CABLE & TELEGRAPHIC

Waikato Argus, Volume XVIII, Issue 2908, 21 June 1905, Page 4

CABLE & TELEGRAPHIC

■* TliK takings at (ho Dunedin while 1 ’ show for the four days wore a record for New Zealand, viz., J2S-11. Last year’s total was £713. The New Zealand Shipping Company is about to issue £IOO,OOO 1 per cent, debentures at a minimum of OIL The Prince of Wales has formally opened the steamboat service on the Thames, provided by the London County Council. Annie Harrington, aged 12 years, was drowned on Monday through falling into a well, near Karnka, Poverty Bay. The French Premier (M, Heavier) has been gazetted Minister for Foreign Affairs, and M. Morion (Under-Secre-tary for Finance) Minister tor Finance in his si cad. Mr Nathaniel Rothschild, who died recently at Vienna, has bequeathed £BBO,OOO in charities. Large sums are given for the relief of the sick and suffering of Vienna. Mr McCurdy, the colonial organiser of the Farmers’ Union, who has been making his way overland from Auckland, reached Tologa Bay on Monday. He addresses meetings at each farming centre. 'lho first dairy school in the colony, composed of 96 students from Taranaki schools, was opened at Stratford on Monday. Members of the local technical school staff arc acting as instructors. The session will last for a fortnight. President Roosevelt has appointed a committee, consisting of five officials, to inquire into the organisation of the executive departments at Washington, and to prepare a scheme of reform embracing economics and the raising of the standard of efficiency. The Canterbury Tiades and Labour Council has decided to ask the Minister for Labour to use his influence in preventing the judge of the Arbitration Court attending the sitting of the Appeal Court while there is such an accumulation of cases to be hoard before the Arbitration Court. The Ornithological Congress, now sitting at the Imperial Institute, Loudon, at the instance of Mr Lionel Walter Rothschild, has resolved to telegraph the Governments of Australia aud Now Zealand, asking them to introduce legislation to prevent the de> struction of the penguin on the islands under their control. The Premier arrived by express train at Napier on Monday, aud was entertained by the local branch of the Liberal and Labour Federation. In replying to the toast of “ The Parliament, Government, aud the Premier,” the Premier reviewed the political work of the present Government, to which, as usual, he attributed the progress and prosperity of the colony. News has been received from German West Africa to the effect that Hottentots under Abraham Morns have captured Warmbad, at the southern end of German West Africa, and also Kalkfonteiu. They released the native prisoners, and seized much ammunition aud many cattle. The German officers in both places escaped. News from Southern Nigeria states that the King of Oweti, with a number of men, has taken the Divisional Commissioner and his escort in ambush. Four of the escort were killed in the engagement. The British force received reinforcements and then advanced and attacked the town of Oweti. The tribesmen lost heavily, and the king was captured. The winter meeting of the Hawke’s Bay Gun Club took place at Whakatu on Monday, when the open handicap of lOOsovs was tired. Thirty-one competed, including the host shots in the colony. Messrs D. Fraser, of Hororata, Canterbury, and G. Cheeseman, of Blenheim, divided the chief prizes, killing 15 birds ouch, and each taking £lO. Messrs T. Parker, E. 11. Bcclesand T. Storey, with M kills each, divided the rest of the prize money. A meeting of State school teachers, to discuss the question of superannuation, was held at Wellington on Monday. Most of the recommendations of the executive were approved. It was decided that the optional age of retirement of women teachers should be 60, and the compulsory ago CO. During the discussion it was stated that there might be two Bills introduced to Parliament dealing with superannuation, one for men, the other for women. There was an attendance of about 100 at a meeting at Dunedin ou Monday to form an education defence league. Mr A. Bathgate presided, and (he meeting was very enthusiastic. It was resolved to form a large committee, for the purpose of defending aud maintaining the present system of free, secular, and compulsory education in the primary schools of the schools of the colony, and the constitution was adopted. The speakers were the chairman, and Messrs J. T. Hinton, C. Darling, Sim and Hood aud Rabbi Chodowski, Mr A. Bathgate was elected preeideut, and Messrs M. Callaway and D. Theomiu vice-presidents. The Federal High Court gave its decision cm Monday at Sydney in the long-standing dispute between the Trolley, Draymen and Carters’ Union and the Master Carriers’ Association. The Carriers’ Union appealed against a judgment of the State Full Court, which declared invalid the preference clause in an award made by the Arbitration Court. This clause required the master carriers to give beforehand notice to the union when work was available, in order that if there were unionists willing to take it, they might obtain work. The Carriers’ Association appealed against this clause to the Full Court, contending that the unionists were only entitled to preference, other things being equal, when they and non-unionists applied together for employment. There was nothing in the Act which empowered the Arbitration Court to order a master to give such beforehand notice. The High Court, in dismissing the appeal, resled its judgment on the general ground that there was no implied power in the statute to authorise the Arbitration Court to extend the direction imposed by the section of the Act regarding preference. The Court was aware of no principle known to law from which it could be inferred that the Arbitration Court could give any direction to employers to give notice to one set of poisons or another before they proceeded to exercise their common law rights of engaging anybody they saw fit. To successfully introduce a few well,.ried remedies, the proprietors, P. Hock and Co., manufacturing chemists ol Adelaide unit Auckland, have made arrangements with the leading tradesmen to soil the first trial packet to each customer on approval, giving a printed guarantee tn that effect. The price will be refunded in the event of it uot being approved of. One of these is ‘ Book's Rheumatic Powder,’ price 3s Bd ; this is an internal remedy ; it expels the excess of uric acid, Over 700 cured cases art ou record for the North Hand alone, ‘Curo Hypo’ ia another; being purely herbal and rather pleasant to take, will be much esteemed as an opening medicine for children as well as adults, hut has proved an absolute cure for indigestion aud all its symptoms. Price of a large bottle, only Is 6d. Another famous medicine is • Bock's Balsam,’ price Is 6d, tor coughs, colds, croup, whooping cough, asthma, and bronchitis; affords quick relief, and proves permanent in the end As there can be nothing fairer than to refund the money when not approved of we trust the public will avail themselves of this offer Members of Local Bodies are in a position to form a good opinion as to the circulation of a newspaper. All tub Local Bom cm in the Waikato, Waipa Raglan and I’iako Count tea advertise ,in Thu Akuus, Fir 4.