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Waikato Argus, Volume X, Issue 891, 28 February 1901, Page 2

Huxtly news and a report of the last meeting of the Waitoa Roul Board will be found on our foutth page. Mr Keir Hardie, M.P., says that the need of the new century is " Men." Mr F. G. Burnaud (editor of Punch) says it is " Money. - ' Fresh opposition is being shown co Jesuits in Spain and Portugal owing to the detention of several heiresses iu convents of their order. A meeting of the members of the Waikato Hunt Club will be held at the Criterion Hotel, Cambridye, at 3 p.m., on Saturday next, 2nd March. An Austrian named Peter Kuluz was lined 5s and £S lis costs at the Thanvs Police Court ou Wednesday for having gum in his possession without being duly licensed. Nomination for the general committee ot the Waikato Agricultural and Pastoral Association will be received by the Secretary (Mr Martin Butler), Cambridge, up to the 18tb of March next. The following is from a book of meditations written by our late Queen : —" After all, what is the dread of death but that of a puerile and timid imagination : The same Cod, O, my sou!, who despoils thee of one garment will give thee another in exchange tor it." it is understood (says the West Coast Times) that writs have been issued for action for breach of promise, the parties being a well-known solicitor, and the lady an equally well-known school teneher. Heavy damages are claimed, £ISOO being the sun: mentioned. The case will be Heard at Hokitika in March. The sergeant who had to administer the oath to the jurymen at a recent inquest at the Dunedin hospital was apparently quite confused by the new form of it. He slatted with "on behalf of our Sovereign Lady the Queen," then corrected this to " our Sovereign Lady the King," and finally got to " our Sovereign Lord the King." We notice that a spirited correspondence is in progress in Southern journals regarding the title of the King. It is contended by some that as James IV. of Scotland assumed the title of James I. when he ascended the throne of ttie United Kingdom. King Edward, being the first King of that name since the union, should be known as Edward VII. of England, but as Edward I. of the Empire. A failure and a costly one is the general verdict on the new Royal yacht Victoria and Albert. Slie nearly " turned turtle " on being floated in the dry dock at Pembroke, and some 400 tons of litcings had to be removed to make her float upright. And even now that she has passed many of her trials there is considerable doubt about her speed, while her consumption of coal makes it impossible for her to undertake any voyage where there is not a coaling station every few miles. l\o wonder tiie Duke cr York did not atteaipl the voyage in her. ITCHINESS OF THE SKIN AND ECZEMA, The only remedy in the world that will at once stop Itchiness of the Skin on any pait of the boby, and one that is absolutely safe and never failing, is Doari'o Ointment. Free samples ut R. F. Saudes' Pharmacy, Saturday March 2nd.

We have been requested to state that Mr C. F. McCuilagh did not act as starter at the polo sports held at Cambridge a few days ago, as previously announced. To avoid clashing with other entertainments, the children's concert announced for to-morrow evening in Victoria Hall, Cambridge, Ins been postponed till Friday, Bth inst. The art union promoted by Mr Anderson, of Hamilton, for the pictures painted by himself, and which hive been on exhibition iu Mr Hammond's window for some time, will be drawn this afternoon. The, arrivals in the colony for January were 207") males and 1030 females ; total, 3105 ; as against 2640 for January, 1900. The departures for January Were 14G5 males and 502 females; total, 1!!07 ; as against 1703 in January, 1900. The excess of arrivals over depart! res last no.nth was 1138. At the Auction Mart, Hamilton, on Saturday next, Mr John Knox, in addition to the privileges in connection with the South Auckland races, will offer for unreserved s !e the household effects of a settler who is leaving the district ; a'so, some children's boots and ten boxes of "Hill Top" tea. Full particulars are given in the usual column. At the Supreme Court, '.Vanganui, on Tuesday morning, James Ilnri.s pleaded guilty to attempting to assault and ro!i H eicson, a bank cleik, in pos session of a large sum of money. Mr Wilford, for the defence, pleaded for the leniency of the Court, as accused was a first offender, and the crime a silly act of,bravado. Judge Edwards said it was a deliberate artcmnt to shoot, and sentenced accused to 14-yeins. The verandah at the Hamilton railway station is now almost completed, and we ore sure that the comfort which it will provide for the public and officials will he greatly appreciated : y them. S , hi nothing further has been dure with reference to the siding to ihe B.iU-yuida and the erection of cattl- yards, which was also brought before Mr iVard on his visit in December last, but no doubt they have not been lost sight of by the Department. Messrs Souter and Co gave an exhibition of American ploughs at work, in a paodock adjoining Mr E. Sotiter's residenc:.', yesterday