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Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

Equal and exact justice to all men, Of whatever state or persuasion, rclijrious or political. Here shall the Press the People's right maintain Unawed by influence and unbribed by gain.

SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1881.

"The Town Districts Bill" introduced last session, and which it is generally understood will be passed through Parliament this forthcoming session, has been put forward as a subject for speculation by our friends in Cambridge, in connection with certain schemes they have just now on hand. The measure is one of importance to other parts of this districts, as will be gathered from the title which sets forth that it is

" an Act to establish Local Boards of Administration within places less populous than Boroughs." The original intention was that it should come into operation on the Ist day of January last. It proposes, to incorporate the following : The Rating Act, the Regulation of Local Elections Act, parts 3 and 4 of the Public Works Act, and parts 11 and 12 of the Municipal Corporations Act, all passed in the year 1876. Part 1 deals with the formation of districts, it being specially provided that no locality shall exceed tw© square miles in area, and no one point in such area shall be distant more than four miles from any other point. The petition for incorporation to be signed by not less than two-thirds of the resident householders. The district so incorporated remains a part of the county, but not of any road district. Boards of Commissioners are provided for, consisting of not less than five, or more than seven members holding office for two years. The qualification of voters and the number of votes each elector is entitled to exercise are the same as those provided for by the Corporations A ct. A £50 qualification or under entitles the holder to one vote : £100, two votes ; £150, three ; £350, four ; and over that amount, four votes. The Board is to be clothed with the powers conferred upon Borough Councils, in respect of auctioneers, cattle trespass, cemeteries, dog nuisance, fencing, fire prevention, licensing publicans, municipal police, public pounds, roads on highways, and other matters of social economy. It has no control, however, over main roads or County roads, or over any portion of such roads traversing or lying within the town district. It is to be empowered to strike a rate not exceeding one shilling in the pound, and also a special rate not exceeding one shilling for the execution of special works. A special rate is only to be struck on the petition of not less than one-half of the ratepayers interested in the execution of such specific work. It is specially provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall apply to the case of a water rate fixed by Act or Provincial Ordinance. Then by Clause 54, it is provided : As soon as a Board shall have been established under this Act in any district, the provisions of all Acts or Provincial Ordinances relating to roads or highways shall cease to apply to the land comprised in such district, and to the owners and occupiers of land therein, and the ratepayers within such district shall cease to vote at any meeting summoned under the provisions of the last-mentioned Act or Ordinances in respect of land within such district.

A leading article and Echoes from the Cafe" are crowded cut. The Union Bank of Australia (Limited) have opened a branch at Levuka Fiji. Residents of Matahura will be glad to hear that the road to Toles Hill is at length to be made. Mr Breakell starts to lay it off to-day. The Simonsen Opera Company are playing to good houses at the Theatre Royal, Auckland. J. B. Whtye, Esq., M.H.R., has returned to Hamilton from the Lake District, whither he accompanied the Native Minister via the new road now in course of construction. Mr Why te came through from Ohinemutu to Hamilton in one day. The Government Engineer, who has temporary charge of this district, on Thursday inspected the shafts sunk by Mr Wilson for the purpose of testing the foundation for the piers of the intended railway bridge at Hamilton. These excavations have, we believe, proved that the foundations are all that are required, | His Worship the Mayor of Hamilton has received a telegram from the Hon. the Minister for Public Works, intimating that Mr Hales, District Engineer, will inspect the Hamilton Traffic Bridge with a view to deciding whether the lower part of the structure shall be tarred or painted. The half-yearly drill of the Cambridge Troop of the Waikato Cavalry commenced yesterday. The number on parade was very small, only twenty. All the officers were present. It is expected that there will be much larger muster today. We understand that the canvassers appointed by the Cavalry are energetically engaged in collecting funds to meet the expenditure, connected with the forthcoming review, and that so far they have been fairly successful. So great is the competition amongst insurance companies in Dunedin just now that a risk taken the other day st 12s 6d could not be reinsured under 25s The charge against Richard Kennan of refusing to contribute towards the support of the illegitimate child of Mary Steele was again brought on at the R.M. Court, Hamilton on Thursday, and was adjourned till this morning for the production of further evidence. Our Cambridge readers will be pleased to lorrn that Mr Vickermam has commenced the survey of the branch line to that place. He is now camped near Captain Runciman's. We learn that he adopted Breakell's line with this exception, that he leaves the Thames Valley Une about half a mile nearer Hamilton, and crosses the Piako road a few chains on the Hamilton side of Blackmore's gully, connecting with Breakeli's line about a mile on the Cambridge aide of the above mentioned road. This survey is a step in the right direction, but as yet the line has not been authorised. Our members will,'wo trust, take care this is done during the approaching seaiion. We would draw the attention of contractors to an advertisement which appears in ,this issue, calling for tenders for extensive drainage works at Waitoa, on the property of Messrs Maclean and Co. Tenders must be delivered or ported in time to be at Fen Court by noon of Friday next. The engineer, Mr W. C. Breakell, will give all the necessary information, aud we would recommend in* tending contractor* to see the ground, which they can do by applying at Mf BreakeU'B camp, on the Waitoa elver, x In the E.M. Court Hamilton, on Thursday, before the R.M. and Hw Worship the Mayor, the affiliation case Steele v* Kennan was resumed. The defendant was sworn and made to writs from dictation. Messrs Laishley, (Agent XL B. A.), and Hume, (Manager, 8.1f.Z,) I

