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Waikato Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 3500, 29 November 1894, Page 4

The quarterly meeting of the Licen» sing District of Waipa will be held at the Court House, Hamilton, on Tuesday next, December 4th.

We have to acknowledge the receipt with thanks of a copy of the statutes for 1894 from the Government printer, Wellington. To-morrow being St. Andrew's Day, there will be the following special services at St. Andrew's Church, Cambridge Eieht a.m. (H.C.), and Stun., choral evensong with sermon by Rev. Percy Williams.

In his annual'dairy report' Mr Jolm Siwvers, the Chief Dairy Inspector, status that during his tour of inspection through the dairying districts he was sorry to find that milking was'only too frequently ■performed in a careless and dirty fashion. Elsewhere will he found anadverment from Dr. Laifhley, barrister and solicitor, of Yulcan Lane, Auek'and, re money to lend. Borrowers can obtain monev on good security at G per cent. We duvet the attention of our readers to the advertisement.

In New South Wales, where railway management has been, more rigidly protected from the interference of political influences than in any other colony, the profits for the last year have been £2G,2rS mure than the profits of the other five Australian colonies combined.

There arc at work oil Balruddery, at the present time, «iiga<red in breaking up fur turnips and grass, 26 fourhorse teams. Nearly all the cropping contractors in the district havo work on the estate, which has been a veritable windfall to them, especially in a season when very little cropping: is goins; tm. Big est iLes' have some uses aftir aH.

On our first this morning, Messrs Kemuthorne, Prosser and On. liava a new advertisement re the advantages cP their Westfield turnip manure. They claim that it is the be 4 fertilize obtainable in point of size and quality of cr ips, and that it costs less per acre than any other manure—qualities which our farming friends will fully appreciate. "A Freetrader," in reference to the Gernnn Ainßrican cut throat tariffs, quotes Sir Robert Peel as saying that " It was tiis diijy of every nnn to buy in the cheaper, market and sell in th?, dearest, and if other nations taxed our exports to them, it is they who have to pay the tax, and is no reason why we should tax ourselves and pay so much dearer for what we require." Oil the same grounds Sir Robert also abolished all reciprocity treaties which were in vogue at that time.

. From the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company's circular lor October, which contains a very full reportof the sale of New Zealand wools at the fifth series of London wool sales, we observe that wool grown in the northern portion of the colony made full average rates, In the Auckland list of parcels we note that the bulk of the clip mark-.d " Rsglan'' made from 7fd to Sid per lb, which may be said to be the full average rate for greasy crossbred wool for the whole colony.

The American road grader imported by the Southland County Omincil some months ago was tester! this week fur the first time near the Ota Creek railway station, in the presence ot the members of the council and the county inspector. The trial prove:} very successful, the slopes being finished off better than could be done with the scoop or by hand, and at less than half the cost. Half a mile of road was formed in two days, and the grader should prove a great saving to the council in forming new roads and dressing old ones.-Southern Cross.

Mr W. Johns, President of the Waikato Fruitgrowers' Association, informs us that he has received a copy of a circular which has been issued by the Railway Department with reference to the carriage and handling of fruit. It is a distinct instruction to station masters and guards that they forward all fruit on bv pa-'senger train on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and that the carters deliver the same immediately on arrival in Auckland. This will be a great advantage to fruitgrowers and should minimise to a great extent the risk of damage to soft fruits during transport t,> the market.

. Here is an example of vrhat the Maoris may expect under the new Native Lands Act. Two or three yeais ago the owners of the Mangaporika block, 20,000 acres, between Gisborne and Wairoa, were offered by a European 15s an acre for the land. They refused, cousidering it worth more-ami we are informed that though hilly it is excellent country. The Government managed to buy s small share, " proclaimed" the block, and are now offering the owners 3s an acre. Under ths new Acb it would not have been even necessary to acquire one share.

A meeting of the provisional direcx tors of the Lepge and Son Fruit Evaporating Company, Limited, was held in the 'office of the company, 91, Q leen-street, Auckland, on Monday, tha lUth nist, It was decided to proceed" with the floating of the company and the following Board of ■Directors was duly appointed -.-Messrs H. Gillett, F. A. -White, E. Yatoyß. Fry and J. Douglas. To facilitate the working of the company it was decided to secure more suitable premises and to remove and re -construct the plant at once, in order to be.in readiness for the reception of the coming season's fruit. \Ve understand that it is the intention of the omnp iny to start a branch factory in the Waikato district for next fruit season.

The Australasian sayslt seems almost incredible, seeing the mischief already wrought by stoats and weasels in New Zealand, that the Government of that colony should contemplate making a further importation of the pest with the view of killing toe rabbits. The project of intro«. ducing these pests was from the first strongly opposed by all naturalists, for it was,seen that though the rabbits might be got rid of by their help a pest would be left behind worse even than that they were employed to extirpate. Already the native birds of New Zealand have been destroyed in thousands by the stout and weasels turned out to kill the rabbits, and complaints are frequent of lambs being killed by them.