The Waikato Argus GEORGE EDGECUMBE, Proprietor. SATURDAY, SEPT. 26, 1896.

Waikato Argus, Volume I, Issue 34, 26 September 1896, Page 2

The Waikato Argus GEORGE EDGECUMBE, Proprietor. SATURDAY, SEPT. 26, 1896.

cricketer, is duul. To-day is the thirty-ninth anni versary of the Relief of Luck now. The; Bulli minors have resumed work, a coiniiroiiii.se hiving been arriveil ;it. Mr W. i<\ liackland has announced himself n.s a candidate for e'eetion by bis old constituents of Manukau. Tlic financial result of the late Tuhikaramca concert is an addition of about £4 to Ilia funds of the local cricket elul). A European mail, per 11.M.5, Kaikoura, via .Monte Video, will close at the Hamilton Post-ollice at 1.30 p.m. to-day. The children attending the Hamilton district schools will resume work after the Michaelmas holidays on Monday morning. We direct, attention to a new advertisement on our front page from .Messrs Kenipthorno, Prossor and Co., re their Special Potato Manure. The manager of [>;iiclay's Hank at Ncwhavcn, who w.is supposed to he severely wounded by a burglar, who stole £1,300 in notes, has I.ecu arrested, as it is found tile notes were cashed before the alleged burglary took place. We note that Mr W. Cussen lias joined Mr in partnership. The linn advertises in the Waihi Miner that they are prepared to oxouto mining survey work. Mr L'usseu has had a very huge experience, having been connected wil.li the (jovermnent Survey Department for some twenty years. All eccentric man named Isaac Chairman committed suicide by takieg strychnine on Tuesday at Myross, Southland, lie had arranged to leave his holding on Wednesday, and on the carter going for his chattels he found him dead-. Jb' had placed a rope over the room door \\ i:ii a slip noo -e. < 'hah man had for years writtcd letters to the press which were unintelligible.

Mr O.ssells, of the Hamilton Post-office, left yesterday for a week's holiday in Auckland, where he will undergo a slight operation. His position is being filled by Mr Stevenson, from the Auckland olliee.

Tlio Whatawhata Racing Club have thus early issued the programme for their meeting to be. held on New Year's Day. Eight events arc provided and this popular gathering is sure, :is in former years, to meet with considerable support from local horse-owners.

Owing to the inclemency of the weather on Fiiday, the 18th inst., the social and dunce announced to come off that evening in the Waitotuna schoolroom, had to be postponed until Tuesday, the 20th September, when it is to be hoped the weather will be more favourable. —(Own Correspondent).

Ky advertisement it is notilied that entries for the forthcoming Waikato Agricultural Show will close on Monday" October tilth. Schedules of the prizes nny lie obtained from the Secretary, Mr M. Butler. Tenders for the .supply of luncheon at the show close this day. They will lie received by the Secretary till 4 p.m. at his Cambridge oflice.

The address by. Rev. I'crcy Williams, on " Church Work in the Islands " in St. Peter's Sunday School, Hamilton, on Thursday evening was well attended. The subject, with which the lecturer is well acquainted, Mas dwelt 011 with great force and an earnest appeal was made for increased funds to carry on the work, The lecture was illustrated by a number of excellent views. in another column will be found an advertisement from Mr W. IT. Hcrric, of Shaftesbury, intimating that he will be a candidate for the Bay of Plenty seat at the forthcoming general election. He stands as an opponent of the present Government, which should be sufficient to .'•ecure votes from all who place any value upon honest administration and an enlightened policy.

During August 979 people arrived iu the colony and SOS departed. One hundred and seventy came Iron, the United Kingdom, .141 from New South Wales, and 135 from Victoria. One hundred and twenty left for the United Kingdom, 4SI from New South Wales, and 207 from Victoria. I'or the corresponding month of 1805 the figures were arrivals 1410, departures 1405. Chinese arrivals 2, departures 3. The Pukete district school was examined by Mr James Dickinson, on Tuesday last, with very satisfactory results. Out of 17 children presented in Standards I. to V. 15 passed as follows :—Standard V. :2 presented ; 2 passed. Standard IV. : 4 presented ; 3 passed. Standard 111. : 2 presented ; 2 pissed. Standard 11. : 5 presented ; 5 passed. Staudanri I. : 4 presented ; 3 passed. Some little excitement was occasioned in the town of Te Awamutu, on Wednesday afternoon, when a horse, which was attached to a buggy in front of Mr Andrew's store, took fright and bolted. The animal made straight for Mr Lynch's paddock, and was soon within jumping range of the fence when over it weut, leaving the buggy on the other side. Fortunately nothing of a serious nature happened save a little damage to both the harness and beggy.

Our supplement issued with today's paper contains a further instilment of the interesting talc " In the Lion's Den," " The Cost of an Escapade " is the title of an exciting story of the duping of an amorous Englishman by a couple of adventurers. The ladies will find the weekly contribution of cookery notes to interest them, and farmers will find many useful and interesting items in •' Farm and Garden Notes." An extract from the London Times gives a description of the terrible effect of the great wave disaster in Japan.

On Tuesday next Messrs McNiccl and Co. will hold their annual hogget fair at their Ohaupo yards, when they will yard some three thousand lioggcls, many of them excellent linos. Nearly all of these sheep have been wintered on turnips and arc now in good healthy condition. In addition they will also sell on the same day over 1000 sheep of other kinds, as we'll as cattle. In their cattle entry will be touud a cumber of first-class dairy cows just at profit, for which there is likely to be a keen demand.

