Untitled

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 759, 28 April 1877, Page 2

The Reed Brothers appear again, tonight at Cambridge, and ou Monday aud Tuesday at Te Awamutu.

, Hamilton West Bibthday Sfobts.— We would remind those interested in getting up. these sports that the meeting to form a committee to carry them out. will be held this evening in Walker's Commercial Hotel.

. The Cpncert.at Taupiki, in aid of the fuuds o£ the Catholic Church at that settlement, will come off on Tuesday eveniu» next. An interesting programme has been provided, and this toge her with the oiject for winch the concert is held should eubure a large attendance.

Mr Thomas Ru sell left Hamilton yesterday by the steamer. With bis iiNUal liberality ho left with Mrs Q'tynue b.fore going away a dona ion of £10 to tic .Peters Ouurob, aud a s-un of £5 towards tbe hqiuddtion of the debt ou the' Hamilton Wa*b Disinot Souool building. .

Crowd bdout. —Owing to the length of the Cambridge Clab report, we have been obliged to hold over part of theEssay, that portion of the report referring fS'.'it, also, the report of the Waikato County Council Meeting, the letter of ■" Churchgoer," and other matter. :

,^'Lh Qijusne's Skating Rink; Hsmil-' :tOh .Hall, is open to-night^ aEbd in annodaoiag the fact we would drAw'attention to a mistake of the priuters, in .the advertisement as it appears in our last two issues. The charge per hour for the use of the hall skates should have been Is instead of Is Gd as erroneously printed.

AeciDKNT to Mr Frank Pilling.— On 'Wednesday- evening as Mr Frank Pilling was driving into Hamilton to the concert, he was. thrown from the buggy by a violent jerk caused by the uneveneßS of , the road, aud the jibbing of the horse. The wheels of the carriage, in which were several of the family passed over his body, but our readers will be glad to learn that the injuries' received though severe are not dangerous, aud we trust to soon see him, about, as usual.

The "Garden" says:— "■ Many people despise poplar as a timber' but ifc has a golden property— it will not burn. Some yaars lago a factory ' at Nottingham took tire on a second floor,- and burned to the top furiously,but.did not buru downward, although the^flooVUay a yard thick with clinkers and melted machinery, - yet it did not get downwards because tne floors were of poplar. "

?To Conxbaotoks. — The Waikato County Cduucil are open to receive tenders up to the 12th proximo, for the formation of a. road on the Hamilton end of the Piako iSwainp, the survey of which has just been completed. Ia a fe»v days the survey of . the road line at the other end of the swamp road will be surveyed, and when this, some half-mile only, is formed the " new road to Piako, made eight miles shorter than at present, will be completed.

Thk, South BTrTiSH Insurance; OojcEAN7, " one of the soundest and moat flourishing, of .the colonial institutions of the kind, is, it will be seen, a candidate for extended patronage in the Waikato district. Elsewhere we publish a list of its local agents.. Waikato people have some good reason to remember the South British/ which behaved so liberally to a burnt out settler here, some fifteen months ago when, though the policy had just expired,' the premium- not havin<r been paid, the sum assured was generoisly handed over to the sufferer, and without delay-.by- the company.

On all hands it is affirmed that a brisk correspondence is going on between Russia and Germany, and some assert that Russia wants to know whether, in case of war and of Victory— rwhich in her base are still believed to be the same thing she could enjoy the fruits of victory. To this question Germany alone oan reply, and Russia troubles herself with her alone. It would be a large field of Speculation to consider in what sense Germany re ply, and such speculations are less tempt* ing theneyer." ' :

Piako. Chuhcih MEETim—The Rev Mr Calder will visit the Piako at the end of next week, and hold a meeting at the school -house on Saturday at 4 p m to afford; the people . of that place an oppor. tunity of considering; the desirability of making some arrangements for the regular holding of divine service at stated intervals in connection with' the English Ctiurch. The Bishop rode out to that district with tke same object during his recent , visit to Hamilton, but owing to the fact that he reached the Piako a day or two before the mails which conveyed the papers^ 'co-rtaihing the notice of his intended visit .and its objeot, the meeting did not come off. Mr Calder will remain at the Piako over Saturday, and hald divine serv'ica there on Sunday morning.

A Meeting of the Chbditobs in the estate of Mr HP Macpherson was held yeßterday,,at r! the Court House, Hamilton. 1 Present': Messrs N R Coi, D_,vis Hammond, and J Knox (ia the chair j! >The' following proxies were put ; in :-— Ridley J Wood, B Coleman, GB Beere, Vialou &i Co., and Martin. Debts to the amount of .8115 were represented by those^ npiresent, = and the proxies. . The trustee showed that debts to the extent of £181 16s 7d had been proved. The estate had realised £82 15s 2d. Tbe disbursements, in realising the' same amounted -to £43 13s 9d, ' leaving ; a balance to be divided among the creditors giving: a "dividend of 4s 34d in the £. On the motion of Mr Knox, seconded by Mr: Martin, the report was . adopted, and the dividend of 3s 4^ in the £ accepted, and on the* motion of Mr Hammond, seconded by Mr Ridler, the final discharge was granted.

Woods New Hotel, Puko. We learn,;. from a gentleman just returned from a trip to the Piako, that the new Hotel, to be ealled the Nottingham Castle Hotel, now building for Mr J Wood, will be ready for the paperhangers and painters in another week, and that before a mouth the building will be completed, lb ia spukeu of as being fully in advance of the _ requirements of the district for some time probably to oome, quiokly as that district is forging ahead. It contains over twenty rooms, and all modern appliances for comfort and convenience and, when completed, will afford ample and adequate accommodation for the Governor himself, and suite. The rooms are large, airy, and well lighted, an I what is of equal 'consequence in a country hotel, the atabiing accommodation will be ample and first-class also, with large coach-house, iu which a loaded dray may be received, -and placed under look and key, as well as shelter. That the house itself will be well conducted, and the accommodation all that the trr veiling public could desire, ia sufficiently guaranteed in the acknowledged respectability and business character for which Mr and Mrs Wood have been long known in Hamilton.