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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3180, 10 November 1892, Page 2

Last month the imports of th« United Kingdom decreased £2,100,000, and the exports £2,400,000. President Harrison intends to institute strong measures to stop Anarchist immigration to the United States. In addition to the extension of the Harbour View Hotel at Raglan, Mr White, architect, has received instructions from Messrs Lanuley Bros, to prepare plans etc., fur a (>riviifce c«tt.ige for the convSQI once of visitor.--. An ugly brute of a bull has been roaming about the streets of Hamilton for the laufc day or two. We d:> not know whose particular business it is, but we fancy the police should t ike some action and cet the animal run into the pound, and, if the owner can bo traced, see that the proper tit 10 for .this sort of thing is enforced. Owing to Sir J. F, Garrick's efforts, the Marquis of Kit)on has prevailed upon Mr H. Campbell.Bannerman, Secretary for War, to confer the brevet of colonelcy on G. A. French, the Commandant of the Qneensland D-fence Force Lord Ripon declared that in no post dur ing a time of peace did an officer render more valuable services to the Empire than as a commandant of colonial forces,,

Eades and Walker, of Hudley Caitle, Warwickshire, have become bankrupt. Their liabilities amount to £200,000. Owing to the new protective tariff the French revenue for October was half-a-million pounds below that of the same month of last year. The meetings of the Hamilton Borough Council and Hamilton Domain Hoard, which were to have been held on Tuesday, both lapsed, there not berng a quorum present. The meetings were adjourned until 7.30 p.m., on Friday evening.

From six applicants, Mr C. R. Lusher has been appointed to the position of clerk to the Te Aroha Hot Springs Domain Board, vice Mr T. £1. Lawlor resigned. The other applicants wera Messrs J. J. Calderwond, J. Pavitt, jtinr., E. C. C«rnes, Geo. R. Baeson and J. VV. R. (imlding. At a meeting of the Te Aroha School Committee on Monday evening, it was decided to vote for Mr James McGovan to till tile vacancy on the Board of Education, caused by the resignation of Mr J. L. K»lly. It was also decided to bring the compulsory clauses of the Education Act into operation. A daylight parade of the Hamilton Light Infantry Volunteers was held yesterday. There was a muster of 40 of all ranks, under Captain Reid and Lieutenant Dyer, and the band was also present, under Bandmaster Meachern. After some useful exercise in guard mounting, the company, headed by the band, marched to the butts, where volley and class-firing was indulged in.

A considerable saving will we understand be effected in the Raglan mail service after January Ist., when Mr C. Sutton again takes over the contract, his prica being £50 per annum, were four tenders in, ranging from £130 to £50 per annum. The present tender is £135 and the previous one was £250, per annum so that the competition will cause a large saving. Mr L. Sutton, of Hamilton, is the successful tenderer for the conveyance

[ of the various mails, t>and from Hamilton East and West and Frankton, and also between Hamilton and Cambridge. The amount for the whole of the services is £35 per annum. There were two other tenderers With his large and complete plant, Mr Sutton will be able to carry out the contract, as well to the satisfaction of the department as to the travelling public. The popular and genial stationmaster of Ohaupo h.n been removed to Papakura, which, we are informed, is a promotion. He is a young man, well liked by the public, and always courteous and obliging, and very general regret was expressed at his removal; but we are con soled by the knowledge that he is to be replaced by a young gentleman from Auckland, whom, we are informed, is equally courteous, etc., and not engaged. The Freetrader left Hamilton yesterday punctually at 10 a.m. for Ngaruawahia with a good number of pas* seneers on board, several picnic parties having been got up for the occasion. It was unfortunate the rain setting in about mid-day, as it would interfere very much with the aquatic sports at Ngaruawahia, and the picnic parties, in stead of being able to enjoy a ramble up the picturesque Hakararnata ranges, will be forc c d to take shelter whilst taking their " tiffen."

