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Waikato Times, Volume XII, Issue 978, 28 September 1878, Page 2

A Specia.li Meeting of the Burgeoses of Hamilton has been called, on requisition, by tho .Mayor, for to-night, at the Borough Council Chambers, to express an opinon upon the desirability of expending a sum of £60, as proposed by Cr Potter, m opening up the road from Whatawhata into Hamilton. Cricket, 1878-1879. — The annual meeting of the United C.C. was held on Monday evening, the 23rd inst., at Pearce's Hotel, Hamilton. There was a good attendance of members and others intending to join. Mr N. E. Cox was voted to the chair. The minutes of the previous meeting having been read and confirmed, the Secretary was requested to read the balance sheet for the past season, which was as follows : — Expenditure : Tools, £7 is ; labour, £6 16s ; sundries, 16s 7d; balance m hand, £3 9a 6d; total, £18 6s Id. Receipts : Balance from last year, £2 7s Id; subscriptions, £15 19s; total, £18 6s Id., leaving a balance of £3 9s 6d to commence the new season which was received with evident satisfaction. A lengthy discussion then ensued on the advisability of amalgamating the two local teams, viz., East and West Hamilton, when the following members were elected a deputation, to wait on the East side, at their annual meeting, which takes place on "Wednesday next, to forward that movement, viz., Messrs Wood, Home, Cox, Edgecumbe and the Secretary. It was agreed that all other business, with regard to election of committee and office bearers for the ensuing season, be left over until a report had been received from the deputation. A hearty vote of thanks was given to Mr C. Johnson, for his kindness m gratuitously rolling the cricket ground, by which it has been wonderfully improved, also to Mr James Martin, for the use of the ground. The meeting was then adjourned, nine die, the Chairman receiving a vote of thanks for the able manner m which he conducted the business of the meeting. Mb Bernarb Coleman, of Hamilton, announces that the price of meat sold by his firm will continue the same as before, and not be raised after the 30th instant, as previously notified. ' Rinking, which was so popular m Waikato the winter before last, was never taken up as an amusement during the winter just gone. Aucklanders seem to have been more true to their old love, for we read m the ' Herald,' of a large assemblage meeting on Wednesday night m the Choral Hall, which terminated the rinking season. There must, at one time, says our contemporary, have been nearly 400 ladies and gentlemen present. Mrs Whitaker, as President of the " club," ocsupied the place of honour, and was surrounded by a goodly company, includThk "History op thh Sea." — In another column, Mr D. D. Reid — the agent for the "History of the Sea" — returns thanks to the subscribers m the Waikato for their liberal patronage and prompt payment for the books ordered some few months ago, on his previous visit to canvass the district. We understand that, with the exception of a single copy,' all that were ordered were taken. One " dead beat " is not bad out of the large number of orders given m the district. The subscribers have cause to be satisfied with the work, which, for elegance of binding, printing, illustrating, and general get-up, is a fair sample of the specimen - copy shown during tho canvass for subscribers, and is not only an attractive work m itself, but a handsome addition to the drawing-room table — so much so as to more than satify those who have purchased it that they have got value for their money. Mr Reid's first visit to this part of the country has been so satisfactory that he may depend on a very extensive circulation for the next book he introduces. There will be no attendance at the different Public Schools on Monday next, a holiday on that day being allowed, to enftble the masters to make up the Government returns. The BChools will be open again, as usual, on the following day, Tuesday. The Price of Meat, it will be seen by our Auckland Market reports, is on the decline, having dropped 5s m the lOOlbs. Probably, now that the new grass has sprung into full growth, the price will gradually recede again to what it was when the winter commenced. Mutton, too, is down m like proportion as beef, shorn sheep of good quality realising only 2d per lb. We are requested by the defendant m the case of Beauchamp v. Seddon to state that where, m the report of the evidence, defendant is made to say, " The dog was not among the sheep when I Saw him," it should have read thus, " Tho dog was , not among the sheep when I Shot him."

