SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1877.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 807, 18 August 1877, Page 2

S AT URD AY, AUGUST 18, 1877.

OwlNa to press of matter the leading article and letters of a Farmer, aud His Pakeba Friend are unavoidable crowded out. The Election of a trustee tb the Pirongia Highway District Board, m place of Mr McMinn, win has resigned, will tike place on the 30th inst. Oambbidom Cattle Sale. —Mr Kennedy Hill will hold his next cattle sale at the Cambridge yards on Tuesday the 21st instant. We understand that Dr Ross (Physician and Surgeon) has just arrived at Cambridge, where it is likely he will be induced to remain m the practice a of his profession... An altebatiov it will be seen has been made m the Presbyterian Church Serves. Divine service will be performed by the Rev. J S Neil], at Cambridge, at 3.30 p.m tomorrow, instead of at Hautapu at 3 p.m, as previously notified. We regret to learn that a very serious accident occurred yesterday to a eon of Mr L R Harris of Ngaruawahia. The lad receiwd a kick from a hone, and last night the symptoms were such as to jead to the gravest appreben»ipn9.

ToWn Hali. Sor Cambridge.— The Government having agreed to give £100 towards tbe ereotion of a Town Hall at m addition to a grant of land as a^site, step?, we understand, will be immediately' taken for the purpos of devising means for the erection of a fsoi^aible building. A S ,- vIiJBRTXLrnr qf Waikaio CriMATEiTr A fact interesting to many, and? portentous Ij& v some, has. come to our£kriowj(esge, namely, that during the curfent^Oi^arter the Registrar for ;; ; thiß districbihns • rer gifitered no less than five births of twins, a circumstance unprecedented even for the year, m the Waikato district. The Railway Contbacts. — When we argued that the uscTof the word ' thence,' in~the reply of Mr Ormond t > Mr Cox, with respect to the extension of the line frpm.,Ngaruawahia J .,to Qhaupo,. , implied that t ae work would >>c let m two coo* tracts, we were, it seems, correct. A telegram received by this journal yesterday, from Mr Cox, at Wellington, says : — " My motion; was, that tenders should be called from Newcastle to Hamlton, and thence to.Ohaupu, so as to secure completion to Hamilton m a Comparativly short time." Cambkidgb FABMps' Club. — The usual monthly meeting ef members of the above club will be held on Tuesday evening next, at the National Hotel, Cambridge, when a paper will be read on arboricuhure.JVfembers who have ordered manures are requested to come armed with their oheque books. Meetings of the Cattle Show Committee and Clubroom Committee will be held the same day, the first at i p m, the latter at 6.30 pm., ?■■■■■ /.■ To Stosoribbbs.— Th? delivery of the Waieato Times since the' extension of the railway to Ngaruawahia has been re-arranged so that our subscribers will not suffer delay by the alteration m the running of the ooaches. An organised system of mounted runners has been organised, and the Waikato Times will, after this week, be delivered on the morning of publication at 8 a m m Cambridge, at 7 a m at Ohaupo, and m Alexandra aud-Te Awamutu at 9 a m. The Concert, so long talked of, to supplement the funds required for putting the East Hamilton Cemetery ia a tit state of repair, will come off on Wednesday next. Great trouble has been taken by the committee to make it the success it deserves to be, and as we expected, they have been most liberally met m their appeals by the general public A large number of tiokets have been already sold, and a programme, which is promised for publication m our - next, has, we are informed, been sketched out that cannot but give very general satisfaction, The Rev S. J. Nbill, as our readers are aware, has some little tima contemplated leaving Waikato for a more important Bphere of duty. At the meeting of the Auckland Presbytery, held on Wednesday, the. Rev Geo. Brown read the call from Si. James's Churuh to the Rev 8. J. Neill of tbe Waikato. It was signed by 75 members and 136 adherents. The Rev 11. F. iVlacnicol said that m accordance with the power vested m him by the fresbytery, he had presided at a meeting of the member a and adherents of Mr Hill's late congregation. The meeting was a very cordial one, and the call to Mr Netll had been resolved on unanimously, no other gentleman being suggested as qualified for tbe position. On the motion of the Rev Mr Macnicol, the call was sustained and Mr Neill appointed to summon delegates from the parties interested to appear before tbe Presbytery on the. 3oth insfc. The Cattle Nuisance.