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Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 373, 20 December 1898, Page 2

Dr. Murdoch, Cambridge, has returned and resumed practice. All the single men left on the Midland railway works are to be discharged at the end of the month. 11.M.5. Miowera, with the British mails of December 2nd, left Victoria B.C. on ISth hut., three days late. The Waihi return for the month is a record, viz., £25,285 ; total for the year, £242,285 ; total since 1890, £579,435. A notice appears in our overleader columns this morning re the Christmas holidays to be observed by the Bank of New Zealand. During a thunderstorm at Tauranga on Sunday, the Government buildings and house occupied by Mr Tanner, the schoolmaster, were struck by lightning and sustained a good deal of damage. At a meeting of the committee of the Whatawhata Racing Club, held on Saturday evening, the following teuders were accepted :—Gates, W. Shepherd, £l4 10s ; refreshment booth, J. T. Home, £3. At the morning service at the Hamilton Presbyterian Church on Sunday the following were duly ordained and inducted to the office of elders : Messrs D. Gardiner, M. Mclnues, G. A. Runciman and J. Primrose. We understand an attempt is to be made to re-form the Cambridge Brass Baud. A meeting was held in the PublicHall on Friday evening, when about a dozen young men expressed themselves as willing to join. We truat they will be successful in their laudable endeavour. Maiden's boarding-house at Waitekauri, containing forty rooms, was burned down at two o'clock on Saturday morning. Nothing was saved. Mrs Maiden and her family lose everything. The insurauce on the building is £3OO, and £125 on the furniture in the South British. By advertisement in another column it will be seen that Hamilton is to be favoured with another visit from Whitehou.-e's kint-matograph and loudspeaking phonograph. As the day lixed for the visit is the day of the sports, no doubt the show will be well patronised. It will be shown under the auspices of the VVaikato Amateur Athletic Club. The annual concert and dance in connection with the brcaking-up of the Kirikiriroa School takes place tomorrow (Wednesday evening). A capital programme has been arranged by the teacher (Miss Wilson), and all the available talent in the district has been brought into requisition, eo that visitors can rely on spending a pleasant evening. The Wellington Post states : " At a recent Cabinet meeting the recommendations contained in the report of the Police Commission, regarding Inspectors En crson and Hickson, were confirmed. The appointment of their successors will be left entirely in the hands of Commissioner Tunbridge, and we believe they have already been chosen. 1 ' We understand that a branch'of the International Bible-reading Association lias been formed in Hamilton. Mr J. R. E. Hatrick has accepted the secretaryship, and will be pleased to receive the names of those willing to join before the end of the year, when cards will be distributed. The subscrip tion is only one penny per year per member, and as this covers all expenses in connection with the Society, there should be no holding back on the score of expense. On Sunday Archdeacon AVillis at St. Andrew's Church, Cambridge, read a sermon by the Arihbishop of York, dealing with the ritual question, that is agitating the Anglicans of England at the present time. The Archbishop stated there was no Bishop in England who agreed with the use of manuals used by some of the clergy, but, if equal publicity was given to the good work going on in many parishes, they would rind priests ministering to happy and contented congregations,

The annual scholarship examinations under the Board of Education will commence to-day at Auckland, Thames, Hamilton, and "Whangarc. At Hamilton, where there arc seven candidates, Mr J. Wooller will act as supervisor.

Li rpfprenoo to a paragraph which .tpiii c.| !., S.turday's issue, as to the pici 't p-isk, Mr Geo, Watt, manager of th* Dairy Association, writes Mint we w.iii hi «rn.r as to the price paid bv '.he Association fur good dressed pigs. The price the Association has been paying for the past two months, and pre now paying, is Sfc. per lb. with railway freight added. This price he claims will compare favourably with any pud in Ne.v Zealand, taking into account the inland position of the factory. A Vancouver firm, in a letter to the National Dairy Association, Wellington, writes:-"If you can induce farm'ers to ship eggs until April, they can make money, as they arc now worth 33 cents (Is s_d), and likely to go higher. There is likely to be more cold storage available for New Zealand on the present line of steamers. lam acting for the owners of the steamers, and we will be able to carry up to 1700 carcases of fiYzm meat per trip. Your butter has a good name here, otherwise it would have no show against New Smtii Wales, oil account of the differential duty ; but people do not mind paying the difference. Chcise has no cluuics in the market."

