Local and General.

Waikato Times, Volume LV, Issue 6631, 1 February 1905, Page 2

Local and General.

Mr Austen Chamberlain, who is regarded, not alone by his fond father, as one of the most able of the younger generation of British statesmen, will be portrayed and described in next Saturday's Supplement to the Waikato Times. Another illustrated article will introduce the reader to Lord Charles Beresford. " The Influence of Great Women " will be exemplified from the lives of Lord Beaconsfield, Mr Gladstone and Lord Salisbury. Fiction, poetry, humour and pictures will be plentifully supplied. With regard to the duplication of the Auckland-Peurose railway line it 16 stated that the department sees no reason why the doubling of this line should not bo finished in readiness for traffic before the end of the present year. At Waihou on Saturday, on behalf of the Piaka County Council, Cr Bellamy opened tenders as follows for contract No 6, Thames Waikato Road : Deepening and widening drain, Waitoa, 92 chains, and forming road and grading; Wattam and Brumby, deepening 25s chain, grading £5; Wm Thompsom 13s and £Q ; S. Bellamy 12? 9d and £3 15s. Bellamy's tender being the lowest was excepted.

Arrangem.ntß are be'ng m ide by the Department of Industdes and Commerce to erect an exhibit of the colony's dairying industryat the Ind'an and Colonial Exhibition which is to be held at Crystal Palace, London, from May to October of the present year. The exhibit will consist of a structure built entirely of butter and cheese boxes, showing the brands of all the dairy factories in the colony, and the Department is already in communication with the various factories on the subject. An Auckland consignment of apples received in Christchurch on Monday was found by the Government Pomologist and inspector to be infected with codlin moth, but as only 5 per cjnt were bid the officials decided not to condemn the whole shipment. Instructions where given to destroy the affected parts of the shipment, and a warning was given by tin officials that prosecutions w.mld in future follow breaches of the Orchard and Gardeu Pests Act. The Waikato Poultry Club's committee will meet on Monday next as per advertisement in this issue. The secretary has a lot of important business to bring up, having made practically all the necessary arrangements for the next show, subject to approval of the committee. Show dates are fixed, judges appointed, permission granted by the Colonial Secretary for holding in art union, etc. The schedule will require careful consideration and is to be extended. We trust that a good number will attend the meeting and give the Poultry Show a good year. Mr Kaye, a Christchurch grain merchant who has just returned from a tour in Australia, says South Australia has had the best harvest on record, and the wheat was of the finest qra'ity ever grown there. In the nick of time in last October splendid rains fell, and the weather had sincj been favourable right up to the end of the harvest. The result would be that the consignments to Europe would give entire satisfaction to buyers. In Victoria the conditions had not been quite so favourable, but the quality was fair, though the bulk of the grain was not nearly so clean and well-har-vested as that from South Australia.

Walter Alex Riddell, youngest son of Mr Riddell, manager of the Taieri and Peninsula Milk Supply Company, and a brother of Mr W. G. Riddell, S.M. of Invercargill, died at Dunedin on Monday morning at the hospital, from the effects of ptomaine poisoning, caused by eating tinned tongues. Deceased (a mining student) and a young man named Trudgeon, partook of the tongues at Stoneburn on Friday, the 20th inst., and were conveyed in a state of collapse to Palmerston, and subsequently to Dunedin Hospital. No improvement showed itself in either of the sufferers from the moment of admission, and Trudgeon expired last Thursday evening.

An interesting function was conducted in the Masonic Hall, Hamilton, on Monday evening, when a Chapter was erected and constituted. A number of Royal Arch Freemasons attended from Wellington, Wairarapa, Auckland, Paeroa and Thames to take part in the consecration service and the installation of the Ist, 2nd, and 3rd Principals. After the Consecration, which was conducted by M.E. Companion G. Fowlds, D.G.Z., and which was a most impressive ceremony, M.E. Comp. O. Nicholson, G.G.Z, proceeded with the installation, as follows: Companion A. Bartlett, Z.; Companion J. Mack. H; Companion L. T. Williams, J. The other officers were then invested by Companion Nicholson. Th 6 visiting companions then sat down to an excellent supper in the Royal Hote l , and were entertained !in Host Mackenzie's best style. The usual loyal and Masonic toasts were duly honoured. The fraternity in the Waikato is to be congratulated on the establishment in Hamilton of a Royal Arch Chapter and on the evident iuterest being taken in Capitular Freemasonry. At the Cambridge Police Court yesterday morning, before Messrs G. W. Venable3 and E. J. Wilkinson, J.P.'s, the case, Jas. Conder v. W. Oliver (claim £2 for alleged detention of cattle, and £l6 value of the same), was heard. Neither was represented bj counsel. The ev dence of plain tiff was to the effect that he left a mob of some 50 calves in defendant's paddocks, at 6d per week per animal. He removei all but five, Oliver retaining these till the grazing was paid for. Conder stated he gave Oliver a oheque for the grazing, but Oliver, after consulting a friend, decided this was worthless. Plaintiff declared that Oliver, although having been paid for the grazing and given a receipt for the money so paid, refused to hand over the cattle, hence the action brought against him, Oliver, ia his evidence, stated that on telling Conder the cheque was worthless, the latter agreed to leave the five head of stock as security and to substitute cash for the cheque. He had not refused to hand the cattle over to Conder. Herbert Bullock corroborated defendant's evidence, and the case was dismissed, costs £3 7s being awarded against the plaintiff. McCormick machines have been tested through seventy-four harvests, and have grown in favour through each one. 7 A man does not entertain violent spleers against the world, or feel vain desires to reform it in tho twinkling of an eye while he is wearing a pair of the '• The General" Boots purchased at Stanton's Golden Gate Boot Store, Wesley Buildings, Hamilton. 6 PAIN IN THE STOMACH. SOMETHING IS WRONG. Your head aches, yon feel dull and generally miserable, perhaps you are bilious, your system needs cleansing. Take a dose of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablet?, and the work is done. They are easy to take and prompt and pleasant in effect. For sale by W. DEY", Hamilton; THOS WELLS, Cambridge; GEO. M. A. AHIER, Te Awamutu ;GREEN AND COLEBROOK, Ngaruawbiaj CHAS. DALLAS, Taumar. unai,

