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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3063, 3 March 1892, Page 2

The steel engravings and books advertised for sale by Mr John Knox at Hamilton, on Saturday, will be on view at ihe mart to-day. Mr Smart, who has been appoiiited to succeed Mr Marsdon ae head master at thn Karamu school entered on his new duties yesterday. We understand a large batch of summonses has been issued against subscribers in this district to the Picturesque Atlas who have failed to complete their payments. The Rev. "W. Calder, of All Saint's Church, Auckland, will hold a harvest thanksgiving service in S. Saviour's Church, Alexandra, on Sunday next, at 7 o'clock in the evening. Mr George Mason, of the Claudelands Nursery, Hamilton East intends to go in largely for peach trees, as we learn that- he has this season expended £20 in the purchase of peach stones for which he pays 6d per 100. Several cases of typhoid are re« ported from Huntly. Every summer this township suffers more or lass from a visitation of this sort, due in a grei»t measure to the indifferent sanitary arrangements in force, and to the poor house accommodation afforded to the miners. At the Auckland City Licensing meetings, yesterday, the Chairman said the Committee desired to express their satisfaction that through the whole of the police reports there was not a single complaint against any house in the three wards. The Committee hoped that this satisfactory state of affairs would continue. Fruitgrowers who have not received a direct notification from the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. will require to communicate with tho Auckland office not later than Friday (to-mor-row) evening, if they desire to secure apace in the cool chamber of the Kaikoura, the last oppoitunity that will be afforded to shippers of fruit this season. Our Raglan correspondent wired on Tuesday afternoon :—" Miss Winifred Wallis, of Okete, died this afternoon, at half-past two." It will be remembered that Mis 3 Wallis fell from a tree about a fortnight ago, and received internal injuries, which, from the first, it was feared would terminate fatally. Dr. Kenny -vniit over to Okete, and did all in his power to relievo the sufferer, hut he hold out little hopes for her recovery. Mr Farley and Capt. Pitt, managing directors of the firm of Messrs Reynolds and Co., went up by train on Tuesday to meet the Kihikihi settlers, with the view of establishing a creamery somewhere in the neighbourhood of that township. A sufficient number of cows has already been guarantaed, and in such a good pastoral district as surrounds Kihikihi there should be little difficulty in getting this largely augmented if necessary. We hear that the New Zealand Land Association have purchased Eureka station from Mr A. Bruce-Suttor, who has decided to return to New South Wales. The company, we understand, intend to go in extensively for breeding stud sheep at Eureka, and with this object in view Mr J. Gordon, of Woodlands, who will also manage at Eureka, has made a start by purchasing a dr.tft of Lincoln ewes from Mr McNicol's celebrated flocks, at five guineas each. Dense fogs, chiefly composed of smoke, are not by any means unusual in Waikato, but it is seldom that the cause comes from the Raglan district. For the last day or two, however, the westerly winds have brought us, nol the fre9h sen air laden with health giving ozone, that we are so accustomed to, but clouds of smoke, doubtless arising from the great bush fires, which are raging near tha coaet just now. So dense was the fog on Tuesday, that the tops of the western ranges could scarcely be seen during the day. Mr Clifton, of the Live Stock Department, accompanied by Mr Gerald Peacocke, editor of the New Zealand Farmer, are on their way to Tauranga, with the view of further investigating the mysterious Tauranga disease which until lately caused so much mortality among tho flocks in that locality. In last ias'ie we published the results of certain treatment by well-known rlnck-ownera in the affected district, which seems to settle the matter. An effectual remedy having been discovered in Larney's Anthelmintic, it is scarcely necessary to investigate further. The well-known English temperance orator, Mr E. Tonnyson Smith, has recently conducted a most successful mission in Invercarpill. He was welcomed and entertained at a reception and social given by the local temperance societies on the sth February, and on the 7th commenced a week's mission in the Theatre Royal, which was crowded nightly in sptoe of numerous counter-attractions in the town, the lecturer'* recitals, supplemented by eloquent humourous addresses of his own were much appreciated the evening of poetic recitals proving specially attractive. In the course of the week nearly four hundred pledges were taken, many are hoping that this popular English lecturer will be able to pay a return visit to Invercargill.

Messrs B. Mears and Co., the well-known booksellers, &c, of Auckland, have removed to new premises, at 248, Queen-street, Auckland, where, in addition to their ordinary business, they have opened up a circulating library, either by subscription or on the deposit system. By this system, anyone may have a bonk by paying Iβ deposit, and when the book is brought back, ten pence is returned, so that in reality it only costs two pence to read the book. Of C'.nrse with some books, a larger deposit is takeD, and a higher charge is made for roading. This should be very suitable to country residents, as they could procure a number of books at a time, and a3 the freight in not very heavy, a lirge amount of reading could be had at a cheap rate. Messrs Mears and Co. will forward catalogues and all information on application. The grand law of compensation 3ays a Globe contributor, is one of those powerful double-edged implements, of uncertain action, of which destiny keeps m her workshop so large a supply. One of the more striking illustrations of its Application with which it occasionally favour* us, I tind io. the Taieri flood. For what is a Tiieri flo.id, but a compensation of the wr.ing kind ?Can any landless toiler for the bread that periehea pass through the Taieri Plain in summer without a sigh of envy? What crops the fortunate Taieri farmer can produce! What cattle he can fatten ! What apples, what peaches, what cream ! Verily his lines aru cast in plbasaot places, and his land flowoth with milk and honey ! But then, compensation acts. You must pay interest to inexorable fate for every privilege lent. And so it comes to pass that once in every four or five years the fat plain becomes a desolate lake, and the fanners call upon eauh other in boats, rowed over the hefida of their finest wheat. The Taieri Plain turns into an agricultural Venice, and a sea of troubles. They eay the periodical flood is the very thinf, that enriches the land, but, temporarily at least, it is apt to impoverish the landownor. The Taiert Plain is a Garden of Eden. But its rivers—Piiou, Gilion,Hiddekel,and JSunhar.itM—water it at times all too liberally.