The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1917, 18 October 1884, Page 2

The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

Equal .md ex.ict justice to a'l men, Ol wli itsocver state or persuasion, religious or politiral. Here shall the Pi ess the People's rifjht maintain, Unawed by lrjfluenre and unbribod by gain.

SATURDAY, OCT. 18, 1884.

Our report of the ordination ceieniony and social gathering in connection with the Presbyterian Church at Te Awamutu is held over. We understand that it is in contemplation to hold a Bazaar in aid of the funds of the Convent building and School, Hamilton, about Christmas tune.

The Cambridge Town Board has started to cany ont extensive improvements to some of the principal thoroughfares in the town.

The usual fortnightly meeting of the Cambridge Parliamentaiy Union will be held on Monday evening at S. Andrew's schoolroom. The' proceedings promise to be of an interesting character, and a largo attendance is expected.

Messrs Metcalfe and Wright, of the Huntly Pottery, are now making glazed dram pipes suitable for the puiposos of the vauoua local bodies. The Waikato County Council has determined to support the now industiy, and intends giving Messrs Metcalfe and Wright a large order at once.

We are requested to intimate that owing to the indisposition of the Incumbent, there will bo no early morning service at S. Peter's Church, Hamilton, tomorrow. A few days ago the Rev. Mr 33iggs sustained a fall from his horse, from the effects of which he haa not yet qujte. recovered, , „

A telegram was received in Hamilton yesterday from Mr W. Macgregor Flay, who is at tho Thames, to the effect that tho Aroha Battory Company had boon ■iitn-suitod, with costs, in the action against coitain W.ukntu shareholder.*, who had been summoned for alleged arroars of calls.

At a special meeting of the Waikato County Council yesterday, the proposal to lodintribute the seats in tho council was withdrawn. It was intended fc.i give Rangitiri two members, but Cr. fohn.son said it was tho wish of his constituents tli.it tho repiesontation of tho district should not be increased.

The case of lamkinism disposed of at the Cambridge Resident Magistrate's Couifc, yesttrday, will be a warning to ill boys and young men of a hoodlum tendency. It will teach them that holidays ■iro not occasions upon which they are specially licensed to annoy the public, get drunk, and make fools of themselves generally.

A committee of the directors of the Cambridge Dairy Produce and Bacon Factory, consisting of Messrs T. B. Lewis .uid J. Allwill, visited the Paterangi Cheese Factory yesterday, for the purpose of inspecting the plant and general working of Lliat concern. The committee were accompanied by Mr D. Richardson, architect of the Cambridge factory.

The numerous friends of the Rev. J. S. Hill in Cambridge will be glad to hear that he h.ib promised to come and deliver his interesting and instructive lecture on the " Pilgrim's Progress " next month. The lecture will be given in the Public Hall, on Saturday, November 22. Mr H\U will officiate at S. Andrew's on the following day, and give a special address to children.

By way of replying to several enquiiies, Mr J. A Douglas wishes us to htate that the sale of live and dead stock at Bruntwood on the sth of next month will be quite unreserved, as he has made arrangements to leave the colony at the beginning of the year. Whether he buys any of tho lots of land on the 30th inst. or not, Mr J. A. Douglas will not bo a biddor at the stock sale, and any land he may buy in will be either sold or leased immediately.

Considering, as stated in our last issue, that tho milway authorities have made no provision in the matter of appointing a station-master or other person to look after the large amount of business carried on at the Hautapu station, the settleis, we are told, would be willing to pay for the eXtra accommodation rather than be obliged to continue as at present. Tho settlers would appoint a man of their own if the railway department would supply cottage accommodation, an arrangement which on the face of it seems very reasonable.

An order was made by the Resident Magistrate at the sitting of the Ccunbiidgo Court, yebterd.iy, under tho Industrial SchooK Act, ]882, against Arthur WINOII, employed as a caipenter at Momnsville, and Richard James Gieening, <i coach-driver in the employment of Mr Robertson, Ohmciuutu. Wilson had four children, two boys and two Efirls, which were unprovided for, and which the Government weio at pieient maintaining at a weekly co^t of 28s. The mother was eng.iged as a barmaid in Auckland. Greening had two boys. An older was made against him at Masteiton in 1881, which he evaded after a few weeks, and he has only recently been diMjoveiedat Oliiucmutu. He is tl")0 m «u reals.

A special meeting of the Kihikihi Town Board was held on Thursday evening, when the following tendeis were received foi stiect formations: — 0. Miuray, Keibert-street, (X per chiun ; .T. Kennedy, Balance-street, 8/d per yard (informal) ; C. Temple, (4rey-street, lls per chain ; 0. Temple, Rolle.ston-btieet, 12-, Gd per chain ; Rigg and Enipson, Giey-btreet, 8h lid per chain ; Rigg and Enipson, Rolleston-street, .Si per cbtun ; T. Power, BaLvnce-btieet, 3s 10<l per chain ; T. Power, Wahnsley-street, JiS) 10s for job ; J. S. Henderson, Herbeit, llolleston, and Giey-stieots, Us i)d per chain ; W. Stuait, Giey-stieet, 5s (3d per cham ; W. Stuait, Rolle^ton-street, 5s per chain ; W. Stuart, Herbert-street, 5s Dd per chain ; W. Htuait, Balance-street, 3s 3d per chain ; W. Stuart, Walnibley-street, £t< l")s for job. MrStnait's tender was accepted for the \\ hole of the woi k*.

