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Waikato Argus, Volume VII, Issue 514, 16 November 1899, Page 2

In a supplement published with this issue will be found an interesting account of the journey to Albany rf the New Zealand contingent

A Press Association telegram from Wellington states that the general tlection will be held on either the (itli or Stli of December, more proba'ly the Bth.

At the Wellington criminal sers : ons, the jury in the case of Krwin, charged with the manslaughter of Farqudhr, disagreed, and a new t'ial has been ord< red.

At the Supreme Court, Wei lington, Strickl itui Field pleaded guilty to stealing £607 from the Union Bauk, where hi was chit-f teller. He had been iu the bank 22 year?. 'J he accussd was sentenced to six months' imprisonment.

We remind all interested of the 3'ile to be held at To Aroha on Saturday by MessiS McClelland and Gotz of the household furniture aud effects of Mr V. P.ivitt. The sale, which is an unrteerved one, will commence at 11 a.m. sharp. The Postmaster at Hamilton notifies that the mails for the Auckland and Mercer line usually closed at 9.15 a.m., will be closed at 7 p.m. to-morrow (Friday) for Saturday, 18th inst., as the train will run earlier that day on account of the Auckland show.

Wc remind electors that Mr W. H. Hcrries will address the electors of Hay of Plent) at Putaruru to-day, Wuolu to-morrow and Tirau on Saturday. He spoke at Moniusville last night, aud a report of his speech will appear ill our Saturday's issue.

Amongst the refugees from Johannesburg who have arrived at Durban are Mr H. W. Blow (brother of the Undtr-Secretiiry of the New Zealand Public Woiks l.'epartm. nt) and his wife and family. Mr Blow cabled t -day to Ira relati c- in Wellington that he, Mrs Blow and children just escaped with their lives

Parades of JS'o. 3 Company of the Waikato Mounted Rifles aie called by advertisement in this for Tuesday evening next, and also for the following Friday. Sonic very important busines is to be considerce 1 at the former. The latter will be an inspection parade. Every man is required to be present to earn capitatiou, otherwise the full penalty will be euforced.

The Herald's Tauranga correspondent wind on Tuesday as to the enthusiastic rcc3 : ptioo accorded to Mr Herries : -Ma;y congratulatory telegrams have bem received respecting Mr Hemes' meeting on Saturday night. JJ is success his evi iently stirred his opponents, as the Premier telegraphed tc-ttay to one of his staunehest supporters : " From present outlook, will be at Tauranga Tuesd.y or \Vednesda3' night next. Notification will be given."

The Cambridge We&t Amateur Atliktic Club will hold their seventh carnival on Victoria Square, Cambridge, on Wednesday, 29th inst., the entries for which close with Mr \V. T. Wallace, the lion, sec, on Saturday next. This club has received large promises of support from the other Waikato clubs, and there is cve>y indication of the meeting bcicg a most successful ore. The programme h varied, and the events, the bicycle races especially, will have good competition.

Hither a peculiar cise was before the Magistrate's Court at Wellington yesterday. William Ah Toug, clerk and Chinese intcipreter, was charged with stealing a natura'isation paper, the property of Young Kee. For the prosecution it was alleged that Ah Toug was entrusted with a number cf papers to get Chinamen placed on the roll, and "hen asked for the n said he had lost them, whercjs he had ofFeied ihem for s.le to enable Chinamen to enter thfe country. F r the defence it was suggested that the case was mi-rely a piece of revenge because the accused had assisted the Customs Department in a cisc at Auckland. The case was adjourned.

Mr J. J. Euing, the well-known timber merchant of Wellington, in a In-tur from his brother (Mr P. Ewiug) formerly an officer in the Union Company, and now stationed at Manila, has received some interesting particulars of tiffiirs at the Philippine?. The letter is dateil Ho el de OiieiHe, Manila, P.I, September 11th, 1899, in the course of which he says : -" 1 have just returned from Maraquins, wlieie 1 had a narrow escape from being fired at lepeated'y by the rebels. We ar.' now in tile middle of the rainy season, and the plains are r.ll ui der water, therefore, vuy litt e fighting goes on just now. Eighteen per ctn v . of the American army here are down with fever, dysentry nn I smallpox, and God only knows when they are going to i:k these F lippino?. We are all heartily sick of the campaign a- d wi h to goo lness it were over, as it is simply para'ysiug c ade. Already 3009 Yankeeh are buried lieie, an 1 the rebels hive several officers and about GO American eold'ers prisoners." Gigantic harbour works are in progress at Dover Pay, England ; in fact, it is the biggest tngineeijng op< ration of the kind that Ims ever been attempted. Two thousand men arc engaged upon the construction of the Adnrralty Harbour, which means practically the uidoMire of Dover B-<y within huge walls of concrete ai.d graaitr, f-o hi lo form a hub ur big enough to hold the British flee v. The long granite arms thioun out cast and west of tlie town will er.o'ose a square mile of deep water, and Dover will be one of the greatest naval sta'ion.s of the world and a great, seapoit as we'd. Few people hove any notion of the magnitude of this gigantic undertaking. This is the idea of it: The present Admiralty \ ier runs out some 2000 ft from the shrre This is to be extended another 2000 ft seaward. At the same time another similar pier is to be run out from the eas ern side of the town, a mile and a half away. This pier will run out in a straight line for 3320 ft, and then bend round antl run for another 4200 ft towuds the extremity of the extended Admiralty pier; so that 3<J()O yards of solid breakwater have to be built, a couple of openings, one of 800 ft and the other 600 ft, being left for the passage of ships. The two miles of breakwater will be COft wide at the base and 4i3ft wide at the top, and it will rise 10ft above the water at high tide, which is 30fb deep at low tide. Three and a half million pounds will be the cost and another half-mill on will probably have to be spent by the Government on forts to protect the works.

