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Waikato Argus, Volume IX, Issue 773, 6 October 1900, Page 2

An interesting article on the Pencarrow Butter Factory, by our travelling correspondent, Huntly news and other matter, will be found on our fourth page.

The programme for the Okoroire race meeting, to be held on 24th December, is published in this issue.

Twelve yearling steers are advertised for that were lost from Maungakawa some time during the past four months.

A meeting of the Waikato Farmers' Club will be held at Cambridge on Monday. The business will be important- S

The Cambridge Borough Council have called tenders for the erection of the new Borough Chambers. The are returnable ou Wednesday the 17th inst. A sale of work will be held in the Ngaruawahia Town Hall on Thursday, the 11th iust., when a great variety of things, both useful and ornamental, will be offered for sale. Refreshments will be provided. The proceeds are to go towards the funds of the Presbyterian Church.

At Christchnrch on Thursday a young woman named Mary Walker was terribly burned through her clothes catching fire while she was cooking at Courteuay on Tuesday, and died iu the hospital the same day. The girl's mother was severely burned in extinguishing the flames..

One of the drill instructors from Auckland will be sent up on Monday to coach the non-commissioned officers of the No. 1 Company Waikato Mounted Rifles for their examination, which will be held on Saturday next. The instructor will remain in Hamilton for a couple of days iu order that the noncoms, might have the benefit of his tution.

1 have to record (writes our Cambridge correspondent) a very satisfactory sheep transaction. Last week Mr James Anderson, of Pukerimu, sent a second consignment of two trucks of sheep to Mr William Deeble, of the Thames, the price being £1 each at the Cambridge railway station. They were crossbred longwool wethers. The total consignment was 486 sheep. Messrs McNicol and Co. will hold their bull sale at Ohaupo on Tuesday, 23rd October, and will offer upwards of 100 pure-bred Shorthorn, Hereford and Polled Angus bulls, from Wm. Taylor, Rotorangi Estate, Rukuhia Estate, and other well-kuown breeders. On the same day they will also offer 800 head of well-bred cattle, amongst them a choice lot of young cattle.

At St. Mark's Church, Te Aroha, a few days ago, a wedding of some local interest took place, when Miss Ellen Parr, daugher of Mr R. Parr, was married to Mr Francis Corcoran, of Thames. The bride, who looked exceedingly well, was attired in a white silk dress and white.hat, trimmed with white satin and feathers. She carried a lovely spray boquet. The bridesmaids wereMisaCorcoran, attired in terracotta skirt and white silk blouse, white felt hat, trimmed with green, and Miss Parr, sister of the bride, who wore a green dress trimmed with white satin. The bride was given away by her father. The groom was attended by his brother, Mr T. Corcoran. Rev, E. J. McFarland tied the nuptial knot; the Wedding March was playe>l by Mrs McFarland. On the newly - married couple making their appearance after the ceremony they were greeted with showers of rice ■by numerous well-wishers. In the afternoon quite a crowd assembled at Waihou to the wedding breakfast. .The happy couple left for the Thames by the afternoon train.—Te Aroha News.

The late Duke of Saxe-Coburg's life was insured for £300,000 (says the Daily Mail), and that huge sum will have to come out of the coffers of the insurance societies. Scarcely a single insurance company was without some in' terest in Prince Alfred's life, but the critical state of his Royal Highness's health during the past four years had given the companies ample warning that the day of reckoning was approaching. They will not, iu consequence, be heavily hit by the Duke's sudden death, even though the sum is one of considerable magnitude, for most of the firms had secured themselves with guarantee societies, Royalties have been extensive insurers. Many of them, while they enjoy practically unlimited incomes during their lives, are unable to bequeath anything except to their eldest sons. Insurance gives them the opportunity of making somß provision for their younger sons and daughters. Her Majesty the Queen has been a small gold mine to the insurance companies owing to her long life. Not only did the Queen iusura her own life, but hundreds of leases in the City expire with the Queen, and the holders, in consequence have all insured Her Majesty's life. The Prince of Wales is similarly insured for large sums, but there are not many large policies on Kaiser Wilhelm, One of the heaviest insured men in the world is Mr F. H. Peavey who has recently taken out a policy of £200,000 with an American company. For this he pays an annual premium of £9670 for the rest of his days. With one exception, this is the largest policy ever issued by a single office. This solitary exception was a policy of like amount written upon the life of Mr G. W. Vanderbilt, but the premium of tha hitter's policy was only £7OOO per annum.

German colonies have yet to furnish the wealth to the Fatherland, which comes to the United Kingdom from her great possessions. Reports laid before the Reichstag amount practically to a confession of Germany's failure as a colonising power. The new territories have not been colonised, and they are far from self-supporting. The expense to the German Government of the African colonies, together with the Kiuo-Chau, the Caroline and Samoan Islands and German New Guinea, is estimated at close upon £1,500,000 for 1900, the Imperial Treasury being asked to grant in subsidies a sum nearly double that required last year. Kiao-Chiu, which figured previously in the naval estimates, appears for the first time in the colonial estimates, while Samoa is a new item. With the single exception of the Carolines, which are to he granted £SOOO less than last year, tho Imperial subsidy has been increased for each separate protectorate. East Africa receives about £33,000 more, the Cameroons £IO,OOO, South-west Africa £14,000, Tongoland £BOO, New Guinea £IO.OOO, whiie the new items are Kiao-Chau £489,000, and Samoa £2500. A supplementary vote of £43,265 for the protectorate troops in the Cameroons is also before the Budget Committee. Notwithstanding all this prospective expenditure, however, the number of Europeans in the German African Protectorate last year was only 4522 men, women and children, of whom 3228 were Germans. These appear to be almost exclusively composed of officials and iuisuionaries, but of genuine colonists there would seem to he none.