— Cambridge, it will be seen, has taken, the initiative, having been the first prac tied ly to move m the matter of depasturing cattle on the streets and waste lands. After the 3lstiost no horned cattle, except milch cows'and calves under six. months of age, will be allowed to depasture on the roads and waste lands of the Cambridge North Township Highway District, and only then when depasturing fees shall have bsen paid for them. Horses have nob been, included, but, m justice to cowkeeping ratepayers, horses if allowed to graze at large, should be charged at least double fees, eating down tpe grass as they do so close that oft times tkerj is little left for cows. Another rule ought also to be enforced, and that is, restricting the number of cattle run by any individual m proportion to the amount of rates he pays. Doubtless, Hamilton aud other townships will follow suit ia imposing restrictions on the running at large of cattle, and decidedly that is a good proposal of the Hamilton West Town Board,, to restrict such being at Urge to the hours of daylight, when owners of enclosures have some chance of protecting their property from breachy i cattle. Mr Teewheelar, we are glad to see, ii %pb going to let one of Hamilton's local iudustries die out through the I departure of Mr Johns from the district. The Hamilton made biscuits, both of the cluss cilled settlers' biscuits, a good aad portable substitute for bread, and the small sweet and desert, biscuits, have b.en thoroughly appreciated, aad used . almost exclusively by families aiid hotels m the Waikato district. Mr Treewheelar has taken over Mr Johns', business, and when we visited the factory - yesterday, /was busy cutting and printing off dough for baking the first ckss of buisciiits above mentioned. Tbe factory is fitted with all the usual requirements, mixing and printing machines, and none but flour of the best quality is used. Aa a confectioner Mr Treewheelar would play second fiddle to none m Auokland itself, and we have no doubt willfully sustain, if he does not increase the reputation which the Hamilton made fancy buiscuits attained at the hands of his brother-in-law, Mr Johns. The Local Option Bill o£ Mr Fox has raised much opposition, by providing that no compensation shall be given to publicans whose business is vetoed out of existence. This is causing some discussion m the Auckland Press. A writer m the ' Star ' says :— " You oall it robbery to take away the publioana' liceuses, thereby sweeping away his family's support, while at the same time you are well aware the means employed by tbe publican to get .this "living for himself and family are depriving a score of other families of their means of living ; and ■what do you think of compensating these poor families, whose means of living are tbus swept away week by week by the publican. Is the taking of a public house, and spending a few hundreds on it. to make it attractive, not a speculation ? The publican thinks this speculation the best investment for his capital. He employs a limb of the law to aid his purpose, aud he gets permission to sell his wares for one year, provided that he complies with certain laws governing that' strange business, and these laws he breaks a hundred times over, the first six months. There is not a publican m Auckland or m the colony but knows he or she has forfeited, and legally forfeited their licenses,. and are above all others a law-breaking people ; and instead of being compensated should have been swept away had the law been executed ; also, that so far as the law is concerned there is not a publican m tbe colony entitled to a license. Of all evils choose the least. The legal sweeping away of the livings of a thousand publicans would mean the giving of a living to twenty thouaand'who are deprived of it by the publican' traffic."