The next practice of the recently formed ElauriltonlOi'chestraljSociety wi 1 be held on Tuesday evening uixt, when it is hoped there will be a good intend i no of in unbars, is the rules of the society wnlb -i sub nitted and discussed. The following matches wore played on iho Cambridge Bowling duo's 0 n Monday last:— J. Forga ■on ( I'-i) an 1 J ttivers (32). Handicap pair,-*, Young and Ferguson (17) beat A. Wallace and K. J. Roberts (15). Champion fours : A Wal'ace G. E. Clark. J. Rivers aid P. 0' Poole (2i) bea' J. Young, T. Wei is . It J. liob iis aid T. Kicin.rds ( 5). At the Hamilton su'ey rds, to-morrow, the N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Coy., Ltd., will hold their uiouthly silo. A special feature of the sale will be t:.j large number ot prime beef and tat: cows to be offered, Good lines of calvtw, mixed cattle an i .at sheep will al-o be brought forward. The tale starts at VI o'clock null the fat stock. A well knowa Maori woman, named Heni Nohoaka, died at Gisborne on Sunday, ayed 75. In 1860 her husband, Henare Nihoniho was killed at Waiapu by llauhnus, in revenge. Hani personally led the fighting party against the Hauhuus, and defeated them. Her hapu was Te-ao-Wera, a great fighting hapu, of the Ngatiporou tribe. Deceased was buried in the Kaita cemetery. A meeting of the St. Patrick's Day Sports Committee was held last evening, when arrangements were made re advertising the sports. This committee does not mean to spare any effort to ensure the success of the gathering, and everything points to the 17th of xMarch being a red letter day in respect to sports gatherings in Hamilton. Several handsome trophies have already been promised the committee, while subscriptions are coming in well. An adjourned meeting in connection with the proposed Young Men's Club was held in St. Peter's Schoolroom, Hamilton, last night, the iiev. N. Eadcliifc presiding. It was reported that 4tj young men had promised to join the club, and it was mentioned that a good many more were likely to do so. It was therefore decided to start the club as soon as the building can be erected. Intending members should send in their names to the secretary, Mr F. A. Swarbrick, It is hoped to have the institution fairly started in March. Mr Langley Shaw, land and estate agent Hamilton, reports the following important sales for the month of January:—Mr Joseph Barugh'a property, " Wartle," containing 898 aores, to Mr W. A. Oliver, of Wairarapa, for a sum approaching five figures (cash sale): Mr George Lusby's valuable flax area, Hukanui road, comprising 500 acres, to Mr J- Barugh for a substantial figure (c sh sale); Mr Charles Lusby's choice farm of 10'J acres, adjoining, for £ooo cash, to .me buyer; section 22, containing 10 acres, Riverview Estate, the I property of Mr A. F, Chamberlin, to Mrs I Spears, Kirikiriroi, for j63CJ, cash ; lease of I Mr A. F. Chamberlin's choice residence, I together with 15 acres of land, for a period j of 9 months to Mr J. Barugh (cash transaction.

Messrs Fitzgerald Bros' world-rerowned circus performed at Cambridge last evening to a large audience. The programme submitted was of the usunl varied order, the uovelties introduced certainly adding interest to the performance. The Osaka tr..upe of Japanese wrestlers attracted considerable attention, and the exhibition given by them was most unique. Dr Gordon, the strong man, needs to be seen to be appreciated; his weight-lifting acts are marvellous in the extreme. The exhibition by a wonderful little troupe of performing dogs and a goat greatly delighted those present. All the other items, the equestrian, tripaze, juggling, wire walking and the comic turns, were fully up to the standard of merit inseparably associate 1 with the name of Fitzgerald Bros. Our Matangri correspondent writes: — The anunal picnic in connection with the Tamahere public school was held in a paddock kindly lent for the occasion by Mr A. Casey, on Monday lust, and judging by the number of children and parents present, and the happy expression on every face, it must be pronounced an unqualified success. Fortunately, the weather was everything that could be desired till about six p.m., when a severe thunderstoam broke on those who stayed to enjoy games in the cool, and had the effect of damping their ardour somewhat. Eaces were run for the various prizes, which, by-the-way, would have been a credit to any school of the size, and when the prizes were allotted to their respective winners, tilting at the ring was indulged in by " grown up's," and winners turned up in Misses Hunt and Pickering tnd Messrs Wallace and Devine. Tea was then partaken of, and after justice had been done to the good things provided, and after everyone seemed contented, cheers were called for Messrs Casey, Newell, and Jaffrey, and the ladie3 who so kindly provided refreshments, after which the gathering gradually dispersed. Messrs H. B. Morton & Co., Auckland, are buyers of sun-dried fungus. Mr F. E. Smith, Hamilton, invites tenders for the erection of a cottage at Kirikiriroa. The manager of the Lake Estate, Hamilton, advertises accommodation for travelling stock. The Town Clerk of Hamilton inserts a notice which will be of interest to dilatory ratepayers. The cheapest and best place for general drapery and clothing is at A. H. Adams' Victoria-street, Hamilton. 7