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Waikato Argus, Volume XI, Issue 1135, 30 December 1901, Page 2

Tilfr Annus will not he published on New Year’s Day. A new police regulation, as from January Ist, has been gazetted, stating that every member of the force shall retire from rervicp-wi reaching the full age of G5. ” At the Periling Athletic Sports L. McLachlan, who recently returned from Australia, won the Sheffield Handicap* 120. yards, in LPec., and . thu.lralfirile ;p 2min 2 ee., both from scratch, C Hutton (90yds) won the mile in 4min 27 l-sth see. Writes an Past Coast correspondent of the VVairarapa Times : Honey will be very scarce here and in the surrounding districts this season, the humble bees having becomes numerous as to be a new pest. They not only take the honey from the flowers, but cob hives and starve out the occupants. The Government of India has ordered that soldiers are not to use a smallbore rifle of long range for sporting pur poses. It seems incredible (says a Calcutta paper) that a sportsman, in order to hit or miss a tiger or an antelope 100 yards off, should be allowed to send a bullet flying a mile or more across the country. The Past Coast Guardian, published at Opotilu, says:—Mr Ogle, late of Kihikihi, has leased Mr VV. Oakes’ property adjoining the Guardian Oliice, where he intends fonjoen a chemist’s shop at an early date, tVvus supplying a longfelt want in the district. Mr Ogle, who will also keep a supply of up-to-date stationery, hopes to have both departments in full running order by the second wick in Janotify. Some decent men in this neighborhood (says .he Mastertou Times) took a Government contract to make a half mile of road, and spent about ton pounds on the job. VV hen a (jnarter way through the. work the Government knocked them off, aud the men find that they have no': now a penny piece to pay for -the loo)a which they purchased. They lose of the job, and the store keeper's who-supplied them make a had debt, and this is the way things are done uow, I

Additional entries for Mr W J Hun cr’s Ohaupos/iU- oh Tuesday. Jam;

ary 7th, will he found on our tin d page,

An objector to the tipping system in hotels states that there is a certain hotel in Munohrstor where the head bn its pays tiie manager £2OO per annum for his job, and that lie is uhle to clear between £7OO and £I,OOO a year.

The discovery in n Chilian copper mine of the body of an Indian workman who had, died > hero many years ago, and who had been perserved from decay by the antiseptic action of conp-r. is reported in an Americin mining journal. The mine in question is situated in the district of Chc.cjuieani >ta, in lire desert of Atacama.

1 ocal members of Parliament, interviewed by the Dune tin Star, are inclined to favour the importation of Boers as prisoners of war, to lie maintained and guarded by the Imperial authorities. They are unanimous in opposing a proposal to settle them on the soil, or their reception as ordinary immigrants.

A rifle match will-take'{Since ;tfc Hamilton to-day between teams reprC' seating the No. I Company Waikato MnLted Rifles, and the Huuraki Rifhs. will be entertained at a in the Hamilton Hotel this evening. - The local members of the Eighth CoiWingeni will also be prtse t. The fo Rowing address, which was on a newspaper from England reaching the city Council office a few days ago, is somewhat unique. It was to'the following effect ‘To his JAorshipful the Lord Mayor of Cnristchurch, the Municipal Council Chambers, Duriiarn Direct, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand, oaro of the Lord Mayor’s clerk.”— Christchurch Press.

A* cable received on Saturday ,Bays :—A mysterious, drowning case is, reported from Port Melbourne. Bodua of a woman named CharritHsrlain and li r three children have been found floating in the Bay. The woman recently aimed from the country, and was depressed. The whireaboiits of the eld, st daughter, aged thirteen, are unknown, and it is believed that she also was drowned.

The Wangnnua Education Board is determined to put down the bad practice of teachers canvassing members of .School Committees for support. At the lust meeting (reports the Palmerston Standard) a complaint was read about a certain applicant following this practice, and although* that applioUi t was recommended for the position, it was decided to deter the appointment for the purpose of inquiring into the truth of the allegations. If they are borne out by investigation there will be little chance of that, teacher getting promotion.

A week or tp'o ago we published a short article dealing with the future of Raglan, in which we stated that with the establishment of the milk industry, theie was. likely to be considerable improvement in the town and its surroundings, where things have been stationary fornnny yeats. There is yet another improvement to record, It is rumour* d that a paper will started there at mi early date under the editorship and managership of a well-known Waikato journalist, who at all events is Sanguine as to the capabilifes of that district, Drunkenness, once common in ail ranks of society, is ’ no longer good manners. If Mr Pickwick in oiir day were to lunch so copiously upon milkpunch as to become somnolent and incoherant, he would ho regarded as a somewhat disreputab’e old gentleman. In his own day such conduct carried with it no reproach. It is in the fact that die moral sense of the community has advanced so far thaUthc biighte-t hope for the future healf: The : advances has been gradual, so that no relap?/is to lie feared. —Mail,

The Wellington correspondent of the Mastert’on Times*' sparking of the Eighth Contingent, fays,;—lf OAlonel Davies could only he got to ta.ko the 0 in-.mand, and the two / New Zealand contingents now fuHtiug in South Africa were joined to this one. we should probably hear of some brilliant work. Col. Davies was tq the most successful of all the JSew Zealand who went to the front, and persons./jo high authority statg they have ,-ift tlu doubt that had he r m lined 'at Ll(g war he would, by this time, have _b>'dy given command of a Brigade. On Tuesday wm, December dlst, Cambridge will bu visited by the members of the Auckland BaejGutar, and Mandolin Ciuh; who will ;;ive a concert. They will be assisted by a strong concert company of Auckland’s most pope a artists, including Mr Hamilton Hodg-'p, who possesses a magnificent' In doe voice. This singer is not unknown in this district, and we feel sure that apart from the other attractions, his name alone will ensure bumper houses in Waikato The company will appear in Hamilton on Wednesday, January Ist (New Year’s Day.) With reference to complaints about the non-payment of rpm«ys due to volunteers for attending Bie Koyal receptions. the ITcmiep stales that die only sums outstaudip* dre those that are subjects of djsp'ules, and £SO would cover 8 me of the claims, he adds, -&fe exorbitant; men are asking for 7* per day, including time spent on shiploaid, whereas, under the terms stipulated, the rate was to he 4s per day, each man to find his own food, and in these cases steamboat passengers provided for their food. H is only these questions of adjustment tliar, are causing delay, and the whole trouble, Mr Section declares, is due to electioneering tactics of politicians who, in view of the coming general election, are using this question and that i f the Tmnk railway works as a basis of their enterprise.