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Waikato Argus, Volume IV, Issue 232, 8 January 1898, Page 2

The Miowera arrived at Vancouver en Saturday last, time - table date. Mr J. A. Young, surgeon dentist of Hamilton, will visit Te Awamutu next Tuesday.

The Sydney Hospital having a number of vacancies on the staff, has decided against lady doctors obtaining the positions.

The local Single Tax Society is urging the. Wellington City Council to bring the Rating on Unimproved Values Act into force.-

Capt. Rose, the local manager of the New Zealand Shipping Company, has resigned. He intends to proceed to England, where he will reside permanently. An election to fill an extraor dinary vacancy in the Kihikihi Town Board will be held on Saturday, 22nd lost. Nominations close ou Saturday next, 15th in3t.

On Saturday, January 15th, Mr W. J. Hunter wi.l sell in the Town Hall, Cambridge, tho balance cf Mr H. J. Paton's household furniture, etc. Full particulars will be found in his column.

Mr W. J. Hunter has received instructions from Mr J. H. Kelly (who is leaving Waikato) to sell on the farm, Te Kowhia, near Ngaruawahia, about Ist Fclnuaiy, the whole of his live and dead stock, etc. Full particulars will appear in a future issue.

An open-air meeting in Christchurch of claimants for old age pensions and others, attended by 250 people, resolutions wore passed calling for the abolition of tin Upper House, and appointing a commit'ee to promote an agitation throughout the country in favour of old age pensions.

On Friday, January 21st, Messrs S. Vaile and Sons, auctioneers, will offer at their Land Saleiooms, Queen-street, Auckland, tho farm at Taotaoroa lately in the occupation of Mr U. R. Brunskill. This is really a choice property, and those on the look-out for land will do well to inspect is - . Several other properties will also be offered.

Messrs McNicol and Co. will hold a dealing sale at Ngaruawahia today, ou account of Mr C. Marwood, at 1 o'clock. At the same time and place they will also offer the goodwill of the leasehold of the farm. This is one of the best farms in the Ngaruawahix disttict, and being conveniently situated they should have no difficulty iu disposing of it. The East Coast Scotch Express was derailed after having been in collision wi;h a coal waggon, The express run into the waggon with a terrible smash. Three carriages were telescoped and two engines smished. One lady passenger was killed and many other passengers were injured. The accident was caused by the driver of the express mistaking the signals.

The meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Science has opened in Sydney. Professor Liversidge was installed president. It was decided that the meeting in 1932 be held at Hobart. When this question was under discussion it was pointed out that NewZealand might consider herself overlooked, but the New Zealand delegates assured the meeting that thut colony would offer m objection to Hobart being selected.

In hid report to the Minister of Justice on the opera/ion of the Prohibition Law in the Olutlia district, MiHawkins tays :—" It seems to me that the advocates of Prohibif'on care nothing, so Jong as they can keep the public houses closed, wluit iojury is done to the respect for law or to the cause of moral ity or justice—that their ent're morality is summed up in the words " total abstinence " and gn-en that mat ctclitm. The operation of the liquor law bleeds dissension and i 1-will and mutu.il distrust, and even hatred springing up in these little townships and growing out of this source. The PrJiibitionisls while attempting to cast out one devil are bringing in seven others far worse. That there is a wide public sympathy with the sellers and antagonism to the informers and police is unquestionable, and in a recent case in Ta pan in there is little doubt that it was necrstary that the informer should be taken under police protection." Mr Cameron, (he New Zealand Produc3 Commissioner in London, reporting under date November 2G, says the market for all kinds of New Zealand produce continues greatly depressed, and prices all round hive receded. A number of the carcases received from New Zealand have been very dull and stale in appearance, and Mr Cameron suggests, iu order to avo'd the inference that they have been kept in the colony some time, that the various refrigerating companies should ma:k on a tag attached to each she?]) the date on which it was slaughtered. A good number of sheep lately coming forward have been of very inferior quality. The blame of this is certainly to be attibuted to shippers who have sent sheep away greatly lacking in finish. The report of the Health Officer of the port of London shows that between January and June seven vessels arrived from New Zealand, on which were condemned as unfit for food 223 carcases mutton, 172 legs mutton, 15 cases shceps' kidneys, and licwt cheese.

The Presbyterians of Cambridge have not let tho grass grow under their feet in the matter of budding a new church. They have collected over £2OO in about; a month, have .selected the plans for the new edilice und have sent then, ou to the Presbytery for approval. That is merely a formal mutter, and tenders for the work will be called, pro* bab'y in a few days. Ministers have given notice to the four inspectors appointed under the licensing Act to generally supervise the liquor tcjllic, and in particular to make aiuilyses of liquor sold, that their services will not he required after the 31st March next. This action, it is understood, is taken as a consequence of a resolution passed by the House of Rcpre scntatives when in Committee of Supply upon the Estimates of the Jusiice Department, reducing the vpto by £1 as an exp-ession of opinion tint the inspectors' services should be dispensed with. A warrant for the arrest, of Dr. Orpcn has been issued on the charge of murder. The offence with which ho is charged comes under that category in the Criminal Cole Act. Steps aie to be taken to secure his extradition from the United States should he l.md at 'Fiisco. The application will hive to pass through the Imperial Government. The expense attending the case is likely to be very heavy, but it is of the fiist importance tint it shouid be clearly understood that no criminal will be allowed to escape justice if it is possible to secure his person with that end in. \kw.

Mr J. B. Harker, watchmaker and jeweller, Hamilton, Ins just now on view in hi 3 window an extensive consignment of watches, which he is offering duriog the next month at lidiculous'y low pricei. These watches were ordered to come to hand for the Christmas trade by an Auckland house, but arriving too la'c Mr Harker was able to secure them on exceedingly reasonable terms, and he intends giving his customers the benefit (f the bargain, but as he is not likely to be in a position to offer similar watches at the same prices again, these quotations will be for one month only. The watches comprise all grades and descriptions, and anybody wanting a serviceable timek> cper at a bargain should call en Mr Harker at once.

The Melbourne Ago states that as the harvest progresses it becomes more and more apparent, as far as wheat is concerned, that the combined yields of tho colouies will fall considerably short of their own requirements. In Victoria there i.s just enough to supply the colony itself. South Australia, will have a positive deficit, and New South Wales a small surplus. Reckoning the requirements of Queensland, Tasmania, and South Australia in conjunction with tho South Australian deficit, the lowest estimate shows a deficit for the combined colonies, as between the total yields and requirements, of 2,000,000 bushels Little assistance can be looked for from New. Zealand, where the latest reports state that the harvest is a failure.

The manner in which the ranks of the industrial school children are recruited was shown in a case in the Dunedin Police Court. A single young woman, who walked lame, having been only recently discharged from the hospital, appeared carrying an infant, which it was proposed to commit. The child was illegitimate, the father having gone away before its birth. The young woman is the mother of three other illegitimate children that have been committed to the school. One was adopted out from the institution, but no provision is made for the maintenance of the others, their fa'her having disappeared. The magistrate said the best thing for the Government to do would be to take the mother and shut her up, or send her out of the colony. —A case equally fla grant has occurred in this district. A woman at Ngaruawahia has from time to time burdened the Waikato Hospital and Charitable Aid B'-ard with no less thau s : x illegitimate children, fr- - e of which at the present time arc being maintained at the public expense. The woman up to a short time ago was in rc:cipt of charitable aid, but on the children which she then had living with her being committed to the Home, the relict was stopped and tho woman thrown on her own resources.