The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1783, 8 December 1883, Page 2

The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

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SATURDAY. DEC. 8, ISSJ.

Viscount Berehaven was a passengci to Auckland by yesterday's train.

Two inebriates were disposed of at the Coiut-houso, Hamilton, yesterday winning.

A telephone station is to be established .it W.utetuna, on the HamiltonHaglan line, on the representation of the member for Waipa.

S. Peter's Roman Catholic Church, Cambridge, is at present being .slightly renovated. Mr Jas. Stuart has received the contract for painting it, and the work lias now been commenced.

We would remind owners of horses th.it the entries for the Oxford races to be held on Bo\mg Day will close to-d.iy with Mr ft. Kirkwood at Cambridge, and tho Secietary, Mr McLellan, .it Oxford.

It is expected that Mr Bryce will hold another meeting with the natives at Kihikiln on the 17th hist., at which the leading chiefs aie expected to be present. The object of the meeting will likely be to airange niatteis of loutine.

The opening services in connection with the new Presbyterian Church at To Awamutu will be held on Sunday, the Kith. A public meeting will be held in the chinch on the following Tuesday evening.

The English mail via San Francisco will close at the Hamilton Post Office on Monday morning at 10 a.m. This mail i.s due in London on the l'.lth January, 1884. The usual monthly meeting of the Cambiidge Town Board will be held at the board's office on Monday evening. A meeting of the Cambridge Domain Board will be held at the same office on the same evening, after the town board meeting.

The adjourned sitting of the Native Lands Court at Cambridge is fixed for the 2!) th inst. The com t will open on that day, but it is not likely that any busines.s whatever will be done. It is generally undei stood that the com t will be opened by some of ita officers, and immediately ad joui nod.

At a special meeting of the Cambridge Highway Boaid, held yestculay, tenders wore opened for works in tho distiict. The tendci of Mr Henry Millar, of 20s per chain for forming at TC\\ en's Hill, was accepted. A tender of 2s a-yaid was lecened for the gravelling, but was not accepted.

An "Old Beekeeper" gives the following cine for beu stings:—A btrong ■solution of caibonatc of soda is a first-class lemedy foi bee .sting.s, mosquito bites, ■scalds, burns <&c. A supply of this should always be kept handy iv a .small bottle well corked. To apply, moisten the parts affected two or three tinie.s.

Professors Tucker and Brown, of the Auckland University, and Messrs G. Aitken, La Koche, Thompson and Phillips, membeis of the Auckland City Council, were passenger* to Hamilton in Mr Johnson's coach yesterday from To Aniha, when* they weie the guests of Messis Filth andClaik. They pioceed to Auckland by tiain ti -day.

At the sale work in aid of S. Peter's Church Funds to be held next Wednesday, the committee have made arrangements to enliven the proceedings with a little mn.sic. The Hamilton Glee Club have kindly promised to assist, and as its liiember.s are mostly new to the Hamilton public, it will be a. welcome change from the too familiar faces generally present at our musical entertainments.

The Armed Constabulary at Cambridge aie at present busily engaged forming the Thornton road between S. Andrew's Church and the Fen Court turning. From present appearances the road, or at least this portion of it, will be a great improvement on the old state of affairs when finished.

Now that the proper season has jinived we hope the Cambridge Public Hall Committee will not lo.se sight of our suggestion a few days ago regarding the painting of the building. Possibly they aie awaiting the carrying out of improvements generally, when the work of painting will be carried out (simultaneously.

The following cricket team will represent Ngaruawahia at the contest with Hamilton on Sydney Square to-day: — Messrs Soper, Edney, Jenkins, Bab»r, Beale, Saulby, Bathboue, Edgecumbe, Harris, Webber, Hagg, Greenwood, Osborne, and McKeddie. The names of the Hamilton team appeared in our last iasne.

The Taotaoroa Road Board is at present making a splendid job of the Gorton road between Cambridge and the Gorton estates. Hitherto the road along here lias been little else than a track, and at night was not altogether of the safest for travelling. The road through the gorge is being; greatly improved. Messrs J. and A. Forrest are the contractors for the work.

There will be a cricket match between Cambridge and Alexandra at the latter place next Saturday. Considering the willingness with which the athlete^ of Alexandra, whether footballers or cricketers, always manifest in.' visiting the other townships, we are pleased tp notice that it has now come to, their turn to be visited. ■' ' ' ' ' "

Not a little,excitement; mingled* with'satisfaction/was, inaJnife^ted in, Cami (tyidfreonWefoesfaypfoitaglM& vlwp ty

became known thafc^Messrd GrJ^ m & Walker had won the appeal case \Mtli tho. Ngatikauwhata native*) Ani Wa'rta alid^ others. This case haja now beon bt*r c the' public for oveiM*. year nb' 1 diiferBiimi mo s, and in different ~ f or msi< , . **

We understand that the coikWi- ! cntly situated paddock," immediately) ipp 0 - , site the National Hotel, now known i s the Government paddock^ia to become a pfe - rnianent recreation reserve for Cambridge, [n case of its being handed over < 0 tl 10 town boaid, it will bo for the i>uriog e of their reserving it for public uses only, and not to be cut up and disposed .Sf by lease. A better site than this cou,J not possibly be fixed upon. /

