The Waikato Times.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 573, 22 January 1876, Page 2

The Waikato Times.

Equal and c xnef justice to alt men, Of whatever suite or ponui.ution, rihgiouA or political * • » « » Hoo Mballthcl'n m the Pbovi.k'h right maintain, Un.iwcd by viSucncc and unbribi'd by gam.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1878.

Tnu'Auckland and i'uniu railway as tho authorities now call the late Auckland and Mercer lino, is gradually drawing its slow length along towards Ohaupo — much more I quickly in fact than many of our readers would suppoii', and possibly another s i months may sco Iho line opened for traffic. The works aro steadily progressing and whero between Ngaruawabia and Ohaupo the lino is being carried through swamp land it is standing admirably and getting reiy solid. Tho formation of tho lino through the Rukahia swamp will, it is expected, be completed by tho end of next month with tho exception of the culverts. The outfalls all through the swamp aro very good and thero is plenty of fall. Tho sito of the station at Ohaupo has been fixed upon in tho paddock behind the Ohaupo Hotel, as being the most central and convenient position for tho set tiers in tho surrounding districts, and when tho bridges Are up agaiu will be convenient for tho Cambridge settlor! also, until such time as tho Government connect Cambridge with Hamilton ami thus pivo the important and largly producing district of Cambiidge direct railway commurucalioa will* Auckland and tho rest of tho world. A coulimiation of tho line, or rathor branch conned ion beIwcmi Ohaupo and Cambridgo would bo impracticable on account of the cose, aroragiug probably between £9,000 and £10,000 per ruilo, while- between Cambridge aad Hamilton tho lino is free of all engineering difficulty and could bo formed at the lowcit rate of cost practicable inanypait of the Colony. A bridge over the river at Hamilton is iv any case a necessity to that that element of cost uced not be taken into account Tho bridges botween Ngaruawahia and Hamilton are being rapidly proceeded with by tho contractor Mr Duce. The government aro fortunate that ihe work has fallen into such good hands. These will not, however bo tho first Government works carried out by Mri)ucc with satisfaction to tho Government, at we have reason to know. The completion of tho contract at Tuupiri will noon bo finished nnd platclaying will bo at once commenced. But for tho floods, and tho conlinunncc of unsettled, or rather of settled bad weather tho whole of tho works now in course of construction, would be in a far more advanced state. The system of letting tho construction of the lino where carried through swamps to a namber of .smull contractors has been fouud to answer admirably and to havo proved economical to the Govi-rnmeut, while at the same tiuio it has enabled parties of working men to make better wages by co-operation than they would otherwise have done. I indeed,but for this, what with lost time through rain, few of them would havo aveiagod two thirds tho actual rate of wages.

