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Waikato Argus, Volume VII, Issue 458, 8 July 1899, Page 2

The next social in the Tamahere school will be held on the '2lst inst.

We remind Tamahere readers of the meeting to be held this evening re the establishment of a butter factory.

A young man named Joseph Thornby was locked up at Cambridge yesterday, charged with being drunk and abusive.

The Rev. Dr. Hosking, the Liberal candidate for Waikato, announces meetings up to and including 31st October.

Messrs ICerupthorne, Prosser and Co.'s amended price list for Westfield manures will be found in our commercial column this morning. Mr Thomas Gibson, of Tasmania, states that the ram " Admiral" has been sold privately to Mr Simpson, of Jerilderie, for 1,500 guineas.

We are requested to announce that the service to-morrow (Suuday) at St. Stephen's Church, Tamahere, will be at 11 o'clock in the forenoon.

The reported discovery of rich telluride in the far north of South Australia is confirmed. A great rush his set in, and the country has been pegged out for miles.

The United Mission will hold its usual meeting at 3 p.m. to-morrow afternoon iu the Volunteer Hall. Tiie subject will be " Worldly Pleasures," The Cambridge Dairy Association intimate in this issue that, owing to the work of enlarging the refrigerating machinery at the factory being in progress, no further purchases of pigs will be made till the 25th inst.

The Cambridge Domain Board are calling for tenders for clearing the banks of the Lake Reserve of fern and removing the same. The work will be let in five small contracts so as to enable all who wish to find employment a chance of getting it.

The Legislative Council in Victoria has adopted a resolution iu favour of the referendum on the question of religious instruction in States Schools not beiug taken till the heads of the various religious denominations agree upou the form of instruction.

A quantity of fencing wire was stolen from Archdeacon Willis' paddock near St. Andrew's Church, Cambridge, on Thursday morning. The vehicle by which it was conveyed away was tracked by the police, and it is expected the culprit will be easily identified. The tender of Mr Thomas Evans, of Hamilton, has been accepted for the erection of the new stables in connection with the Commercial Hotel, Hamilton. The price was £560. The work will be taken in hand at once, and when complete these stables will be second to none in the district.

There is a good deal of sickness prevalent in Hamilton just now, measles and whooping cough being most conspicuous, but we have also heard of a case of scarlet fever, and influenza and colds are looked upon as only minor evils. Measles appear to be very virulent, and their effects on adults especially are in many cases very serious.

On Wednesday afternoon the rifle match between members of the Waikato Mounted Rifles and the old Cambridge Cavalry was concluded, when the present day volunteers were successful, their scores being 376 to their opponents' 360. A return match was fired the same afternoon, and the " old hands " again suffered defeat by 12 points.

By an advertisement on our third page it will be seen that the sale of the Ngamako Estate, Orakau, will take place on the 28th July, Messrs S, Yaile and Sons, Auckland, being the auctioneers. The estate has been divided into twelve convenient farms, ranging from 165 to 25i acres, and, as the land is of good quality, they should find a ready sale.

On Saturday, July 15th, Messrs McNicol and Co. will sell by auction at Cambridge, at 2 p.m., by order of the Registrar of the Supreme Court, allotments 221 and 222, of the Parish of Hautapu, containing 100 acres more or less, now in the occupation of Mr James Clements. Conditions of sale can be seen at the office of Mr James Hally, solicitor, Cambridge.

The Rev. J. M. Mitchell, having concluded the series of popular " talks," which has been attacting so much attention of late, has decided to give a monthly address on " In His Steps or What Would Jesus Do, ?" commencing to-morrow evening with " Jesus in Society." The addresses will be on the lines of the Rev. Dr. Stalker's wellknown book, entitled " Imago Christi."

The concert to be given on the 20th inßtar..t, in aid of the Hamilton Presbyterian Church, promises to be one of the most successful ever given in Hamilton. The committee have secured the services of several performers new to the Hamilton public, with the result that a first-class programme has been arranged, It will be published in next Saturday's issue. The price of admission has been fixed at the low price of one shilling with a limited number of reserved seats at two shillings, and as the Presbyterians of Hamilton make very few appeals to their fellew-towns-meu for assistance they hope to have a crowded house, especially as they intend to " give full value for the money."

A telegram from Dunedin states that trade whh South Africa wat initiated on Thursday by a shipment by the s.s. Mokoia for transhipment to th<! Kensdale Castle, bound from Melbourne to Capetown direct.

The Wellington Trade Council intends to select three candidates for the general election (one of them to lie a bona fide worker) by ballot, and appeal to the affiliated Unions for funds to assist in defraying the expenses of the election.

Mr T. E. Taylor considers that "no license" will be carried in eight electorates, viz,, Marsden, New Plymouth, Taranaki, Hawera, Pahiatua, Bruce, Clutha, and Mataura. The same authority states that several electorates will vote for reduction, including Chriatchurch.

