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Waikato Argus, Volume IV, Issue 243, 3 February 1898, Page 2

The Hamilton West School will resume duties on Monday nrxt. Lord Salisbury, is 68 years old today, he having been born on the 3rd February, ISrfO. The Waitomo caves are now ready for visitors, having undergone the necessary repairs. Messrs McNicol and Co. will hold their second Sheep Fair at Ohaupo on Wednesday, Oth March, and have already entered 15,000 breeding ewes, laino3 and wethers. Further entiies are solicited. The harvest festival services at St. Andrew's. Cambridge, will be held on Friday, 18th inst., and Sunday, 20th. Archdeacon Willis asks us to say he would be glad of contributions of grain ccut in any day previously and left at the parish schoolroom. Our Ohaupo correspondent writes that the 15 jou Comedy Company played there on Tuesday and last night to good houses, and that all who attended were well p'eascd with the entertainment. There is one thing certain—all had a good laugh. The Company will play two nights at Te Awanuitu, and then proceed to Otorohanga and Tc Kuiti. The poli taken of the ratepayers in the Raglan County to deede as to whether the system of rsting on the unimproved value shculd be adopted has resulted in an answer in the negative, a sullieicnt number if votes not having been recorded to mike the poll effective. The details will ha found recorded in our advertising columns thi3 morning. The following is the state of the Waikalo District Hospital for the month ended 81st January, viz: Number of patients in wards at Slst December, IXO7, 19 males, admitted since 31 males nnd 15 feniahs.; deaths since, 2 males; discharged since, 20 males and 9 ft onle*; retraining ut date, 22 males and 6 females; total number under treatment for the month, 05. There were several pens of sheep from tl)3 Loch Invcr Station at the Ohaupo Sheep Fair yesterday that had been machine shorn. These are the first we 1.-ol eve that have been seen in Waikato. One shearer is reported to have turned off 621 sheep in three days with the machine, and this good tally should bring the shearing machine into more gem ral use on the larger stations. The attention of the Waipa County Council is t'adly needed at the bridge on the Nop.ruawahia-Hamiiton Road, known as Willoughby's The planning at the north end is in a dangerous condition, ami unless some repairs are effected at once the Council may have a serious claim for damages to face. [Since the above was written we learn that instructions have b en sent forward to have the necessary repnirs made a* once]. Last evening Rev. Dr. Hosking delivered an interesting and instiucthe lecture on " Love, Courtship and Marriage," at the Wesleyan Church, Hamilton, ihe chair was taken by Rev. Woodward, and the rtv. lecturer was listened to with the greatest attention, the ieveial points of his lee l lire being enthusiastically received. A vote of th'.nks was passtd to Dr. Hosking on tha rnoti<>u of Mr Hobbs, and a vote of thanks to the chairman was canied Ly ucc'atnaticn. During Tuesday afternoon and y< s erdciy, two represebtativts of the Native Armenian Church, I'riest George an I DtoiO'i Simon Nieola, were in Hamilton collecting nicney to re-build church.s aud school* destroyed in their country by the Kurd?. They buir credentials from the leading ecclesiastical authoiiti s in the colony, who pre as.-isting them in I heir work, and locally their effo ts ir.» t with good result?. No doubt they will vi it the other Waikato centres in due curse. Mr 11. Gill U, of Carabridgp, informs us that Messrs FUteher, Humphries and Co., of Christchurch, the well-known eider makers, intend starting business in Auckland alums':- immediately. They will I e buyers of app'es in a veiy khort time, and we understand the price fjr "Waikato fiu't will be about. t'2 per ton delivered at the railway stations. We know some growers think that not a payable price, but they must recoil ct that the industry w;ill relieve the market of all surplus apples and c n-cijurnt'y increase the price of the remainder. The Cambridge Fruit Evaporating Con pany is doing good business, and we ate pleased to learn tin re is a great improvement in the quality of the apples this over former ycarp, most cf the fruit being practicilly free from codlin moth. We strougly counsel apple growers to get there fruit before jt is ripe and have if evaporated, as they wou'd thereby prevent a second brood of the moth being hatched, and so help to eradicate tlie pest. We wish jt to be undcistood that we are not touting for the Kvaporating Com puny, who, vc understand, have as much as tiny cm i will ileal with at the pre&eut. I

The Agricultural Department recently intimated that it was prepared to | send Home an experimental shipment of apples, and to guaravitee, su!jcot to the approval of Cabinet, a penny per lb over and above expenses. The Department lias now been informed that on these conditions the Canterbury orohardists will probably .-!;ij) ."000 cases, and it is also understood that a shipment will be made by Auckland growets. The sorrows of gas consumers in New Zealand have been depicted with more or less exaggeration frequently by those who feel aggrieved, but I doubt whether we here suffer as badly as do our London friends in this particular. "They lie like canneters," was the observation of a London police constable lately when prosecuting a womun. The statement is likely to pass into a proven). An M.l'., wiitiug to the London papers, sta'e-s tbat he heard the late Lord Mnyor remark at the Mansion House dinner, "We are all famil ar with the domestic gasmoter which sou etimes goes by the name of a'domestic deceiver.' The firm conviction cf consumers was (he said) that th-3 meter records against them a quantity which they have not used." A meeting of the Waipo Cricket Association was held in Mr Laurie's Ho'cl one evening >ast week. Tire meeting was called by the secretary (Mr W. Tiseiman). Only he and one or two others attended. The