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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 763, 8 May 1877, Page 2

Game Licenses can now be procured | from D McKellar, Jffisq, the Collector of Customs. - : I?ew Zbaiand Iksprancb Compaky. — t)r J L Campbell and Mr Thos Buddie have . joined tho directory of the New Zealand Insurance Company. '. The Bbidqe over the Ohoto creek, we understand, is nearly, completed, and will be thrown open to traffic very shortly. The structure is a Bound and substantial, one, annd creditable to the contractor. AscEirsiox Da*.— Thursday next being Ascension day, or Holy Thursday, there will' be divine serrice m St Peters Church, Hamilton, at 8 a.m., fuliowed by the celebration of the JEuchariit. Divine Service will also be held m St Saviour's, Alexandra, at 11 a.m., and m St. John's, : Te Awamutu, at 7 p.m. Tendebs have been called for, by the -Colonial Architect, for painting the Hamilton Court House, and will bo received at the Public Works Office, Ngaruawahia, up to noon of the 15th inst. M* Giso J NjJAiy of Cambridge, would have altered iiis advertisement of flour and bread prices, bnt the advice came to us too late for to-days issue, the front page being then already printed. The prices should be : Flour, 1001 b bags, 21s 6d cash, 25s booked; 501 b bags, 134 6d and 14j j bread, (JJd cash, ,?d if booked. There are many who wiil learn with regret the departure of Mr W H Clark, Waikato District' Surveyor, who leaves this district for Hokitika. Mr Clark has been living for some fonr years , past m tlamiltbn, and has been a general favorite. Professionally, too, the low of his services, as eugine^rraud, surveyor, will be much felt. It will be aeon that Mr Kenuody Hill will sell his furaiture and effects on Saturday next. :'■ Head Quakteiw!.— lt has been finally deteruxiaad, we understand, to remove the head quarters of the Armed Con* stabulary m the Waikato to Cambridge, and the work of taking down some of the barrack buildings m Hamilton has been commenced, men bmng employed yesterday m removing the lining from the large iron store. The removal of head quarters will tako place during the coming month. It has also been deter* mined to break up the station at Kihtkihi and call m the one member of the force at present stationed there.

Thh Books of thb Cambridge Library have, we learu, been nearly »U removed to Mr Camp's shop, Duke street, for the greater convenience of the subscribers, their old abode, tba schoolroom, being rather but of the way, more especially on dark wet nights. I'besu sciibers are also by this arrangement enabled to get bpoks any time of the day and every : day. The cumber of volumes, also, we are pleased to learn, have bee a increased very largely during the present year, and this is, no doubt, owing to the increase m the number of subtcribers. Mr Camp has added to his multifarious business that of bookseller ; on a small scale at present, but which we suppose will expand with the growing demand for literature. This with the nicely fitted up arid well Blled shelves behind the shop and the collection (fast diminishing) of books for sale m the shop, Mr Camp's place of business presents the appearance of a literary emporium. 1 ' Atlas,' tolls the following story :— 'Now that Silkatone is ap allingly dear, and Walhend spells bankruptcy, perhaps the following anecdote may be useful to those of my readers whoso tenements abut on railways. An eminent ' menagerist ' lives m a suburb where pass hia garden forty trains an hour. The weather was cold, but coals were expensive. The ' managerial,' however, was a man of resources : he conceived a plan of utilising the forty trains an hour. From his menagerie m town he brought a large Barbbry ape, which unfortunate animal was chained to the top of a pole at the end of the garden. The result was as pleasant as owning a colliery, without any wages to pay or fear of floods and explosions. Every stoker— and occasionally a driver — on every train that passed had a shot with a lump of coal at the Barbary ope. The B. A. was never hit ; but the garden was litt< red with coal, which ;the * menagerist' triutnphintly conveyed to his cellars. May some of my r> alera go and do likewise. Win'Terixg Axihvls.— Now that the winter's cold, and thera is really cold weather m a Waikato winter, has set m, the following, from the '.Rural Home,' may not be out of place :— ♦ We generally give oar horses the warmest quaitsrr, but oows and fattening cattle are nearly as sensitive as horses j cheep need some protection, etpecially against wet, and fowls are about the only domestic animals that ever fre< ze to deaih. Swine are exceedingly sensitive to the cold, and we dou=-t if any mo; ey is ever made ou pork unless the pigafcy is warm, for the very material consumed by the hog as fuel would make pork and Jard. We see that it is a question of economy as well as humanity. No humane mau will see his domestic animals suffer when it is m bis power to relieve them, and no economic man would, knowingly, feed h»y, grain, and roots to the stock which conl<l be supplied by comfortable barus and sUbles. Our first aim with our stock, and also with ourselveß, shjuUl be to retain within the body as much of the heat as possible, by comfortable barns and dwellings, and warm clothing and bedding, and the next should be to furnish and abundance of good economical food to supply fuel to the animal system., A Clever Capture was mado by Constab'e Onyle, of the Armed Constabulary, on Sunday last. It appears that some time m March a young fellow namod H 0 Digby, said to be well educated and

