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Waikato Argus, Volume XI, Issue 1034, 29 August 1901, Page 2

Letters to the editor are printed on our fourth page. The Hamilton bakers intimate that they intend to raise the price of bread on Monday next to 3d per 21b loaf.

Tenders are invited in this issue for the erection of a cheese factory at Churchill. Plans and specifications may be inspected at The Argus Office. Mr H. H. Hunt gave a ricital from Dickens last evening in the Volunteer Hall, HumiUou. There was only a moderate attendance, owing, no doubt, to counter attraction 1 ). The reader gave the selections with considerable dramatic power and succeeded in keeping the riveted attention of the audience for two hours.

, We direct the attention of our farming readers to an advertisement appearing on the opposite page from Messrs Nolan, Touks aud Co., auctioneers, regarding a sale of polled shorthorn cows in the Hawera yards on Thursday next, sth September. The cattle are the result of 20 years’ expetiments, and are all descended from shorthorn stock.

At the meeting of the Auckland Crown Lands Board the following letter was read from the Taupo Totara Timber Company: ‘ They had now fixed the site where they proposed to erect the booms, etc., viz., just below the Cambridge bridge, at the junction of the Karapiro.’—Resolved to approve of the old boom site, conditionally, that there will be no interference with the Waikato River shipping.

On Saturday next, 31st inst, Messrs McNicol and Co. hold their annual Cambridge spring cattle sale, when they will offer upwards of 1000 head of cattle, principally well-bred yearlings that have been wintered on turnips. Anyone requiring cattle cannot do better than attend this sale, as those coming forward ou Saturday are really choice. For particulars see their advertisement.

At a meeting of the Committee held last Tuesday evening, it was decided that the Hamilton Wymastic Club will hold its annual display on Tuesday September 10th at 7.30. Admission will be free, but only a limited number of tickets can be obtained through the clubs honorary working members, asj the accommodatjon is limited. As the display will close the season all working members are earnestly requested to roll up for the next few practice nights for the credit of the club. Tickets can be obtained by members on practice nights at the Gymasium. Now that tho Coronation is a current topic of conversation, it may be noted that the Court officers who will be entrusted with the conduct of the pageant will doubtless have no need to resort to an expedient to preserve older which was deemed necessary when the King’s great uncle feared that the numerous sympathisers with Queen Caroline would create a disturbance at the door of Westminister Abbey. So a noted pugilist of the day, ‘ Gentleman Jackson,’ who taught Lord Byron boxing, was instructed to hire some twenty well-known bruisers. These gentry were attired as King’s pages and periled on duty.—Daily News. The ‘ working bee ’ instituted by the Hamilton Reserves Improvement Committee yesterday at the Lake Reserve was a pronounced success. About a dozen energetic volunteers put in a good afternoon’s work, with the result that a large proportion of the ground bordering the Like was cleared of overgrowth. It is the intention of some of the workers to make a future effort on Wednesday next to clear tho fern from the remainder of the level ground fronting the Lake. The gorse still remains to be dealt with, the clearing of which it is to be hoped the Domain Board will promptly take in hand, as if left it will continue to spread and make the work of eradication more difficult and costly. Our Aotea correspondent writes: —During the months of July and August ust, each year we have come to look forward to a visit from some marine curio and annually, the Pacific has never failed to supply something in this line. Last years, turtle found its way to the Ruapuke beach, and was promptly annexed and converted into soup by some epicurean flax-jammers. This year a seal has put in an appearance, having probably meandered up from Polar regions and with the same good taste which charaterized his predecessors of former years chosen the same beach as its destination. It is of respectable dimensions, being about seven feet six inches in length and was noticed by some school children for the first time last Monday, fooling about on the sand. It is to be hoped that our saurian friend has not sealed his fate by his change of quarters but that he may enjoy for many a day, his pleasant surroundings. The Wairarapa Daily Times thus refers to Mr A. G. C. Glass, the organising Secretary of the New Zealand Farmer’s Union It is somewhat singular that what bids fair to he the strongest political combination ever formed in the colony has been called into existence by one man, and a comparatively unknown farmer of the Auckland Peninsula. Mr A.ti C. Glass, of Kataia, will he able to say, ‘ Alone, I did it !’ He has stumped the North Island aud organised it before the Government discovered that be was < dangerous,’ When the Premier found that Mr Glass was playing up with the Labour Unions he tried to suppress him, hut was not strong enough to |put down this Northern agitator. Mr Glass is now stumping the Middle Island, and in a quiet way is doing more good for the colony than Parliament itself is effecting. He is sowing seed that will take root and grow 1 To look at, and even to speak to, Mr Glass is by no means a tremendous person ; hut he possesses some sort of mother wit, aud a certain amount of go and determination. Against the Government there is no leader in the laud, hut it almost looks as if circumstances were torcing Mr Glass into a position of leadership. He is u man of action—and it is to men of action that the colony has to trust. ‘ The Old Guard ’ of the House of Representatives were scarcely men of action hence their failure against the present Government. The colony has to look round for new leaders, and, if Mr Glass goes on the way he has begun, he will certainly get the opportunity ot securing place aud power,