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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3092, 10 May 1892, Page 2

S. Andrew's parish, evenings are advertised to begin at Cambridge to-mor-row. . Arrangements are beinsr made for a sculling match between Kemp and Sullhanfor£2oo a-side. A dance will be held at Tauwhare on Friday evening. A free coach for ladies will leave the Royal Hotel Hamilton East at 6 p.m. Prior to the performance of The Shaughraun on Friday evening next, the Hamilton Brass Band (Bandmaster Mettam) will play a number of Irish airs outside the hall. Paddy Murphy was charged at the Police Court yesterday, before Mr John Knox, J.F., with being an habitual drunkard and was sentenced to two months imprisonment in Mount Eden gaol. Negotiations are proceeding to induce the late Victorian Railway Commissioners to accept compensation, and abandon their claim for an investigation either in the law courts or in the House. Owing , to pressure on our space, we ;ire compelled to hold over a report of the football match, Hamilton v. Whatawhata (native*)—which was won by the former by 11 points to nil—aud other matter. We hear with regret that the Rev. J. Thomas. Wesleyan minister, at Hamilton, is seriously indisposed; consequently, he was unable to take his appointments on Sunday. We are given to understand it is rheumatic fever that the rev. gentleman is suffering from. The Hamilton Wesleyan Church was draped in mourning on Sunday last, in commemoration of the late Mr John Bycroft, a local prear:her of that body. In our ohituary column today, it will be seen that Mr Bycroft passed away on Thursday last, at thfl comparatively early age of 48. We would remind our readers of the concert which is to take place to-mor-row eveuiue at Ngaruuwahia. The fact that Miss Alice Rimmer, of Auckland, will be among the vocalists should alone ensure the success of the entertainment, and draw patronage thereto from the surrounding settlements. We suppose it is in consequence of retrenchment that the sitting of the K.M. Court at Cambridge on Friday had to be concluded virtually in tho dark. One mousu-eatfin candle was all the department could tifford, but Mr Kirk combattad the difficulty by cutting it in two, and with the assistance of these bits the case was brought to a close. We presume the ratepayers of Cambridge and Taotaoroa are satisfied with the work done by their respective Road Boards, as none of them took the trouble to attend the meeting of ratepayers that should have been held on Saturday last, at Cambridge. Time was when these meetings were " lively," and lasted far into the night, but that order of things has evidently changed. In reference to Mr Jones' explanation in Saturday's issue, our correspondent desires that gentleman to remove trom his mind at once the impression that any mistake in the report as to his (Mr Jones) reasons for not forwarding the cash book to the annual meeting, was wilful. The error, if any, was quite unintentional ; and certainly not meant as any reflectijn on the clerk. The recent change in the weather has brought the usual crop of autumn coughs and colds with it. Curiously enough, these complaints showed themselves before any change in the weather was visible. On Monday morning last quite a number of our subscribers woke to the painful fact that from somewhere or other they had picked up a very sore throat; but it was Tuesday before tke rain set in. Perhaps the human barometer is the most reliable after all. Mrs Bruce succeeds Miss Nixon at thp Cambridge West school. For many years Mrs Bruce conducted the Pukerimu school with marked success, and the appointment of Mrs Bruce is due in a great measure to the earnest solicitations made by the Cambridge West School Committee to the Board urging the appointment. We feel sure this knowledge will be very Gratifying to the lady under notice and it will be some return for many years' devotion to her work when in charge of the Pukerimu schoel. In correcting the mistake of our correspondent re closing the Ngaruawahia creamery, we might havo applied tho same remarks to the Whatawhata establishment. This is still running, and will, if possible, do so until the end of this month. It appears that the report of Ngaruawahia stopping at the end of April, was current on the Waipa; in fact, the creamery managers' were also under this impression. Hawevar, settlers are none the les3 pleased to have tho creameries open for another month, though the quantities of milk delivered, are. of course, now becoming vory small/ i

