LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume LVII, Issue 8066, 28 November 1906, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

It is stated that as a result of tlie I ion. Mr Mc Nab's reorgan satieti of the Department ot Agriculture, the stock inspectors anil veterinary surgtons will all be transferred to fresh stations. A special meeting if the Borough Council was held last evening, wheu it was decided to a c >rd an ollioial reception to the Hon. the Minister of Ltnds to-day, and to entertain him at a supper to-night, us repotted in another column. Messrs C. L Innes and Co., brewers and aerated waier manufactuers, Hamilton, have juit imported a line if patent jirs ot various capacities for their pioiucts. By means uf a.i ingenious tap all necessity for spiling is done away with, and the I'iUjr is thereby kept iu much batter condition.

The Argus reports that the Eltham Dairy Company manufactured four tons uf butter, un Friday, a month earlier th.in such a quantity was made in one day last eeaaon. ihe company has received advice tnat their first shipment ot butter this season realised lll'i and 121s per cwt in London.

The deputation app linted by the Waikat) Sports Club waited on the Hamilton Douitin Bjard last evening, and laid their proposals for the improvement of Seddon Park before the members. The Board considered the olfer a very g 'nerous one and decided to tuitaei the edurts of the ciub by every means in us power.

An editor of a country piper in the South Islaud thu- i.u.uorous.y bus farewell lo his reader;: • " The baiiill is waiting for us in th« next room, so we have no opportuuii.j to be pathetic. Mbj >r Nabem sayi we are wanted, and must go. Delinquent sub;Cribers, you have much to answer for. Heaven may forgive you, but I never can."

Owing to the Auckland Siiow being held this weoK, thj Ne.v ZieaUud Loan aud .Mercantile Ageney Co. will not till their Cambridge sale on Friday, but will now sell at i ambridge on December 7th. T.aiorrow the Company hold a cloning sale at Monavalo lloincstea i, on acc-uut of Mr F. W. Tuouu-, at 12 o'clock.

Willi.w Stevenson A ; ckin, tho Auckland dharebroxer, entree I with having sent a threatening letter to Sir Joseph Ward ind reminded a week ago to enable him to recousi ier r j sctiju of his liberation, was before the Supreme Courtagain yesterday. Aiciin then accepted the terms of his release, and was set at liberty.

'lhe Aw tuna correspondent of the Waimate Witness says:-Cowspaukers are complaining of the great scarcity ot suitable men to inns. 1 hey are ottering 30) a week' but it teems to bo in v.»ia. Farmers are Killing their calves this year, except those from their choice t Cows, as th»y Contend that pigs tar belter tnan reiring c lives, which aio bringing only a tew shillings.

The Koxbur/h pep'e are evidently quite atitfied that a good demind tor iruit exists (says the Stai), and year by year tue area of laud in that district put under cultivation for ore lards increases. The pro.-p Ot of railway Cjuimuuicatk n may have given a fillip to tue fiuit-growing industry, but this year over 200 acies of new giouau have b.eu put do*u in fruit trees.

Builders in Wellington aio complaining ! of luceasiug troublesoweness ot the smail ! boy, an 1 sometimes ot tho small girl, ton. j says the New Z'.alaud limes, lado of : thirteen to fourteen years go to biddings ! wnich are nearly completed, break lu, tiud tile tools, aud practise with them ah over the piemisi-s, doing in some casts pounds J wortU of damage. Kiitry id otlen Vlo.eutiy j made, and in on-) the following javenile \ taaut was touud written on a chimney:— - 1 live in Cuba Street, and I haven't been caught ye ." Even when they are caught, the all iir is otten amoithed over in de- ' the tears of Borrowing mothers. ;

