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Waikato Times, Volume XL, Issue 3207, 14 January 1893, Page 2

! The valuation list for the Borough of Cambridge is open for inspection on office days, The prize cattle exhibited by the New Zealand Land Association at the recent bliow were slaughtered at the Freezing Works on Deo, 23, One of the bullocks weighed 16701b, a shorthorn bullock weighed 13801b, and the prize cow weighed SiiOlb. These weights, probably, make a tecard in the product of fat stock exhibited under the circumstances, We learn that Master Vincent R, S. Meredith, aged 15 years, of the Auckland College and Grammar School, and son of Mr H, Meredith, of Whatawhata, has obtained a senior scholarship far the Provincial District of Auckland, entitling him (with a last year's proficiency certificate) to a remuneration, at the rato of £SO per annum, for a term of three years. His Worship the Mayor of Cambridge, Mr J, S. Snnd, having made the usual declaration, joined Captain Jackson, R. M,, upon the bench at the Resident Magistrate's Court, Cambridge, yesterday, There were only two civil casos heard and neither of them wero defended, The first was C, Craig v, M, Hall, claim, £3 lfis, Mr Hally appeared for plaintiff. Judgment for amount claimed and 17s Gd costs. The other was A. Bach v, Albert Glover, claim, £1 lGs, Judgment for plaintiff, with posts, 7s. '

The National Bank of New Zealiurl has declared an interim dividend of Is 3d per share, Mr Caley, jun, has been elected a iiitmibcrnf the Pukekura Road Board, vico Mr ]{, Buttle resigned. The London Standard says that tho New Zealand Government is preparing for the conversion of a loan which will include defaulting Harbour Boards,

Xing Tawhiao passed through by rail yesterday, en route lor Kihikihi. where he proposes spending a few weeks with his old friend Rewi.

At 1.30 p.m. yesterday Captain Edwin wired :-" North-east to north and weit; gale with rain after twelve hum a from now. Glass fall again soon." Three thousand tons of butter, valued at £340,000 have alwady been exportal from Victoria, and it is probable that another thousand tons will be sent home before the season close'.

It is officially notiled in our advertising columns this morning that the duties under" The Land and Income Tax Act, 1892," ara payable to the Commissioner of Taxes Wellington on the 31st January instant, -t was resolved at a meeting of fanners in the Natimuck district (Victoria) to forma League, to be called "The Victorian Corn League," the object of which is to impose an excise duty on flour to provido money for the export bonus on wheat, The New Zealand Times learns that it is the intention of the Government to have four State tarms-one in Canterbury, one in Otago, one in Wellington and one in Auckland. The rules are now boing drafted for the one in Wellington, and it is the intention of tho Minister of Labour to have a thoroughly practical man placed over each as manager,

The Otago Daily Times states :- Mr H. S, Fitter, one of the largest salesmen in the Central Meat Market, London, is about to send out to Australasia Mr R. B, Bennett, with instructions to approach the chief graziers in the colonies and arrange terms with them lor the sale of their frozen meat in London without the intervention of the middleman,

Mr Tregear, head of the Labour Bureau, has returned frum a visit to Taranaki, and reports that the country between Wellington and New Plymouth is looking really splendid. Settlement is going ahead at a great rate in Taranaki and every man who cares to work can find employment, Several employers in that district are anxious to get more hands during the summer, but are unable to obtain them and the Labourßureati cannot send any for the reason that there are now no unemployed on its list.

An accident happened to a young lad named John Allwood yesterday afternoon, which resulted in his losing bis right thumb between the first and second joints. The boy, who was staying with his uncle, Mr H. Hinton, at Pukete, was playing about a chaflcutter, when he got his thumb caught in the cog wheels, breaking it in two places. Mrs Hinton at once brought hiir. into Hamilton, and Dr. Kerr, assisted by MrR, F, Sandes, amputated the thumb,

Mr Harry Ellison informs us that five gentlemen have been successful in tipping the winning treble for the Turf Club Cigirette Prize "Coupon"competition of £lO on the Auckland Cap, A.R.C. Handicap and Steeplechase. Over 5000 coupons were sent in, No, 3 coupon of £SO on the Caulfield, Melbourne, and New Zealand Cups, 1893, is now out, and large order*are being received from all parts of the colony for eigarettes containing the £SO coupons. The names and addresses of tho prize winners in No. ? ara published in our advertising columns.

