AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1685, 24 April 1883, Page 2

AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

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TUESDAY, APRIL ;2j, 18S3.

The material progress of the Auckland province is becoming more and more manifest. We are daily being afforded substantial and unmistakable evidences of this pleasing fact. Our waste lands are gradually finding their way into the market, where they meet with ready sale. Our extensive tracts of swamp land, scattered here and there over the country, are being reclaimed at enormous outlay by private speculation, and the beautiful tracts of arable land, which have hitherto known no other than native ownership, are almost imperceptibly passing into the hands of the enterprising pakeha, for the purposes of immediate settlement. The.se are practical facts, which in r?omfc of progress speak for themselves. Bucces,s, from the guarantee which it affoi'dtf, never fails to beget renewed enterprise, as progress begets progress, and as a proof of this conclusion we may instance the success which so far has attended the settlement of the Patctcre country, and the renewed enterprise which such success has given rise to. It is quite evident that the enterprise which gave birth to the Thames V alley and llotorua railway was stimulated by tUa success of former enterprises experienced in the settlement of the couuli-y through which the line is to pass, and now we aeo glad to notice the promoters of tho railway project have been fortunate, so tay ftS the construction of the line is concerned, in overcoming all preliminary obstacles. Tn our issue of hut Thursday wo recorded the fact that the result o{ the polling was almost unanimous in favour of the line — that the property holders through whose land the; line had io piVKS had consented to allow themselves io hp rated, in order that tlmy might have not only the value of their lands materially enhanced, but thai they ini^ht have cheap access to a good and daily increasing market, and a means to develop the resources of the country generally. We must say that the foresight manifested by the property holders in embracing this opportunity for bettering their condition is both commendable and [ worthy <qI congratulation, and we sincerely hops, they will be suitably rewarded by thfi ttPSlllt of the step which they have taken.

The meeting of Cambridge foot-] bailers caiM tor Saturday fell through ( for want of a quotmn.

A large and useful collection of new works is now beiiig added to the Cambridge Public Library. r f\*a books are m ell ivorthy the inspection of liifi , public.

The ball and supper given by the Armed Constabulary of Kihikihi to the inhabitants, came off on Friday night last and was well attended, and wsc # great suceegs iv every way. The Pish Supply Company, about being formed in Auckland, to extend the business at present carried kmi by Mr F. Williams have, we learn, a&mml the services of M rD.D.liydcaa Waiikato &gwi>. Ht is peifecting arrangements for sftipplying &U parts of the district witUfi'osh #sh and oysters, when in season, daily. We are exceedingly; Klad to notice that the " comment" which we published a few issues back, bearing on the matter of re-starting the Cambttdge Brass and Heed ?3and, lias had the Aeait&l effect. The fey remarks then made seen* fr> have instilled new life into the o\d members, and we learn, as a consequence, that a meeting of &ll concerned in the reorganisation of the bicd is called for Thursday evening, when it t« fcp be hoped something satisfactory will be decided upou, i

An accident of * somewhat serious nature befell Mr C. S\\W, of Scotchman's Valley, on Thursday evewfog last. It appears Mr &k%w was driving baffle a Joad of oats, when on ascending a steep siding the horses shied, causing the dray to tip over, precipitating H& driver, who wa« riding (mi the load, dowtt iha hank. Mr Shaw, whe wm considerably >lnjjurfid by the fall, had to il^e -carried home. Dr. Waddington was sent ifac to Cambridge on Friday jaoming, »ncl «<Mi<inded the patient, aud foiuul liirn to ibe from eouettsswn .of five /jpine and jgartiaJ patalyeis.

A gentleman, known to the Cam : bridge public as Alphonso Tivjodlolphus, Christopher Murphy, who, rfc will be remembered, was charged at the January sitting of tho Supreme Court Vith at;' tempting to bura'tlie^rtinlsMjwia person ,

of Mr G}eo. "Dickinsoti, bookseller, of Cambridge, lias "again returned to that thriving centre. < He informs the public there of the nature of his mission amongst them, which is nothing less than the utter annihilation of the individual who recently held^tlio' office of night-watchman theic, and who, 1 it will be remembered, waa the witness who deposed to his having set fire to the premises of Mr Dickinson. Murphy, if such be the unfoitunatc's name, is a half-demented, harmless vagrant, is possessed of a cdpital. thdugh much abused intellect, i betrays signs of being well read, has' (fiom his own account) held commissions in the Taranaki and Waikato wars, but, like many others of his kind, has been reduced through drink to the lowest ebb.