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Waikato Argus, Volume IX, Issue 692, 4 July 1900, Page 2

Miscellaneous items appear on Wk fourth page. A poll to borrow £65,000 fo" the extension of the water supply at Duuedin was lost by seven votes. The directors of the New Zealand Insurance Company have declared an interim dividend of two shillings per share. A cablegram received from Sydney last night states that it is believed the stoppage in the English cables occurred west of Madras The caps won by the Cambridge football team last year will be given out at a social to be held in the Oddfellows' Hall, Cambridge, this evening. The Colonial Bill, providing for the admission of colonial solicitors to practice in the Supreme Courts of Great Britain, passed its second reading in the House of Lords. The Chambers of Commerce Congress has resolved to represent to the Imperial and Colonial Governments the desirability of repealing/ the enactments which impose double income tax upon British subjects. * The contract for altering the Cambridge public school will shortly be proceeded with by Mr W. Hogan, who was the successful .tenderer. While_ the alterations are being made the committee have taken the Public Hall, and it will bo used as a schoolroom, We recommend all who are in terested in the future welfare of Cambridge, to attend the mesting to be held in the Public Hall, to-morrow evening, to discuss the water scheme. We understand the Mayor (Mr W. F. Buckland) has gone very thoroughly into the matt«r and will give a lucid explanation of it. " The Provident " Drapery and Clothing Company (Mr Wm. Steel, manager), has opened up business in Mr Bright's sample room, Hamilton, and is showing a full stock ot drapery and clothing, with a good range of samples in other departments. Prompt attention to orders and low prices are bound to lead to a speedy clearance of the various lines. The New Zealand Dairy Association have lost no time in the erection of their new creamery at Kirikiriroa. The site is close lo the Claudelands racecourse and should be a very central one for settlers in that portion of the district. The work is in the hands of Messrs Watt and Jack and should be completed in a few days. We understand the management will be in the capable hands of Mr Jones. The annual ball of the No. 1 Company, Waikato Mounted Rifles, to be held in the Volunteer Hall, Hamilton, on Friday evening, promises to be a great success. The invitations have been freely accepted, and as there is every appearance of tine weather, with a good moon, the attendance should be a record one. The members of the company arc requested to send in their bayonets to the Secretary (Mr J. W. H. Bright) for use in the decorations, which, we understand, will be of an elaborate character. Dancing will commence at 8.30 p.m. Another attempt is to be made to resuscitate the Cambr'dge Brass Band, and matters connected therewith look much more rosy than they have done for a considerable period. Several donations towards the purchase of instruments have been promised, and some of the performers intend buying their own, so with what are already in hand a band of from 18 to 20 should soon be got together. Now that there id a good volunteer corps in Cambridge it should not be a difficult matter to gep ft fev. players together ; the greatest, trouble is to get the performers to look after the instruments properly, but, if each one owned his instrument that would in a great measure remedy the defect. A correspondent, writing from Te Rore, says : A little before noon on Sunday, 31st inst., this district was visited by a shower of ice. We had several claps of thunder, some of them so strong that the iron rattled loudly on the hcuse-roofs. After the thunder a few ordinary hailstones fell followed by large lumps of ice such as J had never seen before, either in New Zealand or England. The ice lumps wtre not round like the ordinary hail, but irregular in shape and size, many being stir-shaped. I measured one. piece which was 2J inches in lengrh, and "2 inches wide. Twelve pieces picked up weighed a quarter of a pound. I urn under the impression that the visitation was local, and I am curious to know whether other districts in Waikato shared our experience. My memory will carry,me back nearly fifty years, but I remember nothing to compare with Jthisof which I write. Last session Mr Tanner was chairman of the Public accounts Committee, and in that position he displayed a certain amount of independence, and ruled agaiust the dictum of the Premier that the eomm.'Uee could iuitiate business for consideration apart from that referred to it by the House. Apparently this spirit of independence in a follower of the Government is to be crushed, for Mr Tanner's name has keen left off the committee altogether this session, uud in its stead appeat'3 the name of Mr Jackson Palmer. It is possible that there will be some little difference of opinion ovGr the chairmanship of the Railways Committee. When Mr Itußsell .(Riccarton) was in the. House before he was appointed chairman of this committee, but after a time he uepleased the powers that be, and he was disposed in favour of Mr Tanner. Both Mr G. W. Russell and Mr Tauner are now proposed on this committee, and as both are ex-chairmen of it there may be a contest for it. A full meeting of Anckland members of the House of Representatives convened by Mr W. J. Napier, in i accordance with the resolution adopted . at the Auckland meeting, was held on Monday afternoou. Sir G. M. O'Roike wa3 elected chairman of the meeting. ' The utmost unanimity and cordiality i prevailed, a spirit of give-and-take being . manifest throughout the whole, proceedings. After a lengthy discussion, I a resolution was passed urging the early compeletion of the North Island Main I'runk line. This resolution will be submitted to the Premier to morrow (if convenient) by a deputation of members of the Auckland province, headed by Sir G. M. O'Borke. There was an unanimous expression of friendliness to s tlie other provincial districts of the colony, and it was pointed out ny the various speakers that the union of Aucklauct%£inbers did not imply any antagoniDtf^::',,atever to other parts of the colony. 1 meeting decided that-the represent -of the press should not be present, i at the secretary should supply a re) ' 'be resolutions arrived at, * F- ■ 3a,.