To-day the shareholders of the Waikato Cheese and Bacon Factory the public generally, will have an opportunity of examining the quality of thw fost produce" of that factory. The die A will be exhibited at Mr Knox'a AuctioirM.irt during the day, and, we have little <l..iibt. will be extensively sampled. As paljL; interest in the welfare of our dibtrict JWRjm factories is great, the new produce", «s'.u» to come in for an unusually large x}yi> ot inspection •

The programme for the ftew Year meeting of the Cambridge .1 1 ,]-ey Club appear* in our advertising Ci li.mv We are glad to notice that the Ht»",,n<li have altered their mind regardin 'A\> Steeplechas.o. They have now dc<pleu, instead of a Maiden SteeplechaP. of ISsovs., to have a Steeplechase Hail^ap of 20tiov-4. Thi«« alteration is a wisei lie, both as regards the interests of the \mb, horse owners, and the patrons of th? tlub generally. v h j£\

The members of the Alex^f dra Dramatic Society have arranged to eflbk»r ; tain their friends and patrons on Boring Night in the Public Hall theio. The eiifcfrtainmeiit will take the .shape of an amu.mg comedy or farce, for the finished perhmance of which the Alexancha club i» t>ply notable. The piece to bo pei formed has not yet been fixed upon, but we have little doubt it will come up to the standard of I previous performances. The proceeds, of ' the evening will be in aid of the Alu>enn<ir.i Institute and Library ; thus the object. 'n\ itself is a sufficient guarantee for a wellfilled house. Blue Ribbonism is making rapid progress in our midst, and ptomiv i befoie long to be an important factoi in the community. Of late the tanks of the "Army" .it Hamilton h.ne been considerably swollen, and much good work has been done. The ne\t meeting in connection with the organisation is adveitised to be held in the Oddfellows,' Hall, Hamilton K.ist, on Monday evening next, when interesting addresses will be deliveied by officer*, of the older. Hymns, M>[os and duet-, will be rondeied during the evening, which cannot fail to attiact an uuusually large audience.

The Cambridge Town Board have come to the conclusion th.it excluding cattle from the stieets of the town altogether h.is not been attended witb «nch infinite success, though confessedly it materially abated a very objectionable nuisance. As we stated in our last impression, the. streets in many places aro literally coseied with grass. The board has now resolved to let the cattle graze thiough the town from sumisc to sunset during the spring and summer mouths, the privilege to terminate on the hrst of Maich, when all cattle and hoi ses again have to find their way back to the domain leserve. A small eh ii gc will be made as butoie foi the use of the town inn.

The following Special telegrams dated L* n 'on, Decembi r sth, have appeared in the N./. Heiald :•—At the opening of the Calcutta Exhibition His Excellency the Marquis of Ripon expressed a hope that the Exhibition would tend to piomotc the establishment of a Urge tmde between India and Australia. The weather was wet, and the ceremony pioved a failure.—Transports capable of embarking 12,000 tioops are being ordered by the French Admiralty to rendezvous at Algieis. The Chinese Admiral has notified foreigner in Canton that war is imminent, and has warned them to preserve strict neutrality.—All thetiibes in Southern Soudan have now risen in rebellion.—The chiefs on the British leserve in Zululand aie clamouring for Cetewayo's rano\al.— Mr W. A. Long, a well-known colonial sporting man, has offered to back Trickett, Edwards and Rush against Hanlan for £1000 a side.—The latest news fioin Tonquin it, to the effect thatM. Feriy lias demanded the evacuation of Soutag and Bacninh.

Prince Louis of Battenberg's appointed to the Victoiia and Albert is, writes a contemporary, the more remarkable when we renieinbur that another Gelman Serene Highness, Prince Leiningen, formerly held that post, and that owing to the misunderstanding between him and Captain Walshe —the captain for use as the other was for omameut —as to who was in charge of the ship, she ran down the yacht Mistletoe in the Solent, and di owned several persons. The Press made such an outcry over this affair that both Prince Leiningen and Captain Walshe lesigned, and Captain Thomson, of the Challenger, was appointed sole captain. Besides the Victoria and Albert, the Queen has two smaller steam yachts, the O&borno and Albeita. The Paris correspondent of The Times declares the following to bo substantially the reply of China to the demands of France: —"We cannot agiee to have you as immediate neighbours. Our safety and tnmquility would both be threatened. We shall never agree to it, unless we are forced. If you make war on us you might possibly bend Us to your will, but the question is whether in case of war it would be against us alone you would make it. Therefore, if you wish it to be you who, under the cloak of Ana in, occupy the neutral zone, we shall not agiee to a neutial zone and it is only after a war with us that you will keep Annin and Tonquin. It we'ic better to divide Anam in t\\ o, Anan on the one side and Tonquin on the other. They naturally form two provinces ; keep Anam, which admirably completes Cochin China. We do not ask you to leave Hanoi or Haiphong. You are there by virtue of the tieaty of 1874, as you are at Shanghai by virtue of the treaty of 1838. If you wish it, you can establish yourself elsewhere on the same conditions. You cm ask us every concession in favour of freedom of trade; we will grant them to you, not only in Tonquiu, but even beyond it —even in China. You would extend your Cochin China colony, you would open up to the trade of the world, the Red Kiver, the Yunnam, and the banks of the liver in China ifcsolf. We should disturb each other no farther, and all without striking a blow. But we shall not without a fight give up the delta of the Red River, our snort practical route to the sea, to the kingdom of Anam, which will be another name for France. Ask Europe whether she advises us to do so."