Messrs W. P. Chepraell, J. Horrell, Reuben Parr, W. Main, and 3x». Gordon have been elected as members of tho Wait'ia Road Hoard fur the current term. Rabbit drives are ia full blast in tho southern emotion of California. There ia a drive every few weeks in the months of March and April, sometimes over the same ground, with an nlmost invariable result of frum 10,000 to 15.000 dead rabbits and other noxious quadrupeds, including coyottcs. The lines of the "drive" is generally about four miles in length, and the slaughter corral to which tho animals are headed has wings one mile and a-half in extieThe M'ew Zealand Loan and Mernan;ile Agency Co. (Limit-d) expect their first consignment of Coral Queen guano to arrive in Auckland about July, and farmers wishing to obtain this well-known fertiliser at the ship's side, thus saving cartage, storace, etc. in Auckland, should book their orders at once at the Hamilton branch. The shipment will probably give 65 per cent, of phosphate of lime, but f>o per cent, is guaranteed by Mr J. A. Pond's analysis. An interesting sketch of Mr Goschen's life is given in a recent issue of the Chicago Inter-Ocean. As %a instance of the mixture of good temper and high spirit which characterises Mr Goschen, the following story is told of his school days at Rugby, where he was a favourite pupil of Or Tait, the late Archbishop of Canterbury. Younß Goschen underwent a good deal of ill-treatment on account of his Hebrew physiognomy and foreign narno. Hβ t iok it all very good-temperedly till one day a school-fellow who was old enough to know better, and whose noble birth gave him great prominence, went too far. He wrote an offensive stanza about the "Jew Boy" and pinned it up in the rmw where Goschen used to sit in chapel. The result was an explosion of laughter among the students during service, and an enquiry on tho part of the headmaster. The Melbourne correspondent of a Hnkitikii contemporary gives this doleful description of the present condition of things in the Victorian capital :—"No one has ever seen such a genutal slackness in Melbourne trade. Literally, nothing is stirring. The shops are crammed with good things marked at ridiculously low rates. You could furnish your house or renew your wardrobe in Melbourne jii*t now more cheaply than you could in London. I have seen both furniture and clothing of all kinds, but especially of the best sorts marked at prices I personally know to be less chan London cost. All classes feel it from the great stock-brokers, one of whom recently assured me that there had not been one really bona fide transaction for weeks, that the daily business was mostly a sham, brokers making purchases of each other to give a semblance of life to the place, and t moreover, that there were not four companies in Melbourne who could absolutely defy the chances of the times." We are pleased to find that the grand game of football is to be revived in Cambridge. In our advertising columns will be found a notification to the members of the cricket club to attend a meeting at the Masonic Hotel on Saturday next, at 7.30 p.m., and on the same evening, at a later hour, all who are interested in reviving the football club are requested to meet, likewise at the Masonic Hotel. We learn there is a very good chance of-Cambridge being able to put a good team in the field this year, for Tauwhare will furnish six members, and as several good players have lately come into the district, there should be little difficulty in finding the other nine. We trust that the meeting will be largely attended, and that at least fifteen Rood men and true may be found to uphold the honour of the Cambridge district. Mr Walker, who convenes the meeting, is no mean exponent of the game, and we trust his efforth to sot the club upon his legs again may ba rewarded with snecoss.

An unfortunate ETew South Wales journalist has had occasion to lsarn that a Supreme Oourfc injunction is not the terrible thing that it is popularly supposed to be. Mr Smithurst purchased the Mudsee Independent for £2000, one of the conditions of sale being that the previous ownert), Messrs Richards and Cohen, were not to enler into competition for a period of three years under a penalty of £1000. Before 18 months had elapsed they violated the agreement by starting a paper, and Mr Smithurst applied to the Equity Court for an injunction restraining them. The injunction was granted, but the respondents paid no attention to it. The matter was brought under the n >tice of the court and another and stronger injunction was issued, and, as far as the respondents were concerned, was treated in the same manner. Again the matter was brought before the court, and this time a warrant was issued for tha imprisonment of the delinquents if they again transgressed Cho order of the court. The respondents paid no more heed to the last order than they did to the first, and Mr Smithurst had to return to the court again and report the continued ignoring of its orders. He was informed that he should again move, but as he had spent all the money he had, and more, he was unable to do so. The legal and other expenses he had incurred were more than his resources could stand, and he hai to lose the paper, for which he paid £2,G00, and also to file his schedule in the Bankruptcy Court.