March 1909

An address titled 'A Straight Talk to Young Men' will be given to members of the Y.M.C.A in the Victoria Hall tomorrow evening.
An enquiry into loud singing and cheering heard at 9.30am Saturday morning found the source to be coming from the Te Waikato Sanatorium. A 'send-off' for some of the staff organized by patients and workers could be heard five miles away here in Cambridge.
The Waikato is experiencing a 'junior draught' as nearly no rain has fallen since Friday 29 January – four and a half weeks ago!
It is not generally known that women are eligible for election on a licensing committee. The Licensing Act provides that 'any duly registered elector' may be a candidate for a seat on a licensing committee, whereas the electoral Act restricts candidates to 'male persons'.
Several golfers were out playing on the local links yesterday, reporting that the outfield is in tolerably good order. When the greens are also put into order the conditions for play will be all that anyone can desire.
Some of the settlers at Taotaoroa have been burning their bush this season, with very satisfactory results.

The town is rapidly filling with visitors to the Show and all the available accommodation at the hotels and boardinghouses is being taken up.
A little while ago the Leamington Town Board made a move in the matter of having the name of the Post Office changed from the Cambridge West to Leamington. The matter is now engaging the attention of the postal authorities. Twenty-two runners started for the Marathon Race on Saturday last, from Howick to Auckland, slightly over 13 miles. The day was very hot and the road dusty and stony. About 5,000 people watched the finish at the Auckland Domain, when Hill beat Moore by about 80yds. The winner's time was 1 hour 18 minutes. Sixteen of the twenty-two competitors completed the distance.
The dressmaking classes in connection with the Auckland Technical College are being conducted by Miss Campbell at the Farmers' Club rooms every Tuesday, hours of attendance being 2 to 4pm and 7 to 9pm. The classes afford the fair sex an excellent opportunity to acquire greater proficiency in a very useful art.
The 25 German deserters in the French Foreign Legion who deserted in Morocco in December, have been sentenced to terms ranging from two to twenty years' penal servitude.

Mr J U Ransom, B.A., master at the Cambridge District High School, has received advice that he has been successful in securing a more lucrative position at the Thames High School, being appointed second master, with a salary of about £240 per annum.
A telegraph linesman named Cox, working at some overhead wires, fell across a 'live' cable which was carrying volts of electricity. Cox was practically roasted to death.
In Childers Queensland, a man named Spencer, enraged at a girl named Miss Swindall declining his attentions, shot her and afterwards himself. Spencer is dead, and Miss Swindall is in a critical condition.
At the Supreme Court sessions, at New Plymouth, on Tuesday, a youth named John William Garner pleaded guilty to forging a school certificate, and was admitted to probation for 12 months.
The continued unpunctuality in the Cambridge train service is getting past a joke, and it is about time a protest, loud and strong, was made by the business people. All previous records in steaming in late have now been broken, as during the last few days the incoming trains have frequently been anything from half an hour to an hour overdue.

The attendance at the Maungatautari School is on the increase, the highest yet recorded being 50, and if this keeps up the appointment of an assistant will be necessary.
In cutting a crop of maize on his farm yesterday, Mr J A Fitzgerald of Leamington, came across a stalk with eight cobs, all in one cluster, growing on it. A stalk with this peculiarity is said to be quite out of the common.
The rateable value of the Waikato County has been fixed at £1,305,000.
In a discussion on Maori taxation at the meeting of the Waikato County Council, one of the councilors remarked that the Maori had now come to be the white man's burden in the way of taxation, charitable aid, etc.
The growth of business has made it necessary for Mr W J Broad to still further increase the accommodation of his cheap cash store in Duke Street. The dividing wall between the shop and the adjoining premises has been removed and the whole of the space is now occupied by the grocery department, the proprietor thus being enabled to make a more attractive display of his goods than hitherto.

 

 

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