well connected at homo, stole a watch from Mr Rogers, of Durh«m.btreet, AuokUnd, aai anting himself inquired for by tha Auckland polio, took -to the bush. He has boon working m, the neighbourhoo 1 of ■ Pupar.iU since -the robbery, an I on Friday evening^* no up by Carter's coach to Hamilton. '..- On Sunday toorning, however, Constable Coyle, who had, when on duty «» Police Constable (X Rangiriri, receive! a written description of Digby from die Auckland police at the time of the robbery, mat him m Hamilton and recognised bis man by tho description simeJtwo months "ago received; and at once o >U*ftd him and handed him over to the Superintendent of the Waikato police, "Bergea^t Groan. As there was not time on Monday morn* ihg'to *♦ run m " -a Ibeal JvPi, to get the prisoner formally _ remanded, and sent away by that morning* boat, Sergeant ! Green despatched him at once m charge of Constable Foreman of the Waikato police to Auckland, where he will this morning be introduced to the presiding Magistrates, and doubtless be furnished witbtho opportunity of • studying prao-; tical geology at Mount JEden. Educational.— At thY meeting of the Central Board of Education, held m Auckland on Friday, 1 the following matters m reference to school districts m Waikato were discussed. A sum of £25 was granted for the lining and painting of. the school at Ohaupo, on condition that the settlers of the district should fence m with a sod ditch two acres of the reserve oircumjaeent to the building. A supply of desks was also authorised. It was stated that considerable correspondence had been received by the Board, m reference to the charge of oruelty to a scholar named Pierce, preferred against Robert Ormsby, the teacher of the Alexandra school. The teacher had appealed against the committee's decision. — It was resolved, 'That as the committee appointed to hear Mr Ormsby's appeal cannot attend at Alexandra to take evidence, the Board oan only inform the appellant that the Board r did not confirm the sentence of summary dismissal passed upon him by the local committee, and that their reason for approving of the termi* nation of Mr Ormsby's connection with the Alexandra school was, that they con- | sidered, upon the evidence of bis own | admissions, that his mode of punishment had been ill-judged, and that bis further connection with the local committee was not likely to be cordial.' The appointment of a sewing mistress to the school at Te Awamutn was authorised at a salary of £10 per annum. In the o»i a of the Hamilton West School, a letter was read from Mr Price (contractor for the erection of sohoolhouse) calling attention to the nonpayment of the balance (£4O) due to him upon his contract, and which sum w*s to have been raised by the district.— The Seoretary was directed to communicate with the committee, urging them to pay up the money. A grant of £44 wan made for the removal and reerection of cottages for teacher's residence at Haut&pn* Cambridge and Piako Road.-- A meeting of gentlemen interested m the opening of this road was beld at the National Hotel, on Saturday last, to take steps for at once proceeding with the work.' Mr Brooks occupied the chair, and read the advertisement convening the meeting, and called upon Mr Clark m m the absence of Mr Henry Reynolds to give an account of what the committee had done who were appointed at a meeting held some time ago. Mr Clark made a statement, to the effect that the committee had gone over the ground as far as tbe swamp permitted, and had found with the exoepcion of about 75 chains of swamp the line of proposed road went Over dry land. They recommended a deviation from the road surveyed by Mr Campbell, which would shorten the distance by some two miles. A long and desultory discussion ensued here as to the direction which the road would take, but v timately the following resolution moved by Mr Kirk wood, and seconded by Mr Halley was carried :— "That a deputation wait upon tho Cambridge Highway Board to request them to undertake the work at once, and Jihat all subscriptions be handed to them for the purpose." It was generally thought by those present that the amount subscribed would ba augmented by the County Council. The usual vote of thanks to the chair con* eluded the meeting.