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Waikato Argus, Volume III, Issue 173, 21 August 1897, Page 2

A lady's umbrella has been loft at the Hamilton l'ost-oflicc Owner can have same on enquiry. The quarterly meeting of the Raglan County Council will be held at Ngaruawahia on Wednesday next. Mr W. J. Hunter will hold his annual hogget sale at Ohaupo on Tuesday, .September 21st, for which entries are solicited. Meets of the Waikato hounds are advertised as under : —Wednesday 25th at Tamahere Cro3s Roads ; Saturday 2Sth, nt Penetito's {.ate. An alteration has been made in the time of the Anglican service at Tamahere to-morrow. It will be hold at 3 p.m., and not 7 p.m., as previously notified. The annual meeting of milk suppliers and contributors to the. Whatawhata Butter Factory Fund is convened for Wednesday, 25th inst., at 10 30 a.m. at the factory. His Excellency, Lord Kanfurly, will visit Auckland for the first time on Thursday next. The City Council and other public bodies are arranging to give His Excellency a fitting reception. At the meeting of the Hamilton West School Committee, held last night, it was unaiiimous'v resolved to record their vote for Mr Bagnu.ll for the vacant seat on the Auckland Board of Education. A cablegram has been received by the New Zealand Shipping Company, " New Zealand live stock prohibited, River Plate." The Company in consequence is refusing to ship stud sheep by their vessels. At a meeting of dairymen in onristchureh, a resolution was carried to ask the Stock Department to undertake the inspection of dairy stock, and pay compen.ition lor animal's ordered to be destroyed. The ollicors and members of the Waikato Light Infantry Corps will he gratified to hear that Messrs Campbell Ehicnfried and Co. have donated a. two guinea trophy to be fired for during the coming summer. The business nt the Magistrate's Court, Hamilton, yesterday, consisted solely of a few undefended debt case 3, which were disposed of in the usual maimer by Captain Jackson, S.M., and i Mr S. T. Seddou, J.l\ I

The Queensland Estimates include the sum of £IO,OOO in aid of cooperative agricultural production. This is the outcome of numerous applications on behalf of dairy, floir, and cotton cooperative companies. The Government propose, to advance loans, recouping themselves by a levy on the companies' output. A start has been made at Sydney Square, Hamilton, to lay down a permanent 'cycle and running track, permission having been granted to the Waikato Amateur Athletic Club to do this. The track, which has been laid oil' by Mr E. dc C. Drury, will be exactly a quarter of a mile, having a straight of four chains on each side. The Rev. W. C. Woodward, the Good Templar lecturer, whose mission in the Oddfellows' Hall, Cambridge, will be continued on Monday and Tuesday next, will preach at St. Paul's Church, to-morrow morning and evening, and al-o give a lecture' in the OddfeHows' Hall at S. 15 p.m. on " The Torn Bible," illustrated with limelight views. On Tuesday next, August 24th, Mr W. J. Hunter will hold bis spiing cattle sale at Ohaupo Yards. Amongst the entries are a large number of choice one to three-year-old steers and heifers, springing cows and heifers, fat bullocks, etc. Anyone wanting cattle of any des cription should have no difficulty in getting their requirements at this sale.

Our Ohaupo correspondent writes that the Probasco Company gave a most successful performance at that township on Wednesday. The hall was ctowdod and all went away thoroughly satisfied. We described the performance in detail in our last issue. Our correspondent says that the opinion was general that it was the best show which Inn ever visited Ohaupo.

A gentleman from Otorohanga yesterday informed us that Prolnuco's Company did good business there on Thursday night. Although the troupe only arrived by train, they managed to give two performances, at both of which the hall was crowded, and the prices of admission, 4s mid .'ls, must be regarded as " popular " in that part of the district.

The news of the death of bir W. Jcrvois has been received with many expressions of regret by the people of New Zealand. The deceased gentleman was one of our most popular Governors and rendered valuable assistance to this and other colonies in devising the means of defence, he was a distinguished military engineer. It appears that he met his death by being thrown from a dog cart.

A patient in the Waimate Hospital, a young fellow, named Whitelaw, cot out of bed in the night and attacked the night warder (Frank Harding) with a poker, and struck him several blows on the head. Another patient came to the warder's relief. WhiteUw then went to bed, as if nothing bad happened ; he is supposed to be insane. The warder is in a cri'ical state.

Lord Wolseley is not likely to retain for any length of time his position as commander-in-chief of the British army. He is afflicted with cancer of the stomach, which is in a very advanced stage. The doctors declare that his life may be prolonged until the end of the year. He will doubtless be succeeded by Lord Roberts, familiarly known as "Little Bobs" by Tommy Atkins, whose idol he is.

Mr E. do O. Drury, surveyor, has finished cutting up the Mauawaru Block for the Assets Company, and is at present occupied in laying out the farms on the Karapiro Eslate near Cambridge We understand the number of farms will be twelve or thirteen, of from 100 to 230 acres each, but will principally bo about 200. The land is good, and being adjacent to the township should command a ready sale. We learn that Mr Frank Caverhill leaves Cambridge next Wednesday to join his relatives in Canterbury. No one has worked harder in tin temperance cause than has Mr Cavcrhill, and his departure will bo greatly felt by the Good Templars, with whom he is deservedly popular, for he has been the leading spirit amongst them for several years. We wish Mr Cavcrhill every success in his new sphere.

