THE CASE OF THE CAMBRIDGE RIDING. TO THE EDITOR.

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1754, 2 October 1883, Page 2

THE CASE OF THE CAMBRIDGE RIDING. TO THE EDIT OR.

Kir, — I bog to evil your attention to the unfair omissions in your repot t of last JYicUy's meeting of tliu Waikat > County Council. Your repoi t seemed to be framed to please and favour Councillor Wells-, to elaborate without exactness upon so little, and to leave out the selfish paits cci tainly 1* not fail, -when a public grievance is boing d^cusscd. The main load county loan evidently ]>ut a bee into Councillor Wells' bonnet, the expeudituie of that loan tcnninating at the town belt. The chairman informed Councillor Wells that the Cambridge township was responsible for its shaie of inteiest upon thnt loan, wbeieupon Councilloi Wells .said that the township would never pay it, because it was unfair. But Councillor Wells you have taken €170 18.s 4d of our money to build a bridge for the Cambridge township. One-half of the interest on the main road loan is £12 lO.s per year for 10 yearn, which you have agreed to, and for a road which you should alwny-> have con tiibuted towaicß At any rate/if you cannot see it in this light, accept it as some little het-off against the £17i) 18s 4d for your bridge. On behalf of our boaid, I made a statement of our riding accounts, and on behalf of the Cambridge township, Councillor Wells was about to make his statement. The chairman objected, and said that it was no use Councillor Wells giving his- own version of accounts, because the council .some time ago had determined by i-esolu-tion that the Cambridge Town owed Cambudge Country £20 18s 4d, and upon the question being put to the secretary by the chairman he (the secretary) stated that Cambiidge Township was debtor to the county £17 15s. Ud, and that the Cambridge Road "Board was" in credit £87 13s 4d. # Now comes the most objectionable suggestion I ever heard from a chairman in my life, viz., Will you, Councillor Wells, give notice of motion to ie«.cind that resolution of putting the £29 18s 4d to the credit of the Cambridge Road Boaid? Councillor Well*, had already stated that Cambridge Town would never pay a sixpence to the county, so what was the chairman's object ? Why, to avoid his board's funds going to meet a mistake that he (the chairman) was as much or more responsible for than any other councillor. Councillor Wells did not take the chairman's suggestion. Waikato County Council, you may carry out this and other gioss injustices against our riding because Vk c ai c weak in representatives, but you cannot stop the stiong fooling there is with our ratepayers upon this question. Victims aie only sufferers, but the perpetrators are responsible. I cannot close this without thanking Councillor Wells on behalf of our district in that he (Councillor Wells) did use his influence in passing £50 for our board after the third appeal seemed nearly hopeless. — I am, &c, J. Forrest.

The public are cautioned by Mr Andrew, Te Awamutu, against negotiating a P.N. Cambridge impounding notices appear in this issue. Five or 10 .acres of land wanted near Hamilton. Messrs W. J. Hunter and Co. will sell at the I'rankton Yards to-morrow, store cattle, longwool ewes, yearlings, cowa near calving, &c. Mr D. Stubbing will practice his profession as a licensed surveyor at Cambridge, having taken up his residence at the Dovecote. Mr J. S. Buckland will sell at Cambridge on Saturday next, heavy draught colts by President, heavy draught mares, geldings, hack by Benathalath, well-bred mares and foals, hacks and harness horses, harness and saddlery, &c. Mr J. S. Buckland is instructed by Messrs Bruce and Bell, Waitetuna, who are dissolving partnership, to sell by auction at the Waitetuna yards on Wednesday, October 24th, the whole of their valuable stock of horses, cattle, sheep, pigs, &c., &c, together with the unexpired lease of the Peninsula uoav Raglan, containing 961 acres, exoellent land, half laid down in English grasses, and secured on the most reasonable terms. Full particulars of this important sale will be found in the advertisement. " I EEMEJfBER," said a Detroit boy to his Sunday school teacher, "you told me to stop andtount fifty when angry." "Yes? Well, I'm glad to hear it. It cooled your anger, didn?t- it*?" " You see, a boj, he s*WB V\\° our a^ e y ftn< l dared me to tight. I was going fqv hjm, He. was bigger'n me, arid I'd have got pui.veris.efl. I yamemlwred what ypu said and began to count." *' Ap4 you^didn't fight'?" '-No,- ma'am. Just as I'r got', tQ fprtyitwo.my b.ig brother coma .along, an 4 .t^<w*y he UQked that lioy 1 -would itftv^ ,ma4a »w>Hr k wtiw • + ,^THE^oyster^inicluatry^ofJ Maryland, fai