Camhridge IJiohway jßvtks.— Mr Thomna T Smith h.iH be«n appointed collector of rate* for the Horn d. The assessment lut ib open foi impo *<>n ut Moflaiu Tuck and Stewarts, Cambridge. •JuOWDED OT7T - We lll'O compelled to hold over tho concluding portion of tlio District Coiut proceeding-*, and tlic report of tho proceedings m tho KM Court held at Citnbrulge yoslorday ; also tho lotteis of 'A Subacriber,' ' Mr Jan Forrest, 1 ' Fairplav,' und ' A puront who h*s paid tho lulucution rule' The );i>e hour ;il which tho meeting of iho Committee of the Wwkuto 'l'urf Club br. L<; up last night precludes our publiHhniß tho report till next ii«suo. Ai.hXANDHA Out .Au-ifON — -A n-nnb-r of ladies and genth ruen vi A'ex.mdra, nre busdj engaged in " flouting " a Buz iar and (Jilt Am tion in nnl of tlie Alexandra l'ubhc Halt Building Fund. A preliminary announcement appears today. Tho attraction Hill bo furlhu lucrvMßud bj a vocal und instrumental concert ah a grand linalo. A well cliOHcn working comnnttoo has been nfj» anted, and there is every reason to believe that tho uiTnii, will, m theatrical parlance provo " a decided Int.* Tut Auckland Spoiub op ins 29m i^erA.Nr, — Another liberal progranimo of athlotie aportH. to come oil at JCllorsho Qardcm on tho inutivnt, i» publi»hed. Tho pedettriftn evottti cjti mst of tho Anmvcr»aiy Cup; a Handicap at three distance, viz, 100 300, aiul 6Uo yards ; and a mile Storplfchaso (bandieap), wimh » to ineludo a water-jump. Besidon the« », there will l>e a. lothcr 'lilting at tho Kini? dmplay, and a c mip tition at Vaulting with the Pole. The pr 71-» toi the Anuivcrsaiy Cup will be £15 for the fir»t ; JL'5 f r tne fecond ; and i.2 £or tho third. Wo uadeietand thuC th a is to l»o the \u»l great Handicap for some time, ao thut our pod*, ought to ruustor Htronglj. I'hk Allxanuka Pr.vT There have been several complaints made, huilo the bridge at Alexandra waaoirrit-d uwjy, of tho imffidcnt and rioky »tato of the tempot.iry punt pro\ided in ill place for the use of traveller*. Wo havj made enquiries inlo llio uiHttnrand u'nd that it is not winhout lan* eiui--o that the aecoinmodu tion id no better than it is. The local boaid liub done oil it can in tho mnttor, and tho chairman Mr Aabin lias tried ngain and again to obtuin a more ierricablo canoe hum up i ivcr thau that m uno but without sucOi'Bij. Tho bridge will bo reerected in tho course of two or ihroo months and obviously it would bo imidviHablo to go to any/ very groat expenso m the uomtruction of a punt, but iho Board are now doing, what pet hapi is tho wiiest thing prsu ticallj oii'ler tho eircumB(anceii, procm"iiif» boiiio barrclM and coiiitructnig a sort of pontoon bridge or staging which may bo woiked upon ropes, by which tho pa^aougera may haul lheint<cWeß unoss. Our HTKi'-uoruiii «hb I'eovinoiai, QoteunMKNT. -Scarcely a week passes but tiomo ohso i« brought to our notion khovving tho urgent necos* sity there iS for a local hospital in tho Wa kato. Some thort time «mco a luboror working in tin • wamp beyond Kihikilu whh taken seriously ill and lay in a condition which loft him in all respects dependent ou tho charity of hi* noi^libon. Bomo good Samaritans, lacmbert of tho A (y forco, had him removed from the miserable ■hanty in which lie was found and placed him in inoro comfortable quart* ra, attending to him and reporting the catto to Major Mmr, tho reoid«nt magistrate at To Awnmutu. M«j jr Mair got Dr Waddington to vuit tho man, but on hia getting worse thought it advisable to tend him to tho Auckland Hospital. Accordingly n member of tho A(J going down from CumbriJgo o<) pass undortook the taik of convoying tho unfortunate sufferer to Auckland and left him only whon received into the Hospital. There tho man died. A. Bhort time sineo Major Mair vecoived n lot tor from tho Provincial authorities. " Ah," wo think wo hoar aomo of our roadors nay, "our provincial rulcn can recognue local worth and did tho correct thing wtoen they wrote to Major Muir thanking him and others for th« kindly interest taken in this poor nuffcrer'a oaso." Not a bit of it. The letter contained n, bill of costs sent in to Major Muir for expenses und a fuithorolnim for tho sum of £2 10* for tho cost of tho man's funeral eijx n«e« aftrr tho Auckland doolon bad timttied him oil. Who will »ny wo do m>t need it hospital for Waikato atlor thin f Or could wo m so uhort an epitome iilford a more convincing jiißtilioition, were any needed, of tho signing of tho death warrant of Provuucitthim by tho Auomblj id iv last sesmou.

