The Waikato Times.

Waikato Times, Volume XIV, Issue 1216, 15 April 1880, Page 2

The Waikato Times.

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THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1880.

The Thames people, ever alive to their interests, have struck a new patch (says the Herald). They have discovered that they have a third representative in the Parliament of New Zealand, or rather that they have a half-share in Mr. Why te, the sitting memher for the Waikato constituency. Mr. Brodio, the indefatigable county chairman of the Thames, and one of his colleagues in the Council, Mr. Bagnal, have been engaged arranging the new electoral roll, and in their researches they discovered that the electoral district of Waikato included a considerable portion of the Thames County. This results from the fact that the electoral districts and county boundaries are conterminous. The Thames people are alive to the new advantage, and astonished Mr. Whyte by claiming him as their representative. He probably will be still more surprised when he receives a letter which has been sent to him by Mr. dheehan, M. H. R ; asking him as one of the Thames representatives to join him with a deputation to wait on the Hon. Minister for Public Works, to urge on him the carrying out of certain works at the lhames. Several head of cattle were brought forward for s'lie at the Ohaupo Yards on Tuesday, the owners not having seen the proclamation for bidding sales until after their arrival at the place of sale. At the commencement of the sale, Mr Bnckland intiraatedthat only the sheep and horses would be offered. Even were b/* to sell the cattle he saw, the buyers could not take them away He would however get from the Board to remeve them to his own paddocks and keep them there until permission to sell was accorde \ . S übsequently this was done, Messrs Buttle & Storey the members of the Board present giving the necessary permission. We regret to announce the death of an old and highly respected settler in this Provincial District, Mr Joseph Hargreaves, of Kaipara. A sudden death happened on Sunday to Mr W. J. Campbell, at Ngaruawahia. .Mr Campbell was in the employment of the Waikato Steam Navigation Company. On Sunday he complained of being seized with a sudden pain in the head. The services of a medical man were at once procured but without avail. Yesterday morning a mounted trooper rode round to the various owners of cattle in East Hamilton who usually allow their cattle to graze on the town belt and public roads, with orders that they were to keep their cattle on enclosed lands until the inspector removed the prohibition. It is satisfactory to learn that scab has been almost entirely eradicated from this district, We lately noticed that Mr Runciman had visited Raglan and given a clean certificate to the last case of scab in tfoafr flHt-Tfok ..fi l l V I ffl,_%TL i hp il? H trict, and found there that the measures taken have completely cleaned that portion of the Waikato.^ The only place where scab now exists in Mrßunciman's district is in a corner where the Waikato and Manukau districts meet. The sheep affected at this place are only a flock of some 70 in number. An alteration in the running of the trains between Auckland and Waikato is, we understand, in contemplation by the railway management. It is proposed to run only one passenger train daily, and that a goods train would run up one day and down the next. It is also stated that passenger traffic on the branch railway into Hamilton will be discontinued, and goods only be conveyed by it. A meeting of the committee of the Cambridge Jockey Club was held at the Criterion Hotel on Tuesday evening, at which the programme for the approaching meeting was drawn up. It will include six events, for which liberal prizes are to be offered. The settlers in the Pukete district will be glad to learn that at length there is prospect of their getting punt accommodation on the river at that place. At the last meeting of the Waipa County Council, Cr. Steele reported that a settler in m that neighborhood had procured a suitable punt and all that was required was a slight wire rope. The whole of the councillors present expressed their willingness to grant half the amount of the cost of the rope, the Waikato County providing the remainder. There is no doubt that the latter body will follow its neighbors example, and thus the Pukete people will be in possession of a boon long desired, and long needed by them. The Defaulters List and Burgess List of the Borough of Hamilton for the year ending the 3 1st May, 1881, are now open for inspection, and this is the last day on which objections to the Burg-ess liso will bo received, whioh must be made in writing in the form of the 6th shedule of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1876 —or as near as may be understood. Sir James Fergusson, Bart., leaves England, for Bombay, to assume hs Gubernatorial duties this month. We learn from reliable private sources that his Excellency will not be accompanied by Lady Fergusson and family, who for the present at any rate will remain in England. The police at Hamilton are in possession of a chesnut gelding, aged, and recently shod, which with saddle and bridle was found on the Piako road, near Hinton's on Friday last. What became of the rider is not known, though search has been made in the immediate locality where the horse was found, and every enquiry made. What might have ended in a seriour accident at the enbankment on the Hamilton and Cambridge road, near LoslieV Bridge, was happily prevented the othei afternoon, by the care of a neighbouring settler. A dray loaded with oats became bogged on this engineering abortion, and the carter lightened his load by some five bags of oats, which he piled up on the side of the road, and covered with a tarpaulin for the night. Tims there was only about 9 feet of a l road way left, with chance that a horse ! might shy at the unsual object on the road. The settler referred to hearing that this heap had been left on the spot mentioned, and healing thnt two gentlemen from Cambridge might \ c expected to coin^ down tho read to Hamilton in conveyance'after dark, .sent a man to remove the bags. Thin had scarcely been done ten minutes when two traps came down the road. The probability is that had fl\?

