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Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 368, 17 November 1898, Page 2

Police Inspector Cullen paid a short visit to Hamilton on Tuesday. It is not expected that the Mapourika will be floated off before the end of the year. At the annual meeting of the Mosgiel Woollen Company, a dividend of 7 per cent, was declared. The number of persons who arrived in the colony during October was 1829, while the departures were 955. We learn that Mr W. Spragg, manager of the New Zealand Dairy Association, will meet the Te Awamutu suppliers at the creamery buildings, tomorrow (Friday), at 9.30 a.m. A full meeting is expected. We have to acknowledge the receipt of the New Zealand Official Year Book from the Registrar General's Department. It contains a very large amount of information, arranged in a manner which facilitates reference to the volume for facts connected with the colony. Mr Thompson, who has been appointed to succeed Mr Jas. Hume as manager of the Bank of New Zealand at Hamilton, will arrive in Hamilton today. Mr K S. Brookfield, who has been acting as manager since Mr Hume's departure, will leave about the end of the week. We were pleased to see Mr Geo. McCullagh, of Cambridge, driving about that township yesterday. The genial " George " looks none the worse for his spell in bed, and we understand he intends selling for Messrs McNicol and Co. to-day, even if he has to do so from the "seat of his buggy. On Monday night a son of Mr D. McCarthy, of Waihou, about 14 years of age, had the misfortune to break his arm. With another lad he was out riding, when he fell from his horse. The arm was temporarily bandaged up, and he was taken into Te Aroha, where his injuries were properly attended to. Mr H. Logie, who was for some time postmaster at Hamilton, passed through by train on Tuesday to Te Aroha. Mr Logie lias not been enjoying Ihe best of health lately, and is away on sick leave. He will be in Hamilton on Saturday, and we are sure his many friends will be pleased of the opportunity of renewing their old friendship. In the weekly report of the Otago Fruit and Produce Agency, Dunedin, of November 4th, we note that under the head of pigs the agency intimates that they can place any number of prime baeoners at4?d per lb. Dairymen and others now feeding pigs for the Auckland and local carers may safely ask for higher rates than those ruling of late—namely, 3UI to 3|d per lb. A penny a pound is too great a margin, especially as much of the Southern cured bacon and hams are sent North. The competition instituted by the Waikato Amateur Athletic Club for the fastest mile, unpaced, ridden by local cyclists, was commenced in real earnest on Tuesday evening on the Sydney Square track. The first rider to appear was R, \V. Lye, with 12sccs. start, and he rode the mile in 2m. 52 2-sths s. Next came A. E. Coomber, with a handicap of Ssecs, but he failed to do any better than the first-named, his time being also 2m. 52 2-sths s. C. L. Lines then decided to have a '' go," and as he had to start from scratch a fast time was looked for, and in this the spectators, of whom there was a goodly number present, were not disappointed, as he cut out the mile in the very good time of 2m. 355. To-morrow evening other riders intend to have a trial, and no doubt, now that the competition lias been set going, the timekeepers will be kept busy on the evenings set apart for the trials—Tuesday and Friday in each week.

Mr Spragg passed through Hamilton yesterday with the intention cf meeting the Pukekura milk suppliers at the Cambridge West hall last evening. Matters of considerable interest will be brought forward for consideration, and, in view of the correspondence appearing in our columns of late, the subject of the dairying business in Waikato is occupying a large share of attention. The anniversary of Trinity Presbyterian Church, Cambridge, is announced for next Sunday, and we are pleased to 'earn the Rev. T. Scott has so far benefited by his holiday as to be able himself to conduct the services. The concert, which is usually an impoitant item in commemorating these anniversaries, 'S also to be the occasion of opening the Victoria Hall, as the old building is now designated. It bus been oomnlodiously seated and made suitable not only for Sunday-school requirements, but for social gatherings connected with the church and for public use. The Hamilton West School subcommittee met at the Waikato Times Buildings last evening. There were present : Messrs W. Jones, J A. Young, J. Andrew and W. C. Castleton. Mr Jones was voted to the chair. The principal business was that of receiving tenders for the supply of school requisites and stationery to the committee. Two tenders were received, and Mr J. S. Bond's tender being considerably lower than that of Mr R. F. Sauries' was accepted. Leave of absence was granted to the headmaster, Mr J. M. Murray, from the 18th inst. to the 21st. Mr McCullongb, manager of the Bank of New South Wales, is paying Waikato a visit of inspection, and his being in the district has set the gossips talking. Some say he has come to si-.e if there is any possibility of a profitable business being done if his bank opens a branch in Waikato, and others state he is inspecting the creameries to see if they are worth what the co-operative people will want to borrow on them, while a further section coutend that both matters are receiving his attention, and that if the bank finds the money for the creameries local branches will aiso be opened. Mr William Taylor, of Green Hill, Te Awamutu, who was the most successful exhibitor in the shorthorn classes at Auckland, where he secured both the championships, has sold his champion animals, the bull being secured by Messrs Colbeck Bros'., Kaipara, for £125, and the heifer by Mr McHardy (who was judge in these classes) for 60 guines. Both the animals were got by the seven-times champion bull, Duke of Clydevale. The heifer bought by Mr McHardy was shipped from Onehunga on Monday to go right through to Palmerston, where she was to compete for her new owner yesterday. Mr C. S. Wright, corresponding Secretary of the Auckland District for the Manchester Unity Order of Oddfellows, paid Cambridge a visit on Tuesday, and he tells us that the Order has made an advance in the Old Country by establishing lodges for females similar in all respects to those for men, but that the ladies will not be allowed to visit men's lodges, and vice versa. To-day (Thursday) Mr Wright journeys to Rotorua to open a lodge there, and he intends trying to establish a lodge in Hamilton at an early date. The Cambridge lodge is in a flourishing condition, and we cannot understand why Hamilton should be behind hand in the matter. The Mayor of Cambridge made a lucky hit as he was journeying from Auckland on Monday. When he reached Frank ton Junction Guard Mack drew his attention to a young man from the fish hatchery at Waimakariri who had a large can of rainbow trout fry that he did not know what to do with. It seems the fry were intended for Karamu, and a settler from that place was to have met them at Frankton, but no one arrived, and the young man in charge was in a quandary. Mr Bach soon settled the difficulty by annexing the fish and taking them to Cambridge. A buggy and pair was quickly chartered, and by 6.15 p.m. the fry were disporting themselves in the upper reaches of the Karapiro stream at Taotaoroa, apparently none the worse for their extended journey. This is the second lot of trout fry that have been liberated in the Karapiro, and we trust that in a few years good spore will be had with them and their descendants. Julian Ralp, an American writer who has visited Russia, says of the country and the people':—' In a sentence Russia is a huge farm, comprising a seventh of the giobe. It has half a dozen men to manage it—according to the policy of one of the six —and the people are divided into ten millions of men and women more or less comfortable, more or less educated class, and 119 millions ot citizens, the mass of whom form the dullest, rudest, least ambitious peasantry of Europe. If one travels over Russia to spy out the land, he may go for days across it without breaking the continuous view of a flat disc, whose only variety lies between its farmed flatness and its waste flatness, its squat, shrinking unkempt villages, and its sandy districts wooded with thin birch or evergreen. Everywhere ic is new, rude and untidy. Villages crowded round huge white Greek churches with Oriental towers and points of gold. Mud roads they aremere rough trails, low-browed, shaggedhaired, dirty men and women of the intelligent status of Indian squaws are the only other objects he will see.' Again and again he refers to untidiness as characteristic of the country and the people.