In reference to the accident to the Maori woman at Taupiri on Tuesday a gentleman from Taupiri informs us that it. is thought she has suffered considerable injury to her spine. Landing from the tall on her feet into shallow water must have been a severe shock, and it" is feared that rather serious consequences may result. The woman had crouched down at the side of the line, but as the train approached she seemed to fall forward and striking the cou catcher she was thrown off the bridge into the creek.

In connection with the auriferous sand on the Ninety-mile Beach (Canterbury), to which we relerred in a recent issue, we notice that the gold-saving machinery has arrived, and a rough test has given from '_'.', to .'idwts. to the ton. As the wrrkiii* expenses will net exceed ldwt. of gold per ton, this return will give a very good margin for wages. It is proposed to form a company to import more maehineryand work the botch on a large scale. The gold, which is of the finest quality, is worth 111 2s (id ptr Oil lice.

At St. Stephen's Church, Tnni.therc. last: Sunday night the offertory amounted to UO l.'.a Sd. Besides this, a donation of £1 was promised to the Vicar before the service began and another donation of 7s has been sent, him since, making up the handsome sum of L'll Os Sd. The Vicar had applied to the parishioners by circular for a sum of £'lo, to effect some necessary repairs to the Taiiiahoro Church, ami the above was the liberal response, which i\ fleets credit upon all concerned.—The annual meeting of the congregation (postponed from July) was held after the service. 'l'he following oflieers were appointed : Vicar's warden, MrC. Day ; parishioners' warden, .Mr Wheeler; committee, Mis Steele, Misses 'Harwell and Main, and Messrs Can: and J'ennell. Votes of thanks were pissed to all who had specially helped, in the work of the church in the past and undertaken fresh work for the future. It, was arranged that the necessary repairs be proceeded with as soon as possible.

Tho 'usual fortnightly mooting of the Waikato Parliamentary Union was held on Thursday evening. There was a large attendance of Opposition members, and the Government had about the usual attendance of supporter?. Mr Swarbriek, the Leader of the Opposition, moved, in accordance with notice, a vote of want of coniidenee ic the Government. He was followed by the Colonial 'l7c isurer. Several others took part in Ihe debate. The Premier summed up for the Government and Mr Swarbrick for the Opposition. The Colonial Treasurer called attention, in the course of his speech, to tha fuel that by the rules a member who had been absent from two meetings might lc struck oil'the roll by the Speaker unless he could oiler sullicient excuse. On a division being called for, the Premier requested the Speaker to exercise his powers in this direction ; but the Speaker ruled that it was then to-j late lo raise the question. The Covernmciit party refused to leave their seats in order to record their votes, as a protege against, the ruling of the Speaker. Ministers were far outnumbered, as the Opposition hud attended in larger numbers than usual in compliance with a •• four line whip.' 1 A motion proroguing the iluiiae Was then carried on tile voices.

Wimble's Monthly Reminder, a peiiodieal published for the information of the printing trade, writes : —Mr Edgecombe sends us a copy of his paper, Waikato Arous, a royal folio of 12 pages, published three times a week. The journal is well got-up, both as regards its literary and mechanical style, and is also printed iu a " good colour " of black ink. We learn that Mr Edgecumbe intends making it still more attractive by adding up-to-date styles of type to its columns.

It is rumoured from Wellington that the Premier hopes to bring the session to a close at the end of the month or the first week in October. Having freed himself from the Parliamentary shackles Mr Scririon, We are told, intends to stump the colony iu the interests of the Ministerial supporters. It might, however, be better for the Miirsterbil candidates if he allowed them to take their chance with the electors and kept his mutilated aspirates and his other outrages 011 the Queen's English for the delectation of his intelligent constituents at Kumara. Half a dozen years ago Mr S'-ddon was a force on the stump ; to-day he is regarded by nine out of every ten intelligent men in the country as 11 loud-voiced, blatant demagogue, a thoroughly insincere and unscrupulous politician, whoso chief concern it is to gather in with both hands the emoluments of oflice and pose at the same time as a disinterested patriot and democrat. Lot those who doubt tiiis take the trouble to inform themselves of the many salaried positions he holds inside the Government and the, uses he has made of his position to secure forth r accessions of salary outside of it. I.'uipeka Times. Our Raglan correspondent writes : —A most successful meeting of the Hand of Hope was held in the Congregational Church on Wednesday evening. There was a largo attendance of members and friends, and the following attractive programme was given : Recitation, " The>Mottso and the Cake," Master I*. Tapp; duet, "We are Almost Home,'' Misses Savage ; recitation. " Little John and his Mother," Miss Cora Hill ; dialogue, Misses Conradi, Rendell, and Tapp; recitation, "My Own Chum," Master Percy Williams ; hymn, "Battle Cry,"; duct, "Sleeping on Guard," Mi's.-es E. Hill, and W. Williams ; recitation, Miss Rina Vorco ', "Me and Benuic " ; song, Mr Clark, "Mid"; recitation, Mr Cnthbert, " A Working Man's Speech at a Temperance Meeting " ; duet, Misses Conradi and Grace

Rendell, " Loved Ones Ear Away " ; song, Miss Kate Savage, " Silver liebs of Memory " ; riinologue, Rev. C. A. Lyon, and Misses Hill, Vercoe and Middlemis. The items were all spleu lirily rendered and elicited rounds of applause. Addresses on the Temperance came and Prohibitum were i>iven bv Rev. C. A. Lyon, who presided, and Messrs Pegler, McDonald, Sowed and Henry, the evening being a most interesting and instructive one.