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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3106, 11 June 1892, Page 2

Our supplement this morning contains :—" A Military Execution " (complete story), " Rural Notes," " A West Indian Picture," "Sporting Notes" (by Le Nord), "The First Tucker Settlement" (l>eii)3 the outcome of a scheme conceived by the Rev. Hnrace Tucker to cope with the "unemployed " difficulty in Melbourno), and a nuirber of general articles. The hounds will meet at the National Hotel, Cambridge at noon to-day. It is understood that the Victorian Government intend to seek power to amend the Railway Act, so as to provide for only one Commissioner. Macdonald's Scottish Minstrels are now making a tour through tho Waikato, and will perform in the several townships on dates notified elsewhere in this iasiiß. Yesterday Mr S. Moses, Messrs L. D. Nathan and Co.'s representative, was in Hamilton, and cashed the £1 coupon found under the capsule of a bottle of Gaelic whiskey a short time ago by Mrs Gwynne. A gentleman who came up from Auckland yesterday, informed us that there was at the present time more sickness in the city than at any one timo for many years. Tho medical men, he says, are run off their legs.

Full particulars of the household furniture and effects, in the estate of the late Dr. Murch, to be submitted to public auction, by Mr John Knox, on Saturday next, 18th inst, will be found advertised elsewhere. We understand the Salvation Army authorities have made an offer of £175 for the Cambridge Oddfellows' Hall, for which they have been paying rent for the past year or two ; and that the offer will probably be accepted. The climate interferes with the training of the New Zealand Athletic team, at present in England, and it is expected they will be thrown out of the meeting at Stamford While undergoing training, Cnff, the manager of the team, sustained a slight sprain of the leg. A dispute has arisen between the master printers and men in Melbourne over the proposed reduction in wages. The latter have informed the masters that they are prepared to work at a minimum rate of £2 lGs per week, and failing the acceptance of these terms, the matter will be placed in the hands of the Australasian Typographical Association. A little six-year-old daughter of Mr J. R. Stone, of Avon Farm, near Ngaruawabia, met with a serious accident late yesterday afternoon. Sho was thrown from a horse, and in addition to serious abrasions about the face and head, it is feared one of her legs is broken. Mr Stone came into Hamilton for medical assistance late in the evening, and took Dr Kerr back with him to attend the sufferer.

The second of the series of socials in connection with S. Andrew's, Cambridge, was held on Wednesday evening, and was well attended. Musical selections were contributed by Mesdames Watts, Cliitty, and Pilcher, Misses Chambers, A. Williams, and M. Selby, and Mr R. C. Dyer gave a reading. Refreshments were served about 9.15 p.m., and the meeting closed about 10 p.m.

r Xh.e natives who are very dissatisfied with Tawhiaw's action in accepting a pension from the Government, are about holding another meeting at Manngakiiwa to discuss the position. It will be remembered that at a meeting a short time igo, Tawhiao denied having received any pension from the Government, but his followers are not satisfied with the answers he gave them, and in all probability Tawhiao, who is now a King only in name, will shortly find himself without any followers.

At the present time there is being a fierce warwnged Cambridge against pinus insipnis trees. Everyone appears to have suddenly arrived at the conclusion that their room is better than their company, hence the great slaughter. The Presbyterian and Wesleyan manses, which were a short time since almost smothered up in trees, now look particularly bare. The Presbyterians hit upon a novel method: they employed a couple of experts to fell the trees, and then held "iv bee " to clear up the rubbish and put things straight.

By an obituary notice it will be seen that Mr William Keleher, an old Kihikihi identity, and a resident of 28 years' standing, has passed away. The deceased was one of the survivors of the 2nd Waikato Regiment, who stuck well to his post from the first and bore the heat and brunt of the early days of privation and panics. Mr Keleher also served in the 58th Regiment for over 14 years, and took part with that regiment in the war at the Bay of Islands in 18-45 and the capture of Rua•pekapeka. He was in receipt of a small pension from the Imperial Government.

The following may be a hint to those officers who are occasionally troubled with absconding prisoners. It is mentioned in an American exchange as a new resource of civilisation which has just been adopted by Western authorities to preyent the rescue or escape of capital criminal*. A train robber who was recently brought to St. Lonis had one of his feet enclosed in the

