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Waikato Argus, Volume IV, Issue 267, 29 March 1898, Page 2

On our fourth page this morning will be found a report of a sermon preached in St. Mary's Church, Hamilton, on Suuday by the Rev. Father Amandbliui on " St. Benedict and Socialism." We commend its perusal to all, more particularly to those who are tainted with the Socialism of the day.

Oxford beat Cambridge in the University race by twelve lengths. The Government has decided that the lime is too limited to allow them to take part in the Greater Britain Exhibition to be held in 1899.

A telegram from Wellington last night says that the Cabinet has passed £I7OO for the Makohine viaduct and £920 for the Seaward Bush section of the Midland Railway. The Kirikiriroa Road Board notify that the Hamilton-Morrinsville Road will be closed to all traffic tomorrow and Thursday owing to the reconstruction of the Mangaheke Bridge.

The sixth annual meeting of the Waikato Agricultural and Pastoral Association to receive the report and balance-sheet for the past year, and to elect officers, etc., for the ensuing year, will be held at Ohaupo to-day.

The severe frost yesterday morning, will, no doubt, do much damage to the pumpkin, tomato, n.aize and other like crops, and as there is every prospect of it being succeeded by another this moruing, the growth of grass will be considerably checked.

We learn that Mr Jas. Hally, solicitor, of Cambridge, has eold the National Hotel in that town to Messrs Hancock and Co., brewers, of Auckland, for £2400. The purchasers will not take possession till the alterations now being effected are completed.

The Rev. Frank Evans, of New Plymou'h, preached a most eloquent and appropriate sermon in St. Andrew's, Cambridge, en Sunday evening. We understand he has come to Waikato to visit his mother, who has been ssriously indisposed, but, we are happy to say, is better again.

To-morrow (Wednesday), March 30th, Messrs McNicol aud Co. will sell (in conjunction with Mr W. J. Hunter), at Clements' Park, Cambridge, the whole of Mr W. 11. Wright's live stock, implements, furniture, etz. The sale will commence at 12 o'clock sharp, and the various lots will be offered without reserve.

The Tutanekai experienced remarkably fine weather, and actually succeeded in laying the new cable, nearly 40 miles in length, in 24 hours' work, which was expected to take the best part of a month. This is the first time the steamer has been used tor cable-laying. She was specially built for the purpose, and has been found in every way suitable for the work.

Mr Jamt-s Pcarcy Hargraves, ledger-keeper at the Bank of New Zealand, Timaru, while walking in his sleep, clambered out of a two-storey window, lit two o'clock this morning. He fell on the asphalt pavement, cutting his head and badly. Fortunately, he was found soon after by a constable and attended to. He lost much blood, but no permanent injury is anticipated.

We remind our Wesleyan friends that Sunday next will be the last occasion on which the Rev. L. Hudson will occupy St. Paul's rostrum at Cambridge, at any rate for some years, ?s he depa> ts for Queensland the following dr.y. Mr Hudson has done good work during his stay in Cambridge, especially amongst the young men, and we heartily join with the members of his church in wishing him God speed in his new sphere of labour.

There was a good turnout of the Waikato Mounted Rifles at the parade at Hamilton on Saturday afternoon. Col. Banks was present, and a good afternoon's drill was put in at the ground adjoining the rifle range, and the various movements were all executed with as great precision as could be expected considering the short time the corps has been formed. It was decided to attend the encampment at Tukapuua at Easter time, the corps going into camp on Thursday, 7th April. The annual harvest thanksgiving services at Trinity Wesley an Church, Hamilton, were celebrated 01 Sunday last. The building was very tastefully decorated with the fruits of the harvest, the rich colouring of the fruit being blended harmoniously with grain and evergreens. Both services were conducted by the miuister in charge, Rev. Dr. Hosking, and his able sermons were attentively listened to by large congregations. The musical portion of the services, and which was of a special character, was creatly assisted by an orchestra, composed of: Mr S Mtachem, fi.st violin, leader ; Mi-8 Meachem, organ; Miss Nixon, second violin; Mr J. S. Edgecumbe, 'cel'o ; Mr Edwards, double bass; Mr J. Munro, cornet; Milt. Land, clarionet. The sacred solo "Consider the Lillies" was sung by Mr S. Meachen. dining the offertory. I

