PIAKO. May 29, 1876.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 630, 3 June 1876, Page 2

PIAKO. May 29, 1876.

The "Walton Highway District Board at its List meeting were able to report progress as regard^ the erection of bridges, for which timber was cat some timo ago. The contractor has commenced operations, Three of the members of the Board gave •ach a team of bollocks gratis for about a week to help to draw the timber, and the contractor, I understand, draws' the remainder. ! Are we destined, I wondar, ever to hear of the payment of the prwioua subsidy the General Government promised tha Board 1 A month Mjo the Waitoa Board were told they {would receive pound for pound on all rates and subscriptions raised during the year. Application was made for it. At the last Board meeting the chairman read a letter received from the Colonial Treasurer at Wellington, informing him that thto grfent - jL3s 4d ; I presume — would bo-a^p^W^Lwitft. rates collected up to the end-bf Maron, 1876. This will make a material difference to us, as a considerable amount of rates was unpaid at the cud of March. The Chairman, in answering the letter, made a strenuous effort to have tne subsidy paid on the amount raised up to date, but whether this will be do remains to be Been. I would bo inclined to propose that A general holiday be observed in Wraftr districts when the cheque for the iftwiay is received ; and I think it vould be a good thing to try to gl»t all thej correspondence that has takeotyvLice in oAnection with this subsidy oi IP*G be printed, and preserved in tho Bdtiab. Museum and such, like place?. — Ovrx Coruepondent. [Our correspondent can scarcely haTB received files of the Waikato Ti^es rogk*

larly, or he would have seen that the Government have determined to pay theamount on rates collected aud uncolleoted. -KdW.T.]