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Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1136, 4 October 1879, Page 2

Money Order and Savings Bank Offices have been opened by the Government, at the Ohaupo Post Office. Mr "W. Gumming is a candidate for the vacant seat iv the Waikato CountyCouncil. Stoppage of tiie Thames Riveb. — On Thursday, Mr Whyte gave notice to ask •whether the Government are aware the navigation of the Thames Itiver is stopped by natives, and what stops they intend to take iv reference to the matter. We are glad to learn that the Hamilton Ccraus Dramatic Club intends giving their performance of the high class comedy of " Caste," at an early date probably about the 13th insfc., when from the care taken m reheai\sals, we may expacfc a first-class entertainment. At a meeting of the Hamilton Domain "Board held on "Wednesday ; present Messrs Viafon, McDonald, Harris, Dawson and Peat, a draft of the proposed leases was submitted by the Solicitors of the Hoard, and adopted hythn Board. It was inrthei? resolved, "That the lessees bo at liberty to sub-let and cultivate the lands m any manner they please, but shall not be allowed to carry on any offensive toado QFOaUing-. 1 '

Remueua Cattle Sale. — Mr Alfred I Buokland will hold his second cattle fair ' at Remuera, this season, on the 22nd inst. It was advertised to be held earlier, but it has boen postponed. The Gqobgia Minstrels played last night to a good house at Lo Quesne's Hall, Hamilton, and fully main taint d the good opinion formed from their performances m other places. They appear at Cambridge to-night, returning to Hamilton for Wednesday. On Thursday evening, the Band of the Hamilton Light Infantry Volunteers made an appearance m public, m front of the Hamilton Hotel, under the mauagemont of Mr 'Williams (Mr Simms, the Bandmaster, being absent). There is no doubt that the band is* deserving of great commendation for their rapid and persevering efforts towards proficiency, and with a little more practice, chey will be a credit to themselves and the district. We have been requested to call attention to the very discreditable conduct of certain full-grown larrikins, at Kast Hamilton, wLo, on the occasion of a quadrille party being given at Le Quesne's Hall, on Eriday evening last, kept hovering around the suppeiv room, down stairs, and. when they could do so, unseen, made free with the refreshments. If the Ball Committee will furnish us with the names of these individuals, we will bo happy to publish, them as a fitting pnnishment for such' meanness. The Waikato Handbook. — We are pleased to learn that Mr Langbridge has been very successful m his canvas at Cambrige for this much needed publication. He informs us that owing to the mass of valuable local information he sees looming m the distance, he will devote {he Handbook entirely and. soldi/ to Waikato and Hot Lakes, and not touch upon the routes via Tauranga and Napier. We look upon it as the bounden duty of every settler m the Waikato to supp©rt Mr Langbridge m his plucky venture, as either directly or indirectly it must benefit every settler having an estate m the district. NGAItTJAWAHIA SUBURBAN LAIiTDS. — A petition' to Parliament, praying that the lands m and around Ngaruawahia may be put up to auction, will be for signature at an early date, m all the Waikato townships and m Auckland. As the Assembly does not sit on Saturday and Monday, we shall find room for a copy of the petition, which is a very long one, m our issue of Tuesday. From a new Ministry, the people of Ngaruawahia may have reason to hope for attention to their request. Whatever justice they might have expected at the hands of the Ministry now leaving office, maybe judged from by the telegram concerning this very matter published elsewhere. The Te Ahoha Block.— ln the House, on Thursday, Mr Orinoud asked the Minister of Lands to lay before the House a return of land sold at Te * roha, the late Brooinhall purchase, specifying the number of selections and acreage sold on deferred payments, and stating whether such lands are occupied. The Minister of Lands stated that Te Aroha was not intended to be opened until the main drains were made and improved by roads. When the works were well +orward, the Government will open part of the land on deferred payment, and part on immediate payment. He hoped to encourage as many small settlers as possible at from. 100 to 300 acres each. The Trustees of the Mangapiko Highway District held their usual monthly meeting for the transaction of business at the Paterangi Schoolhouse on Saturday last. The minutes and correspondence being read, including a letter from the new Member for Waipa, ]?. A. Whitaker, Esq., enquiring how he could best further the interests of the district, (a matter that will require further consideration.) Tenders were opened, and the following were accepted : for clearing the frontier road up to .railway Keighley,_9s 2d per 10 chains ; straightening Higginson's Creek, Meredith £9 ; approach to Havelock's bridge, £5, R. Morgan. The tenders for other works were not accepted as being too high. A number of small accounts amounting to £25 were passed and paid. The works authorised were 8 chains fascining on Te Awamutu .Road, about of ploughing on Te Itore Road, about 5 miles of clearing on Paterangi road, and a heavy cutting near Alexandra, tenders to be invited for next meeting. Noticing m your issue of Saturday, an advertisement calling a meeting of the unemployed of Hamilton, it struck me that if these same unemployed left Hamilton a day's march behind them m almost any direction, they would find what they profess to want. The usual thing here is to get a single tender for each road contract, and work is always let at a good price. I would suggest that the Mayor should stick to his advertisement and hold the meeting on the 37th and that would give time for something to turn up, although I am inclined to believe even that date would find some of them looking for work through the windows of the Royal Hotel. The abuses of the Nominated Immigration System are thus exposed by Mr G. M. Reed, late of the ' Auckland Star', now Immigration Agent m Ireland. Writing to a "friend m New Zealand, by the last mail, ho says : — " You can have no idea of the extent to which the system of nominatien m New Zealand is prostituted. You are aware that for various, and I believe, good reasons, all the agents throughout Ireland, some thirty or forty m all, were last year suppressed, with the exception of one or two still remaining, but, to suppose that this suppression has removed them from active interference with immigration is a huge mistake. Besides taking fees from immigrants ostensibly for filling up their papers, but really for promises to obtain free passages for them, they have developed a new form of industry, to wit, obtaining nomination m New Zealand. I have m my possession a written confession of one of ibhe.-e ex-agents, that he received £5 for obtaining nomination by a friend m New Zealand for a would-be-immigrant, who is now crying for Ms money. The ex-agent wil probably suiter for his candour when he gets out of gaol, where he is doing nine months for a similar sin against a sister colony. But this is only a single illustration. I have intimation of similar practices from scores of applicants, and on telling a person that people of such and such a calling cannot obtain free passages, I have been saucily told, ' Oh, iVlr so and so offers to get us nominated m New Zealand for a couple of pounds.' My conviction is that a very large proportion of the nominations m New Zealand are dishonest, and the direct work of dismissed snb-agents, who use their knowledge of the ropes m puttiug emigrants up to all sorts of dodges."