The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1611, 31 October 1882, Page 2

The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

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TUESDAY, OCT. 31,1882.

Tin: Cambridge Highway Board is the liist local body in "Waikato to endeavour to avail itself of the provisions contained in the Roads and Bridges Construction Act of last session. In another column it is notified that the board has made the necessary application to the Minister for Public Workb for a loan of £1000 for the purpose of " forming and gravelling roads urgently necessaty to enable ratepayers to base access to the Fcncourt and Hautar/n stations on the Hamilton-Cam-bridge railway." Section 27 of the act requires that the whole of the money borrowed under its provisions shall be repaid by 13 equal yearly instalments, each of which shall be equal to nine per cent, on the whole amount applied for, and the hoard therefoie announces that a special rate of [din the £, which will produce £90 per annum, will be required, and that for the purpose of deciding whether the boaid shall, or shall not undertake the works and borrow the €1000, a poll of the ratepayers will be taken on the 29th day of November next. The district of T.iotaoroa, as will be seen elsewhere, intends following suit, and it may bo presumed that a very largo number of highway boards, similarly circumstanced, w ill take like steps. Considering that the funds available amount only to to £100,000, and that the large majority of rural districts in the colony are gieatly in need of funds, it is by no means improbable that the total of the snms applied for will exceed that to be appropi iated ; in which case provision is made for making i»o rit/x grants. Upon this point strong objection has been taken to the act, but as the amount annually available will be the same, and as it is iiot likely that the same bodies will continue to be borroweis, a few years will sec the scheme in good working oidcr. In the case of the two local bodies in which have already taken steps to scciue assistance, a .sum of money even less in amount than that asked for will be gratefully accepted, audits repayment will not entail any serious buiden on the ratepayers.

Our report of the last meeting of the Pi.iko County Council, accounts of entertainment-, at Cambridge West and Kihikihi, together with leading and lrcal matter and letters to the editor, are unavoidably held over to make room foi tlic report of the proceedings at Alexandra, which also have had to be greatly curtailed.

The Bey of Tunis died on the 27th inst. Hib bi other tiuUAli h;ib succeeded to the throne.

The paragraph re English Mail in list issue, was inserted in error. Tlie mail closes m Hamilton on Monday morning next.

Mr Sloane, of Te Awamutu, has presented the load erickect club with a set of cricket btninps and two excellent bats on the occasion ot their initial match for the season. The club des\re to express their gratitude to Mr Sloane for his very generous gift.

An improved permanent way for tr.unways and railways lias been patented by W.A. Harper and T. Denniston, of Oamaru. The proposed way is calculated to cost £800 per mile, as against £1600 for the present system.

Mr Joseph Cochrane desires us to contradict a leporfc which has appeared in an Auckland paper to the effect that lie intends becoming a candidate for the oftice of Mayor of Hamilton at the next election.

The manager of the Te Awamutu Cheese and Bacon Factory (Limited), informs us that after he once commences operations, no person will be allowed inside the factory, and he therefose draws attention to the advertisement in our columns of to-day.

The graziers of Waikato are ! getting up a petition to the auctioneers of Auckland, asking them to sell fat cattle by real weight, as is done in America, instead of as at present. We uiulerafcand that the petition is being largely signed.

On Saturday a meeting of the ladies who form the committee of the Roman Catholic bazaar was held at the presbytery adjoining the Catholic Church. It was unanimously carried that the bazaar should be opened on the 21st December, and remain open till the 23rd December inclusive.

At a meeting of the Taotaoroa Highway Board, on Saturday, it was resolved to apply to the Government for a loan of £1000 under the Roads and Bridges Construction Act, 1882, and to meet interest, &c. on same to obtain power to levy a rate of §d in the £. It was also resolved to erect a bridge on Bridgewater road, and to request tho Piftko County Council to gravel a mile of tUe Cwm-bridge-Tauranga Road at the foot of Bruces hill.

Mr F. D. Penton having resigned the Chief Judgship of the Native Lands Court, we learn that the appointment has , been offered to, and has been accepted by Mr J. E. Macdonald, at present Resident Magistrate of, A«ok^nd,,,an|£^Mct;

Judge for the Auckland district. Mr Macdonald is eminently qualified for the post, and the appointment is certain to give general satisfaction. It is understood that the head-quarters of the Chief Judge will not he removed from Auckland, though he may be required to spend a great portion of his time in Wellington.