business of the meeting was to arrange for the second round of fixtures. Apologies were received from several of the members that owing to harvest operat ons they wcie unable to attend, but would be willing to agree to any arrangements come to by the meeting. The fol'owing are the fixtures :—February 12ch : Kihikihi v. Hamilton, at Ohaupo; Ohaupo v. Te AwamuUi, at Te Awamutu February 19th.: Hamilton v. Ohaupo, at Ohaupo ; Kihikihi v. Te Awamutu, at Kihikihi. February 26th : Hamilton v. Te Awamutu, at Ohaupo. March sth : Kihikihi v. Ohaupo, at Ohaupo. That the weaker spx are not deficient in "grit" when put to the test was once more demonstrated by three lady'cyclists on Saturday last. Missis Ho waul, Nixon and Moss left Cambridge at 6 a.m. for Ok> roire, arriving there about 10 a.m After a short stay and a bath they journeyed to Matamata, and after lunch decided to push on to Te Aroba. After going some distance they found the road they had taken ended abruptly at a "wash out " in a gully, « Inch was impassable. Retracing their .•■teps ihey stuick " across country " by a bridle track, and after wading several creeks and carrying their machines up several steep banks they reached the main road, eventually making Te Aroha at S p.m., after a ride of over 70 miles over very indifferent roads. 'J hey reached home the following evening, after having covered in all some 110 miles. In an article lately published in the Windsor Magazine, a writer, referring to Madame Osterbcrg's Girls'Physical Training College, near Hartford, says : " There can be seen the girls perfect physical specimens of healthy, happy womanhood—going through the exercises with a grace, an acenrancy, and an agility such as suffices to lend to that much-al'iued phrase, ' the poetry cf motion,' a new f.nd hitherto undreamt of significance." He then asks, "Where will it all end ? and say?, "It may be thai, in the near future, s.ience of gymnas'ics is destined to be as closely interwoven with the national life of our English women as it was with that of the Greek twenty centuries ago, in which case it is safe to predict that the artist or the sculptor of the generation will no longer be compelled to seek his ideal of female beauty amid the cold, dead irarlles of a bygone civilisation." The business of the London Post Office Savings Banks is attaining gigantic proportions. The ings on deposit by the people at the end of the 1896 financial year aggregated £108,000.000, which was a jump cf about £10,000,000 from the p.evinus year. This sum was owned by 6,802,035 depositors, or an average ot £ls each. On one day alone (29tli February) deposits numbering 91.571, to the value of £303,125, wete nude. The average cost to the G.P.O. of each transaction during 1898 was 6d. That was a reduction upon the cost incurred in the previous year, but, owing totSeriein the pr-ce of consols, the whole business, after payment of workins? expenses and 2i per cent, interest to depositors, showed a ttifling deficit—about £4OOO -which was the first deficit since the establish meet of the bulk. Married women, spinsters, widows and children appear t;> be most deeply imbued with the spirit of thrift, since they made moie than half the total number of deposits. The industrial clasres furnish ISj p«r cent , arrd the professional classes only li per cut., of the depositors. Apparently we in New Zealand have something to learn from English constituents as to the use to which we c.-n put our parliamentary representatives. Sir Frederick Milncr has written a touching artie'e to the Primrose League Gazette on the scnows of lii M.P. Members, he s.iys, are expected to help if an elector's pig, cow, horse or other animal dies. Tiny have to contribute to the buildmg or iepair»of all the churches and chapels, to subscribe to all the cricket and football clubs, frendly societies agricultural and horticultural shows and numerous chat Lies. These are the ordinary pecuniary burdens of an M.P., but there are other exttaor dimry ones. He has been asked by a dishonest shopman to replace £4 which be had robbed from h's employer's till ; a young lady cf sixteen, with " dreas-!-fudy strict parents," asked him to pay for clothes and personal adornments, which she had obtaired on credit without their knowledge ; an old lady asked h in to replace £8 10;«, which the hod dropped with her put'de; and a widower wanted £2 7s, which he was out of pc-cket 1 y his w ife's funeral. About twelve months ago (writes the Northern Advocate) the Agricultural Department imported fiom Queensland two hundred e'f the Cnjptoiamm Montroiisiu:, the beetle which has been fonsd to be the natural enemy if the mealy bug (Dactyloptus adonidiiin). This would lave proved a most valuable aliy to the farmer and orch-mlist, but unfortunately, owing probably to a want ( f knowledge of the insects' habits, the officia's of the department weie not able to keep the consignment alive. However, our nighlour Mr A. T. Potter, who is well known as an enthusiastic and expert entomologist, had in the meantime been interesting himself in the beetle, and bad succeeded in rearing a hundred and fifty from the eg h '. There is no doubt that by lis timely enterprise Mr IV.ter is new able to render a distinct service to the co'oivy. We are informed that Captain Broun has made a careful ex liuiiidtien of Mr Potter's brood, and is absolute'y satisfied that they arc the true Cryplvhimus Montroilake. We should recommend settiers to make triplication to C&pfaiu Broun to purchase Mr Potter's brood on behalf of the Depaitment ; and we think that Capt.-.in.Hroun is fofuoate in having now an opportunity of securing th< m. Our readers will doubtless realise what an advantage is enjoyed by Whangan i in particular and the colony in general, in having resident among us a gentleman 1 ke Mr Potter, whose skill, patience, nnd enthusiasm as a naturalist can come to the aid of the Government in a manner affecting the pockets and prospects of ccuutiy settlers everywhere in a very lvgh elegrce.