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Waikato Argus, Volume XI, Issue 1127, 18 December 1901, Page 2

]Mr Dun O’Brien, the well-known racing man, is taking over the Criterion Hotel, New Plymouth. Miss M. Hill, of Victoria Avenue, Wanganui, has drawn the third prize of £450 in Tuitersall’s sweep on the Newcastle Cup. Mr E. M. Smith has procured a plaster bust of the late Sir Harry Atkinson, which will be placed in the New Plymouth museum. A Masterton solicitor argued before Magistrate recently that water was not water, and if it were water it could not be water in law, for it was property Members of the No. 1 Company Waikato Mounted Rifles are notified to attend volley-firing on Saturday next. Fall in at the Volunteer Hall, Hamilton, at 2 p.m. Every man must be present, and the full penalty will be enforced for non-attendance.

Messrs A. Euckland and Sons, auctioneers, notify that stock trains will not run cither on Christmas Day, or New Year’s Day. Stock intended for the Thursday's market must be forwarded to Auckland on Monday. Mr W. J. Hunter’s stock sale at Ngaruawahta takes place on Monday next, 23rd hist., and will commence at 11 o’clock, immediately on the arrival of the train from Hamilton, so that buyers can return to the Waikato by the down train at 2 o’clock, Athletes and others are reminded that the entries for the handicap events at the Morrinsville Sports Meeting, to be held on New Year’s Day, close with the Secretary (Mr Spargo) on the 25th inst. The necessary particulars will be found advertised on our third page.

Our readers arc reminded of the Polo sports at Cambridge, to-morrow afternoon. The committee of management have everything in a forward condition, acd as good entries have been received there is every prospect of a successful meeting. The matches with the Auckland and Ectnuera teams take place on Friday, and Saturday. At the meeting of the Tamahere Branch of the Waikato Farmers’ ‘Club to-night Mr Johnstone will read a paper on the 1 Metric System.’ This is a question that should receive attention from farmers for,, as a commercial country, any system that will simplify reckoning should he welcomed. It is net generally known that with the exception of Great Britain and Russia nearly all other nations have adopted the system. ’ We remind our Cambridge readers of the entertainment to be given on Friday evening in the Oddfellow’s Hall, by the pupils attending the Cambridge High School and their friends. A capital programme has been prepared, Dr, Haeusler, as usual, sparing no pains in arranging a number of unique and pleasing items. Wo have no doubt that a large attendance will reward him for his trouble. There is a spot in England where by sitting on a certain stone, a person can be in Staffordshire, Cheshire, and Derbyshire at one and the same time. 'Phis spot haste- u ihe scene of many p-ize tights, t ccause, by removing three or four yards, the fighters could resume a fight started in one county, under the eyes of the sheriff of the first county holding a warrant for their arrest the war. ant being rendered useless by their movements. A meeting of the Pukekura shareholders of the Camtridge Co operative Dairy Association was held iu the Cambridge West Public Hall on Monday evening. About sixteen were present, Mr John Fisher being voted to the chair. It was unanimously resolved to erect a creamery on eeclion 69 of the Domain lands, at the junction of Lamb-street and the Puuhoe Road, and the Secretary was instructed to make application to the Cambridge West Domain Board for a lease of two acres of that section tor a term of 21 years. Immediately on the lease being granted, plans and specifications for the creamery will be prepared, and tenders for the erection of it will be called at an early date. We understand he creamery will he in every way a thoroughly up-to-date one.

Archdeacon Willis will hold ill vine service on Sunday next at-die house of Mr Tarrant, Maungatautari, at 3 p.m., if the day be fine.

At Woodville recently Francis Toompson and Walter Elliott, convicted of taking trout from a river with a pitch lork, were fined £5 and £lO respectively, with costs £1 18s each.

A Taranaki settlors who milks 100 cows states that last season (only eight months) he sold oil his 4ho-acie farm, huttcr-fat to the value of £9OO, and pigs and calves brought him £3OO additional.

