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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3083, 19 April 1892, Page 2

The telegraph office being closed yesterday, we are without our usual budget i)f telegraphic news.

Mr W. J. Hunter will hold his last sheep fair for the season at Ohaupo to-mnrrow. Some five thousand head will be offered. At the meeting of the Executive Committee of the Waikato Agricultural and Pastoral Association at Cambridge on Saturday last, the date for holdine the Show was fixed for Wednesday and Thursday, October 20th and 27th. Mr Jackson Palmer, M.H B>. for Waitemata, paid a visit to Hamilton, yesterday, and leaves again by train, this morning. His old friends were glad to see him looking so well, evidently Parliamentary life agrees with him. We have to acknowledge with thanks, receipt of Crown Lands Guide, No. XII, March 1892, from the Crown Lands Office. Copies of this guide which is revised and published quarterly can ba obtained upon application from any land office. The public are cautioned against negotiating cheque No. 24697 on the Union Bank of Australia, drawn by Friar, Davies and Co., in favour of C. G. Hill and Co. for £6G 2s Bd, as it has been lost and payment at the bank has been stopped. In consequence of the South Auckland Racing Club's Autumn Meeting being held on Saturday next, Me John Knox will hold his usual weekly sale of poultry, produce, furniture, etc., at the Hamilton Auction Mart on Friday, 22nd, at 2 p.m. Duncan Neilson will be brought up at Hamilton to-morrow before a bench of Justices, on remand, on the charge of breaking into Mr H. T. Davey'3 store, on or ab)ut the 11th inst. A subscription list, we understand, has been opened to provide funds for Neilaon's defence, and Mr W. M. Hay ha 3 been engaged. We understand that Mr Elliott has completed the new wards at the Waikato District Hospital, and that the architect, Mr T. H. White, will make a final inspection to-day. We are sure the staff and patients will gladly welcome this additional accommodation as of late the institution hns been over-crowded. The following nominations for the Hamilton West School Committee were handed into the secretary yesterday, viz., Messrs James Hume, Geo. Edgecumbe, R. F. Sandes, J. R. E. Hatrick, H. H. Hnwden and John Knox. It most, however, be borne in mind that nominations can be made at thi annual meeting of householders, which takea place on Monday next. It is seldom that we have seen St. Peter's Church, Hamilton, look prettier than it did on Sunday (Easter Day). The decorations which were very light, consisted chiefly of lycopodium and ;hryeanthemums interspersed with wavy heads of pampas grass. There were very pood congregations at matins and evensong, both of which services were conducted by the Rev. R. O C. Biggs, incumbent. The meeting of the Taotaoroa Boad Board that should have been held on Saturday lapsed, only Messrs S. Seddon and H. R. Brunskill being present. Two iuterim accounts were paid, viz., S. Shaw, £7 9s 6d, and T. Wattam, £4 2s. Instruc- ', tions were also given to have a portion of ' the Puketutu road repaired. The Board has ■ a credit balance of £103 9s 2d, an it will [ hardly be necessary to strike a rate this ' year. : About a dozen members of the ! Hamilton Light Infantry Volunteers went . down by train yesterday morning, to attend the military sports to be held at Pukekohc, in connection with the South Frank- - lin Mounted Rifles. A much larger number would no doubt have attended had , it not been that the company intend being 1 present at the sham fight to be held in 1 Auckland, on the Queen's Birthday, and t the men could not spare two days so close together. 1 We are in receipt ot a letter 3 from a Hamilton resident etrmgly objecting to the fiinpation of the footpath along , the river bank. The principal grounds for ■* his opposing the project are that it would - necessitate the fencing of his back line, , that it would give access to all the hungry cows in the town to raid their gardens, un--6 less the same were very substantially done, e and that it would open his acre to the public or lorrikins at all hours. Another instance of the fertility 1 of the Whatawhata soil, in the matter of ,- fruit-growing has been brought under our t notice, in the shape of a nice sample of quinces, pears and walnut* from the garden B lof Mr P. Iweraon. With respect to the cr latter fruit, we are surprised to learn that j even their hard shell hns not exempted them from the attacks of feathered mbbers. n The birds, which are described by Mr ■ Iwerson as small yellow ones, probably u ' variety of finch, penetrate the pointed end fc of the nut, where the shell is thinnest, and 5, then cleverly pick out the contents. A tew ,£ of the emptied nuts are to be seen at our office. ' At the annual meeting of the e Paterangi Football Club, held last week, k it was decided to endeavour to arrange a k. meeting of representatives from the various clubs in Waikato to draw up a programme n of matches fur the season. There are now rt four clubs in Waikato registered under the Auckland Rugby Union, and we think that ,e the above step, if carried out, would do ie much to further the interests of the winter ,(■ game in the district. The Paterangi Club suggests Hamilton as the most suitable a " place for holding a meeting, and a match if Waikato v. Waipa might be arranged so as to bring representatives of the various clubs ' " together, 10 A correspondent writes : —The k resignation by Mr N. T. Maunder of his n various offices as clerk, returning officer. etc., came r.ither unexpectedly upon the 13 Waipa County Council at its lasb sitting, ie and nut unnaturally the members present -I. weie disappointed it losing the services of so capable an officer. I understand that 3t Mr Maunder is leaving the Waikato with ir thu intention of settling on the West Coast 1 in the Taranaki province. Soma time ago co he visited the different coastal districts. id A fovv particulars of the trip, together with le Mr Maunder's impression, came in the way of, and were, I remember, used by, your t0 travelling correspondent. Although the n- county clerk rather denied the soft iraya peach'ment, events are proving that your 2 correspondent was not far out. In Mr ' e Maunder the West Coast will gain another U- industrious settler and pushing business man. Many of his old Waipa friends will us . Vα glad to he;ir of him going ahead down tie thece.

The social in connection with S. Peter's Church, Hamilton, which was to have taken |)!aco to-morrow evening, has bean postponed.

A correspondent, signing himself " No. 1," writes :—" Tho action of Cr. Sett at the la-t meeting of the Hamilton Borough Council in expressing the desirableness of establishing pillar boxes in various parts of the borough is one that will be greatly appreciated in this part, as also, I am sure, in tlia other parts wheie these boxes would be placed, if the postal authorities comply with the request." This matter is one which we have advocatjd on previous occasions, and we feel sure the

pilUr boxes will be of great convenience to residents in the outskirts of the borough. Two boxes on each side of the river would be sufficient, those on the west side at the

junction of the main and cemetery mad!-", and the junction of the Ohaupo road and Anglesea-street ; and on the oast eide at the junction of Cook and Galloway-streets,

and at Campbell's corner on the Cambridge road. The only cost in the establishment of those boxes would be that of erection, as they could be cleared by the letter carrier when on his rounds of delivery.