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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3213, 28 June 1892, Page 2

We have been compelled to hold over a leader re tin Legislative Council, commercial reports and other matter. We notice that Mr W. Cannell is making steady progress with his contract of re-building Mrs McGarrigle's trick house at No. 1, Hamilton West. The brick work is nearly finished, and considerable headway hasi been made with the wood work. Te Awamutu is looking up ! On Saturday night last while Mr Lewis, the well-known boniface, was opening a bottle of Gaellic whishy, he found a£l order. It is now on exhibition, and has given the township quite a boom. People ate beginning to think that perhaps Balance is right, and capital i« not leaving the country after all.

The public schools throughout Waikato are closed this week for the midwinter holidays. If the New South Wales Government abandon the Chicago Exhibition it is estimated that nearly £10,000_ will bo required to compensate the exhibitors. We hear that the Salvation Army have purchased a frontage of 20ft a portion of the vacant allotment near Mi Scott's itore—in Victoria-street, Hamilton West, for the erection of a new barracks. Widespread action is being taken in Meltourne. to relieve the puevailing distress. The Wealoyans are making special collections. The farmers of Warrnambool are sending in clothing and tood. A young man, named. Robin. Crawford, aged 21 year.*, from Huntly, died in the Waikato District Hospital, yesterday, from typhoid fever. The vonng tran had been under treatment for about a month. The New Zealand team made a poor show at the Crewe Amateur Athletic Meeting on Saturday. P. Wood ran second in the Quarter-mile Handicap, but the others failed to gain a place in the other events. Messrs Wrigley and Withy announce in another column that they have commenced business in Hamilton, as architects and builders, and all work entrusted to them will be carried out promptly and with care. The New Zealand Land Association (Limited), Mr Jno. Gordon, manager, have dairy farms for lease for a term of years. Mr W. Scott, of Tauwhare, will show the farms, and full particulars can be obtained from Mr Gordon at Woodlands, j Archdeacon Willis and the Hev, J. Haselden, Diocesan missionary, will exchange duties next Sunday. The archdeacon will officiate at Te Awamutu, Rangiaohia and Alexandra, and Mr Haselden at Cambridge, Ohaupo and Tamahore. Wirth's circus to night on the allotment adjoining the Masonic Hall. We trust the weather will ba fine, so that the youngsters may not bo disappointed. The large tent however is in splendid order so that once under its cover the spectators will be safe from the elements. Mr John Parr, of Hamilton, has lately returned from a three months' round trip to the other colonies. Mr Farr had been suffering previous to his holiday from the effects of an attack of la grippe, and Ins many friends will be glad to hoar that the change has been very beneficial. Yesterday morning, an old man named Rowles, employed as boots at the Waikato Hotel, inflicted a rather severe cut on his fore arm, while engaged in chopping up a box. The wound bled profusely, but Dr. Brewis, who was called in, at once stopped the bleeding and bound up the wound.

To-morrow, St. Peter's Day, being the anniversary of the consecration of St. Peter's Church, Hamilton, services will be held in commemoration of the event. The Sacrament of Holy Communion will be administered at 8 a.m., and evensong will be held at 7.30 p.m., when the Rev. T. Outram incumbent of St. Matthew's Church, Auckland, will preach. Charles Henry Prince was brought up at Cambridge yesterday, before His Worship the Mayor and Mr T. Wells, J.P.s., charged with assaulting his wife on Saturday uight. The case was fully proved, and Constable Brennan said the man was a perfect nuisance to the coinmunity by ill-treating his wife and creating disturbances. He was lined £5 or one month's imprisonment. In the matter of granting a license for a house at Otor.'hanga, the time having expired for the lodging of a. protest, and none having been lodged, there is little doubt but it will be granted. At a meeeing, called especially to consider the question, at which a large number of the natives resident in and around Otorohanga, were present, there was not a single objection raised to the granting of the license. The shooting competition between teams from the Hamilton Light Infantry and Te Awamutu Mounted Rifles will be held on the Hamilton Range on Saturday next. As the Te Awamutu corps is only firmed with the short carbine? the range has been fixed at 200, 300, *ind 400 yards, any position. The visitors will be entertained at luncheon by the local team at the Hamilton Hotel previous to the match, which will commence at 1 p.m. sharp. The annual examination of candidates and pupil teachers under the Board of Education is now being held at Auckland, Hamilton, and the Thames. At Hamilton, where Mr Richard Crowe is acting as supervisor, there are in all 33 up for examination, viz. 21 candidates, 18 females and 3 males ; 7 Hrst year pupil teachers, 3 females and 4 males, and o second year pupil teachers, all females. The examinations will not conclude until Friday next. Notwithstanding the repeated cautions given, not to override the hounds, we hear there was a very flagrant case of the kind at Saturday's meet at Mr Douglas'. It is a pity that horsemen canuot be get to realise that they are huuting and not riding in a steeplechase. A rule giving the master power to inflict a fine or to disqualify the horse would have a very salutary effect in the directiou of checking this foolhardinoss on the part of some of those who follow the hounds. . i Mr £L Ellison, publishing agent, Auckland announces that the New Zealand Centaur will be published and placed in the hands of all rle:\lers immediately on receipt of reliable files of the New Zealand Cup weights. This book will supply the long felt want of a reliable sporting guide for New Zealand and will contain records and information bearing on every description of sport in this colony and the leading sporting events throughout the world, making it a necessary adjunct to every sportman's library. Those of our readers whose teeth require a dentist's attention would do well when in Auckland to consult Mr Joseph Martin, surgeon dentist, Karangahape Road. Mr Vlartin, who is a son of a very old and much-respected colonist (the late Mr Antonio Marcin), has an advertisement io this issue. He was articled to Mr Chat-

