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Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1129, 18 September 1879, Page 2

The Pakubangi Hounds throw off on Saturday at Taplor's paddock, Cambridge. Luncheon at the Criterion Hotel. Mb John Knox will sell by auction, on Saturday, the household goods and effects of Mr A. Messagw, of Hamilton. Also, wagon fixings. Mb W. H. Kelly, the successful tenderer for working the Hamilton oxten'sionline by horse-power, left Hamilton yesterday for Auckland, to sign the contract. The terms, we understand, are £9 per week, and 4s Gd each for every extra train. > Several correspondents have lately drawn attention to the opening that exists m this district for periodical professional visits from a surgeon dentist. Young children require their teeth looking to and regulating, and older people require new teeth altogether. It will be seen by advertisement elsewhere, that Mr Last, surgeon dentist, is about to visit the district, making a stay of several days at Hamilton ; and, no doubt, should he fiad sufficient inducement, will periodically repeat such visit. Kirikibiboa "WdEKS. — At an extraordinary meeting of the Kirikiriroa Road Board held yesterday, the following tenders were submitted for works requiring the immediate attention of the Board, viz. : — No. 1 contract — Road near Taupiri, B. Brown, 9s per chain (accepted) ; Bogga and Deegan, 20s per chain.. Cuttings, Taupiri-Hokonui road, W. Levett, £54 (accepted) ; P. Quin, £84 15s; Bog^s anil Deegan, £90; G-. Kelly, £82 ; Rumney and Gamme, £-75 17s 6d. The last few touches are being put to the Hamilton extension line, and by the end of this week, we believe, the work will be completed. Mr Briton, the contractor, has carried out his work m his usual thorough and satisfactory manner, and it is the intention of several of our leading residents to celebrate the completion of the undertaking, and to mark theirs respect for Mr Briton, by entertaining him at a dinner on Monday evening next, at the Hamilton Railway Hotel. Arrangements will be made by which busses will leave Hamilton for the Station m the forepart of the evening, the guests beiug able to avail themselves of the usual return busses later on, on the arrival of the night train. A meeting of the Hamilton "West School Committee was held yesterday afternoon. It was shewn that the attendance of children has been close upon 150 per day, and an urgent application, on the recommendation of the master, was made to the Education Board for an assistant teacher. It was also resolved to make application again to those persons m Hamilton who placed their names for various sums on the subscription list towards the erection of the schoolhouse, but who never paid up such subscriptions, and that a list of the names of those who, on application, again repudiate the obligation, should be published m the local and Auckland papers, and otherwise posted. Through the defalcations of such persons, certain obligations by the Board still remain unpaid, having been handed down from one committee to another. A meeting of the Rangiaohia Highway Board, was held m Te Awamutu, on Saturday last, when, m accordance with a notice of their intention to do so, a rate of ninepence m the £ was struck on all rateable properties appearing m the Valuation List, for the year ending 31st March, .1880, and which is payable m one sum, on the 20th inst., at the office of the Collector, m Kihikihi. A letter was received from F. A. Whitaker, Esq., the newly elected member for Waipa, stating that he desired to work cordially with the different local bodies, m furthering their interest m every possible way, and he would be obliged if the Chairman, after consultation with his colleagues, advised him as to what way he can be of service to his district. The courtesy and consideration thus shown by their newly elected representative, gave great satisfaction to the Trustees. The opening of ' several small lines of road, m various parts of the district, have been decided on, as are also the closing of unnecessary and useless one. The sum of £98 14s was passed, and ordered to be paid, for labour. The Pabihaka Settlement. — The special correspondent of the 'Lyttelton Times,' who recently visited Te Whiti, states that the settlement contains nearly 200 whares, and at the lowest computation 1200 people, of whom a large proportion are picked warriors. The place is practically impregnable, except against artillery or rockets, and there is enough food stored to last a very long siege, while the supply of water and fuel within the defensible lines is inexhaustible. Barring a successful surprise, he believes ! it oould be held for \months by 500 men ! against 6000 unprovided with artillery, j