The Waikato Argus [PUBLISHED DAILY.] SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1901.

Waikato Argus, Volume X, Issue 954, 25 May 1901, Page 2

The Waikato Argus [PUBLISHED DAILY.] SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1901.

Pome interesting matter will be found on our fourth page. Some new books were added to the Hamilton Public Library this morning. The Most Rev the Primate will administer the rite of Confirmation at St. Stephen's, Tamahere, on Monday evening at 7.30. Tho quarterly meeting of tbo Waikato Fruitgiowers' Association will be held at Chum ■ on Tuesday next, lßth instant, at 10.30 a.m. Three Russian oilicors have been sentenced to six month's imprisonment at Yokohama for drawing plans of Naga--aki Harbour and fortifications. Messrs.MeNioo! and Co. will hi Jc] .their next Cambridge Stock Sale on Saturday, Sth June, .it which they will yard :i large number of stock, etc. The meeting- of the Waikato Cooivy Council which was to have been hehl on Friday last has been postponed until next Friday at the u?ual time. The monthly meeting of the WaiUatri Formats' Club will ho held on Monday, 3rd June. A digest of the business -vv ill be found oti our third page. Owing to the holiday yesterday the meeting of the executive of the Waikato Farmers' Club, which wur called »t Hamilton, has been postponed until Monday at 10 a.m The President of the Waikato Fanrers' Club appeals to members in ane.trs with their subscriptions to pay the Kan.a as caily as possible as the financial year is now near its close. Fifty thousand machinists in the United State;, have struck work, demanding ten bou s' pay fur i ine hours' work. Employ is' concessions prevented the strike extending to 150,000 workers. Wc are pleased to hear that Mr P. R. Castleton, who has acted as messenger at the Hamilton Post-office lot the last four years, has received a cadetship and leaves for Whanearei almost immediately. In addition to the entries advertised by Mr W..T. Hunter on our fourth page for his Ohaupn -tale on Tuesday, a line of 15 fat ami forward cows will be offered on account of Mr Shakespeare, and 50 choice yearlings, Mr Kusabs. The Premier stated at Otaki yesterday tint a Local Government liill would be introduced during the co'mina session, and that a eonioreuoe of locil bodies would be bold in Wellington in the first weak of the session to consider the measure. A distressing accident occurred at Miraetaba on Wednesday. Two sons of Mr Cyiil White, a veil-known station manager, Herbert, ayod 15, and Miles, need 13, weie out shooting on the river bank, and it is stated commenced playing. Miles grasped the barrel of the aiin, attempting to take it from his brother, when the charge exploded, killing him instantly. A few days ago we published a paragraph clipped from a Tauronga paper, stating that it was probable that the Waikato Hounds would pay a visit to that district in August. This is not so. and although the Waikato Club is anxious to oblige the Tauranga sportsmen in the matter of a couple of weeks' hunting, theie is not the slighter intention of allowing the hounds to leave this district until September. Victoria Day was generally observed as a holiday iu Hamilton yesterday, and it w*s very quiet indeed. The weather was anything but pleasant, and on this account it is just as well, perhaps, that there were no sporting fixtures here. A couple of football matches were layed by the juniors on Sydney Square, and a social in aid of St. Peter's W.oi Iters' Guild was held in tho Sunday School room in the evening.

A my sad odoot'winoo took placfi afcOloa Murray on May 10. The wife of Mr Coleman, a well.known settler in thin district, wss taken suddenly ill that morning, and before medial eji could arrive had passed "• from amona-t us«»a oaw of premature birth, Dr Dalziol, of L'ukoholio, waa summoned to Mrs Coleman's, aid, but, though he travelled all though tho dark and stormy niujit of Sunday, ho arrived to late. The and his guide had a somowhat |perilioue experience, lofting their way, turning several mile* in tho wrong direction) and at two o'olocb in the morning the doctor's horse fell into a dangerous hole on tho road from which it was impossible to extricate Mm without tho wiling aid of neighbouring Bottlers, who, roused nut qf ih,e]r beds at ■that untimely hour, resgpi'd tho unfortunittG horuo, and, giving rlit* doctor ft,f'esh ivir.utit, helped him on hi»- way. This dangerous hole should have our surveyor's attention • before more serious mischief tefalls the unfortunate traveller. The want of a nodical man is one of the tcrrorn that country p j op!o have to faofl. Dr Diilsdfd wollaaid tljit young nion should think seriously before they venture to bring a wife into a Bpatsely settled hush district, probably 10, 20. or 110 miles away from medioal aid. Herald,