The Waikato Times. TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1878.

Waikato Times, Volume XII, Issue 949, 23 July 1878, Page 2

The Waikato Times.

TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1878.

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Bamiltos Contingent. — Members of the corps ' are requested to attend to morrow morning at 10 o'clock to receive pay and sign acquittance roll. The annual meeting of the Cambridge Branch of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society will be held at the National Hotel, Cambridge, on Friday evening the 26th instant. 1.0.J5.T. — A special meeting of the members of the Morning Star Lodge, No. 5, is called for this evening, at half past seven o'clock, to revise the by-laws. Tenders for volunteer uniform, fifty pairs of trouseifl, for the use of _ the Cambridge Cavalry Volunteers, will be received by Captain James Runciman, till 4 p.m. on Friday next. Me Gr.'-U Hunter, son of Mr Hunter, of Hunter and Nolan, has purchased the business formerly carried on m Te Awamutu by Mr H.. Culpan. A capital stock has been laid m, first class workmen are employed, and orders received will be promptly and skilfully attended to. Duke Street, Cambridge. — The tenders for draining Duke-treet, Cambridge, which were received by the Town Board ■were as follows: — Mr James Forrest, £215 10s: Peter Thompson, £223 Ks; Mr Walsh, £210 10*. The tender of Mr James Forrest was accepted. The Bryan O'Lynn Stud was recently offered for sale at Warrnambool. The sales effected were not numerous, m consequence of the high reserves placed upon the stock. Patriarch was sold to MiMaclean, of New Zealaud, for 6GO guineas. For Panic, the highest bid was 1200 guineas, and he was p:isscd m at 2000 A splendid colt, own brother to Pluto, evoked a bid of 180 guinea*, but the reserve wai 000. Twelve brood mures, not including any of the best catalogued, sold from 40 to 150 guineas. For Miss Melbournaand Cynthia, the sum of 800 guineas was offered, bxit they passed m • t 120 U.

