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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3085, 23 April 1892, Page 2

Half of the vineyards in Bordeaux including those of Medoc and S.uiterne, lia*-c been destroyed by trost. The Norway Steel Company, cf Host in. one of the latest in An.erica, has closed down owing to the taxition of materials. Mr Edison claims to have invented a flyintr machine, and an elfo!rio motor by which rain can be produced by Hindus of dynamite. The first chapters of a short tale entitled " Sketched at Mid-night," Sporting Notes and other matter will be found in to-diy's Supplement. Mr C. J. W. Barton, Town Clerk 11 the Borough of Hamilton, notifies that Mr John Kmix and Mr George Fanton McCnllnpsh have been licensed to sell by auction. The R.TYLS. Monowai arrived at Auckland fro:n San Fr.incisci yesterday. Tho nnil news contains nothing of importance not untioipated by cihlo. Tin Manpusa with the outward mails arrived in the afternoon. Notwithstanding the threatening appearance of the weather during the p.ist few days, the baronmter has been eraduiilly ri«inß, and yesterday it reached "set fair," a point a hieh as hin been touched during the long spell of dry weather of the past summer. In our advertising columns today will bo found the programing of spuria to be. held by the Watpa Amateur Athletic Club, at Ali'X'iudra, on the Queen's Hirthday. The pr-ieramme includes events for both nimteuri and professionals and all nominations close at 5 o'clock on Tuesday, May 17th. The following tenders have boen received for erecting a brick house at H-miiit-in for Mrs McGatriglo, viz. :— Messrs W. Pettiarow and Co., £348 10*; Mr T Kvans, £307 ; Mr (J. H. Warr, £201 10i- 'Mr D. Elliott, £288 log; Mr W. Oiinnell, £237 17* As yet. we understand, no tendor has been accepted. "We were sorry to hear yesterday that Mr SV. A. Murray, "i Pia-kn, was seriously ill, Dr. Mnrch having been sent for. Ar the doctor only left at f> o'clocU last evening, we have not hoard any particulars, but trust that Mr Murray will eoon ba all right attain, as he only lately recovered from a rather savcro bout. The Auckland Chrysanthemum Society's Show, which opened in the Choral Hull on Thursday, was, according to the report in iho Herald, tho best evor held in Auckland. The arrangements ware perfect, and the decoiations of the hall most arbiatn. Wβ were pleased to see tho name of Mr Well*, of Cambridge, amonqst the tisti of prize winner*.

The annual meetings of the PiiUokm-a and Newcastle R-md Boards will be held on Monday, May 2nd. Nearly a million people have been tlirnvn out of ivoric otting to tho strike of tlio Durham miners