" Oregon boot." This improved species of fetter, it appears, weighed ISilb, :ind a detective f-pont u quarter of an hour in opening the " combination " by which it was secured. Practically, an American chronicle says, the prisoner might as well bo anchored to a tire-proof safe. The following circular has been issued by the secretary of thu Waikiito Agricultural and Pastoral Association in connection with holding the proproposed show in October next:—At the meeting of the General Committee of the Waikato Agricultural and Pastoral Association, held at Ohaupo on the 31st ult., the attendance was small, and many members of the Committee reported that they had done nothing in the way of securing monetary Bupport. The meeting Win adjourned until TuesJay the 14th inst., and I have been instructed to urge every member of the Committee to use his utmost endeavours to secure members' names, —and either by personal attendance or letter to report the result at the meeting of the Committee, to be held on the 14th instant, at Ohaupo. It will depend on the result of this canvass whether the proposed show will shall be carried out or not. —I remain, yours truly, Martin Butler, Sec. W. A. & P. Association. We are glad to hear that the Maoris near Rnngiriri are about to do their best to have Maori art ard handicraft represented at the Chicago Exposition, to be opened May l«t, 1893. Major Tβ Wheoro, who was interviewed lately by Mr John Marie Grace, has promised to see that specimens of Maori carvings and Maori art generally will be exhibited there, and also that articles of old-time native clothing and warlike implements will be sent. The things exhibited will embrace every description of Maori manufacture, both ancient and modern. Major Te Wheoro ha 3 promised to use his influence with Tawhiao and the tribes in Waikn.to to have the skill of the Maori people fully displayed at the Great World's Fair. After the Exposition is over the goods will be sold. Major Te SVheoro, who is an intelligent and energetic man, is very anxious that the Maori people should take a prominent part in exhibiting at the World's Fair, and he will leave nothing undone to secure that end. The minds of the Maoris are greatly perturbed as to the pension of £225 P'T annum, eaid to have been accepted by Tawhiao from the Government. Many will not believe their King can have stooped so low, while others distrust the old man and are prepared to throw off his yoke as soon as they can ascertain if he has really made arrangements such as have been reported in the papers. One result of Tawhiao'a pension will be that numerous Raneitiras will bo " on the same lay "and tho Government will be deluged with applications for pensions. A Maori that was in Cambridge the other day evidently means to take time by the forelock for he had a petition prepared, which he was soliciting all and sundry to sign. It was quite a formidable looking document, but it had evidently been prepared by a wag, tor it ran as follows —To Her Most Goodness Gracious " Victoria ;" by the Grace of God, Queen and Knipress. May it please Your Majesty. Theso presents slieweth :—That Porena te Oriori is a son of Tuerie ta Oriori

and is conspqueully entitled to a pension of at least KBu per year. We therefore humbly request your Goodness Gracious to ordor the New Zealand Government to zrant tho said Porena the pension above reforred to. Then follow a host if signatures, such as Phil Garlic, Sam \Vnllnr, Martin Mwcklepen, Baron Swanscin (Deem-

ing), General Gordon and others of a liko nature. Such a petition will doubtle.-s create a sensation should it ever reach Windsor, hut we venture to say many equally as ridiculous have gone before it, and with signatures about as authentic as the above.

The installation of tho W.M. of Lodge Betu, Wiiikat.., Na 12, N.Z.C. will take place on Thursday evening, 23rd inst. The officers elect are :-W.M.. 8r... G. W. Sare; S.W., Bro. R. J. Gwynne ; J.W.. Bro. T. J. Prinoe ; Sec. and Treas., Bro. G. Kdgecumbe, P.M. ; S. D.. Bro. W. F. Bull; J.D., Bro, R, B. Peat; 1.G., Bro. l< , . LittlewooJ ; Organist, Bro. A. T. Hookey; Tyler, Bro. L. Newton. Tho M.W.G.M., Bro. M. Niccol nnd a number of Grnnd Lodge officers and brethren will attend from Auckland, as well as visitors from other Waikato Lodges, and the ceremony will be one of tha most interesting held in Waikato for many years.

The first of a series of socials in connection with S. Peter's Church, Hamilton, which it is proposed to hold monthly during the winter season, took place in the Volunteer Hall last night. A very excellent programme of vocal and instrumental music had bien prepared by Messrs Manning and J. S. Edgecumhe, to whom great credit isdue for the evening's entertainment. Duringthe evening a presentation was made to Miss Newell by the Incumbent, the Rev. R. O'O. Biggs, on behalf of the parishioners of S. Peter's, in recognition of the great service Miss Newell has rendered the church in officiating as organist for so many years past. The letter accompanying the presentation was very neatly written in Mr Manning's best stylo, the floral border—a chaste design of rosebuds and leaves— being beautifully painted by Miss Edith Mannine, a pupil at St. Mary's Convent School. The following is the text of the address :— " To Mi"' Newell, —The parishioners of St. Peters, Hamilton, desiring to express their sense of your highly valued services as organist so freely and gratuitously rendered have subscribed a sum of money for the purpose of making yru a presentation. They fully realise that it very inadequately represents their obligation to you yet tho fact that there have been over one hundred subscribers may in some degree enhance its value. They were desirous tj present it in the form most acceptable to you, but as they cannot discover what that form mient be they ask you to kindlv accept it in gold, and to lay it out in whatever manner you please." As will be seen from a notice in another column. Dr. Kerr, an M.B. and CM. of Glasgow University, has decided to commence practice in Hamilton and the neighbourhood. Owing to the death of Dr. Murch, and ths fact that Dr. Kenny will shortly retire from private piactice, there is a vacancy for an additional medical practitioner in the district, and we congratulate the people of Waikato on securing the services of a, gentleman so well qualified for the position. Dr. Kerr was the most distinguished scholar of his year at Glasgow —one of the great seats of medical learning. He gained the medal in Chemistry, in Clinical Surgery, in Clinical Medicine, in Practice of Medicine, nnd in Midwifery, respectively, at the above university. He was also medalist in Clinical Medicine at the Western Infirmary, and first prize-man at the Hospital for Diseases of the Skin, and at the Opthalmic Institution. Professors Fergussnn, Buchanan, Cleland, and Leishman all speak of Dr. Korr as the moat brilliant scholar of his year. Professor Gairdner, the Quaen's physician extraordinary for Scotland, and late President of tho British Medical As-w----ciatinii, selected him as his house physician at the Western Infirmary, Ho was afterwords chosen by Professor Buchanan as his house surgeon. Dr. Kerr was for three years resident medicil superintendent of tho Urge hospital at. Nowc.istle(New South Wales), and has had nine years' active practice since he graduated. From _the nb.ivoonr readers will see that Dr. Kenhas received the highest university honours, and being a married man of considerable practical experience, is in nverv way qualified for the position of a family physician and surgeon. *,^