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Waikato Times, Volume XI, Issue 865, 5 January 1878, Page 2

Mr R. Bruoe of Te Bahu is offering' for sale his compact little farm at that place. Messrs. J. D. & K. Hill will hold & general sale at their Mart, Viotoria-street, Hamilton, this afternoon. A case of surgical instruments was lost yesterday between Leslie's Gully and the Tamahere road. A reward is offered. Mbs SiuiiWiEtD, of Parnell, advertises offering board and residence to boys from Waikato attending the Auckland and Parnell Grammar Schools. NoTiOR/ifl given by the collector of the Pukekura Highway Board that all rates, with arrears due, not paid by the 31st instant, will be sued for without further noti ;e. Buokland's Ohattpo Sheep Faie takes plaoe on the 16th, and already 2,300 sheep have been entered for sale — a full catalogue of which will be found advertised elsewhere. Cambeidoe Baoes. — Monday next has been fixed on by the stewards of the late races aB settling day, and the hour and ' plafce appointed are — 8 p.m., and the National Hotel, Cambridge. The Ttxhixabamea. Higuwat Boabd meets to-day at the School House, Ngahinipouri, for the purpose of striking a rate of 9d. m the £, for the year ending March 31, 1878. The Rate Book is now open for iapootion at the residence of .

Mr R. F. CtAxn>E's Sale.— Wo would i draw attention to the catalogue of stock and effects, to bo sold on Saturday ne*t by Messrs. J. D. & K. >Hill, at Mr Claude a . . farm, Hamilton East. * : "-\ Tendbes for the erection of a^Btore.«ui Victoria^sweet, Hamilton, for Mr Joserfx Moseifr ;; are called for by the arcKitect, ;Mr ■> T. Hj^J^hit^jSud will be received up to ( Wed^da^ ,||^9th hifl<«iit. r Cast^ripq^ Reed Band.— ln furnishing us for our^ last issue with the hame-t hi" , those who had voluntarily subscribed to tho above band, the Secretary omitted to mention the name of Mr John Runoiman "for" r £i, and desires us to correct i "the mistake. .. . Mb Reuben Fabr's new reaping and binding' machine will be at work to-day on the farm of Mr E. B. Walker, and, doubtless, a good many visitors, interested m the successful working of this laboursaving machine, will be on the ground to-day to witness its performance. Waitoa District. — The speoial meeting of the Waitoa ratepayers — to consider the advisability of opeuing the main road from Morrinsvill to the Thames River, and , to empower the District Board to raise the funds for carrying out the work, if agreed to^— will be held '6n r Wednesday next at the Nottingham Castle Hotel. EooziEsiastioal. — Sunday next is the first Sunday on which the new scheme of services, m connection with the English Church m Waikato East, will take place. The Rev. N. DeL. WJlis (late of St. Luke's, Mount Albert), — the newlyappointed minister of the Cambridge district,—will perform his first service afr. the Church, Cambridge, on that day, at 11 o'clock, when the Holy Communion will be administered. The Rev. Mr Calder will conduct all . three servioes at Hamilton. A Fabmbb up Mysteby Cbesk, whilst inspecting his cattle, came behind a ruminating steer, and being of an enquiring turn of mind, slipped his hand down below the steers tail, to see if he was fat, I and immediately lay down m the clover to consider Sir George Grey's land bill, manhood suffer (ing) age and the folly of ' tiokhng ruminating steers m tender places, without the aid of a long pole. — Communicated. Mb Sheehan on the Waikato-Thambs Railway. — Now that the Thames papers are to hand, with the reports of the speeches made there by the Premier and Defence Minister on Saturday last, we have naturally a fuller and more distinct account than that afforded by our Auckland contemporaries. From Mr Sheehan's speech, as reported m the Grahamatown ' Star,' we take the following : — " What have you got as your share of the public money expended P Where was your interest out of the loan? Where is the Waikato and Thames Railway ? Why,' you have them now on paper, and, if the late Government had remained m office for another seven years, they would be on paper still. In the year 1872 one of the Unit documents I penned was a recommendation that £300,000 out of the j £4,000,000 should be set apart for your Thames and Waikato Railway, which the then - • overnment treated with deliberate contempt. I think there is no doubt whatever that the future of the Thames will be secured the moment you open up, by proper means of communicatiou, the great heart of the Waikato. I have told you that, before my hon. friend (Sir G. Grey) emerged from bis retirement, an attempt was made to secure a certain portion of the loan, for the purpose of constructing a Thames and Waikato Railway. That attempt failed, but you had such consolation as could be obtained from what is called a flying survey of the 1 Jie. • My hon. friend tried to give practical effect to your wishes last session by bringing m a bill to construct the railway on a Government guarantee of the interest of the requisite capital invested. Bat that bill never became law. I trust, however, that the Premier will be able to see his way to have the line made on a fair Government guarantee, as thsre are men here who, having stood steadfastly by the Thames, are deserving of every consideration."