THE CAMBRIDGE DOMAIN LEASEHOLDERS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1761, 18 October 1883, Page 2

THE CAMBRIDGE DOMAIN LEASEHOLDERS.

It will be remembered that home few weeks ago a large number of the leaseholders of the Canibiidge Domain lands petitioned the board for a 50 per cant, reduction in their respective rentb. They pointed out that the lentalt, which they were called upon to pay in accoi dance with the terms of their lease were gieatly out of piopoition to the benefits which they received from their holdings and that at the auction sale when the vauous allotments were disposed of they were carried on by the brisk competition then expeiienced to bid much higher than they would otherwise have done had the allotments been put up to tender. The board having no power to deal with the petition, it was forwarded to the Government with a recommendation fiom the boai din favour of the prayer of the petitioners being acceded to. The following is the leply which has been received fiom the Government : — Gener.il Crown Lands Office, Wellington, Sept. 29th, 1883. Sir,— l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 15th inst , transmitting .i petition signed b> twenty lessees of portion of the Cambridge Domain, praying that from the 10th August last the rents of the Dom un la' ds> should be reduced fifty per cent., together with a ropy of the resolution passed by the Domain Ho ird, recommending the Governor to comply with the prayci of the petition. In reph I am directed by Mr Rolleston to inform you that there is no power to comply with the application of the lessees. '1 he only course open is for the Governor to re-enter into possession of the holdings for non-payment of rents. Should this course be agreed to by the Domain Hoard I will, upon hearing: from you to thit effect, advise you further as to the steps to be taken. I return herewith the original approved conditions of the lease which has been executed by the several lessees.— l have the honour to be, sir, your obedient servant, H. J. H. Er.uoTT, Under-Secrctary.

An election to fill the vacancy in the representation of the Hamilton riding 1 in the W.upa County Council, caused by the iesi>> nation of Cr. Steele, will be held on hatiird.i), November 3rd. Nominations will be recohed at the goods thed, Hamilton Junction station, on Ihursday, ths 25th mst. Lifk in the Busk— Then and Now.— It is generally supposed that in the bush we have to put up with manj discomfoits and privations in the shape ot food Formerly it was so, but now, thanks to T. B. Hat., who has himself dwelt in the bush, if food does consist chiefly of tinned meats his Colonial Saucb gives to them a most delectable flavour, making- them as well of the plainest food most enjoyable, and instead as hard biscuits and indigestible damper his Improved CoroxiAL Baking Powdhr makes the very best bread, scones, cakes, and pastry far superior and more wholesome than yeast or leaven. Sold by all storekeepers who can obtain it from any merchant in Auckland. You will do 'well to furniah your house from Garlick and Cranwell's. They have now the most complete Furnish ing Warehouse in Auckland furniture to suit all classes, good strc.-.jc, <tnd cheap. They have Tapestry Carpets •com 2b 3d pei yard, Brussels from 3s lid per yard, Linoleum from 3s 9d to ss, Oil Cloths from ' Is 6d to 4s 6d per yard, good 12 feet wide Oil Cloths at 3s Od per yard. Immense assortment of Iron Bedsteads from Infants' Cots to 5 feet wide half-tester Bedsteads. Double iron Bedfteads from 255. 480 Bedsteads in stock to select from. Beddings of all kinds and sizes kept in readiness. ' Dining, Sitting, Drawinj-room Furniture, and and a large assortment of Manchester are Furnishing Goods, including a lot of Cndtonnes. Book Catalogues sent free to intending purchasers. Garlick and Cranwell, City Hall Arcade. Queen-street. Auckland: Extract from a letter from Angelina : " Dear Henry, you ask if I return your love. Yes, H enry, I have no use for it, and I return it with many thanks." A man, having bought a thousand Havana cigars, was asked what he was carrying. •' Tickets to a course of lectures to be given by my wife," he replied. "Now, my dear, you must do as the Romans do," said old man Scroggins to his wife on their arrival in Italy. , And the first thing the old lady saw was a lad trying to staud on his head in the corner of a railway station. The Grandest Obelisk the World has Seen.— The Washington correspondent of the Cleveland Leader writes :— "The Washington, monument is the wonder of Washington, and its beauty the admiration of both Americans r and foreigners. Already over 350 feet high, it rises from the banks of the Potomac a great white marble shaft, piercing' the clouds, and backed against the blue of the sky. It is already the grandest obeliskthe world has eve,r seen, and in the scons of the fr»tu.re, should the na- i tioi^a of the day pass away, leaving jio rijore redords of their progress than" the mighty ones of the Egyptian past, "it will surpass tlie Pyramid in the 'wonder 1 of its construction. It is already higher than the Third Pyramidsrand within a hunj dred feet of size of the second, J\ is taller than 7j 'St.* Paiii'B Catheflra^ and , wh ( eja finished it /will be, tygh,est structure in tfie world v T^-d'ay the Cathedral'' of j Ooloj^e.'&W'feet-Kigh, isthe tallest work ' tin sth'e world? MNexti-y.comes the -Great Pyramid, 483 feet high, • then tlje^gtras!burg Cathedral; „ 4^3* -feet ; '/tfien the