The Waikato Argus GEORGE EDGECUMBE, Proprietor. THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1899.

Waikato Argus, Volume VI, Issue 427, 27 April 1899, Page 2

The Waikato Argus GEORGE EDGECUMBE, Proprietor. THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1899.

We understand that Dr. Roberts, of Devonport, has definitely decided to settle in Cambridge. Messrs W. Rothwoll and W. Reid have been returned unopposed as members of the Tuhikaramea Road Board.

The next English and European mail via Suez will close at this office on Saturday, the 29th day of April, at 1.30 p.m. South African and Australian mails also close at Hamilton on Saturday at 1.30 p.m.

We have been requested to atate that there will not be any celebration of the Holy Communion at St. Peter's, Hamilton, on Sunday next, as announced last Sunday. The usual service will be held at Tauwhare at 2.30 p.m. Mr W. J. Hunter has received instructions from Mr Wm. Eraser (who is leaving the district) to sell at the Old Mission Station, Taupiri, in the early part of May, his cattle, horses, pigs, farm implements, etc. Full particulars will appear in Saturday's issue.

Colonel Banks arrived in Hamilton yesterday afternoon for the purpose of examining Messrs Raynes, Higginson, J. J. Graham and A. Reid, non-com-missioned officers of the No. 1 troop of the Waikato Mounted Rifles. The examination was held last evening, but the result is not yet known. Messrs McNicol and Co. will hold their annual sale of wethers, ewes and lambs for turnip stocking in their Ohaupo Yards on Wednesday, May 10th, and will offer upwards of 5000 wethers, hoggets and empty ewes. Particulars will bo found in their usual column this morning. The semi-final in a tournament being played among the members of the Hamilton Lawn Tennis Club for a trophy presented by Mr S. Harker came off on the courts yesterday afternoon, when Mr T. Jolly defeated Mr Blackburn after a good game by 100 to 93. The final between Miss Jolly and Mr Jolly will be played shortly. One of the Waikato hounds is advertised for. It was lost from the Cambridge railway station a few days ago, and the finder will be rewarded on returning same to the kennels at G wynuelands. It is a slut, named Discord, and is one of the hounds lately imported from Auckland, and therefore a stranger to the district.

The venerable Church Missionary Society to which New Zealand owes so much, is oelebrating its hundredth anniversary this year. In connection with the celebration a limelight lecture on " Missionary Work in Ceylon " will be given in St. Andrew's schoolroom, Cambridge to-morrow (Friday) evening at 8 o'clock. Admission will be free. Thankofferings are invited on behalf of the mission to the Maori people.

On our third pago will be found an advertisement offering a property boundod by Lake Whangape, near Churchill, for lease for a term of twenty-one years, with the right of renewal and compensation for improvements. There are 500 acres of first-class limestone land, and there is also deepriver carriage. The river surpasses that of the famous Upper Wanganui, and as a sanatorium, for which there is a magnificeut opening, the placo could not be surpassed.

A singular accident happened at the Hamilton Hotel on Tuesday evening. Mr Bright had gone down the cellar, leaving the trap-door open. Miss Wilson, who was in the bar at the time, not noticing that the door was open, stepped backwards and fell through on to the concrete floor beneath. The young lady was rendered insensible for some time, but Dr. Brevvis, who was ac once sent for, soon restored her to consciousness, and we are glad to learn that though badly shakon aud bruised Miss Wilson was not seriously injured. At the time of her fall the young lady had a bottle and glass in her hand, and although the glass was shattered the bottle remained unbroken. She is to be congratulated upon her miraculous escape.

We understand that Mr F. Hohbs, who has served his apprenticeship with Mr R. F. Sandes, chemist, of Hamilton, is about to sever his connection with the business in order to join his brother, who is a dentist on the goldtields. Mr Hobbs is a rising athlete, and will be missed from the ranks of the Hamilton football team this season. We heartily wish him every succeas in his new sphere of labour.

At the last meeting of the members of Lodge Beta-Waikato, No. 12, it was decided to celebrate the annual installation with a ball. The date fixed for the installation is Thursday, June 22nd, and the ball will be held the same evening. The incoming master is Bro. J. W. Oldham, and he has associated with him as an Executive Committee in carrying out the ball Bros. G. Edgecumbe, A. S. Brewis, P. E. Stevens and R. J. Gwynne, the last named being secretary. The invitations will be issued in a week or so.