The hon. the Premier arrived in Waikato on Saturday, remaining at Woodlands till the following morning, when he drove to Hamilton to meet the Native Minister, who had arrived from Alexandra. Both Ministeis slept in Hamilton on Sunday night, the hon. Mr Whitaker proceeding to Auckland by train, and the hon. Mr Bryce returning to Alexandra, yesterday morning.

The Thames correspondent of the ][vi<ihl, writing on Monday night last, says :— A meeting of the provisional directors ami parties interesed in. the Thames Valley Railway was held to night, to consider the memorandum of association. Mr Ehrenfried presided. The articles of association were read, approved, and signed, as was also the prospectus. A committee was appointed to revise the articles, &c, consisting of Messrs. Brown, Brodie, Ehrenfried, Fraser, Mm dock, and Spieght. The meeting was crowded, and much enthusiasm prevailed.

A deputation consisting of the Hon. H. Chamberlain, M.L.C., Mr F. A. Whitaker, M.H.R., and Mr T. B. Hill, waited on the Premier in Auckland on Friday to urge the claims of the Raglan settlers for a coach mail service. The lion, gentleman received the deputation very courteously, and promised to see the chief postmaster at Auckland at once. He also requested particulars in writing to lay before the Postmaster-General when he returned to Wellington. The Hon. H. Chamberlain said if it was a question of a difference of expense he would be willing to assist in making up the amount, and Mr Hill expressed himself to the same effect.

The greatest alarm prevails in France in consequence of the statement recently made by the Minister of Justice. A Keuter'b telegram dated Paris, Oct 27 states : — Owing to the recent statement of M. Deves, Minister of Justice, that the Government possessed evidence of a •widespread revolutionary organisation now pemeating France, much alarm has been created throughout ths country. At Lyons a panic has arisen, though fears that a Socialist rising there is imminent. Great excitement prevails in the town, and troops to leinforce the parrison have been sent. All the public buildings are now guarded by strong detachment of troods.

A novelty in advertising cards lias reached us from the Associated News and Advertising Bureau of New Zealand, of which Mr W. Bartlect Langbridge, Auckland, is manager. The card on which the Bureau's" business notice is printed, is not constructed of paper, but was manufactured from a sycamore tree recently cut down at Hawarden by the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, and has been prepared according to the de hi Sala patent process by Messrs Mead and Deverell, London/ Mr Langbridge has also forwarded us a copy of a letter received by the manufactuma from Mr Gladstone's private secretary, conveying the Premier's thanks, and expressing his appreciation of the workmanship. The cards, which are worthy of inspection, may be seen at tin's office.

The following news connected with Egyptian attairs dated London Out 26 is to hand per Renter :— In both Houses of Parliament to-day, a vote ot thanks to the army engaged in Egypt was passed without opposition. Jn the course of a debate which took place in the House of Commons, Mr. Gladstone warmly eulogised the conduct of the officers and men of the British and Indian forces during the campaign. In the House of Commons to-day, the Premier announced that the the Government would shortly propose that annuities should be granted to Sir Gainet Wolseley and Sir Beauehamp Seymour for their services in Kgypt. In the House of Lords to-day, Lord Granville, Foreign Secretary, in reply to a question, declined to make any sta.tement at the present time as to the intentions of the goverment in regard to the final settlement of affairs in Egypt.

Mr George Dickinson, for some years manager of the Hamilton Bookselling and Stationery Depot, notifies the inhabitants of Cambridge and the surrounding districts, through our advertising columns, that he has purchased the .isfeiyned estate of Mr James Stuart, and will open in the premises, Duke-street, with an entirely new stock of books, stationery, fancy goods, tobacconist's sundiies, &c, and hopes for the patronage of the public. During the period which Mr Dickinson hab been in Hamilton he has .secured an enviable leputation by his strict attention to business and the wants of the numerous customers ot the branch at that place, and we have little doubt that his good name w ill be maintained m his new sphere of action.