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Waikato Argus, Volume VII, Issue 501, 17 October 1899, Page 2

A coroner's inquest is to be held as to the cause of tho tire in the Post Office. The last dance of the season will take place iu the Hukanui Hall, on Friday next. Good rains have fallen in the South Australian, Victorian and New South Wales wheat districts. In a supplement to this issue appears a letter from Mr E. C. Bhepherd on " Mr Morgan and Farm Produce." We notice that Mr J. Ingram is erecting a substantial-looking residence on his recently-purchased property on the Rivß oad, (Jlaudelands. The triennial election of councillors for the Waipa County will be held on Wednesday, Bth November. Nominations close on the 24th inst. Messrs F. It. Moody and P. Gardiner have been nominated for the extraordinary vacancy in the Kihikihi Town Board. The poll will be taken on Saturday next. A meeting of the Committee of the Hamilton Horticultural Society was held yesterday, when judges were nominated for the different sections and other details in connection with the Society's forthcoming show, to be held on November 23rd inst., were arranged.

A meeting of the teachers and scholars of the various Sunday-schoo's in Cambridge, together with their frfends, was held in the Presbyterian Church, after the evening service, on Sunday to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the Auckland Sunday-school Union. There was a good attendance, all the Churches being well represented. Mr Brooks presided and addresses were delivered by the Revs. B, J. Roberts and Dr. Hoskine,

Mr Ellerbeck, the well-known photographer of Cambridge is the successful tenderer for taking photographs at the forthcoming Agricultural Show at Claudelands. Those who pitroniße him will net have cause to complain, judging by the specimens of his work we have seen. We understand this gaitleman has also received instructions from the Christchnrch Press proprietors to furnish a series of views of Hamilton to be published in the journal.

Under an edict issued by the Prcabytery of Auckland, authority is given for moderation in a call to a minister at a meeting to be held in Trinity Church, Cambridge, to-morrow (Wednesday) eveniug, at 7 o'clock. The Rev. Wm. Evans, interim moderator, will preside. All members aud adherents of the church are expected to be present, that full expression may be given to the desire of the congregation.

At the annual meeting of the Waikato Amateur Athletic and Cycling Club it was arranged that the opening run of the season should take place on Wednesday, October 18th (to-morrow), and Cambridge was to have been the destination. It has been found by some of the prominent members that the date fixed would be inconvenient, and consequently the trip has been postponed till Thursday, November 9th, when the members will jonrney to Te Awamutu to see the flower show, etc., lo be held there on th;«t date.

A correspondent writes us asking whether Daothonia Semper Virens and Ohewin's Fescue will grow on rathei heavy land, which grows ti-tree from one to six feet high. If so, he asks that one of our subscribers who has tiied it will answer the following queries :—(1) Must land be ploughed %nd a good seedbed prepared ; (2) how many pounds of seed per acre; (3) during what month should it be sown. Will some of our readers who have had experience kindly reply to the questions ? An ancedote about the Duke of Wellington is related by Good Words for August, iu an article on Sir John Steel, the famous sculptor. Steel, when he had the Duke of Wellington sitting for a statue, wanted him to look warlike All his - efforts were in vain, for Wellington seemed, judging by his face, never to have heard of Waterloo or Talavcra. At last Sir John lost patience, saying "As I am going to make this statue of your grace, can you nos tell me what you were doing before, say—the Battle of Salamanca? Were you not galloping about the fields cheering on your men to deeds of valour by word and action ?" "Bali !" said the Duke in evident scorn, " if you really want to model me as I was on the morning of Salamanca, then do me crawling along a ditch on my stomach, with a telescope iu my hand.

Lord Herßchcll's tragically sudden death at Washington last spring wa9 recalled the other day in a singular manner in the House of Lords. The latter was sitting as a Gourt ot Appeal in the socalled Fifeshire colliery case. Lord Herschell had presided over the court when the case was being argued, and had drawn up judgment in the matter while in the United States only a few days prior to his demise. In some countries of course his death prior to the pronouncement in court of the judgment would have rendered a. re-trial necessary. Not so, however, in England. It was the Lord Chancellor of the Realm-namely, the Earl of Halsbury, who road the judgment which had been found among Lord Herschell's papers, and this was considered as the final decision of the issue by the highest court of appeal. There is only one other case on record of an important appeal trial having been decided iu last resort in this manner by a voice from the drad. It was in the instance of a judgment drawn up by Lold Chanc llor Campbell, who died before he had time to deliver it in court. It was read, however, by his successor, the great Lord Brougham, aud was regarded as final. The changes of names of British regiments is confusing (writes " Uitlander" iu the Argus). Why, for instance, should the Gordon Highlanders so ardentlE desire to avenge Majuba? Why, when this regiment was embarked at Bombay, should there beasc<ueof wild excitement? The reason is very simple. The Gordou Highlanders are the old 92iid Highlanders, with whose records of valour history is replete. There is hardly a great' victory of the century whose name is not recorded on the co'ours of thia brave regiment. Corunna, Vittoria, Waterloo, Delhi, Lucknow, Kabul, Kandahar are but a few of the honours of war shared in by the 92nd. But one day c' defeat figures to its debit Majuba of mournful memory, when Colley fell. Although through force of circumstances driven back with the rest that day, the glorious 92nd was not disgraced. Sir Evelyn Wood, in transmitting the account of the battle, spoke in splendid terms of the gallantry of Captain McGregor, of the 92ud. Only two of the rank and file in action that day were mentioned in the despatches, and specially recommended for their valour Corporal Farmer, of the Army Hospital Corps, and Private John Murray, of the 92nd Highlanders. To the 92nd was assigned the brunt of the work when Colley decided to occupy the hill so as to command the Boer camp. They were detailed to occupy the whole brow of the hill. One company extended, and the other was held in reserve iu rear of the bridge. At ooe point of the fbht, when the Boers had reached the top of the hill, Major Fraser cried out, " Men of the 92nd, don't forget your bayonets." There were but a handful, but they fixed bayonets, and standing shoulder to Bhoulder, as coclly as on parade, returned volloy for volley with the enemy. This last stand contiaued for ten minutes, till the men were short of ammunition. All were shot down but three or four. De spite their gallant efforts it was decreed for once that the 92nd should be beaten. Little wonder is it that the regiment is enflamed with anxiety to wipe out the one and only blot on its escutcheon.