We have been asked to specially mention the good services rendered at the late Cambridge Chrysanthemum Show by Mr Richard Davies of that town, who worked most heartily to make the show the success it was. Mr Davies is a member of the Chrysanthemum Society Committee, but owing to the prize schedules having been printed before the annual meeting, at which he was elected a member of the committee, his name did not appear thereon, and consequently the members of the Press did not include him amongst those officers,

We beg to draw attention to the advertisement of Mr E. Gaze, photographer, of Hamilton, who has secured and fitted up a studio in Mr H. H. Howden's buildings. Mr Gaze makes a speciality of enlargements, and we have been shown some really fine specimens of local work done since his arrival in the town, and they certainly stamp him as being a first-class artist. Mr Gaze notifies that his studio will open on Friday next, after which date he will be prepared to undertake all classes of work in connection with the photographic art at a very reasonable figure, and we have no doubt he has a busy time before him.

In ladt issue we referred to some potatoes that were grown by Mr T. W. Hicks, of Pukekura, and yesterday we noticed an enormous tuber of that kind in Mr G. E. Clark's window in Cambridge. It weighs 61b. 10oz., was also grown at Pukekura, by Mr B. Comer, a near neighbour of Mr Hicks'. It is a wonderful production and has been christened "The Sign of the Cross," it being much in the shape of one. The variety was Late Rose. In the same window Mr Clark exhibits some other Late Rose and Pink Eyes that were grown at Maungakawa, by Mr H. Rae, They are a beautiful sample, and the seed must have been very good, for we are told lewt., lqr. and 17lb. were planted (a bag) and the return was 17 bags.

The quarterly meeting of the Managing Committee of the Hamilton Presbyterian Church was held on Tuesday evenißg. The statement of accounts submitted showed the financial position of the church to be satisfactory. Mr R. T. Gilmour was appointed treasurer, vice Mr D. Gardiner (resigned), the latter being accorded a special vote of thanks for his valuable services to the church during the last four years. It was decided to hold a concert at an early date, the details being left in the hands of a small committee. It was also resolved to make a special effort to reduce the debt on the church property by the end of the year, and special collections in view of this are to be taken up on the last Sunday in May and on the communion Sabbaths in July and November. After dealing with several other matters of minor iuterest the committee adjourned.

On Tuesday morning a single woman, named Jane Robinson, committed suicide by swallowing a large quantity ot carbolic acid. The deceased was boarding in a house rented by Mv and Mrs Littlejohu, Grey-street, Auckland. Another lodger, named Tomlinson, heard a scream in Miss Robinson's room and went in. He found her in bed and evidently in terrible pain. In agonised shriek she exclaimed, "Oh God, what have I done, fetch a doctor at once." Medical aid was called in, but nothing could be done to save the woman's life. An inquest was held yesterday, and a verdict returned " That deceased committed suicide during a fit of temporary insanity." The following was found written on a piece of paper in her room : " I believe I have incurable blood poisoning. Forgive me my dear brothers and friends." Deceased had been an invalid for twenty years and suffered greatly.

Cambridge is certainly getting an unenviable reputation for petty larceny, particularly of papers from the public reading-room in connection with the Library. From time to time the papers disappear in a most mysterious manner, and despite the efforts of the Librarian and the police, and notwithstanding the fact that each paper is stamped with name of the Institution, no trace of them can be found. On Tuesday morning the Auckland Herald of the previous day, the supplement of Saturday's Herald and the Observer were missing, and the custodian i 3 now racking his brain in endeavouring to devise some method of entrapping the culprit. Later in the day (after the above was written) we learned that Mr Master, the librarian, had obtained a clue which he thinks will lead to a solution of the mystery, and so confident was he that he offered to make a big wager that the offender appears before Captain Jackson at the next Cambridge Court.

As the case, C. A. Taylor v. P. E. Stevens (secretary of the Dandy Dick Company), was heard and settled at the Tc Awamutu Court yesterday (see report in another column), we are now at liberty to make a few remarks about a matter which has frequently been alluded to in these columns ot late, and about which a good deal of misapprehension is known to exist. It will be remembered that the Te Awamutu School Committee had engaged the hall for a concert on race night in aid of the school funds, but agreed to let the Daudy Dick Company have the use of the hall on that date on condition that £3 out of the proceeds was donated towards the funds. The performance took place, with the result that the company found itself in the unfortunate position of being without funds after having incurred a deficit of £4 over the trip. Repeated application was made by the Committee for the amount. The Club, which never for an instant repudiated the debt, replied explaining the unfortunate position as regards finances, and informing the committee that it contemplated putting on a new play early in the winter, and that £3 of the proceeds of the first performance would be earmarked to liquidate the debt. This, however, did not satisfied the School Committee, and they elected to sue, with the result that the case was withdrawn at the wish of the plaintiff. We think this explanation is only due to the members of the company, who have been ever willing to give their services in aid of a charitable cause, and we believe this to be a true statement of the case. In order to show that the promise of payment was an earnest one, we might state that notwithstanding the result of the case, the donation will be forwarded at au early date.