The Waikato Argus [PUBLISHED DAILY.] A Guaranteed Circulation of over 8500 Weekly. WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1909.

Waikato Argus, Volume XXVII, Issue 4150, 21 July 1909, Page 2

The Waikato Argus [PUBLISHED DAILY.] A Guaranteed Circulation of over 8500 Weekly. WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1909.

Rev. D. C. Bates wires Strong I northerly winds to gale; rain, probably heavy, rivers rising; glass rise slowly after 10 hours. On the 30th inst. Messrs Samuel Valle and Sons will sell, without reserve, at their sale rooms, Auckland, lot No. 43, Cambridge West (LeamI ington), containing one acre, jj Today is set apart as “Arbor Day,” I but no arrangements have been made I for celebrating it locally. Very little interest has been taken in this day of late years, but when it was first instituted advantage was taken to do a good deal of planting. At the dispersal sale of T. R. Exley’s Jersey herd at Hawera, 17 cows averaged 80 guineas each, and the six year old cow, Duchess Elma, headed the list with 65 guineas. A seven year old cow, Eureka, was next with 51 guineas. At the Supreme Court, Auckland, yesterday, Bertie Lyons, alias Harry j Davis, who had been convicted at I Hamilton on three charges of forgery ; and uttering, one charge of theft | from a dwelling, and one charge of I theft, came up for sentence. There were several previous convictions against the prisoner for cattle steal--1 ing, forgery, and theft, and the 3 police reported that he bore a very j ; bad character. He was sentenced to a-* 1 j three years’ imprisonment on each e I charge, the sentence to be concurrent. j Remarks as instances of the ex- ■ ceptionally phenomenal season have t become so common that one hesitates : to add further to the generous total. ! An instance of such exceptional ocI currence, however, was brought under the notice of a Mastorton reporter recently as to be worthy cf note. An apple tree grown by a farmer, of Langdale has yielded two crops of apples, and the fruit of a third crop is setting. Surely, a local paper re--1 marks, this is the last and most re- ! markable instance of an exeptionally j i pbenomenonal season. I | Arrangements have been made for s 1 a liberal display of county maps prei pared at headquarters at the new Lands Office in Hamilton, and it is also intended to transfer a draughtsman from Auckland to Hamilton in order to cope with the extra work necessitated by settlement, on the Hauraki Plains. It is understood that the Land Department hope to have 30,010 acres of Hauraki Plains land open for settlement early in the autumn. There will be some difficulty in reading owing to lack of | metal, but this can be got over by I ! utilising the drainage for water carf . i iage. ' I j Messrs Davis and Co., Hamilton, I have advertised 160,000 feet of I | building timber, to be sold by auction I \ on the 2nd and 3rd of August, wilh--8 | out reserve, by order of the liquida- ■ tors in the Puketapu Sawmilling Company. The sale will take place at Matapuna on Monday, 2nd August, and at Piriaka on Tuesday, 3rd August, starting each day at 10 t o’clock. Intending buyers can leave Auckland, Frankton, or Te Kuiti for Taumarunui by the mail train, leavj ing Auckland at 9.15 on Sunday evening. This is an opportunity for builders, farmers, and others to obtain cheap timber, particulars of which are advertised in this paper. At Waihou, on Friday evening, y. Messrs Reuben Parr and T. D. Rice <7 were entertained by the Waihou Athol letic Club and the Piako Rugby Uno ion. Mr R. L. Somers, Mayor of Te y Aroha, presided, and an apology for I absence was read from Mr W. H. | is Herries, M.P. Mr Somers, in pre- ’’ senting Mr Parr with a silver-mount- j ed hunting crop, suitably inscribed, j from the Waihou Athletic Club, said ! that Mr Parr was one of the pioneer settlers of the district, and that his name had always been closely associated with every movement that made for the advancement of the county. 1 On behalf of the Piako Rugby Union Mr Somers then presented Mr Rice, j their late secretary, with a silver- j ‘ mounted liqueur stand, suitably in- , scribed. The recipients suitably re- 1 plied, and a musical programme was j gone through. There was recently sold by auction j f he whole of the celebrated herd of , the late Sir Nigel Kingscote, K.C.B. ) Tne sale attracted a large and dis- £ tinguished company, including most of the leading Shorthorn breeders of the country. Ttie Kingscote herd is j, historical, and is the oldest in the West of England, having been estab- . lished in 1845, mainly of Bates blood, j.

