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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3100, 28 May 1892, Page 2

Owing to a number of our subscribers not having received their usual Supplement last week, wn publish Jerome K. Jerome's amusing story, "The New Utopia," in its entirety with our present issue. Wβ also print a paper by Mr W. T, P. Swingle, an assistant in the Depart?* ment of Agriculture of the United States, and which was laid before the Cambridge Branch of the Waikato Farmers' Club at their last meeting, on the " Treatment of Smuts in Wheat and Oats," which contains a large amount of valuable information to the farming community. The Board of Reviewers for the Borough of Cambridge and County of Waipa will sit at Cambridge on Monday next, at 10 o'clock. The racehorses Ironbark and Potentate were offered at auction yesterday in Auokiand. but they failed to find a buyer. It is reported that Mr Gollan has purchased Commotion. Another fever patient arrived by train yesterday from Huntly. The staff were just congratulating themselves upon the closing of the fever ward, bnt this case will unfortunately again necessitate its reopening. We understand that there has been considerable consternation caused among the horses in the Tamahere district by the advent of a couple of donkeys. The traction engine is not feared half as much a* these animals. A general meeting of member* of the committee of the Waikato Agricultural and Pastoral Association will be held on Tuesday next, at Ohaupo, immediately after Mr J. McNicol's sale. A full attendance is requested. The Tauwhere School Committee on Thursday telegraphed to the Board of Education that unless a teacher is appointed to the school at once the comti'ittee will resign in a body. Owing to the teacher who was temporarily in charge of this school being taken ill, the school has now been closed for some weeks. The remains of Major Wilson were interred at the Cambridge cemetery on Thursday : Archdeacon Willts read the service, and made a few hrief remarks regarding the deceased at the grave. The funeral cortege was one of ;he largest there has been in Cambridge for a considerible time. Much sympathy is felt for the family in thnir affliction. We are pleased to see the Hamilton Borough foreman at work on the newly gravelled portion of Victoriastreet, a small expenditure of labour during this spell of dry weather, in filling upa few hollows and levelling up, will fix this road for the winter. A few turns wtoh the heavy Cambridge roller would materially help to solidify the metal. The several assessors under the Land aud Income Assessment Act who appeared at the Reviewers' Court in Hamilton on Thursday are to be congratulated upon the few objections that were proceeded with. In most cases satisfactory arrangements had been come to through Mr Duocan, the inspector, and in this way a number of people were saved the tiouble and expense of atteuding the court. In most cases where reductions were allowed by the Bench of Reviewer , ' the amounts were trivial, and the total valuations will be but little reduced. The anniversary services in connection with the Trinity Presbyterian Sundav-schonl at Cambridge will be held to-morrow. The ureachnr in the morning will be the Rev. J. H. Simmonds, and in the evening the Rev. W. Evans; there will also be a children's service in the afternoon. Mr W. Oulpan (organist of St. Andrew V, Auckland, will preside at the organ at the evening service, and that fact of itself will doubtless cause a full church. f,.r it is seldom an organist of his calibre visits Cambridge. On Wednesday, there will be a " Service of Song" and concert in the Oddfellows' Hall, in which the chil dren will take the lending part. The inhabitants of Cambridge are in luck's way, for they can now obtain a good supply of fresh and smoked fish, oysters, &c. 'for years the want of a supply of flsh has been greatly felt in the district, and indeed the advent of Messrs Dunn and Co., who have lately opened a fish store in Duke-street, was hailed as a perfect Godsend, and during the fortnight they have been in business in Cimbridge they have be«n literally rushed nesoon as their supply cf fresh fish arrived from the railway station. Settlers in the outlying districts should order in advance, as on Saturdays (when most settlers are in town) there is always a great demand. Messrs Dunn and Co. will be found obliging and eourt a ous, and the quality of their h'sh—to which we can bear testimony—is Al.

Tenders for ploughing 1200 acres of land will be received by Mr Gordon, Woodlands, np to Wednesday, loth June. In connection with the clearing contracts lately called fur, there are still dome 300 or 400 acres to let privately. Particulars can be obtained from Mr Gordon, at Woodlands. Our Waikato sportsman Mr J. C. Booth, returned to Hamilton by yesterday'* train, looking hale and hearty after nn extended visit in New South Wales. Judging by the reports received from time to time, Mr Booth has hid Mther a good time of it in the sporting lino. Tho three horses he took ovor with him have each scored numerous wius—a testimony to Mr Booth's good judgment—and when the horses were offered for eals good prices were obtained. The pony " Too Soon," the last of the trio, won a £40 stake on May 12th, and was since sold by Mr George Kise, for 115 guineas, Mr Earcshaw being the purchaser. Mr J. P. Campbell, a member of well-known firm of Auckland solicitors, Messrs Russell and Campbell, passed through Hamilton yesterday an his way to Cambridge for the purpose of paying a visit to his many friends resident thern. Mr Campbell was for many years, in the early days of settlement, one of the most prominent and successful business men in Waiknto. Hβ has only recently returned from England, having been engaged there for the last ten months or so.in connection with the celebrated case of Me Arthur v. Cornwall, an island trade dispute, which had been referred to the Privy Council, Those of our readeae who are in the habit of reading files of English papers will call to mind the favourable comments of the Press upon the able manner in which Mr [ Campbell conducted the case for his client, and the satisfactory termination of the suit, which involved many thousands of pounds. The "Wairarapa Daily Times, commences an article commenting en an address recently delivered in Wellington by Sir Robert Stout, as follows:—" Sir Robert Stout is on the track again. He is a moat fluent lecturer, with that most valuable stock-in-trade, a ' port and presence.' We remember how, some years ago, he used to tickle the ears of the groundlings when the Freethought fever was raging amongst them: we have not forgotten how he taught men and women to giggle at God—admission 6d. There is no doubt that he is a fluent lecturer. But Lyceums have strangely languished since then ; people do not jostle each other now to get & front seat at an infidel lecture, the Christian religion seems likely to linger among us a little longer yet—and the glib speaket ii on a different track. Perhaps we owe it to the knighthood bestowed by an appreciative sovereign on Mr Robert Stouifc that his attitude towards the Freethought lecture platform has become one of considerable reserve, He has changed his topic. Sir Robert can no longer concern himself with religion. Political regeneration will bring about the peaceful death of popular superstition. Every ill the body politic is heir to can be cured by the State, if only we will give the Ssate carte blanche to go to work upon it."