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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 914, 2 May 1878, Page 2

Tee more exciting the expected mtelligence from Europe the more certain a break ni the Port Darwin line. The colonists are all. on the tiptoe of expecta-, tion, and the tolegraph line, is, as?, usual, prepared for the occasion. ._, Gomnrirnication is interrupted near Port Augusta. Of coutseitis! :, ,Tj*e Native Land Court to have been held in Hamilton on the tenth of May will, on its opening-, be adjourned to the 24th inst, ■■,'.. Tbickptt, the champion sculler, says a special telega-am to : the 'Star,' has lost two of the lingers of his left hand in handling a cask of beer. His rowing has been stopped. Tub Cambridge Troop oi' Cavalry Volunteers meet for drill on Friday, the 1 7th instant. The Cambridge Eabaieus' Club will hold its next monthly meeting on Saturday afternoon. Tenders will be received not later than to-morrow, by the Chairman of the Pukekura Highway District, f or gaveling and claying about thirty chains of road. Tendees for the erection of butcher's shop at Cambridge inust be sent in to Mr Richardson by Saturday next. The Narrows Bridge. — Saturday; noxt is the last day on which tenders will be received from contractors willing to undertake the erection of a biidgo ove* the Waikato River at the Narrows, some four miles abo^e Hamilton. The quarterly licensing meeting for the districts of Raglan and Kawhia will be held at the Courthouse, Raglan, on Tuesday, the 4th proximo, at noon.

The Cambridge Ploughing Match.— Tenders for furnishing the use of some ihjrtv acres within five miles of Cambridge, fer the ploughing match, must be sent in to the Ploughing Match Committee, at the Cambridge Farmers' Club, by noon of Saturday. St. ndbeav's Church, Cambkidge. — The social entertainment to be held in aid of the funds of the above Church, Avill take place on Wednesday next, and Avill consist of music, readings, and addresses. Mr James Hally, of Cambridge, adverils.es for sale twenty-four, freehold allotments in Ui6 kefjrt of that township, situated between- thc Bank ai New Zealand aud the market reserve, and on easy terms. A mge'TJNG of the ratepayers of the Newcastle district '(fill be held on Saturday next, at the Delta Hotel, £q consider the stoppage of the roads advertised by the I^oard in accordance AY'ith thc Act. Brickfields px Waikato. — Applications wore received by the Wa.sfce Lands $oard from Mr North and Mr Asnius fop P6r<ini.?sHm to occupy six . and three acres respectively in Puuiu, Waikato,' for briokmaking. At the. TOtsthjg of tho Board on Tuesday the matter was roforred to the local Road Board.

The • Hamilton Borough By-laws. — An error occurs -in the introductory sentence of the Hamilton Borough BylaWs published in our issue of Tuesday, by the insertion of the words " after 1878." The sentence should read : " Bylaw of the Council of the Borough of Hamilton, made under special order of the said Council dated this 29 th day of April, 1878, to be confirmed the Bth day of May, 1878, and to be sealed with the common seal of the Council of the said Borough the 9th day of 1878, and to be brought into force the Ist day of June, 1878," &c, &c.

George Thompson, of Piako, whose, children left him, came to Hamilton, and were sent by the Court to the Industrial School in Auckland, as destitute children, for their better protection and care, Avrites to us complaining .that the statements made by the police,: and published in this journal, were incorrect. He asks, Ist, When did my two elder boys run away from mo, and for what did they run away, was it cruelty or neglect, or was it because they preferred to .ran away rather than , work with the : r master. 2nd, When and where were my children left for : a : month with nothing but a bag of flour. 3rd, Which of the Piako settlers knew of the bad usage ,of my children. -