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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 793, 17 July 1877, Page 2

I Mr Samuel Walker has been appointed Public Yaccinatbr iv the Cambridge district. .. The letters of our Mercer and Alexandra correspondents, trustee, aud obhor matter, are unavoidably held over till our next. t Thb Hamilton East Minstrels give an entertainment on Friday evening, m the Hamilton Hall. Mk John Knoz will offer, by public auction, on Friday next, at Ng-iruawabia, the punt house, wire rope, and fixings. . also, any thing else ho may get Bent him to sell oii that oocasiou. Mb Kennedy. Hill will sell, on Thurs day next, at the Wharf, Hamilton Westsome 20 sacks of slightly damaged oate, on account of whom it may oonoern. We are informed that Mr Taylor, the Postmaster, is m quest of the owner of a new agricultural implement;, found m the Post Offioe Lobby, Hamilton,, on Saturday night last. ... . . ■ : A little Rochester girl who had {been taught to aay m her evening prayer, * Please to watch over my papa,' lar.ely improved upon that, by adding, 'You'd better keep an eye on mamma too 1' ■ Petiy depredations are becoming rather frequent m- their occurrence m Hamilton East. On Saturday night, the dairy, of the Royal Hotol was broken open, and a quantity of meat, pastry and other eatables carried away, TheWaikato Count* Council has called for tenders for the construction of a new landing stage at the Hamilton Ferry. Plans and specifications may be seen at the store of Mr Harris, and tenders will be received by the Council up to noon of Friday next,We understand that the sum of £19,000, paid to Mr Woodward, for the sale of his Piako property, the exact area of which is 7,496 acres, included all lire aud dead st ok upon the land. Tne purchase is considered by those who know the estate, to have been a rno*t eligible one for Mr GrOuld, as it is one of the must improving properties m the district. Mr Robert Harris, of H miltou East, it will be seen by reference to his advertisement m our front page, having somewhat overstocked his store, has remarkei his goods previously to offering them at a very reduced price. Mr Harris has constantly arriving new and firstcla^s groceries on sale at cu:rent rates. .— ' The Kirikiriroa Highway District annual meatiuj was held yesterday at the Royal Hotel, flami ton East.- There was a fair att«na*ncj of ratepayers. The following gentlemen were proposed and duly elected,' as trustee* namely: — MessrsJ BWhyce.TH White, lsaac Coates Peacock, aud Peter Walker. Mess'ra Ellison and Tippin were appointed fence* viewers, .and Messrs Seddou and - Primrose auditors The clause of the .Rating Act, which leaves the striking the rate with the board instead of the rate-' payers, was condemned, and the trustees ware requested to oonvey the opinion of the mcc ing on this matter to the Grovernment. Imported Pbdi&rbe Heifeb. — We learn from the 'Herald * that the s.s. Hero, m her -present trip from Melbourne and Sydney, brings a welcome addition to the pure shorthorn stock of this dis« trict, m the shape of a heifer from the co.ebrated Hero, of Richard Morton, Esq, of Mount Derrimut, Victoria. The' animal has been purchased and imported by Mr o B Garland, of Cambridge, and will b forwarded at once to' that,district. The following pedigree is affixed to her sale ticket : - ( The pure shorthorn" htifer Pink of Fashion, by the 3rd Earl, of Derrimut, and her dam is descended from, that celebrated bull Lord Raglan, which was imported by Richard Morton, Esq, Mount Demrnut, Victoria.' The re-publishing m our- issue of Saturday from the Auckland ' Star' of alleged attempt of Hoani Paiaka to capture Pukurutu at the time ot Sullivans murder and the refusal of the Defence department to profit by the offer, has called forth a direct contradiction from a source which must be taken as authoritive. ' The old story, 1 writes a getieman who must necessarily have beeu acquainted with the cifcum«tauoe had it ocourred, • is a fiction invented probably by Moffatt, for it is just like one of bis stories. Hoani Paiaka (a Whangauui native), is well known as one of the most cunning lying rascals m the Island. It is true he came to Te Kuiti a few years since, but' never to Alexandra. Government knew him to well to take any notice of any communication of his (should he write to them), and he is not a man that Manuhiri or Tawhiao wonld listen to for one , moment.' Mangapiko HiQHWAr Board. — The annual meeting of ..