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Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2619, 25 April 1889, Page 2

Lord and Lady Onslow will pass through Hamilton by special train to-day, at about four o'clock.

A small muff left by a lady at Col. Forbes' lecture can be obtained by the owner calling at this office.

The monthly meeting of r the Hamilton Domain Board lapsed on Tuesday last for want of a quorum. There were 1243 arrivals in the colony during the month of March, and l(j50 departures, being an excess of emigration of -107 persons. A meeting to present Mr W. S. Stewart .with a testimonial will be held in the Cambridge Public School at 4.30 p.m. to-day, instead of at 4 p.m. as previously announced. We understand that the dispute which has been standing for some time between Mr Anderson and the sub-con-tractor on the Waiteti contract is still unsettled, and is likely to end in a law suit. News has been received from New Guinea to the effect that Sogari, tho head of a hunting tribe, had murdered an Englishman, a Swede, and a Malay, all of whom were engaged at the beche-de-mer fishing. The last of the volunteers remaining in camp took their departure from Hamilton yesterday morning. The Auckland contingent of the fatigue party left by the ordinary train, having shipped all the baggage the day before. A meeting of the Hamilton Football Club will be held in The Waikato Times Buildings on Saturday evening at S p.m., as there is business of importance to consider. A full and punctual attendance is requested. Saturday next will be observed as a half-holiday in Hamilton, on account of the S.A.R.C. Autumn Meeting taking place on that day. The business premises will be closed during the afternoon, and will re-open at 6 p.m.

There was a very large number of visitors from the country districts oil Monday to witness the volunteer movements, in Hamilton. Tho road from Cambridge was at one time one long string of vehicles, full of sight-seers.

Both the Cambridge and Taotaoroa Road Board meetings that should hare been held at Cambridge, on Saturday, lapsed for want of quorums. A few interim cheques were signed by two members of the Cambridge Board. The annual meetings of the boards! will be held on Saturday, Ith May, at Cambridge. The services at S. Andrew's Church, Cambridge, on Sunday last were choral, the canticles m the morning being taken to Jackson in F, and the evening to Statham in E. The Church was very prettily decorated with white flowers, the font being particularly effective. The morning congregation was a largo one, but tho wet and cold prevented many attending in the evening. In our report of the volunteer camp arrangements, wa omitted to refer to the splendid water supply, with which all were highly pleased. Under Capt. Reed s superintendence, n spring of clear water had beau tappsd and led into tanks through a proper filtration bed, approved of by Dr. Kenny, honorary staff surgeon of the Hamilton Light Infantry. We do not know whose duty it is to see that a large hole —whsre Mr Sargent had his vault—on the site of the late fire in Duke-Btreet, Cambridge, is filled in; but if it is not d >ne, someone will run a considerable risk of being mulcted in damages. There is no fence, and in the dark nights that are coming, someone will probably be taking a header into it, and will alight on a nice bed of brick ends—with what result remains to be seen.

Our Auckland correspondent's tele(train in another column states that Mr Porter, of Mercer, has written a bitter complaint against the volunteers. Mr Porter is not alone in his charges against our "noble defenders,"as some of the Hamilton people could state. The Navals are the culprits, and considerable weeding out could be effected with advantage to this nrin of the service. They ape the " sailor ashoie" with added vices and no redeeming qualities. Our contemporary the Star insinuates that the site of the Volunteer camp was selected in the interest of the canteen. This is disproved by the fact that during the greater part of three days the whole force was withdrawn from the encampment, viz.—On Saturday at the sports on Sydney Square, on Sunday at Church parade and on Monday at the review in Hamilton East. Mr Smith did not reap a harvest out of the canteen. The Herald of Monday contains a long verbatim account of an intervew between Lord Onslow and a reporter from that journal. It is a painful exhibition of vulgarity aud bad taste by no means creditable to the "leading" paper. At first sight the report reads like a clumsy skit. Poor Lord Onslow ! To be so soon face to face with colonial bad-breeding the moment he has sot foot on New Zealand soil ! At a late hour, tired and hungry, his fortitude and patience under the infiietion were ad. lnirable. The train arrangement on Monday night was fearfully muddled. The special train to convey tho volunteers back to Auckland was to have left Hamilton at 11.30., aud the troops were marched to the station at that hour. Rut the train Old i|ot arrive at Hamilton till 12.30 a.m«i and it was 2 a.m. before it finally steamed out of the station for the home journey, and did not reach Auckland till 10 a.m. Tho delay was very discreditable, and extremely tried tho patience of t|).o volunteers, who were drawn up for three hours waiting to embark.

