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Waikato Argus, Volume IV, Issue 247, 15 February 1898, Page 2

Messrs Kempthorne, Prosser unci Co have a replace advertisement in this isbiie drawing speehl attention to their grass manure and boncdust, raw and steamed. Judging by the many substantial testimonials in the hands of this firm from numerous well-known practical agriculturists, which from time to time are publi-hed, the manures manufactued at the Weslrield Works rightly liohl the foremost place in the estimation of the public. Mr Ivobt. Morse has been entrusted with the wotk of removing the Presbyterian Church at Cambridge, to its new site. The next English mail, via San Francisco, per R.M.S. Moana, will be despatched from Waikato on Friday next, at the usual hour. At a recent meeting of Irishmen in Uuncdin, it was resolved to celebrate the Centenary of 1708, but the form of the celebration was not decided on. The ordinary meeting of the Piako County Council will be held at the County Office, Morri-sville, on Thursday, 17th inst., at 11 o'clock. Nine members cf the Huntly Bicycle Club had a spin as far as Cambridge on Sunday. They bad lunch at the National Hotel and retimed home in the evening. We understand that Mr Win. Rout, of Cambridge, is getting a petition signed, urging the Borough Council to furnish a water supply. It is certainly needed. But for there being a plentiful supply at Mrs Carnachan's fire on Friday last the adjoining house would have been consumed-

The quarterly meeting *of the I Waikato Fruit-growers' Association is convened for 10.30 a.m on Tuesday next, at the Ohaupo Hotel. The annual meeting of the Waipa Amateur Athletic Club will bo held on Saturday next, 19th iust., at S p.m., at Mrs Finch's Hotel, Pirongia. The llev. Walter Smith, the minister-elect of the Huntly-Ngarna-wahia charge, conducted the services in the Hamilton Presbyterian Church on Sunday last. Mr Smith is an eloquent and impressive speaker, and created a most favourable impression. Yesterday tbe Mayor of Cambridge presented Mr R. C. Dyer, schoolmaster, with an address and pa'r of whist markers on behalf of the school children on the occasion of his birthday. The address, which was read by Miss Stella Empson, indicates the good feeling that exists between the master and scholars. On enquiring yesterday from Dr. E. Brcwis, who on Sunday last visited Mr J. Kay at Paterangi, we learnt that the young man was doing as well as could be expected, although at present he is suffering from partial paralysis of the right side. The doctor says the symptoms are most favourable, but nothing can be said definitely for a few days yet. A benefit concert in aid of Mrs McKnight and family, who lost all their belongings by the recent fire, will be given by the good people of Whatawhataa, on Friday evening next, Feb ruary 18th. The object is a worthy ene, and in view of the cheerful assistance, in social gatherings, always rendered by Mrs McKnight, we have no doubt the appeal will be liberal'y responded to. A settler from Tuhikaramea called on us on Saturday, and asked us to impress on the local road board the necessity of doing something to stop the encroachments of the fire on to the road at the first swamp from the Hamilton end. He informs us that a few pom.ds spent aUpnce would save a considerable sum in the future, and unless something is done, the road will in all probabity be closed for traffic. The Maoris around Tamahere held v race meeting in Mr Trubshaw's paddock on Saturday afternoon last, and we understand a splendid day's sport was provided. Prizes amounting to £8 were distributed, every horse ran on his merits, and some splendid finishes resulted. A dance was held in the evening in the barn. The music was good, and an excellent supper wa3 provided, and visitors had a really jolly time. While in Canterbury the Minister for Public Works received a deputation of traction engine owners, who objected to the tax of £2O for each engine, as it pressed hardly on those who kept engines as part of their threshing plant, and occasi nally made use of them for hauling out of the threshing tcason. They did not object to the tax falling upon engines used solely for haulage purposes. Mr Hall-Jones promised to lay the matter before the Cabinet. Our Taupiri correspondent writes : Messrs Davys Bros., who are at present at Rukuhia, have taken up between 400 and 500 acres of bush at Taupiri, and will shortly shift their plant down to the old flaxmill at Taupiri, formerly owned by Mr T. H. White The bush contains a large lot of splendid kabikatea, rimu and totara trees, and at Messrs Davys Bros.' hands some fine timber should be sent out. The logs will be floated down from the bush in the Mangawhara stream. We learn that Mr George McCann, senior, who some twenty years ago was a resident of Cambridge, and turnel up there again about a year ago, when everyone thought he had been dead many years, has now really departed this life. The old gentleman caught a severe cold when he was journeying to Cambridge on the visit above referred to and has never been well since, and we are told he expired at Napier on Friday last. Several of his relatives live in the neighbourhood of Cambridge. At the Royal Hotel, Hamilton, last evening, a number of Mr Arthur Coates' friends assembled to say good-bye on the eve of his departure for the Thames. Numerous songs were given, and during the cvsning he was presented with a gold ring and scarf-pin as a small token of the esteem in which he is held among his acqnintancesand friends. Mr Coates has for some years taken a leading part in amateur sports, and he is without doubt one of the fastest 'eyclists wc possess in the Waikato, and we expect to hear great things of him in the near future. We feel sure all our readers ■vill join in wishing him prosperity in his new sphere of labour. Mr Coates leaves Hamilton ky this morning's train, en route for the Thames. Mr John Selby, the well known bicycle record breaker, has again been indulging in his favourite amusement. He left Cambridge on Saturday morning for Taupiri, with the determination of breaking the five hours' record of 60 miles. He was successful beyond his most sanguine anticipation, for he accomplished the journey ia 4h. 24m. 20j. He was started at the Cambridge Postoffice at 7 a.m. to the second, and arrived back there again at 20 src. after 11.24 a.m. He did not get off tho machine at all en the journey, and he finished up quite cool and did not appear at all fatigued or blown. He rode a Humber road-racer weighing 29ih, geared up to 76, and to this he, in a great measure, attrihu!c3 his success, for he says he did not think ho was travelling so fast and if he had not had his watcli with him he would have clone it quicker. The machine Mr Selby rode last year was geaicd to 66.