The usual fortnightly meeting of the W.C.T. Union was held in the Volunteer Hall, Hamilton, on Thursday. It was decided to make a house to house visitation for the purpose of distributing printed matter beariug on temperance. It was also decided to request the ministers of the various churchs to announce the meetings from the pulpits. Two new members were added to the roll.

Mr Hyde, the Government poultry expert, who has returned from the South to Wellington, reports that there is every prospect of tho poultry industry assuming large proportions during the coming summer. The importance of the industry is becoming generally recognised and hundreds of farmers are turning their attention to tho rearing of the classes of birds recommended by the Agricultural Department. A large 6rm in Christchurch has arranged to make regular shipments of dressed poultry to London, and it is believed that the example will be followed in other parts of the colony. A smoke concert was tendered Mr N. I. Hunt by the members of the Cambridge troop of Mounted Rifles on Wednesday evening, when upwards of 30 assembled at the Criterion Hotel to do honour to their late Captain. The chair was occupied by Lieutenant Wallace and a pleasant evening was spent. We need hardly say thai; Mr Hunt received the hearty good wishes of his old comrades, and that his health was given with musical honours. We have heard several inhabitants of Cambridge wondering why the cricket and football clubs did not take a hand in the proceedings, for neither of those institutions have had a better supporter in the past than Mr Hunt, and ho deserves a good "send off" at the hands of all sportsmen.

The many friends of Mr Frank Gane will learn with regret of the death of his wife, which tooK place early on Thursday morning at Cambridge. Mrs Gane had had an attack of measles, and was apparently on a fair way td recovery when serious symptoms supervened, and Dr. Roberts was called in. Dr. Brewis was called in in consnltation on Wednesday, but the unfortunate lady was beyond human aid, and passed away shortly after midnight. Deceased, who was only 29 years of age, was the eldest daughter of Mr G. E. Clark, and was universally loved and respected. To her family and the bereaved husband we offer our heart felt sympathy. The funeral will leave her husband's residence for the Cambridge cemetery at half-past two this (Saturday) afternoon.

The Anglcian Bishop of Wellington during the course of an able and interesting address to a large congregation on a recent Suuday morning on ' Patriotism,' said no man had a right to hold aloof from public affairs or refuse to take his part in the Government of this colony. A man ought not to say he had enough to do to mind his own affairs, and that he took no interest in social reforms, Great mistakes might be made »nd reforms might not cure the evils they were intended to cure, but it was better that mistakes should be made than men should hold aloof aud do nothing. Participation iu national affairs was of special value from a Christian stand-point, for it taught the lesson of unselfishness. It was one of the great schools of unselfishness. National life lifted men out of themselves.

The arena of Parliamentary debate appears to be prolific in the production of ' bulls.' Two that were perpetrated the other clay in the House of Representatives are almost fit to rank with that of Sir Boyle Roche, when he declared in the House of Commons that he could not smell a rat, that he saw it 1 oating in the air, but he would nip it in the bud. An Opposition member, in the heat of his address, got his metaphors muddled so badly that he described one of the occupants of the Treasury benches as ' a cot k robin crowing on his own dunghill.' This was capped by a Ministerialist who, in describing the competire conditions of to-day, said ' every man has to paddle his own canoe ; if he didn't, he would be kicked to one side and walked over !' Needless the House saw the point in each case, and had a hearty laugh over the ' muddled metaphors.'—N.Z. Times.

A very pretty wedding took place in St. Mary's Church, Hamilton, on the 27 th ult. The contracting parties were Miss Annie C, third daughter of Mr P. Delancy, of Rosedale, Newstead > and Daniel Edmund, second son of Mr G. Barry, of Tamaki West, The bride, who was given away by her father, looked very nice in a grey costume, relieved with white, aud wore the customary veil and wreath of orange blossoms. She was attended by two bridesmaids—Miss Lizzie Delaney, her sister, and Miss Nellie Barry, sister of the bridegroom, who were respectively attired in a pretty dress of green muslin, with cream trimmings, and a becoming fawn costume, relieved with piuk. The presents to the bride were both numerous and costly, including a handsome gold watch and chain from the bridegroom, who also presented each of the bridesmaids with a handsome brooch. After the ceremony, the wedding party, to the number of about 60, adjourned to the residence of the bride's parents, where a sumptuous afternoon tea was served. A ball took place in the schoolroom in the evening.

To ensure safer carriage and pr«vent inconvenience the Postal Department has issued o. regulation requiring packages of wedding cake to be enclosed in future in tin boxes instead of the cardboard boxes hitherto used. Tlie latter have frequently been found after a passage in the mail bags to be crushed beyond recognition, and packages containing cake are also subject to raids by hungry rats and mice. It is contended that the new rule is in the interests of both sender and receiver, and as a future measure of compensation for the extra trouble to the sender the minimum rate of postage for these packets has been extended to the Austialian colonies, with the exception of Queensland. The rate within New Zealand and to Australia (excepting Queensland) is a penny for each packet not exceeding 4oz, and to Tasmania a penny for each packet not exceeding 2oz or fraction of that weight. The rate of Queensland is a penny for each 2oz or less, and for other places letter or parcel rates will bo charged.