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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3128, 2 August 1892, Page 2

The Rev. Joseph Sydney Hill, late of Auckland, has been appointed Bishop-designate of the Niger. Xhe Te Awamutu Musical Society will give a concert in the Public Hall, Te Awamutu, to-morrow evening. Four Anarchists in Paris have been sentenced to 25 years' imprisonment on charees of stealing dynamite cartridges. Under the new Victorian duties on timber New Zealand pine is exempt, and Is Gd per 100 lineal feet is imposed on boardings. Miss Gresham, who was one of the successful candidatos at the late teachers' examination has been appointed to the staff of the Hamilton East School. Owing to culverts and an embankment being washed away, the Matamata to Shaftesbury road on the west bank of the Waihou river is closed for wheeled traffic. An English gentleman has pur* chased Delthorpe Library from Earl Spencer. The purchaser intends to place the library in some suitable building, and will give public access to it. A man named Samuel Stewart, from the Rukuhia station, was admitted to the Waikato District Hospital last night with a broken collar bone, received by a fall from a dray during the afternoon. We would draw attention to the special clearing sale at Messrs Thomas Bros.', Hautapu, which Mr J. McNicol advertises for Wednesday, 10th inst., at noon. Full particulars will appear in a future issue. A vacancy having occurred in the Taotaoroa riding of the Piako County Council, an election to fill the same will be held at Mr S. Seddon's residence, Gorton, on Wednesday, 17th inst. Nominations will be received at the county office up to the 13th inst. We understand that Mr Richard Worthingt'in, who has had a leans of Mr VV. Hunter's farm at Ohaupo for the past twelve months, is about to leave the district having purchased a farm in the vicinity of Drury. We do not like to sea Rettlers leaving the district, but it is not likely that this farm will lie long unoccupied. Hamilton is to have another change of Salvation Army offices; Lieutenant O'Callahan has received orders to farewell and report himself in Auckland, and he leaves for the city on Thursday. His successor has not yet been decided on. The Lieutenant has inly been in Hamilton about three months, and the Army here are «orry to lose him, Mr William Cannell, of Hamilton, has just about completed his contract for re-building Mrs McGarrigle's brick house, at No. 1, Hamilton West. Great credit is due to Mr Cannell for carrying out his contract in such a workmanlike manner, and Mr White, the architect, is well pleased with the undertaking. It will be remem bered that Mr Cannell's tender was the i lowest for the job by about £50. The collections at St. Peter's Church, Hamilton, on Sunday, in aid of the sufferers by the fire at St. John's, Newfoundland, amounted to £9 2s 3d. The incumbent will be glad to receive contributions during the week from any of the parishioners who were unable to attend church and who are desirous of assisting their distressed brethren. The sum of £1 14s 6d was collected at Tauwhare for the same object. The British and Continental Piano Company, which has recently opened in Auckland under the management of Mr A. Hegman, late of Messrs P, Hayman and Co., has appointed as its agents in Waikato, Mr J. B. Harker, Hamilton, and Mr J. S. Bond, Cambridge. The company guarantees all the instruments, of which a varied stock of all descriptions is on hand, and which the public are invited to inspect. Owing to a dissolution of partnership, Messrs Garlick and Cranwell, of Auckland, are holding a clearing sale of their immense stock of furniture and furnishing goods at a great sacrifice, a discount of from 25 to 50 per cent, being allowed on the various lines. This is a genuine clearing sale rendered necessary to obtain sufficient cash to close partnership accounts, which being completed the business will be carried on by Mr Garlick. , The Hamilton " Pinafore " company intend to produce that opera on September Ist and 3rd, and we venture to predict for them a very great success. To properly mount and produce such an opera is a big undertaking for amateurs in a country district, but those at the head of affairs have had considerable experience in matters dramatic and musical and are determined that the opera shall he in every way as complete as possible. No expense has been spared to secure an effective | mounting of the piece. An elaborate set scene is being prepared which will in the second act be lit by limelight, Beautiful and appropriate dresses have been ordered by the performers—about 40 in number. There will bo an efficient orchestra for whom the orchestral music has been specially arranged. The company have been most assiduous in their attendance at the practises which have been held for the last two months and the progress made has been most gratifying to the stage manager and conductor. X'he Xaranaki Herald publishes the following extract from an English letter received by Mr J. C. George " I would like to draw your attention to the fact that large quantities of frozen chickens are received from Russia. I do not know what the position of New Zealand is as regards poultry supply, but if fowls are plentiful and cheap, a trade could be worked up in these just as well as with frozen mut ton. For your information I may tell you that the Russian chickeus come packed in boxes of 80 to 100 each. Each fowl is plucked and the entrails drawn, the heart and gizzard cleaned and replaced in the fowl. The head .is left on the bird and is wrapped round in paper ; each fowl is also wrapped in paper and then packed in the box. The weak point in the Russian trade is that no attempt is made to select the fowls and then pack them according to size and quality. If there is a supply of fowls in New Zealand available for export, then I certainly consider it would be well worth while to give this business a trial. The season in which the fowls should arrive here if from January to May, inclusive. I shall be pleased to hear what you think of this I matter, but 1 must repeat that the price obtained would greatly depend on the care with which the fowls were selected and packed on your side. I would also mention that a consignment of hares was received this season frons Australia. The hares were packed and frozen in their skins, the entrails having first been removed, and the price obtained was about 3s each, which, no doubt, gave the shippers an excellent return." Poison is laid for dogs on the Te Akau E.-tate. MrC. Roberts, of Cambridge, advertises that he will, at the next meeting of the Waikato County Council, apply for a license to slaughter cattle at his yards at Hautapu, in the Cambridge Riding of the said County. Messrs John Smyth and Co., Mount Eden Sawmill, Auckland, have an advertisement in this issue, to which we dijv.ct the attention of those requiring building material of any description. It's no usk denting it ! The best is always the cheapest. Therefore, when you buy Arthur Nathan's Reliable Teas, you are saving money. Far and away excelling all others, and yet sold everywhere at 2s and 2s Gd per lb. 224 ■ Weekly state of the Waikato District Hospital for the week ending Saturday, 23rd July, 1892: —Remaining last week, 18 ; admitted since, 2 ; discharged, § ; remaining, 15—11 males and 4 females. ! 1 General health of the Hospital g<fbd. I