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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 804, 11 August 1877, Page 2

Tujssdat 3EIT is Ohaupo Bale (day. As will bo seen, a cunsideraoie number of cattle and some sheep are expected to be penned. ' v Mr S Bblghx will offer for sale at Cambridge to-day, a quantity of furniture, farm and dairy prouuce, &o. CONSOLIDATING THE EOAD BOARD Laws.— la reply to a question ia the Upper House, i)r Pollen said that tbo Government could uob possibly bring m this Beauion a bill consolidating the law relating to .Road Boards. Gravelling Footpath, Hamilton Easj'. — Tuesday next, is the- last day on which tenders will b 9 received by the Town Board for forming and gravelling about half a mile of footpath, m Clydestreet. In consequence of the continued illness of bis Honor Judge Ifeuton, Mr tirookfield is appointed Deputy District Judge, to eit m Auckland on the 13th of Auguet, and at Hamilton on the 21sc of August Messrs Alfred Buckland, and Baird, of Auckland, and Mr John Hull, of Otahuhu, are, it will be seen by their advertisements, prepared to offer farm and garden seeds of tha principal varieties, to farmers and gardeners for spring sowing. .. BORBOWING POWEBB OF OotTNTIBS.— In the Assembly, on Wednesday, Mr Whitaker was understood to cay, m reply to Mr Bastioge, that provisions would be made m the amended Counties Bill for giving borrowing powers to counties. The Handicap Walking Match Epidemic is spreading m Hamilton East. The last form^of it we have heard is that of an attack on the pupils of the Rev Mr Davia'd High School, ho, m imitation of their elders, bave instituted a grand handicap walking match of eight miles, to come off this day week.

