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Waikato Argus, Volume XV, Issue 6115, 14 December 1903, Page 2

As already announced, on Christmas live we will commence the publication of a weekly supplement, comprising four pages of good general reading matter, calculated to suit all tastes. We can promise our readers that the supplement we intend to issue will be one of the best published outside of the four principal cities of the colony. At the Ohaupo stock sale tomorrow, Messrs McNicol and Co., will sell 400 head of choice cattle, principally steers from 18-monrhs old and 300 fat forward eteera. During a heavy sform on Monday last lightning struck the Atiatuuri Hotel. The building caught fire, and considerable damage was done to the property. The telegraph wires inside the house were fused and outside about seven poles were shattered. A disastrous hailstorm took place in many parts of the Oamaru district on Friday. Some of the fields of gr«in were completely destroyed. At Clifton Falls the iron toofs of large barns were riddled by the hailstones. The total damage is estimated at many thousands. We understand that the sitting of the Valuation Court at To Aroha, in connection with the purchase of the Matamata Estate by the Government, which was to have been opened on Thursday next, has been adjourned until acme time in January. The pupils of the Cambridge District High Schooljwill give a concert in Alexandra Hall on Wednesday evening, which will be well worth attending, The pupils, in addition to vocal items, will give exhibitions of skirt dancing, etc., which will be found very entertaining. The Secretary of the Hamilton Boxing-day Sports Committee (Mr F. Tuck) will be in attendance at The Waikato Times Buildings, Hamilton, from 7.30 to 8.30 p.m. to-day and tomorrow to receive entries, which may also be sent by wire or post. Entries close to-morrow (Tuesday) evening. The programme of the Bport3 to be held at Cambridge on New Year's Day under the auspices of the local Lodge of Oddfellows is most attractive and one that should ensure good entries and keen competition. Entries for the various events close on Saturday next with Air J. Byrne, and the handicaps will be declared on Monday, 28th inst. A man named Roshinski was admitted to the Waikato Hoßp.tal on Friday with both legs broken at the thigh, caused through the limb of a tree having fallen on him. The accideut occurred in tho Kawhia district, whence he waß brought to Ptrongia, where his injuries were attended to by Dr. Goiug, and he was then taken to Te Awamutu and on by train. The sight of two motor cars (double ones) bowling along Victoria Street, Hamilton, on Saturday morning, was a somewhat unusual one. They were brought up from Auckland to carry their owners to the opening ceremony at the Sanatorium, but the police refused to allow them to be used for that purpose in case any accident should occur on the narrow road to Maungakawa. This was a wise precaution, as many of the country horses are unused to such a spectacle. Mr M. J. McMahon, an artist who has been upon the London Graphic, Black and White, the Sydney Bulletin, the New Zealand Mail, Times and Illustrated Magazine, is staying in Cambridge for the benefit of his health, he having heen run down by working too bard at a bonk he intends publishing ; for he is not only an artist but also a writer of verse and fiction. He informs us he is improving in health rapidly, and trusts to soon be at work again. The work at the Laka in connection with the Hamilton Rowing Club shed has been completed, and one of the gigs is now housed there. Some of the members (viz, Meßsrs Boyes, 'Kiog, Shera and HewsoD, with T. Chivers as cox), had the gig out for a preliminary spin, and she answered moat satisfactorily. This may be regarded as the inception of rowing in Hamilton under the new Club, and preparations will be completed bo as to bold the opening gala as soon as possible. The Kihikihi sports committee are again to the lore with an attractive programme for the sports meeting to be held on the Kihikihi Domain on New Year's Day. This gathering, which has been established for many years, affords one of the most enjoyable outings of the holiday season, and the management in Mr F. D. Corbuy's hands ie always satisfactory- Entries for the principal events, particulars of which will be fonnd in our Saturday's issue, close on Satutday, 26th inst.. and the handicaps will be published on 28th. The Government treated their guests very handsomely at the opening of the Sanitorium on Friday. To all who were invited to the function free railway passes were granted, and dinner and tea were also provided at the hotels, in addition to refreshments on the hill. Last night Sir Joseph notified the Railway Department that it was his intoution to refund all fares which had been paid by persons travelling by the special train. Refunds can be had on application to the various stationmasters. The Minister evidently believes in tho saying that 'if a thing ia worth doing, it is worth doing well.' Everything in connection with the function of entertaining Sir J. G. Ward at Cambridge on Friday last went off splendidly. Amongst those who deservo a word of praise are Mr C. Boyce, who did the catering; the Cambridge Orchestral Society, who played really well; and the firm of coach proprietors who have taken over Mr Carter's business, for they conveyed a great number of people up and down Maungakawa without as much as breaking a strap. Their teams must also have been giod ones, for one of them made no less than three journeys up and down the hill. There were a number of Auckland Doctors present, and we trust they will now be fully aware that the Sanatorium is not iu the centre of the Borough, aa many of them seemed to imagine. We would remind all those interested in educational mateera that Mr Gooige George will deliver an address in the Alexandra to> morrow evening, on technical education and manual training. At the same meeting a vote will be taken, at the commencement of the proceedings to decide whether or not services in the various Cambridge Churches shall from the present until the end of February next, commence at 7 30 p m , instead of at 7p.m. Some of those who are milking for the factorie* state thoy could get in to the evening service if the commeucenunt was delayed hilf-an-hour ; and it is to try and meet these people that the matter will be brought forward. We understand all denominations have agreed to abide by tho decision arrived at at tomorrow's meeting. Early ou Friday morning the Royal Hotel. Raglan, had a narrow escape from fire. It appears that a lodger who was reading in bed fell off to Bleep und left a candle burning ou tho pillow which became ignited, fortunately for him he discovered the accident and endeavoured to put out the fire, but did not succeed. In the meantime the smell alarmed the people in the house and a search for the source of the fire was at once instituted, in which the lodger joined, with the object no doubt of concealing his delinquency, all tho rooms were searohed except his, hut the Bmell did not abate. Some time afterwards he returned to his room and found the pillow on the floor blaging on the floor.

After some difficulty the fire was got uuder. The floor had burst into flame.

SYNOPSIS OF ADVKRTf SEMEN TS Concert at Cambridge to-night. Concert ut Cambridge on Wednesday by High S :hool pupils. Christmas catds and presents at Paul's B.iok Arcade, Hamilton, Latest novelties in millinery, etc., at the Cosey Corner Store, Hamilton. A policy worth having—Australian Widows' Fund Life Assurance Society, Ac alteration ia nude in the N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co.'a list of farms for sale, page four.