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Waikato Argus, Volume XXXV, Issue 5620, 28 May 1914, Page 2

On fourth page: America Cup and Level Railway Crossings.

The Government has decided to furnish annually, free of charge, to all District High Schools, a copy of the New Zealand i ear Book. An election to fill two extraordinary vacancies on the Kirikiriroa Road Board was held yesterday, and the polling resulted as follows: John McGregor 133, Frederick Alexander Wilson 112, Harry Eldred Vincent 64.

At the last sitting of the Magistrate's Court, Te Awamutu, Chas. E. Kichdale, farmer, Te Bore, was fined i'2 and costs for failing to destroy rabbits. Notice of appeal was given. A first oflender, who was fined 5a and costs for being drunk in Victoria street, Hamilton, yesterday, told Mr Tidd, J 11.,I 1 ., who was on the bench this morning, that he felt his back a bit crook, and took some whisky ior it, but had taken too much.

"Denny" Murphy, the Masterton pugilist, says the Wairarapn Age, has accepted an offer from the Hamilton Boxing Association to box Mitchell, a Hamilton welter-weight, for a purse of £6O. Murphy has therefore postponed the trip to Sydney that he prouosed taking. A Canterbury farmer who travelled through Taranaki the other week took home with him as curiosities the toll tickets that he accumulated during a day's tour in a motor car. There were three slips, representing tolls to the amount of 10s 6d. As he recko cd, the Hawera County Council had charged him 3s to pass through its gates, the Taranaki County Council had collected ss, and the Eltham County Council had been content with a modest half-crown. - Hawera Star.

Writing an open letter to one of the proprietors of a North Island freezing works, a well-known Hawke's Bay farmer, in discussing the vexed question of freezing works weights, makes the following suggestion: If you visited a coal mine on the West Coast you would see every truck of coal coming from the mine pass over a weigh-bridge. Inside the weigh-house you will see two clerks tallying the scale. One clerk is in the company's employ, and the other is paid by the men. The result is satisfactory to both parties. Why could not this system be put into practice in freezing works?

The underwriters interested in insurance against appendicitis have doubled the premium, says the Daily News and Leader. A few months ago, the price per £IOO was fixed at 10s, hut so great was the number of claims that it has now been raised to £l. It is interesting to note that with the raising of the premium the malady was substantially abated. Intending policy holders are required to answer five questions as to their state of health.

The first weekly meeting of the Wesley Guild, Hamilton, was held in the schoolroom last evening, when there was a large attendance, and the interest manifested must be taken as a good augury for a successful season. The subject ior the evening was "Practical Christianity," introduced in.a capital paper by Mr J. M. Junes. The discussion which followed was free and animated, and the president (Rev. J. Wrigley) summed up in an e'oquent speech dealing with the sbuject in an individual, commercial, municipal, state and national setting. It may not be generally known, remarks a contemporary, that a farmer is privileged to shoot imported game on his own property during the authorised season, without being

the holder of a shooting A case hearing on this point was mentioned at the last meeting ( of the council of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society, when one of the rangers reported having caught the son of an unlicensed farmer in possession of game. Reference to the Act showed that a farmer could shoot either on his own property or allow a member of his family to shoot under a written permit. As no such permission had been given in the ease cited, it was resolved to consult the society's solicitor concerning the advisability of prosecuting. Mr Carnegie's latest project to stimulate the peace propaganda is to purchase 50,000 copies of a picture, which he will distribute broadcast to college and university students. The original of the picture, which was drawn for a New York illustrated paper by Angus McDonnell, is in a conspicuous place on Mr Carnegie's desk. It represents a father about to go to the front, saying farewell to bis wife and a poiden-haired girl of ten. A saddled horse and an attendant wait in the background. The little girl's arms are about the soldier's neck. "Daddy," the little girl is represented assaying, "are you going to kill some other little girl's father?" Already copies have been sent to students in China, Japan, India, and Turkey, and the ironmaster proposes to place them in every college and university in the world. Since Mr Carnegie created the peace endowment fund of £20,000,000, his friends say he has

been continually thinking of other

plans for abolishing war. The latest scheme involves the expenditure of only a few hundreds of pounds, but Mr Carnegie believes that the pathetic picture, revealing, in a few bold strokes, the little girl's solicitude for some other little girl's father, will appeal eloquently to the universal instinct of humanity, SYNOPSIS OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS Ford car for sale. Cheque for £3 lost. Lost—Mackintosh coat. Lost—Lady's overcoat. Two good horses wanted. Young man wanted for farm. Owner wanted for collie dog. Manson and Barr—Ridd Milking Machines. Viekery, Ltd. —Notice under the Companies Act. J. R. Fow and Co.—Sale of poultry, etc. Wanted -Junior for accountancy in law office. Farmers' Freezing Company, Waikato branch —Notice re shares. Bond and Co. —Sale of borough lease. Thomson and Farrer—Tenders for claying and sanding. Board and lodging required by young lady. Wilson ami Canham, Frankton— Purchasers of wool, sheepskins, etc. Waikato Winter Show— Pandita Ramabai's Mission Stall.