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The Assessment Courts for the boroughs of Hamilton and Cambridge will sit at noon on Wednesday nth March and Friday 11th March respectively. Our local horse owners do not appear to like the Rotorua handicapping, as we hear Snake. Pretender and blug have been scratched for all their engagements. The popular preacher, the Rev. Frank E. Evans, of Tβ Aroha, will preach at the harvest festival services at St. Andrew's, Cambridge, to be held shortly.

Having failed to pay the fine of £3 and costs inflicted on him for insulting a Maori woman, Samuel Coombes was taken to Mount Eden Gaol yesterday to serve hie term of imprisonment—viz., one month, with hard labour. Mr W. J. Hunter has several additional entries for his sheep fair, to be held on Wednesday, the 17tn inst. Hβ also noti6es that, as hie yards are now full, no more entries will be received for tins fair; but that he will hold a second one in the second week in March. The usual monthly meetings of the Waipa County and the Hamilton and Cambridge Borough Councils and the Hamilton Domain Board will be held at various times to-dav. The meeting of the Waikato Hospital Board, which was postponed from last Wednesday, will be held at the usual time and place to-morrow.

The committee of tho Pukekura Mutual Improvement Society, met at Cambridge West, on Friday evening, when a syllabus was drawn up for the next session beginning with the first Friday in March, of which due notice will be eiven by advertisement. It was decided to have the syllabus printed on cards and distributed among members before the opening of the session.

A new departure from the ordinary style of "pariah evenings" is; to be tried at Cambridge to-morrow, when trie entertainment will be given in the ppen-air. It will be held in the grounds adjoining St. Andrew's parsonage, and amongst the attractions will be a number of selections bv the Cambridge Band, under the leadership of Mr J. B. Lamb.

Mr J. Craig, one of the most popular guards on this section of the railways, met with an accident at the Hamilton West station yesterday morning. Hβ was lifting a case in the van, when he hurt his back, and was unable to move, *rom Frankton one of the porters was sent down with the train, Mr Craig also going on to Auckland. Wβ hope that the mishap will not prove a serious one, and that before long Mr Craig will be able to take up his work again. A very narrow escape from what would have been a disastrous fire, occutred at Whatawhata on Sunday afternoon. It appears that a large fern fire, originating somewhere about Karakariki, swept over the bills and down on to Mr Blackett s land at Ohote. The fire passed through the orchard, destroying a considerable number of fruit trees, and but for the determined efforts of the Messrs Blackett, would have taken the house and sheds also. As it was the outhouses were on fire several times and preparing for the worst, Messrs Blacketb removed their furniture. However by wettinsr the shingle roof and taking other steps, they managed to save the building. The Okoroire hot springs have for many years been held in high repute by the Maoris for their curative properties in respect to rheumatic and skin diseases. The splendid hotel which has been erected at the springs is now under the charge of Mr James Sherley, where visitors — invalids especially — will find all the comfort and privacy desired. A great feature, not obtainable in many parts of this province, is the trout fishing, which may be eecured in the grounds belonging to the hotel, and there is splendid shooting to be had in the season. The express train service has brought tnis sanitorium into easy communication with Auckland, and coaches connect from therfl to Rotorua and Whakarewarewa.

This is the time of the year for draining, and it is satisfactory to know that important works of this nature are being prosecuted throughout Waikato. Every acre reclaimed in this manner from the trackless swamps, is a. clear gain to our wealth and producing power. One draining contract, now beiner earned out by Mr P. Rice, along the Hamilton and luhikaramea road, (in the Rukuhia estate), will have the double effect of reclaiming a large area of valuable land, and also improving the main road, which runs parallel with it. This particular drain has, owing to the enormous quantity of timber met with, been probably the most) expensive of its kind in the district. However, Mr Rice and his men are making a complete job of it by Retting below the timber, and are turning out solid earth from the bottom of the drain.

Mr Henry Ohitty, at one time a resident of Hamilton, and now on his way to visit the Old Country, during the last three years has been in business at Madura, one of Messrs Chaffey Bros, special fruit settlements in Victoria. Mr Chitty thinks very highly of the prospects of that enterprise, and is sanguine of the success of the great fruit industry now in ita initial stages. The township has been beautifully laid out, with all its streets and avenues two to three chains wide, and from a population of 400 a little over three years ago it has erown into an important centre with a population of over 4000 people at the present moment. A regular stream of settlers of from forty to fifty each month is now flowing in, and many of the choicest lots are changing hands at an advance in price. To residents in the temperate climate of New Zealand, the thermometer ranging at an average of over DOdeg. day and night, and the sun up to 125deg. fer several weeks at a time, does not hold out such a very great inducement to change.