The New Zi-aliUid Loan and iU.. 1 canaie Agency Company (L'nrt'd) have iv seasonable advertisement appca'ing ie our special columns this niorain.'. They haw <n sale all the articles require! on mi up-to-date f.rm or station, i ami i.U goods— whether seeds, imp'.e menla ot machinery obtained fiotti them may lio relied upon as h> ing of the best qnali y. The time for sow in:', lurn'ps is nt hand and the comp.ny have stocked a se'eetion of the vaiit-ties which experence has provrd will grow the be t and most profitable crops. Lord Kitchener of Khartoum is awi nder. '1 lie 15-h Battalion in the Soudun, whi'li to he Egyptian, is now tormed entirely of the Kh-sl-f.i'c blacks. They had to take over all the worn-out kits of the Egyptians in accordance wi'h the Sirdar's principl- s of economy, and not only was this the ca«e, but. even tlie oloua-d badges if their tm bans were altered to crimson, so that a lot of (id taibn.-hes nfiiuht be cut tip for the purpoe. After four months' drill (says a ion temporary) the Sirdar reviewed tin m, all being marched past him in a perfectly indee, nt stafe, owing to the frequent holes iu their pantd'oors. Tlnir Colonel fully intended to rub this well into the Sirdar at the close of the p oceedin>:s and to ask fur a new is.-uc. But Lord Kitchener saw it in his eye and fores'ailed him with a genial outburst of eulogy : '■ Well, Colonel, you have done excellently. Look at them pink of condition. Why, they're quite fat—actually tinsting their c'othos—and all in four montlu ! Good morning excellent—excell nt !"

Whit is the nutter with our boys ? We read at various limes in history of people po?s-"Ssed of a devil. If ever there was any such case we have had two illustrations during a recent week, of which, or with which, tic devil would be ashamed to keep coinpuny. Early in the v.'tek, on the west side of 'he town, two ! oys about twelve years of <vce might ha*c been seen dragging a little boy through the str ets to wards an old building, around which there was an iron fence. They had rope and wire, with which they fastened him to the fene, then, collecting paper and sh ivings, they piled then around him and Ht hint on fi e st-ind'na back laughing to hear him scream. Fortunately, a women in the neighbourhood, who was looking out of lnr window, saw the boy's deadly peril, and, miming downstairs, released him, suffering severe burns herself. The two young viliains, as the flames rose around their victim, shouted and da cj(l and dapped their h n 1--, and acted as*if it were the finest fun in the world ; but when they saw the woman coming to the child's assistance they knew vc y well that they had been committing a crime, and, though purstnd by a sh riff an! a ;-ose, escaped.—New York correspondent of the Hobart Mercury.

At the annual meeting of thn Lancashire and Cheshire branch tf th Rritish Medical Association at Bolton (England), a piper of interest to smokers was read hy D . J. Hilton Thompson, who, in reference to cigarette smoking and carbonic oxide poisoning, advanced a new th<ory. It was necessary to rememb r there were two kin 's of smoking—i.y simply drawing the smoke into the mouth and then expelling it, and smoking in which the smoke was inhaled through the mouth in'o tha lunges and then expelled as a thin ditlus d cloud. Dr. Thompson gave the rcsul-'s of extensive experim uts in burning tobucci by means of pipe, c'gir, and cigarette, and showed the distinct presence of carbonic oxide in tobacco smoke. As the blood had an affinity for carbonic oxide 300 times greater than it had for oxygen, there was sufficient of the former in cigarette smoke to do an inunen.se amount of injury if inhale! in sutli ienfc quantities. Referring to cigarette smokers, male and female, the doctor spoke of the habitual inhalers as being perfect slaves to the habit, as having as a rule a peculiar aiiicmic, earthy complexion, in some cases laryngitis being produced, and they had a disinclination to work, and appeared not to have much mental or physical vigour. After inferring to the con sequences of inhaling large and small quantities of carbonic oxide poisoe, the speaker showed how, say, an indulgence in cigarette smoking during a student's college career might a'tcr the whole course from a success to a failure. Those of mature uge indulging in cigarette smoking, probably beyond linking themselves less fit and less incl'ncd for work, would not be affected to any great extent.