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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3154, 10 September 1892, Page 2

The English, harvest is estimated to average 22 bushels per acre. The Colonial Office has promised to reconsider the to renew the 'Frisco mail contract. The cricket match East v. West Kngland was played at Portsmouth on September 7. Mr S. M. J. Woods took six wickets tor fifteen runs in seven overs. Mr Greymier ( clerk in the French Minister of Marino's Department has been sentenced to 20 years' panal servitude and 20 years' eiile for selling naval secrets to the German officials. There J<ras only one defended case heard at the Cambridge R.M. Court, yesterday, viz., H. De Blois v. John McVarlana, claim £4 0s 2d. Judgment was given for plaintiff for £3 17s 2d and costs. Captain Jackson, R.M., has been appointed Commissioner to hold an enquiry as to the control and maintenance of the bridge over the Waikato, at Cambridge. The enquiry will b<3 held at Cambridge, but the date has nob yet been fixed. The President of the Waikato Trotting Club, Mr T'.itchen, of Gwynnelands, evidently intends tne Club to prosper for he has presented a very handsome and massive silver cup to be competed for at the forthcoming meeting. If may be viewed at Mr R. W. Sargent's, jeweller, Cambridge. A big tangi was held at Pukekawa on Wednesday over the remains of one Pita Waikato. Between 4 and o o'clock some heavy reports, like the firing of bin guns, were heard by residents both in Hamilton and Whatawhata. On enquiry we find this was caused by heavy discharges of dynamite, part of the proceedings at the aforementioned tangi. The thoroughbred entire, Kaglan, will stand this season, at Mr Carter's stables, Cambridge, visiting Kihikihi, Ohaupo, Whatawhata and Hamilton, as per route notified in this issue. Raglan was Fired by Cap-a-pie out of Tenambra. So that tor breeding racing stock and hunters it would be difficult to select a sir? better calculated to suit the general requirements of the district.

The s.s. Freetrader will run from .Yl»:iruawalii:i to To liuro an Thursday, •J2n(l inst. The hounds will meet at Xamaliere Currier, mi Monday, and at H.ititripu, mi Saturday next. Messrs James S. Bond, James Jf;t 11 y iind Henry Kerr, have been duly nliicted as councillors fur the Borough of Cambridge. The annual meeting of the Humilton Cricket Club will be held iu Tub Waikato Timks Building*, on Thursday evening next. Entries for the annual stallion parade under tlio auspices ot the Waikato Farmers' Club, close will) the Secretary, Cambridge, (in Saturday next.. Under i jstructions from Mr J. B. .Somerset, Mr John Knox will hold a clearing aula of livo and doad stock, turnicure, etc., at Raglan, on Saturday, September 21th. At a meeting of the Hamilton Opera Company, held on Thursday evening, it was decided to put the opera of Leu Cloches de Corneville in rehearsal as soon aa the hooka can be obtained. Messrs Samuel "Vaile and Sons' will sell the splendid sheep and cattle run at Whangape, the property of Mr H. Sutherland, on Friday, 30th inst., at their land sale room, Auckland.

A preliminary announcement appears in our advertising columns that, tho Cambridge Rink Carinval, will be held on Wednesday, the 2Dth inst. This is just a word of warning to the ladies to look up their fancy costumes.

Regarding 1 the threatened maritime strike in Australia, it is said there is little danger of the difficulty extending to New Zealand on this occasion. Mr Mills, general manager of the Union Steamship Company, states that, though this company is affiliated with the Australian Shipowners' Association, it is in way involved in the wages dispute that has now arisen in Australia. The Union Company will not t .ke any part in the dispute, and it is not likely its employees will.

Much has been said as to the advantages possessed by those living nt>ar Auckland in the matter of raising early crops, the warmer climate and comparative immunity from frosts rendering the growing of early potatoes in particular a. very profitable branch of farming. But, judging by the advanced state of a patch of Early Rose potatoes now growing in the garden of Air R. F. Sandes, Hamilton West, it would really appear as if only a suitable soil and position were required to enable potatoes to be grown in Waikato equally early in the season. These potatoes are almost in flower, and being well protected from westerly and southerly winds, and planted in a warm, sandy soil, will doubtless yield a good crop within a few weeks from now.

Thomas Gr. Shearman, writing in the London Times, on the nomination of Mr Cleveland, sets it down to the fact that those who have hitherto been among the most obatinate opponents of anything savouring of free trade and who strove to defeat Mr Cleveland upon that ground may now be safely i-aid to be unanimously opposed to Miy further continuance of taxation of consumers for tho profit of manufacturers. u Protection " in the United States is doomed, for the control of the Government is unquestionably passing into the hands of the Democratic party ; and the only possible question is whether that event will happen in 1802 or 189(i. Tho longer it is postponed the more sweeping will be the triumph of free trade. This result is no longer a matter of speculation \ it is, except as to the precise date, a certainty.

As showing the deep-root°d love for football possessed by British juveniles in general, a scene presented itself yesterday to our reporter that would have made a first-class study for an artist, bringing to mind at once Max O'Rell's remarks on the subject. A small paddock, two goals of ti-treo stuck about twenty paces apart. Full-back, an old-fellow in knickerbockers, somewhere between 7 and '.); forwards, all stalwart fellows, liko himself, have gained a trv, and are about to have a place-kick at goal. One of them is lying down, with only shirt and breeches on, kept together by a piece of flax, and seemingly his pocket handkerchief protruding through the gable end of the latter. An apology for a ball was a defunct starling, held by the wings asunder to better enable the kickest to catch the body with his formidable toe. The opponents, all breathless and eager to stop it, rush up simultaneously with the kick given, and, amid a deluge of feathers, they all collided, falling pell moll on the top of one another, utterly regardless of the vehoment yells of the old fellow from the bottom of the heap that the ball was "hold."