The Hamilton Brass Band will play on Thursday evening on Sydney Square, commencing at 8 o'clock. Profeesor Anderson Stuart, of the Sydney University, in the course of a paper read before the Royal Society on "Swallowing," quoted a remarkable case which had come under his notice in Sydney, where Dr. McCormick, in treating a patient suffering from cancer, removed the whole lower side of the neck and upper wall of the mouth, so that the act of swallowing could be seen. The patient was aCill alive and doinpr well. It is considered the paper has thrown a flood of light on the treatment of diseases of the throat.

Commenting on the Victorian depression, the Argus says that the " reaction from which the whole community is now suffering will, like the 'boom,' run its course. If we consider for a moment the length of time that was required both in New Zealand and South Australia to work otf tho effects of a ' boom' caused by the lavish expenditure of money which had been borrowed in excess of the real requirements of these colonies, it would be absurd to take a too sanguine view in Victoria. The public confidence has been too severely shaken. Those who have money are uncertain how to invest it; those who have been in the habit of investing are unable to realise, and unable, therefore to purchase. We cannot say that the colony is yet out of the wood; but we may say that overy step it now takes is bringing it steadily and systematically towards the clearing, and lessening the mazes of the forest.

The other day a Picturesque Atlas af,ent called at a farmer's house in the Taieri district to deliver a complete sot of the Atlas parts. The agent was rither mirnriaed to be very cordially received, and invited into the best room, instead of, as he expected, being met with a fir-n refusal to take delivery, and probably have the door shut in his face. The books were handed over and accepted in good spirit by the farmer, who laid them by. When the agont asked for payment the farmer with a twinkle in his eye said the agent must apply to the Official Assignee for that, because the state of Ins affairs had compelled him to file his schedule a few days previously, therefore he could expect no money from him then. The agent then begged that the farmer would give him back his bobks. This the farmer could not possibly do. After a good deal of persuasion the fanner ultimately agreed to return the books on the condition that the agent gave him a clear receipt from any future liability in connection with the work should he be able to get through his bankruptcy all right. This the agent willingly gave, and the books were handed back. At his hotel the agent related his transaction with the farmer. The words that wicked agent said when he was told that the farmer in question, far from being a bankrupt, was worth thousands of pounds are too expressive for reproduction.—Globe.

A Melbourne paper tells a weird story of the adventures of one of the depositors in the fallen Metropolitan Bank. He had heard rumours of the approaching collapse, and fled in terror into the city to withdraw his deposit of £300. The teller met him with an affable smile, and paid him in the bank's own notes—if he had asked for silver the establishment would have closed there and then—and he went on 'his way rejoicing. He had got about two miles on the road home when the horrible thought occurred to him that if the Metropolitan burst the Metropolitan notes were just as valuable as brown wrapping paper. There was no time to get back before closing time, so he rushed, into the nearest branch bank and tried to open an account with the alleged assets. But the branch blandly declined them, and he was left standing dismally in the street with £300 of valueless notes in his palsied hand. Then he started to get rid of them systematically. He plodded round from one shop to another buying sixpenny worths of anything and everything, and taking 19s 6d change on each transaction. He bought tobacco, pipes, pills, quinine, jumpingjacks, apples, bananas, tarts, buttons, eggs, cheeao, bootlaces, beer, dolls, tooth-brushes, and all manner of things. When he got loaded down he either hired a liehfc porter to take the rubbish home or else threw it in the gutter. And finally, about midnight he trotted home himself, worn to rags, dusty, almoet speechless, and with the soles walked off his boots, but triumphantly humping £292 10s small change in a hired barrow. Next day the bank closed up.

A correspondent writes :— I do not think that any farmers of Waikato can recollect there having been a more favourable season for the harvesting of grain crops in this district than has been expe-ienced during the past few weeks. The little rain that fell about a forcnight ago did not injure the cereals in the slightest, for it w.i 3 accompanied by a cool drying wind, and was exactly what the farmers wanted. It gave the turniDs and mangolds a good start; in fact it did good all round, and not one bit of barm. After such a season we sheuld expect to have some veiy fine samoles of grain upon the market, and yet I am afraid we shall be deceived, for if there should happen to come a heavy downpour of ram during this week, lam convinced there would be an immense amount of damaged grain in consequence of the stacks not being thatched. I travelled over a good portion of the Waikato during last week, aud saw a large number of stacks of grain, ar.d not onehalf of them had the slightest protection against wet, while others were covered in such a perfunctory manner that a good storm—such as we frequently have towards the close of summer—would penetrate through in a very short space of time. I am no farmer, and may perhaps rouse their ire by calling attention to the above facts. However, I can assure them it ia in no meddling spirit that I do so, but after such a splendid harvesting season if any man in this district has a bad sample he, to use a colonial phraee, "jolly '.veil deserves it.'

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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6053, 9 February 1892, Page 2

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Untitled Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6053, 9 February 1892, Page 2

Untitled Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6053, 9 February 1892, Page 2

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