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Waikato Argus, Volume X, Issue 866, 28 January 1901, Page 2

m _ k llTiir Argus will not he pijhlished| ato-morrow, nor oa the day of the lati-S MUueen's funeral B M A Gun Club has been formed in| for the purpose of destroyinuß pigeons. a m At Adelaide on Saturday last| jtjjU farmer, named Carey, anil six bor.se.sl Hwhich he was driving were killed by| § ightning, 1 I A parade of No. 1 Company,! Waikato Mounted Riiles, is called foil 10 a.m. on Saturday next, 2nd February.! a Claudelands Racccaur.-e. when thej| election of a houorary surgeon aud heu-i tenant will take place. {•:• A clever surgical operation is re-| jorded by an English paper. One of theE patient's ey«s wasaccid«utly split in two.K A Nottinaham oculist removed the iu-P jured <y-, put in a chimp, and weldetlH the split parts together. The m;m hasg regained the use of his eye, the oulyl lilference being that lis cinuot now| distances. | " None shall wear a feather but| ic who has killed a Turk." was an oldi <aying, and the number of feathers in his| jap indicated how many Turks the mauf| Kid killed, hence the origiu of the sayiugi B<rith reference to a feather in one's op 1 H the infortiiatioti is contained in the! fi jßLaiidsdowne manuscript in the Biitish| SSAluseum describinc Hungary in 15'do. g M Captain Hume has just receivedfi Mi mesotig.i from headquarter* stating! e ßj"hotthe Department would feel obliged! S iah r an y "' ■ l '" ! Waikato troopers who feelg to lend their horses for the uses g3>f tne Imperial troops when in Auuklandgj S vonld communica'e with thuir captain! Piiit once. r J'lie bor.-es wi 1 be taken down,! T HJfed, and returned free of cost, but nop will be taken. f; : m A prohibited person was brought* kS] ip at Cambridae on Saturday. ehargeoß jS-villi Ining drunk when in charge of a« klffihorsc. lie w:i.s lined CI and costs, unrig Rfi'lie Bench told him that, if he waste E 3 ;roii»ht tin again he would be sent ti.j; xifiuoal for 14 rlays. The constable said heg Wi mil evety reason to "Jiii-.k that accuse-1^ KBnii.s supplied in hotels, but if he could | ISibiain evidence to that (fleet he shouldj Sfti'mt spate either party. 3 S-i i i j j P The New Zealand Times says : —b fej.\n excellent exumple of the success offi W) -o- opera' ion is olfcred by a concern ins! 's™l"alewood. One of the most importants ~p& it its i oiu.oous branches is ,i co-opern-E Spj ive store At the suggestion of Mrc EaGreville, late Government auditor, theß Hgconipatiy deciiled to place the accruedg cjprotits. after payment of bonuses, tog Bathe credit of trading account. That, iiij:i uow amounts to aboulß |j£l3,Co»). I The lovely villages at the foot of| oand on .Mount Vesuvius have for a year| _Rr(says the Duly Telegraph's Bmno eoiros.i K ; |pondent, writing at the end of November)! PMbeen in a continual state of excitement! •SKand tear The volcano has uiven theniß rest nor peace, and it is now in a| E&new period of dannerous activity, whiche its c'iinax yesterday, when the| threw out quantities tf lava andg leashes, the fearful effect being added to byff Kji terrific storm of wind, hail, thunder,! -fe'vand lightning. | '}s Sir Thomas Lipton has recently givenjil fc to the world bis recipe f"r success in|> Sibusiness. I'he advice is characteristic^ f-.'i'f the man who offers it, and is excel-/ , fklerit. He says:— Work hard; deal* "phonestly; exercise care and judgment :| ;s |Vdver'isc freely and judiciously." To a| Zealand business man whom lie met| a ßiin London, Sir Thomas said • ••Adver-lj -Svase in the journal which you know to bejj ;,|;"progressive, which is alive to the iiiiuis" s.f|,of your people and distnet." is| r.Monly cue journal in Waikato which!! ;,fe answer- in I his description and that i-W ' jj*Tuis Waikato Abous, ;,

VA M Mark Twain made a formal coin-! inplaint against a New York hackman the Mother day, says the Standard's eorres||pondent. The haekman charted Mark HTwain's maid a dollar and a-half for n felistanoe of MJ blocks, considerably under Iftwo miles. Mai tc Twain paid » dollar, ffithe full fare for two miles, and caused SHthe hackiiian's license to be suspended.| ralle was, ho said, merely discharging his raduties, as citizens should who owe it to other in ilmir common interest tc regulations for tho benefit of all. raThe incident was the natural result, ol l&jlax citizenship ; his quarrel was not with pthe defendant, but with citizens who defendant's class by oucotirai'eHtnent through payments which almost igmade them accomplici s. The secretary pjjof the Hackdiivns' Association thatiKed ■Mr Twain, sayinc that night hawks like Sthe defendant injured the cab business. ilil The stipendiary magistrate (Mr mK. O. Bloomfield) has given judgment at ||Whangaroa, in the ease Roilgars v. (iarSadiuer, which had l-eon heaid at Manfflj.onui on December last. The comIjfplainanr, Kinily Kodgers (daugliter ol Kodiiers, who is at present a sentence in the Auckland gjjjjLaul for shooting at the defendant, AVilGardiner), charged Gardiner with the. father of an illegitimate child, Ryj.ud praye I that nn order he made against ftvSnim lor the niaiutainaiice of the child. |H The comphin.mt is a oirl of about 16 oi R|l7 years of age, and the liefendant vergM ng on b(). Great interest was taken in tin II iise throughout the Mangonui county fftjas both parties are well-known. Tin BQ Magistrate read a lengthy judgment. K/Jeareful.'y weighing the evidence on both rasi(lt>«, and finally dismissed the case. li]\lr F. li. Baunio, solicitor, of Auckland. Rj-ippeared for Emily Rodgers, and Mi raVernon H. Rcid, solicitor, of Kawakawa, Klfor Gardiner.