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Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1108, 31 July 1879, Page 2

Mrs Loveqrovb announces that she has opened a store in Grey-street, East Hamilton, for the sale of ladies and childrens' underclothing, and general millinery. The Waipa Constituency.—A public meeting of the electors of the Waipa constituency, called by the Chairman of Mr McMinn's election committee, will bo held at the Public Hall, Te Awamutu, on Saturday afternoon, at three o'clock. Mr Awhed Buckland will offer at the Haymarket, on Friday, the Bth August, an entire Derby colt, the property of Mr Ramsay, of Rangiaohia. Tenders for the erection of workmen's cottages at the Waikato coal mine will be received until Monday next. Huntley Band op Hope.—A concert in aid of the funds of the above society will be held Huntley Schoolroom on the 15th of August. The Ngaruawahia Gift Auction in aid of the building fund of the English Church of that town takes place on Saturday evening next. Mr Kennedy Hill will officiate, and a very long list of some of tha principal goods to be offered appears in another column. Captain Butt of the Thames is dead. —Alluding to his decease, the ' Herald of Tuesday says:—" For many years he commanded one of the vessels in Henderson and Macfarlane's Circular Saw Line, trading between this port and San Franoisca, and also to Australia and the South. On the opening of the Thames goldfield Captain Butt cast his lot with the hardy and enterprising band who essayed their fortunes there. At Shortland he built a hotel and adjacent thereto a theatre, Butt's Corner becoming a famous rendezyons for many a year. The deceased gentleman took an active interest in those stirring times in everything pertaining 1 to the public interests of the Thames community, and exercised considerable influence in local politics. The immediate cause of his death was congestion of the lnngs. He leaves a wife and family. One of the greatest trials of his life was the loss of a favourite son in the wreck of the Schiehallion. Flags were flying half-mast high on the vessels in the harbor yesterday, as a mark of respect to Captain Butt's memory." Captain Butt was buried at Grahamstown on Monday, with Full Masonic honors. The funeral was numerously attended. Rewi, it is stated, as the Grey Government has gone out of onlce, is preparing to leave for the Te Kuiti, as he says that it is better to be away from all the wrangling which is bound to take place if Sir W. Fox's party come into power. IJewi is said to be very bad indeed with ague, and fris little girl is also said to be aUing,

The Thames- Railway.—The Thames railway map question was again brought up in the House on Friday. Wo learn from, a telegram received by the ' Herald' from Wellington, that Mr Macandrew directed that the line should be altered; that is, that the line' from Te Aroa to Grahamstown should be altered so as to appear as if sanctioned by Parliament. £ Hence the opportunity of favoring Sir Georgo Grey's constituency by beginning the line at the Grahamstown end, when the Waikato end was that really sanctioned by the House. But for this piece of political trickery the line from Hamilton to the Thames River might now have been in a state of for-, ward construction. That a new Government will not be unfavorable to the line, as a line, may by gathered from Sir W. Pox's remak made when tho question was recently asked respecting the railway in the House. He is reported to have said that he hoped it would not be understood that the House wanted tn stop the making of any railway at the Thames. They only wanted to prevent illegal expenditure. They believed that it would be far better to have the line made from Hamilton to Te Aroha. The Opposition only wanted to show that money had been spent unconstitutionally. More recently, a correspondent telegraphing from Wellington to the * Herald,' says : The House does not oppose the Thamos Railway, but only the manner in which the decision of last session :to first construct the line from Hamilton to the Thames River had been treated by the Premier, who now says he did not know the facts of the case. If the Premier had known what he ought to have known, he might have controlled Mb astute friend, the Minitner of Public Works, and have secured a fair share of railway expondi-, ture on the Thames Railway. In place of work to the amount of £IO,OOO having been contracted for, over £150,000 might have been, and the railway, as approved by the House, be in an advanced state.. The Province of Auckland had suffered from the sheer neglect of its intsrests during recess, despatches and correspondence, which must have entailed an enormous amount of labor and thought, bearing on such subjects as a hostile Governor,hostile Secretary of State, and what Sir George Grey termed bastard honors conferred by Her Majesty on his political oponcnts without the recommendation of the Government of the colony, having occupied his whole time when he was not engaged with a violent quarrel with the members of the Cabinet.

Hamimoe Bbanoh Extension Railway.—The railway authorities, it will be seen, have called for tenders, which will be received up to Monday next, the 4th August, for horse service on the Hamilton Branch Extension Railway, between the Hamilton Junction and the new Hamilton Station. It may cause some little disappointment that the train will not at first run right on to Hamilton, and that the goods and passenger traffic will be brought on from the old station by horsepower. Independently of the expense of working an engine on this mile and threequarters, the Railway Department has not, at the present moment, a sufficient stock of engines in the colony, to enable them to place one upon it. A horse, at any rate, might do the trip in ten minutes, and passengers will, at least, have the satisfaction of riding on a smooth road. A Concert and Dramatic Performance is announced fin our advertising columns, to come off some time next week at Le Quesne's Hall. The object to which the funds are to be applied, is the assistance of the Hamilton Ladies' Benevolent Society, and that alone should secure a wide public patronage, and a large attendance. The full programme of the performance, will appear in our publication of Saturday.

We beg to acknowledge receipt from the Government Printer of Parliamentary Papers A 3 to G 2, and several new Bills. We have, with regret, to announce the death, which occurred on Tuesday afternoon, at his son's residence, Hamilton, of John S. Cussen, Esq., at the ripe old age of seventy years. Mr Cussen, who arrived with his family in this colony from Limerick many years ago, was an old resident of Auckland, and very much respected; and has during the past two years, since the death of his wife, resided with his son, Mr Laurenee Cussen, in Hamilton. The funeral will take place in Auckland, the remains of the deceased gentleman leaving Hamilton this morning by the early train, for interment in the former place. Whatawiiata.—A. meeting of Ratepayers of the Whatawhata portion of the Newcastle Highway District is called for to-morrow evening, at 6 o'clock, at the Schoolhouse, Whatawhata, to consider matters affecting the interests of that district.