CAMBRIDGE DOMAIN BOARD.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1263, 3 August 1880, Page 2

CAMBRIDGE DOMAIN BOARD.

A special meeting of the Cambridge Domain Board was held at the Town Board Office, on Saturday, the '6lt>t ult, to consider the mean of utilisiug their tiust. Present : Messrs. Wells (chairman), R. Kirkwood, J. Fisher, E. B. Walker, and J. Jf. Campbell. The minutes of previous meeting having been confirmed a voluminous correspondence was read relative to the adjustments of the Board's power", as commented on in these columns on the 20th instant. The Chairman then referred to the telegram received by him from Mr J. B. Why;e, M. H.R., viz: " Mistake Gazette rectified, Mr Rolle&tou says Governor will sign leases both sides of the river, and Tuke reserve will be included," which has also before been referred to by us. ! To this telegram the Chairman replied : " Thanks for telegram. Will Mr Rollesj ton authorise Percy Smith to survey for | us, or help with money as requested." The answer stated : "No surveyors available, regret can get no promise of assistance iv money." ■ Reference to money was in reply to Mr Wells' letter I of the 7th of July to Mr F, A. Whitaker, M.H.R., and said : " Can you help us to raise the cost of survey, say £150. If the Government would do it it would start us on our feet, even if we had to pay half of it back again, say iv two years." It was proposed and seconded, " That the Town Belt on both sides of the river be surveyed into acre allotments or upwards, with a view to leasing the same." Carried. It was also proposed, seconded, and carried, " That public tenders be called for the survey by two insertions in the Waikato Times, and that the Chairman and Mr R. Kirkwood be a sub-committee to draw up the necessary conditions and specifications for the suveyors to tender on." The Chairman here laid before the Board certain correspondence received from Col. Lyon, re an application from Capt. James RuncimanJ on behalf of the Cambridge Cavalry, for a portion of the Domain as a drill gound. It was resolved that the further consideration of this matter stand over until the completion of the survey. The meeting then closed.

A Russian Consul in India The Indian D&ily News thinks that the appointment of a Russian Consul at Bombay is a matter of moment, following fast, as it does, on nhe heels of the advent of a Russian scientific mission. It marks more distinctly than ever the disappearance of the old days of the isolation of India beyond the sphere of European politics. Russia has no interests in India to watch or protect, but there ig a talk of a subsidised steam service to run direct from Bombay to Odessa. It may not be intended to mean anything, but people will comment on the fact that the first Russian Consul at an Indian port is a Frenchman. People will find in this appointment, rightly' or wrongly, a new sign of the rapprochement between Russia and France, and the desire of Russia to secure the co-operation and support of Frenchmen in their scheme.