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Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 372, 26 November 1898, Page 2

The regulations under the Old Age Pensions Act will be gazetted next week. It is said that the machinery for tho Bill will be in operation towards the end of tho year.

At a meeting of the Cambridge Borough Council, held on Wednesday, it was unanimously resolved to appoint Mill. Kerr delegate to represent that body upon the Waikato Hospital and Charitable Aid Board.

The anniversary services in connection with the Hamilton Presbyterian Church will he held on Sunday, December 4th, They will be conducted by the Rev, T. Mackenzie, M.A., of the Thames, There will be a social during the following week, particulars of which will shortly be advertised.

Our race committee (writes, pur I'irongia correspondent) at their last meeting passed the programme for the ensuing races on Boxing-day, which will be duly published in the Auuns. Improvements arc being made on the course. It will shortly be fenced in, which will make things more comfortable and safe for the large crowd who invariably attend our annual meeting.

The programme for the Hamilton Athletic Club's meeting, to he held on Roxing-day. is published in our supplement this morning.

Mr Henry Hookham, one of the oldest chess players in Canterbury and well known throughout New Zealand, died on Thursday ; aged 74. The Government has decided to call tor applications for grants out of the sum of £2OOO, voted last session for the purpose of subsidising public libraries. The body of a newly-born infant was discovered at the sewage depot on the sandhills, Christchurch, ou Thursday, by a workman who was covering the sewage with sand. It is the intention of the defence authorities, as at present advised, to call out the militia for a few days' training at Easter. Colonel l'ole-Peuton has left for Auckland to inspect the defences there, with a view to strengthening them.

Mr W. J. Hunter has received instructions from Mr R. Nicoolls to sell at his residence, Pukete, on Monday, December sth, at 12 o'clock, his farm of 112 acres and the whole of his live and dead stock. Full particulars will be found in his usual column.

The Public Trustee has taken possession of unclaimed sections of land in Opotiki, Waverley and Sou'h Dunedin. He also gives notice to claim ownerless sections iu Kihikihi, Horotiu aud Tauraroa, in the Auckland Land District, besides others in various parts of the colony. The entries received for the Hamilton Horticultural Society's show on Wednesday next are more numerous than last year, and will tax the staging capacity of the hall to the utmost. It is also anticipated that there will be a marked advance in the quality of the exhibits, as there are now some really fine collections of pot plants and blooms available. The committee are busy completing all arrangements, and given a fine day a most beautiful aud interesting display is assured. , Mr F. J. Brooks, of Cambridge, writes :—On Dr. Barnardo's behalf, I beg to thank friends for their kind donations to his homes, and to remind others that I shall shortly be sending a further remittance. The following reached me in time to arrive in London by Christmas, aud were duly forwarded :—J, H. Priestley, £5 ; Cambridge West Sunday School, per Miss Hooper, £1 ; J. W. Merrick, 10s ;W. Atkinson, 10s. Other sums subsequently received will be acknowledged later on. In addition to the events at the Cambridge West Amateur Athletic Club's meeting on Wednesday next for which the handicaps were published in our last issue, there will be several others for which post entries will be taken. A refreshment booth will be upon the ground, and it will be well for the " bookies " to note that they will not be allowed to ply their calling upon the ground. The first race will start at 1.30 p.m. prompt, and every endeavour will be made to get the events off to time. The committee are paying daily attention to the course so as to have it in first-class order.

At St. Andrew's Church, Cambridge, on Sunday,the Vicar announced that the anniversary services would be held next week. He said he had been requested by the Vestry to make a special appeal for help to the general funds of the ohuroh, which were a good deal in arrear owing to the chief attention having been bestowed recently in tho organ fund. Usually at this season the general funds were helped by a social gathering. If liberal offerings were made at the services the need would be met in a better way. Ho earnestly asked then to do what they could. The services will be semi-choral. The Rev. F. G. Evans will bo the preacher iu the evening.

The monthly meeting of the Waikato Farmers' Club will be held at Cambridge on Monday, when Mr Salmon, of the Auckland Butchers' Association, and Mr Wilding, Chairman of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, will be present to endeavour to find a more humane method of sending cattle to Auckland than in the pres3ut railway trucks. Mr A. Bevins, of Auckland, will also attend to endeavour to do business with the farmers by purchasing lambs and sheep for the London market. On the following morning the quarterly meeting of the Club will be held at Ohaupo, at 11 a.m., at which Mr Bevins will also be present.

The half-yearly meeting of the Bank of New South Wales was held at Sydney on Thursday. The net profits are £88,042, which, together with the balance for last half-year, gives £104,955 for distribution, which the directors recommend to be appropriated as follows : —Dividend at the rate of 9 per cent, per annum, absorbing £87,750, the balance to be carried forward to profit and loss account. The Chairman, in his remarks, said, taking a comprehensive view, Australasian banking was in a sound condition, and the outlook was encouraging. The prices of land and other properties showed a disinct advance. The report was adopted. As intimated by notice in last issue, Mr Bevins, of the firm of Bevins and Co., produce merchants, of Auckland, will attend the meeting of the Farmers' Club at Cambridge on Monday next, and on the following day will be at the Ohaupo sale, for the purpose Op securing lines of this season's fat sheets and lambs and for entering into contrac a for the next season's supply. We scarcely overrate the importance an value of this new departure in WaikatoA fixed price for fat sheep and lambs will be a great improvement upon the old ordpr of things, and the opportunity to do busiuess upon these lines will doubtless be eagerly embraced by flockowners. We trust Mr Bevins will meet with such support as will encourage him to continue to do busiuess in Waikato from this time forward.

Mr W. S. Laurie, Customstreet, Auckland, has sent us the following paragraph :—A valuable discovery has just been made by the Colonial College, at llollesloy, in Suffolk. They have succeeded iu showing that the hitherto pestilent dock, which flourishes with baneful pertinacity among the cultivated crops, may be transformed into a useful article of commerce. The Callfornian dock, known as " canaigre," is largely imported for tin valuable tannic acid it contains. Specimens were sent to the college where, after several varieties had been tested, it was found that the roots were the source of the valuable glncoside. Twenty-one per cent, was the yield from the Suffolk dock, as compared with thirty-six per cent, from the Californian canaigre, aud 12 to 13 per cent, from oak-bark. As canaigre fetches from £lO to £2O per ton, and, as an aero of land will yield ten tons, it will be readily seen that the English dock, which requires little or no labour in cultivation, may be henceforth a handsome source of revenue to the farmer, instead of the nuisance he has hitherto regarded it.—The Footing and Balhand Herald, October 1, 1898.