-ratepayers of the above district was held ih the schoolhouse, Paterangi, an Saturday, July"7th, at 3i30 p m Mr W Maoky having been voted into the chair, . opened thß business by reading the advertisement convening the meeting, which was immediately succeeded by the Ctmirman of the retiring Board reading his report of the year's proceedings. The Secretary being then called upon, road the annual statament of receipts and expenditure as follows : — Receipts : Balance iuhand, £156 12a 9J ; rates collected, £528 0a 5d ; Government subsidies, £448 lls lOe ; dog tax., £3 8s ; sales of sundries, £sls 3d j exchange: 5a s total, £1,142 Os 3d. Expenditure ; Repairs aud improvements, £153 18s Id 0 new roads, £71 3a 64 ; bridges, £39, 13a 4d j salaries, commission on collecting Ac, £131 12s 4d ; rent, 53 i stumps, telegrams, &o, £3 12s 9d j stationery and furniture, £9 16a ; printing and advertising, £6 2s ; miscellaneous, £4 6s ; balance m hand, £367 17s 3d : total, £1,142 0s 3d. After some trifling discussion the statement was passed as read. The next business being tne election of trustees for the ensuing year, the following ratepayers were proposed : Messrs Tisdall, Hume, Rutherford, J H Scott, | and Groodf allow. No others being 'put forward, they were duly elected. Messrs Legprtwood and A J Scott were elected as auditor*, and Messrs J Well-i, and Mereltth a« fence- viewers. After the usu.il vone of thai.ka to the outgoing trustee. Some di oussiod took place upon the fallowing resolution, which was proposed by Mr Legertwuod, ami seconded by Mr a J Hooit 'That this meeting r-liuve the G«»"nty representatives for the Mjmgapik > ri ting ot their pie Ige to resut 5w bringing iuiq force of tne County Act.' wtich wa< carried witbonc d ssent. A vote of thanks ti the Chair nan having been passed unanimouuly, the meetiug 4ißBolved,

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There are 30U,000 barmaids m Great Britain, and they receive an average of 3a each per, week more thau is obtained by the members of any other oocupation, except that of 'companion,' to which women can belong. EcircATHmi,.— At the meeting of the /'Central. Board of Education, held on Friday, Miss 0 J Gtobla wai» appointed aa toucher to the Ngahinipouri sohool m place of Miss Hawkeß, and it was resolved that an adult female teacher, should be appointed to the Hamilton West -acbool. It was agreed to accept an offer made by Mr H A Severn, to deliver a course of six scientific lectures to school children, these to ba charged Is for the. whole course, and adults Is to" each lecture. Thb Football ' Match.— -The following are the names as given by Saturday's ' Herald ' of players composing the teajpa to be sent from Auckland to meet the team chosen from the Waikato frontier clubs :— 0 Burgess, B Burgess, Henderson, Riu?, Tand J Macky, Warbrick, J Philson, W Philson, Bhakespeare, 0 irter, Mowbray, Gudgeon, Bjnner, and Stowfield. We now learn that the frontier team are not prepared to play uutll the middle of August. An East Coast contemporary says :— "Natives occupying 'and adjoining land that is m the occupation of Europeans should be made to bear their quota of the expense of dividing fences ; this should be a oharge on the land. At present they neither contribute towards the costs of the roada that materially improve their property nor to the fences that earround it. This m many instances acts as a dtag to improvements being'undertaken. The European settler does not care about spending his money for the equal b3nefit of his Maori neighbour, who basks m the sunshine and Sees his property improve through the white man's outlay. Natives appreciate good roads as well as most people. If they have any property for sale with good road communication thereto, they never fail to make that an excuse for the exorbitant figure they demand for it. This session we hope to see a stand made against any further continuance of the Protective-Coddling - Native-Policy, 'and we trust to see natives (m certain areas) made to contribute towards the County rateß." Pbdioebb S COOK. —We have to announce the birth of a member of (he aristocracy (bovine) 'an Cambridge— none of your spurious jatu tarts, but the pure bloo 1 of the herd- book The third Ear,l of Darlington was calved on Thursday last on the farm of Mr Fanthani. He* was got by Second E/iri of Darlington, 78, Slew Zealand Herd'bobk, out of Grand Duchess of Halcomlja. His dam is of pure pedigree, being goi; by Eighth Duke of York, out of Matchless (I9th), norself got by B.»yal Cumberland (27358). The EifeUth Duke of York was sold for £2,000 to the Dake of Devonshire. He was of the celebrated Duchess tribe, ten animals of which were sold by auction at an average of £4682 each. v The Seuond Earl of Darlington, sire of the coif just dropped, is of equally