TJie courss of literary gvenjogs that wore held in S. Andrew's afjhuol a aiiort time since proved such a sucG6as tliat it is intended to inaugurate another aeries, Wdfimencing ou Wednesday, May Ist. from iyhfl,t we can gather _ among tho inhabitants ot tho pown, this series is not likely to oe nearly as sucpbssfijl as the last, unless tiis subjects of the l.ectilrea ape of p. more entertaining character than the majority of the former series. The " l-'aithg of tin! World " have been thrashed bare ; lot ns now have something that will somojtiipes raise a smile. Mr F.. 0- lijcJifc, sugar expert, estimates the j)r"dn.cti.o?) of beetroot sugar for tho ih-st seven months of tho ye?.? at 188,000 tons in excess (if that fop the sarrje period of last year. He estimates that the yield of sugar for Europe will give a surplus of 270,000 tons. Mr Licht expects that the high prices now obtained will increase the world's average, and that of Europe by 10 per cent. j|e estimates that stocks at the end of Augwt wjll be IHQ.OQO tons below those of last year, ai}d MwS fhp ponsumption will bo 200,000 tons higher. On Sunday last an neouienfc happened to Mr A. H. Whitehouso whij.it out riding in company with his brother at ijiiVtaicoha. The horse lie was riding sudifanjiy f.e 1/, ?.nd threw its rider heavily, who struck Hk k shoulder violently against the Ground,'" &Q I;oifig picked up ho found his left collar bomyiid typkm. A ride of over 20 miles was tij obtain medical assistance. Ou Tuesday ha P,-oiocded to Auckland, and a further inveatiuatuja proved that the Bhoulder was also dislocated. Mis injuries having been attended to he is now, we are pleased to state, progressing as well as can pa expected.

The Auckland volunteers arrived in town yesterday forenoon, at ten o'clock, after a long and tedious journey from Hamilton. On arrival here the men fell in, and were addressed briefly by Colonel Shepherd. He expressed his gratification at the manner in which tho encampment had been carried out. As tho troops were tired he dismissed them at the station, instead of inarching them to the Drill-shed, and they straggled off homo in twos and throes, wiser, and withal sadder men. On the way down the train stopped at Drury for a short time, in order to hold a court-martial. Two members of the Wairoa Rifles, it seems, were arrested by a picket for firing blank cartridges at Hamilton. The case was gone into, with the result that the accused were dismissed from the service.—Herald. We notics in several of our contemporaries remarks which lead us to believe that something will be done soon to place newspapers on a better footing in respect to racing clubs than they have hitherto been. One paper suggests that cheap advertising should be put a stop to, and others have various other suggestions to make, one of the most important of which is that each club shall contribute so much a year to the Press Association, or its weights will not be telegraphed through. As to the cheap advertising, that is a matter quite within the control of tho newspapers themselves, and it is high time the clubs were stopped from being allowed to dictate terms. We can instance a club on this coast which mado a lot ot money out of its last meeting, and spent on advertising in the papers in its own district £10 ! It paid more to get into the Referee, but why should the local papers be put to the expense of providing sporting news from all parts of tho colony, to the great dissatisfaction of a very numerous class of readers who object to so much space being given to racing, when they do not get the same return as sporting papers for their news? Jockey Clubs will answer that the sporting paper is quite enough for them, as all the owners take it. Very well, if that is so, will they be satisfied if their local papers prefer to allow them to wait a weok for the news till they get their Referee? Only those who aro in newspaper offices have any idea of the absolute selfishness of the sporting public. There is never a set of weights, or a report of a race meeting due, but they aro flocking round for news, and not unfrequently complain because it is not to hand or is meagre. Are papers to cater for only one class of tho community ? If so, are they to do it at their own expense ? The question as to tho Press Association receiving payment is a good one, but it wants working out. To nay the Association the money is not enough, it ought to be distributed pro rata among the papers who subscribe to the Association according to tho class they occupy on the Association list. In any case the present state of things must cease, and tho sootier tho Jockey Clubs aro brought face to faco with the fact that local journals are not going to bo beaten down to starvation rates, and at the same time spend several hundreds a year to provide sporting news, the better.—Yeoman.