Taken in connection with the tallies given by us a few days ago, the following, in showing the capabilities of the Wolseley sheep-shearing machine, will be of interest-.-During the past shearing season in Victoria, some notable achievements with the Wolseley machine have been recorded, One account states that on a station where the machine has been doing some exceptionally good work for the last three years, there were some sensational tallies on November sth. Tho principal were: F. Hnllman,223; E. Holeitian,22o; Flanagan, 171; Brown, 171; McMillan, 154; in all thirteen men averaging 137, the total for the day being 178 G.

In our report of the wool sales held in Auckland on Wednesday, it will be noted that Mr N, A.Larney of Lauriston," Morrinsville, topped thejnarket for his half bred wool-not only at this sale, but for the season; and we offer him our very sincere congratulation upon his success. It is often said of doctors and physicians that they are not given to partaking freely of their own concoctions; but we cannot account for Mr Larney's successes in tho matter of high pricosuf wool, so often repeated except for the reason that he at any rate, does believe in the use of bis own pecifio " Larney's Anthelmintic " not only as a vermifuge but as a tonic, which gives such vigor to the sheep that it is reflected in the wool crop, The prices he has for years realized can lead to no other conclusion.

The stock-owners at Normanton, Queensland, are in much anxiety about a very fatal disease appearing amongst the cattle in tho Burkctown district, One carrier has lost 28 out of 38 bullocks between Burketown and Normanton. In one of the animals that was opened it was found that the water in the bladder was red. Other beasts were bled, and the blood did not congeal, but ran into the ground like water, Mr Colics, of Inverleigh, through whose run the carrier passed, is having all the carcases burned, He says that there seems nothing wrong save that the cattle leave off eating and die in from 20 to 24 hours, The disease is undoubtedly infectious, Stnckowners are desirous that the Government should send someone to investigate the disease, Very few of the animals that are attacked recover.

From Tasmania comes the news of a disease which has been discovered in the rabbits at Melton, Mowbray, and Green Ponds districts generally, which may prove very close to a natural destroyer of the rodents, Mr Alfred Pago, M.L.'C, having noticed that the rabbits on his estate were very sluggish in movement, had a number caught, and some thirty carcases have been brought to Hobnrt and submitted to Mr Archibald Pork, the Government veterinary surgeon, who identities thesymtoms as those of Gocciileum oviforme, a complaint discovered of late years, which is akin in a measure to cancer in the human body. In many warrens the disease is found to become a severe epedimic, so that hardly a single healthy rabbit can he found in them when they are examined, There can be no doubt about the fatal character of the complaint. Mr C. E. Edwards writing to the Napier Telegraph encloses the followmpr extract from a letter received by him from a correspondent in London, which is as follows :-" I went to the Dairy Show in' the Agricultural Hall, in London, and was much pleased to see there Naw Zealand butter, 'sweet and fresh as the best Danish.' I ate it with several biscuits (with different degrees if salt in the butter) and could find no fault in it, If regular and. uniform supplies of such butter from Now Zealand could be depended upon, I am sure it would be a good thing all round. The Danish people are making great efforts to hold the vantage ground they have gained, For butter, eggs, and milk there exists almost an unlimited market in England. Cereal growing seems likely to diminish rapidly here, Fruit and dairy products are likely, on the other hand, to increase almost indefinitely, but scarcely likely, if ever, to overtake the demand." ' Alt boys are mischievous (says the Weekly Press), the only difference being that some are more so than others; but the boys in mining towns seem to excel the generality in this respect, The boys in Paeroa (the capital town of Ohinemuri county) gave an example (by no means the first one) of what they can do in this way a short time ago, There came an old gentleman, travelling for an Auckland firm, for the purpose of selling fire anniliilators, and, unfortunately for him, he proposed to the buys to collect a number of old cases, sticks, etc, to make a big bonfire, explaining to them the method in which he proposed to extinguish it with certain bottles of the annihilator, which he showed to them. It was made public that the exhibition would cake place' on the green' at night, and a large crowd assembled to witness the trial of the bottles, When tho fire was at its height the old man threw himself into ;m attitude, ' Now, ladies and gentleman,' he cried, ' witness the effects of my truly wiwderinl ininihilators I! I' He banged » bottle into tho fire, tho result being that a stream of fire rose up in a column. ' Ha!' cried tho old man, and bang went another, with tho same effect, and, amidst roars of laughter from the spectators, the excitable old man danced with fury, firing away his bottles, only to make the fire ton times worse. The boys had managed to get round the old man and and canty his experimental bottles and refill them with kerosono oil.