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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3078, 7 April 1892, Page 2

A writ for the Bruce seat was issued on Tuesday. It is returnable on the 14th proximo. We learn that a case of blackmailing will come up at the Cambridge Court on Friday. The valedictory soiree held at Cambridge on Tuesday as a fitting wend-off to the Rev. C. H. Garland, was a most pronounced success. VVe hold over tho report connected therewith. Although the frame-work of Mr Howden's new buildings in Victoria-street, Hamilton, is only just up, several offers have already been made to rent them, indicating a revival of business which is gratifying to record. The Central Railway League at Wellington has convened a public meeting to take steps to prevent a divprsion ot the loan moneys raised for the North Island Main Trunk Railway from tho Central to the Rtratfo-d route. The Auckland Chamber ot Commerce yesterday presented Mr Thos. Hill, late Collector of Customs at Auckland, with a handsome illuminated address and the Customs Officers presented him with a gold watch and chain. In our advertising columns todav applications are called for a medical officer who shall devote the whole of his time to the Waikato Hospital at a salary of £400 with £50 additional until a residence is provided by the Board. Application with diplomas will be received up to June Ist. According to the Southland News the sealskins over which there has beon so much litigation met a glutted market in London, and had to be disposed of at a great sacrifice. The top price, it is said, was 8s Gd per skin. Under ordinary circumstances they should have brought up to £5 each. Mr Coates' steam thrasher has beon busy since Monday and Tuesday at Mr Jolly's sticks at Frankton, and judging from the untouched .Hacks, it will be kept fully occupied for some days yet. We have not heard how the crop is yielding but it can hardly be a heavy one as the caterpillar was badly in it before harvesting. Mr Palmer, who has been in Waikato some months now buying for the Auckland Freezing Company, lately purchased a line of fifteen hundred fat sheep from Mr James Bailey, manager of the Auckland Agricultural Company's estate. Twelve truck loads went down by train yesterday, and the balance po to-morrow.

Tha humble bee appears to be spreading very quickly over the country. Numbers have been seen in r.nd around Hamilton, and quite recently two or three were observed at the one time in a garden at Whatawhata. When these useful insects become more numerous, we expect that many a fine crop of c over will bo harvested for seed.

Last week we announced that Mr G. Howard would re-open the shop lately occupied by Mr V. J. Sanders at Cambridge on Saturday list, this w;«s an error for Mr Howard does not intend commencing business until next Saturday, the !)th instint, when he will display an entirely new stock of first-class quality. On Tuesday night at about 8 o'clock, Mr Marshall's house, on the Alex-aiidra-Ohanpo Road, was completely destroyed by fire. Mr Marshall who has been living alone in the house, was only able to save the piano and a few chairs, everything else being lost. The particulars of the insurance have not yet reached ua. Mr E. T. Davey has now got settled down in his new premieas, Middlesex store Hamilton and has just opened up a large aud superior stock a few of the leadinpr lines of which are emunerated in another column. The goods are of the very best quality the prices charged are low, and all orders «re executad with the greatest care and despatch. The following extract from a letter received by a. gentleman in Kngland has been placed at the disposal of the Fross: —"I cannot thank you sufficiently for the trouble yon have taken over my affairs. Now that you have sent the £">OOO away, I have no other interest in New Zealand than the mortgage on . lam glad to get my money out of tho country when the Government is pursuing so suicidal a course."

Mr A. E. Woolcott, the advance agent for the Amy Vaughan Burlesque Pantnmine Company, passed through Hamilton yesterday. Mr Woolcott came here with a view of arranging for the company to appear next Tuesday, but owing to the Public Hall being engaged that night, tho company will proceed to Tβ Aroha, and from there t> Taurunga for the Easter holidays. Wβ understand Miss Vaughan and her company have just returned from the South, having finished a very successful tour of the colony. Matters in the football line are lieginnins; to move in Waikato now, and in this issue are advertisements notifying the annual meetings of the Patenuigl aud Hamilton Clubs. Last season there were only three c'.ubs playing in the district, viz: —Paterangi, Hamilton and Huntly, but this year we hope the old clubs at Cambridge, Ohaiipo and Tβ Awamutu will be resuscitated. The natives at Whiitawhato, have formed a club which will be registered with the Auckland Rugby Union, under thfi title of tho Ngatimahunga.

