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We were sorry to hear that Mr Clifford, of M'.rrmsn:].), had to come into theWaikato Hospital, yesterday, for treatment. He is suffering from a very aggravated abscess on the neck. The dairying' industry is making rapid strides down the coast. We note th.it within 23 miles from Woodville no le=s than seven creameries and factories are t:! be erected ready to work this season. An alteration in the rate of [ charges for goods delivered in Te Aroha by the New Zealand Express Company (Campbell anti Crust) will be found on our fourth page. We notice that Mr W. Fogarty has been appointed Cambridge agent for the company. An 'alteration to the advertisement of Messrs Kempthorne, Prosser, and Co, re special potato manure and Coral Queen Guano, will be found on our front page, to which we would specially direct the attention of our farming readers. It may not be generally known in Waikato that the horse Spider, which paid a £12 dividend at the trotting meeting at Christchurch on Saturday, and a few weeks back went close to annexing tho double at Wellington, is a half-brother to the trotting stalling Balderdash, owned by Mr C. Lake, of Hautapu. A movement is on foot in Melbourne for the establishment of freezing works in the large pastoral districts of Australia for the extension of the meat trade on the most approved lines. The idea is to erect works at most suitable inland centres for preparing carcases and conveying them in a frozen state to tho sea coast, using the Taylor accumulator process.

"We would again remind our readers of the extensive sale of drapery (imported direct from England), in the Volunteer Hall, Hamilton, to-morrow and Saturday, by Mr Jno. Knox. The sale will commence at 1.80 p.m. to-morrow and will be continued at 11 a.m. on the following day. Tho goods which will be open for inspection to-morrow morning, will be sold absolutely without any reserve whatever.

The cattle-men of the Par West held a, congress in Ogden, Utah, on April 29th, about 150 delegates being present. Great trouble exists between the owners of cattle and a class of men called " rustlers," who are not particular regarding the ownership of the herds, and pick up stray bullocks and calves whenever and wherever they can. Parties have been formed on both sides, and several sanguinary fights have lately taken place, in which a number were killed.

A curious discovery was made in the grounds of a suburban school at Wellington on Arbor Day. At tha root of one tree, planted the previous day, a full bottle of Old Tom gin was turned up by the spade. How it got there, or why it was put tliero, is a mystery, but it may be satisfactory to prohibitionists to know that tho tree was dead. On the other hand, opponents of the party may declare that the tree broke its hoart because the bottle was too well corked.

We lately paid a visit to the snug hostelry, the Anchor Hotel, Queenstreet, Auckland, so well managed by Mr and Mrs R. Fawcett, late mine hosts of the Masonic, Cambridge. Those of our readers who have patronised either of these houses when under the management of Mr and Mrs Fawcett do not require to be told how anxious both host and hostess are to please and how careful they are to ensure their guests comfort. The Anchor is an excellent port to lay to in aftor a weary buffeting by sea or road,

As showing the efficacy of advertising, we may point out that Mr VV. F. Bell's notice re a lost horse in the columns of this journal was the means of bringing an offender to justice, and better still, of recovering his horse. We understand that Mr Bell was not at all certain as to when the horse was first missing, but fortunately Mr John Gall, of Rangtriri, coming upon the notice, was struck by the similarity of the horse described in the notice to one that a young fellow had paddncked with him for a night some time ago. Mr Gull communicate:! this fact to Mr Bell, with the fore going result.

In the matter of horseflesh, Mr C. Lake, of Hautapu, is always to the fore, lie has just purchased the young heavy draught stallion, Lord Glasgow, from Mr Jno. Philips, of Paeroa, and the services of the horse will be available for thirty mares in Waikato this season. L'ird Glassow, who is just three years old, was bred by Mr Philips and is by Allenadale out of a mare which took first and champion priz6 in Christchurch, and first prixe in Auckland last year. Allenadale also took the first prize in his class in Auckland last year. It will thus be seen that Lord Glasgow comes from stock that has been successful and he himself in Auckland last season took first prize in the class under three years. Full particulars as to terms, etc., will be given in a future issue.

With reference to the suggestion of a Cambridge correspondent that the performance (<f Pinafore should be repeated at Cambridge, we are requested to point out that the expense that would be involved in conveying such a large company and in removing and fitting np the elaborate sot, scene and scenic effects is so great asto preclude the performance from being given in any township outside Hamilton. The committee ara, however, arranging for conveyances to be run from the various townships to Hamilton for the convenience of persons desirous of witnessing the performance. From a notice in another part of this paper it will be seen that tickets can now be obtained from the Honorary Secretary, Mr It. F. Sandes, Hamilton. As the number of reserved tickets is limited and a larva proportion of them have already been taken we advise our readers to lose no time applying for reserved tickets in order to secure good seats.

