The Waikato Argus [PUBLISHED DAILY.] A Guaranteed Circulation of over 8000 Weckly. THURSDAY. APRIL 9. 1908. Local and General.

Waikato Argus, Volume XXIV, Issue 3753, 9 April 1908, Page 2

The Waikato Argus [PUBLISHED DAILY.] A Guaranteed Circulation of over 8000 Weckly. THURSDAY. APRIL 9. 1908. Local and General.

Captain Edwin telegraphs: Southerly moderate to strong winds; glass rise; weather probably colder.

Members of the Hamilton Municipal Band are notified that the practice tonight will be held in the Town Hall instead ot the Volunteer Hall, owing to the latter place being engaged by Messrs Smith and Caughey. "The civilisation of school children of artisans abroad is higher than that in England," said Lord Stanley of Alderley at Beckenham. "I have never seen on the Continent the dirt, rags, and worn-out boots that may be seen in London." The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., hold their Cambridge stock sale tomorrow, and will offer GOO head of cattle, including 300 strong calves, as per advertisement in this issue. tale will tsartat 12.30 p.m. It is notified in this issue that the annual general meeting of the members of the Waikato Hunt Club will be held at the Central Hotel, Cambridge, on Wednesday, the 15th inst., at 8 p.m., when the balance-sheet for the past year will be submitted, and arrangemnts be made for the coming season. Albert Jackson, the lad charged at the Auckland Police Court with assaulting May Tyndal, and with threatening to shoot her, was brought up on remand. His Worship said, "The probation officer's report is favourable to you, and your action, though rough and rude, was probably dcne°on the spur of the moment." Accused was convicted and admitted to probation for three months, on riving his assurance that he would not further molest the Tyndal family, and that he would pay the costs of the case. _-;

Recently a Masterton business firm received from a Sydney commercial house a receipt for money paid to the latter. The receipt being unstamped was returned for duty stamp to be ailixed thereto. The Sydney firm has replied as follows: "Permit us to point out that the document was in order owing to the New South Wales Government having abolished duty stamps for rc--1 olpts. Our Government are making so much money that they do not know what to do with it, and are allowing the unfortunate merchants to participate in the prosperity by permitting them to issue unstamped receipts."

Two rinks from the Hamilton Bowling Club journeyed to Cambridge yesterday to have a friendly game with the Cambridge Club. The result proved that the Cambridge teams were the beet at the game, the result being a defeat of the Hamilton trundlers by a margin of nine points. The ground wna in splendid condition, and a most enjoyable time was spent. "One of Auckland's besetting sins," said the Rev. J. A. Luxford at a meeting of the Auckland Ministers' Association yesterday, "is Sunday pleasure seeking, and if not resisted it will have a far-reaching and disastrous effect." The rev. gentleman said that while no one would object to recreation or pleasure in moderation, lie thought it was time for he churches to sound a note of alarm. It had been said a few years ago that a statutory half-holiday would be the means of filling the churches on Sunday. The people now had their halfholiday, but were not satisfied, and continued to invade the sanctity of the Sunday. Pleasure-seeking on Sunday, he said, was doing moral harm to the recipients of pleasure, and both physical and moral harm to the hundreds who were called upon to cater for the Sabbath-breakers.

A peculiar position appears to have arisen in Invercargill Borough on the factory half-holiday question. The electors decided in favour of Wednesday, the same day as the shops close, and the question to be considered is whether those trades which are governed by an award of the Arbitration Court, which provides that the half-holiday shall be observed on Saturday, can change the day. It has been learned that the tailors' award specifies Saturday, and whether a vote taken in accordance with the requirements of the law overrides such an award is a question that has yet to be settled by reference to the Department's officers in Wellington. Mr Browett, Inspector cf Factories for Southland, questioned by a representative of the News, staled that it was his intention to communicate with Wellington on the subject immediately. In order to find out the amount of money lost through the abuse of the credit system, the Southland Daily News went to some trouble and obtained some striking information. Taking Invercargill as an example, it found that one collector alone, acting for some 160 clients, has no less than £33,000 on his books, and of this sure he states that at least £20,000 is absolutely irrecoverable. This is startling enough in itself, but it represents only a section- of the business community, and the News says that it is in a position to state that no less than £IOO,OOO has been lost to retailers at Invercargill during the last ten years. With such evidence, is it surprising, asks the News, that business men are bestirring themselves in the matter? On a basis of papulation, at the rate of £IOO,OOO for every 10,000 of population, there is the seemingly preposterous fact that no less than £0,000,000 has been lost to the retailers of the Dominion by bad debts incurred during the past decade.

It is a serious offence for railway servants to give departmental information to. strangers. The other day a train was "held up" at a country .station not far from Wanganui, awaiting the passing of the mail train. For some reason or another the mail did not turn up to time, and a passenger on the waitingtrain, wearying of the delay, alighted a:d accosted the porter. "What is keeping the mail train?" he asked. "That's my business," said the porter, in a voice which indicated that he wasn't going to vie late the regulations. The passenger thereupon took frem his pocket a card, which card s ived to reveal to the porter the

fact that the inquisitive passenger was none other than the" General Manager of the New Zealand railways. The porter promptly "noted the contents," and then in reply to the fur.her question, "Now, will you tell me what is keeping the mail?" po itely pointed to the station telephone, and informed Mr Ronaync that he could doubtless get the information he required by communicating with the officer in charge of the next station up the line.

Synopsis of Advertisements Wanted—Boy for farm work. Coscy Corner, Hamilton—Shirts for men. Ruberoid Red Roofing—Parr Bros., Hamilton. Tenders—Erection of a residence at Kirikiriroa. City Football Club, HamiltonAnnual meeting on Friday. Waikato Hunt Club—Annual meeting, Central Hotel, Cambridge, Wednesday next.