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Waikato Argus, Volume X, Issue 914, 28 March 1901, Page 2

The History of the Past Century is continued on our fourth pate.

Mr W. J. Hunter will hold lis Annual Turnip Citt:o and Sheep "<*ip at Ohaupo, on I'ticsdiiy, May 14th. Entries are solicited.

For Mr W. J. Hunter's Autumn Horse Sale to be held at Olnupo, oo Thursday and Friday, April 11th and 12th, 400 horses of all classes will be offered.

The Cambridge polo players went to Auckland by this mominu's train, where they do battle with the Auckland and Kemucra Clubs. They take down nearly 30 ponies to be used in the matches aud the sports.

At the Court House, Hamilton, yesterday, before Captain Mcl'herson and Mr A. Primrose, Justices, a number of rate cases, brought by the Hamilton Borough Council, were dealt with. An assault cise, Rendell v. Mayes, was withdrawn on payment of costs 20,-.

Mr W. H. Thomas, of Hautapn, was yesterday brought down to the Hospital suffering with fractured rihs, caused by his falb'ng off a load of chad'. Mr Thomas is a member of the Hospital Board, audit is pleasing to sec that he has every confidence in the Institution he assists to manage. We trust he wi 1 speedi y recover"

A female inebriate, for the lOUth time, appealed at the Christchurch Coirt recently She pleaded that she had been ready to " start a new life in this new year," but she hid just come nut of gaol, and the " little drop that she took whet, weak from imprisonment" overcame her." She was sentenced to one month's imprisonment.

A waterspout at Strath Taieri on Sunday night washed away Switchback road ami Centie road between the Springs ami the Rock and Pillar, all the culvert* in the neighborhood being badly damaged and fences destroyed. Residents in the immediate locality likened the Hood to a stream thiee times the width of the Taieri River.

On Tuesday, April Uth, Messrs McNicol and Co. will hold their next Ohaupo Stock Sale. Tiny will idler on account of Mr J. Can others the whole of his dairy plant, comprising 10 cows (five in full milk and live forward in calf), horse, cart, harness and dairy utensils. Also, ">() acres of land known as " The Mid," situated on the Ohaupo Koad, near ii unilto i.

At a meeting of the Hamilton Bormixh Council last evening it was decided to cut up Hcaphy Terrace, Hamilton Iv'.st, to a plan submitted by Mr Ceoree Ivleecunibe, M.yor. 'I lie plan provides for 12 allotments of about lialf-an-acrc each, having a frontage of about l!j chain Iu two streets, one .street passing the centre of the blf.ek. The conditions tire that they aic to be leased for '2l years, under the impiovemint clauses, buildings to the value of £2,30 to be erected within 12 months. Too sections will be offered at an early date.

A meeting of the TeAroha Borough council last evening, the telegram received from tvutoiui, re erecting an arch, was read. Various suggestions were made re sending a reply. One member thought it somewhat cheeky ; another that an offer I e made to supply mineral water free ot charge ; anotier that in the event of the fever increasing in seventy at Rotorua. possibly the Royal visitors would charge I heir mind find visit To Aroha, and suggested that in the event of such being the case, would Rotorua assist to erect an ach in Ir. Aroha. 11 was aventually decided to reply that Ihe Council had no funds tor the feature.

One very solid, and rapidlyspreading foundation of prosperity, is the dairy produce (writes a recent visitor to Tarnnaki in the Christehurch Truth). The output of butter within the last few yens las increased enormously. Ihe factory system is spreading its tentacles in all directions, and the farmers are reaping the benefits. With the establishtin nt of freezing works at the chief port quicker and safer methods of transit have beau secured, and the advantages so obtained an; well realised by the producers. All things considered, Taranaki, to quote the energetic Parliamentary representative of Mew Plymouth, " witli ics fertile country, its sparkling rivers, and snow-capped mountains" —i he pride and joy ot the district—is a country that is fast looming large in the public eye. Harold Tyers, a State school teacher at Tallangower, near Chetvvj nd (Victoria), was awakened, from sleep under startling circumstances at 3 o'clock on the morning of the Ist inst. He felt something pricking his arm, and heard a rustling among some paper under the bed. Striking a light, he found the part was quite bl ck, and concluded he had been bitten by a snake. He tied a ligature round the arm, and rushed out to the nearest neighbour, Mrs White, who lives ;i quarter of a mile away. Mrs White declined to cut out a piece of the arm as requested, saying he would bk'ed to death. He then went next to a young man, who could not grip the piece of flesh, as it was so hard. Next lie tried William Stewart, another neighbour, who, with a razor, succeeded in getting the lump of flesh out 25 minutes from the time of the bite. Stcwait and Tyers then drove a distance oi 32iinleh to Cabtertou, when Dr Smith applied tin. usual remedies, and complimented Stewart on his skill in avoiding the main artery, remarking that had the bite beeu in a slightly altered position death would have been inevitable. Tyers is now out ot danger. Ijp- For NEURALGIA, Rheumatism, Antemia, etc, take Manning's Tonic Pills, the Great Nerve and Blood Tonic. Sold everywhere, in boxes, at 2s 6d per box ; six boxes for ISs 6d.

