The Waikato Independent. TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1914. Local and General.

Waikato Independent, Volume XVIII, Issue 1440, 28 April 1914, Page 4

The Waikato Independent. TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1914. Local and General.

A popular dance will be held at Hautapu to-morrow evening. We learn that the Agricultural Department has decided to establish a co-operative fruit-testing acre on Mr S. J. Fortescue’s property near tbe -? e . railway station. Negotiations in this connection were instituted by the ■ Te Awamutu Chamber of Commerce in the - early part of the year, and it is undoubted that the establishment pf this experimental plot in this district will do much to demonstrate she value commercial orcharding here. —Post. For Children’s Hacking Cough at night Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, ’ 1/6. 2 6d

According to the King Country Chronicle, a Mr Wisk, a Waitomo County employee, is the happy father of triplets, and to mark their appreciation of the event the Waitomo County Councillors have decided to grant him a bonus of £o.

Fourteen polo ponies, which are to accompany a party of New Zealand polo players to India Jn June next, were railed to Hastings last week. The ponies word purchased in the Waikato and will be trained in the Hawke’s Bay before being shipped to India-

A military defaulter at the Magistrate’s Court at Christchurch said that he could not attend drill, as the trousers issued to him were “not lit for a donkey to wear.’’

The Mangaweka Settler is horrified to learn that some ladies, travelling through Palmerston by train, last week, were smoking cigarettes. The Reform Government, as usual, is blamed. • .

A number of very choice musical, selections were rendered at the flower show on Friday and Saturday nights, the contributors being Messrs T. and A. Boyce and D. Mason. Mr Geo. Wilson also.gave a.,humorous item each evening, which was very well received.

The sale of blooms at the Chrysanthemum Show on Saturday evening gave a return to the societv of £4 Ms. ,

The attendance at the Chrysanthemum Show on Saturday afternoon was somewhat interferred with by the bad veather, but in the evening there .were a good number present. The takings at the doors for the two days were about £22, the net return from the refreshment department will be in the vicinity of £8 and the weight guessing realised M 17s -altogether a very satisfactory result. The president informs us a meeting will be held in the course of a few days, when a complete balance-sheet will be presented.

The Reform Party’s monthly magazine, “.Light aud Liberty,’ has. made a careful analysis of the newspapers of the Dominion, and finds that the actual percentage of papers supporting the Reform Party is only 26.74 while 53.48 per cent support the Liberals, -and 19 78 percent maintain an independent attitude.”

A big line of store wethers realised 19s 2d at auction in Masterton .last week. This is an indication that there is an abundance of grass in the district, and an abundance of faith in the markets.

The Rev. J. Dawson, general secretary of the New Zealand Alliance, speaking at a meeting at Christchurch, said that imported speakers for the no- license cam paign this year would include the Rev. R. B. & Hammond, of Sydney, ex-Governor Stubbs, of Kansas, and Mr and Mrs Philip Snowden, of Great Britain, Mr Snowden is the well-known Labour member for in the House of Commons, and one of the orators of the Socialist movement. He is, however, a strong opponent of syndicalism. ‘ ■ 1

Any war veterans desiring to be present at the unveiling of the hatchments in St- Andrew’s Church, Cambridge on May the 7th, arq requested to send their names to the acting Vicar, the Rev- G. C. Cruickshank, when seats will be reserved for,, them.

A large and luscious mushroom has been forwarded to our office by Mrs Hall, oi Hautapu. as a sample, no dbubt, of what is grown on her farm without cultivation.

Mrs A. Blackman and Mr 0. W. Mcßride were the donors of a turkey.' each for the weight guessing at the Chrysanthemum Show, and the sum of £4 17s was realised in sixpenny guesses.

Mr Taylor, of the China Inland Mission, who, with Mrs Taylor, is at present on furlough in the Dominion, has just completed a series of addresses in Cambridge; On Sunday he preached in the morning in the Presbyterian Church, and in the evening in the Methodist Church to large congregations. , In the afternoon he told his story to the children of the united Sunday Schools, while on Monday evening he addressed a large and much impressed gathering in the,,Victoria Hall, at which the Rev. W. J. Gow presided. Mr Taylor is a remarkably fluent speaker, and he keeps his audience filled with interest, by the thrilling and versatile nature of his- narrative, His outline of the political, ‘military, and social state of the greatest and youngest Repnbhc was vivid, and his references to the leading characters who are just now making history there were full of life and instructiveness. But the most stirring- portion of his lecture last evening wts his discription of the social and, insanitary surroundings of Missionary life as he and his fellow Missionaries have experienced them in Ghefow. A hearty round of applause greeted him as be resumed •'his seat. • <

How often does your husband get drunk ?’* was asked of a woman at the Gisborne Court. “Oh, I shall say ( fully fourteen times in a fortnight,'’was the ready reply.

It is stated on good authority, that owing to the bountiful generosity of the antimilitarist portion of the community during the military year just ended, the New Zealand Defence Department is now a self-sup-porting institution. —Christchurch Star.

