LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume LVII, Issue 8047, 2 November 1906, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The next outward San Francisco mail will close at Hamilton on the 16th inst, at 9.15 a.m. Money orders should be obtained by 1.30 p.m., and letters registered before 5 p.m. ou the loth mst. The e!e. tion of four members to seats on the Fencourt Dratnige Board will take pWee on Muudtty nex r . The candidates are ileesrs B. Swayne, J. Haanon, T. W. Brown, A. Jamieaon, \V. M. F. Cuatea and RII. Lund.

A meeting of Cambridge farmers to discuss the matter of acquiring Messrs VlcXteol and Co.'s auctioneering bu.iness, will be held to-morrow at 1.3U p.m. At the same meeting the question of erecting a suitable horse bazaar in the centre of the township will be discussed.

The funeral of the late Mr A. H. Norris took place at tho Cambridge cemetery yesterday, aud wad attended by a number of persouil friends of deaeasel. T.ie ttov. T. Fee conducted the service. It was the wish of deceased's relatives that he should be buried at Cambridge alongside his father and two brothers.

Cambridge anglers were astir early yesterday, and the anticipation that the Waikato nyer will provide an ever increasing aumber of ti-h seem tJ ba proving orree'.. N'early every fisherman who was out iand-<-d some fish. Abjut 10.000 trout fry were liberated iu the river at Cambridge o-,i Wednesday last. Itubart Weeks, a lad of about seventeen, employed at the Tiupirt e >al mines, uijt vvitn an accident this moruiug. Being employed iu driving tiio horse drawing the slack to thy tip, he went to the stables aiad proceeded to noo th* aaiinU to work. It reired and turned a somersault. Weeks fell underlie»th and was very badly crusn••l. Dr. .Yloukj atter seeing Inm, ordered kia removal to the II »unlton Hospital. The following will represent the Hamilton Cricket Club in tneir match against the Suburos ou Saturday :—Millar, Connolly, lurbott, Poneroy, Edwtrds, -on, PriuOtf, tjothorpc l , Biackmaii, Jeffries ind Houghton, hmeigoncies: Wors.ey, Meaehoiu, Nicholson, Uarroway aud tloneyc mbe. Fiay will commence at 2.15 p.m. sharp. The following players will represent the suburbs: Piatt, Elgood, Sutton, hoven, Luxford, Tiubshaw, Moore, j S. J. Fortescue, L. Fortbsoue, Hargreaves, La beau.

Owing to the rising of tho House, and tie departure of the Premier to CbristobuTco, a uonimunic.itiou from tbe Mayor of Hamilton regard ng the drainage loan and the railway sidiug could not be 00'.ideied. In consequence of the votes required for the Exhibition, other grants have had to hi cut down, consequently uothing Lus been dune this session regarding tbe WhaUwhata-Kaglan road. Mr H. J. Greenalade, M.H.lt., has in hand the matters mentioned in tha Mayor's coinmuuicatioo.

The two constables stationed at Taibttpe are tatd to work vciy hard in order to ke<p toe town in a d..ceat state of sobriety, 'the average number of men Iccked up ptr month in the bush metropolis is fourteen, the total for the year reading 1-10. Foi the week ended Ootuber Is, fifteen " b.er sinkrs"weru sobered in tho cells, where they wore packed like frozen mutton. One Taibape J P., has sat on the bench one hundred times" during the present yoar, and i: is stated that iu Consequence of enforced negleot of his business, he is petitioning the S:ate to reimburse him for his loss.

On Monday, tho New Zaaland Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., instructed by Mr J. Kewisb, of fulukitii, who has disposed if his property, will hold a clearing sale on thrf place at II'SJ o'clock. The dairy cows,; forty-four in, all, are a very choice lot, thirty of theui being in full mi.k and the remainder very elosoj also pur.bred Ayrshire bulls, three useful horses, pigs, fowls, and dairy rujusit'js will be offered, as wyjl as a light milk wagon and spring wagon in first olass order. Lunchron will be provided at 11 o'clock, aud full particulars maybe soeu in the Company's advertising column. On Wtduesday, the members of St. Andrew's Lawn Tennis Club held ai " at noma " on the Courts, to fittingly mark the opening of the season. In tho absent}' of the President, Mr U, S. Dixon, the courts were declared open by Mr Kocl;p, who expressed regret that the bad weather mitigated against a better attendance, and a wish that tho season u-ight be successful in every resp ct. Afternoon tea was dispensed by lady nonbers, aud a number of scratch t.atnes were playel. The intenti n is to hold another "at home" in about a month's time, when the pre: idential invitations sent cut for Weduisdays' function will hold 'jood. It is understod (wired the Wellington correspondent of the Star yesterday), that the Mini&t r for Lands, who int mated his intention of making an i fflcial tour of the Auckland province about the middle of January roxt, has, in deference to the pressing wishes of the firming oommunity, who desired h m to be present nt the acriculturnl chows at Opotikl and elsewhere, deferred his visit until a month later. 1 his arrangement will enable Mr McNab to give i U'ect to the wishes 11 the settlers, and at the stme time wdl nil'rd bun an excellent opportunity of judgi.g ol the and n >|n roiuuutb of the dis'ricta iu the Northern province.

