Waikato Petitions.

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1732, 11 August 1883, Page 2

Waikato Petitions.

Wellington, Last Night. The Public Petitions Committee report on the petition of Edward Allan, junr. : From the evidence submitted to the committee it does not appear that the loss sustained by the petitioner was caused by the neglect of the Railway Department. The committee cannot therefore recommend the claims of the petitioner to the favourable consideration of Parliament. The Native Affairs Committee report on the petition of Karaeti, who complains that the court at Cambridge had not included his name in the grant of 600 acres in Waotu No. 1 block, but only in an inalienable reserve. This he attributes to the treachery of his lawyer' Whilst he was absent, and to • the hostility of Judge Puckey, who said he (Karaeti) was an infernal nuisance. The petitioner having been refused a re-hearing by the Chief Judge, he prays Parliament for redress. The committee' report that they had no evidence before them to warrant a recommendation for & re-hearing. , Both Chief Judge Macdonald and Judge Puckey haye been) examined, -and from their evidence there seems to have been no failure inj ustice. ,''/

A Holiday. To-morrow being an off-day an excursion in all 'probability, the last ,of J the session, is to:be taken in the , shape of a cruise in the Government steamer Hinemoa through* Cook's - Straits,' landing the' excursionists' at the Terawhitlgoldfields. As the weather looks well the trip 'is likely to be well patronised. •> ■ • , )1(

Mr''Hja.tricW,' draper "Kaiapoi' House, 'Hamilton;' makes 'an important announcement in another fcojumn." ' " iss -;" 1 * 1 > Wnee'le'd ! £raffio' J haB been' resumed ion: the Hamilton Ohaupo,road. " ' ' ';' ' j f ''A red- cow from'" Claudefand,' fell [into the' "-river '^yesterday and now., at Mr\ 'Kirk's place, where -the owner can have, her onjjayinjg ex^enpes. : , - v - , T .,-■ | - ; , -