mr W. Main has baen duly rlect.cd a member of the Waitoa Koad Board, he heinc tho only candidate nominated to fill tho extraordinary vacancy.

The date of the first sale of wool under the auspices of the Auckland Wo. [brokers' Association has been altered Irom Wednesday, November Hoth to Wednesday, 2nd proximo.

Judging from the interest taken by the parishioners, the social and entertainment in connection with St. Peter's Church, Hamilton, to be held on Wednesday eveninK, will be a (jreat Biiccens. Full particulars will be advertised in next issuo.

The following are the latest produce quotations in the Auckland markets: —Butter, prime fresh, 6d to 7d : second quality, -Id to fid ; cheese, good factory, -l|d to 4.Jjd; fresh eKgs, 7d to 8d dozen ; lard in bladders, lad to 5d ; hams and bacon (Canterbury), new cure, sides, tid, equal numbers, (Ud ; hams, 7-id ; local cured hams and bacon, 4d to id.

Agreeable to a numerously and inßuentially-signed petition from the burgesses, Mr Isaac Coates, tho present Mayor has consented to be afrain nominated as a candidate for the ottice of Mayor of Hamilton —a fact we take this opportunity of congratulating the burgesses upon. Mr Coates wan nominated on Thursday by Messrs John Knox and W. A. Graham, both ex-Mayors. There is not likely to be any opposition, so far as we have heard.

The small farmers near Christchurch and in the Orari district have been disastrous sufferers from the absence of demand for potatoes. Thousands of tons are lying in pits waiting for sale at any price. Ten shillings a ton would buy hundreds of tons at the farms, but oven that price is nut forthcoming. There is no doubt that a large proportion of the crop is faulty, but amongst tho stock aro some as fine potatoes as ever were grown. Growers are planting again this year, in the faith that there will be a fair price next winter. It is difficult to find a substitute for potatoes on much of this land with any chance of profit.