afternoon. The one was a gang plough and the other a disc one. The latter bad a subsoi'er attached, and those present were much struck with the work it did. We understand anothsr exhibition of the implements at work will be given, ot which public entice will be given through outadvertising column-. The Agricultural Department lias arranged to send a consignment of frozen poultry, ducks and fowls to South Africa by the Otarama, which leaves Lyttelton on the 9th proximo. If the shipment is a success the Department will probably send L.rger consignments to the same market by the steamers which the New Zealand Shipping Company and the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company have Kiranged to despatch from New Zealand at regular intervals. The Coventor left Wellington for the North yesterday. He will travel by rail through the Wairarapa to the Makohino viiduot, and from liicie he will drive to Tc Arelia, via Taupo, Rotoiu,i, Tatiranga, and Ivatikati. At Tc Aroha he will take train to Auckland, when: h.i will stay for live or six days. He intends to travel from Auckland to Te Kuiti by rail and to drive thene: to Palmcist'ii North, via Awakino, New Plymouth and Hawera. Toe trip is expected to occupy six weeks. At Ins Cambridge sale to he held on Saturday next. Mr W. ,1. Hunter will ulfei a i:lii ice lot o! cattle fro... Okoroire, and in addition a nice lot of fiesh-coudi-tion-d three-year-oh-' sleets, fat cows anl steers, store cows and heifers, choice dairy cows and heifers at calving and forward in calf, from Mr Win. Stanley, Okoroire. Twenty halt-bred Joney yearlings will he offered on bchili of Mr R. Reynolds, Newstead, and in order to give evi ry buyer a chance to secure a prize, these heifets will be offoted singly. The quarterly meeting of the Waikato Fruitgrower's Ass. cialion was held at Ohaupo on Tuesday. 11l the absence of 'Mr Fairer, 'dr Tuuiey was voted to the chair. S me new members were proposed and ulec'td. A communication was read from the Dunedill Horticultural Arso, i ition asking that delegates be tent from Waikato to a conference to be held iu Dune-din in May next. Alter considerable disOtls-ion it was decided not to send a representative. Some routine business was gone through, after v;hieh a vote of thanks to the chair concluded the meeting. The captain and members of No 3 Company of the Waikato Mounted Rifles are sending a letter of condolence to Mrs Fane!!, of Kihikihi, expressing their regret at the death of her son and their comrade. They tender their returned comrades asmoke concert in the Cambridge Public Hall to-morrow evening. We notice that Surgeon Captain Evan E. Roberts has been ttansferred from the Dovonport Navals to No. 3 Company. The Government certainly take their time over doing anything of this kin -, for it is about a year since Dr. Roberts sent ill his application to be transferred. It is not often that animals engage in a '' tug-of war,'' hut. something very like it took place in Duke-street, Cambridge, yesterday. A horse, haruessed to a buggy, was hung up at a hitching po>t, and someone also fastened the reins of a pony to the same post. Something startled the animals and they both hung back when the post, which was very rotten at the bottom, gave way and they were left with the detached post hanging between them. Fortunately, His Worship the Mayor (Mr Buckland) happened to be passing, and he extricated the auimalß without any damage being done. About a month ago Mr Shepherd, who has rurchased Mr E. M. Dickey's farm at Karamu, drew attention to the existence of a terrible curse in the shape of Ragwort or Ragweed in the district, and now Mr F. P. Corkill, the wellknown land agent at New Plymouth, writes :—" While driving a few days ago between Ruapnke and To Mala (Raglan district), I noticed a fine healthy plant of the noxious weed known as ragwort, or ragweed, growing on land on the opposite side, of the road to Billington's farm. The plant was in full bloom, and would, in the course of a few weeks, have distributed its thousands of seed over a tract of country which 1 believe has been free from this pest. The specimen is now at the Harbour View Hotel, in Raglan, where it may be inspected by settlers who may wish to make themselves acquainted with the appearance of this handsome, but terrible weed. Some live years ago I saw a patch of ragwort growing on land near to Inglewood, wnere it had been sown with badlycleaned grass-seed from England. I wrote to the Taranaki County Council, urging the immediate eradication of the plants. The Council thanked inefor my letter, but did nothing further (the ragwort being on private land), and to-day it would cost thousands of pounds to compensate Taranaki settlers for the depreciation in values in certain localities through the spread of the weed. Tile seed is " feathered " like groundsel or thistledown, and will travel miles from its place of origin. Auckland Settlers should be on the lookout and stamp it out, oo first appearance." Roth these gentlemen have had practical experience of the trouble caused by this weed, and hs Mr Corkill says, settlers should endeavour to stamp it out on its first -appcarauce.