In spite of the soakingly wet afternoon the sale proved thoroughly satisfactory. A Kirklevmgton cow and a Waterloo heifer were bought for His Majesty the King, the latter making 100 guineas. A pair of twin heifer calves of the Honey tribe made 51 guineas and 50 guineas to Lord Moreton. The 45 cows and heifers, with their calves, made £2227 llsfid, the average being £49 10s. The eleven bulls made £340 4s, or an average of £3O 38s Gel, and the 56 head totalled £2567 15s 6(1. Lepers on Quail Island have a reasonably good time of it, but the monotony of their isolation must pall at times, says an exchange. However, they have the joy of knowing that on the mainland they have some friends. In a letter from one of them to a lady, thanking her for an offer for books, one of the lepers writes that reading matter and games are always welcome. Draughts, loto, and cards they have, also a gramaphone and a phonograph, but new records will be welcome, although the writer docs not say the make of the machines. “Wo are very comfortable,” he writes, “and wc each have a onc-roomed cottage, and get everything wc want supplied us. Our meals we get from the caretaker, so we do not have to do any cooking; but we do everything else ourselves.” Anything sent to the sufferers through Mr W. J. Thomas, caretaker, Quail Island, will be. forwarded to .them. A new order of Roman Catholic nuns, the Sisters of the Sacred Heart, is about to be established in Auckland, and the Rev. Mothers Smith, of Sydney, and Haydon, of Wellington, are now in the city making the necessary arrangements for the opening ot the branch house of the order here. The order is credited with being one of the richest of its kind in the Catholi* Church, and as only the higher forms of education are taught all aspirants must have high intellectual and educational attainments before being admitted to membership. In pursuance of the enforcement of the Associations Law in France the Sisters of the Sacred Heart suffered considerable pecuniary loss. They had 47 freehold houses, with extensive grounds, in that country, and all were confiscated by the State. The closing of these houses meant the release of 2000 nuns, who have since been installed in newly established houses all over the world. It is a curious fact that the convent about to he opened in Auckland is the forty seventh which the order has established since the sisterhood was banished from France, this number corresponding with the number which were closed in that country. The Sisters of the Sacred Heart have been established at Timaru for the past thirty years, and recently purchased a valuable property at Island Bay, Wellington, where they have erected a convent. | The man who smokes MILD DERIIY is : enthusiastic in its praises. It is a blend ' of aromatic and dark Tobacco—can be indulged in to any extent without “ bite ” to the tongue.

