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Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 342, 17 September 1898, Page 2

There will be evening service in the Romau Catholic Church, Ngaruawahia, to-morrow, at 7 o'clock. The P. and O. steamer China, which went ashore on the island of Perim, has been successfully floated. Mr W. J. Hunter will hold his annual bull sale at Ohaupo on Tuesday, October 18th, for which entries are solicited. A meeting of the committee of the South Auckland Racing Club will be held this evening at Mann's Commercial Hotel, Hamilton. "We direct attention to an alteration in the prices of admissiou for " Rob Roy," which is to be staged at Hamilton on Tuesday and Cambridge on Thursday next. Measles have got a start in the Waikato, there being three cases in the fever ward at the hospital from Paeroa, while we have heard of another at Frankton. The subject of Pastor Steed's address to-morrow evening in the Oddfellow's Hall. Cambridge, will be "'A Round World, and the supposed difficulty caused to the Christian religion thereby." The annual stallion parade in connection with the Waikato Farmers' Club will be held in the paddock opposite the English Church, Cambridge, on Wednesday next, 21st inst., at 10.30 a.m. Entries close on Monday next. In Messrs McNicol and Co.'s column this morning will be found full particulars of the clearing sale to be held on account of Mr J. D. P. Morgan at Hautapu on Thursday, 29th September, commencing at 12 o'clock sharp. We understand that Mr J. C. Blackmore, formerly manager of the Pukekura and Newstead butter factories, has been appointed to take charge of the Whangarei central factory, and will leave for the scene of hia new duties at once. '

A general congregational meeting of the Waikato West Presbyterian Church will be held ou Monday next at 2 p.m., at Te Awamutu. Messrs McNicol and Co. will hold their annual bull sale at Ohaupo.on Tuesday, 25th October, and will offer upwards of 75 pure-bred Shorthorn, Hereford, and Polled Angus bulls from the principal breeders of Waikato, xln advertisement, in another column, intimates that full schedules in connection with the Waikato West Industrial Exhibition, to be held at Te Awamutu, ou Wednesday, 9th November, may now be obtained from the hon. sec. (Miss Ida M. Vauae), the Library, Te Awamutu.

Mr D. D. Hydoj the Government Poultry Expert, is at present in the Waikato, and will be glad to meet anybody desirous of gaining information in his special line. Yesterday he was in Cambridge to see the executive of the Farmers' Club, with the idea of arranging a meeting on the subject.

The Magistrate's Court, Raglan, Capt. Jackson, S.M., presiding, was occupied on Monday and Tuesday hearing the maintenance case, Billington v. Galvan. Mr Dyer appeared for the defendant. A considerable number of witnesses were heatcl. Judgment was reserved till the next visit of the S.M. to Raglan.

A large number of natives passed through Hamilton yesterday on their way to Tamahere, where it is intended to hold a large meeting to discuss the proposed legislation in regard to native lands. Iu conversation with some of the leading members of the party we learnt that the natives generally do not look with favour on the proposals of the Government.

The Hamilton and Cambridge detachments of the Waikato Mounted Rifles will parade at Hamilton at two o'clock this afternoon. After the parade the prizes, including the handsome cup presented by Mr G. J. Mann, of the Commercial Hotel, and the CampbellEhrenfried medal won at the late shooting competition, will be presented by Mr George Edgecuwbe, who has been requested to act iu the absence of the Mayor. In his usual column Mr John Knox advertises full particulars of his sale of furniture, &c, on account of Mr James Hume, which is to take place on Saturday next, 24th inst,, at 12 noon. A glance at the list will convince all that the auctioneer is well within the mark when he says that such a chance of obtaining first-class, useful furniture is seldom experienced in this district, and as vendor's instructions are to " sell without the slightest reserve," no doubt the bargaiu-lovintr public will gather a few "plums."

Mr Lane, of Mangapiko, near Maungatautari, has given us the bottom of a tin match-box that he took from the leg of a hawk that was shot at his place the other day. It was attached to the bird's leg by a bit of wire, and on it was scratched A.P., Ngaruawahia, 22/7/98. We presume from the inscription that the hawk was caught at Ngaruawahia on 22nd of last July, and was afterwards liberated. Ou the reverse side ot the portion of the untch-box is WHENE and some other letters that are indistinct. Perhaps some of our Ngaruawahia readers may be able to supply more information on this matter.

The Cambridge footballers held a most successful and enjoyable ball in the Cambridge Public Hall on Wednesday evening, when fully eighty couples, from all round the district, danced away with great vim till 3 a.m. to excellent music supplied by Miss Stewart (piano), Messrs Stewart (clarionet), Plescher (cornet), and Rdwards (double bass). The supper was supplied by Plost Kerr, of the Criterion Hotel, and was served in his large dining-room. It was one of the best that has ever been laid before dancers in Cambridge, and reflects great credit upon the host and hostess of that popular hostelry; indeed, not a few stated it was the best supper they had ever partaken of. Now that Cambridge footballers appear to be taking more interest in the game than they have done for some time, we expect their ball will become an annual event.

The miscreants who last week wrecked Mr Poole's garden at Pukekura, were at work again on Wednesday night, when they visited the gardens belonging to Miss Hooper, Mr Dean and Mr Jas. Keeley, at Cambridge West. At the first-mentioned they did considerable damage, pulled up everything they could, and even scraped up rows of peas with their hands. At the schoolmaster's residence they destroyed the flower garden, and at Mr Keeley's they pulled up a young peach tree. This is not the work of children ; but of full-grown men, judging by the size of the footprints they left behind, and one of them took the precaution to go bare-footed. We sincerely trust they may yet meet with justice and have to spend a period at Mount Eden, for no one could have been more charitable or have worked harder for the benefit of the place than Miss Hooper has done since she took up her residence in the township, and none but dastardly cowards would have dreamt of damaging her property.