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Waikato Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1500, 6 March 1903, Page 2

Tho Ventura arrived at Auckland from oyduey this morning. There were SO stowaways aboard.

On Wednesday afternoon a few members of the Waikato Gun Club met at Eraukton and fired off four sweepstakes. Mr H. Rowland won the first two, and Mr Cooper the third aud fourth.

The gifted songstress, Madame Alelbu, will visit Kotorua to-day. She will travel by special train, and will return with the Admiral's party tomorrow, and leave by the Waikare ou Monday afternoon for Australia.

The formal opening of the Cambridge waterworks will take place ou Wednesday next, in the afternoon. At 3 p.m. His Worship the Mayor will start the engine, then he will walk up to the water-tower and formally turn on the water. The public are invited to be present and take part in what is an important Junction to the inhabitants of the town, for there is not a greater blessing than a good supply of pure water. The Auckland flourmillers being interviewed in reference to the reduction of the price of flour 30s of per ton in Dunedio state that this will not ati'ect the present price in Auckland. The price in Auckland is £l2 15s per ton, less the usual discount. They state that when the cost of freight per ton is taken into account, the figures give a slight advantage to the purchase of their flour as compared with Southern flour at the reduced price.

At a meeting of the Cambridge Gun Club held on Wednesday evening last, at which Mr W. Matheson presided, the resolution paßsed at the previous rneetiDg to handicap by distance was rescinded, and in lieu it was resolved to handicap by points, according to the rules of the Association. It was decided to commence the contest for the silver cup, given by the Colonial Ammunition Company, on Wednesday, the 11th inst., and entries for same will close on Tuesday, the 10th. The following were elected a Managing Committee : Messrs MathesoD, B-iuks, Harmon, Souter, McKee, Ferguson, and M. Wells.

Interviewed by a Manawatu Daily Times reporter, Mr Lane, of the Boer delegates, stated that the delegates are taking back to South Africa samples of grass seeds, as it is intended to introduce artificial grasses into South Africa, native grass Deiug the only class now known. Great development is anticipated in South Africa. The delegates consider Ayr-hire stock most suitable for the country, and Mr Lane anticipates that on lie* count of the similarity of climatic conditions stock of this description will be secured from New Zealand and Australia. He v.-onsiders there is a great opouiug in his country for tinned butter and cheese, packed in 511) and fl»t shape. The mistake made in Canada is in shipping large factory size, which are only saleable in a few of the principal towns. Owiug to scarcity nt stock, a good demand must also continue tor a considerable time for frozen meat

Mr John Duthie, M.H.H., writes to a contemporary us follows :—Tlie Right Hon. the Premier, by special interview, has been pleased to make two important statements as to the recent lr.au and the position of tho public finance. It would he out of place to seek to generally examine those statements, but I would set him right on one point. liy the report Mr Sedrlon says : ' When tho present Government came into oflioe the annual charge for iuterest was £1,752,000. Last year it was £1,722,000 or £30,000 less. During the last twelve years we borrowed £11,000,01)1), yet our iuterest charges were £30,000 less per annum.' liy reference to the ofliciut returns it will be found that the first amount named was the iiotual interest paid during the year ending March ,'Jlst, iS6O. and £14,000,000, as stated, has been the approximate addition to the public debt. But Mr Seddon has fallen iuto grevious error over the present ' annual charge.' If you turn up the debt table 1518 for IUO2, you will find that the annual interest payable on March Hist last £1,002,712, being an increase of £210,742, in place of £30,000 less per auuum, us stated by the Premier.

William Andrew, aged 23, unmarried, committed suicide at Kopuru. An inquest was held, aud a verdict was r. turned that rleceased committed suicide by an overdose of strychnine while temporarily insane. One of the oldest residents of Cambridge passed away at 11.40 p.m. last night, namely Mrs Catherine vVyllie, who Ins resided at the lower end of Duke-street for many years. She was 82 years of age, and only a fortnight aso seemed fairly well, but suddenly she seemed to break up, and passed away as above.

His Excellency Admiral A. D. Fanshawe aud several officers of the Australian Squadron passed through Hamilton by special r,r»in yesterday, en route for Rotoruu. They were officially met at Prankton by Mr R. W. Dyer, Mayor of Hamilton, who was very cordi. ally received by His Excellency. The party return by special train on Saturday evening.

The following weekly prizes for the month of February for the best quality of pigs supplied were awarded and paid by the Waikato Bacon Company, Frankton Junction :—First week : J. Kewish, Kihikihi, £1 Ss 2d. Second week : H. J. Greenslade, Ohaupo, £1 7» 4d. Third week : S. P. Jeff, Tamahere, £1 Bi. Fourth week : A. S. Wallace. Te Awamutu, £1 12s.

When King Edward got up to Balmoral, after his recovery from appendicitis and the. surgeons, some time ago, a special service of thanksgiving and so forth was held in the Castle Chapel. The officiating chaplain cave out the first hymn thus : ' Among the—ah ! —special hymns, ' Peace, Perfect Peace ' —in the appendix.' Aud the King exploded, greatly to the relief of the congregation.

The sawmills in the Hawke's Bay province are estimated to be capable of turning out fifty million feet of sawn timber annually. This represents a money value cf not less than £200,000 a year. Of that amoant probably not less thau £50,000 filters into bannevirke in the shape of wages from the sawmill proprietors (says tlie Advocate). Although there is every probability that some mills will be working in the southern Hawke's Bay in 20 years' time, yet the bulk of the timber will be cut out within about ten years.

The Auckland mills yesterday reduced flour to £l2 5s per ton for sacks, in sympathy with the reduction that has taken place in the South owing to the new wheat coming forward. In Dunedin 'he Master Bikers' A-sociation has iowered bread from 7Jd per 41b loaf to 7d. In Auckland the baker* have raised bread to the figuie which it reached in the South, having maintained the price at 7.1 per 41b In Sydney fl mr is £ll 10s to £l2, and the price of bread is 7gd per 41b loaf.

Ladies have something fresh for the races or regatta. Snppo-e you try a new hat? Griffiths, at fie Cosy Corner Store, Hamilton, has jnst opened the new millinery. Iha styles are fresh, novel and elegant. There aie also some dainty, delicious designs in now collarettes and new lace trimmings. Come along, ladies, do.— (Advt )

SYNOPSIS OF ADVERTISEMENTS W'auted : Competent farm hand. Tenders are invited for cutting 100 acres of ti-tree.

Betting by bookmakers will not he allowed at the races to-morrow.

Mr W. H. Paul, of the Book Arcade, Hamilton, iuserts a new business notice.