The Waikato Argus GEORGE EDGECUMBE, Proprietor. SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1899.

Waikato Argus, Volume VII, Issue 464, 22 July 1899, Page 2

The Waikato Argus GEORGE EDGECUMBE, Proprietor. SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1899.

Hone Heke, M.H.R., lett Auckland for Wellington yesterday, Mr Malcolm Niccol has announced that he will contest the Eden seat at the general election. A gentleman's umbrella has been left at the Hamilton Post-office. Owner can have same en application. A meeting of the Waipa branch of the Waikato Farmers' Club will be held at Ohaupo on Tuesday next. Members of the Waikato Rugby Union are requested to attend a meeting to be held at the Royal Hotel, Hamilton, on Thursday eveniug. A United Mission meeting is announced for to-morrow afternoon in the Volunteer Hall, Hamilton. The subject for the day will be football. The Northern Roller Milling Company, Auckland, solicit orders for seed Tuscan wheat, grown on limestone country, and imported from the South. Sir T. Lipton's American Cup yacht Shamrock outsailed the yacht Britannia by 13m. over n 40-mile course. The Priuce of Wales was aboard the Britannia. The Waikato - Auckland chess match is to be concluded to-night. Players are requested to have their board arranged ready for play at a quarter to seven p.m. The Waikato Farmers' Club will hold their usual meeting on Monday evening, when Mr Richard Reynolds will give au address contrasting English with Colonial farming. The Te Awamutu Band intend starting a series of monthly socials, to be held in the hall. The first will take place on Thursday evening next, when a good attendance is expected. In reply to a deputation, Mr Seddon has promised to place the sum of £IOOO on the Estimates as a subsidy for the Christchuich Exhibition, which it is proposed to hold in connection with the Canterbury Jubilee. We learn that Constable Cahill has received notice that he will be shortly removed from Cambridge and his place be taken by a constable from Rawcne. Constable Cahill will take with him the good wishes of the Hamilton and Cambridge people. The committee of the National Dairy Association have accepted the same terms and conditions of contract with the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company, and the New Zealand Shipping Company, as that arranged by the North Island Association for regular fortnightly shipments of dairy produce. A seven days' mission will be commenced in the Hamilton Presbyterian Church to-morrow cveuing by the Rev. J. M. Mitchell. The Rev. R. Ferguson, of Devonport, will be up ou Tuesday to conduct the remaining services of the mission, which will be concluded on Sunday, 30th insfc.

The funeral of the late Mr Patrick McMahon, senr., took place on Thursday ufternoou, the body being in terred in the Hamilton West Cemetery. The Rev. Father Amandolini conducted the ceremony.

Mr Hall-Jones, in reply to a question put by Mr Maesey in the House yesterday afternoon, said plans were being prepared for the Tuakau Bridge, and that ro soon aB they were ready tenders would be called for its construction.

" Sweet Lavender," which is to be the next production of the Hamilton Comedy Club, is in active rehearsal and is making fairly good progress. August 25th is the date fixed for the pKy, and on that date we can promise our readers something really worth seeing. We remind those interested of the sale, to be held by Messrs S. Vaile and Sons, on Friday, 28th ins}., of the Ngamoko Estate, which comprises twelve splendid farms, varying from 165 to 252 acres. The reserves have been fixed very low, and the auctioneers should have no difficulty in quitting them.

A meeting of the Cambridge School Committee, was held yesterday morning at which there were present : C. Boyce (Chairman), J. Webber, C. Craig, J. Ferguson, T. Wells and J. Hally. The only business was the nomination of the candidate f r the vacancy on the Education Board. Ou the motion of T. Wells, second by the Chairman, Mr J. Blades was nominated.

His Lordship Bishop Covvio will administer the rite of Confirmation on Sunday, 23rd inst, Kihikihi at 11 a.m. and Te Awamutu 7 p.m. There will also be a celebration of the Holy Communion after each service. Ou Monday, the 24th, a social gathering will beheld in the Te Awamutu Town Hall, at 8 o'clock, to enable the parishioners to meet the Bishop, and at the same time bid farewell to Mr and Mrs Long. No charge for admission will be made.

The Waikato " rep " team, under the managership of Mr H. Tristram, left by train yesterday afternoon for Rotorua, where they will meet the representives of the Hot Lakes district this afternoon. The Waikato team will be the same as the one that met Waipa on Saturday last, with the exception that T. Hinton, who did not put in an appearance, will be replaced by L. Evans. Mr R. J. Gwynne has been recommended as referee by the Auckland Refereea' Association, and, no doubt, this suggestion will find favour with the Rotorua team. Should the game be finished by five o'clock, the time at which the Rotorua telegraph office closes, the result will be made known by an extra issued from this office.

Mr E. Smith, of the National Hotel, Cambridge, has received a communication from the leader of the Hamilton band thanking him lor the generous manner in which he treated the members on their late visit to Cambridge, also thanking the public of that town for the donation forwarded to the band fund. He further stated the members of the Hamilton band would, at aDy convenient time, be pleased to journey to Cambridge to enliven it with a little music. Mr Munro then pointed out that Cambridge possessed several oapable musicians, had some really good band standa, and with a little trouble he thought a band might be formed that would be a credit to the town.

The Presbyterian Church of New Zealand having decided to celebrate the dawn of the new century by raising a fund of £IO,OOO for Chnrch extension purposes, the Rev. W. Gillies, of Timaru, has been released from his pastoral charge for three months in order to visit the various congregations in furtherance of the movement. Mr Gillies is at present in Waikato. He visited Hamilton on Wednesday, Cambridge on Thursday, and Te Awamutu last night. At the two former centres the meetings were unfortunately small, but after Mr Gillies had explained the objects of the fuud the response to his appeal for subscriptions was liberal aud hearty, and he expressed himself well pleased with the result of hia visit. Hamilton's contribution to the fund, which already totals over £2OOO, amounts to £2O, and it is expected that it will be augmented before the lists close in 1901. Mr Gillies will leave for the Thames to-day.

At the meeting of delegates from Agricultural and Pastoral Associations at Palmerston North, it was decided to hold the annual meeting of the Council at Palmerston in Novermber of each year, but notice of motion was giveu by Mr Beetham (Masterton) that the annual meetings should be held in alternato years at the headquarters of the different associationa affiliated. A Council and Provisional Executive Committee, consisting of Messrs Hardy, Wheeler, and S. R. Lancaster (Manawatu), and E. Campbell (Wanganui) was appointed. A resolution was carried, recommending A. and P. Associations to use every endeavour to prevent prizes being awarded to hereditary unsouud animals in horsebreeding classes, and also that steps be taken to obtain concerted action by A. and P. Associations regarding disqualification rules, the plan at present adopted by racing clubs being favoured. Mr D. A. Watt, at present secretary of the Manawatu A. and P. Association, was appointed secretary to the Council.