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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 800, 2 August 1877, Page 2

Owrsa to pressure on our space, report of meetings, local paragraphs, leader aad a hodt of other matter goes by the board — for thia iaaue at least. Tbk Batepayer9 of the East Hamilton Town Boar. i Highway District are reminded that their rates are .Overdue. , Constable JVIpRHAT h:is been appointed f^j^^^isM o i : '^ fpr'lhe Hamilton Eust Ihe Mangapiko Highway Board have extended the time for receiving tenders for the performance of engineering services to the 25th inat. Timber Sale, Hamilton. — The fi>.-t limber Bale, tor some months past in HamiltOD, will be held by Mr John Knox on Saturday. Swamp —We understand that in A few dajs tenders for the construction of works neir Hamilton, "on an fxtendve scale, will be called lor by tho Wuikato Swamp Company. Selling Pheasants. -An information, we understand, haa been laid agaiust a resident io Hamilton named Odium, for offering for sale hen pheasants inNgaruawahia. Six hens and a cock bind wt re aoM for 12s 6 <• ■ Waikato Tiinp Club.- Tho annua meeting of tbo members of the above club is convened for 'Monday evening next at Walker's Commercial Hotel, Hamilton, The Committee meet on Saturday evening. : - Thk Spring Cattle . Show —We would draw attention to important alterations made in the prize list of the Caaijiridge Farmers, Club first annual cattle show, as it appears in our advertising columns to day. Ihe Delay in the opening of the Mercer and Newcastle portion of the railway will be of short duration, All that is needed is to put the finishing touch to the plate-laving, and to the flooil opening near Ran^iriri. In all probability this will be completed in time to open the line for traffic on Monday the I3ch inst, but if not then, certainly noi later than Monday the 20th. Hamilton East Ceueterv Concert. —It has been determined to bold the entertainment in aid of the funds for the maintenance of the public burial grounds in Euat Hamilton, on the 22ad inst. Tutmatter, as we have befora urged, is one which recommends itself to the inhabitants generally, the cemetery being used by Christians u£ all denominations. Thtcominittee, in another column, ftnnounc that a programme of the performance wlli bo r üblUhed in a future Issue. We leaiw from the ' Auckland Star,' that Mr R R Hunt of Ngaruawahia, has tubm uitted to the people of Gisborn* a proposal for the construction of a tramway from Gisbome to Urmond by raising a loan of 22,000 for twenty years, on the joint security of the Borough and County rates and tho tramway plant, iu 100 .'le''i}nlur»B beari-ig interest at tb»•te'of *rV'O pei en. Mr iiuut i.ff-s di ps- oi tits 100 d-b^i.tuiea f t!9J. w<-u ii reduce t-ie nt-t.tut . - £2<) 000. He ala-i rccmumndu tha ohe laruru tramway flrwld ue purcbHsc,r< r Uj« p.itial o ustiu-tion of th*-. lui w.d offjr'.H to pi care the balance if tt ( O'fO'iiii rrqin-e<l » r the completion - n- hue for a con m asiuu of two ami naif pn i Cfiit F-*r n>gotiidug tlie lu* vl Hunt «ta'e> tiai hn iv< nid ieotiiv« > > mniisaio'i <>t two per o nc, or one pe thu muia^emet.t of the line we •jnirusre-i o him He woul f alsi aocep he iust tiam d offio • oa^a b.ilary ot £50 *

HAMfIttEDGE HARMOKIO SOCrETJT.— The tihrd term "commences this evening, when fche members will meet in the Qdd Fellows JEfall. The ; Hamilton 1 Peehy, exo-pt for foot passeugora will be closed on Friday next (to-morrow) to enable the stagoway on tbe east side to be rep ure 1. "We aro requested by Mr Hi;ks *o state that it was to him, and. not to Mr J Martin, an staled in our last, that Mr Reynolds reported that the*- bared in New Zealand bred once a month like rabbits. The game of Polo as also that of Z« Crosse is about to be introduced into Cambridge. 'Those desirous of forming a club are requested to be on the ground in the Government paddock, on Saturday after, oon next, where the necessary sticks may be procured. The Land Fond.— The Special of the 'Herald' wirea thus from Welliugton : — ' Some kind of compromise regarding the Laud; Fund, and other respective claims of the North, which was dispossessed, and of the South, which is in p'>sse3si'>n, is expected to be proposed, s? as, if possible, to satisfy both parties, or at leißt 10 do both justice. Only a rn'racle, however, is likeiy to accomplish this, and I fear Sir Gr. Grey is not disposed to try th'e land question first, but to fight the battle of Separation before all else. In this he is supported by sevural Auckland members, auiougst them Mr Bees, Mr Dignan arid Mr Tole. A clever CAPrr/BE was made by Deteoiivo-Doolan, at Ngaruawahia, the other day. When at Taupiri, he was iuformed by a miner named John O'Neill, that he had lost his watch while on a spree, some little time previous, at Ngaruawahia, and was asked did he think he ojuld recover it ? Certainly, replied tue detective, and having ascertained the uame of the drinking friend, in the late spree, one Jerry Shar^e, he repaired with oue police 4 8ttrgeaut at once the to Hotel of which Sbarpe was cook, Sbarpe denied all knowledge of the waled, but the detective was determined to make a search, and bade the man follow Him to the bed* room he occupuri, while the sergeant followed behind^pn ascending the stairs to the room, the root was iu one place very low, neo. ssitating the persou going up to assume a stoopiug posture, and while passing this > pot, Detective Doolan ou&erved the accused making a movemeut with his hu~nd toWArda the roof. Having searched rroni ami touud uothiug, the detecv^e walked straight to the spot where he had noticed this movemeut on the part of Sharpe, and puttiug his hand along tie wall-pate, pulleJ out the watch, sharpe will b> brought up before th« Court, at Ngaruawahia, an Monday, At the meetiug of the Cambridge Town Board, on Monday, it was poinud out .to the Chairman that tiu< liabilities of the Town were £170, a.d it was resolved that tha Bank Maua^cr should be interviewed, for the purpose of endeavoring to obtain a credit sufficient to pay it off. A petition to tho House of Kepreseutatives, praying fjr a line of railway to connect; Upper Wai ka to with the Tuames, was drafted, and will be at the .Board Office for siguatme, by the public, -until next Monduj, when it will be forwarded to the M.niber for the district for presentation. It was resolved by the Board, to divide the present lauding place aiid the adjoining foresliore mto allotments, to be leased at public auctiou. Tbe subject of depasturing cattle within the town limits was brought forward, aud postponed for further consideration at the next monthly meeting. Mr Hugh Kirk wood was appointed Collector of Hates, and Mjr'%. G. - (dubbins Collector of Dgo'l&x.