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Waikato Argus, Volume XI, Issue 1051, 18 September 1901, Page 2

Tuhikaramka news will be found on our fourth page. A social will be held in the Public Hall) Ohaupo, on Friday next, 20th lust. The new iei'hl tit the Hamilton High School will be commenced on September 23. We direct attention to an advertisement from Messrs Cochrane and Son, Auckland, regarding the sale of an unclaimed section at Te Rapa on the 30th inst, The annual meeting of the Hamilton Cricket Association will be held in the Wesleyan Schoolroom at 7.30 p.m. this evening. A full attendance is requested, A telegram from Mr I eo Carri, announces that owing to sickueis and over work, he has been delayed longer than he expected, but will arrive in Hamilton in the cours* of a day or two. The Rev John Erwin, Pastor of Trinity Church and his bride arrived home at Cambridge yesterday. We wish the happy couple joy and a prosperous future. We understand the congregation are taking steps to give them a formal welcome with a social, but this will be of a private nature. At Masterton 0. A, Pinkerton was found dead with his head in a tub which contained about eight inches of water. His hahds were grasping the sides. A verdict of heart failure and asphyxia was returned. He was 55 years of age, and leaves a widow and family. He was the first storekeeper on the Grey, and bore the reputation as being one of the best accountants in the district. Messrs McNicol and Co.’s special horse sale, which commenced to day, bids fair to establish a record for Waikato, if not for New Zealand. The town is full of buyers from all over the colony, and anything good will fetch large prices. Those who attend the sale and wish for an evening’s amusement cannot do better than attend the entertainment in aid of the Hunt Club funds, which will ire given in the Oddfellows’ Hall at 3 p tn. The title of the operetta is a very appropriate one, Tally-Ho, and it will be rendered by members of the Hunt Club, with new scenery specially painted for the occasion by Mr Arnold Wilkinson. The Cambridge Orchestra, under Mr J. U. Edwards' baton will assist, and everything bids fair to afford a really goal entertainment.

At Napier, Elizahgth Schmidt, charged with the manslaughter of her newborn child at Hastings, has been acquitted.

In a shop in Queen-street, Auckland. the two giant children from Fox* ton are on exhibition. Wilfred, a boy of four years of age. weighs eight stone, with a chest measurement of Ruby is eight year of age, and weighs 15 stone.

At the Hawke’s Bay Rugby Union meeting on Saturday, a member of the Hawke’s Bay team of footballers who recently toured the colony was suspended until May 1, 1904, for misbehaviour in the train between Wanganui and Aramohn.

Messrs MoNicol and Co.’s annual horse fair commences at Cambridge to-day, and it is expected that it will extend over two or three days. A large number of buyers are present from all parts of the province, and it is expected that prices, especially for draught stock, will rule very high. Those who contributed to Mrs Seddon’s shilling subscription list for the Queen Victoria Maori Girls School will be glad to learn that the number of subscriptions reached ICO at which figure the list has beeu closed, aud the £5 received duly forwarclfd to Mr W. S. Cochrane, diocesan secretary, Auckland.

As will bo seen by Mr Sandes’ advertisement this week’s Weekly Press contains a series of Hamilton views, consisting of photographs of the principal buildings and streets and a complete gallery of the Borough Councillors. This number is very suitable for posting to friends in the Old Country by the San Frauciscn mail, which leaves on September 27.

On Saturday night, about eight o’clock, some buildings belonging to the Crown Mines Company, in the Waitewhata Gorge, Karaugahake, were burned down. The fire started in the changehouse, and as the last shift had left aud there were only a few men left with little or no appliances to combat the flames, the fire spread to the storeroom and mine manager’s office, all of which were destroyed, though the contents of the buildings were saved. The brigade, under Captain Guthrie, were promptly on the scene and did everything possible in the way of salvage.

The settlers of Fencourt:, Cambridge, have been crying out for new roads, and not without cause, for some of them have as much as they can do to get to their farms without getting bogged, A number of new roads were laid off on the Fencourt plan when the sections were put up for selection, but the Road Board refused to take them over until they were formed, and so a deadlock appeared imminent. However, we hear the Government have relented, and that a surveyor is now at work having the roads made. This will encourage settlement, and the vacant blocks—-only about two—will doubtless soon be taken up.

Some years ago (oays the Dunedin Star) an inspiration seized the City Council that it would be a good plan to obtain a tramway hearse, which could be run along the line that passes within a few yards of the public cemetery. Accordingly a hearse was procured. It was an elegant vehicle and cost £250But somehow the public could never be persuaded to use it, and after reposing in the Council’s yard for something like 18 years, during which period it fulfilled the useful function of a fowlhouse, it has just been sold for £3. It is estimated that, together with the expense of laying a branch line to the cemetery and the interest on the money expended, the hearse cost the city £717. and it never had so much as a corpse inside it.

Mr Charles Roberts, butcher, of Cambridge, had a couple of splendid lambs in his shop yesterday morning—the first to appear in Cambridge this season. They were his own breeding and were fine specimens for this time of the year. Many of his customers thought they were in for a good thing when they saw the carcases hanging up outside the shop, hut they were disappointed for Mr Gallagher, of the Criterion Hotel, took the lot for the benefit of his customers attending Messrs McNicol and Co.’s special horse sale. It was curious to hear the objections the disappointed customers found, when they knew that not only the lambs, but also themselves, were sold. Most of them did not care for lamb without mint sauce, and their’s was not yet grown ; while others did not think the very early lamb had the proper flavour.

A meeting of the Band of Hope was held in the Wesleyan Schoolroom last night, and was largely attended. The Rev. Blamires presided, and in his opening remarks referred to the evils existing through strong drink, and also the large amount spent annually on it. He referred to Mr J. G Wooley’s remarks in regard to the working of prohibition in the United States, his testimony being "that children were growing up who hail never seen a single case of drunkenness in their lives, chat is in those places where the prohibition law was enforced, and that though drink was obtainable the secrecy required to get it rendered it a very hard matter to procure it. In referring to the attendance he said it augured well for the temperance movement in Hamilton, also the number of children present was very gratifying, showing the vitality of the movement, and the hold it was getting upon the rising generation ; also the necessity of training them in temperance principles. He crusted when the next local option poll came round each one would conscientiously exercise their vote, and he believed that if past progress were rnaintaiued six years would see prohibition carried. At the close of his address the rev. gentleman was loudly applauded. The following was the programme Hymn No. 45 (Hoyle’s), prayer, recitations, Misses Elsie Qualtrough, Connie Merriugtou and G. Thomas. Mr E. F. Potter then treated the audience to some selections on his ‘ Gem 5 phonograph, the following beiug the items .Song, ‘ Annie Laurie song, ‘ Laughing Goon;’ bagpipe solo, song) ‘ The Shade of the Palms;’ march, * The Girl I Lsft Behind Mesong,' Old Kentucky Home Good Night;’ picolosolo, with variations, ‘Long, Long, Ago.’ Misses Eva Wiight, Gladys Mayes, and Agues Hatrick also contributed recitations, and Mr C, L. Bottley delivered an address, aftei which a duet was nicely sung by the Misses Qualtrough. A senond series of phonograph selections brought a successful meeting to a close. Miss Meaohom presided at the harmonium.