The failure of a New Plymouth •debtor to add exchance to a cheque for an amount sued for led the solicitor for the creditor to sue for the sixpence. Judgement was given for this small amount, together with 5s Court costs and ss-solicitor’s fee.

A splendid record is held by the retiring Mayor of Onslow near Wellington. During, the three years in which he has been Mayor the council met sixty-one times, and there were 122 committee meetings. Mr Holdsworth stated last night that he had , not missed, one of these.

The Rev. G.| Cruiekshank, who will act as locum tenens during the absence in England of Rev. C. Morti-mer-Jones, preached at St. Andrew’.s on Sunday evening, giving a splendid address, which was attentively listened to by the congregation. *

_ A very old native named Mam died at Maungatautari last Friday night. He bad been blind and decrepit for many years and had been In rec.eipt of an old age pension, but prominent Maori in the stirring times preceding the Orakau fight. He was among the wounded at Rangiadhia and used to declare that his mother was bayoneted in four places during that fight.

Too much money is being spent on our land Defence forces and not enough on naval defence. We are dependent on the sea for our existence through the export cf our produce, and I favor strengthening the Imperial Navy or coming to some arrangement with the Australian Government.”—A prominent local man’s views on the present Defence scheme.

One dairyman at the farmer’s meeting on Friday afternoon, exr pressed the opinion that it would be good business for the Cambridge Co-operative Dairy Co. to enter into the retail trade in Auckland. He mentioned that he Had sampled many makes of butter in the city and not one equalled the Cambridge product in point of quality. Another dairy concern retailed its butter from door to door in Auckland, quitting about ten tons per week, and he was confident a large portion of - that trade, could be captured. It was pointed out to him, however, that the present local trade was. as much as could be handled with the plant now available. .

The annual genera) meeting of the Shareholders of the Waipa Railway and Collieries, Ltd, was held at Wellington, on Tuesday last, the 21st April. The report indicated that ‘ the company’s railway from Ngaruawahia to Te Akatea was practically completed, and the chairman of the meeting stated that the company expected to be, putting coal on the market in May. At the mine, the screening plant, outhouses and machinery were all erected, and the development work at the mine itself had progressed sufficiently to enable the company to put coal upon tne market immediately the ballasting work on the railway was completed. Messrs Maurice Casey, Charles Stew-' art, and Dr C. P. Knight, the retiring directors, were re-elected, as were the retiring auditors.

No man is a hero to his valet, and by the same reason no man is a hero to his chauffeur. Therefore a chauffeur’s opinion is unbiased. “He is the finest man I ever drove; I have driven all the big officers, but never saw.anyone like him—he's white right through, and always has something kind to say”. This .was the. opinion of the chauffeur who drove Sir lan Hamilton during his visit to the big Liverpool 'encampment in New South Wales. The opinion is a general one. It’s a great pity indeed that he could not be retained in Australian,” said a senior-staff officer. “He has a wonderful personality. If he could only be secured here as General Officer Commanding, what a wonderful change it would make.” 1 The yearly report on the works undertaken for 1913 was presented at the meeting of the Cambridge Domain Board this morning. It referred chiefly to the new bowling greens and the various general improvements made at the Domain. BOUGHT A BOTTLE. “I Had pains in my legs which the doctor said was rheumatism,” writes Mr B jbert Cochrane, Builder, Waimihia N.Z. ‘‘Sis lotion did‘me no good and I suffered misery. I saw a friend using some liniment which he told me was Chamberlain's Pain Balm and offered me his bottle to try it. It did me so much good that I bought a bottle myself and was soon free of all pains , •

A reminder is given of the very j excellent picture programme arranged for Thursday evening at the Town : Hall- One of fhe popular Patho color dims will be screened, and the - general assortment is altogether high class. '

The New Zealand Loan and Mer- I cantile Agency Go.. Ltd., will hold '•* a stock sale at Matamata, on Wednesday 29th inst., for- which they harve an entry of 900 cattle, compris- ' ing fat steers and cows, 3 and 3J year old steers and empty cows in fresh condition from Papamoa, 18-months to 2 year old steers, strong calves, also sheep and pigs. Full particulars are advertised td-day.

A meeting of the Cambridge Domain Board was held this morning, when the balance-sheet was received back from the Auditor-General. It showed receipts £330 15s Id and expenditure £397 12s 3d —this for the year ended 31st December, 1913. The clerk reported cash in hand £9 13s 7d, rents outstanding £ll4 , j-J s 6d, and liabilities £33. The only tag ‘to the balance*sheet v/as one stating there was no authority for the expenditure of the Board’s-funds on lighting the Domain.

A deputation from ithe Bowling Olub consisting of Messrs J. and M. Butler, waited oh the Domain Board this morning ' with.a request 1 that the new green be squared off at ; the* south-east corner to; permit of two full rinks. At present the curve makes the existing rinks somewhat - 1 shprt, and to comply with the request the paths would have to be’ diverted. The Bowling Club is willing to contribute to the cost. —It was admitted by members of the Board that the 1 Bowling Club was doing .good worki and the requested wax unanimously granted.