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Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 352, 11 October 1898, Page 2

The Pirongia Minstrels will visit Oliaupo on Thursday next, 13th. The performance will be followed by a dance.

Mr W. J. Hunter has received instructions from Mr J. Lawson (Official Assignee) to sell at Cambridge on Saturday next, immediately after cattle sal?, the horses, carts and sundries in the bankrupt estate of McLean and Dobson, fellmongers ; also, the cottage known as Norgrove's.

We have to acknowledge the receipt from the Chief Postmaster, Auckland, of the first issue of the Postal Bulletin, containing useful information with regard to this branch of the public service. The bulletin will be issued monthly, and should prove of great advantage to business men. A vocal and instrumental concert iu aid of the Cambridge Harmonic Society will be given iu the Public Hall, on Thursday, 20th just. The promoters have secured the services of most of the favourite amateurs of the district, and a first-class programme will be submitted to the audience, which, it is hoped, will be a large one.

On our front page this morning Messrs Kempthome, Prosser ami Co. have a new advertisement re Surprise Island Guano, which is expected to arrive daily. The firm offer this manure ex ship at £3 12s 6d per ton (fcr 55 per cent, phosphate of lime, rising or falling peruuitonMr Pond's analysis), but if Rtored the price will be an additional 7s 6d per ton. The. Wellington Education Board has discovered that certificates of the sixth standard are being forged for purposes of obtaining employment, etc. At present the standard certificates are all on one form and those unpassed are left blank. To prevent further forgeries Sixth standard certificates will be on separate forms, and issued by inspectors only, instead of head masters.

Messrs MoNicol and Co. advertise in this issue full particulars of their annual bull and spring cattle sale, to be held at Ohaupo on Tuesday, 25th October, at 12 o'clock sharp. Upwards of 100 pure-bred Shorthorn, Hereford, Jersey and Polled Angus bulls from the leading breeders of the district will be offered. For their cattle sale 800 head of choice grown cattle have been entered, including a grand mob of 250 three and four-year-old half-bred Polled Angus steers.

The members of the Cambridge Polo Club had a grand game on Saturday, when Messrs Weatherall and Banks again chose the teams to do battle, but on this occasion Mr Weatherall's men proved the stronger, and they were victorious by three goals to oue. The game was a very fast one, and was much enjoyed, not only by the players, but also by a number of spectators. Unfortunately, one of the players, Mr M. Wells, met with a nasty accident, and he retired with a " lovely black eye."

On Friday afternoon Mr Frank Best, residing in City Road, Auckland, attempted suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. It appears that, for some months, the unfortunate man has been unable to do any business owing to suffering from general paralysis, which extended to the brain, and of late it has been necessary to watch him. About 4 o'clock Mrs Best's brother went down the garden and found the fowl-houso barricaded. On looking inside he saw Mr Best, who had stripped, lying on the floor with his throat cut. It is not expected that the wound will result fatally. Mr Rest was a commercial traveller for an Auckland firm.

The circuit quarterly meeting in connection with St, Paul's Church, Cambridge, was held on Friday aftcrnoou, and was followed in the evening by a social, but owing to the inclement weather this was hut poorly atteuded. The following was the programme : " Jubilee Chorus," choir; song, Miss Garland ; reading, Mr Charles Roberts ; violin duet, Misses Cannell and Nixon ; chorus, choir ; speech, Rev. Cannell ; vocal duet, Messrs Gane and Cannell ; song, Mr Wm. Garland ; chorus, choir ; vocal duet, Mr and Mrs Chas. Hunter. An excelleut supper, which was done full justice to, terminated the proceed ings.

On Saturday afternoon Mr Chas. Craig, of Cambridge, started a shilling subscription in aid of the mother of a young man named Joll, who was lately killed in a goldmine somewhere over Paeroa way, and before night he had enlisted the sympathies of no less than 140 of the inhabitants, so he will have the pleasure of sending the bereaved parent the nice little sum of £7- Owing to the fact of the district having lately been canvassed for subscriptions for different purposes, Mr Craig wisely decided to limit the donation to one shilling per individual, with the above happy result. We understand the young man had joined an Oddfellows' Lodge, but had not been a member sufficiently long to entitle his mother to receive any benefit from it.

It has been decided by the local Amateur Athletic Club, in place of the ten-mile bicycle race winch was to have taken place early in December, to substitute a novelty in the way of cycling contests by holding a competition, open for one month from the 10th November next, and the rider who puts up the fastest time for one mile (unpaccd) during that time to be declare! the winner. A rider may make any number of attempts, and the days set apart for trials are Tuesday and Friday in each week, when timekeepers will be present. Entries close on Saturday, 29th instant, with the Secretary, from whom any other details can be obtained. Contests like these should be the means of keeping up interest on the local track during the approaching season. It is the intention of the Club to have a workingbee on the track to-morrow afternoon, and any willing members will be heartily welcomed.

la the Supreme Court action at Invercargill, on Thursday, Wm. Christie v. Owen Kelly, contractor, for £3OO damages, under the Employers' Liability Act, for injuries sustained be plaintiff through his falling from an alleged defective scaffolding, Mr Justice Penuefather found for the defendant. The case of the injured man is a sad one, the medical evidence being that the young fellow will never be able for manual work, his spine being injured. It appeared, however, that he selected the material for the scaffold himself.and that, though he had doubts as to the soundness of the knotty plank, which gave way, he had not directed the attention of the foreman to it. The latter, in fact, also fell. Mr Solomon, for the defence, relied on section 12 and 13 of the Act of 1891, which lays down that a workman shall not be entitled to compensation where the employer is ignorant of the defect, and such workman, knowing of the same, fails to give information to the employer, or some person iu his service,