The theory which still lingers in neatly all the geography books (says the Daily Graphic) that the Gulf 8 ream brings warmth and s ilubrity to these islands and to the, coast of North-western Knrope iu now denounced by the United States meteorologists as a myth. Mr H. M. Watts, in the. "United States Weather Review," avers that by the time the Gulf Stream arrives cist of Newfoundfand it in not distinguishable in temperature or fet of current from the rest of the ocean, and if it were by aoy possibility to be diverted at the Straits of Florida uo one in England would be aware of it. It is, he says, the eastward and north-eastward drift of the atmosphere from the Atlantic which distributes over Europe a mild climate influence.

A meeting of those interested in the formation of a football club was ludd in the VVaikato Arcmjs buildings, Hamilton, last evening, Mr H. Tristram jiuir. heme unanimously voted to the chair. After a short riiscussiou it, was iteeided to form a club to be called "The Hamilton Wanderers." The officers elected arc r.s follows :—Captain M. Callauhan ; V'icfi»Ciptain, l'> Innes. Hon. Secretary sud Treasurer, W . .Smith, Committee, W. *>m it h, A. Bond, C. Devery, H. and W. Tristram. Selection Committee, Captain, Secetary and 11. Tris f ram. Colours, Blue. .Subscription, Is. All players are to lie under 17 years of ace. It was decided to hold practice matches on Wednesday and Saturday afterno.ms. Mr R. Pike has kindly consented to give his advice to the Club whenever wanted.

We understand that an amicable arrangement will probably b') artived at re the Cambridge Domain Board No one appears to wish the Borough Council to he imile a Domain Board, neither do they wish to lose the services of Mr \Vells. The whole trouble aro-e through the hasty acti.ui of some of-the Borough Councillors in carrying a motion to do a Certain thing, before ihey had given the Domain Board an opportunity of filling in with their ui-hes 'This was meat dis. ouncuus and c uisod some severe comments to be made; but now that there his been rime lor r II ct'on, and the matter has been talked over by these interested, it is perfectly plain that no rlia ■ courtesy was meant by the Council, aud as that is the case we the rupture will be hcal-id. In our advertising columns the Mayor of Cambridge convents a meeting of the public to discuss the matter on the lllh proximo.

Sir Walter Murton, first solicitor to the F.oird (f Pride, has, says a Dun'din coi respondent, just completed a four of the South Island. Speaking

as a tourist, Sir Walter confessed himself very much impressed with New X :ahnd so far as lie had seen it, " but really," he went on to say, " there ij one thing that want" looking af'er. The sanitary arrangements in some of the places that I have vi-ited ~m; not up-to-date or worthy of an enf-eiprisinu people. The accommodation iu many places is fully thirty years behind the limes, and the sanitary provisions simply barbaric. The steimers on Lake Wakatipu, too, ie.\e siin,i thing to he de-ired.'' The visitor adds that he is an interested observer of cur labour legislation, especial')' of that in it which is new. Lawyer-like, he hesitates about express inn an opinion as to bow these things will pan out, but be is by no means inclined to condemn even that which is experimental. As he truly says, many things can be safely done in New Zealand with her educated, sensible, and well-fed pi nidation, Lh.it: would bo risky in other countries, " You can always go back if you make a mistake," is the renaikhe employed. "In some places that would l e impossible."