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Waikato Times, Volume I, Issue 74, 19 October 1872, Page 2

Miss Aitken will not road to-night at Ngaruawahia \ as previously advertised. She will however read on I Monday night, We trust that she will meet with ! the cordial support of our settlers. ! Mesmerism appears to have other uses than that of j amusing an audience by the eccentricities- of those | subjected to its indueuce. On Tuesday last, during j the'seance, a man named Peacock, one of the earliest ; settlers in the Waikato, who was suffering from a j diseased finger, requested Dr Carr to amputate the diseased member. The amputation was very rapidly I performed. After the finger was removed, in reply j to a question put to him, the patient said that although conscious of what was going on he felt no pain. j It is astonishing the facility some people possess of so misinterpreting facts that their proclivities very nearly amount, to a peculiarity which is usually called by a Very harsh term, the first letter of which is L and the* last Gr. A person of the name of Odium (whose personal acquaintance we are happy to say we have not made) has thought lit to write a letter to one of our Auckland contemporaries, stating that we carefully avoided reporting a case of illegal impounding, in which he was the plaintiff. We did report the case, but- probably not at such length as Mr Odium seems to think was due to any ease in which he was interested. *If he wishes to see his name in print we suggest that he send its an advertisement., it must however be accompanied by a remittance in order to ensure its insertion. We received a letter j on the subject from a person signing himself "Justice." at least, we think so, for it was so execrably written that it was not at all clear as to what was its tenor. Probably Mr Odium was the writer ; whoever he was he did not favour us with his name, so that even had we been able .to translate it into English it would not have been inserted. We call attention to an auction of cattle to take place on Saturday next, October 26, at Cambridge. A large number of cattle and horses are catalogued. Mr Knox will also sell a large quantity of groceries this day at Hamilton. We are sorry no move has vet been made towards getting up races. January is .the. month in which it has been customary to hold the Waikato meeting. If our races are to be held as usual it is quite time our local Jockey Club took the matter in hand.

The U.ci iuui an Ji. glishuia . a iiou.-.o is uis uiotic j has received a practical illustration at Ngaruawahia. , T.-iere is a peculiarity in the law which prevents the j owner of a house, under certain circumstances, getting . rid of an objectionable tenant. Forcible ejection in the ea-e we allude to was not legal; the avvner,therefore reported to the old plan of taking the rdot, oil. Hie fair occupant of the house was away at the tiip6, or we predict the roof would never have been removed. Womaiv ia pliyfeicaUy w©ftk, and nature by way of compensation nas endowed those of a certain ciass with a gift of language that very few men have t ie courage to encounter without flinching. The Wa.kato is now of sutiicient importance to have a member of its own in the Provincial Councd. ,U the present time we are practically unrepresented We purpose when we have collated iacts returning to t j this subject. There is little doubt that if proper representations were made to the Council that the justice of our demand would bo admitted. There was a good attendance at Mr Knox'a sale of cattle held at Hamilton on Thursday last ; yearlings £2 7s 6d ; eighteen months steers, £12s fid ; fat cattle, tirm, £9 17s Gd. Over forty head passed the hammer. Young stock were much-enquired i'or, and would have fetched extreme prices