The Waikato Times.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 648, 15 July 1876, Page 2

The Waikato Times .

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SATUfiDAY. JULY 15, 1876.

Thk question of providing a bridge ior Waikato, over the river at Hamilton, will be ventilatod to-day, nt a meeting to be held at the ]foynl Hotel, Hamilton East, at noon. Tho i meeting lias been called V.y tho Chairmen of tho K.ist and West Ilnniilton Town Ixmids, and tlie Chairman of tho Kuikiriroa Highway District, and th.mgh directly affecting tho interests of flic township, tho matter is still one of such impoitance to the Waikato district as a whole, that any desirable course (hat may ba decided upon will, we trust, receive the general support of the Waikato Bottlers, it lins been too much the custom to look at such matters from a purely local point of view, but the question is really, not whether such n work will benefit this or that pcrtioii of the district, but whether

it id for the benefit of tlio district in -'i whole. Undeniably this is tlio c.iso as Hgards the erecti >n of a bridge at Hamilton, and not only the Wuikato, but tl,o large Pinko district being- daily opened up Mid settled is interested in it- No argumout, pprhaps, could be used with greater force to show the necessity for this woik than tlie fact that the tolls of the present punt have been let at a yearly ient.il of £350. At times, indeed, the pimt is utterly inndo(ju;ite to supply tho requiteuientß of tho traffic, and at all times entu'ls a vwy heavy expense npon those whosa business obliges them to use it targe-y. Th.it these, and many other reasons \\ hy the election of a bridge at Hamilton is n serious matter of public necessity, will be put forward at the meting wo have not the slightest doubt, but there is mother, and a very i<n,ortant one, though not a breeches pocket reason, why it is to. It ia time that we had done with the so interminable local jealousies wliich weaken the strength and prestige of the district and interfere co largely with its political importance and social welfare. A bridge at "Hamilton would knock one of these causes of division on the head, and we should have Hamilton in the place of Hamilton East and Hamilton West, with all their local bickerings and heartburning and jealousy the one of the other. It is bad enough that our principal settlements should have so largely indulged this feeliag as they hive done, but it is altogether unbearable that these in turn should be 6ub divided into North and South or East and West, as the case may ho, and anything that tends to put a stop to this hurtful centrifugal action is desirable. In this ca3e, howeter, the work, as we have said, is ono of very general Waikato concern. The bridge would serve to op"!i up in ono direction the nail coach line from the railway terminus on through Cambridge, towards the Lake country, and, in another, the greater part of the Waipa district with the Piako and the c.ittle market of Gr.thanntown bej'ond. We nmy therefore naturally hope to see the meeting of to-day made not merely a meeting of Hamilton settlers, but of men from , all parts of Waikato, f>r there arc none but would bo, more or lass, directly or indirectly, advantaged by the accomplish- ' ment of the object for which the meeting is called.

Mn Runs, who left Wellingtou for n short visit to Auckland, it is res. d to attend to c Tlain law busint m, win to hold a mooting with bis ooaslituents last ni^ht. {

Native Assrsson.— Eilria te Kuneao, Esq , of Cambridge, Waikato, lias bi-en raised to the position of an assossor of tho Nativo Lauds Court of Now Zealand.

Aixctiox Sai.k— Mr John Knot will soli, on Tuesday, a double-seated buggy, nuarly now, and a portion of the furniture of the lato Hamilton Literary Institute.

MaiTjS — Mails for Araerioi, Unite 1 Kingdom and continent of Europe via Sun Francisco, will cloio nt the post olfico, Hamilton West, ou Saturday raorniniog Julj 29th, ut 0 30 a m.

Hkld over. — Tho somcwliafc lengfcby ivporJi of the Ngaruawahia and Cambridge Highway Board meetings nrrivod too late last night for publication in to"t o" days isaue.

Bai.« of Fbujt akd Obnamkhtal Tree*. — Mr Knox'a sale of tre?s from the nuriory of Mr M'ison, winch vrat to h»vo been held yesterday at Ngaruaw aliin, has been postponed till Mond'ij next.

PnorosKD Hainan at Hamiwon.— A public meeting Lob been culled by the Obairaian of tho • local L'oarJs to be held to-day, at noon, at the Royal Hotel, East Hamilton, tj consider the beit course to be adopted for tho ortcbion of a bridgo at Hamilton.

Carrot^ as hobbb fbk©.— Th*ro it probably no better feotl for Jiorsei than carrot*, or for the nntter of tbnt, for cowi either. Mr D Caler, we see, is advertising a quantity of carrots for lalo, and ai J:is place ii adjacent to the Waikato river, very many settlor* could readily avail themBelTC3 of tbo opportunity of purohasmg

Educational. — Among th» pMocngers by coach yesterday vru the Inspector of Sohools. Mr O'Sulh'van will hold aa examination of teachers at llamilLon on hit return from the up-country settlements, duo notice of which will bo given. A notice appears oUewhoro staling that all uncertiflcatcd toacher* in the Waikato dibtricts will bo expected to attend.

