Local and General.

Waikato Times, Volume LVII, Issue 7004, 8 May 1906, Page 2

Local and General.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Limited, hold a clearing sale at Fuucourt tomorrow on account of Mr J. T. Major, who id leaving the district, kome nice dairy stock will be sold as well as some thoroughly good and useful horses. The sale will commence at 12 o'clock with the household effects. Empire Day, May 24th, is to be an eventful timu in Hamilton. The second Regiment Auckland Mounted Bines is announcing a programme consisting of a military tournament on Sydney Square at 11 a.m., the annual regimental dinner and social reunion of ail vrho hove fought in South f- frica, to be held iu the Town Hall at ti.'M, and the regimental ball at U p.m. The third social evening in connection with St. Andrew's Bible Classes \va6 held in the classroom yesterday evening. There was a large number present and songg were contributed by Mrs M. Parker and Qualtrough ; recitation, Mr O'Hara ; solo, Miss Parker ; duett, Miss a,cd Mrs Adams. The rest of the evening was spent in various games. The ladies kindly provided supper, and a pleasant evening concluded with the singing of the National Anthem.

The cuiruut ics'jo of the magazine connected with Dr. Baruaido's Homes, which, wo notice, has resumed its oid title of Night and Day, states that the emigration season far 190b' opened on March Bth, with the departure of 22'6 boys for Canada. This party will be followed by others in .May, July, September and October. The managers r.ope this year to send forth to the Domiaion 1,200 people all told. Those will cost at least £12,000, and a special appeal is being made to the charitable for the necessary funds.

The Imperial (iovernrnent hasgrai.t i iJIO.OOO for the purpose of sending an exhibit, representing British and education, to the New Zealand International Exhibition, which will be opened next November in Christchurch. Negotiations are in progress to provide for the appearonce at the Exhibition of a troupe of Javanese dancers and jugglers; this was one of the most attractive shows at the Paris Inhibition, and it is to be hoped that the arrangements will bo successfully carried through. The same negotiations provide for the supply of eight rickshaws for use in the Exhibition grounds.

We may now say good bye To the long doctors' bills, To the coughs and the colJo And the various chills, For the high and the low, The rioj and the poor— Have found all titey need — Woods' Peppermint Cute. 8

We learn on inquiry from Mr W. i. Graham that there is serious distress among the Maoris in this district owing to shortage of food, consequent on the failure of the potato crop. His statements are amply corroborated by the Rev. Hawkins, Anglican missionary to the Native?.

Wo have received a oopy of New Zealand Railway Review, the monthly organ of the Amalgamated .Society of Railway Servants. It had just been doubled in si/e, has passed under now editorship, and its 30 pages ire packed with matter, largely original, of great interest to railwayman, and not altogether dry to the general reader. It should prove a valuable means of expression f. r the spirit of comradeship that is so marked a characteristic of tho servioe, and do good work in advocating the interests of the railwayman.

Under the direction of the Rev. Hawkins of the Anglican Maori Mission, the 12 acreproperty lately ?old by Mr F. Forrest, nurseryman, at Hukaaui, is to be couverted into a nursing home and missi ;n station. Misses Heron and Brereton, fiom Nelson, after completing their training at St. Mary's Home, Otahuhu, will take up their residence at Hukanui, next June, and a centre of teaching and nursing will be established there. Ma >ri girls will be trained, and nurses will be sent as required to the settlements of the district. It is intended to form similar centres at Waharoa, Taupo and Otorohanga.