were examined a£Sxperts?in hand-writ-ing. The case was further adjourned to this afterribon'^&t 3 o'clock,' when Mr Watt, accountant, B.N.Z.iieadoffidewill be examined as an expert.

The lad Jesse Cockhead, charged at the R. M. Court Hamilton on Wednesday, with stealing a boat, the property of Colonel De Quincey, ,and remanded for sentence, was released on Thursday, the Magistrate stating that if the prisoner was again brought up, he would be sent to gaol, being too old to be again sent to the Training-school.

The windows of Mr Dickenson's Stationery and fancy goods establishment Waxkato Times Buildings, Hamilton, present just now an even more than usual pretty amp d?<zil, a large shipment of new goods being on view, just received by last 'Frisco mail.

The long-talked of footrace for £20 aaide, one mile, between Hyde, of Hamilton, and Daley of Auckland, will come off on the 16th inst., at Piako. Both men are well-known " peds " and considerable intent is evinced in the match. In order to enable Hamiltonians to be present, Mr McGuire will run a coach on that day at the reasonable charge of 10s for the return trip.

During his stay in Hamilton Capt, Mahon, drill instructor under the Board of Education has expressed^himself as being greatly pleased with the manner in which the children attending the local schools have gone through their " faceings. " Yesterday Capt. Mahon proceeded to Ngaruawahia to institute a course of drill instruction at the school there.

The Melbourne Exhibition Commission have made the followiug further awards to New Zealand exhibitors :—For white pepper, firat order of merit, Grigg and Co. (Dunedin), David Strange (Invercargiil), and Trent Brothers (Christchurch). The same exhibitoM take second orders of merit for other exhibits of the same class, and Trent Brothers {Christchurch), take an additional third order of merit).

The members of the Hamilton Troop, Waikato Cavalry concluded their four days drill (Easter Monday and the previous Saturday being counted as two) on Thursday. The exercises were of the same character as on the previous day, Troopers Cochrane and Alexander making the highest scores at the rapidity ball practice. In the afternoon the men were marched to Jolly's paddock, where, on the conclusion of the drill, they were addressed by Capt. Whitaker, who commended them on their appearance and efficiency. He said that now the financial prospects of the colony were brightening he had little doubt that the Government would see fit to put the Volunteers on a much more satisfactory footing than they occupied at present. At any rate they might rest assured that he would do all he could to bring about such a result. In the course of his remarks Capt. Whitaker intimated that he intended presenting the Troop a substantial prize to be fired for by the members. Capt. Mahon, of the Victoria Company Auckland Volunteers also addressed a few complimentary remarks to the Troop commenting in eulogistic terms on their efficiency with the sword. The usual cheers were then given and the troop was marched back to town and dismissed.

