THE HAMILTON TOWN BOARDS.

Waikato Times, Volume XI, Issue 877, 2 February 1878, Page 2

THE HAMILTON TOWN BOARDS.

Is another column we publish the statement of the assets and liabilities of the. Hamilton West Town Boards, furnished to ufi^by the Chairman, Mr*' Vial-ju, m response to' the suggestion which appeared m our iesuo of Thursday. The statement of the Hamilton East Board has aotbeen forwarded to us, and we are therefore unable to place it beforo our readers. We trust that there is no special motive for withholding it.

The Race Ball, we understand, has been fixed for -the 15th inst. and^wUl come off at the Commercial Hotel, Hamiltbh 1 . '- CJAMBEID&E JOOtfEV CLTTB.— A m^BtiHgr» of • -the stewards v of the late Cambridge racos will be held at the National Hotel, on Wednesday evening next at 7 o'clock. An hour later a meeting of settlers will be held at the same place to take into consideration the ad- j vieability of forming a " Cambridge J Jockey Club." Thanksgiving Services will be offered to-morrow at St. Peter's Church Hamilton for the "blessings of the harvest. The church has been appropriately decorated with the fruits of the earth, and a special choir service . prepared for the occasion. The Rev W. Calder will preach at both minting and, evening .service. A Communion service will be held at 8 a.m., . and a special service for children at--3 o'clock m the afternoon. We . would" draw attention to the altered- time table of the Waikato Steam Navigation Company which appears m another column, and to the reduced rate of * fare* 1 " Wween the' Waikato' river etl mer^i, -.nd Mercer. The fares are little more 'than half those of coach and train, say from Cambridge to Mercer, and now that the novelty of railway travelling ip . beginning' to , wear off, people • arebeginning to go down stream again by steamer. ■• ' ' * ' ■ i , The Hamilton Saturday Sales are > now held fortnightly instead of weekly, and thiß afternoon Mr. Kennedy. Hill will j submit at the Auction Mart, /Whytes i "Buildings, a quantity of household furni-, ture, clocks, pictures, six cases [of Stean's. tonic •wines, and a valuable stock of well bred poultry, which' having turned their attent'on too free'y to gardening have been condemned for sale by their bwner, and afforded, on opportunity of operating on the* gardens of others, or of testing the masticating powers of the teeth of the " sons of 3>ld colonists" and other poultry consumers. , .. V ■• ' : ' ■ J&SCAPE OF xiAST EIGHTS 7J.AILway TnAKi. — The passenger train, SarfiyingJaS Haihiltoii yesterday evening, had a narrow escape between Newcastle and Hamilton. When near the houses of Messrs Hall and Washer the engineer perceived a rail lying across line, line, and stqpped ( the : ;traiii,'ih time .to ;a^oij^it. A similar occurrence happened, the preceeding evening about the tsame plare, only then two rails were placed accrc^.' the line. There are a quantity of posts and rails lying beside „the[line at this place, and the supposition Ss that the rails on both, days were placed there by children. Had they been placed there by a man with malicious intent, the heaviest rails or posts would have bejeri used, but the rail yesterday picked up was one of the lightest m the heap. A atricfc i*ivc t'igation is being made into ih^ matter m the interests of the public saffety. .Pabkee Memobial Furra. — We have received a blank form foif subscribe .i names m aid of the fund for erectiny a suitable monument m St. Andp.'w's Church, Camlr'.dge, to the njemory of the late Bichard Parker, Esq, ; j and we ar : authorized to etato that similar foimt have been forwarded to Mr. Chas. Storey. Te Awamutu. the Manager of the Bank of Now Zealand, Cambridge, the President of the Farmer's Club, Cambridge, and to the several members of the Committee who have the direction of the matter, viz., Messrs James Runciman, Fisher, R.Kirkwood, Hewit,T.W. Hicks, Col. Lyon; and the Eev W. N. dDLW : IIi .. Subscriptions may be paid to any of tht abjoye.. J-t- j* proposed to call m on tbo 18th of all amounts that nuiy have been su\)scvil}?d >ip to that date m order that the erection of the memorial may be, proceeded, with a§ soon as