The Waikato Argus GEORGE EDGECUMBE, Proprietor. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1899.

Waikato Argus, Volume VI, Issue 400, 18 February 1899, Page 2

The Waikato Argus GEORGE EDGECUMBE, Proprietor. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1899.

Great preparations have been made in Auckland for the Grey Memorial ceremonial to-day.

The Hamilton and Ohaupo cricket teams will meet at Ohaupo to-day, wnen an interesting match is anticipated. The serviees at the Hamilton Presbyterian Church to-morrow will be conducted by Mr Ashwin, of Haut&pu. Mr W. J. Hunter will hold hia second Sheep Fair at Ohaupo Yards on Wednesday, March 15th, for which entries are solicited. The privileges in connection with the forthcoming races at Claudelands will be offered at the Hamilton Auction Mart on Saturday, 4th prox. The annual meeting of the Waipa Amateur Athletic Club will be held at Mrs Finch's Hotel, Pirongia, on Saturday next, 25th inst., at 8 p.m. The Tonson Garlick Furnishing Company, Auckland, notify that their clearing sale, prior to stock-taking, will positively close on Saturday next. We remind Hamilton readers of Mr Knox's sale of furniture, land, etc., at the Hamilton Auction Mart this afternoon. The sale will commence at 1.30 p.m. The ordinary monthly meeting of the Waikato Farmers' Club will be held on Monday next. As business of an important nature will come np for consideration a large attendance is desir • able. A Tauwhare Maori advertises for three horses that were lost from that district last Sunday. He does not give any name, but information forwarded t 3 the Maori settlement there will doubtless reach the owner. We understand that Mr Thomas Crosby, of Kirikiriroa, is dangerously ill, and that at present only slight hopes are entertained of his recovery. We trust that the rumour is ill founded and that Mr Crosby will soon be restored to health.

After the Looneys had been sentenced in the Supreme Court at Welliugton yesterday, the female prisoner, whilst being removed from the cells below the Court to the gaol, dashed her hands through a window, necessitating medical assistance.

Messrs McNicol and Co. have received instructions from Mr E. F. Roche, of Shaftesbury, who has sold his property, to sell (in conjunction with Mr W. J. Hunter) on Wednesday, 29th March, the whole of his live stock, implements, furniture, etc. Full particulars will appear in a future advertisement.

The school excursion to Auckland on Thursday was very largely patronised, and it is estimated that about a thousand persons of all ages made the trip. The passags down was hot aud dusty, but a cool pleasant evening was experienced for the home journey. The train arrived back in Hamilton well up to time, about 10 p.n.'.

Mr Bowman, of Cambridge West, has taken his traction engine and plant to Parawora to thresh the grain crops for the Maoris there. They have about 300 acres of wheat this season. The road to Parawera is a rough one, but Mr Bowman manages to get there somehow. Last year he also visited that district and did a considerable amount of work for the natives.

There is nothing liko a bit of breeding, this applies equally to cattle as to horse-flesh. This fact was well illustrated recently in the case of a lot of fat bullocks belonging to Mr W. J. Taylor, of Te Awamutu, the well-known breeder of Shorthorns, which were sold in Auckland about a fortnight ago. The particular pen of bullocks under notice were just three years old, and their respective weights, aa supplied by Mr Hellaby, were 9241 b, 8551 b and 8241 b.

At the inquest on the late Mr James Motion the evidence went to show that deceased stumbled over a ti-tree stump, which caused his gun to go off. Ocats are being purchased on farms around Hastings at a lower rate than they have been for some years oast. It is stated that Maoris are disposing of them at 6s per sack.

The adjourned meeting of the Hamilton Borough Council was again postponed till Monday, there not being a quorum of the councillors present at 8 o'clock. The Mayor and Crs Salmon and Davis were the only members iu attendance.

The provision for old ago pensions made last session was incidentally referred to by the Rev. Dr. Bevan, of Melbourne, who is at present on a visit to this colony, in the course of an address at Dunedin lsst week. He said: "My own view is that old age pensions should be so arranged that everbody would come into them, and until that is done you may be quite !>ure the movement will not be satisfactory." The funeral of the late Mr Wm. Garduer, of Epsom, took place yesterday afternoon, the cortege leaving his late residence at four o'clock. The interment took place at the cemetry of St. Andrew's Church. Kpsom, where so many old colonists have found their last resting place. There was a large attendance of friends and relatives who paid the last tribute of respect to the memory of an old and esteemed colonist. The Rev. W. E. Gillam, of Ellerslie, conducted the funeral service.

Thus the Bush Advocate :—Two wives in Dannevirke were having some naughty fun on a recent evening, when they took a walk abroad in garments usually worn by their husbands or other male'folk. To the majority of those whom they met they appeared to be rather good-looking young men. However, the watchful eye of the local " man in blue " was upon them, and it is stated, we know not how truly, that they will shortly be called upon to make a first appearance before a court of law.

Mr Mackesy, from Whangarei, will preach at the Hamilton Wesleyan Church to-morrow (Sunday) morning, and the Rev. C. Palk, of Te Awamutu, in the evening. Mr Mackesy will lecture on Monday, February 20th, at the same place on the subject, " History, Politics and Prophecy." The lecture will be illustrated by large coloured diagrams and maps, and, as Mr Mackeßy is one of the contributors to the " Banner of Israel," and a chief lecturer for the Anglo-Israel Association, in Auckland, no doubt a large number will attend the lecture. Admission will be freo, and a collection at the close.

The inhabitants of Cambridge were greatly shocked on perusing Thursday's Herald to find that Mr Martin MoDermott, of Auckland, had accidentally tnken poison. Only a few days previously he had been visiting his eon at Cambridge, and had been initiating a number of the inhabitants into the mysteries of the game of bowls. We sincerely trust the remedies applied may prove effective, and that Mr McDermott may speedily recover. We heartily sympathise with the family in their great affliction. Mr M. P. McDermott lefc by the second train yesterday, in consequence of having received intelligence that his father was worse.

What will be the effect of the Gordon Memorial College that is how being erected at Omdurman 1 The Paris paper, the Figaro, sees very clearly what will happen. It says: "Before a quarter of a century the Egyptains educated in this college will be perfect officials. They will be the indefatigable and treasured agents of British policy in these regions of Africa. We can thus without effort conceive the idea of the British in investing Lord Kitchener with a kind of African Vice-royalty, in making him, according to their expressiou, the grand potentate of Central Africa. It is simply a question of knowing whether he will have time to realise his plans. At present, undoubtedly, nothing seems able to oppose the progress of the British in Africa ; but the conditions of th 9 balance of power in Europe may change, the grouping of the alliances may be modified. Then there will be a period during whioh the expansive movement of British policy will be checked. The Chamber of Deputies of France Bhould, therefore, not be niggardly in the subsidy which it makes to the French schools in the East. The religious instructors and the Brothers of the Christian schools are for the moment the only redoubtable adversaries of Lord Kitchever."