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Waikato Times, Volume II, Issue 96, 10 December 1872, Page 2

We remind intending purchasers that the sale of Government land will take pltuie Lhisj day at noon, ut the Hospital Xgaruawiilii?,,. The hay crop is now being harvested. Cα! ting lms commenced on most of (he farms around Cambridge. The crop is expected to be a very fair one. There id ii.grojit eqjircity of labourers, and many additional ):ien could find ready employment at goyd wages. A report, was current in Isganiawahia eome time back that the bread dispensed by the local baker was not up to the standard weight. Ivlr Jlc.Govcrn paid an unexpected visit to the shop yesterday morning, and weighed tin; "batch" last drawn from the oven, and, we are glad to say, found each loaf of full weight. Mr Garmonsway explained that it is impossible on all oci asion-j for any baker to calculate lo a nicely the weight of his loaves, 1.-hoy may sometimes be a little over, and so.iiiet iines a.littlo under weigh!. We can scarcely take up a contemporary without finding reports of one or more cricket matches. Not one has yet appeared in our columns, in fact have not yet been called upon to report the incidents and results of any of those manly games to which is generally.attributed the possession by the Anglo-Saxon of superior pluck and hardihood. la it true 'hat this magnificent climate of ours is enervating as has bee.i stated, and that we are degenerating into effeminate, being? ? We trust that the young men of the Waikato will come forward and prove the contrary. Each township should have it? erieket and ibot-ball clubs. Captain W. Steele, on Saturday last, met with an accid'.-n;; that might have proved fatal. It appears t'mt this gentleman was ricliniT between the Hamilton Hoi el and the punt, when liia horse clipped into an ox.eavi{iou that had b en made for ihe pu: .tow of ob'a.'inn:; r:'avel. The boi-se fell on the top of the rkier, the a:ii:i:u r 3 Lca.l et—kiv.g him in the pit of the. stomach. Although much shaken, we are glaA to learn that no serious consequences need be anticipated.

We have the rules and regulation. l } ibr the competition for Colonial Government prizes in 1873. Officers eonnn.-mdmg companies ot miliLia and volunteers in this district are required to send "the names of intending competitors to Lieut.Cbionel Lyon mi or before the 31st inst. The Wuikato is entitled to send two representatives. In the event of there being a,surplus of qualified men in any district, and not the authorised number in others, the vacancies will be filled up out of the surplus according to merit, and :shou\d there still be a surplus of qualified men, they will be permitted to fire lbs the Colonial prizes on presenting themselves on the furnished with a certificate from the officer commanding die. district to which., they belong that they are duly qualified} they will, however, have .to pay their own expenses. The competition will take place nest year in the Province of Xelson.

The monthly sitting of the E.JI. Court, Cambridge, was held on Wednesday last. In the absence of "\T. N. Searaucke, Esq., R.Mi, Majors Mair and Clare occupied the bench. 15. Heaslip was fined £5 and costs for threatening to, stab Matiugn, a maori, with a sheath knife. 2fathan Harvey was brought up under warra-nt, charged with having destroyed sundry articles the property of Mrs Lawson, and also with creating a disturbance on the morning of the 2nd inst. The cas3,lKiT.ing been, proved, he was adjudged to pay the price of the articles destroyed, ulso to find two sureties of £15 each to guarantee his good behaviour for the next three months, failing which , to be detained in Mount Eden gapl for tin , term mentioned, Tha sureties not being forthcoming, he .was, on Friday morning, forwarded to Hamilton in charge of the district constable en route for Mount Eden.