To the Editor : Sir,— For the benefit of the gentleman who, accouiing to his statement, was victimised the other day at Moiiinsville, I, as an eye-witness on that occasion, would like to enlighten him a little on the matter. The number of miles fiom Auckland to Moirinsullo is 103 miles, the faies for which <iie 21s and 14s 4d, for hist and .second-class, iespectively. (See Ga/.ette oi July 3id, 1854.) The gentleman ti - a\ellinof second-class was charged the latter rate. Hi& statement about being charged 12s 5d for the up journey shows that he was under chaiged Is lid by the man at the Auckland end. Theiefore, instead of rushing into print, would it not have eased his conscience a little to have paid the Ls lid back to the Auckland man, who, when accounting time comes, will most assuredly have to make good the deficiency, and will, I think, be the real victim in this case, and not the gentleman that has travelled up and down ior £1 Gs !)d instead of £1 8b Bd, and is now ls lid to the good thereby.— l am, &c, One Who Know r.

The twenty-third anniversary of the Bank of New Zealand was celebrated on Thursday by a special holiday. Our Auckland morning contemporary, refening to the occasion, lemaiks that "the r.ipid progiess of this bank from the commencement of its career in 1861 in a small building situated alongside the old Prince of Wales Theatre, Queen-street, to the jn-e-ent year is phenomenal. The splendid bankinghouse the company now occupy is a striking illustiation of the success of the undertaking. The extensive additions to the building have only recently been finished, and the premises are now the most complete and commodious in the colony. The success of the bank has not been confined to this end of the colony, and throughout the two islands will be found large and handsome premises for the transaction of the over-swellinp business of the company. In Dunedin the bank has erected what without doubt is one of the finest buildings in the city, at a cost of £40,000. This structure is only second to the head office. Amongst the many financial institutions established in this city the Bank of New Zealand occupies the front rank, and we hope we may always have to recoid in the futiue the same advancement that has marked its past career."

The following special messages to the Press Association, dated London, October 15th Kith, have been published :— The Transvaal Government having withdiawn their protection from the chief Montsioa, the English (government has directed Sir Hercules Robinson, Governor at the Cape, to establish British authority over his tei ritory. — The Plymouth Chamber of Chamber of Commerce intend entertaining Sir Saul Samuel (Agent-General for New South Wales), Sir F. D. Bell (AgentGeneral for New Zealand), and Sir Arthur Blyth (Agent-General for South Australia), at a banquet on the 31st October. — Considerable surprise has boon expressed b> financiers in the city at the withdrawal of the Melbourne Gas Company's loan from the market. The loan was being negotiated by the Bank of New South Wales, and it has transpired that the Bank of England has refused to continue to inscribe loans unless they were entrusted with the floating of them. — Sir F. D. Bell is urging Loid Dei by to sanction Sir George Grey'a Pacific Annexation Bill. — The Albert medal has been conferred on Dr. W. McGregor, C.M.G. Receiver-General of Fiji, for the gallantry he displayed in rescuing coolies from the wreck of the ship Syria, which was ashore on the Nasati reef on May 11.— The New Oriental Bank have made their firt>t call of £2 per share, which is payable on November 10*.

The following is the text of the judgment delivered by his Honour Mr Justice Grillies in the case Creditors' trustee in the estate of Arekatera te Wera v. E. \\. Walker and otheis: — This is an action brought by the plaintiff, trustee of the estate of a native bankrupt, in order to set aside a transfer of land by the bankrupt and others to the defendants, and to establish a transfer of the same land by the bankrupt and others to himself. The transfer by the bankrupt to the defendants is undoubtedly an insufficiently executed deed, and so far as the evidence goes, the conveyance to the plaintiff is sufficiently executed, but the plaintiff sues in this a Court of Equity for equitable relief, and in so doing must come into court with clean hands. In carefully considering the evidence, I find that tho plaintiff was fully aware, and had notice that his conveying parties bad no personal interest in the land conveyed by them, but were mere trustees appointed by their tribe for the purpose of , conveying the land in question to their relatives, the Kapitis. I find that the plaintiff {rod also full knowledge und notice ,

that the defendants had purchased iron; nnd paid the consideration to the Kapiti natives. I find that the plaintiff knew and had notice that his conveyance parties had previously executed deeds of conveyance (whether valid or invalid, matters not) to the defendants, that notwithstanding tins knowledge and notice, ho persuaded his 'conveying parties to execute the transfer to him, upon which he now relies. In those circumstancos equity says that he shall not be allowod to take advantage of what is virtually a fraud on his part, that, however insufficient may be the legal estate of the defendants the plaintiff ought not to have, and cannot have the aid of a Court of Equity in habilitating a fraud. If, as it appeals, ho has obtained the legal estate in the land, he holds tho same subject to the equities of the defendant, of which ho has full notice, and is theiefoie a trustee of the land on that behalf. The judgment of the Court will therefore be for defendants, with costs on the higher scale.