Messrs llcid and Son, Hamilton, have been very successful in their photographs of the group of 'cyclists, taken .it Hamilton, on Wednesday afternoon. We wire shown a couple of the prints yesterday, and they certainly reflect great credit on the artist, the figure? in each group being particularly c'ear and distinct. These pictures should form a pleasant souvenir of the initial run of the recently - formed Cambridge 'Cycling Club, which ft'as so much enjoyed by those who took part. At the Tc Awamutu Court on Wednesday Capt. Jackson, S.M., dp.ilt with the following civil cases: —Friar, Davis and Co. v. Robert Darlow. Mr Greshain fur plaintiffs. Judgment for amount claimed, £ll 13a 7d, and costs CI 10s Od—Johnson v. Paiarikl, Mr Gresham for plaintiff. Judgment for amount claimed, €ls lis 4d, and costs £■'! Bs.—Lynch v Muraahi. Mr Gresham for plaintiff. Tho defendant had paid in £8 los. Judgment was given for 10s ~)d in addition.

Mr Mann, of the Commercial Hotel, Hamilton, who returned from Auckland, and who had been deputed to interview the Cainpbell-Ehienfried Company in regard to the proposed llcetsugar industry, reports that the matter was very cordially entertained by the Company, who promised to use all their influence in inducing the Auckland members to support the pet'tion about to be presented to both Houses of Parliament, as well as to urge the same upon all the Auckland members.

A terrible accident occurrred at Waitckauri about eight o'clock on Thursday night to a lad named Woods, aged about Hi years. It appears the iad was work'ng in the Waitekauri Gold Mining Company's battery in the part eon'aiuing the Krupp ball mill. He was, apparently, oiling the machinery when his clothing caught in one of the cogs and he was thrown round and round, being shockingly mutilated. No one being present at the time, it is not known how long he bad been in that position. When extricated he was almost unrecognisable. Death must have been instantaneous.

Among the awards for bravery made by the lfoyal Humane Society of Australasia dining the past year was a silver medal to Mr Henry Giles, of Cambridge, for rescue from lire. The act for which this medal was awarded occurred at a lire at Maunder's boardinghouse, Botorua, on the morning of Saturday, February Ist, of last year. The report of the fire stated : —"Mr Maunder states that at 2 30 he went downstairs to get water, and left a candle lit on a plank on the top of an oil drum while outside for a few minutes. Near this and under the .stairway were pots of oil, varnish and pieces of scrim. On returning he took up the candle, returning to bed in a room upstairs. Immediately afterwards his wife heard a noise, and culled his attention to it, and on opening the door he was beaten back by the fl imus rnsh'iig upstairs. Mis wife and he escaped by a window, each thinking the other had the littlj boy. The child was, however, afterwards rescued by a boarder, named Giles, who climbed up with difficulty by means of pieces of scantling. Giles was much hurt in doing this." Two lives were lost in the fire, and Mr Maunder and another boarder named Mills were badly burned. We congratulate Mr tides on this recognition of his promptitude and courage on this occasion.

Although Mr Bycroft is appointed j to preach at the Hamilton VVesleyan Church on Sunday morning, arrange - meuis have been made by the Rev, Dr. Hosking to take the two services The morning subject is '• The Symmetry of Life," and the evening is " The Holy Land and the Life of Christ." The latter will be illustrated by the Doctor's he.lioscopie apparatus. Hymns will be sung from the screen, and the whole service will be on entirely new lines, to begin promptly at 7. A collection will be taken at the door on admission, so as to prevent any break in the service. So far as party interests are concerned, Mr Ward, by the successful issue of bis brazen enterprise at Awarua, has (writes rhc Otago Witness) done the party of honest government a signal service. The discredit which his return under such circumstances will bring upon the Government (and incidentally upon the conupt methods by which they keep themselves in power) will, it may be confidently expected, serve the caus i of probity rather than help along, as at first sight it may seem to do, the political dishonour of the country. No doubt the (Vscredit it involves to Mr Ward himself is greater still, but tins has ceased to be a matter of practical importance. Whatever the electors of Awarua, who profess to absolve Mr Ward on the truly admirable ground that most of the money which his peculiar commercial methods enabled him to fling around came their way, may do, or may not do, for their idol, they cannot in any serious sense foist him upon the colony at large. Vociferate as he may about the purging power of a majority of votes in bis own locality, the country will continue to regard him and his electors together as, for all practical purposes, a collection of polilic.il curiosities. This is the view we charitably prefer ourselves. As fer the Government and their party and press—move especially their press—we offer them our politest sympathy. The panic which has seized such sworn Government organs as the Lyttelton Timet, the Wanganui Herald, and even the Ministeriallydirected and Min'stcrially-owncd New Zealand Times itself, at the bare, prospect of Mr Ward's success in getting back to the. House must be a pleasant "welcome home" to one ot their original patrons after what he is fond of calling his " misfortunes."