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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 734, 1 March 1877, Page 2

.County Act.— The meeting of the Pukekura ratepayers, called by Councillor Fisher, will be held at the school house, Pukerimu, this afternoon, at 3.30 o'clock. Raglan County Assessment Courts —These will all be held on the same day, at the Court Souse, Eaglau, namely, on the 16th inst., at noon. Tenders, for carpenters work only, to a house at Ohaupo, are called for by Mr McCabe, and will be received up to noon of the lObh inst. ; Bane Dividend.— The National Bank of New Zealand his announced an interim dividend at the rate of 6 percent per annum, for the half year ending the 30th September last. ' . PRKSB Firing —Volunteer MoLean, of the Auckland Naval Volunteers, is the winner of the Carbine Champion Belt, gold medal and £2OJ The Feitz Karl Buotr troupe bad f air.houses at Le Quesnes Hall on Tuesday and }ast night, and will play on Saturday and on Monday night m the Odd .Fallows HalJ, Cambridge, and on Tuesday aid Wednesday night at Tg Awamutii, The Whata Whata and Hamilton B.OAD.— Our attention has been drawn to the almost impassable state of the above roads, cut up by the late rains and traffic, and to the necessity of doing something to it before $c summer weather is over. Otaea Steam SA.w-wms.-rA§ wil 1 be seen elsewhere, a change of agenay lias taken place, Mr Robert Lamb having ceased to act as Mr James GKbbona's agent, Orders will be received direot or through Captain Campbell of the p s Lillie. •'.-'■" Waikato County Assessment Court. —We would remind all ratepayers having business at the above courts, that that for the Hamilton East Township Highway Board District sits thia day, at noon, at the Publjo Hall, Hamilton East, and that for|the;KirikiriroaKoad Highway Board District, at noon, to-morrow, at the Bame place, ~~ —"** has been an ex traordinary failure I'Hjtv*.- ' """-"noeßton, The Tasof justice at j.,«,_. "■» i«w6 session manian Parliament, during v*. -•> passed a new Juries Act, which does dv» come into force until July, and the former one had been repealed. Cons - quently Chief Justice Smith ruled that no juries could be empannelled ; the the Attorney-General bad to enter a nolle prosequi ; and six prisoners had to be discharged. Sale of Land and Houses at JSgaruawahia. — Messrs Cochrane and Son will offer for sale, on Monday next, at their Mart, Fort-street, by order of the mortgagee, two allotments m the town of Ngaruawahia, adjacent to the Bank of 3ew Zealand premises and the railway station, together with the villa residences erected thereon ; also, town allotment, on which are erected two stores and a dwelling house. An Accident of a somewhat enrious and serious nature occurred on Monday, to a man named Knox, working for Mr Ghibble. Knox wishing to drive a dog away, took up a piece of rotten stick, and struck him with it. A splinter from the wood flew- up and struck the man m the eye, caasiug great pain. He came into Hamilton, and the piece of wood was extracted by Mr K. .B\ Sandes. Several large f jres have been burning m tbe Bakukia swamp during the last week or so, and we hear that a considerable portion of the Hamilton end has been well burned out and is quite ready for receiving grass &0., which the proprietors v intend to put m shortly. With a continuance of the present weather the swajnp will dry up very quickly, and burning will b£ carried on vigrously both by Mr Cox and also by the {Government for the purpose of keep. ing tin railway .Ike as safe as posnbel from tire.