NaAßtrAyrAkiA Raj&w^ Station. --In our last, we drew attention 'to the inoonvenienoe inflicted on the inhabitants of Ngaruawahia by placing the railway station, add quite unnecessarily} . -80 far o^ jot the township. A petition vh«. already been drawn up«i the subject and 'Yitl&erousl^fllgnedfftnd will fee iminedi ateljjr for waited' to Mr Cox, for presantat ion to the^Honse v Evenif the at at ion must be where itShss bestir pi >oed jsiiere ought at least tdvbe a plaf fwsa rereated at the JiQwnsbip. t'lt is abßurS'to^take pas. angers half .a mile beyond' tjh'eir journey's end and compell them to walk bauk again. To Yotra Thnts, s O Israel I— We would remind oar readers of Te Awatnutu and neighbouring districts, that the public meeting to. protest against the action of the Government m leaving entirely unprotected- the most exposed of our front ier settlements, will take place to day m the Te Awainutu Hall ; also that the meeting of the Te Awsmutu Cavalry Volunteers ,, „to consider the refusal ofc the Government to afford them sueti '■'. remuneration as will cover their actual jjmoney expenses when on halfyearly drill, will be held m the same place on Monday. The other Waikato Cayalrj troops will be represeuted at the meeting. The Oambbidoe North Town Board held a meeting on Wednesday. There was a full attendance of members, and it was resolved that iks depasturing of of horned cattle within the limits of the district should be discontinued after the 31st instant. Milch bows with their calves under six months, are exoepted from the prohibition for the present, and until the meeting of the board m October next when it is expected that these animals also will be excluded from this right. The Chairman was requested to address a letter to each of the three adjoining Country district Boards on the subject of wharfage accommodation. For years past, indeed since the introduction of the Highways Aot into the District, the Town has maintained, at the expense of its ratepayers, whirfage convenience for the country settlers, and during the first three years all its limited recources were expended upon this one object. The burden has pressed heavily upon the Town, has been an obstruction to the improvements of its roads and streets, and has largely led to its present condition of indebtedness. The trustees of the Town now propose that as the trade and traffic have increased so largely and extensive wharfage acoomodation has become a necessity the country districts which have for so many years benefited by the Town funds -m providing free facilities for landing and carting their stored, implements, supplies of fencing, building material, dec, whould be requested to afford assistance towards carrying out a scheme for supplying this work. It is proposed that each of the districts contribute a sum of filty pounds iv money, and appoint one of its members to form with the others a oommittee to devise plans and carry out the work, the Chairman of the Town Board to be Chairman of the oommittee. The trustees authorised the Chairman to obtain from Mr BEM Campbell, a survey of the foreshore and to subdivide it into allotments to be let as wharves and landing places for goods and passengers. Some tenders for road works were accepted, Mr Heaslip and Mr Thompson beinj the su*3essful tenderers. Boys 1 Handicap Walking- Match.— There was considerable excitement yesterday afternoon, m Hamilton East, on ' the occasion of the handicap walking match between a number of the boys belonging to the Rev Mr Davi* Hi.^h School. A sum ot'about £5 had been raised by subscription aad entrances, and three prizes for the elder boys were given of the several ninouuts of £2, £1 and 12s. It was first intended that the distauce to be walked over should ba the first four miles and back on the Hamilton Back Road, but it was considered thht eight miles on a bad road was over muoh for some of the younger boys, and the ground wa.i changed to nine and a half lapa of the Hamilton East Square Reserve, or four and a half miles altogether. Messrs Claude, Gwynne, and Breakell acted as handicappers, and Mr Breakell as starter. The boys wer«) handicapped according to age — 14 year olds, John McGrlashan and 0 Bede at scratch, or 9H»p* ; 13 year old, Perry Missen, 9i laps ; 12 year olds, Frank Jolly, R Beere, William Vow Stunner, 9 laps ; 10 year old, Thomas D-iwson, 8£ laps ; 9 year old, R Gwynne, 8i laps : 8 year olds, P Dawson and E Dawaon (twins), 7h lips ; aad one seven . year ol /, William Camming, 71a, .5. The boys all started together, and made excellent walking of it, young Jolly, Beere, and McGrlashan especially, walkiug m excel lent form ; and style, and there was not more than six minutes difference all round at the finish, showing that the handicapping was close to the mark. The twins, Frank and Earnest Dawson, came m together, taking first and second prizes, followed close by their elder bbrotherr r Thomas Dawsou, a good third; R Beere, fourth. The walking was go )d for bays, the winners having done their three and three-quarter miles iv four minutes under the hour, and Beere and MeGlasban their four and three-quarter miles m two minutes over the hour, fair heel and toa. At the conclusion of this match, there was a second got up, for boys under seven years of age ; distance; halfa-mile There were 4 entries, Adolphe Claude, Cecil Dawson and Harold Van Stunner at scratch, and Wilfrid Von Stunner, 40yds stare. The latter, a five-year-old, came m fir.it with his 40yds to spare, Adolphe Claude taking 2ud, and Cecil Dawson 3rd prize. Verily, we are a sporting community m Waikato, when even our boys can do close on their five miles an hour. < ;