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Waikato Argus, Volume X, Issue 957, 29 May 1901, Page 2

The concluding portion of our report ot Monday's meeting of the Hamilton Borough Council, To Awamutu news, and a letter on " Deo- Stalking '' will be found on our fourth page. Various additions have boon made to Messrs McNicol and Co.'s advertised sale list o . Mr W. J. Hunter announces a ealeuf dairy cows at Te Awamutu in the third week of July. Anyone having chums against the estate of tho late Edward Hewitt, of Cambridge, tire teque-'ed lo lodge snne, in duplicate, with Mr Thos. Wells of that town, forthwith. It is now suited that Mr O"o. T-lntohihou's resignation as member lor P-w.i a is in the hands of a Mr Mulrock, of Paten. Tho rigont for "Tho History of I the Wasleyan Methodist Church In New Zealand," edited by the Rev Dr Morley, is at pieeent in VVailtnto, and solicits orders ior the work. Amongst the victims of the fall of earth in ?h- ; Broker. Hill S uth mine, New South Wale*, was a young man named Edgar R Mason, son of Mr J. B. Mason, of thu Warwick Arms Hotel, at Shortland. The New Zealand Dairyman states that Messrs Ambnry, English and Co. have secured the highest average score, 93*31 points for butter graded at the Government cool store, Auckland, for the past season. An occnltation of the bright star a Virginia, better known as Spica, will occur this (Wednesday) evening. The star will disappear at the dark (but invisible) edge ot the moon at (jhrs 22min p.m. and will reappear at- the bright edge of the disc at Tins 37min p.m. The s.s. Monowai took the ground off Kilgour Point, on Monday morning, when on her way to Port Chalmers Efforts to got her off with the aid of the tug Koputai proved unavailing. Her departure for Melbourne via tho Bluff is postponed until to-morrow. Wo remind our readers of the Tamahere social to 1)6 held on Friday evening next. A pleasing programme of vocal iten.s will be submitted, interspersed with dancing, and we have no doubt it will be quite as enjoyable as its predecessors. Tho Wiiimangu geyser has been very active during Ihe last few days. 0u Saturday there was an erup.ion that lasted three hours, the mud and stone hurled to an immense heisnt. Tho road is neat ly completed lit within a short distance oi tlie geyser. By thu end of the week it wilt bo passible to drive close to the scene of activity. A lad named Leslie Worth met with au accident on Monday at Waihi while trying to take a case of fruit on a horse. Tho a: im-'l fchkd and throw him off, and then bolted, dragging the boy by the stirrup. Fortunately the stirrupleather broke after the boy had been dragged a short distance, and he was released with a had shaking. At the Supreme Court, Dimedin, on Monday, in tho Olaramn case, in which William Thompson, one of the seamen, was charged with the murder of Gibbs, another seaman, the foreman ot the grand jury, after retirement, asked whether the verdict of a majority would be taken. His Honor >aid in order to find a true bill 12 grand jurors must confirm the bill. Alter a brief retirement the jury announced th it they found no bill, and accused was discharged. It is announced that Mr Gow I of Duoedin, becomes Chief Traffic ' Manager of Railways, filling the place of Mr C. Hudson, who goes to Tasmania. Mr Waite, chief cleik in the head office, goes to Chriotchurch District Superintendent on the Wellington Napier and New Plymouth section, becomes Traffic Superintendent for the whole South Island ; and Mr Arthur, District Traffic Manager at Christchurch, j takes a similar position in tho North Island. '

For a considerable time the Waikato Farmers' Club have been considering the matter of building offices for themselves and a club room to meet in. The land for the bqi'ning }jas been purchased soma time, uud ,'m reference to pur attvartiaitifi columns it will be seen tundafu are Rttllfcd for tho erection of the edifice.

According to a correspondent of tho Otago Darfy Times Mr OonyDgharrt, of the famous Ooeyn(vluuii divorce cafe, lately ft eposied of in Sydney, arrived in Wollinyton last week., Tho correspondent gives no clue as to his business, but it io latoßH that ho attempted to lecture on the Iniquities of OathnUoSj hui; was not listened tc, Jn al l probability his business Is 1(1 try hi* iuek as u l««turcr in this oolony.

Afc Ontnaru, the S.M. gave a judgment ot importance to aeedsrrcn and farmers. Juapar Nichols, a farmer, s\ied a well-known company (<>,- ft S t-d, lost through the firm supplying him with purple nianimoth top turnip send Instead of Devon grey-tone. The crop lulled to last i:i winter, and the plaintiff sued for loss suffered throuah the death of sheep and forced sales, The Magistrate gave judgment for plaintiff for the full amount, with £2O costs. Leave to appeal was granted.

Pig-raisiiig on co-operative lines by Mataura Islaud dairy factory suppliers appears, so far, to be attended with Gratifying success, Ins'ead of selling the whey lo nsmshody else for the same purpose, the suppliers decided to utilise it for pigs of their own. Last week the third drnfc of pigs (54 in number) were Rent a\v:iy—making in all 170 pigs disposed of. Ono supplier says that the financial result so far is three times butter than he experienced formerly. And lfiO pi(.<H remain on hand for di<=poaal, which will s'.ill further add.to tho profits,— Wyndham Fanner.

