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Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1529, 22 April 1882, Page 2

for the pni'pose of electing two members of the Cambridge Highway Board vice Messrs % Fantham - and Selby, resigned, lapsed. Quotations in the Melbourne grain . market on April 19th, were -.—Barley active at 4s 6d to ,4s Bd, New Zealand oats qui^trjit 3s lOd'.to 4s for feeding, jam! 4s to 4s!3d for milling. A poll of the ratepayers in the licensing districts of Pukekura and Newcastle, to determine whether the number of licenses shall be increased, will be taken to-day. A concert will be held in the Cambridge West schoolroom on Friday next, for the purpose of raising funds to purchase books lor the children. The ■entertainment will be followed by a dance. A public meeting, in connection with the Waikato Cheese and Bacon Factory, will be held at the Royal Hotel, Hamilton, this evening at 7 o'clock, to receive the report and prospectus prepared by the provisional directors. The Cambridge Amateur Dramatic Society has handed £12 7s to the Public Hall Committee, as the proceeds of the performance given a short time ago. At the Resident Magistrate's Court, Cambridge, yesterday, before Col. Lyon and Mr~E. B. Walker, J.P., Godfrey Collins was bound over to keep the peace for six months at the instance of Thomas North. The contract for the first section of the Cambridge railway was signed on Wednesday, by Messrs Mercer and Marshall, the amount of whose tender was £G122. The Cambridge dramatic Society will shortly make another appearance before a Waikato public. The success of their last efforts being so marked as to warrant asocoiul undertaking. A very decidedstreetimprovement will shoitly be effected in' Hamilton. The footpatli adjoining the Bank of New Zealand is about to be laid down in concrete. The practice -will doubtless be extended when its importance becomes manifest. The Aurora Australia was again visible on Thursday night in vaiious parts of the colony. Although as seen at Hamilton its aspect "was grand, it was not so brilliant as on Monday evening. Some mischieyqus juvenile has been exercising his aitistic genius on illustrated papers in the Cambridge Public Reading Room, but, it would seem, has not succeeded in his efforts to improve them. We hope he will take the advice of the librarian, and refrain from such silly practices in future. There is some talk of a skating rink being started in Cambridge. A few of the young men are seriously considering the matter, and no doubt their deliberations will result in something being done. The man Connor, who recently succeeded in getting away from Detective Doolan when being brought from Oxford to Cambridge, is again living in the vicinity of that township, at a place called Paranama. Detective Doolan, in company with Mounted Constable McCabe, has again gone to secure his man. The Town Board have now had gravelled some of the newly formed streets in Cambridge, giving them a decidedly more finished appearance. The gravelling was not done a day too soon, considering that the wet season is gradually setting in. A concert will be given in the Hamilton Public Hall, on Tuesday next, by the children attending the Hamilton West school. Mr Gwynne has kindly promised the services of the Hamilton Band to assist at the conceit. The proceeds will be devoted towards establishing a school librai y. A Bill has been introduced in the United States Senate to authorise the Gevernment to repay to Great Britain the unexpended balance of the Geneva award in connection with the Alabama claims. A special commission has been appointed to tiy the case of Roderick McLean, Avho attempted to shoot the Queen, and who was committed for tiial on a charge of high treason by the Windsor magistrates on March 10. The commission held its first sitting at Reading to-day. At a meeting of the committee of the Hamilton Literary and Debating Club last night, the following programme for the next two meetings was arranged ; — Thursday 1 Abiil 27 (I) President's address ; (2) debate on the subject " Should the Chinese be admitted into the colonies ?" Affirmative, Mr R. Bradley ; negative, Mr Smith. Thursday, May 4th : Recitations and readings, with criticisms by members. A cablegram dated London April 18th, stated that Mr P.irnell who had been liberated on parole to allow of his visiting his sister m Paris, had not surrendered A report was current that he had been shot at, but this was proved to be without foundation and on the same day it was ascertained that Mr Parnell was still in the neighbourhood of Paris. A later cable message announces that Panic 11 will return from France on Monday next, the 24th instant, when he will surrender to his parole. Mr J. B. Pash, a gentleman who was deputed by the Essex Chamber of Commerce to visit Australia and New Zealand, and report on their capabilities as a field for settlement, has lately been on a visit to this part of the colony. He has expressed himself in the most flattering terms regarding the Waikato. Mr Pas li proceeds home by the next Frisco mail boat, and his report to the Chamber of Commerce jn'omises to be a valuable addition to the Home publicatipns relating to this colony. At the close of the Debating Club's meeting at the Court - house, Hamilton, on Thursday night, a, meeting of those interested in instituting a series of cheap winter entertainments in the Public Hall was held. His Worship the Mayor (Mr Knox) occupyed the chair. Mr H. Edgecumbe explained the objects of the meeting, and a resolution was carried on the motion of Mr Smith, seconded by Mr Saudes, affirming the desirableness of holding entertainments of the nature indicated, and fixing the price of admission at Gel for adults, and 3d for children. A committee consisting of the following was then appointed to carry out the necessary arrangements : The Mayor, Rev Father O'Gara, H. Edgecumbe, "R,. F. Sandes, A. J. Hunter, C. R. Johnson, S. Meachain, H. Steele, and J. H. W. Wood. It'was intended to hold the entertainments monthly, or oftenerj and if any , surplus remains after paying <. expenses to deyofc it to;some charitable object, r , At Wednesday's^ meeting of, the Hamilton Borough' Council', ,the Mayor' said it had been stated outside the chamber that the present satisfactory condition" of their financial affairs wastin"no.way^ attributable to him, because^ had-fthe council allowed l »him,iTheujv'oiild v have raised thp,ainount of. the overdrA'ft'toits' utmost limit., He/ appealed to' tKe council •as to whether this Stateinleiitwai'trul^dr,; not. **'' Daring "L'ihV- 'wholes-time,' he ft^d"! .occupied' t;h^-i^ayoral "dhai^-^lieff 6hly<. work lie ;had askeel "the, council'ip under-" take wa^f he |fQ,rination i;of < 'Claj?enc| ; [and • KnW'Streets.^H^ ' wh'o 5 tit((t; ma^^{ie st^cmeji t;i;o|erred %6, _ \