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Waikato Argus, Volume IV, Issue 268, 31 March 1898, Page 2

Four men, concerned in the Kalgoorlic riot, have been sentenced to six months' imprisonment. Mr J. A. Young, dentist, notifies that he may be consulted atTe Awamutu all day on Tuesday, sth April. The Post-office has received advice that the China's mails have all been saved, excepting a few boxes of samples. The Rev. "Walter Smith will conduct the Presbyterian services at Ohaupo, Te Awamutu and Kihikihi on Sunday next. A young man named Thos. Slattery, who was injured at tho Hawera railway station a week ago, died at the Hospital yesterday. The New Zealand Times officially denies the rumour published by various papers lately as to the retirement of the Hons. A. J. Cadmau and J. McLenzie. At Mr W. J. Hunter's sale at Cambridge on Saturday next ho will offer a choice lot of young cattle, dairy cows, sheep, pigs, and a lot of sundry articles. We learn that Mr G. S. Dixon, of Cambridge, has disposed of his property in Grosvenor street. It cousists of nine acres of land and a really well built house of kauri. Mr N. R. Cox's representative (Mr Owen Mahon) will be in Raglan at the end of the week, and customers can rely on having their orders attended to with precision and despatch. To-morrow Messrs McNicol and Co. will hold their usual Waitoa sale, and will offer at their yards at 12 uoou sharp, on account of Mr E. Y. Cox, of Shaftesbury, the whole of his live and dead stock, etc. It is intimated by advertisement elsewhere that the ordinary meeting of the Kirikiriroa Road Board has been postponed from to-morrow to the 15th inst., out of respect to the memory of the hte member (Mr C. A. Davis). We have been requested to call attention to the state of a portion of the Whatawhata Road between Frankton and the Creek. The swamp fires have burnt on to the road, and are steadily encroaching, leaving dangerous holes on each side.

Yesterday Messrs McNicol and Co, (in conjunction with Mr W. J. Hunter) held a clearing sale of all the property of Mr W. H. Wright, of Clements' Park, Cambridge. The attendance of outside buyers was large, and most satisfactoiy prices were realised.

During a Magistrate's Court case in Wellington the other day it came out that a constable iu that city was in receipt of £lO per month, upon which wage he kept himself, his wife, seven children, his own and his wife's mother, paid 12s a week rent, and had to keep himself iu uniform.

At an inquest held at Hastings, Napier, 011 an infant daughter of Mrs Tyson, the mother deposed it was one of twins, and when she woke up iu the morning she found it dead in bed beside her. A post-mortem revealed that death was due to some irritant poison. The in quest was adjourned.

The Timaru Borough Council has resolved to request the co-operation of other municipalities in urging on the Government the desirability of passing the Bill to provide for State fire insurance, in order to enable the municipal bodies to undertake insurance on the majority of the burgesses voting for it.

A lift containing six workmen engaged at the new markets, Sydney, tdted. All were thrown out. Four managed to clinc to the timbers. One named Barbour fell 50ft. on to a cask of cement. His skull was smashed, and when picked up he was dead. The other fell across a beam, aud is dangerously hurt.

The Rev. J. Crewes, of Wellington, whil-t giving evidence before the Police Commission in that city, gave a decided backhander to Mr T. E. Taylor during his cross-examination by the junior member for Christchurch. "If I were to give you the names of temperance workers whose moral conduct would not bear examination," said the witness, " I could keep you here all day. But I don't, as you do, mention names of people in order to have them spread broadcast through the newspapers."

The Colonial Secretary has notified the Secretary of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society that the season for both native and imported game will open on Monday, 2nd May, for the whole of the North Island. It "13 stated that the Acclimatisation Society has appointeel a number of travelling rangers to visit the country districts, and it is to be hoped thas some of them will give this part of the society's ground attention, as there has been in the past plenty of work for them, and the offenders have heard the cry of " wolf " to often that the law is broken most barefacedly.

The quarterly meeting of the Hamiltou-Te Awamutu Circuit was held in the Trinity Wealeyau Church, Hamilton, yesterday afternoon, when representatives from various parts of the distiict were present. The statement of accounts showed a slight deficit. In the evening a social was held, at which a large number were present. An important item of the business of the eveniug was ttie appointment of a committee to arrange matters in connection with the holding ot a Methodist Convention iu the Trinity Church, Hamilton, on Good Friday, at which ministers from the Te A roha and Cambridge districts will deliver addresses. Mr AY. S. Allen will be one of the speakers.