According to Mr J. Ij. Scott, of Christchurch, who has just returned from a tour abroad, good sound bicycles cun be bought iu America for from between 16 and 18 dollars, or about £3 10s each.

A child named Annie Alex Jeffs two and a-half years of age, died at Templeton on Tuesday, through eating matches. The matter was not reported to the police, but cume to the ears of the coroner,(who ordered an inquest.

Mr H. Brindlc, of Fencourt,offers a reward of £5 for information as to who started a slanderous rumour about Ins son having had a fight with and killed another l oy. There is iot a tittle of truth iu the rumour, Cambridge is gaining an unenviable notoriety for starting false rumours, and it is time a stop was put to it. A team from the Hauraki Rifles will visit Waikato during tire holidays, and will fire matches against teams from the No. I Company Waikato Mounted Rifles at Hamilton on Monday, Decern--ler 30th, an I No. 3 Company at Cambridge on Tuesday, 111 sc. The team to represent No 1 Company will be picke 1 on Saturday evening. The clauses of the .Workers’ Compensation for Accidents Act. 1960, which relate to liability in cases of contracting or sub-contracting, are deserving of the notice of public lodiea who let extensive contracts and other works. Sub-section I of clause 15 reads as follov s “ Both the principal and the contractor slull be deemed tr be employers of the worker, and shall he jointly and severally liable to the contractor if he were the sole employer vi ould be liable to pay under this Act.’ In view of their liability under thi section most of the public bodies deem it vrise to insure their contractors in Djeir own naui-;, but it is competent for a public body to make it a condit on of the contract that the contractor shall insure Hie workers. The Bluff Harbour Board has decided upon this course, and in accordance with its decision a policy which had been taken out to cover a contract was cancelled.

A Wellington telegram says No one has been able to explain why cargo for South Africa is not coming forward, but the fact remains that although every reasonable inducement has been offered exporters, the three companies which have dispatched vessels to the Cape—the New Zealand Shipping Company, Tyser Company, and Shaw, Sivil), and Albion Company —have had to send their boatr with cargoes too small to pay the expenses of collecting. It was expected in some quarters when the New South Wales market was closed to the colony’s produce by the Commonwealth tariff that the trade would lie diverted to South Africa, b it the expectation has not been borne out. The o‘arama, which is to sail for the Cape at the end of the week, may be taken as an illustration. For two months she has been in the colony, and the agents everywhere have done their best to secure a cargo, and the result is a paltry consignment of 3000 sacks of oats, 2000 caress'S of mutton, and 1000 boxes of butter. Unless larger larger shipments offer, it is not improbable that the service will be discontinued.

During the sale of work in St. Piter’s Sunday-school room last evening a pleasant break was made just before the first orchestral selection, when His Worship the Mayor (Mr Dyer), on behalf of the Hamilton Harmonic Society, presented the conductor, Mr Tadehope, with a very handsome silver-mounted baton. The Mayor, in making the presentation, referred 'o the loss Hamilton musicians would sustain in Mr Tudehope’s departure to Cambridge, but he had no doubt that their loss would be undoubtedly a gain for Cambridge. Mr Tudehope, who was taken completely by surprise, thanked the Harmonic Society in a very feeling manner for their appropriate present, and remarked that during the few months he had been conductor lie considered the Society harmonic in every sense of the word, for they had all worked harmoniously together. After playing a few selections at the sale, the members of the Society adjourned to ‘ A'madale ’ and spent a very enjoyable evening with Mr Tudehope as their guest. Songs were gp’en by Mrs Tibhutt, Miss Mabel Soppett, and Messrs Cornish and Davidson. Several orchestral selections were also rendered by.ft he Harmonic Society. Mr Tudehope’s health was drunk with musical honours. Several other toasts followed, and a hearty vote of thauks to the host and hostess (Mr and Mrs Quick) was carried by acclamation, thus ending one of the most enjoyable musical evenings ever held in Hamilton.