The Presbyterians of Cambridge have had many calls made upon them of late, but nevertheless they do not intend to let those who have served them well in the past go without some slight mark of recognition. For a considerable time the Misses Young and Anderson have gratuitously played the organ at Trinity Church with conspicuous ability, and it was felt that Christmas time would be a fitting occasion to reward them in some measure for their kindness. They were invited to attend a meeting on Friday evening last, and a purse of sovereigns was to be presented to each of them, but unfortunately Miss Anderson was prevented from being present by the thunderstorm that passed over the district at that time. Miss Young duly received her purse, but Miss Audersou lias still that pleasure in store. We congratulate the young ladies on the progress they have made in the art of organ playing, and arc pleased to see that the congregation appreciate their efforts. His Worship the Mayor of Cambridge, Mr A. Bach, will vacate the civic chair to-morrow and instal his successor, a meeting beiug held for the purpose at noon ; but, before he does so, he will present Mr James Russell with a £5 note as a slight recognition of the promptitude and pluck he displayed in extinguishing a fire that occurred at Mr W. Rout's premises in Chapel-street some little time since. This douation has been made by the two iuusrancc offices—the New Ze iland and the Sun, we believe—who have insurances covering the buildings, and who would have been large losers but for the prompt action taken by Mr Russell. After two other little matters, that were relegated for the last Council meeting, have been settled, Mr Bach will instal his successor, Mr W. F. Bucklaud, and we fully expect tkere will be a large attendance of the public to bid farewell to Mr Bach on his resigning his public position in the town, aud also to welcome Mr Bucklaud.

The energetic Postmaster of Cambridge, Mr O. Empson, is always on the look-out to forward the iuterests of that town, and owing to his efforts an extended delivery of letters in the Borough will commence this day. For same time he has been trying to get a letter-carrier appointed to Cambridge, and at last his efforts have been crowned with success. Hitherto ivhen the letters were being delivered telegrams had to await the return of the messenger, which caused frequent trouble to the business people, but that will now be remedied. The mora:ng delivery will extend over virtually the whole Borough, only two or three small houses on the extreme limits of it being omitted ; and the afternoon delivery will he much extended. Owiug to the late arrival of the train it will be impossible to make the second delivery as comprehensive as might be wished, but we understand it will embrace the whole of the town proper, and as far as Mr Hewitt's residence on the Hamilton Road aud Mr-Wallace's ne*w house in Victoria-street. Doubtless many who have been in the habit of going to the office for their letters will miss their little journey in the summer time, but they will feel the beuefit of Having their letters delivered at their houses' in the winter. It is a rule of the Department that where there is a delivery letters must be taken by the letter-carrier to the house to which they are directed, so those who do not wish to avail themelve. of it must take a letter-box.

A very serious and peculiar accident happened to Miss Mahood in Cambridge on Saturday morning. She lives at Hautapu with her father, who has for some time being seriously indisposed. On Saturday Miss Mahood drove into Cambridge to consult Dr. Murdoch about her parent, and she fastened up the horse to a tree in the yard of the Masonic Hotel while she went to the doctor's house. The horse and vehicle —a twowheeled one—remained where she left them while she consulted the doctor aud returned up the street, but just as she reached the passage leading to the hotel yard something startled the animal—probably it was stung by one of the gad flies that are becoming so prevalent—and it broke away, divesting itself of the bridle. It dashed round the yard and made for the gateway leading into the street, just as Miss Mahood arrived opposite. The wheel caught the gatepost, the vehicle overturned, and the frightened animal knocked the lady dowu, dragging the overturned trap over her body. She was quickly picked up and conveyed into the hotel, and the doctor was fetched to attend to her. She was frightfully knocked about, her right collarbone was broken, her left wrist badly crushed, and both bones of the same arm were broken ; her lip was badly torn and had to be stitched up, and she had also several severe cuts about the head. Notwithstanding these injuries Miss Mahood lefused to betaken to the hospital, and Mr Carroll drove her home, and he also telegraphed to her brother at Tirau to come, aud he and his wife did everything they could to comfort the invalid and her father. The unfortunate lady is indeed in a pitiable condition, for she has her arms strapped across her chest, has to lie on her back, and is ordered not to talk or cat, and for some time will have to be fed with a spoon.