Patwuhoi Sohool.— Tne Central Board of Thursday granted £6 p«r mnnam for the rent on ft school build ing for the above District Cricket. — Ihe cricket match between team* of the Zingan and Frontier clube, arranged to come off to-day at tho Hamilton W«wt cricket gronnd, has been postponed for » fortnight. Pafakura Ricna.^-A very excellent programme of the approaching annual races at Papakum wilt be found in another portion of thm impreH-ion. Thk Quickstep Tike Tablb.— lt wi'l be perceivod by advertisement that the Quickstep will in future run regnUrly between Hamilton and Mercer — ]rfv\ng Mercer an Mondays, Wednesdays, and Priday* i and Hamilton, Tuesdays, Thursdays, mid Saturdayn. Valuablb Cahriaok Houbih.—Wo direct attention to Mr KoiiHcdy Hill'a advertisement elsewhere, announcing tho Bale by public auction on Wednesday next, at the Masonic Hotel, Hamilton Eon*, of a number of valuable carriage horitn, the property of Mr Q. Quick. Ciuntcn ok Enolapd. — Tho Rev Mr Calder will in future, wo learn, hold Divine Service at, Ohaupo every month. The Rev R 8 Haatard (one of the best preaoheri in tho Province) will take tho service at Cambridge tomorrow morn mg and will proach at Hamilton in tho evening. The Rev Mr Cidder officiating at Hamilton in the monrnpr and at Ohaupo at three o'clock in the afternoon. That wiuon Thou bobrowkst, bbtuiw.— We am requested by a gentleman who left a well worn cloth waterproof cape or cloak in tho Hamilton Court I louse, on Thursday afternoon, and who could not (md itagain next morning, to state, that if any of thoue who attended the Good Templar' mooting on Thumday erening, borrowed it to go homo in in tho rain, they were heartily well come to tho loan of it, but thst ho would feel obliged if they would leave it at tho Waikaxo Timb3 offlco, an it might bo useful to hun on a futuio occasion. A Knot-iv Question wiiat bhall they do with ir ? — Wo understand that tho mind of the Hamilton Town Board is somewhat exercised at the present moment by tho consideration of thfi question, wliother a few pound* in hand *hnll be eipcndod in tho eroction of a itatuc to the Goddess of Folly on tho top of the hill immediately above Neal's cutting, or in repairing tbo road from just bnlow the lite of the old school-house to the WBN Company's ntoro. There used to bo a drain "on tho upper side of this road but the recent floods hare had tho democratic effort of levelling all distinctions, and the water in considerable quantities follows its own swoot will as to any ciurso it may t*ke, aometuncß playfully inundating the lower portion ot Mr N it Cox's business premises and at others officiously assisting to mix Mr Troewhollar's flour into dough at inconvenient seasons, a mixture which the latter says ho does not knead. When not engaged in this wiso it finds its way down tho road cutting a channel here ! and channel thoro in ruts of from six lnchei to a foot wide, and from nmo fr:> eighteen inones deep, tians for tho unwary, both man and beast, or for oven tho most cautious aftor durk. Now, in their dilonrja tho town board have referred the matter to oursehes for an opinion, and after ■naturo deliberation wo havo come to the conclusion that it would bo only money wasted to erect the proposed statue at tbo outting. The most obtuse minded of the rutorayorti will need no such jogging 01 hid intellect, to remember under tho auspices of what tutelary dnity that work was undertaken. No, if tho money got by tho sale of tho Hamilton sohool-houso sits nncasy ou tho cotiHcienres of the Hoard, and untaught, nubirchud little arabs dance nightly in their distempered d roams on aldermanic paunches let them put tho monoy to the useful purpose ot forming and channelling the road from tho old school site t*>thn company'g scores, and may their shinbora be light. SifjtET Skvknthbn and 1/Jhhirora — A so.aewhat oitraordinury o\ne enmo bolbro the Resident Magistrate on Thnrud.iy. RosoSUter, a girl in servicoand a minor, had been previously sued by the trustee in the ostati oi uno Josephs, formerly doing btiHUK-fiS in Huiniltou, and strange to say judgment had been gircn agauiHt h. r. She now appeared on a judgment summons and wax ordorod, boing in receipt of nmo •lulling per week wiiges, to pay four and siiponce per week in liquidation of the debt, though we noticed that tho KM did not add tho alternative which ho did in the other ewes of a months imprisonment in default. Of course tho R M did na more than his duty in upholding tho dcei-tion of bis own court previously given, and for which we find on enquiry ho was not responsible, not haring bfen on tne bench when tho original judgment against Hobo M.itur was given. But whoover the magistrate was who then prosiried, he would certainly l»o sei vud no worsn thun ho deserved »f he wero troutod to tho aamo course t>vken somo timo since ngamst certain Hokianga and Auckland justices and made to pay heavily for his nml-administra-tion ot Iho law. We don't know who ho wus but it would not muko tho sliglitest diillrenoe to our remarks if he could by any possibility havo been the Attorney General hinnelf. We should say what wo sny now, that tho less ho meddles 'judicially m any cft«a beyond that of an ordinary '• drunk and incopabla " tho better. To muk« tho mattnr worso a la^go proportion of the original debt sued for by tho trustee of Josephs' esiato was for "lollies," but in any «a»o necessanea or not necessaries, the girl as a minor, and the presiding justico had no occasion to look into hor mouth to nee that, had no right to havo judgment recorded against her. If sho pays the debt, increased some five or six fold by cobU, blu> k lf»§ wideawake tlinn from her appearance on Thunday wo aro injlmo'l to reckon hor up ut, and wo nhould liko t'> boo tho Court in thißptovuice or colony that would daro to »end a girl to gaol m such a case. What a chance for tho overling papers !