At the Police C art this morniog before MaSsrs E. Burgess and Kuight, J uitices ot tUb i'biictt, lioderxk AlcK.oiz.tj, tji diuukeQnesd wad tibed 5i and cobtd. Ailtju B jli, Kob rt doarib, and Jtiobflrt L ck tor allowing horaod to wander, were eaou lined Is and coaU. For cycling ua tuo tootpatus Aithur Haybitilo w..e tiutdiio til -md costc. Ou charges ot cycuug ana driviug without lights, t|. Scott and John iUcJartuy weie eacti mulc'.eJ m Is tad costs. Au information against William Cockhead, tor rescuing a cow seized fir the purpose ot bsing impounded was dismissed, LUe informant not present. A civil oase, Robert CbiLott (Mr Swarbr.ck) v. W. Cato (Mr Lewis' claim OS 'Jd was adjourned until J)eoeiu!;t)r i', Ch by the Court. A mooting of the committee of the iamilton Howluig <■ lab was bold la-t uight, the picsidcut, Mr H F. Sandes, in ihucn."..'r. It was do.-ided to invito the Auitrjji.j.u Ifjw.'as wli'j will visit New Zjaland in Janu.ry t play a |/amo on the uctl green. liio sub- 1 juim tt„„ haying la hand the arrangements for the tour uaiaenl to bo held at Cunstmas reported ttinV w .at satisfactory replies h.id already been received from several clubs to the circular letters issued regarding entries for the fours aj.d championship singles. Messrs Sandes, Varney, Mar n'Uf; and t. M. 1 1111 s were deputed to draw up a s, r ueu.e of entertainment tor the visitors. iuo Cam iiiidge Club's date ol December was ac cepted tor the inter-ciub liiatcll, to be piavtd ou the Camondge grc'i. Messis J. S. and G. Edgecuuibe, Li. Rauway an 1 J. AtkiUauC »v«ie elected numbers.

The statutory monthly meeting of the Huntly Koad Board took place on Saturday, pre;ent, Messrs J. f. Bnley, (cnairmanj, L. 13. Harris junior, Angus MeKiunon. E. S, Wight, au 1 the clerk ( ilr [). Herd), ii.e cl-rk was instructed t» wri d (!) to the Minuter for Public Works asking to have the iloij i/otu allocated for tne lowering of the Knuihi i lake at once, as the only time ht to do tne is .ummer, (-') to the District Koad Eugiuoer a.iklug to have the grant for the uhiuewai railway statioc to Ngarua block, as soou as possible; and (■>) to cdl the attention of the Kailway Department to the ui:cessity for repairs to the bridge ou the main road close to Ohinewai school. The surfaceman was instructed to remove a tree overhanging the Kcad, near Kaugiriri, to repair several dangerous places on the road to Taupiri, and to attond to the cu - vert near Mr Kayner's properly. U S FATHER BEFORE HIM.

A dergymau "isiting the Highlands one; fouud a worthy crotter conveying fortilieer up n hillside in « basket . trapped ou one side o! a p->ny, while a similar t-aekol on tainiug a large otoue ba.'a n.ed it on the other sido M'o tlie suggestion that rosuits cuuid bo doubled l.y tiding both baskets with fertiliser, the crofter replied : "No doubt but what was good enough for my father and hia father bofuro him i good enough foL' me ! " Are you, like the crofter, content with an obsolete machin when you can get twue the lesults with halt tie work 1 y using the latest Baltic Cuuiu Separate); - , obtainable from J. I'. MacEwan and Co., l* it etiest Auckland.

| With the high price c.t new season .« | fruit, thrifty hou-owi\oa will find it pa. - I ticularly advantageous to place ti .-ir j orders for Xrnas cakes (plain or ieyd) with Tidd and Stanton, high-class confectioners, Hamilton. 0 I " Are you going to the Exhibition?"— : seems to be tbd burning question of the day. The quest ion wiu;h really icterosta ■ you Mr Clothes-wearer is—Have you sec a ! the exhibition of lovely suitings in V. ■ Houghton's window r " They are all at | one pr-co, ninety-live shillings. it win cost you nothing to look, aud it will save your money to order one. li tbu«» is uo- ' thing in the window U suit, y-ur to-to 1 ju-. r-.ilk :.iv and y u will bo smtud at | V. Houghton's up-to-date tailoring entab- ' lishment, Hamilton. 6