Afc tho meeting of the executive of tho Waikato Farmers' Club on Monday Mr E. Allen moved in the direction of miking an effort to secure tho services of the draught ho'-so Danger Signal for the VVnilcato. It will no doubt be interesting to some of our readers to learn that Danger Signal is one of two Shire stallimiß presented bo tho colony by Lord Rothschild for the goo.'i of the country of New Zealand. Danger Signal is nine years old, and the other. Hertfordshire Ray, is younger. They are both splendid specimens. The animals have arrived at Wellington, and it is stated that Danger Signal has been appointed to the South Island. A few weeks ago some statements appeared in a London puper to the effect that the Danu had discovered a method of keeping butter fresh for a whole year without adding any foreign matter. Mr ii. C. Cameron at once put himself in touch with dairy authorities in Denmark, where the " discovery " «eems to have caused . a sensation. However, though the butter and margarine supposed to have been treated a year ag> was proved to be in every sense good and fresh when opened, yec the conditions appeared to have been so lax that everybody ia keeping an open mind on the question. Another six months' trial is being given the "discovery." This, however, seems certain, that in the second experiment a fluid—aud therefore foreign matter—was added.

A milkman told a representative of the New Zealand Times : '• We have a lot of trouble from untidy people." another dairyman agreed. " A jut; ileft iu an exposed place all night without a cover, and in the high wind blowing dirt 01 nil hinds is swept into it, The milkman, calling at the house brfo-e daylight, at an hour when it is im possible for him to sec whether the jug is cleau or dirty, simply pours the milk in on top of the miniature rubbish heap, and the people drink away until they have almost finished the day's supply, when they find a thick l.yer of flirt deposited at ths bottom of the jug. Then they rise up in furious indignai.ion to accuse the milkman of keeping dirty premises and dirty cans, and prepare to pivo him a bad quarter of an hour when he calls for bis money."

A writer in the Melbourne Argus, referring to the murder of Herr Mencke, Herr Caro. and six natives at Mathias lshnd, expresses the opinion that the ma.-sijie was the outcome of a recent Otitiage l;y \'hite men oil the natives of the island. The writer was recently on a yachting cruise in the vicinity of the tiacedy, and was informed by the captnin of a f.HH'gn recruiting siiip that he (the captain),[having been unsuccessful in a lecini'itig expedition, had revenged himself on the natives by filling several pickle bottles with dynamite, with sufficiently long fuses attached, nnd throwing them amongst the savages, who crowded round tho bottles, with the resuit th.t many were blown to atoms. And this because they had refused to leave their homes to be taken to New Guinea, New Britain, or fomewhere else, to be worked on the plantations for three vcaiv, witli a chance and a good one of never btiug returned to their right country.

A simple, effective, and economical method of ascertaining the butter contents of milk was exhibited by Mr R. .McGregor, of the Selwyn district, at the Canterbury A. and P. Association's rooms yesterday, says last Thursday's Press. Mr McGregor took loz of milk, and placed it in a bottle containing onethird of an ounce of Coutt's acetic acid, and for ten minutes or so shook the bot.cle. At the end of that period the butter in the milk bad become separated, and was weighed, and was found to be 16 grains. The process was gone through with a similar amount of the same milk, and the same result was arrived at. By a simple arithmetical calculation, Mr McGregor was able to stale that the milk tested went over 3?>lb of butter to every 1001 bof milk. Mr Murphy, F.L.S., who was present dining the tests, remarked that the process was a most invaluable one for dairy farmers, and was so simple that a child could work it. The utensils and the acid are not expensive, the most costly portion of the outfit being the scales, whicn represent a value of 10a. Mr McGregor has no doubts as' to the reliability of this method of testing the value of the milk of anj' cow.

The first of the leviathan cruisers of the Supp'ementary Programme of 1898. vessels of 14 000 tons, heavily armed and armoured, and with a speed of '23 knots, was launched reeently by the Fairfield Shipbuilding Company, Clydebank. His Majesty's Good Hop.is the earliest of the improved Terrible class to take the water, and will be fitted with engines of far greater horse power, than have been utilised in any other warship. It was originally intended to call this powerfull vessel the Africa, but tho title was ultimately changed to Good Hope. Mrs Chamberlain the wife of the Colonial Secretary, was to have performed the ehriateniag ceremony, but the death of Queen Victoria altered the circumstances, and the sending off was not marked by any ceremony. She is provided with a strong belt of fiin armour extending for 400 ft of her length, which between perpendiculars of 500 ft, with a beam of 71ft. Her armament consists of two 92 breech- oading guns, 1G Gin guns (four more than the Powerful), 14 12pounders, nine Maxims, and a couple of torpedo tubes. The Good Hope is the heaviest warship of tho cruiser class in the world, and the heaviest ye' launched on the Clyde. The new monster when completed, will be the most formidable vessel of the type afloat.