The railway authorities notify that excursion tickets at the usual rates will be issued at all stations south of Te Awamutu from Tuesday next, sth April, and at all other stations from Wednesday, 6th, to Monday, 11th, available for return up to and including Tuesday, 2Gth April. On Good Friday an excursion train will run from Auckland, and stations en route, to Te Awamutu, Cambridge, Te Aroha and Paeroa, the tickets for which will be issued at Via and 7s 3d for iirst and second olaes, respectively, available for day of issue only. This train will leave Auckland at 7 a in., and will return from these stations the same evening. A train will connect with the special at Mwrinaville, and run to Rotorua, but there will be no return on this line. At any stations whete the tickets at 2d and Id arc cheaper, they will be issued instead of the special excursion fares as above.

A meeting of tho committee of the Waikato Agricultural and Pastoral Association was held at Laurie's Hotel, Ohaupo, on Tuesday morning. There were eleven members present, and the President, Mr Jas. Hume, occupied the chair. The chief business was the reading of the balance sheet, and this was unanimously adopted. Some discussion ensued upon the question of outstanding subscriptions, and the work of collection was left with the Secretary, Mr M. Butler. Mr W. C. Castleton was elected a new member of the Association. A full report of the annual general meeting, which was held immediately afterwards, and the discussion that took place upon the proposal to shift the yards to Frankton, appears in another column.

Messrs W. Souter and Co., the local agents for Messrs Sutton and Sons, had on view at their Cambridge store some magnificent specimens of onions of very Hue quality grown from Sutton's seed by Mr Attwood, gardener to the Roto-o-rangi Estate, the only manure used being Coral Queen Guano. Half -a • do/.jn selected at random from the heap weighed 151 b., aud the produce of tire plot, 40ft. by 50ft., was a ton. Two feet was allowed between the rows. The varieties were Sutton's Improved Rending, Sutton's White Globe, Sutton's Giant Rocca, Sutton's Spanish Giant, Sutton's Giant Zittau, and Sut ton's Blood Red. Some of Sutton's Silver»kin,a white pickling onion of very delicate flavour, seemed very suitable for this purpose. Speaking at the luncheon on his visit to Mosgiel Lord Raufurly commented od the loyalty shown by New Zealanders, and went 0:1 to say :—" I confess that before I come out I did hear some talk of New Zealand wanting to separate —(Cries of 'Oh,'" and laughter.) I did hear it. lb may have been a rumor, and there were separatists, no doubt. (Cries of 'No.') I confess I never looked at ic as being anything serious, as after all England does not derive one penny from New Zealaad. It costs the inhabitants.of hew Zealand nothing, and what do they derive? They derive the advantage of the Army and the frig they fly—(heir, hear) —and which flag wherever it flies demands and requires respect to be paid to it. (Applause.) I could ha-dly, therefore, under those circumstances, believe that anybody would mention the word 'separation,'—would mention it seriously—because, after all, if you have an old relation who chooses to dispense to you a few thousands a year and let you do what you like, it is not human nature to say ' I do do not want the old lady,' and walk off on another course. (Laughter and applause.)"

An Australian paper, referring to the death of the late Bishop Selwyn, said that a better bishop never trod, yet such is secular human nature that people were constantly asking themselves ought he to have been a bishop. When he was a bishop, even the humblest observers felt this doubt, nnd put words and sentiments into his mouth which were not his, but which it was considered ought to be. Dr. Selwyn himself to'd, with smothered amusement, some years ago, an incident which befel him when travelling on one of the intercolonial steamers. He stole down into the engine room to smoke, not exactly a surreptitious, but a private pipe, and, feeling in his pockets, found he had no To a ship's boy standing near he said, " Run up, like a good boy, will you, and get me a match." The youth obeyed with respectful alac■ ity, and was heard bellowing loudly on deck, '• Hurry up there, can't you, here's the Bishop cussin' and sweat in' and sayin' there ain't a match in the 'ole blarsted ship." The emissary meant kindly. He had been taken by the geniality and bonhomie of the Bishop's face and manner, and made him talk as (to his mind) one entitled to reverence and obedience should talk.

Mr Lucy in the Sydney Morning Herald relates how young Cambridge is just now hugely delighted with the latest story about the well known Don. This gentleman has a curious habit of, by a slip ot the tongue, involuntarily making up a sort of portmanteau or kaleidoscopic word. It is accomplished by means of mixing up syllables of words succeeding each other in a sentence. His best known, and perhaps most perfect success, happened in church. Entering one SuiuLy morning a little late he found a stranger in his pew. " I beg your pardon, sir," he said, breathlessly, leaning over the interloper, " but you'r oceupewing my pie." Occupying my pew was, of course, what, in a calmer moment, he would have said. His latest is almost, if not quite, a 3 good. There was talk in the company where he found himself as to what trade men were most fully employed by the college. "Do you still get your groceries from Bloxland's?' one of the men asked the Don. " No," he said artlessly, " I did for many years, but now I steal from the doors." It was only after a moment of shocked silence the company realised that what the reverend gentleman meant was that he dealt at the stores. It makes all the difference a 3 to how you dispose of your d's and your st's.