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Waikato Argus, Volume IX, Issue 772, 5 October 1900, Page 2

Parliamentary news will be found on our fourth page.

The Borough of Devonporfc has adopted "The Rating on Unimproved Values Act, 1896," and "The Government Reform Act, 1899." The polling was: For 356, against 109. Private information has been received from Awakino to the effect that prospecting for gold lias been carried out vigorously for some time, but so far the results cannot be called satisfactory.

TheEev. H. G.Blackburn will take the morning service at Ohaupo Church on Sunday morning next, There • will be no early celebration of the Holy Communion at St. Andrew's Church, Cambridge,

Meetings of settlers for the purpose of forming branches of the Waikato Farmers' Club will ,be held at Whatawhata on Wednesday and at Tuhikaramea on Thursday, It is hoped there will be large attendances.

A Palmerstou hotellceeper, .vho was brought up ou a charge of having supplied a prohibited person with liquor, gave as an excuse that there were so many prohibited persons iu Palmerston North that it was difficult to know them all. He got the benefit of the doubt.

A largely-signed petition from the residents of Claudelands and neighbourhood will be presented at the meeting of the Kirikiriroa Road Board this afternoon, requesting that body to move in the matter of getting the Hamilton Railway Bridge opened for pedestrian traffic. The Waikato County Council are also to be asked to take the matter up.

There seems to bo a general desire amongfit the settlers in the Kirikiriroa district that a goodß shed should bo erected at the railway station. It can only be a matter of a very short; time before the Department will have to consider the matter of raising Kirikiriroa to the status of a station, with its attributes of a post-office, etc.—a boon which settlers earnestly hope for.

At a meeting of the Clinetchurch Women's Political Associatiou reference was made to the receut trouble between the Premier and Mr Collins, and a motion was passed to the effect that the Association desires to place on record its disapproval of the Premier's treatment of those members of his party who ventured to differ from him in matters before the House. It was also decided that the secretary be instructed to convey to Mr Collins the sympathy of the Association upon the treatment recently received by him from the Premier.

Gore has a Girls' Literary Club At last meeting the girls discussed the question, " Are platonio friendships possible ?" and decided the question in the affirmative by 15 votes to 7. Hellings, tho New South Wales Bwimmer, won the 100yds championship of the southern counties of England in 65 l-ssecs., beating Rubell, the Austrian champion, by a yard Hellings aud Linburg are returning by the Ormuz. Mr Edward Whitehead, the wellknown hotel broker, passed through Hamilton on Thursday, and informed us that he had just concluded the transfer of the Waiorongomai Hotel from Mrs Hall to Mr Walter Dyer. The latter, from the good report we hear of him, will prove quite an acquisition to the town and locality he haa decided to throw in his lot with.

At a meeting of the Canterbury Education Board on Wednesday, the Chairman stated that the teaching staff had responded to the call for military drill in a satisfactory manner, and that their appearance, physique and intelligence, had been favourably commented upon by Sergeant-Major Coleman. He thought it evident that the course of instruction teachers wer« undergoing would prove advautageous to the children attending their schools, and that so far, at all events, they would be compensated for the trouble drilling might occasion them.

At the monthly meeting of the Executive of the Waikato Agricultural and Pastoral Association, held in Hamilton yesterday, the following new members* were elected :—Messrs R. Dodd, T. C. Schnackenberg, T. Conder' and Stewart Reid. The following tenders were received and accepted : For the temperance booth, Mr J. T. Home, £lO 10s ; grandstand bar and publican's booth, Messrs' Donovan and Adams, £32. It was resolved to ask Messrs McNicol and Co., Hamilton, and Mr O. F. Pilling, of Waihou, to accept entries for the show. A letter was received from the Railway Department, intimating that an excursion train would be run on the second day, as last year. In connection with railway facilities, Mr Butler reported that several important improvements had been made for facilitating the loading and despatch of stock. He also reported that all the judges had accepted office and matters generally pointed to a most successful show.