VISIT OF THE GOVERNOR TO WAIKATO.

Waikato Times, Volume XI, Issue 896, 21 March 1878, Page 2

VISIT OF THE GOVERNOR TO WAIKATO.

His Excellency the Marquis of Normanby, Lady Norrnanby and suite, with the Hon. Col. Whitmore, will leave Auckland on Monday next by special train at half-past eleven o'clock, and will remain in Hamilton over Monday night. On Tuesday, the gubernatorial party will proceed to Cambridgo, and hold a review of the Waikato Cavalry Volunteers in Mr A. A. JFantham's paddocks. Ii is we believe His Excellency's intentiou to proceed to Te Awamuta and Alexandra during his visit to the district. At the Hamilton station he will be met by the Mayor and Council, and arrangements are being made to entertain him on Monday evening at a public banquet at Hamilton, and no doubt a reception worthy the Representative of Her Majesty will be accorded to His Excellency. Such indeed is no more than is due to his official position and can have no party or political signification whatever, nor need be interpreted as intending such.

The Licensing Court proceedings are necessarily crowded out of to-days issue. Two opportunities of buying first-class improved farms at Ohaupo on reasonable terms are advertised in to-days publication of the Waikato Times.

The Waitoa Highway Board notify their intention of striking a rate of ninepence in the £ on the 13th proximo, the rate to be for the year ending March 31st, 1879, and to be payable on the 15th of April nest.

Tk Kobe Bridge.—Tenders for the erection of a bridge at Te Rore—plans and specifications of which may be seen at Mr Maunder's house—will be received up to the 13th of April by the chairman of the Mangapiko Highway District Board.

Waitoa and Piako Road. Tenders for several miles of ditching and road forming, between the Waitoa and Piako rivers, will be received by the Waitoa Highway Board up to the 28th inst. Specifications may be seen at Mr R. Harris's store, East Hamilton, and at the Nottingham Castle Hotel. The tbafwc over the Whangamarino bridge, it will be seen, has been stopped until further notice pending repairs, by order of the Waikato County Council. A ferryman will be put on to-day with a boat or canoe who will ply at all hours.

Amebations to Bobough Ootreroiii Chambebs. —The Immigrant's Cottage, granted to the borough of ilamilton as a i ounoil Chambers, is to be altered and rendered suitable for the purpose. The original cottage will form the Council room, and there will be added to it two rooms and a vestibule. This work was tendered for as contract No. 1. A second contract was for lining the original building and building a brick chimney to it. The tenders were opened yesterday, and found to be as follows: William Price, No. 1 contract, £125, No 2 contract, £36, total, £163 (accepted); Mr J. Taylor, No. 1, £129, No. 2, £47, total, 176 ; i ienry Carter, No. 1, £136, No. 2, £42 10s., total £l7B 10s.; David Elliott, No. 1, £139, No. 2, 74, total, £213 ; John Thorp, No. 1, £175, No. 2, £35, total, £2lO.

Epfobts are being made to procure from the postal authorities the establishment of a tri-weekly postal service to Pukerimu, a flourishing and extensive district of the Waikato, lying west of Cambridge, in the Delta, but somewhat out of the way of the regular routes to up-country townships. The petition forwarded to the Chief Postmaster, which contains the signatures of fifty resident settlers, shows clearly enough the necessity that exists for a regular mail service to the district of Pukerimu, and probably as many more persons in the district employed by the settlers are considerably interested in the matter of the petition. As it is the people of Pukerimu have to wait for their letters till some of them go in to Cambridge on the Saturday, and even in receiving, let alone replying to them, much time is thus lost.- Nor need the cost to the Government be great. As has been pointed out, a horseman from Hamilton passes through the Pukerimu district on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays with the copies of the Waikato Times of those days for the subscribers to that paper, and a reasonable subsidy could secure the services of the same party for the carnage of the mail.