COUNTRY NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9489, 19 April 1894, Page 6

COUNTRY NEWS.

;•'''. [from bra own correspondents. 1 , ' .'.'''. Hamilton, Wednesday. The Orchestral Union held their first practice for the new piece night, when there was but a moderate attendance, twenty members only The "Angel of the Harvest," a.- cantata composed by E. Cympson, is the piece to be produced. | The Rev. W. Calder, the former incumbent of St. Peter's, Hamilton, now of All Saints, Ponsonby, is still on a visit to Hamilton, the I bracing air of which place, and the hearty welcome afforded him by his old parishioners, are already beginning to tell on his somewhat jaded appearance. Sunday is looked forward to foi: his appearance in his old pulpit at St. Peter's, for Mr. Calder was as popular as a j preacher as he was esteemed and liked as a genial, wholesouled, and live man. The turn which affairs in regard to. the Loan and Mercantile have taken in London, and the certainty of its speedy re-construction, have been received here {with a i feeling of relief. . A possible commercial _{ catastrophe has been averted, and ■ those who have been ' pulling long faces about the coining winter depression % , will ,; no ; longer \ have ; cause to despond, work on the large estates will be again prosecuted with vigour. Few know how {much is contributed to the general wealth and prosperity by these social pests. On the Matamata estate, for instance, there are at present 50,000 sheep, and 3000 head of cattle, and the output of wool for the present season has been between 800 and 900 bales. :..):■■■■-■•:'•■' •/.';-' V Cambridge, Wednesday. 11 The Chrysanthemum Show, which takes Elace on the 27th and 28th inst., bids fair to e a great success. We hear everywhere of the size and beauty of the blooms, and they will be in their glory at the time of the show. Prizes the same as last year will be given to the several Waikato schools for bouquets, and the "children are said to be very zealous in the matter, both in claiming honours for themselves individually and for their school. - -■';.•,-J.;'>■.,-... .•. .• ."•,':■.■ ; ; Ohactpo, Wednesday. ':-'■ As was indeed expected Miss Bessie Doyle had a magnificent house here last night. -Never was such' a musical treat dreamt of as the peoole of Ohaupo and the neighbourhood for mile's round enjoyed last night. ; : There : was a iarge muster of cattle here at McNicol and' Co.'s sale yesterday, and although prices were still low nearly everything was sold,: Dairy cows carrying second calf fetched £6 15s -, full-bred heifers, close to calviing, £5 5s to £5 17s 6d, good heifers, one to three months off, £3 12s 6d to £4 10s. The 80 horses from Te Akau were big-framed, well bred cattle,' five to; six years old, and averaged £5 10s cash. Fifty-four well bred two and two and a-half old steers from John Allen, Waingaro, averaged £4 4s. Similar steers from Messrs. i Wilson and McMillan averaged £4/ Young cattle were almost unsaleable, and very low. : Fat cows and heifers, £4Ssto.£6ss. .;\.- ..,-,.. {--{■:: :