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Waikato Argus, Volume IV, Issue 253, 1 March 1898, Page 2

The Rangiaohia Road Board intimate that 10 per cent, will be added to all rates not paid by the 15 March. A large number of fresh entries have been received for Messrs McNicol and Co.'s second Sheep Fair. Tradespeople wishing to bring their wares before the notice of Waikato settlers must advertise in The Akgtjs. Parliament has met on Sunday eleven times, the first in the reign of Edward 111., and the last at the death of George 11. Tenders are invited by the Official Assignee for the purchase of the assets in the estate of Lewis Bros., storekeepers of Poro-o-tarao. Tenders close on 15th March. A Wimmcra paper tells the following story : "Up in prohibition Mildura, before the introduction of the club system, and when it was really hard to get a liquor, an enterprising barber opened shop. His charges were fixed ut shaving 9d, haircutting Is with a glass of stroDg liquor thrown in. He would give a customer any drink from wine to whisky. The scheme caught on splendidly. Visitors marvelled, and used to remark what a clean shaven p'ace Mildura was. The community soon began to look as if it had been struck bald-headed. Strangers not in tho kuow used to wonder why a man got his hair cut half a dozen times a day, or almost had the skin shaven off his face. Rechabite3 took to wearing beards, and letting their hair grow long. If one was seen with a close crop, or newly shaven, scoffers would ask if it had beeu ' wine crop' or • whisky shave.' But Mildura knows that barber no more. The clubs simply ruined him, for the people can now ge*. liquor ad lib without having their hair cut every time.