good blood, having been- got by Second Duke of Gloster, out of Darlington, 17, by Grand Duke of York (24071). Duke of Gloster was sold m 1874 to Mr Ashourner for 1,200 guineas, and 13 one of the purest Duchess bulls m England. . The aooliniitisation of the hare is any. thing but ah unmixed blessing to landowners ia Victoria, especially to tho->e who have . turned their attention from cultivation to sheep-grazing. Complaints are general m this district;, says the 'Kyneton Guardian, 1 Victoria, of the very serious loss and inconvenience occasioned by the great number of tres-pa-sers who, with dog and gun, think nothing of beating a farmer's paddocks, slaughtering all the hares they can find, and huuting the sheep about till they are almost as «viid as the hares. Upon nearly every farm around Kynecon notices are conspicuously posted, oautioniug such trespassers that they will ba prosecuted, but the nuisance remains almost unabate 1. At the meeting of the committee of the grioultural Society, Mr Lewis Thompson stated that a gang of 14 men, armed with 12 guns, and accom amed by 18 dogs, had recently made a poaohing expedition over hid land. It is startling news, exclaims the Sussex • Daily News,' which Mr Proctor has just communicated to us. The earth has not done growing yet, though it is old enough to have reached its time of atagnation. It feeda on meteors, and these must, of course, at least increase its bulk. Few people have imagined that the earth is eating every day, and that by the end of tha year it has taken no less than 400,000,000 meteors into its constitution. Yet Mr Proctor answers for this. He says that the shooting stars are simply meteoric stones falling to the earth at the rate of more than a million a day. But there are small signs of obesity m our globe as yet, because these 4<>o millions a year, would need to go on falling for mil ions of years before another foot can b,e added to the earth's diameter. By that time, it is probable that the earth will have come into collision with one of. those blazing suns which now appear periodically m the heavens, and go out suddenly when they have ceased to combust. This it the way science now arranges the end of the woWd. It is to be a railway collision and a conflagration on a large scale. Human Leather. — The question ia whether m this age of investigation we are going to allow the bodies of the dead to remain unutilised. Although the majority of mankinl ' will doubtless promptlyjdispose of this not over ngreeable consideration by an unequivocal affirmative, two shoemakers m the City of New York think otherwise, and according to a late number of the 'Scientific American,' they each exhibit a handsome pair of boots made from human leather m support of their, views. Th« skin wa3 furnished from the front and back of a dias acting room subject, who had died suddenly from acoident, and upon whom decay had not yet began to act. It was placed m a solution of hemlock and white oakjliark, and, after the tanning, which lasted three weeks, emerged m the shape of a soft, pliable, light brown leather, like fine calf skin, but more porous, The available skin on a goid sizad man says the ' Scientific American,' will make the legs and uppers of two pairs of boots after allowing for reasonable waste' This is the second utilisation that has bsen p oposed. The other was to cremate the bodies m gas retorts, and to convert the , volatile matter into illuminating gas, and the ' bones into phosphates. Thb Condition o» California.— An old Grey Valley digger who went to California, and whose letter is Dublishe i m the " Argus" giv-s the following »is his personal impressions of the condition of U<ilifornii : — "I never saw the times look so bad as they do now at the present thnle m this country, and I believe they who b wome before they are any better: Thpre is every «ppearane of a dry y«ar for croal 3 - Tht-re has scarcely been any rain, at 1 this season; some men that own she p are killing th^ir lambs as they come, to -"avi the oiil elie •»'. Dowi m thispa'-t, of the country thp g-uss lias ju*t eproute 1, an d is dying out f>v wai t of rain, aud t trousajjda pf ipro, pf ft iu a^e ctyjog also

for rain. There are great complaints 8 among the working classes owing to th Chinese being so numarous m t'no country , All the rai.lroads are built; by Chinese, and most of ' the mines hare them ; m fact, everywhere where there ie anything doing m this country the Chinese have preference with capital, they are a little cheaper than white labour. The country appears to be overrua with men looking for work ; white labour cannot "compete with the Chinese of the country »