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Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 331, 23 August 1898, Page 2

The South Canterbury Farmers' Association report a net profit for the year of £8,479.

St. Mary's Cathedra), Parnell, is now completed at a cost of about £7OOO, and will be consecrated on Thursday.

It is stated in Wellington that Capt. Gudgeon has been appointed British Resident at Rarotongo, vice Mr F. J. Moss.

A considerable amount of wreckage has been found on the East Coast, and it is feared that some disaster has taken place.

At a meeting of unskilled workers to consider the unemployed question, it was decided to form a General Labourers' Union in Wellington.

A telegram from Dunedin states that Mr Archibald Barr, who was for 31 years Chief Postmaster of Dunedin, died in that city on Saturday night. The annual election of Councillors for the Hamilton Borough will be held on Thursday, September Bth, Nominations of candidates will be received up to noon on Wednesday, 30th inst. Messrs McNicol and Co. will hold their annual hogget sale at Ohaupo on Tuesday, 27th September, for which entries are solicited. The sale will commence at 12 o'clock sharp.

Owing to the large number of tickets sold for the social and dance in aid of the Hamilton Public Readingroom, the management will be able to provide sitting accommodation for ticket-holders only, and they will be admitted first.

Mr A. 11. Atkinson, who has lately been dividing his time between the Hamilton and Paoroa gas works, will leave finally on Thursday or Friday next, to take charge of the Paeroa works. Mr Atkinson will be greatly missed by his many friends in this township, who will be pleased to know that his removal from amoDgst us means well-earned promotion.

A cabinetmaker's factory and contents in Eden Terrace, Auckland, have been totally destroyed by lire. It was occupied and owned by Thus. E. Short. The building and contents were insured for £237 in the Union Office.

The Hamilton Chess Club sends a team to Ngaruawhia to-morrow to play the local club. This match is the return of the telegraphic match played some two months ago, and which was a win tor the Hamilton Club. The local team drives down to-morrow, leaving Hamilton at 5 p.m.

A meeting of the milk suppliers to the Cambridge Cheese Factory was held in Mr James Hally's office at Cambridge on Saturday, when the price to be paid for milk during the coming season was settled. It will be the same as last year, viz., 3jd per gallon of 10£lb during the months of September, and June, and 3d per gallon for the remainder of the season. The factory will start about the middle of next month.

On Thursday, September Ist, Mr W. J. Hunter will sell at his Cambridge Yards a contracting plant on account of W. Nichol and trustees late Wm. Bailey (deceased). The draught mares and geldings, which are a picked lot, ate all good workers and in grand condition, and enly being sold on account of the death of the late W. Bailey. This is a rare chance, and one that should not be missed by those requiring a good draught horse.

We understand that Mr Harker has decided to re-erect his shops on their former site. The building, which will be a .one-storey one, will comprise Mr Barker's jeweller's shop, a saddler's shop for Mr Going, and a third shop for Mr O. Mahon, who has severed his connection with Mr N. R. Cox and intends to start business on his own behalf. Mr Mahon has made himse f very popular dnriug his stay in the town, and he will no doubt receive a fair share of public patronage. We wish him all sorts of good luck in his venture.

At the annual meeting of the Canterbury branch of the Institute of Journalists, the following resolution was passed : " That this branch learns with regret, that a lady journalist has been refused admission to the Press gallery, and hopes that in the future that applicants for admission will be dealt with without distinction of sex, in accordance with the principle of equality observed by the Journalists' Institute in admitting both men and women to its membership." A copy of the resolution is to be forwarded to the Chairman of the Press gallery. It will be some satisfaction to those volunteers, who have a fancy for a more taking and showy unform than the khaki at present to learn what is the opinion in leading circles in England on the subject. In writing on the late military tournament, held at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, the editor of Truth says :—" Among military uniforms, the one which impresses me as most serviceable and sensible is the khaki clothing, V> hether for infantry or cavalry. 1 am told that you must have a showy uniform for recruiting purposes. Then I would have one uniform for show and recruitiug purposes,and a totally different one for active service, designed solely with an eye to business. The harmonium at St. Andrew's Church, Cambridge " jibbed " on Sunday morning, and had it not been for Mr Edwards on the bass and Mr Stewart on the clarionet, the choir would have played a lone hand. It seemed as if the harmonium wished to remind the congregation how unworthy it was to take the place of an organ ; and if anything was wanted to hurry up die getting of one it was what happened on Sunday morning. In the evening the Vestry met and resolved to get an organ at, the earliest possible moment. The amount now subscribed amounts to £230. In the evening the Rev. Frank Evans, who is up to see his aged father who is indisposed, preached an eloquent sermon from 19th chapter of the Ist book of Kings ; and Mr Edgar Walton sang " The Perfect Life " in a most acceptable manner. The service w : as one of the- best that has been held in the church for years, and docs Mr Edwards, the hon. conductor, great credit. Considerable interest is being manifested in alleged discoveries of diamonds at Henderson, and the representatives of several financial corporations who have New Zealand offices have been making inquiries into the value of the find. The discovery was made by Mr Alfred Bullock, who has had considerable experience on the diamond fields of other countries, and he states that the drift containing small diamonds extends over lj miles, the precious stones being found under a basalt formation. In hardness and crystallisation, the diamonds are said to be in every way equal to those recently found in New South 'Wales, which property was subsequently purchased by De Beer's Company for something like £50,000Opals, sapphires, and other precious stones have also been discovered at intervals, and the prospects are considered so promising, that systematic development will probably be proceeded with as soon as possible. So far operations have been confined to a depth of from 4ft to Oft, and Mr Bullock expresses the opinion that there is every indication of the discovery proving a valuable one.—N.Z. Herald.