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Waikato Argus, Volume XI, Issue 1030, 24 August 1901, Page 2

Somk interesting matter appears on our fourth page. The bachelors’ ball at Cambridge last evening was a great success, the attendance being very large. Numbers from the neighbouring districts came to join the festive throng. Mr Charles Robinson, who has for some time past been officer in charge of the Departmental Buildings in Auckland, has been appointed to succeed the late Mr Letham as custodian of the Parliament Buildings in Wellington. The annual meeting of the Whatawhala Racing Club will be held on Saturday next.

The annual meeting of the Amva Ciicket Club will be held on Monday next.

Mr Haseltlen will conduct the Presbyterian services in Hamilton tomorrow.

An exhibition of lantern views is to bo given at various places advertised in this issue.

The annual concert in aid of the funds of the Pirongia Public Library is announced for Friday next.

Wm. Cragg Sharland, chemist nud druggist, of Auckland, tiled a petition in bankruptcy on Thursday.

On Saturday, September 28, a large number of Borough and Domain Endowments will be offered at the Hamilton Auction Mart.

The Rev. J, Galway, deputation of the New Zealand Church Missionary Association will preach to-morrow in the Anglican churches at Cambridge 11 a.m., Uhaupo 3 p.m., and Tauwhnre 7 p.m.

When George William first started the Young Men’s Christian Associan he paid 2s 6d per week for the room in which the first meetings were held To-day the membership is 537,000, with 7229 centres, and they own in various parts of the world property valued at over £500,000 sterling.

Messrs Parr Pros, Hamilton agents for the Melotte Cream Separator, has received the following flattering testimonial re the machine from a wellknown Kirikiriroa dairyman : 1 The Melotte Cream Separator 1 got from you is all that it is represent. It works smoothly and easily, skims clean, and is in every way satisfactory.'

The following telegrams have passed between Messrs W. J. Napier and Samuel Vaile ; ‘S. Yaile, E»q., Auckland,—Railways Committee decided they would hear your evidence, but would not summon you, «v ill you come at your own expense ?—(Signed) W. J. Napier.' ‘Napier, M.H.K..— Treatment most unfair, but will come. Start second September. (Signed) Samuel Vaile.’

The Maoris are discussing the question raised at the Rotorua meeting of going to England for the coronation. In the Fipiwharauroa newspaper, of Gisborne, a writer from Te VV'haiti, Ureweru Country, says 200 of the Mataatua tribal ‘canoe’wish to goto England. In the same paper is published a letter from the late Major Fox, advising his people not to go to England as proposed, ’ lest they be made as Jogs.’

At a meeting of creditors in the estate of Wm. Dowling, recently a hotelkeeper at Kawakawa, it was resolved, on the motion of MrC. Seegner, seconded by Mr Choyce, ‘That the official assignee be requested to consult his solicitor and act according to his advice with reference to the alleged preferential claim of Messrs L. 1). Nathan and Co., and that the official assignee be indemnified in the event of there being insufficient funds in the estate to contest the matter.

It may not be generally known that, besides an unlimited supply of free stationery, the taxpayer also provides for members of the British Parliament a grant-in-aid towards their refreshment. This used to be £IOOO a year, but in the last decade it was increased to £2OOO, as the Kitchen Committee found they could not make both ends meet with the smaller sum. With this assistance the prices charged are about the same as those of a large club. The food and cooking are good and the wines excellent ; the only subjest for criticism is the waiting, which has always been a difficult one at Westminster.

On the 16th ult. the Hawke’s Bay Presbytery, on behalf of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand, communicated with the Premier, strongly protesting against Sunday work io the variout branches of the public service, and more particularly upon the railways, where it had been most pp. minent in connection with the Royal reception. The protest has apparently borne fruit, and the Presbytery has again written to the Premier expressing their satisfaction on learning that a circular had been sent to the Uaffic managers of the railway directing that Sunday trains be discontinued, except in necessitous cases.

We all know (observes a writer in the Pall Mall Gazette) the Colonial Secretary's limitations as an orator. He does not think aloud in that curious tone of caustic aloofness which is no charaoterisoic of Lord Salisbury ; be lacks the philosophic subtlety of Mr Balfour, as he lacks the genial humour of Liotd Rose' bery, the sound and fury of Sir William Harcourt, and that singular capacity for sitting with apparent enjoyment upon the most uncomfortable Sir Henry Camp-bell-Bannerman. But for a fighting speech, a speech which should rally the laggards to the flag like a bugle call, and go straight for the joints of the enemy’s armour with keen and relentless penetration, commend us to Mr Chamberlain.

A man has just given a Heading mason a penny for finding a lost purse containing £3*2o in notes and gold. Advertisement is the best cure for such meanness, which, says a{ London paper, is not, unhappy, so rare as it is astounding. An office boy in the City was given a sixpence some time ago for finding and returning a lost cheque for £2300, made payable to a mining company ; and a bus conductor at Gravesend received a fiveshilling piece from a man to whom he returned a lost bag containing £SOO. A lady who picked up a pocket book with £IO,OOO worth of notes and cheques, and searched until she found the owner, was rewarded with half a crown for her pains, and a poor woman at Smithfield a few years since received a penny for safely returning a bag with £SOO in gold and notes.

An inquest was held on Thursday, by Mr Gresham, coroner, at the Waitakerei railway station, on the body of a man, name unknown, whose remains were found in the Waitakerei ranges by Mr Shelley, settler, a day or two ago. The greater part of the facts ha\e already been published. Dr. Lewis, who examined the skeleton remains, deposed that they were those of a male adult, about HO years of age, and had been lying there about three years. The man had evidently hanged himself. The jury, after hearing the other evidence, returned a verdict that deceased, name unknown, whose remains had been discovered on August 20th, in Waitakerei ranges, had committed suicide, some time in 1898. Constable Clean has taken possession of the remains, awaiting instructions as to their disposal. Mu VT, S. Evans, Piano and Organ Tuner and Regulator, is now in Waikato, and orders left with Mr Nixon, watchmaker, Cambridge, or addressed to the various Post Offices in other places will be attended to.— (Advt).