WAIKATO DISTRICT NEWS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 36, 10 January 1884, Page 2

WAIKATO DISTRICT NEWS.

(From the N. Z. Herald, 4th Jan., 1888.) Hamilton, Thursday. Mb. Biss, Chief Postmaster, arrived here yesterday, and left the same afternoon for Te Aroha, Mr. Biss, it is understood, visits Te Aroha to sec tor himself what better plan can ba arranged for the transmission of the mails to tnat place than at present. The state of the roads hea made it impossible for the. can. tractor to carry out the arrangement of vesting the goods.train leaving Hamilton thiee days in the week for Auckland, and, as a Consequence, the Te Aroha mail for Auckland haa been delayed in Hamilton till next day in three cases out of five. There is a very general wish amongst school teachers in Waikato that the January Teachers' Examination should be held at some convenient place in that district, and thus Uta them the expense (no email matter to pnpn teachers on £3O a year) and loas of time in attending the examination in Auckland. About twenty teachers will, without such arrangement, have to absent themselves from the district for several days, Ohaupo would be within easy riding distance of a large majority of the teachers interested, and accessible by railway to others. In all probability the mills of the Waikato Sawmill Company will be erected neither at Cambridge nor at Hamilton, but a Ngarttawahia. Mr. Green, who has inspected me three townships, with a view to selecting the future site of operations, sent in hia report to the company on Monday, and recommends Ngaruawahia. The question of choice is a most important one to the township selected, and It means the establishment of a considerable industry there, and one which is likely to last for some years, as the totara bush at Waotu, which is heavily timbered, consists of about 1,200 acres. There are many reasons why it was thought Hamilton would be the site selected, the chief of which was its being the junction of all the railways, and that the company possess a fine level site of several acres of river frontage, with easy approach to the East Hamilton railway-station immediately adjoining. The late Professor Holloway, who has just died, was a donor of two guineas to the building fund of St. Peter's Church, Hamilton, at the time it was erected. Cambbidge, Thursday. Mr. C. J. W. Barton, the notification of whose appointment as canvasser for the proposed Farmers’ Co-operative Association appeared in the Herald of Monday last, was present on the racecourse on Tuesday, ant received several promises of support from settlers there. He has also received communications from settlers on the Wairoa and other districts promising that if the proposed association is made a provincial and not a local institution it will be generally supported. The newly-formed road between here and Botorua is now open for wheeled traffic. In summer the journey may be easily done by buggy in the day. The ton of cheese sold by auction by Mr. J. W. Hunter for the Te Awamutu Cheese Factory was all disposed of, the greater portion bringing 4d. and the remainder up to 6d. per lb., averaging about 4}d.

The cricket-match between the Waikato and Waipa counties comes off in the Government paddock on Saturday, after which the Waikato representative team, which goes up to Auckland on Monday the 14th inst., to play the city clubs there, will be chosen. Hvstly, Thursday. The local sports on New Year’s Day were a great success. The committee deserve great credit for the arrangements, Mr. William Collins, the coal mine manager, being a host in himself. About 11 a.m. the steamer Bangiriri made her appearance from Ngaruawahia, crowded with passengers, and other districts were largely represented. The Hamil-

i'4> Hund, nnjw tl>« übk omductoiwhir of Mr, Holloway, added much to the general enjoyment. The events, both in horse-races and athletic sports. were keenly contested, and came off without a hitch. In the even, ing, the Hamilton Band, who were the guests of Mr. L. B. Hanis, played opposite the hotel, and furnished the music for a ball at which some forty couples kept up the dancing with spirit till nearly daylight. Wkatawhata, Thursday. A survey of Mr. Hindle's property shows that a great portion of the farm buildings have been erected on the Maori run outside the boundaty-line. New Year's Day was kept up with horseracing and sports, and a ball in the public school in the evening. A large number both Of Native and European visitors kept the settlement lively during the day. Ts Awamvto, Thursday. The survey-party have got fairly to work bn the triangulation survey of the King Country, and it is felt that there will be no obstruction on the.port of the Ngatihauas and others, due perhaps in a great measure to tie- fact rhai the leading Ngatimaniapoto chiefs had stated their intention of putting Tawhiao as a claimant into the block when passed through the Court, and hence the counsel which he recently gave at Kihikihi not to interfere-with the survey, The price obtained for the factory’s cheese, kt Cambridge, on Saturday, is looked upon as satisfactory, leaving a margin over cost of milk and working expenses, and averaging a penny per lb. more than that some time back sent for sale to New South Wales and Queensland. In the latter instance the Customs duty of 2d per lb., paid at Sydney and Brisbane, absorbed what would otherwise have been a good profit, amounting to some £37 on the two tons exported. It is a strange policy on the part of New Zealand that while the other Australasian colonies impose an import duty of 2d per lb. on cheese, our Customs admits their cheese tree, Auxaxtnu, Wednesday. Before leaving the district Mr, S. Percy Braith, of the Survey Department, made a successful attempt to find the proposed track from here to Kawhia, but went on from Kawhia to Auckland without returning here.