Geld, of Auckland, and obtained his diploma from the University of Otag->. Mr Martin is a skilled operator, and is quite au fait as a dentist generally. His sets of teeth are thoroughly well made, are a good fit, and very durable. He is prepared to provide an upper and lower set for £?>, for which some other professional men charge £10, A half set he provides for £3 10i. There lias been a serious drop in the price of sheep in the North Island. The Hunterville correspondent of a Rangitilci contemporary says:— At Messrs Stevens and Gorton's stock sale on Thursday there were no purchasers. Stock had come with a run, and some people must have burnt their finders buying sheep at high, very high, prices in January and February, grazing them until now, and losing some five shillings per head, let alone the grass. Perhaps in the course of time men's minds will not be quite bo opaque, and the day will come when general farming, dairying, fruit-growing, poultry, bees, etc., will be universally in vogue. Not all tho eggs in one basket, and that basket tended by one or perhaps two lonely and miserable mortals of shepherds. A large owner of property and sheep from "out sile " told me yesterday that he never knew sheep make such a sudden and serious drop as at preodiit, and I have known the gentleman as a sheep-farmer for nearly thirty years. That the parcel system has been a boon to many, of our out settlers, especially when honestly carried out as it is by Mr J, A. Bradstreet, of Dundee House, Karangahape Road (opposite the Naval and Family Hotel), Auckland, cannot be gainsaid. Mr Br-idstreet is a tradesman of sound training and principles, and though young, he has had considerable experience in every departmont of the trade, his connection with it ranging over twenty years, five of which were spent with Messrs Smith and Caughey, Auckland. His rules of ♦parcel system are as follows: —(1) As his business is strictly cash, all orders must be accompanied with cash, P. 0.0. or cheques, made payable to J. A. Bradstreet. Letters containing notes or coin should be registered, and cheques crossed ; (2) all parcels over 20s securely packed in canvas, and sent, freight paid, t« any railway station or port in New Zealand reached I direct from Auckland; (3) he willingly substitutes for any article in a parcel not required other goods of i?qual value; (4) every article guaranteed striutly in accordance with the description. By reference to our advertising columns, Mr Bradstreet's vprv complete list of parcels will be seen, marked at prices ranging from 20 s to 34s each. We think our numerous readers, the hfa.ts of families, and single folka too, would do well to read Mr Brad-

(•treat's advertisement carefully, and send liim their ordor-f. Mr Bradstreet's motto is: "To do an honest business, on cash principles only, and to iiave no two prices or to give discount." We (Lyttelton Times) have had forwarded to us some of the handbills being distributed by English butchers in the Old Country re New Zealand mutton, as showing that the prejudices of " the trade " are fading away. One firm in Winchester, Messrs Hnrrold and Co., say in their circular, " Wo propose selling the much appreciated Now Zealand mutt in. Wb know from larze experience that this mutton is in groat favour, and feel sure that the public will give us a fair share of their support.'' Messrs Underwood and Co., of the same city, state, in commencing the sale of New Zealand mutton :—" Our Portsmouth firm (Messrs W. Pink and Sons) first introduced this article into the borough some years since, and they now dispose of about one hundred sheep per week ; and we have all the advantages of their experience. We shall supply nothing but the very best Hawko's Bay wether New Zealand sheep and, as Messrs W. Pink and Sons have doae, we would caution the public against Australian, and particularly South American mutton, often sold as New Zealand. South American is rather of the character of the goat, and is by no means tender or nutritious, while New Zealand closely resemble our English Southdown. Prices : Legs, 6d ; loins, 4sd; shoulders, 5Jd; necks, 4Jd ; breasts, 3Jd.''