Messrs P. Corboy, A. Corbett, S tVxill iiTi'l T. 0. Uiackiitt have bnnn il'.ilv rnt.iirnc-d :i< nininhers of the Newca.-tlo !;_,,.„] iin.irJ, fin ninntions of four other i-aivlida'c* (M««sn Klnniuiß. Dawson, WaWi-s and Macredie) bejng informal. An ,>'e'rtion to fill tho remaining vacancy will '•>, 'hell (if necessary) on tho 13th May, n.iii.ina'ion.i being rfceivablo up to noon of tho SOt.li inst. The following: will bo the cricket tea-u that will represent Cambridge in the mafch with Patprangi «t Cambridge on Sat.in-.Jay ni-.xt :—Messrs W. G-. Park (captain) .f. S. WiUon, W. 0. Oarh.nd. J. Case C. Sluw, It. \V. Mears, A. Kusabs, V. Scott, It. IVtngbottoin, K. Pilling, M. Stubbing and Uidford. Tho wickets will bo pitched at 11 a.m. sharp, when the team is requested to be present. Tho Biverton Star says :—Many thousands cf ucres of lands are now passing inl) tho hands of practical agriculturists. The development of tho frozen meat trade, together with the better system of farming introduced into Southland by the use of tho dr.iin plough, artificial manure?, and the growth of turnips instead of the continual cultivation of oats, which formerly obtained, hive worked quite a revolution amongst the •icricnltnra! community, and in view of tho fact that an abundant harvest has just been gathered in the outlook for the future of the tannine industry is most hopeful. A great deal of land that was a short time ago looked upon m quite valueless has now, by the use of the drain plough been converted into fertile fields. The Mayor of Brisbane lately state i that tho distress in tho community is far reaching and severe. He says that if any one wanted 100 to 120 sterling honest labouring mon they could bo got in Brisbane within an hour. Besides these there were a large number of men who were always to be found in the same state. Many men who for years had been working for 50i per week would now be g ad to tike 203 Many had mortgaged their homes, and these had to be sold on account of inability to meet debts. His opinion was tnae much of the distress was due to the racklees expenditure of the last £10,000,000 loan upon unproductive railways, and bad leadership during the late disastrous strikes had also been a great factor. Men had been lud to look for ridiculously Inch wages and short hours, and employers had now decided to take the bull by the horns, with such hours and wages as they could have a reasonable return for the capital invested. Last evening the Lasses Band (of the Salvation Army), gave what may perhaps be correctly termed a sacred concert in the Oddfellows' Hall, Hamilton East, to a fair audience. The ' programme" comprised several selections on brass instruments, which the young women handled in quite a professional manner, surprising and delighting their audience with their performance. Several nf the young ladies are also excellent performers on stringed instruments, and the band also comprises some vocalists of no ordinary merit. The entertainment was greatly enjoyed by all present, and we may expect to see a better audience at their entertainment when they return to Hamilton on Monday next. This evening they will Rive a concert at Cambridge. They will remain and assist in the Army services in that township to-morrow. The proceeds of the entjrtaininent-, after deducting expenses, are to be devoted to tho building fund of a now noadquarters at Ohristchurch. Now that smokeless powder is an assured fact, the next move in the line of progress is to bo odorless whiskey. A Wellington contemporary says that recent experiments made by the proprietors of a loctil distillery have been attended with most unlooked-for success. These experiments have culminated in tho production of a liquid whie'i h undeniably whisky, but which Icav.'.s in suspicion of an odour upon the breath. Tho new fluid is precisely the counter-part of tho old stuff except in this particular. In appearance and tnst-j no ditierencu can be detected, but although it possesses the same deadly qualities, the most stupendous jug will leave the breath as sweet as that of a newborn babe. The process is a secret which will be jealously guarded. IS-> amount ot questioning would bring the slightest semblance of an explanation from the inventor " I have been working on it lor years," he said, " but only recently have my efforts been rewarded." The article will shortly be placed upon the market, and we are sure it will create a decided sensation. Referring to the need for studying the conditions necessary to the successful carriage of perishable exports the New Zealand Times says : -A director arranged to send Home a trial shipment of potatoes, did nothing in particular to study t!ie conditions, failed, and declarsd tho gftto o British fortune closed for ever more against the New Zealand potato. Ho put himself on tho level of Te Whit', who once said, "The potato is cooked." But tho leading fact of the situation is that the companies must (ind out a way of carrying potatoes from the country where they are so much waste to the great centra of consumption, which, at certain seasons, are ready to pay good prices for them. The system of deciding by perfunctory experiment ie not the way to make discoveries. Discovery is ,i painful, laborious, energetic process, involving much shrewdness, perseverance and enterprise. Mr Hanlon has given valuable advice to the ship-owners about the proper method oE carrying fruit. Who will Rive the -same kind of advice about roots? When the right man comes forward he will find there is money in the trade fur all concerned. The bot-fly grub has killed a good many horses in North Canterbury this A Rangiora correspondent ot a Ohristchurch paper says:-" As far as remedies arc concerned, however, there seems very little prospect of any Rood being d;>no A series of experiment made soma time ago with bots three-parts crown proved that when immersed in spirits they lived twenty-four hours, in a decoction of tobacco eleven hours, and in strong oil of vitrol two hours eighteen minutes. They were ali» immersed, without apparent injury, in spirits of camphor tan hours, fish-nil fortynine hours, tinctnro of aloes ten hours, brine ton hnnra, and in a solution of indigo ten hours. Asa climax to the experiment? a numb:r of small bot< a-)d one that was full grown ware immersed in a solution of corrosive sublimate, one of the most powerful poisons, with tho result that the small ones died in an hour, but the fnll-gtown one was taken out of the solution six hours after its immersion apparently unhurt. These experiments seem to indicate that nothing could be given likely to expel or destroy the bot that would not at the same time either kill the horse or seriously injure