Destruction of Cattle on Railway Lixks. — The loss occasioned to settler* by the non fencing m of the railway lines by Government is very serious Accidents are constantly occuring, and so frequently as |to rjnd( r their notice a matter of no excitement at all. A few days ago two large bullocks were knocked over and killed on the Aucklrnd-Waikato line, and another beast the following day. -The ; day after a ewe was cut m two by the passiu engine. It is said that to fence the railway lines m the colony would, cost £300,000, but even large as the sum is it would be but a simple act of justice, to the settlers that the work should be as speedly as possible commenced,the more so ■when it is considered that m a large majority of cases the land required was given free of charge. Messrs Sandes & Co, chemists and druggists of Hamilton; are, it will- be seen, agents for the sale of Ghollah's great Indian cures. Of all the wonderful medical diacoveriesjof modern times Ghollah's is perhaps the most astounding, especially tho rheumatic mixture, and that for gout.^ Mr Sanies has a long printed list of testimonials, many of them from persons well known to this community, which may be geen on. application, . Ai Generous Act. — The friends of the late Mr Robert Uraig, who, it will be' remembered, met his death by. violence at Smithfield, Queensland,' some months ago, will be glad to hear that, though his policy of assurance wit Tithei the Australian Mutual Provident Society for £500 had lapsed some weeks before his death, the directors of the Society have most liberally made a, gift of £400 to his widow for investment under trustees, for the sole benefit of herself and chi'dren. When it is considered that Mr Craig, at the time of his death, had been a member of the Society for less than three years, this generous act (remarks a Queensland journal) speaks well for the liberal management of the Australian Mutual Provident Society, An Accident, which, fortunately for the herb of the occurrence, did not turn out so fatally as it might have done, happened to Mr William Gavan, of. Ohaupo, on Sunday last. Mr Gavan took a canoe, and went out duck-shooting ,on the Serpentine Lake. By some means, he overbalanced the canoe, which turned over, and, though he could swim, he preferred taking his chance of sticking to the canoe. While m the water, he managed to get off his boots, and, passing these m one hand over tho bottom of the canoe, rested with his arm over the keel — the boots, full of water on the off side, keeping the balance, and preventing the man's weight from rolling the small canoe over towards him, which it would otherwise have done. In this predicament, up to his neck m the water, he was seen afar off by Mr James Corrigan, of Ohaupo, who quickly brought a boat to his assistance, and succeeded m getting him into it m a very exhausted state, Gavan having been fully an hour immersed m the water, and there was the tail end of the previous four days' frost still remaining on Sunday. Mr Gavan lost his double-barrelled gun, and, but for Mr Corrigan' s prompt assistance, would have lost his life also. ' The Annual Meeting of the ratepayers of the Taotaoroa Highway District was held at the National . Hotel, Cambridge, on Friday last. Mr E. Hewitt was voted to the chair, and there were present eleven ratepayers. The Chairman read the annual report and balance-sheet. The balance-sheet was as follows: — Receipts : Balance from last year, £43 13s 8d; rates collected, £117 14s 7d ; Government subsidy on rates, £121 17s; subsidy from Piako, £81 4a id; from £40,000 grant, £345 os sd; total, £709 14s 9d. Expenditure : Payments, £255 2s 7d ; balance, inhandj £454 12s 2d; total, £709 14s 9d. On the jnraposalof Mr Brunskill, seconded by ftlr Cudworth, the reporc and accounts as read were adopted. Sir Brunskill then proposed that the following gentlemen act as trustees for the ensuing year, namely — Messrs JR. H. D. Fergusson, H. A. C. Fergusson, W. Brunskill, John Hunt, and Wm. Norris. This resolution was also carried. Messrs Forrest and Win. Bruce, jiuii,- were then elected auditors, and Messrs E. Hewitt and Randerson — fence-viewers. A vote of thanks to the outgoing trustees and to the Chair man was passed. A meeting of the newly-elected Highway Board was held immediately .afterwards, and Mr H. A. O. Fergusson was appointed Chairman. Public School for Taotaoroa District—A meeting of the householders of the Taotaoroa Riding was held at the National Hotel, Cambridge, on Saturday last, to bring the Education Act into force m that district. Mr E. Hewitt was voted to the chair. It was proposed by Mr H. A. C. Fergusson, and seconded by Mr Norris, " That this is a meeting to bring the Education A ct into force m the Taotaoroa District, and that Messrs R. H. D. Fergusson, H. A. C. Fergusson, W. Brunskill, John Hunt, W. Norris, G. Wattain, D Bruce, jjun., and T. Bruce, sen., be appointed a. committee for that purpose." Mr Macguire offered to find a freehold acre for the erection of the schoolhouse, if the site be acceptable to the Board of Education The usual votes of thanks concluded the meeting. — A school m the Taotaoroa District is much needed. There is a sufficient number of children to Wcirrant the establishment of one. The nearest school at present is at Cambridge, and . the roads between the district of Taotaoroa and the township of Cambridge are almost impassable for foot passengers — at any rate, quite so for children. The Taotaoroa householders have now taken the matter m hand, and, we trust, will carry it to a successful issue as speedily as possible. We cannot, indeed, see how the Education Board can refuse so just and reasonable a request. Big Tubnips. — Mr Wren recently addressed the following letter to an Auckland contemporary: — "Will you kindly insert the following as an addendum to your favorable notice of the ' big turnips ' exhibited at my place of business, which were grown by Mr R. Proude, Maungatawhiri. 'lhe principal intention of the grower, m forwarding these roots for inspection, was to bring before cultivators and stock fanners the ease with which the best is made of a bad case, and how a welcome addition to the store of winter food for sheep, &c, is effected. The man of expediency <js the one to follow m these matters. Mr Proude manured and cultivated well for a crop of mangold. The seed was drilled m October, with 3cwt. of benednst to the acre — 3cwt. of salt per acre having been previously applied. The plants came up splendidly, and were duly thinned and cultivated — nearly, m fact, the whole of the work had been performed, — and the crop gave promise of great excellence, when, ho ! some ' grub ' attacked and destroyed nearly the whole. It was too lute to sow again for mangold, and here comes m the 'pxpedic ticy of the matter. Instead of giving up the store for winter feed as hopeless, and counting the season lost — a«, unfortunately, too many, by far too many, under similar circumstances would and do, — Mr Proude, m January, put up t.he ridges again with the moulding -plough, and without further manuring sowed tho turnip-seed ; and the result is a large and valuable crop, of which the roots shown are a sample, and which, as Mr Proude remarks, each root ' would take a sheep some time to got through.' They are about as big round as a good-sized sheep's body, and must be a boon to the animals this severe weather. It is probable the mangolds are of a more feeding value than these turnip* ; still, wlwu Qironmstwcys

' are Buoh that the former cannot be obtained, as m the instance mentioned, a heavy crop of white turnips is by no means to be despised ; and I feel convinced that a number of stock farmers would find a good field or two of them at the present time very acceptable.

A meeting of the Hamilton Borough Council was held yesterday evening. Present: The Mayor and Councillors Cox, G-wynne, Graudin, Potter, Gardiner and Beale. The minutes "being read and* t onfirmed, a by-law was passel regulating the depasturage of cattle on the waste lands within the "borough. It was agreed that the collector's on either side the river should receive twenty per cert, of the fees collected. A letter 1 was read from the treasury at Wellington, stating that a sum of £140 3s had been paid to the borough's credit as the share of the late Hamilton West' Board m the balance of the £2222 divisible amongst the districts of the Waipa County. A letter was read, showing that the cost of quarrying stone at Taupiri .would be greater, than the benefits received. A letter was read from Dr Waddington asking that an alteration be made m the culvert, bo as to prevent •v'brflow of water into his garden and paddock, and stating that he would provicte half the cost of the labor. This was objected to by Councillor Beale, who urged that Dr Waddington should be made to pay the whole cost of the labor, but the objection was overruled by the Council, who granted the request. .The actual credit at the Bank was stated to be £62. The levying a rate of Is m the £ was confirmed. A statement was made by the Mayor m reference to the extension of railway — that it was found, on account of the steepness of the gradient, almost impracticable to carry the tramway to the river. The plan had, therefore, been adopted of surveying the tramway so as to cross the bridge, which would suit both the East Hamilton and Cambridge traffic. Councillor Potter expressed himself satisfied with the proposed ' line of tramway as referred to and shown on a plan produced. The plan was approved and adopted.