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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3103, 4 June 1892, Page 2

In our usual Supplement this morning will be found two complete stories, namely, "Colunia" and '"The First Death." A system of Cooking by Electricity is fully described, giving another illustration of the many uses to which this powerful agenb can bo applied. "Lβ Nord" contributes his usual budget of Sporting items, and there are also a number of general articles. Two thousand five hundred deaths from cholera are reported at Srinagar, in Kashmer. Mr E. DeC. Drury, the newly appointed clerk to the VVaipa County Council, entered on hie new duties this week. The Holy Communion will be celebrated at S. Andrew's, Cambridge, tomorrow (Whitsunday), at the 11 o'clock service. The Berliner Tageblatt, in referring to British hostility to slavery, asserts that it is the cloak of that country's aaoendancy. The aggregate tonnage of vespassing through the Suez Canal in 181)1 shows an increase of a million aDd a-half tons over that of the previous year. The Cambridge Licensing Commissioners nint yesterday. The three hotel lieenses were all renewed, the police report in each case being favourable. The spell of frosty weather which we have had for the past week or ten days, broke up yesterday, and a steady rain fall has been experienced throughout the district. The Hamilton creamery, Messrs Reynolds and Co., was closed down at the end of last month for the wiuter soason. We understand that suppliers are now i taking milk to the Tauwhare factory. A prospectus of Pears' Soap Company, with a capital of £810,000 and a working capital of £85,000 is iesued. Tho 1 capital required was subscribed on the first day on which the lists were open. . The annual meeting of the Borough of Hamilton Licensing Committee - will be held in the Court House, ut noon, • to;day. The police report is favourable to • all the houses with the exception of the Royal. ; Mr Archibald Forbes has an ■ article in the New Review defending the i j Kanaka traffic in Queensland. He saye the only labourers imp 'rtel ought to be ' rigidly confined to tropical and eemi-bropi- -' c*l agriculture.

At the Supreme Court, Auckland, on Thursday, a verdict of manslaughter was returned acwinst Butler in cmiie.ctiun with tho death o( Kettmi at Wliati|{.<r*i. "ml accused was sentenced to four year»' penal sorvitude. The liquidators in the Baring estate liayo sold a block of Argontine Republic railway stock, and have been enabled thereby to further reduce their liability to the Bank of England by a million sterling. Messrs Dunn and Co. whose ad vertisement will be found in another column, and who lately embarked in. the fish business in Cambridge, are doing quite a large trade, and no wonder for they not only keep first-class quality, but an extensive variety, indeed several of the varieties were nnknown in Cambridge till Messrs Dunn and Co.'k arrival. The members of the Waikato Farmers' Club should note that the ordinary monthly meeting and also the annual one will be held on Monday next. The ordinary meeting will commence at 7.30 p.m., and at its close the annual meeting will be held when the officers for the forthcoming year will be appointed. A full attendance is requested, as several matters of importance will come up for consideration. A meeting of the Kirikiriroa Licensing Committee was held in the Waikato County Council Chambers, Hamilton East, yesterday. Present: Messrs Primrose (chairman), White, Gillett, McLean and Coates. The only business was the application of Mrs R. E. Lovoll, of Taupiri, for a renewal of the license for the Tuupiri accommodation house. The police report was favourable, and the application was granted at the same rate as last year, viz., £10. On Thursday, the 16th inst., Mr J. McNicol will hold a clearing sale at Slrathmore, Waiutapu,' in the estate of Colin Ross and Co., by order of the Deputy Official Assignee in Bankruptcy, Napier. A detailed list of the various lots to be offered will be found in Mr McNicol's usual column to-day. Arrangements for the conveyance of anyone desirous of attending this sale will be made on application to the auctioneer. Preparations are being , made in Hamilton for the performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's well-known opera " Pinafore " on an elaborate scale. Mr Swarbrick, whose skill in conducting matters of this kind is well-known, is stage manager, and Mrs Hwarbrick is musical conductor. The caste of characters has been arranged, and include most of our leading amateurs. The first rehearsal was held on Thursday evening, and passed off in a very satisfactory manner. The winter meeting of the Auckland Racing Club opens at Ellerslie to-day, and is continued on Monday. A number of Waikato sportsmen went down by train yesterday, to attend the meeting at which aeveral Waikato horses are to run. The principal event to-day is the Northern Grand National Hurdle Race, and on Monday the Steeplechase will be run. We will have the results of to-day's racing to hand about half-past seven this evening. The marriage of Mr W. N". von Stunner, eldest son of Mr F. J. von Sturmer, Hamilton, to Mi<a Clara Searancke, third daughter of Mr W. N. Searancke, of Claudelands, was celebrated on Thursday last in S. Peter's Church, Hamilton, by the Rev. R. O'C. Biggs. Th 3 bride— who win married in her travelling dress—was attended by her ai-jter Maude and Miss von Stunner, cousin of the bridegroom, and Mr H. Hume acted as groomsman. The church was well filled, and at the conclusion of the ceremony the " Wedding March " wis played by Mise Newell. After the wedding breakfast, at which friends of both families were present, the young couple loft, by train for Te An.ha en route to Auckland. The honeymoou will extend over a month. On reference to our advertising columns it will be noticed that the advertisement from the Auckland Freezing Company has been withdrawn, the company having closed the works for the winter months. We understand that the_ company was negotiating the sale of 250 bullocks frozen to a London buyer, but as the works are now closed, it is evident that no business resulted. This h unfortunate, as the shipment of such a large number of bullocks would have had a very beneficial effect on the local beef market just now, when it is badly wanted, the supply being greater than the local demand at present. It will not be forgotten that last year a sale of 400 bullocks was effected by the company about this season, with the pleasing result that beef rose from lo's to 20a per lOOlbs.

