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Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 326, 11 August 1898, Page 2

The usual quarterly meeting of the Raglan County Council will be held at Ngaruawahia, on Wednesday, 24th inst. The date of Messrs McNicol and Co.'s sale of sheep at Cambridge has been fixed for Thursday next, ISth inst., at 10 a.m. The Secretary of the Waikato Hospital wishes to thank Mr J. F. Burnett, Walton, for a gift of illustrated papers for the use of the patients. Meets of the Waikato hounds are advertised as under : —Saturday next, at Gwynnelands ; Wednesday, 17th inst., at Pickering's Corner ; Saturday, 20th inst., at Tamahere Cress Roads. The War Office is giving Colonel Gordon, military adviser to the Australian Governments, many facilities for inspection and information which will prove of great value to the colonies concerned. After the Battle of Atbara, General Kitchener sent a telegram to Mr Cecil Rhodes acquainting him of the cn : gagement, to which Mr Rhodes replied that "My persona] skeleton in the cupboard is that you reach Uganda before I do." The German Consul at Adelaide has prepared a return, showing that during 1896, the Australasian colonies sent goods to Germany of the value of £5,751,000, including wool valued at £4,737,000. In return the colouics imported German manufacture to the value of a million and a-half. Some little time back (writes our l)haupo Correspondent) I called attention to the annoyance caused by cut briars being left on the roads. In consequence, sheep are caught and entangled. I have been requested to again call attention to that matter with a view to the abatement of the nuisance. The Act says :—" To cut and remove," but the latter direction is not carried out. Letters patent for improvements in sewing thimbles have been applied for by three" persons who are described in the Gazette, two of them as sheep farmers and the third as a gentleman, All bachelors of course, who, when away bick on their sheep run, have had to sew on their own buttons and darn their own sox; and their combined genius has brought forth an improved thimble, that simple little article which no man—unless he is a tailor, and he, we are told, is only the ninth part of a man—knows how to use. A meeting of the Ohaupo milk suppliers was held on Friday evening last. There were not many present. Mr F. Potts was voted to the chair. He stated that the business of the meeting was to appoint delegates to the milk suppliers' union. Mr F Potts and Mr Turney wero elected. The tone of the meeting was to be just and fair to both sides. A letter was read from a representative of a London firm ottering 7id per lb for butter f .o.b. The letter was favourably received, but nothing could be done this season. A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the meeting. Our creamery here commences opperation s on Monday, loth. Several suppliers having now 'a fair supply to send.—(Own Correspondent.) The wounded in a modern land battle have small chance of immediate rescue. It is now impossible"to remove them from the fighting line during the conflict, because the hospital-bearers attempting the task would be killed, The best that can be hoped is to attend to them within the next 24 hours. This stern fact having being realised, instruction has been given to every private in the United States army in the art of taking care of himself in case he is hurt. He carries at his belt what is called a "first aid packet," containing a roll of bandages, an antiseptic compress, and antiseptic gauze, enclosed in a sealed rubber casing. If he gets a bullet wound and is in a coudition to use his wits, ho stuffs a plug of the gauzo into the hole, and applies a bandage. This may save his life, and givo the surgeon a ohanco when there is an opportunity of treating them. The inhabitants of Cambridge will soon have the pleasure of hearing an organ in St. Andrew's Church, judging by the hearty manner in which the project was taken up at a vestry meeting held on Monday evening. The whole of the vestrymen were present and it was resolved to at once canvass the town for subscriptions. The matter Mas placed in the hands of Messrs Wells, Hewitt and Adams, and by 10 a.m. the next morning they had the names of ten gentlemen upon the list who had each promised £5 towards attaining the object in view. We understand the kind of organ that is aimed at is a twomanual one, which will cost somewhere between £l5O and £250. The Rev. Mr Lusk, of Epiphany Church, Auckland, who has been in treaty for an organ for his church, has kindly forwarded useful information that will he of great use, and we predict that in about a year from this time St. Andrew's Church will be furnished with an organ that will be a credit to the district.

A meeting of the Waikato Hunt Club was held at the National Hotel, Cambridge, yesterday morning. MiHewitt was voted to the chair, a fair number of members being present. It was resolved to give a prize at the next Waikato Agricultural Show of £2 2s for tho best thr-je-ycar-old calculated to make a hunter. It was arranged to send the hounds to Tanranga for a season ; they will leave Cambridge on the 2nd September, and travel via the Kamai track. The annual Hunt Club races will be held on Wednesday, September 28th, on the St. Kilda course, if possible. The following will be the programme of events:—Hack Hurdles, Handicap Hurdles, Hunt Club Steeplechase, Ladies' Bracelet, Pony Race, Tally-ho Steeples. The officers for the races were appointed, and the meeting then terminated. Mr Smith, tho new host of the National, kindly provided lunch for those who were attending the Hunt. Mr T. L. Foster, Inspector of Surveys, is now in Cambridge inspecting the Karapiro Block, that was lately surveyed by Mr fi. dc C. Drury. This block it will be remembered was lately purchased by the Government from the Assets Board, and as fome of the numbers of the sections have been altered Mr Drury is accompanying the Inspector rearranging the numbers and pointing out the boundaries. Along with Mr Foster is Mr Hugh Boscoweu, Chief Clerk of the CroWn Lands Department, who is also an expert photographer ; he has been sent by the Government to take views of different parts of the estate, which will be inserted in the Crown Litho. books, in order that selectors at a distance may have an idea of the configuration of the country without visiting the spot. We understand this block will be open for selection about the Ist of October, under the lease-in-perpetuity clauses of " The Land Act, 1892," which is for a term of 999 years. This land should be quickly taken up ; the best of it will be offered" in lots of from 50 to 230 acres, and the inferior in two lots of about 300 and 500 acres respectively. It is gratifying to know that the visiting gentlemen express themselves as being much pleased with Cambridge and its surroundings. The Khartoum campaign now in progress, little war as it is, stands in strong contrast with the first-class hostilities in which the United States and Spain are involved. The arrangements for the former are methodical and definite, whilst those of the latter are precisely the reverse. Sir Herbert Kitchener has completed the first act of his drama ; the drop curtain has been lowered and the principal actors are enjoying the entr'acte. Officers who so recently were commanding brigades in the Soudan are to be met strolling in Pall Mall, and they have come to London so quietly that they do not give, their friends the opportunity of worrying them. They put in an appearance at a levee, and a regimental dinner perhaps, but for the rest tliey might have run up from Aldershot as from the Atbara for all tho'show they make of themselves as heroes of a brilliant victory. In a few days they will be speeding back to Cairo, and a week or two later they will have resumed a role which so far they are performing so excellently well. The authorities in the Uuited States who have the conduct of their war in hand must envy us the excellent organisation A'hich admits of an army in the midst of a difficult advance adjourning for a holiday. The troops themselves are standing at case under the most favourable conditions of which camping ou the Nile admits, but when the call to attention comes it will find them both in spii it aud condition for the completion of their work, whilst the officers will fail into their places all the better for having been at the Derby and for having doue the theatres. These reflections are so acceptable that we are disinclined to say anything to disturb them.—Broad Arrow.