KHIKIHI NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1935, 29 November 1884, Page 2

KHIKIHI NEWS.

THE TKUNK ItAIMVAY. Mb Kochkoht has made this place his head-quarterrf. He has rented a cottage to be used as an office during his stay, so that the work of preparing plans, &c, will be expedited as much m possible. HEMOVAL OK A.O. Twenty of the A.O. who arc stationed here are to be lemoverl to Kawhia and Hikuiangi. There will then be only seventeen on the strength of the station. Before removing them the Government might have put them to work on the road to Orakau, as aome compensation to the settlers for having kept control of that road for so long a time. The Waipa County Council, 1 believe, did ask for constabulary labour for it, but the request wai not granted. It is a pity the work was not done, as it will take more money to put it in proper order for the winter than the council can well afford. The men are to be employed on the Kawhia and Alexandra roads, and they might just aa well have been employed on this one for a month or two. It is a serious drawback to the settlers to have the road in such a bad state during the winter months, for just at the time they want good roads to cart their crops to the station this (me is such a sea of mud that they can only bring half loads over it, and, considering the distance they are from the railway station, this is a serious inconvenience. No doubt the council will do all they can during the summer to put it in as good order as the funds at their disposal will admit. The Government is reducing the strength of the force. Fifteen men were sent here for their discharge, and it is rumoured that there will be more changes shortly. The department, instead ef weeding out the defaulters, as has always been the case, dismissed those who had the shortest service. It seems an odd way of choosing who shall go, for few of those going have a crime on their defaulter's sheet, and they are fine smart-looking men. However, I suppose the department knows what is best to be done.

THE TE AWAMUTU-KIHIKIHI EOAU. The road between here and Te Awamutu is being lepaired. The ruts left from the winter traffic are being filled up, and the water-tables put in proper order. With a proper coating of gravel they will be in good order for next winter, but if not gravelled properly I am afraid they will bo as bad as ever when the wet weather sets in.—(Own Correspondent.);,,

Tho Waipa County Council invites tenders for rebuilding Monavale bridge. The usual services at Le Quesne's Hall, Hamilton, to-morrow, are advertised in another column. Mr Morris Moses, Hamilton West, has deter* mined to hold a genuine 14 days' clearing sale ot a choice assortment of seasonable goods. MrR, Scccorabe, Alexandra, offershis farm I of 450 acres for immediate sale. Particulars in ! advertisement, ■ An important advertisement by the Red Cross .Company, Auckland, (Mr W. Cumraing, Manager,) appears in another column. The annual meeting of tho Sons of Ulster, No. 9, L.O.LVwill beheld in tho Victoria Hall, Hamilton, on Wednesday next. Messrs' W. J. Hunter arid Co. will' offer for sale at Cambridge this day, a first-class selection of hacks and light harness horses overland from , Gisborne.* ' ' '; ' ! ' ' Yes J' lt is certainly true. Ask any 6f > .your friends who have purchased, there, „ Garlick ,and Qramyell; h«,ve numerous, unasked , for and •very from 1 'country raers'Bn* ? themexcdHent-*packinefof lijurniture, -Crackeryi^'and Glass, Lc. Ladies and -.reotleme'n.' about \lto*-ifurnisb. f^,shouldi reraembV 'that^Gafliclc*' ana^tranwell's r U xhb .Cheap o Furnishing Warehouse of Auclf-t land.S 0 Furniture' to suit 'classes ;t arso'S Oarp'ots.^FlcKjr^-JCloths/aijd^-all House Nece^t sar(e|i^^f^nrinew s house : is*fl*barly~finisired; c .qr, j ? vpu are ffoirig^Oyget yjsit jzarltck . a|id