Political Meeting at Noakpawahm. — The public mooting callocl by tho respecfcxvo chairmen , of tho Nowca«tlc DUtnet Board and Ngaruawahia Town Board, to take into consideration the preient itate of political afl'airs, otpeciully tho native policy, will be held on Monday evening next, tho 17th instant, at the Delta Hotol, Ngaruawahia.

Cimbktdgk Farxibs Club.— -Our corrcspon dent writei at follows : — Bjr an orcr«ight on my part, the following notico of motion was omittrd in the lasfc report of the Farmers Club : Mr Clark garo notice, "That ho would, at the next mooting call the attention of the Club to tbc deiirability or olherwiio of olosing our jwrfcs against the importation of cattle and iheep from the United Kingdom."

Highway Dtstrici Board Mbktinos.— Several of theso nnnua.l meetinga will take plnco to-day, name'y, those of the Waifcoa, Pirongia, llarapipi, Mangapiko, and Jurikiriroa districts Now that tho intentions of the Government, ai expressed in tbo Financial Statement, with resp*ct to local governing bodies, -their powers, responsibilities, and reTomie— have been placed before t)»e oountry, we may expect to hear, at one or other of thne meetings, some little expreaiion of the opinion of tho lettlori on fhe«e mattora. Other mostinga again take placo an Jfonday, viz., those of the Cambridge JJonfca Highway Township District, and the Newcastle Highway Diatrict.

Accident. — A very >cnou« accident, we regret to learn, oocurred on Thursday evening to Mr Howe, blaokstnitli, of Mr Vialou'* .oilablithmont, Hamilton. It appears that as he was procooding home after dark, and in patting along the top of the embankment on the Weit side of Neil's cutting foil heavily into the road. Fortun&tciy for Mr Howe, the late rains have made it very soft or broken bones might havo been the result of the fall. As it was, it was thought that his leg wa» broken, but having boon conveyed home und Dr Waddington having been tent for. that gentleman found the injury confided to the displacement of ono of the tendons over the ancle bone, wh ich was upeedily put straight, though the injury will doubtless lay Mr Howe np for some tijie to come. Whatever may bo Ihe ease on country rouls, a cutting in one of tho principal streets of»o populous a tovvnuhip ai Ilauiiltoo, should be, we think, socuroly fenocd.

Waikato Football Team.— -Yes' orrlay the football tcnm left Hamilton, in tho Waikato steamer, for Auckland, and seemed in good heart for the coming struggle. Wo give a full list of narnei, with the woigliU of tho phiyeri. Ferguuon (Cambridge), 14jfc Gibs ; Forbei (Alot> andro), 13st lOlbi ; A B Cox (Hamilton), 12st 7ibs; Parker (Cambridgo), Hot lOlbs; Coleman ([lttmiltoo), Hit 101b» ; Benuohump (llamilton), list 8)bi ; Hunt (Hamilton), list Gibs ; Bralo (Hamilton), H»t3lb«; Pilling (Hamilton), 1U 31b» ; Culpan (Te Awtmutu), ' Hit 21 bi ; W,hit»lor (Hamilton), list j Cooper (T» Awa-

trm'u), 10s! 12lba; E B Cox (Hamilton), 10it 10!hj; 0 C Wood (Hamilton), 10*t 4!b3 ; J Wool (Hamilton), Oat 12Iba } Um|)ire, Sande* (Hamilton). Wo haTe made arrangements for receiving tho remit of the match at. 7pm this evening, when it trill be mnde public, nnd \v« h^nrti j hopn that the newi m»y bo of ft victorious nature for Waikato.

Tna Post office and TKLFGBArK miitikg, llamiitov Etar. — An error crept into our report of tb.3 meeting held on Saturduy lait at tho Royal Hotel, in which, whit really 'ormed two separate rosolutions were rolled into ons and Mr Cumming i»nd Mr Claude were mndo to propoie and second thomselTea at a Committee to prepare a memoriil to tho Government What tbo above two gentlemen proposed w« ' That thii moettnj; in of opinion that the establishment of a Poit Office and Telegraph Nation is urgently required for Eist Hamilton' What ippeara as the latter part of thli reeolution in our report, " That Jlowas Clandfj anfl Camming be appointed »o druw up a memorial to Iho goneral G-overnaient. praying thit (ho samo bo forthwith establithcd" was a wparate resolution proposed and locondod by tiro other gmttlemen.