If a statement made by " Public Opinion," is correct, the necessity for the introduction of the cloture, •' urgency," and other expedients devised by the English Government to overcome the Irish obstructionists, were quite unnecessary. According to our London contemporary: —The country is indebted to Professor Thorold Rogers and Lord Edmund -Fitzmaurice for a very interesting antiquarian discovery. They have found orders of Parliament giving the Speaker power to close a debate at his pleasure, and to stop a member in the course of his speech. These orders were passed between the years 1610 and 1670. There is, apparently, no record of their having been enforced at any time since 1670; and though it might, perhaps, now be a temporary convenience to employ the powers they give, the Speaker will, no doubt, exercise the discretion which his predecessors seem to have used, and allow them to remain in aboyanco.

The bomb with which the Czar of Russia was destroyed was probabjy one of those " infernal machines" now so wellknown in Europe. By some they are called " Orsini bombs," after the Italian who attecapted the life of Napoleon 111. There are sevaral patterns, but the simplest and most effective is thus described: —The bomb iB a very pretty little globe of brittle iron, about as large as an orange, or perhaps rather larger, which is filled for action with gunpowder, or some other explosive. It is bored all over with small screw-holes, and into each of these is in> sorted an ordinary gun-nipple. When used, each gun-nipple is capped, and the bomb being- filled, is fit for use. It is thrown from the hand, and, in whatever way it falls, it drops with considerable force upon at least one cap, whioh explodes the bomb. That used by Owini inflicted a hundred or more wounds and destroyed several lives. Many such bombs have been seized at times, and it is believed that they are usually made at Birmingham, and oecriHy transported to the Continent.

The following quotation from the annual report of the Nelson Jam and Fruit Preserving Company should open the eyes of our fruit growers:—".As showing the necessity for such aa industry, the following figures are quoted from the returns, published by the New Zealand Government, of the import and exports of the Colony for the year 1879 :—: — For bottled and preserve 1 fruits, £3605 ; jams and jellies, £19,490; dried fruits, £8757; green fruits, £67,445 ; making a total of £129,297. Of course something like £10,000 may be deducted from this amount for tropical fruits, leaving the enormous sum of £119,297 for fruits and jams, which could be easily produced in the Colony if the people were determined to take up this very important branch of trade with energy and a will to overcome all obstacles. Of this sum of £119,297, tbe following amounts wdre sent to the neighbouring Colonies:—To New South Wales, £27,118 ;to Victoria, £16,338 ; to Tasmania, £63,535. The balance to England, America, South Sea Islands, &c. Thus our Sister Colonies are enriched annually by the sum of £106,991 (taking the imports of 1879 as an average), of which £100,00 at least oould be saved to New Zealand.

J. P. Andrew, of Te Awamutu, has received a splendid assignment of new and seasonable drapery, ex s.s. Sihk. Ratepayers in the Karioi District are notified of the intention of the Road Trustees to stop and open certain roads. No. 9 Sont of TJUter, I/.0.L., are summoned to attend usual monthly meoting in the Victoria Hall, Hamilton, on Monday evening next, at half-past seven. J. Oosgrave and Co. have decided to close their temporary business place in Cambridge, and arc holding a great clearance sale of the stock, commencing to-day. The usual monthly meeting of the Cambridge Farmers' Club will bft hold in the Clubhouse on Monday m*t, at 7 p.m. P. Stephen!, boot importer, of Queenstreet, Auckland, announces autumn shipment of English and Continental boots and shoes, The Secretary for the Hamilton Domain Board notifies land for sale on the 7th May. Tenders for the erection of a toll-house for the Hamilton Bridge are invited up to the '«9th instant. ' . . - B. A. Toje. Jjjsq., Commissioner Crown Lands,' notifies the s;fle #f land on the 17th May. The< Magnet Variety xrQupa wi}J make their appearance again in the Qddiellows' Hall on Saturday, 16th instanf . ' ; Mr Mose*' A4rCTPJ§§raent -vfiUJje found ; in our fourth pn^o, ' \

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Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1369, 9 April 1881, Page 2

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Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE. Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1369, 9 April 1881, Page 2

Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE. Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1369, 9 April 1881, Page 2

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