At the late meeting of the Cambridge We-it School Committee, held on (Saturday last, Mr G, Keele was elected on the committee in place of Mr Bruce, who had resigned. Mr Jarrett, who was absent from the meeting when it was decided to grant the Mutual Improvement Society the use of the school-room at 2s per night, said he objected to their getting the school at a less rent than outsiders. The majority of the committee, however, were not disposed to amend the agreement, as they considered the discussions, &c, at the meetings of the society were a means of educating the younar people of the district. A circular was read from the Board of Education, notifying that Miss Agnes Kay had been appointed pupil teacher, as trom the Ist August. It was resolved to hold a concert in aid of the school funds on Friday, September 9th, promises from a number of well-known local, performers having been obtained who are willing to take part in it on that date.

Those who know the nature of the work that has to be done by the lumper--, eays the Press, need not be told that the wages of the willing men are well earned. The work is arduous and trying in the extreme. Shovelling coal into baskets in the hold of a vessel is no joke. The air is full of grimy dust, which insinuates itself into every nook and cranny of the person, filling eyes, ears, nostrils and mouth, depositing itself thickly upon the skin, and even finding its way into the lungs. Add to this a sweltering atmosphere, in which a beginner gasps and chokes and catches his breach, and then conceive the difficulty of performing laborious work under such circuinstanoes. Or visit the freezing chamber of an ocean steamer when she is taWng in her cargo ; the temperature 10 to 15 degrees below freezing point, the carcases of mutton like huge, uncanny blocks'of ice. It takes a man sound in wind aud limb to get through a day'a work of such a nature. Or watch the loading of a grain cargo, the men staggering under 2401b sacks of wheat, and you will not wonder that an agiiation is now and then set on foot to have the sacks reduced in size and weight. Js is hard work, and to keep up the pace, hour after kour,is a heavy strain for a strong man. There is lighter work to be done, such as tippin? the coal baskets into the trucks, passing tho frozen carcases of sheep

..Jong the decks, etc., and it is very much to the credit of the stronger men that they are willing to perform the heavier work anil leave the less arduous to the olde* and feebler men.

In tiie Gazette of August sth, Messrs C 5. Aliier, George Lipsey, Thomas daviii, Joseph Cal'agher, and James Mills have been appoint-d as the Te Arolia Hot npruigs Public D miaiii Board, and in making the appoi-iiini'iit, acuitiin Order-in-Couucil, dated the 31st day of October, 1.V.12 (sic), has lj-3.:n revoked. This announcement, seems therefore to boa" bit too previous. •'

Those who take upon themselvao the thankless task of going about relieving distress come bcmiw many pitiful sights, and their labour is for the most partn melancholy ono, tint it is occasionally relieved by n comic incident or l>y an eccentric character. One of the latter was met with the other morning in Melbourne by some agents of the Charity Organi-atinn Society. The Argus gives the following account of what took place :—Just as they were finishing their work they saw a man sleeping in a nook near the Fish Market, and as a preliminary question asked him what he was doing there. " Minding my own business," was his apt reply, and untii apprised of the object of the questioning he was very wrathful and refused to be calmed by apologies. Once he had fairly grasped the situation, he launched into a scholarly disquisition on chanty, embellishing his remarks here and there with Latin quotations, and pausing once or twice to ask whether anyone in the company could repeat off hand the fifth proposition in Euclid. He mercilessly condemned the methods of the Charity Organisation Society, and said that they distributed £250 worth of relief at an expenditure of about £1250, and were so dilatory that they postponed giviagaloaf of bread to a starving man until they had spent a week in making enquiries. He contrasted this with the ready action and retiring manner of Lady Hopetoun, and with an angry sniff concluded: " I care not a snap for Professor Morris. The system of theC.O.S. is rotten. Magna est Veritas," While he was delivering himself thus, he struck matches on his teeth to light his pipe, to the great danger of his long square uncouth beard, which stamped him a bushman—he declared himself a drover—and after the intimation that he was a Dublin University man, and had won a sizarship at one of the English universities, he was permitted to resume his sleep.

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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3135, 18 August 1892, Page 2

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Untitled Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3135, 18 August 1892, Page 2

Untitled Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3135, 18 August 1892, Page 2

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