A remarkable accident happened to a horse of Mr Cassidy's of Ohanpn on Saturday last. One of his boys was ridine along tho road—so far as we can hear not at any unusual pace—when in crossing a slight rise in the road, where a culvert occur.', the horse stumbled, and after staggering a. few yards came down, and was unable to rise. An examination of thn horse disclosed that it had broken both hind lees short off above the hock. Several people went tn see the animal, and everyone expressed astonishment thaj; such a serioni injury could have ensued, and apparently in so simple a way.

Wiiat is called a remarkable in.-ila"co of t'lo satraoity uf bans is reported fr iin Killinchy. Two very large sunflower', iiinn inches across, which liavu shed their .s<-«d, liavi! been ttken possessi'in of by a swarm of bee*. Arrangements having boen made to protect thorn fr.mi the weather, the little creatures have made themselves comfortable, and are rapidly filling with honey all the cells loft v.icant by the seed. This looks m«re like Wincss than sagacity in the hees. The incident, howove.r, furnishes a hint for an experiment that niieht prove valuablo : Could hues bo fooled into filling narrow nocked bottles with honey.

A. kind of theological warfare is just now racing in Christchurob. On .Sunday last liish"ii iTuliu* in the Cathedral attacked the Freethought section of tho community nnd dealt with fruethought, which, ho said, only allowed belief in what was endorsed by reason. He maintained that it was idle t<• argue with the advocates of freethought, who had not the spirit of God ia their hearts, and whose teachings only appealed to tho intellect, whereas religion must appeal to the spiritual nature of man. Mr W. \V. Collins at the same time was lecturing to GOO people at the Theatre R'tyal on the Bishop's utterances of tho previous Sunday.

We understand that an official notice is being sent to sheap-owners, in which it is pointed out that the la3t census shows that the number of sheep owned in the colony wa» greater than that specified in the returns to the Stick Department by no less than one million four hundred thousand. It is thus apparent that the sheep-tax is boing evaded, but the notice referred to suggest.* that owners are in the habit, when sending in their returns, of deducting a percentage equal to their annual losses. Attention is called, however, to section 6!) of the sheep Act, which provides a penalty in every case where the return ie not truthful as to the precise number of sheep on hand at the 30th April in each year. We heard late last night that the small bridge at Baercscourt on tho Hainil-ton-Ngaruawahia road had been on fire, and one end of it burnt, rendering it unsafe for wheeled traffic. Some one had been burning furzb in the vicinity, and the tire had spread to the bridge, with the result ab above. Mr A. Armstrong County Engineer, was in this neighbourhood yesterday, and no doubt he will have the necessarv repairs effected at once. Meanwhile, guards hava been erected to protect travellers and there is a safe ford through the creek along-side the bridge. At the last meeting of the Waipa County Council, Mr Armstrong recommended that this bridgo be replaced by a culvert, which will doubtless now be done.

One of the Anarchists who was recently executed at Xeres, in Spain, in the course of the night previous to meeting his doom drew up and signed the following public confession :—" lam ready to before the judgment seat of God. It is meet that to clear my conscience, and for my son's sake, as well as to set an example to ethers, I should publicly declare that I have professed to my own undoing the subversive principals of Anarchy having been misled by the Anarchist press which takes advantage of the ignorance of the working classes to inculcate theories that are inconsistent with justice and reason. I desire that my son and rny companions may know that the Anarchist journals aro woofully deceiving us. I am convinced that many of those who have been preaching these doctrines to us are to-day perfectly indifferent to our fate. I therefore advise my companions to repudiate all teachings that are not just and reasonable. Be honest workers, and have faith in God, and the religion which teaches that all meu are brethren."