'The P.hiatua describes its *'loathj some contemporary "in these chaste and elegant terms:—"A p <r, weik-beaded ; illi'erato starve'ing, a half human smiich I on adicent pr< f. ssi n, who grossly maltreats and butchers the King's Vng\ h. : and whose daily jibberins; on politics ami | other thing- proclaims him to be as neur an approach to tho congenital idiot or the | ment i paralytic is it is possible to be, and I yet be permitted to go at laitre. He is in every serife a human SUpeiflaity, sonvj thing that is not wanted, that seivcß do : u!-e!ul puri-ose in the pi n of creation but \ that must ba provided f r, a moral exc ;-- ! eenco, a rrental wart, an ugly protuherar.ee '■ on the intellectual iaoe of Nature."

Uur'ng the session jmt closed Io.J Bibs received the Royal as.-ent, one was reserved tor tho signification of His Majesty's p'easure, and 7o were dropped or otherwise disponed if. 'l'liree priI va'o lliila received tho Royal assent. Al'ugother B"7 petitions wore re oeived. There were 33 divisions iu the House and 110 in Committee, a total ef 1 13. The li ur- of sitting before rnidiight totalled 2!)!) and alter midnight N hours, a total of 307 hours, or a daily avtr.ige of a little over 7. Ministers were asked o7s questions, and 1904 entries wtre made in the journals of the House, Orders were made for G6 pipers. Ttie p-.pers laid on the table t 'tailed 221, and the reports from select committees numbered 413. "Are you going to the Exhibition?"— faeuis to ba the burning question of the day. The question whioh really interests you Mr Clothes.wearer is—" Have you seen tho exhibition of lovely suitings in V, Houghton's window ? " They are all at one pr'oo, ninety-five shillings. It will cost you nothing to look, and it will save your money to order eae, 1; tbure is nothing in the window to suit your taste, ju-t walk inside and you will he suited at V. Houghton's (up-to-date tailoring establishment, Hamilton. a

Messrs Davis hnd Co. have an auction snip to monoiv of hor;ed, pigs, poultry und furniture.

Messrs King and Co. will sell at tbeir mart;, Hood-street, to-morrow, at 2 o'clock, furniture, potatoes, ducfais, turkeys, and o tor pmltry.

inquiries continue to be made" for farm land in the Cambridge district. Hardly a week eons hy without one of the three laudagents seen in the company of a |.n. pnciivo t.uynr. Property within the borough continues firm, and the erection of tho now bridge should see a substantial alvance in the value of business frontages.

Wo rp*ret to record Ihe death of Mr I'r .) r ck Arthur Bat- man.son of Mr G C. I! it' iu in, of Hamilton, whioh took pine at Au.-kUnd on Wednesday. Deceased, who had long been a sufferer, had iust returned r roai a trip to Australia, tiken in the hope •hat his health would benefit:. He was so run down on his return, however, that he had to enter a private hospital, where his d'*ath took place as stated. The desirableness of having a night stock train run from the Waikato to Aucklad was rnferred to the meeting of the Auckland Farmers' Freezing Company, Ltd., on Wednesday (says the Herald) Mr J. C. Allen, who introduced the subject, considered such a train was absolutely necessary, as under existing arrangements c nsiderable delay occurred in getting stock to the works to he killed, and the condition of the nimals deteoriated in consequence. He suggested that it might he arr inged that i train would leave Frwnklon Junction at eight or nine o'c eck each evening, and come straight through to town. Another speaker Raid the stock would arrive in bet'er condition if carried at night. It was d»cirlclto co-vene a meeting of fanners nd others interested at show time, with a view 11 appointing a largo and influential d-notation to wait upon the Railway Department in regard to the matter.

For Hire; Tents, Marquees, Crockery, Cutlery, and Glassware at I rid and fctant u's Imperial Confectionery and Grocery Stores, Hamilton. f3