THE SEPARATION DEBATE. PROBABLE RESULT.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 657, 5 August 1876, Page 2

THE SEPARATION DEBATE, PROBABLE RESULT.

Sir George Grey's speech in moving the financial separation resolutions will be found in our telegraphic columns. The debate was continued yesterday evening, and judging from the fact that Mr Rees had, up to the closing of the telegraph office, spoken five hours on the motion, we may presume that it is intended to make it a prolonged discussion. :From reliable information received, we are in a position to predict that the resolution will be lost by a majority of from ten to fifteen.

Government Stores — Mr Kennedy Hill will shortly offer for sale a quantity of condemned goods, tools, &c. at the Government store Hamilton.

The Sons of Ulster are summoned to an extraordinary meeting of their Lodge, to be held this evening in the Victoria Hall.

Timber. — Mr George Edgcumbe, of Ngaruawahia is, it will be seen, prepared to supply timber suitable for bridge building, both piles and planking.

The Raglan and Kawhia Quarterly Licensing Meeting is advertised to be held for the transaction of the usual business, on Tuesday Sept 5th, at the Court House, Raglan, at noon.

Rifle Association. — The adjourned meeting of all those desirous of forming themselves into a Rifle Association is advertised for this evening at 7 o'clock, at the Royal Hotel, Hamilton East.

The Hamilton West Township Board are advertising for the services of a Collector and Secretary. Tenders will be received up to 7 p m on Wednesday next.

Land Sale. -Mr Knox will offer for sale to-day, in the long room, at Gwynne's Hotel, a choice 50 acre allotment of country land adjoining Mr Atkinson's farm, also a one acre town section in West Hamilton.

Te Awamutu Wesleyan Church.— Tenders for the erection of a Wesleyan Church at Te Awamutu have been called for, and will be received until Saturday the 12th instant. Plans and specifications may be seen at Mr Sanderson's.

Cambridge Literary Society.— The ufUil monthly meeting of the members of this Society will take place on Tuesday evening next at the School house, Cambridge ; on which occasion a lecture on 'Superstition' will be delivered by the Vice President.

Mr S Bright will offer for sale this afternoon at Cambridge, opposite Kirkwood's Hotel, a variety of household and fa m articles

Hamilton Literati? Institute.— Those desirous of i stablishin^ vi instituto hive b'ieu convene I to meet this evening ia the Court Uou«.e, and persona liuvm^ books bi'longing <o the lats Lqsti ute are requcs'cd to sond tiiam in at once to Air £umlo«, Chjiirst, of Hamilton.

Neal's Cutting. — Steps, we aro glad to !>e-», are about, lo be taken by the newly elected Tovrn Uoird of Hamilton West to make this par- of Vic'oru Street pa*sable. The slough will be reformed, fascined und gravelled. Tenders for the pcTiorminre of thesime will be received by the Chairtnim up to nojn of to-day.

ABBOTTa Melbourne Cup Swbep. — Those interosrei in sporting mailer) will find on reference to Mr Abbotto - new advertisement else a here, that all app ications for shares in the 2,000 gumes, sweep muat bo sent in bofore the 19 h of ibis month as tin dr.iwiug trill take place shortly after that date.

The Waikato Schools. —An error occurs in our repjrt on the Waikato Schools, published on Thursday, which we hasten to correct, The a mount granted by the Board totbe Alexandra Oomnuttoa, towards the erection of a teache-'s house wa3 printed £130 whore it should have appeared as £120

The Albxandb* Masonic Bali.. — We wou d cliaw the at tun 'ion of the manager of the Waikato Steam Navigation Conipiny to the letter of ' A SaUler' in another column, feeli-ig quits sure th»t iha simp'y dring tj will ensure attention to the ojaremeo"< of tbo public, shojld it be witiin the power of the company to u fiord it.

An Editob Wa.T%- 'the fir t i'ubv a man o#ca his country la tJ stan.l bv its constitutional rights.' I' appeirs ii his paper thus.'— The first putty a in in does u>i courting is to stride in co itmental tijhW A ljnt eyed projf-roider and an intelligent compositor are now dodging about town as beat. th«y c m to avoi I a frenz-ud editor with a doublo-bari'el ehot gun. — ' Albany .News.'

Late Teichsks Examin\att n.— ln our last wo stated t.hat l.he non-attendance of c rtain teachers who were warned b>lh by aavei tiseiuent and personal notice to appear at Hamilton, at ten o'clock on Tuesday morning la*t, for exinvnition by the Inspector, would entail u,)on them tho troublo and expanse of a j mraoy to Auckland, but, fro:n whit we have smce learnel, thnir neglect ie not unlikely to lead to the cancelling of tueir aj>poiutmcnts altogether.

A Mo?P — amusing incident fel under our notice in » Hamilton store la-it week, but on whioh side the ii»er wo shill not say. 'My real number is six, but mj hand will stind squeezing,' is whnt a yiun<» lady taid to the young man a* the glove-cjiinter. And the great fiickhtadel lunat c got her a piir of five-anl-a-'ialf gloves witliout fiii'lin^ out, how much squeezing her hand would bear. We would hare worked at tb.it job an hour, but she ibould have had au exact Gt.

Tns Lavd Fottd. — As showing tho v\!ue of thei- land fund to Southern Provinces, the 'Herald' statos (hit the amount received for land sold since July 18G0, bv Canterbury, is £3, 128,126 Oj 9d ; wuie 0ta o'o o '0 hu receive! £L.618,663 11a 9,1 Tnia is altogether outude tlio yoarljr rental for runs least d. It is cxlculatcd tha* in 1880 when the le»3e3 fall in, these same may be re- lot at an average of 1< 6d per nore, which would gi»e theie two provinces a yearly rent roll of over half u-uullion tterhng.

Ham lton West Pcmoi. Housu.--The in mbers of tiie School Commilt?e hare mat nnd determined as to which of the ueven tondpra recei»ed should, be recommended to the Centeral Bonrd for a-cdptonce. J'ha ej'i-n itM rang-d fro n £340 thft high-st, to £250 the low.^t One of them, liowerer, tliat of Mr S ewu*fc woa sent in on the cal illation that Kahikatea woul I be used nnd was therefore not o<n-<«Wed at all. Tie lowest, that of, Jacob Ban*r was also irr. gular, .and the second low. at was c msHere I undesirable. Tho tender re^omm -nded was th»t of Mr Price for £293, buildi ig and lining complete, and theguinmte circn that the work would be coinpietol by the It of November.

Pign Postj. — An Aletand *a orrespoidnnt draws attention to a locil want, wh oh was some tune ago pointed out i > tlieio columns, namely, the erecfci >n t.f *ij,n or finger posti afc tlie yariotn junctions of our country roa # I jV , or in Mich p'nce? m -a 1 ini'lit run the risk of losing lho llio r'ght trick in opaii country, yurelj, if, in i settled countrj <»ooh as England, thcso nniiipstoitrnn^pra ond invrllciH arc need* d, how much inoro so a>e h'y here, whi-ro t'jo i ext farnbouso, or anyone to a3k inforrmtiot from may not bo within nn honr or k*o* rii-tance of the prepJexed Mayforer. lho fxpanse of ereutins; fchet? gulL* po3bt would Jail very lightly on tho Highway Boa id 6f c eh local* riirttrict, vih'lo, in rendering travelling inoro easy and sure, not oidy would tho convenienc • of r s - dfirfs whoso local knowledge uiiy not extend bey n 1 the byo-wajs of t'icir o.tn district, but that of atraugera to the Waik»to bo also consulted.