*w*L ? AMp » of Cambridge, announces that he has received a new and large stock or goods, and hasjsecured the servicoß of lirac-class workmen m the tailoring department; also, that he is prepared to£nter extensively into the - stationery' -ptfsiness. ' ■ IM,®1 M ,® J W Enox, announces at his week,y sale today, at Hamilton, a large* quantity, .of goods of various desoriptions, jewellery,: tobacco, mersohaun-. .pipes, saddlery, fruit, engravingg, ohairß, fowls, turkeys, farm and dairy produce generally, and a ton of flour without" reserve. Pukekura Highway District.— A second notice^ appears m to-days issue, irom the Chairman of the above Board, gmng twelve days notice of the intention of the Board to strike a rate of one .SjiVSß JnjtfeS '^..payable to theCollector r - Mr JJitzgerald, m one installment, on the 22ad of September next. Alteration 1 -o* Mails.— ln contemplation of the'Oßßning of tne Railway to JNgaiuawahia, on the 13th irist., we are requested to stattf tbafc; on and after M °" da ?». the Mttoday of August, mails will am ve at ' Hamilton, from Auckland and intermediate places, at 2.45 p.m. Return /mails will be made up at Hamil« ton, daily, at 9.30 a.m. Professor Hknntckh has,' it will be eeeo, altered the d»te of his reappearance with Madame Stella m Hnmittou. They will not now perform m LeQuesue's Uall this week, but on Wednesday and Thursday night next. They hare met with to much success at Cambridge that they have determined tn perform on two nights both at Alexandra and Te. Awamutu. Thb Melbourne Cup. following are the non-aoceptors of the Melbourne : Cup:— Bichmond, Spark, Briseis, Buttan, Priam, »atapj(«n, Cardinal, Bill Sykes, Burwood, Maud, Ivory's Sultan, Lady nlly, Ginger, Bella, Rook wcbd, Expectation, Sour Grapes filty, Qn-imbone, Starlight colt, Knight Templar, Spring Jack, Ingomar, Charity, and Jack of Crumps. My Kennedy Hils wiU hold a very important and extensive clearance sale of farm stock, live and dead, together with the whole of the household fnrniture belonging to Mr H S Brabant, who is leavnig the district. The sale will take place on the estate at Eskdale, WaiLa IRjver, and lunoheon will be provided for the occasion. Mr Kennedy Hill, sells jso-day, a'tthe Hamilton Hotel, all kinds of farm aud dairy produce: also turkeys and pigs. Hamilton Bridge— Public Meeting. -The name vofr-Mr Samuel Steele, as Chairman, of the Hamilton Highway District Boara> should have been appended with that of the other three Chairmen of Boards to the advertisement appearing 1 ™ our>at, calling the Public Meeting, mre the Hamilton Bridge, for Monday evening next, at Le Quesne's Uall. Since them Mr Steele's signature has been obtained,' and it will be seen that the meeting is called by the Chairmen of the f Jiir ttoards more directly interested m tbe matter. Potr Crdmmie!— We understand that at the last meeting of the Hamilton West Town Board, it was resolved that, at their next meeting, step* should be taken to prohibit the running of cattle m the township after dark. The destru tiou of gardens and fences by horses and horned cattle has become a serious nuisance, and most of it h done by night. Elsewhere, we give some account of the Impounding Bill, which has already passed its seosnd reading m the House of Representatives, and whioh, if it b ome law. in its present form, will render it scarcely possible to run cattle by day on the public roads/much less by night. Branch Bahavays.— We &ive from r«r A « enov telegraphic report, of Wednerdays proceedings m the House of Representatives on the Branch Railway resolutions of Mr Maoandrew, that gentlemans introductory remarks, and the Hon Mr Ormonds reply. The report, leas full, was furnished m by our "Special," but through an error of the telegraph department, one of the railway lines mentioned by Mr Macandrew came to us as Waikato, whereas it should have been » Waitaki." This we queried at the time. From Mr Ormonds report, as now given, it wil> be seen that the Governmoot have come to the fixed determi. nation of including no branch line m their schedule of worki for this session. Indeed the scramble which took place, on the discussion of Mr Macandrews resolution on Wedn e sday, showed clearly enough that if a ay n y one case they did so, they would be overwhelmed with the claims of as many bucli lines as would necessitate a nevf public Works Scheme altogether, and it£ conoomitant loans. Mr Whitazbr, m moving the second reading of the Native Land Court Bill, said, he claimed for the bill that it contained nothing 'new. m principle. It merely consolidated the existing law, and provided for the 'omission of previous J Acts. It was drawb by himself, though he claimed no oredit for it on that account, but he hoped it placed the law m a more compact aiid intelligible form than it was before. The object of the bill was to denude the Government of the pownra it possessed over Land Court proceedings. It was, however, provided that m emergencies, the Government had power to stop_ tbe- proceedings of the Land Courts m cases aiicn as to preserve the peaoe of the country. It was said that the. Chief Judge, of the Native Lands Court had given himuelf more power m the bill, but although the bill had been submitted to ; him, he altered nothing m the bill m the direction of giving himself more power. He hid no prejudices one way or the other about, the bill. It hadbeen said that the bill made free trade m land, and wa»m itta, interests of speculators, but he could assure the House there was no deviation m principle from the existing law beyond some alterations as to details. So far, from the bill being drawn m the interests of speculators, who could always obtain land by incurring the necessary expeupa,— it was to enable private individuals and legitimate purchasers who oould not go to the same expense as speculators, to obtain land m a simpler and oheapei manner. Those who wanted to purchase large blocks of land could go to the expense of sauding agents amongst the natives to obtain their signatures, but those who wanted only small quantities of land could not go to any suoh expense.. In that respect the bill was a boon to small capitalists. The great drawback to the North Island was because the greatest portion of the land was subject to the native title, and the objeot.of the bill, was to enable the land to be bought under the European title. It appeared to him that the Native Land Purchase Act had failed m fulfilling what had been hoped from it, as we were as far off from having acquired any Land Fund m the North Island as ever. He thought it was a mistake that the preemptive right of the Crown had ever been parted with, but having parted with it for the last fifteen or sixteen years, it wan extremely doubtful whether that Bystem could be again reverted to. He did not think the natives would stand it, and to attempt it would endanger the peace of the country. One of two plans had, however, to be tried — either the plan of preemption or the right of private purchase. One important feature of the bill was thit portion dealing with incomplete purchase of land by Government, by

which persons are prohibited from negotiating for purchase of land affected by aaoh arrangements. He hoped the House would deal with the bid on its merits, devoid of party, feeling;-