In another column Mr H. Howden, watchmaker, Hamilton, advertises the arrival of a consignment of nickel watches, direct from the manufacturers, and these he is selling at 25s each. Many are under the impression that unless a loug price is given for a watch, it is likely to be of very little service as a time-keeper ; but such an idea is quite erroneous. Mr Howden is prepared to guarantee (after regulating them) that the watches he is adrertising will give every satisfaction in this respect to purchasers. They are neatly got up, are stem-winders, with flat crystal fronts, and watches of a similar make secured tho highest award and gold mndal at the Paris Exhibition in 1889, in the class in which they were exhibited. Mr Howden has left a watch with us, which he intends to piesant as a prize in » typesetting competition betweon the compositors on our staff. The old man Charles Hall, alias Thomas Jones, charged with having no visible means of support, was brought iip before Messrs W. A. Graham and John Knox, J.P.s., on remand on Thursday day afternoon, at the P.ilice Court, Hamilton. He was to seven days' imprisonment in Mount Eden Gaol, without hard labour. In pacing judgement, the bench placed the following note on the charge sheet:—" In recording our conviction, we wish to say that this case is repugnant to justice, and that an enquiry is necessary to exonerate the bench for having had to send an old man, whose character is perfectly free from all blame or offence, to gaol, as we consider this case should not have been allowed to have come before the court, but is a pressing case for the Charitable Aid Boards.' The bench also expressed a hope that the Auckland Board would see their way to provide for the old man on his release from gaol. Under date London, March 24th, a large meat importing firm writes as follows to one of its New Zealand exporting constituents :—" There is something ▼ery extraordinary occurring with regard to your casea of tinned meats. They have either been opened in transit) or in New Zealand, and the tins are emptied and put back again. In several cases there have been tins taken out. There were over a dozen tins of the lot ex Kaikoura stolen, and there are a few also missing ex Duke of Buckingham. Oar manager has been looking into the matter, but he cannot assist ue, and advises you to take up the c*se in New Zealand, as the companies here dispute liability, as they don't investigate contents »t cases at time of shipment. To our mind thie is a most serious matter to your company if robberies of this kind are going to be carried on to the same extent as at present. You had better bring the attention of the New Zealand Press to the matter. Your case appears to be no isolated Mr Wm Duncan, Inspector under "The Land Assessment Act," called at our office on Thursday evening with teference to the fence acrosH the Raglan road near jthe lime kilns. Hβ was driving from Raglan on Thursday, and had considerable trouble in getting past; having in fact to lift his bugßy over the fence, which is a stout, four-wiled one, the rails being firmly wired in. Mr Bruce, who put up the fence, met him and gave him every assistance, but would not consent to the feuce being removed. The buggy horse had to be taken some considerable distance round, and through a swamp, where it was almost bogged. Mr Bruce said he would meet the mailman and show him the way round, but to the geueral public this road is stopped. The mailman got through by gome by-track through the bush. The Raglan County Council should take some immediate steps to have this matter settled, o» considerable inconvenience will be caused to the travelling public. Mr Bruce is, we understand, acting under legal advice, *nd, like a true soldier, intends to stand to his guns.