The Waikato Argus GEORGE EDGECUMBE, Proprietor. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28,1900.

Waikato Argus, Volume IX, Issue 766, 28 September 1900, Page 2

The Waikato Argus GEORGE EDGECUMBE, Proprietor. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28,1900.

Huntly and Whatawhata'news on our fourth page. Mr W. J. Hunter has received instructions from Mr F. Scherff to sell in the Huntly Hall, Huntly, on Wednesday, October 10th, a lot of building ites on behalf of the Taupiri Coalmining Company. Particulars will appear in a future issue. Stratford has been in a state of darkness for a week past owing to the bursting of the dam which supplies the motive to generate the electiic light. At latest reports the light had been restored temporarily, and by energetic work the dam will quickly be repaired.

Mr J. H. Edwards, Cambridge, has just received a large consignment of school books and requisites at his Cambridge shop. All the authorised books are stocked, and exercise books, notebooks, set squares and rulers, drawingbooks, etc., are marned at Aucklaud prices. The Hon. J. Q. Ward informed Mr Lang on Wednesday that he thought it would be a proper thing to have a monument erected in Pokeno Cemetery, hearing the names of the soldiers buried there, who were killed during the Maori war. The matter, he said, would be placed before the Cabinet.

Mr Samuel Tanfield (of tbe firm of Tanfield, Potter, and Co.) died at Devonport on Tuesday. He was a wellknown citizen, and has been ailing for some time past. Mr Tanfield was wellknown in Hamilton in the early seventies, bavins been postmaster in this town. He left the service to go iuto partnership with Mr Boylan, who founded the business now carried on under the above title.

It is now some time since it was reported that the authorities contemploted considerably strengthening the Hamiltou railway bridge. This was considered necessary to ensure the safety of the structure when engines of extra weight would have, to be brought into general use consequent on the rapidlyincreasing traffic due to the expansion of settlement. We have heard it state'l that considerable oscillation has been noticed recently when heavy stock trains have beeu pasßing over the bridge. The town of Giver, in the Ardennes', is taking steps to put an end to the depopulation of France Hereafter in all town offices, first fathers of more than three children and next married men will be preferred to bachelors. Prizes of 5 dols will be awarded yearly to those parents who have sent the largest number of children to school regularly, and scholarships in the uational sjhools will be reserved for families only of more than three children. Fathers of families shall also have the preference of admission to almshouses and old peoples' homes. Mr E. F. Johns, a schoolmaster at Winchester, and well-known locally as a naturalist, was summoned recently (says the Daily Mail) tor riding his bicycle without a light. When accosted by the constable he had produced a glass jar, containing three glow worms, which, he said, constituted his light. He added that lie was testing them as illuminants, aud had gone out on purpose to meet a policeman. Mr John 3 explained to the Bench that three glow worms gave light equal to that of one candle. The Magistrate considered that the insects were not a light within the meaning of the Act, and ordered Mr Johns to pay the costs of his prosecution.

An interesting ceremony took place at the Devonport; Borough Chambers on Wednesday afternoon, when the Mayor (Mr J. C. Maoky) preseutod Mr J. R. I). Baker, late traffic manager of the Devonport Steam Ferry Compiny, with a purse of sovereigns which had been subscribed hy the reeideuts of Devonport. In doint; so Mr Macky referred to the great .services Mr Baker had rendered, not only to the Ferry Compauy, but also to the Devonport public. Mr Baker briefly replied, aud assured those present that what he had done was always a pleasure, and tha>. he was sorry that owing to his health he had had to suver his connection with the Ferry Company. He thanked the people of Devouport for their kindness in making the presentation. Mr Baker ia now proprietor of the Alpha Hotel, Kihikihi.

Messrs MoNicol and Co. will hold their annual horse sale in the Hamilton Borough Yards on Thursday, 22ucl November. Entiies are solicited.

A meeting of the committee of the Hamilton Horticultural Society was held in the Volunteer Hall yesterday afternoon. The schedule for the forthcoming show was revised and several adtion were made in the amateur classes. The Secretary was instructed to write and ask Mr John Sharp, of Cambridge, to act as judge in Section A and B and Mrs Templcr for Section C. Adjudicating on a divorce case in Melbourne the other day, Chief Justice Madden hid it down as a principle of law that " any woman who married a rake or rascal or good-for-nothing fellow, if he turned out to be not what she painted bin), could not expect to get a dissolution of the marriage." Acting on this view, he refused an application for divorce from a woman who asked for it ou the grounds of her husband's dissolute habits, his failure to maintain her, and his physical cruelty, all of which allegations were substantiated by the evidence before the Court. He had beaten her because she had refused to go with him, which, His Honour said, " showed that he was not of the mind to desert- her," and that "he was auxious, in his own miserable fashion, to be a husband to her." While he had been absent he had sent her money in what the Judge called " a wretched way, no doubt," That is, in a way which was utterly insufficient for her support, and these occasional doles showed that " his mind waß not made up to desert her," aud thus, although practically deserted, she was entitled to uo relief.

The following paragraph appeared under the heading of "New Zealand Miuiug" in the Herald of Wednesday last:—The management, or secretaryship, of the New Zealand Mines Trust, iu Auckland, has been conferred upon Mr Charles Rhodes, the secretary of the Kauri Freehold Gold Estates. Upon the death of the late Mr Rose, a cable message was sent to Mr Rhodes asking him to come to London to interview the Board, and he arrived here a fortnight since. H e s P e "t fully a month in the United States in investigating the various and newest processes in use there for the extraction and saving of gold, and for separating it from silver bv the refining process. After arrival in London Mr Rhodes made full reports upon the matter to Mr Thomas Russell, the chairman of the company, with whom he had several interviews prior to his appointment. He is to start, I believe, in about a month's time on his return journey to New Zealand. As many of our readers are aware Mr C. Rhodes is a son of Mr Ed. Rhodes, of Tamahere. Mr C. Rhodes was for mauy years au officer on the staff of the Bank of New Zealand, and before taking the management of the New Zealand Mines Trust was manager of the Paeroa Branch. We are pleased to hear that the above appointment will cairy with it the substantial salary of over £2,000 a year.