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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2487, 19 June 1888, Page 2

The Hawea is now a total wreck. The House has decided to admit sheep dip free (if rluty. The Australians won the match against Middlesex by eight wickets. Government statistical returns show r>1,300 Chinese aro in Australasia. It is reported that Stanley was wmmdud in .1 fight with hostile natives. The Canadian four million loan at. o per cent, lias been subscribed threefold, at an average of VJii. Mr J. B. Smith of Waitoa is an applicant for a licensed holding Ht Karangahake to bo called tho " Silver King." At a special meeting of the Hamilton K»ad Doard, hald on Saturday, it was decided not to call a public meeting of ratepayers. We beg to remind our readers that til-morrow (Wednesday) 20th inst., is tho day advertised for taking tho library poll between the hours of 'J a.m. and 1 p.m. Lieut-Colonels Butts and Hume and Captains Dougla*, Coleinan and Falkuner, have been appointed a commission to revise tho volunteer regulations. The Malay tragedy at Normantown has resulted in a riot, the Europeans having burnt all the houses of aliens and drove them out of the town. Further trouble is feared. Among the -passengers by the Zealandia yesterday was Mr W. L. Kee.«, who goes home to bring out a book on the social problem, which is to put Stuart Mill and Henry George in the shade. The returns of the arrivals and departures to and from tho colony during the month of May show that there were i>23 person.-, who entered to 21.1!) who hare left tho country, or an excess unfavourable to the colony of 1100 uouls. It is intended to expend about £8,000 in falling and clearing away several thousand acres of bush on the Patetere estate. Besides this a road through the property is to be surveyed and formed. These works will give employment to fully one hundred men.

Mr J. S. Buckland has taken over the Waikato businessof Messrs A. Buckland and Co., which he will in future conduct on his own account, Mr Bucklnnd's well-known energy and ability as a cattle salesman ought to ensuro him every prosperity and procure the confidence of a large clientelle.

An entertainment, consisting of " An evening with the Poets," by Mr G. W. Russell, singing, and a negro entertainment, will be held in the Kihikihi Public Hall on Thursday, in aid of the funds of the Kihikihi Library. Mr Russell's portion of tho entertainment is spoken of very highly, and should draw a good audience.

From a paper (No- 14) issued by the Agricultural Department it appears that the prospects of tho wheat crop in India, now being reaped, aro unusually good. Tho area is rather larger everywhere ; in Berar it exceeds that ol 1887 by nearly a tenth, and favourable rains warrant the expectation of "a bumper crop,"

The following are the officers elect for Lodge Beta Waikato, ioO, 1.C., for the ensiling vear Bro. P.M. Androw Prim r-.se, W.'M. ; Bro. W. K. 8011, S.W. ; Bro. H. I. Biggs, J.W. ; 8r... P.M. If. Edgecombe, Secretary and Treasurer: Bro. R. O'C. Biffus, Chaplain; Bro. E. Rathbome, S.D. ; 8r... E. T. Davey, J.D. ; Bro. A. G. Bright, J.G. ; Bro. S. Pascoe, Tyler. The ceremony of installation will tako place on Monday next. June 25th.

A truck load of pure Jersey cattle, consisting of a bull, 15 young cows, and four youngsters, passed through Hamilton by rail on Saturday, on their way to Mr Henry Reynolds' farm, at Cambridge, and judging from the care taken of them, most of them being clothed, they must be a valuable lot. It is evident that Mr Reynolds intends keeping in tho front with his dairy business, for the introduction of Jerseys amongst his dairy herd will undoubtedly add to the superiority of his " Anchor" brand of butter, already a standard article iu the Auckland market.

The Salvation Army at Hamilton held their Saturday and Sunday nights' meetings in tho Volunter Hall, Hamilton West, and on each occasion the hall was well tilled, and good meetings were held. On Sunday night (Jailet Leonard, who has been here for the last month, took her farewell from Hamilton, and left for Auckland by yesterday morning's train, whence she gees to Paruell. She will be greatly missed from the Hamilton platform, as she is a good speaker, and a very earnest worker. The meeting last night was conducted by Lieut. Ellis and Mrs Captain Cutler, in the absence of Captain Cutler, who is at present in Auckland on business.

A Victorian writes:—*' I feel persuaded there are decidedly better times in store for New Zealand, but what with bad legislation, railway jobs, and a general disposition (as I have always heard) of each town to work for its own selfish ends, nothing cosmopolitan being recognised, the whole colony has been brought to a very low state. Passengers coining into Melbourne at the rato of 100 or 200 per week from your side, as they have been doing for some months past, is to me an unmistakeable evidence of this fact. They sayit is a long lane that has no turning, and, no doubt, during: the coming summer a favourable tido of affairs will be experienced ; at least, wo will hope so."

The secretary of the Hamilton Public Library forwards ub a list of new books placed upon the shelves to-day. They are as follows:—"Jess," "She," "Dawn," and "The Witch's Head," by Rider Haggard ; "Never too late to mend," Charles Read; "The Golden Butterfly," by Rice and Besant; "The Descent of Man," Charles Darwin ; " History of Australia," Sutherland; "Byron's Poems." Theso are the first instalment of a parcel of books ordered for the library. _As the funds are at low water mark, it is to be hoped that the additions being made may not only induce those in arrears with their subscriptions to pay up, but that it will lead to others subscribing to this most commendable institution.

According to the Londpn correspondent of the South Australian Advertiser, about a year ago when the Prince of Wales was in Berlin, the then Crown Princess begged him to speak to her son and remonstrate with him upon his ridiculous Anglophobia notions. He did so to his own exceeding discomfort. Instead of respectful attention he encountered derisive contempt. Prince William said lie detested and despised everything English. The English were swaggering braggarts, and their Empire was on its decline. Ho likened our condition to that of Koine in its worst state, and drew other equally instructive comparisons. The other day when his nose bled and liaukerchiefs were offered him, Prince William refused tlmm, observing - " Tlio more of this d d English blood I lose the better 1 shall bo."

A contemporary publishes the following:—"There were IUO cases of twins born iu the city and suburbs of Sydney last year." Bless my heart! Cases of baliies ! How many wero in each caso|? That is a point of which no information is vouchsafed. This is something new. I used to bo told about babies coming home to parents in cabbages, and to have other stories of that kind instilled into tne when I became too realistic and Zoliesque in my inquiries. But that they should be born by the ease has never before been attempted even in fiction invented for children. No wonder that Sydney is rapidly progressing in population, when tho folks thero will not be content with tho good old plan, and must have the accessions to their population made wholesale by the Crfse.- " Atticus,"m Melbonrno Leader. *-