MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS. Arrival of Mr Bryce in Waikato.

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1504, 23 February 1882, Page 2

MINISTERIAL MO VEMENTS. Arrival of Mr Bryce in Waikato.

The lion, the Native Minister was a pa&senger to Waikato by train yesterday. He was accompanied by Mr T. W. Lewis (Under-Secretary, Native Affairs), Major Mair, Mr Butler (private secretary), and Mr Jackson (private secretary to the Attorney-General). At Ngarnawahia Mr Bryce was met by Major Jackson, who accompanied the party back to Kihikihi, whither the Native Minister went at the invitation of llewi, who had expressed a strong desire to meet him. Our Kihikihi correspondent telegraphed last night as follows :— " The lion. Mr Bryce and party are here. They will be entertained by Rewi at dinner, to which a large number of the prominent residents are invited." Mr Bryce will return to Hamilton this morning to meet his colleagues, the Premier and the AttorneyGeneral, who, however, as will be seen below, are not likely to arrive before this evening. The hou. tl.e Attorney-General left Woodlands on Tuesday morning, at which time Messrs F. A. Whi taker and J, B. Whyte, M.H.R., also proceeded to the Aroha. Our special reporter at Te Aroha writes as follows yesterday morning :—: — "The hon. the Premier did not arrive in Te Aroha last night till after 12 o'clock, tlis steamer Patiki, in which he left the Thames, having got stuck in the river. On arriving at the wharf ]je was driven to the Hot Springs Hotel, but owing to the lateness of the hour, nothing in the way of business was done. Messi s Whyte and Whitaker, M.H.R, Mr Murray, late M.H.R. for Bruce, Mr Cooper, Under-Secretary ; Mr Kenrick, Warden ; Messrs H. E. Whitaker, J. C. Firth, A. Porter, and several other representatives of the local interests, agricultural and mining, are also here. The party is at present awaiting the arrival of the hon. Mr Whitaker, who stopped all night at Mr Larkworthy's place, about five miles from here. On the arrival of the Attorney-General a deputation will at once wait on the Premier to urge upon him the necessity for a biidge across the Waihou, and a road to the new finds, with several other minor matters. The party will then start foi 1 the new finds on the Waiorongomai creek, and will, I believe, afterwards proceed to the land of the Lincolnshire farmers, returning the same evening. It is not lipely that Hamilton will be reached before to-mor-row, evening as another deputation is to wait upon the Sremier at Missen's Hotel re the Morrinsville railway. Later. The Attorney - General has just arrived.

The chairman of the Hamilton Highway Board, notifies that certain roads in his district has been stopped and new roads opened. Piako County Council invite tenders up to March 17th, for a bridge over the Waihou river. Railway contractors aye notified that tenders for the first 43 miles of the Cambridge line will be called for about March roth.' The Property-tax Commissioner warns taxpayers that a penalty of 2S in the . £ will be chargeable on all unpaid taxes after Wednesday, March Ist. . 'I don't like Jones,' said Snodgrass. ' No,' he added, after a pause, 'I dont like him. The fact is Jones speaks so much of himself— tells so much, you know, that he doesn't leave any room for the imagination.' Does Bny reader knowJones ? The gentlemen of the jury in Ireland are, as is known, a pretty average-look-ing lot of ruffians." Now, at a recent trial the judge was about to pass sentence on the prisoners at the bar, of whom there were several," when a- witty \tris.h* barrister s,aid," "Not too 4 long a s'e'ntenbe^ my lord J you'll ioant u t7tem pev fore long to try the jwy'V\—! The-' QhwV\ in Vanity Fair,