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Waikato Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 2847, 11 October 1890, Page 2

It is stated that a number of Fenian prisoners will shortly be pardoned, O'Connor has denosited £100 for his match with Kemp for tho championship of the world. The date of the last of S. Andrew's ii«ri<li evenings is advertised as altered to Wednosday. The Huntly miners having resumed work, the fear of a coal taiomo in Waikatn is now happily ended. A united general meeting of the parishioners nf Cambridgp, Tamahere and Ohanpo is advertised for Monday next. The Ngamotu Lodge, 2,053, EC, unanimously resolved to join the Grand Lodge of New Zsaland, from November Ist. The London wool market is recovering, and a better spirit prevails. Prices aie now at the highest point reachod since the series opened. The annual meeting of the Hamilton Lawn Tennis Club will take place today at 4 o'clock, on the Conrt. Tea will bo provided. All interested am invited. The English mail via direct service closes in thn Waikato this morning. The mails from Knglnnd by both the San Francisco and direct lines are due in Waikato on Monday. The effort made some two years ago to introduce the humble bee into Waikato hove, wo aro much pleased to hear, proved successful, as several havo been seen in the neighbourhood of C4orton. A well attended dance was held in the old Wesleyan Church at Cambrides on Wednesday evening, as a wind-up to tho dancing class. The music was supplied by Messrs Lamb and Stewart, and Mr H. Beil made an efficient M.C. A new sprayer, a. patent of Dr. Hoskiugs. of Mastertnn, is on view at this office. The appliance is one of the best of the kind wo have seen, the machine can be inspected by anyone interested, between 2 and 3 o'clock this afternoon. For the first time we believe on record, whitebait have been seen in the Waikato River as far up as Hamilton. On Thursday morning some gentlemen who were bathing saw several shoals pass through the Hamilton West Baths. Mr John McNicol had the misfortune to loso a valuable Clydesdale mare on Wednesday night. The mare was outs he bought at the last Stud Company's sale and was in foal to Klgiu, so that thn loss is a double on!.', us the foal would have been a valuable animal. Tim mare died from an attack uf gripes brought on by over-feed-ing. Mr C. Hudson, District Railway Manager, who has been in charge of tho InvercargiU district for some littln time past, was in Hamilton last night. This is Mr Hudson's first vir-it to tho Waikato sinco he returned to the Auckland province. Ho is looking remarkably well for tho change, and is very much pleased with his experiences down South. Queensland appears to be a land of suicides, and this modo of ending life's trials and turmoils has been greatly on the increase during the past few months. No less than eleven casps were recently brought under the notice of tho Department of the Minister of Justice in one day, and the number for this yoar up to the present time is said to exceed the terrible total of 700.

Mr H. Howden gave one of his popular socials last Wednesday nitrht, in the old Savage Club Chambers, in Victoriastreet, Hamilton. The time was pleasantly and profitably spent with vocal and instrumental items, recitatations, etc. Refresh ments were provided ad lib in Mr Howden's usual recherche style. At twelve o'clock the party broke up by einging Auld Lang Syne, everybody being thoroughly satiated with tho ovening's amusement.

The Hamilton Brass Band will play again this evening from 7 to 8 o'clock, at the corner of the Jubilee Garden, and from 8 to l> o'clock in Mr Maunder's paddock, adjoining the Parsonage grounds. Two accomplished musicians have joined the band during the last fow days. It is really quite a treat to listen to the oxcollont selections which this now very efficient body of musicians, under the excellent tuition of Bandmaster Mottnm are enabled to discourse.

We learn from a private source that Muhuki; the Maori prophet, has gathered round him at Tβ Kuiti a large following. He states that the Lord is coming to the earth in about a month and the world will then end. Several natives and halfcastes, including some storekeepers, have such belief in hia prophecy that they have handed over nil their worldly B 'oods to Mahuki. He has also made several large donations of land to Europeans living in that district.

The rapidity with which the colony has buen over-run with Trades Unions lias startled many easy-going colonists, who rub their eyes and think they must have been dreaming. Take Napier as a case in poiut. Eight months ago— on January Ist of this year—with the exception of the Typographical Association and the C.ibmon's Union, thero were no Unions there, but to-day, says the News, they stand as follows:—Wharf labourers 239, timber workers 230, butchers 100, saddlers 20, working men 220, and railway servants 1.10.

A Nelson correspondent sends to tho ClirietcLurch Press a card of invitation lately issued by l'isliori Sutnr to members nnd attendants of All Saints' Church, NolRon. As a pleasant play of Episcopal humor it is worthy of extended circulation, and also dcsnrvns a plnno in theno nolumns as a distinctly New Zealand product. The invitation commences in tho customary form, with " Request tho pleasure of receiving Mr ," anri then comes the programme :—" Tena Kon," 7.30 to 8 ; Music and Korero, 8 to 8.40 ; address of the Bishop, 8.40 to D ; kai, 9 to 9.30 ; Korero and music, 9.30 to 10 ; final waiata, 10.10 ; •'Haere Atu," 10.10. Kindly leave reply at Bishop's cottage. Bring this card with you. Morning dcess."

The Standard states that Walter Cole's colonial butter churn is tho most remarkable novelty at the jrreat Dairy bhow now being held at the Agricultural Hall, Islington.

Bather an uncommon banking arrangement is carried on in the Manawatu district. It may be described as a kind of portable teller's office. On certain days of the week a clerk from one of the Palinerston Banks travels up and down the railway line from Palmerslon to Otaki, transacting the ordinard business of the Bank en route. Laden with a satchel containing bia supply of cash, and provided with a teller's usual precautions against danger of robbery, he makes the carriage his head-quarteis, and there receives visits from customers at the way stations, changing cheques or taking deposits as occasion may require. This plan must bring a good share of grist to thn Bank's mill, and prove very convenient to settlers, who are saved all the trouble of journeying to town to relieve themselves of surplus money.—Post.

A petition has been numerously signed in Hamilton praying the Mayor and councillors of the Borough of Hamilton, if at all possible, to accept the services of tho hire caretaker of the Hamilton public baths (Mr Hinton) for the ensuing season, as he carried nut his duties so satisfactorily last year. The document, which has only been out for signature for a couple of days, has no less than S(i names attached to it, including ninny of the principal citizens of the township. The following is the petition :—"The Mayor and Councillors ot tho Borough of Hamilton, —Gentlemen.—ln view «f the satisfactory manner in which Mr Joseph Hinton performed his duties of bath caret-iker during last season, we, the undersigned ratepayers and residents, beg most respectfully to request that, if at all possible, he be allowed to retain that position."

The Union Steamship Company have ordinarily about 1500 uersons in ita employ, and expend in wages and other expenses more than a. quarter of a million sterling per annum. The wages paid to the men actually engaged in running thp Company's 42 steamers may be roughly estimated at ±113,000 per month, and the money distributed in wages to wharf labourers and others employed in loading unil discharging at the several other ports is computed at no less thin £(5000 per month. The Company has now running, we believe, 22 steamers, and have cunnecter) therewith 1000 hands, [t will be seen from the foregoing that, so far ns the strike roos, the Company has virtually surmounted the difficulty, and it would be better for all concerned if the thing were ended at once, and those who can should return to work. The prolongation can do no ono any good, but accentuates the misery already canned.—Exchange.