To-morrow afternoon (Wednesday) the return cricket match between the Hamilton Junior and Senior Clubs wi 1 be played on Syduey Square. Mr W. J. Hunter has received instructions from Mr John Perry to sell on the farm, Ran.inohia, on Monday, April 18th, at 12 o'chek, the whole of his live and dead stock, etc. Full particulars will appoar in a future issue.

There was a large audience to hear Pastor Steed in the Cambridge Public Hall on Sunday evening. The subject of his ds2our.se was " Satan," and the able manner in which he expounded it delighted those present, many expressing the opinion that it was the finest lecture he has yet delivered in Cambiidge.

In our report of Wednesday's proceedings at the Magistrate's Court, Tc Awamutu, the following case was inadvertently omitted :—Friar, Davics and Co. v. Mrs Charlotte Grace, of Pirongia, the wife of Jean Marie Grace, claim £5 4s 9d. Mr Gresham appeared for plaintiffs. Judgment for the amount claimed and costs (£1 12s 61). We learn that tho Parnell Second Cricket Team intend paying a visit to Waikato about Easter time, for the purpose of trying conclusions with some of the Waikato Clubs. They will play a match on Good Friday and another the following day. On Easter Monday the Waitt kauri cricketers ivill also visit the district, aud will play a game on Sydney Square on that date. A meeting of the committee of the Dramatic Company which has already staged several pieces in aid of the library building fund, was held last evening. It was unanimously decided to further augment the funds by producing a comedy at an early date, and " Dandy Dick " was the piece chosen. Rehearsing will be commenced at once, and the piece will be produced at the end of June.

On Friday last, at the close of the sitting of the Magistrate's Court at Hamilton, Captain Jackson, S.M., slated that there would not be likely to be any sittings of the Court during May as the whole of his time for that month would be taken up with the Assessment Courts. He said he understood the objections in all parts of the district were very numerous, and the proceedings of the Court would necessarily be lengthy.

The successful designers of the uew issue of stamps were :—H. VV. Young, Auckland ; J. Grant, Wellington ; W. R. Bock, Wellington ; E. Howard and E. T. Luke, Melbourne. In the 2£d stamp Like Waka-tipu has been mis-spelt " Waki-tipu." The error will be corrected in the next batch, but for the present the stamps will be issued as they are. The new stamps are ro be issued for general use on Tuesday week. Mr Edgar Walton always has a busy time as far as singing is concerned when he visits Cambridge. On Suuday last he sang at St. Andrew's Church in the morning, and in St. Paul's Wesley an Church in the evening. At the htter he gavo two solos, St. Quentiu's " Hosanna in Excelsis " and " Where the Pathway's Meet," t.y Mr W. Gribble. of Hamilton, the words also being by our fellowtownsman, Mr D. Ross. Mr Walton gave an excellent rendering of it, the concluding portion showing off his fine voice to advantage. We congratulate Messrs Ross and Gribble upon their joint production ; they are good collaborators, and mny yet become the Gilbert and Sullivan of the colony.

Mr Oscar Browning, lecturer on history at Cambridge, essays the rather difficult task of explaining to American readers the refusal of his university to grant women degrees. He frankly owns that "as generally happens in England, the question at issue was not the question in dispute," and the vote was really cast against the idea of making the education of both sexes the same, or of making the university colourbliud to sex. Mr Brownmg then goes onto discuss the " pros " and " cons " of these latter questions. He declares, "I have never seen a woman's work which appeared to me equal to a mau's," but is careful to premise that he cannot pretend to a vaiied experience. His chief point is that woman, being diverse from man in nature and function, it wou'd be an injury to insist on her having the same education as man, aud her presence would react unfavourably on the education now designed for and given to males. What women need, he finally affirms, is "a system of education confined to women alone."