There was no meeting of the Hamilton Borough Council on Tuesday evening, there not being a quorum present at 8 o'clock—half-an-hour after the specified

time of meeting. Five members —a quorum—were present a short time previously, but as they did not care to transact the business with a bare quorum, one left. It was the opinion of some of those present

that the absentees were desirous of having some questions decided in their absence, but the others did not care to accept the responsibility.

Mr Harry Ellison informs us, re

the result of the Turf Club Cigarette coupons, that not one has succeeded in coupling Glenloth with two other

" live " horses, the nearest being Paris, Glenloth, and Clanranald. This was sent hy a gentleman residing in Nelson ; but as Clanranalrl has been scratched for the Now Zealand Cup, tho chance is lost. Mr Ellison has now issued a new coupon, on the Auckland Cup, A.K.C. Handicap, and Steeplechaso, to be followed with a £50 prize on the Caulfield, Melbourne, and New Zealand Cups of 1893.

Mr Barlow, mine host of the Royal Hotel, Raglan, whose advertisement will be seen in another column, has now completed his arranaements for the coming visitors' season. He is also erecting a bathing house for ladies, which is supplying a much felt want, as hitherto there was no place for ladies to bathe,every privacy is now ensured. The view of the bar and harbour

from the new balcony cannot ba excelled. The proprietor has also purchased a fast and s ife boat tor the use of gentlemen wishing for a sail up the harbour or for fishing excursions.

So far we have experienced a very wet sjring. The effect of so much rain though not by any moans detrimental to pastures, which ara looking remarkably well all over the country, is a serious drawback to working the land and keepiug the weeds under At this time of the year every day is of importance. Potatoes and

other root crops require working up and cleaning, while large areas of land have to be prepared for turnips. There 13 a conso-

lation, however, in the thought that an unusual amount of wet in the early part of the season, will probably mean dry weather during harvest.

They manage the affairs of at least one local body in Victoria in a very

old fashion way. Mr Isaac Ramsden.late President of the Bulu Bhlh Shira Coancil, was a witness in the libel suit brought by Mr Groom, ex-M.P., against the Melbourne Age. In cross-examioatinn, Mr Purves drew from him the remarkable confession that fie had a road at his back door and another at his front verandah, and that the main road ran through hi 9 property. When he wanted these roads constructed he called a meeting of the council. No one attended the meeting but himself. He constituted himself the whole council, manufactured

imself into a quorum, and passed a resoluion that the roads be constructed. He

then deputationised Mr Gillies, and reported the result to himself as the conncil, none of the other councillors knowing anything about the matter until the money had been voted.

Judge Molesworth, of Victoria, in commenting upon an application to release a debtor whose creditors had agreed to accept a composition of Jd in the pound, remarked that he was sorry to say in this community it was not considered a disgraceful thing for a man to enter into contracts though he could not pay for what he had contracted to pay if called upon to do so, and it was not considered a thing to be ashamed of for a man to offer creditors Jd in the pound even though those creditors included tradesmen from whom the insolvent obtained goods such as groceries, meat, clothing, and the like. He believed that the morality of the Insolvency Court was in some respects worse than that of the race course. If a gambler at the races who contracted to pay £1000 if a certain horse won were on being called upon to pay to otfer 1000 farthings his conduct would lie described in language more forcible than elegant.

The committee appointed to report with reference to the jetty at the Lake have diawn up a report, which was to have been presented at the meeting of the Domain Board on Tuesday evening, but the meeting lapsed. The report recommends the construction of a breastwork in lieu of a jetty extending from a point about 50 feet to the southward of the present jetty, 100 feet in a northerly direction with a wing returning shorewards about 15 feet at the northern end. The materal for filling in behind the breatwork can be obtained con-

veniently on the ground by cutting away fhe bank, giving it a gradual slope. The idea in suggesting the breastwork instead of a wharf 13 that the former would give the best accommodation for the public to view aquatic sports and the work could be continued at any future time until the whole of the small bay at this end of the Lake is reclaimed, thus making a level space suitable for holding sports of various kinds upon. This suggestion is, no doubt, a very sensible one, and one which we hope the Board will see its way to carry out.