The San Franoiscm Mail Steaver, the Zealandia, brought on Monday two coops of American prairie chickens, and a couple of deer. The chickens were landed m good condition. Tbe3o animals were forwarded to tho Acclimatisation Soo!ety by Mr Hugh Craig, formerly of Auckland. Hautapu School.— lt will be seen by advertisement m another column that the opening of this school will be celebrated by a tea -meeting and musical en'ertainment to be held this evening. The following gentlemen have been appointed a committee for carrying the affair to an iasue :— Messrs John Mirtyn, (jun), T J Smith, T 8 Kunciman, G- A btunoimnn, W Selby (jun) H E Ewen, T G- rrane, S Reid, and 8 E Smith, the latter gentleman acting as hon sec The proceeds of the entertainment will be applied m aid of the school building fund. A Woip m Shbot's Clothing.— The Bey Mr Tooth, of St James's Church, Hatcham, having been forbidden to preach, m consequence of his Ritualistic practices, has continued to do sd notwithstanding, and his church has been the scene of great disturbances. During the service he was interrupted by a number of anti-Bituslista, and blows were frealy exchanged before the police restored order. One Sunday a oiowd of from 2,000 to 3,000 persons sought admission to the church, and had to be held back by the police, The Nkw Constabulary Arrangements. —The Police Conference, sitting m Wellington, will recommend an amalgamation of the Police and Armed Constabulary. The new force will be divided into six divisions, four on police duty, the other two on Constabulary duty m native districts. The Superintendents will be Weldon (Otago), Shearman (Canterbury), and Broham (Auckland). Inspector Thompson, of Auckland, will be superintendent of the deteotive branch, and Colonel Moule wtll command the whole as chief commander, A Serious Misadventure is related to ub as having befallen a gentleman a day or two sipce. On that morning there was a terrible hullabaloo m a certain household, the head of it appearing m a great state of excitement. On being questioned by his better half as to what was the matter, he exclaimed " Nothing, bully, you bet !" " But what is it ?" Well, then, I just broke an egg by accident.mum! and swallowed it m a hurry, mum, for fear of its being lost. And it had a chicken m it, mum, and O, murder ! itsl/ent!" The Baglan and Waipa Boad.— We are glad to learn from a perfeotly reliable though private source of information, that, the Uovernmenb intend proceeding almost at once with the construction of the Baglan and Waipa road. Mr Palmer has received instructions to proceed with the laying out the line, aud will commence doing so forthwith. Elsewhere we have alluded to tho bad state of the Hamilton and Wahtawhata road* If before it was desirable that that road should be put into a thorough Btate of repair after the late rains, it oecomes now all the more necessary that this should be done as tne Hamiton and Whatawhata road will be the continuation into the greater portion of the Waikato of the road about to be con* strudted. The Fort at the Upper Thames. — The ' Thames Advertiser ' has the follow" ing with respect to the fort and garrison described by a special correspondent m to-day's issue :— "The Ohinemuri nativeo who 'hold the fort ' overlooking the river, near the junction of |the Waihou and Ohinemuri streams, have just received a reinforcement of nearly 40 natives from Tarapipipi's settlement, on the Piako Biver. The steamer Pearl has been chartered as a gunboat, and now guards the river, with spears hoisted at the masthead and flagstaff, and the Maori ensiga flying. The Pearl went up the Piako on Saturday to Tarapipipi's settlement, and came down on Sunday with the chief Tarapipipi's and Hori Te Kooti, arid abeut 30 natives, who were joined by a few others at Shortland,. and proceeded to the pah at Ohinemuri. message was sent yesterday to come down and arrange terms of settlement of the dispute between the tribes. Mr James Maokay is expected to arrive on the scene to-day, to assist m arranging the terms of settlement of tbe dispute, which has now been carried far enough." T^a KINGITES and Baoing.— Under the heading "The new native policy," the " Doctor,'' m his weekly dose m the ' Star,' thus discourses on the proposal .alluded to m the ' Herajd ' and m our issue of Thursday, to restore the entente cordlfde between the two races:— "All this," be says, "is to be brought about by the expenditure of a paltry £100, which the 'Herald 1 very sagely remarks would be well spent. We are to suds^: i £100 to purchase a cup for ' a grand racp for Maori horses at Rangiiwahia.' Ever since I read all about the scheme, my soul has thirsted to behold the man that invented it. I want to see him just once, to feast my eyes upon the great benefaotor of two races, to bless — to bless him fervently, and then go away and die m peace and oharity with all mankind. Will anyone hesitate to subscribe his mite towards that £100 ? Perish the thought ! Twopence more and up go the donkeys 1 I've pondered over the stupendous subject a great deal, and the more I look at it, the more grand and majestic it looms up before the mend's eye, Ohoukiege, or any other Ohow to the contrary notwithstanding. But Btay! There is just; one trifling flaw that mighht boil the pot over. Suppoße, now, the thing were all arranged, the course selected, the ' k'rect cards' ' * T -*«nur 1 8 tips published, Bewi, printed, n^ -^ a feff other Manuhin, Wunata, anu. - , • • ■ speculative goyes. flitting around offering '5 to 1 on $b§ Te JLuiti favourite, Tawhiao m bpots and breeches on the said favourite doing a preliminary cantor past the Grand Stand j Ercuer m the j udge/a box m a white hat, and a lovely flower m his buttonhole j Tom B. ro vpn yelling out ' Clear the Course ' ! old Marks spottlag the favourite's points ; Hurst meditating on his speech for the luncheon, and Perkins doing a roaring business at the ' Occidental Booth' (with an ijnlimited number of bars) and Sub-Inspector Pardy m the act of saying ' here's luck ' over his customary beverage. Wouldn't it make a lovely picture ! # # # # # * Gentle reader, nn interval of five minutes is supposed to have elapsed. Tawhiao and the Te Kuiti favourite are •no where,' Bewi, Manuhiri, and the Kingite sports have * dropped their sugar,' while Joe Eljis and the oakeha bookmakers have made a pot o' money! Bewi has gone for tha Judge with a tomahawk; Te Ifuiti has scalped Percival and made tracks with the entrance money ; old Marks with his usual cuteness is going across country for ' hum j ? Hurst is haranguing the natives with ' Now my good people 1 , don't do anything rash ;' and Winiata is making things lively m the Grand Stand. Now what about the entente tiordiale, eh ? How about the ' differences ' between the two races ' vanishing ?' It strikes me, my Christian friends, if I were such a durned fool I ' as to be hanging around (which I'll lay odds Fm not)— l should vanish fusj; enough." • .

J WHEK THE MXJRDEnER PATCTI was at Ngaraawahia about to be placed on the coieh, to be taken to Auckland, several Maories addressed him. One old gentleman rsad him a lesson,, rather lAte m the day however, but which other jads would do well (o profit by. "When you were a child," said he, "you became notorious for your pilfering habits m yo'irown Kainga. when you grew- older you sfco'e from the Psikeha and then, embjldenod you robbed a sto.e, and were seutto gaol, now you have gone from crime to crime.till you have killed a man. In one month you will be hung on a tree '