heap been, .nllowed to remain there all night, ty& should have had a serious if riot a fatal accident to chronicle. The Rev. Joseph Dare, D.D., the well- known preacher of the Wesley an Methodist denomination, whoso health h<*s been failing for several yep rs past, expired at his reiidenoe, Gore-street, Fitzvoy. 'I he rev gentleman's career as a minister has bren long and varied, and ho may be considered to have been one of the most successful of the Wesleyan ministers in this part of the world. He arrived in this colony in 1819, but shortly afterwards went to Adelaide as a prebationor for the ministry. His first appointment was to the A dclaide or first circuit of the colony under the Kev.s. D. J. Draper and T. W. Hill. On leaving the A'leuiide circuit Mr. Dare proceeded to Mount Bak^r, and there and elsewhero served the usual probationary term of three years. Thence he was called to Victoria to take charge of the Sandhurst cirouit. That was about the year 1856. Having laboured there for three yeaiv, and gained considerable popularity, Mr. Dare was sent to Geelony, from Geclong to North Melbourne, from the c to Brunswiok-street. St Kilda and Ballarat in the older named. It was at Ballarat that his health began to fail, and he contracted the germ of the fatal disease to which he has ultimately succumbed. In consideration of his able services the conference granted him a year's leave of absence, and he left the colony to recruit his health by foreign travel. First he went to America, but instead of taking rest he preached and lectured to large congregations, and became extremely popular in the States which he visited. The University of New Orleans conferred upon him the honorory degree of D. D. On leaving Amerioa he travelled through the greater part of Europe, and visited the Holy Land, returning to Melbourne via Suez. Or his return he resumed his minibterial work at Brunswick, and was appointed editor of the Wesleyan Spectator. He held the latter office up to a short time ago. In 1878 the conference honored him by electing him te the presidency — the highest distinction attainable in the Wesleyan Methodist Church. Dr. Dare's travels temporarily restored his health, but at last the disease from which he suffered gained the upper hand. His desire was to "die with the harness on," and he remained at his post until within the last few weeks, during which he quietly sank and died. The deceased clergyman leaves a wife and four grownnp daughters. — Melbourne Age.

Thk Hamilton Rifle Volunteers will parade on Tuesday next, instead of to-day, at the Oddfellows' Hall, at 7.J0 p.m. A meeting of the South Auckland Cattle Board is covoned for Saturday, at 10 o'clock a.m., at which cattle-oweners are invited to attend. Thk Tamahere Highway District is declared an infected district. The Waipa County is declared an Infected district. A MtEiiNG of ratepayers ia the Kirikiriroa Highway District is convened for Wednesday, 28th April, to be held at the Royal Hotel, Hamilton East, for the purpose of considering a proposdl made by the* Piako Land Association to stop seventeen roads within the district, particulars of which have been periodically advertised in the Waikato^Times. Mr. F. D. R. Small cautions the public against driving cattle through or on to bis property without his permission. A scurkk and social gathering, in aid of the Te Rori School, will be held in the School-house, on Thursday evening next. The Bazaar and Gift Auction, in aid of the Wesleyan Circuit Liquidation of Debt Fund, takes pace in "Mr N. R. Cox's Old Store, next Tuesday and "Wednesday. There will be a great display of useful and ornamental articles ; and a gift auction of live and dead stock, implements, farm produce, saddlery, seeds, stationery, and artistic garden vases, will be held. All goods tor the bazaar svould be left in charge ol Mr Hedgecork. Messrs Hunter and Nolans monthly cattle sale, to take place to-day at Ohaupo, will not be held owing to the prohibition of sales in the South Auckland Cattle Board District.