The Age, which is a strong advo--cate of land taxation, points out that while New Zealand raised £537,846 by land taxation in 1907-8, Victoria, with 250,000 more people, in the previous year raised only £92,438. Mr C. J. Murphy, son of Mr John Murphy, of Tauwhare, who for some time past has been on the staff of the Nelson street school, Auckland, has been appointed to Okaihau No. 2 and Utakuru Valley half time schools. The draught stallion Hallmark, by Sir Everard, dam Darling XIX., by Prince Thomas, and bred by Mr John Marr, Uppermill, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, imported by Mr W. U. Rennie, Doyleston, arrived by the Turakina on Tuesday week. A Jersey heifer, bom of imported stock at Mr S. R. Lancaster’s property, Fizherbert, and which attracted keen inerest from breeders who visited the farm recently, says an exchange, made such an impression upon Mr Day, the noted Waikato breeder, that, though it is but six weeks old, he left a standing offer of fifty guineas, plus all expenses, for the little animal. Wc understand that it is the intention of the Railway Department, as soon as practicable, to put on a second express to leave Wellington every evening, and junction at Frankton with the express to Rotorua at 1.30 p.m., so as to relieve the pressure on the present express service, and to obviate the stopover at Frankton for passengers by the Main Trunk desirous of going to Rotorua. Notwithstanding the efforts of the Stock Department to stamp out tuberculosis in cattle, says the Wairarapa Age, it seems as if the trouble exists on every hand, remarks a contemporary. Dairy farmers speak of the uncertainty which exists among themselves concerning beasts, and a few days ago a cow that was suspected, but which to the eye looked well, was shot, the owner benig determined to know whether the disease was among his stock. On cutting the beast open it was found in a very advanced state of tuberculosis. A resident of Suva, Fiji, writing to a friend in Christchurch, says: — “Suva is at present in the throes of uncertainty and expectancy in regard to mining. Prospecting for gold, copper, and other minerals is going on. Several syndicates have been formed, but so far no defintie information is available. If gold is found and proves payable—well, there will be no holding the tropical isle. Sevcra gold ores have already been procured, but as to whether the quantity is there remains to be proved by the prospecting parties who are now out.” A young Southlander passed through Chirstchurch recently with the idea of making a new start in the world. He had been brought up to farming all his life, but owing to the subdivision of the family estates consequent upon the death of his father, his share of the land was insufficient to support him, and he was unable to purchase another area at a price within his means. He had tnerefore made up his mind to try Queensland, and if that did not suit he would go on to Canada. “There’s no room for the likes of me in New Zealalnd,” he concluded regretfully. It is stated that the plantations in the Staborough nursery, which was established by the Government near Seddnn, but was abandoned as a nursery last year, are now in a ruined condition. The property covers about 120 acres, about 30 acres of which arc under plantation, and the whole of it has been let for grazing purposes. There is a strong wish on the part of settlers in the district to have the ex-nursery used for some practical purpose. It is suggested that it should be a nursery for the supply of trees to assist the work of plantation in the Awatere district; an experimental farm to promote the science of growing dry root crops; a public domain; a permanent racecourse; or a breeding station to improve the strain of cattle and horses in Marlborough. The Queensland Department of Agriculture has reported that the potato disease 'Phytophtora infestans,’ commonly known as “Irish blight,” has appeared in the southeastern corner of that Stato. This is a matter of vital importance to the potato New South Wales, says the Daily Telegraph, more particularly to those on the North Coast, who should scrupuluosly avoid importing for the approaching planting season any seed from Queensland, which can possibly have been infected withthis dread fungus disease. It has been long known to exist in New Zealand, and has done incalculable damage there to the potato industry, besides blocking Australian ports to any potato seed from the Dominion. It is a matter of congratulation that the Queensland Department has promptly detected this disease, and it may be confidently expected that it will take energetic steps to stamp the disease out entirely, and thereby save the whole of Australia. After some years of discussion and effort, a Live Stock Exchange has been established at New York. The

objects are summarised as follows: “The mutual benefit of all its members; to promote uniformity in the customs and usages of the business; I to inculcate and enforce high moral | principles among its members in the I conduct of the business; to provide | facilities for the proper growth of | the live stock industry; to provide for the proper and speedy adjustment all business disputes among its members; to promote the welfare of the local market.” The management is vested in a president, vice-president, and an executive committee of eight members, wdio will have power to make rules and regulations as to the buying and selling of stock, includ- ! ing commissions, hours of trading, and other details, subject to ratificaj tion by a mjority of tbs members. | The present time is regarded as suitable for the establishment of the exchange, as the cattle ranges and ranches of the West have been to a great extent broken up into small farms, and are being trenched upon every year, so that arable larming is steadily replacing grazing; while there is in the East much land now run to waste upon which live stock may be raised to advantage! In time, it is predicted, New York will become one of the greatest packing centres in the country.