The Waikato Argus. [PUBLISHED DAILY.] A Guaranteed Circulation of over 8500 Weekly. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1911

Waikato Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 4885, 21 December 1911, Page 2

The Waikato Argus. [PUBLISHED DAILY.] A Guaranteed Circulation of over 85 00 Weekly. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1911

Owing to the delay in receiving the final election returns Sir Joseph Ward will not be in a position to make a statement as to the course he intends to take until tomorrow. The Telegraph Department requests the public to lodge as many Christmas greetings telegrams as possible on Friday, so as to relieve the pressure on Saturday, when the telegraph office closes at 8 p.m. Fireworks are undoubtedly one of the most pleasing of entertainments and the display to be given at the Hamilton Lake Reserve on Tuesday night next is sure to attract a large crowd. A splendid exhibition is promised and the site is peculiarly adapted for a pyrotechnic display. An elderly "man, named Thomas Decncy, was run over by a two-ton waggon at Ngaruawahia yesterday. The waggon passed over hia thigh, and though badly crushed, no bones were broken. Deeney was sent to the Waikato Hospital, and on enquiry this morning was as well as could be expected. This evening the St. Peter’s Boy Scouts Troop* will|give an entertainment in St. Peter’s Sunday School, Hamilton. A splendid programme, in which different phases of scout life will be depicted, has been provided. The funds will be devoted to an encampment for the boys during the holidays. At the Police Court, Hamilton, this morning, before Messrs Mason and Burgess, Justices, for riding bicycles on the footpath the following were fined 10s and costs 7a: Hill, Tonkin, Bullock, Jenkins, Madill, Broadway, Hughes and Attwood, and for driving a buggy round a corner at more than a walking pace Ling was fined 5s and 7s costs. The annual shcool picnic of the Hamilton East School was held yesterday on Mr Gillett’s farm. The usual sports were held and well contested, and Mr Gillett’s prizes for the most popular girl and hoy in tho school were won by Edith McMiken and Eric Sims, respectively. Tho children had a good day, and broke up giving three cheers for Mr and Mrs Gillett, who had done all in their power to make them enjoy themselves. The Cambridge Co-operative Dairy Company put up a record during tho month of November at their Jhutter factory at Hautapu. During the month 183,7661b were manufactured, as against 172,5501b in the corresponding month of last year. Tho money paid away yesterday was £7028, the amount last year being £6165. That tho quality is first class is demonstrated by the fact that for the past nine years this company has not had one ounce of butter made that has been graded as second class. There are not many that cun show such a record. The Widows’ Pensions Act, 1911, comes into operation on January Ist next. Application forms for the pension arc now obtainable on personal application to the various registrars of old ago pensions throughout the Dominion. Qualifications are that the applicant must be a British subject resident in New Zealand for six months preceding tho date of the application, and must have at least one child under 14 dependent upon her, of whom she is the parent. The rates of pension are: —One child, £l2 per annum; two, £18; three, £24; more than three, £3O. These I ates are subject to reduction on account of an annual income, which does not include wages or other personal earnings less than £IOO, including pension. Francis Alexander Twiname, timber merchant of Huntly, in a sworn statement before the Official Assignee, sets forth that he started business in Huntly, and it continued good until October last year, when, owing to outside cutting of prices, trade fell away. At that time he only owed current accounts. He kept hoping the competition would not continue, but in July, 1911, his principal creditors began to press and finally took judgment against him. Upon his taking the position of Registrar of Electors, they petioned to have him adjudged a bankrupt. When undertaking the position he had no idea of the work it entailed. The debtor set down his unsecured debts at £933 13s, and tho assets as slock in trade, Huntly, £55 17s 6d; book debs, £475; tho launch at Huntly, £6O; total, £590 Cl7a 6d, leaving a deficiency of £342 15s 6d. The list of creditors shows £730 due one timber company, £B2 due another, and £4 16s to a third. There are only three other creditors, one for £76, another for £3O 17s, and a third for 10s rent.