ing several officers of H.M. p. Nymphe. It was urranged that the skating should terminate at half-past 9 o'clock, after which three dances were to be allowed, occupying the time till nearly 11 o'clock. At the close of the skating, Mr J. M. Shera advanced to the front of the orchestra, and formally announced the . termination of v the season. He iajd the club had, been greatly indebted to the patronage and encouragement bestowed by Airs Whitaker upon this active and healthy amusement. The season had been m every sense a moat successful one There had not been experienced throughout an unpleasantness or accident of any kind. Next to the kindness the club had received fvom Mrs Whitaker; it had to acknowledge the services,, rendered by Mr Maukechnie, the hon. secretary of ;the olub. Ho moved a vote of thanks to Mrß Whitaker, Avhich he hoped would be accompanied by three This invitation was heartily responded to. He also moved a vote of thanks to Mr Mackechnie. This proposal was also . received with cheers, aud the season closed with the National Anthem, played by the band. .The Hamilton Cavalry Contingen t will meet this morning for practice, a* "«e butts, arid' at R 8 p.m. on Tuesday, at "en roe's Commercial Hotel, to discuss the question of joining the Colonial Rifle Association. Scabcity op Labor m Waikato. — The Cambridge District Board were, we learn, unable to accept any of the tenders for re-forming roads and other works, invited to be sent m on Saturday last, on account of the high charges. They have, therefore, concluded to leave the road between Cambridge and Hamilton as it is, and put on a double quantity of gravel, -which can be done for less money. The truth is, there is so much work to be done, now the fine weather has set m, both by country B«ards and settlers, this year m Waikato, that laboring hands are not equal to the demand ; and yet at this very time it has been proposed to deport labor from the Thames to Canterbury, or, to find work .there for starving men, to appropriate money for special public works m the district, while all the time the two districts of Thames and Waikato are within sixty miles of one another. Raglan and Waipa Road.— Tenders for bridges on this line of road must be sent m to Mr W. H. Waliis, Okete, on or before Thursday next. Tenders for the erection of a fourroomed cottage at East Hamilton will be received by Mr T. H. White until noon ol Monday next. Mb J. S. Buckiand's Cambridge oattle aale takes place oh Tuesday next. We understand that Fernando Farm, the property of Mr James Runciman, half way between Cambridge and Hamilton, consisting of some 260 acres of land, was sold on Wednesday for the sum of £15 per acre. The purchaser is Mr Charles Snowden, formerly of Coromandel, ana till recently the manager of the Corby Goldmine at that place. Scabby Sheep at Rbolan. — In a recent issue, we republished a letter from the •Herald,' drawing attention to the fact that scabby sheep were m great numbers m the Raglan, district, and that unless more care were exercised, and the authorities interfered, the scab would j?et introduced across the ranges into Waikato. We have Bince made enquiries into the matter, and find that, owing to the want of more clearly defined boundaries to his district, the local scab inspector is powerless to interfere. He can prevent the introduction of scabby sheep by sea into Raglan, but once there, and between the sea and the Waipa, they are out of his jurisdiction. There is, m fact, no Northern boundary to that portion of what should be his district, lying on the west side the Waipa. The Hamilton Public Hall Site BUI, to which we alluded m our last as having passed the first reading, was introduced by Mr McMinn, and proposes to act aside, as a site for a Volunteer Hall, a piece of land behind St. Peters' Church, Hamilton. The Late Fatai Accident to Mb 0. Thompson.— The steamer • Lillie ' proceeded oh Thursday to the scene of the late fatal accident on the Waipa. Two constables from Ngaruawahia went with her. On arriving at the place where the capsizing of the canoe took place, the captain exploded several charges of dynamite, thinking that by doing so he might cause the body to float, but without effect. Mr. C. Thompson, who was a sergeant m No. 3 company, 4th Waikato regiment, was about fifty-five years of age. A Maori woman was taken m charge on Thursday night, at Ngaruawahia, being of unsound mind, and forwarded to Auckland by the morning train yesterday. We have been requested to draw attention to a nuisance which exists m the neighborhood of Collingwood-street, m the town of Hamilton, caused by the unhealthy love of music (if it may be so called) which has taken possession of the breasts of a portion of juvenile Hamilton. These youthful nuisances have become, by some means or other, the possessors of the drums belonging to the lately-deceased Drum and Fife Band, and have added thereto a number of tin whistles. With these, they make night hideous. Next to an epidemic of typhoid fever, we can scarcely imagine a more unwelcome visi* tation m a particular locality than this. The Hamilton Public Hall Site Bill was read a first t;j»3 m the Assembly on Wednesday next.