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Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 316, 19 July 1898, Page 2

As will be seen by an advertisement iu another column, Colonel Banks will meet the members of the Pirongia contingent of the Waikato Rifles in the Public Hall, Pirongia, oa Thursday next, 21st inst., at 8 p.m. A full attendance is desirable. Owing to the fire in Hamilton Mr J. A. Young, dentist, will bo unable to be at Te Awamutu this afternoon. It will be seen by advertisement in another column that Mr Young is at present located in the sample room at the rear of Mr H. H. Howden's shop. Mr Lang, M.H.R., having been informed in the House that it is contrary to law to set aside endowments in the King Country, has given notice to ask the Government if they will introduce the necessary legislation to secure Hospital endowments in this part of the colony. We are pleased to hear that in consequence of the large supply of green flax available, Mr Isaac Coates has determined to increase his plant and buildings at Hamilton East in order to deal with the same. We congratulate Mr Coates on hi-) enterprise, and in the interest of all concerned we trust his venture will prove a profitable and successful one. The " Girls' Club," to endeavour to form which a meeting for Saturday next is advertised in this paper, has for its object (1): To enlarge the mental view ; (2) to give more interest in intellectual pursuits ; and (3) for mutual help and cheer. It is to be open to all of 15 years old and upwards ; entrance fee, Is. " Concordia res par vie crcscunt." Small things increase by union. On Saturday Mr Bruce, of Taotoaroa, left his horse and buggy out side Mrs Wyllie's, at the top of the Dukestreet Hill at Cambridge, where is a very steep bank. The horse went browsing up the bank until the buggy overturned, and in a second the buguy was wrong side up in the gutter and the horse lying on the top of it. The vehicle was almost reduced to matchwood, but, strange to relate, the steed was hairlly scratched. Acting upon representations made by Messrs W. Souter and Co., the Railway Traffic Manager has now kindly consented to abolish the additional fare charged to passengers from Cambridge branch to Morrinsvillo and stations beyond if they wish to come into Hamilton and wait there for the trains instead of at Ruakura. A Cambridge ticket will in future allow of the passenger doing this without extra charge. This is one of the small concessions which do not amount to much ; but are very popular with the travelling public. A resident in the Waipa district cillcd on us yesterday and asked us to compliment the chairman and members of the Waipa County Council on the great improvement made on the roads in and near Ngartiawahia, and on the Whatawhata Swamp Road, lie also asked us to suggest that if the Council has any money available it could very advantageously be expended on the Five Chain Swamp. The water, he states, is flowing over the road, and the drain outlet is choked —a state of affairs which will soon make the road impassable. The good job which was made on this same road with the white stone procurable close at hand proves that there is splendid material for making this portion, We regret having to announce the decease of of Mr Richard Kelly, of, Cambridge, which took place at the Sanatorium in Duke-street, about 9 a.m. on Sunday morning. Deceased came to Cambridge about eighteen months ago. He was teller in the Bank of New Zealand, and was sent to Cambridge for the benefit of his health ; but unfortunately it was too late for the change to work the desired cure ; and rather more than a month ago, when deceased was confined to his bed, the house he lived in was burnt, and he and his family had to turn out, very sparsely clad, iuto the severest frost .ve have experienced this year. Arshdticon Willis kindly gave them shelter ; but there is not the slightest doubt the shock hastened Mr Kelly's death. Deceased joined the Bank of New Zealand just twenty years ago. For a considerable period he was at the Bay of Islands, end afterwards at Whangarei, at which places he was wellknown and respected Much sympathy is felt for Mrs Kelly, who for years must have had an anxious time about her husband's health. Two brothers of Mr Kelly's arrived in Cambridge on Saturday, and were with him when he expired.

During the recent flood in Marlborough one resilient saved the lives of two of his cows by accommodating them in his house. Waking up in the morning he found the water all round the house and in response to his voice, two of the cows swain up to '.he hack door, and were taken by the horns and hauled into the house, the floor of which was just out of water. Tin; eons were put into one of thefront rooms, and remained there all dav, occasionally poking their heads out of the window and billowing dolefully, much to the amusement of people navigating the street?. The Hon. P. Lawley is reported iu an English paper to have said : " What I am about to state was not told me either by Mr Gladstone or any member of his family. I have; it, however, from a source to which full accuracy may, in my opinion, be safely accorded. My informant tells mc that at no time '.lining his long residence at Huwarden has Mr Gladstone's unofficial income exceed £SOOO a year. Such, however, was the thrift and sagacity with which the Hawarden Estate has been managed that the eldest son of Mr William Henry Gladstone, born in 1885, will succeed to £IO,OOO a year on attaining his majority." The greatest political issue of the moment is the destruction of the Tammany cub the present Government h<\» imported intoour midst. Whatever else we may or may not have, at least let us have a semblance of decency about our public life It will be an unhappy day for this colony when the population is divided iuto two great political camps the outs and the ins, the office-seekers and the office-holders, but that is undoubtedly the fate that awaits us if Seddonism does not promptly receive its coup do grace. It has hem wounded, it is true : but, as with other such creatures, that may only make it the more dangerous. If we are to have the true democratic government we all profess to desire, then we must prevent at all hazards the creation of an official hierarchy of sycophants.--Posts. On the subject of the curative properties of alcohol iD the treatment of cancer, a correspondent ot the Lyttelton Times, John J. Daily, writes :—" A woman of nearly sixty years suffered the operation of the excision of the diseased h east, to no purpose,for after the wound had been healed up, she was professionally told that the cancer had not been eradicated, and that to effect a cure its entire removal by a second operation was necessary. She was sent home from the hospital ; she became much worse, and was apparently so near her death that she was prayed for in church, and she was given such remedies as were at hand to ease her pain. Good grape brandy, with two other specifies added, was given to the patient, which scon caused a change in her for the better. Linen clothes were then soaked in the same solution of the preparation, and laid on the inflamed breast, and in the course of ten or twelve days from having commenced using this medicine, which she took internally twice a day, as well as keeping it constantly applied to the part affected by means of folded linen saturated with the preparation, she experienced what she had not felt for twenty years previously, namely, an appetite for food. She daily improved in health and strength, and soon appeared to take a new lease of life by becoming quite well. Soon after, another woman residing in the same district, having a cancer in her breast, and hearing of the former woman's case, was anxious to try the remedy iu question. When she began taking it she could neither eat nor sleep, but within fourteen days of her having commenced this course of medicine she recovered her appetite and enjoyed sound sleep, iler husband said that during forty years in which he and his wife had lived together he had never known her sensibly perspire, but that no.v she perspired profusely after she had for some days used the brandy preparation, and in time got quite well.