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Waikato Argus, Volume XXV, Issue 3944, 24 November 1908, Page 2

At Matamata tomorrow, the Farmers' Co operative Auctioneering Company Limited, will offer (100 heal of well bred cattle. 600 shorn wethers, 300 hoggets, 30 pigs, etc.

Buyers o' firaiture will do well to attend Messrs King and Co.'s sale tomorrow on account of Mr F. Moore, at Wellington- i\v', Hamilton East, when they will sell his almost new household furniture.

A meeting of the executive of the I Hamilton Band Cjiitest commtitee was held in the Argus buildings last night. The secretary reported that the recanvass of the town had result- | ed in £9 10s being received. The | statement of accounts showed a ! deficit of ,£l6O, and it was decided to ' call up 60 per cent of the guarantees j at once, so as to allow of the liabil- . ity being wiped off. Just at eight o'clock this morning j a fire broke out in a quantity of sbav- I ings in the lower portion of Messrs | McMahon and Co.'s furniture factory in Knox street, Hamilton. Willing hands were soon on the spot and with buckets of water, kept the flames in check until the arrival of the fire brigade, when they were quickly subdued. Very little damage was done | beyond that caused by the water. |

Miss C. W. Christie, now lecturing in Hamilton on Theosophy, invites those desirous of forming a Hamilton branch of the Theosophical Society to meet her this,'iuesday. evening at the close of the lecture advertised in our columns. Questions upon religious subjects are answered from the theosophical standpoint at the close of the lecture. A number of interesting questions have been sent in, and will be dealt with tonight. The Officer Commanding the District, Colonel Wolfe, is at present conducting classes of instruction for officers and N.C.O.'s, of the Second Regiment, A.M.R. The first class of instruction for the latter took place last evening at the Drill Hall. There was a good muster and the subjects chosen were topography and map reading. The classes will be continued each evening until Friday, those for the officers commencing on Wednesday.

For the last three or four winters work has been found for the unemployed at Ipswich in levelling land belonging to the corporation. This year the area of deposited soil was divided into upwards of fifty plots of ten rods each, and let to the unemployed at a r.omii al charge of (id each, while the mayor provided the tenants with first class seed potatoes. The men were encouraged to grow anything else in addition, and prizes for the best cultivated plots have just been awarded. On Thursday next the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. hold their Hamilton stock sale, and' will offer 30 head of steer and heifer beef, and a good yarding of mixed yearlings ar.d young cattle; also a strong buggy and 13 New Zealand Dairy Association shares; 100 acres of freehold land with improvements, situated on the Ohaupo road, will also be offered at 2 p.m. This property is being sold by Mr Annus, whose only reason for disposing of same is on accont of ill-health. The sale of stock will start at 12 noon. Mme. Schenck, a woman of means, living in the Rue Liebniz, has just been convinced, says the Paris correspondent of the New York Herald, of the foolishness of concealing the amount of her fortune from her husband in order that he should not know her wealth. She concealed 60,000 francs, .£2IOO in bank notes and securities in the mattress of a bed some days ago. She placed the mattress on a balcony to air. The bag containing her fortune dropped to the st-cetand was appropriated by one of her neighbours. The person has just been sent to prison for three years, but Mtne. Schenck's fortune is

A bullet from a Martini rifle crashed through the house of Mr R. E. Hayes at Karori on Wednesday evening, shattering the glasswork. The weapon was apparently fired by some careless person, and the bullet has been handed to the police, who are making inquiries in the matter. This is not the only case of promiscuous shooting which has happened at Karori lately. Quite recently somebody fired a shot gun, of which the charge crashed through the window of a house adjoining Mr Hayes', and immediately afterwards a woman rushed outside crying that the shot had gone through her hair. The trouble is apparently caused by youths who should not be allowed to carry guns. The Supreme Court civil list was considered and fixed before Mr Justice Edwards, in chambers, yesterday morning. In the case Oliver Nicholson v. Charles 11. Sexton, in which .£IOOO damages was claimed for alleged slander, Mr Buttle announced that this case had been practically settled, and that the terms of settlement would probably be arrived at this afternoon. It was stated, in the case of Massey Bros., Ltd., v. James Coe and others, claim lor £261 17s Sri for rennirs and work done, that

the action had been discontinued, while in the action of Alfred Kennedy v. the State Fire Insurance General Manager, for .£250 on a fire insurance policy, it was stated that the matter had been referred to arbitration. The case C. J. Collins v. E. J. Geraghty, claim for £250 damages, was adjourned until next session. Mr W. A. Boucher, Government pomologist, of Auckland, has forwarded a number of the steel blue ladybirds to Cambridge to endeavour to cope with the scale pest which has of late infested the oak trees in the domain. Of these insects Mr Boucher writes: "These ladybirds have done really good work in controlling many species of scale, some of them closely related to the scale attacking the oak trees in your district. Please liberate on some of the badly infested trees in the domain. I trust they will display the same energy in attacking and destroying the oak scale as they have done with many other species of scale insects." The ladybirds were liberated on Sunday morning, and they at once attacked the scale on the trees, for they were watched, and with a mag-

nifying glass they could be seen hard at work immediately they met with I scale. They were very healthy and would soon distribute themselves over the domain, for they could all : fly. It is sincerely to be hoped they will be able to slay the scale pest, if not eradicate it.

Synopsis of Advertisements Death notice. Lane's Emulsion will cure that .cough. Strong sulky and set of harness wanted. Pirongia Axemen's Carnival Thursday, November 26th. Try Manning's beef, iron and wine for strengthening and making rich blood. All accounts owing to George Mile?, Pirongia, must be paid by the end of the month. Lost —Black retriever slut; roan medium draught mare; red and white heifer; bay mare.