The approximate estimate of the cost of the engineers' strike farther than the figures published in the papers, which mentions three millions as the loss of wages and three-quarters of a million as the amount lost by strike pay. ludeed, it is estimated that the total loss to the country cannot have been less than ten millions. The masters, it is understood, have lost in one way and another as much a 3 the men, and there ie the general loss to trade extended over a wide area of interests. The estimate of two millions having been lost in wages of men on ttrike and a million more by other workmen affected by the strike, as it happens, can be tested by the report of the Hoard of Trade on the returns of strikes in 1897. la that report it is mentioned that ten million woikiug days were lost in strikes. But for the engineers' strike the diys lost would have bceu about three million, leaving seven million days for the engineers' strike. Add a further month in the present year over which the strike has extended, and we have a IoS3 of eight million working days. Five shillings a day is not an exorbitant average wage for skilled artisans like engineers, and eight million days at five shillings is £2,000,000. If the workmen have lost three and three-quarter millions, and the employers as much, that is seven and a half millions, leaving two and a half millions for the general injury of trade in the country to make up the estimate of ten millions.

A Hautapu settler informs us that he ami his family nearly met with a serious accident on Saturday last owing to cattle beiug herded on the public road. The lad who was minding the cattle had lain down—and very probably gone to sleep—in some fern, ami he .sprang up just as the buggy approached him, which frightened the horse and very nearly caused an upset. As there are certain individuals who seem to think they have a prescriptive right to herd their cattle oo die loads, we would direct their attention to feetions 139, 140 and 141 of the " Public Works Act, 1894," which treats of the subject in question. Sub-section 15 cf Seethm 139 is the most peitinent, and it reads as follows : " Every person who permit* any cattle to be at large without proper guidance, or to wauder, or be herded or grazed, upon any road other than in the ordinary course of driving stock, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds." Section 140 provides that any person who is drunk when in charge of cattle or a velrole upon a road, may, at the discretion of the Justices, be either fined £5 or be imprisoned with hard labour for fourteen days. Section 141 makes it lawful for anyone to impound cattle from straying upon roads, providing the roads are fenced on both sides. Many arj under the impression that the ranger is the only one that can lawfully impound cattle from the public loads, but that is an error. Tho3e who have been in the habit of regularly making fu'l use of the " long paddock " will do we'll to digest the above or they will find themselves in trouble, for several o! the settlers in the neighbourhood of Hautapn are " full up" of having a numfcer of hungry animals eternally prowling around their fences, and they intend taking actiou if the nuisauoe is not stopped.

The aldermen of Chicago are not without a keen sense of humour. Tho municipal elections of last spring returned what appeared to be a council of considerable honesty, and the citizens felt all the more secure that the councillors, salaries had been fixed at 3dol. a sitting, ant a clause in the city charter forbade them to raise their remuneration during their term of office. But the previsions of a city charter are the playthings of Chicago aldermen. At a recent sitting of the Council a vote was carried with enthusiasm that each member should be provided from the city funds with a private secretary at a cost not to exceed ISOOdol. a year. It is said that one alderman, turning to his neighbour when the vote was announced, there and iheu appointed him his private secretary with the maximum salary, and the neighbour promptly returned the compliment. The mayor vetoed the vote, but on being sent back to the council it was carried by 48 to 16, a majority sufficient to place the mayor and his compunctions on one side, The Chicago aldermen have opened out wide possibilities for needy councillors threatened with starvation by the fit of honesty which is seiz'ug upon the American citizen. There is a smack of up-to-date morality and economics in the suggestion that a standard of comfort for aldermen should he fixed, and that the city should pay for it No doubt the Chicago councillors will discover that a secretary wants a typewriter, and their failure to vote lOdol. for equipment must be taken as a compromise between their economic principles and the city's meanness.