WINATA WANTED. £500 REWARD. (Per Electric Telegraph.)

Waikato Times, Issue 642, 1 July 1876, Page 2

WINA TA WANTED. £500 RE WARD. (Per Electric Telegraph.)

The Press Agency forwarded as a telegram iVom Wellington, last niijht, announcing th it, m (laautte, just, published, notifies the otl'.jr of £500 reward for such information as win laa'l to the apprehension of the murderer Winiata.

To UonsE own bus. — It will be se-n by adv«rt'ROinent that Mr Vinlmi hn redn»nd ilic price for shooing horses from 73 Gd to 5s 6\l per sot. Fat Oati'lb. — Wo are desired to notify that Afe'srsiFisW *uu Scott, of Pulerimu, will leavo duriii.' uaxx, we^k, with 90 head of cattle for the AucW vnd m urk -t of the I3tn July. ( ATKXANDRA PIJBUC MeBTINO. — We would remind the settlers <>f the above district that • political meeting to express an opinion upon thr proie t political aspect of nitive afTuns is nd»<»rtined to tine place this evening, in the Public Hall. Ngvrttawaitia.— From a gontlpmin, arrived yn*terday, from Ngarii'iw&hii, wa le m that Detective Doolan had just brjught in a mnn named Josoph Nash, charged on warrant with the abduosion of one Snruh Ann Home, a a.i>'l nnder fourteen years of age. Nash would be remanded to AuokJaud, whore the offence took place. Potatom AOAIK. — It aypeaH thas w« haTo mnd'uhash of the potatoes which growers nro to send by Waikato steamers to Auckland. The freiguc is not to be 25s to Morcer station, but to ik* railway station at Auckland, and the 3j per ton is for delivery by dray from that station to any wtrehouße -in the city, not •' if booked tbroujjk" at we stated. Thk NaABtrAWAHiA Hospital.— We understand that l)r Oarey has received instruotio >s to proceed at, once to N^atuawahtn to take charge of thoTiowly instituted hospital tlirtM, and that Dr Wa'ldingt n, unul he i« in a position to soY tie down in constant medical practireat Hamilton, will |be appointed to make r*gular* periodic d visits to the A 0 .force stationed in that place, an announcement which will be received with no satisfaction by his large circle of pivats patients in and about Hamilton. Opposition Libs.— The Auckland Opposition press spoke bo istfully of the efF-'ot of telegram* laid on Iho table ot the Ho hs icUtive to the late Wuikato meetings. Believing cuc'ri state meat to be false, we tel-gr.iph- d ro VVollin^tou and received tho following ou Tliura lay fr >m an honorable member. " The only te eg'-im laid on the Üble of th« House, rofors to the Waikato coal field. No telegram relating to meetings held or advertised (in Wuikatu) liaj been laid on the table. Tho fact of meetings having taken place wis referred to by both sided of the flouae." Tns Oambkidob Justicks. — If Justices of tho l J eace are plentiful as blickberries in sjm« pai-te of New Zealund,.<thia cannot be said in the case of Cambridge, for we aro informed f lint a very serious inconvenience will b« f t by the inhabitants of that district if so-no new appointment ia uot luadj before tUc rouiovil of Major Glare to Taranalci. Mujora Claroand Wilson aie the only two gentlemen in tho Jistriof in the commission of the peace, and tho lati or is ofton away from Cambridge. It is always desirable that, except in the most trivml ca«.'«, th«ru should be two Justices ot tho Peaco up >n the Bhucli, and ozceedingly mc mv>nient when, in the abaeuc* c/ the only holder of su !i ottno, in tho district, there is no ono who cmi Uaue u summons. St Pbtjbhs Rat S«»viobs. — On Thui.sday evening there were full evening vrvu-ei will* sermon by the Incumbent at St Peter'u Ohurc'i, Samilton. Considering this was the fin weekday service of the kind cvar he d iv tho Wmkato, there was a very fair attendance. A ohurch meeting was held at the conclusion of the service at which the im umbant presided. After a few >worJs the President, lnfjrmel the •meotnfi; that tho Ohuroh Muildin^ Comm ti co had decided to line the Church throughout with Kauri, and that this would necessitate un axtra amount of libonilitv on the part of the supporters of the Ohurch. The Eoy gontloman ox« pressed a hope that this first yeur of work at the | new St Peter's might be a oucceosful onn and that the congregation would earnestly strive to work steadily together to promote the pioaptrity of the ohurch. lie asked if any one had anything to propose in connection with the (Jhureh, upon which, Mr Vialou lose and said, that considering this was the anniversary of thi Consecration of the Ki<>ht liar Dr Uowie, the Bishop of tho Dioeeso, he proposed the following resolution : " i'hit this meeting begs to tender its hearty congratulation and sympathy with the Bishup o! tuo Diocese on this St Pdtcr's Day, the 7ih an in Ternary of his consecration. The resolution was duly seconded and carried unanimously ; and it was further resolved thai * copy of this resolutim bo tor war.lod to'the Biahop. Mr Vialou then urged upon the meeting the necessity of activo exertion on the part of Church supporters to pay for the uew Ohurch. This was all the buiii.o«*. Hamilton Distbiot Highway Board. —The, first mooting u f Ratepayers held this year in the Waikuto, will be that for the election of the Hamilton Dial riot Highway Hoard, which takes place this afternoon at two o'clock, at the Hamilton Hotel, Hamilton We»t, and the import■nc» of the occasion will not, we trust,, be lost sight of by tho rute-paypn. As wo stated in our last issue, the now Local Government Act, whatever the precise chavauter of that measure way be, cannot but vary greatly increase the powers and roHuonsibi itios ol the metnbors of the sovcral Highway Boards which tho new local Wovcwiin / boHuw will displace, inasmuch as on existing 13uards will dorolrt) th« duty ot

working sudi new institutions, till the nuxt election*. It bohovea rak'piyers thorpfore to oxereisi* fur more of interest and caution than tlmv have hitherto been wunttodoin conducting juch elections, and. to return none huh really practical, representative mon to an otEue whicu will hare in the future far more iinpotfcant dutiei pel tinning to it than the decision of buiulini* a culvert here or laying a few loads of gravel there. In in mi y districts then 1 has been a disinclination on'the part ol those most able to fulfill a public trus' requiring probity, clinract«r, ami uiLelligenci'ia its diach»r ;e, to take oili -e, bat lucti aa the offie* h now likely to be, il is worthj of be ng aspired to and fi'lod bj it 1 ' best men among-t us, a id we do sincerely trust tUit th- 1 ratepayers — we ipeak not of the ratepayers to moot to-day, but of thoae of the entire Waik»to district —will recognise the importance oi the coming Highway eluct.ions. The couutry is anxiously looliinij for a good sound and comprehensive local GoTernment Bill. We may look to tbe Legislature for that, but it is to ourseWos we must look for che sound practical comprehensive miudi to work the machinery when given to vi to our advantage.